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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Economic Specialization"”.
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Measure of Global Specialization and Spatial Clustering for the Identification of "Specialized" Agglomeration
The intensity of regional specialization in specific activities, and conversely, the level of industrial concentration in specific locations, has been used as a complementary evidence for the existence and significance of externalities. Additionally, economists have mainly focused the debate on …
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Prehistoric and Proto-historic communities in the eastern Upper Chao Phraya River Valley, Thailand: Analysis of site chronology, settlement patterns, and land use
… subregions over time, and determine evidence for economic specialization among sites of varying sizes. Twenty-five open-air sites were identified across the alluvial plain, middle terrace, and upland zones. The KSTUT data indicate a long occupational history from the bronze and iron ages into the …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
… large silos, indicate there may have been some economic specialization at Tel Tsaf. The relationship among storage, surplus and wealth is explored and put in context of public and private access to resources and potential feasting at the site. It is established that the evidence is not …
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Resources, Environment, and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913
… completing a process of concentration and specialization which began during the ill-named ‘lost decades’ in the aftermath of independence. This profound transformation in working people’s relation to the land shaped the agricultural landscapes, economic specialization, and demographic …
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Urban Herders: An Archaeological and Isotopic Investigation into the Roles of Mobility and Subsistence Specialization in an Iron Age Urban Center in Mali
This dissertation investigates the relationship between mobility and urbanism in an Iron Age West African city. Isotopic and archaeological evidence reveal complex relationships among mobility, sedentism, and the livestock economy of Jenné-jeno, one of the earliest and best known urban systems in …
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Institutional and fiscal policies for forest conservation
… with weak political institutions, low levels of economic development, and an economic specialization in the agricultural sector. The first part of this dissertation contributes to the understanding of the role of political institutions in deforestation processes with chapter 2 and 3. Chapter 2 …