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Geography, Culture and Global Change. (2005)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2005). Geography, Culture and Global Change. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), Human Geography, Issues for the 21st Century (265-283). Pearson

The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham (2005)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., Pollard, J., & Henry, N. (2005). The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(4), 916-933. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00628.x

This article draws on critiques of ‘global cities’ to conceptualize Birmingham, the UK's second largest metropole, as a ‘global’ city by highlighting forms of economic globalization that draw on the city's residents, their histories and their social... Read More about The 'global' in the city economy: multicultural economic development in Birmingham.

Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks (2005)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2005). Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks. Political Geography, 24(8), 875-902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.07.002

This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as pre-given, contained, natural entities. Through an engagement with the de... Read More about Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks.

New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa (2005)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2005). New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa. Political Geography, 24(8), 969-991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.05.001

This paper draws on empirical research in South Africa to explore questions about the exclusionary nature of citizenship, the problems and possibilities of participatory citizenship and its potential reconceptualisation through the lens of gender. Th... Read More about New spaces of citizenship? Rethinking gendered participation and empowerment in South Africa.

Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Cohn, A., Ducci, M., & Gideon, J. (2005). Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil. Health Promotion International, 20(2), 167-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dah605

The policies for restructuring health systems in Latin America during the 1990s have included an emphasis on changing in the model of health care delivery to one that incorporates prevention and promotion activities. At the same time, health systems... Read More about Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil.

Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Fernandes, L., Caprara, A., & Gideon, J. (2005). Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil. Health Policy and Planning, 20(2), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czi009

Policies to reform health care provision often combine the organizational restructuring of decentralization with ideological restructuring through a new model of health care that gives greater weight to prevention and promotion. Decentralization prov... Read More about Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil.

Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Haran, D. (2005). Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries. Social Science & Medicine, 60(3), 501-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.019

The paper has two aims: to explore possible determinants of user satisfaction based on a broad conception of the health care system involving both individual and district scale variables, and to add to the limited knowledge and empirical study about... Read More about Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries.