Spatial Divisions of Welfare: The Geography of Welfare Benefit Expenditure and Housing Benefit in Britain

This paper examines the structure of state welfare expenditure in Britain. It argues that the geography of state welfare expenditure and its impacts have been relatively neglected given their importance in terms of state expenditure, regional distribution and spatial equality. It shows that welfare spending is a key component of government expenditure and that it has a distinct regional and local geography. It shows that there are distinct differences in the geographical incidence of different welfare benefits some of which function to redistribute income from the South to the North of Britain and it focuses on the geography of housing benefit as an example of what has been termed ‘spatial divisions of Welfare’

Economic and social change and inequality in global cities: the case of London

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Sotho law and custom in Basutoland

Basutoland (now Lesotho) is a small landlocked nation of about 900,000 inhabitants, mainly Sotho in origin and Sotho-speaking, with an internal economy that is partly pastoral and partly agricultural, supplemented by large-scale labour migration to South Africa. Field work was conducted for eleven months in 1964 and three months in 1966, being divided between the systematic study of court records and a period of research in a village in the arable lowlands

Knowing the Flowers: A Floristic Analysis of the Diversity and Distribution of Flowering Plants on the Sunshine Coast, BC

Flowering plants are a dominant biological force on this planet; they include an almost unimaginable number of species. British Columbia (BC) is no exception to this, housing a high number of angiosperm species. To help develop a clearer view of this diversity, this study focused on a small region of BC, the Sunshine Coast. I document the floral diversity of the area, and test whether a uniform level of species richness is supported across the area. The region lies across the boundary of two Biogeoclimatic (BEC) zones, the Coastal Western Hemlock (CWH) and Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zones, potentially giving it a combination of characteristics from both zones. I did floristic surveys in multiple sites in the CDF (n = 4) and the CWH (n=5) zones, and asked if there was any difference in species richness between the two. Variability in richness between wetland and non-wetland habitats was also examined. Two-sample t-tests failed to find a difference in species richness between BEC zones or habitat types. I identified a total of 129 species of angiosperms from 44 floral families. The angiosperm Species/Genus ratio for the area was 1.29 and both the Species/Genus and Genus/Family distributions displayed hollow curves. These results indicate that angiosperms have a relatively consistent species richness throughout the study area and show that the group follows a stereotypical hollow curve distribution pattern

Mind the gap: implications of overseas investment for regional house price divergence in Britain

The UK has had a long-standing regional house price gap with prices in London much higher than the rest of the UK. Using price data from 1969 to 2016 we track price differentials through several cycles of boom and bust, and note the growing divergence of London, particularly central London, from the rest of Britain. In explaining this divergence, we highlight the growing importance of international investment since the global financial crisis. We conclude that, although ‘Brexit’ may have brought the latest long London boom to a close, there is nothing to suggest that the regional house price gap will close. Given the ongoing importance of global financial inflows to major world cities, this has significant implications for how governments approach affordability and housing policy

Preparation and Synthetic Utility of Stable 1,3-Enynyl- and 1,3-Dienyl(aryl)iodonium Salts

The facile synthesis of stable enynyl- and dienyl(aryl)iodonium salts is achieved from terminal enynes. An X-ray crystal structure of an example of the latter is presented. These compounds are shown to be useful in a range of transformations

Les aveugles et l'éléphant : l'explication de la gentrification

Dans ce texte sont présentées les principales théories sur la gentrification proposées au cours de la dernière décennie, ainsi que le débat qui s'est développé autour d'elles. La gentrification a fait l'objet de nombreuses polémiques, parce qu'il s'agit d'un des champs de bataille théoriques les plus importants en géographie humaine, qui met en lumière les oppositions entre structure et action, production et consommation, capital et culture, offre et demande. Mais chacune des deux grandes explications qui ont été avancées pour rendre compte du processus de gentrification est une explication partielle, nécessaire mais non suffisante. Une explication complète de la gentrification doit à la fois tenir compte de la production des quartiers dévalorisés et de logements dégradés, et de la production de gentrifieurs et de leurs modes spécifiques de consommation et de reproduction.The blind men and the elephants : the explanation of gentrification This paper critically reviews the major theories of gentrification which have emerged over the last 10 years and the debate which has surrounded them. It argues the reason why the gentrification debate has attracted so much interest, and has been so hard fought, is that is one of key theoretical battlegrounds of contemporary human geography which highlights the arguments between structure and agency, production and consumption, capital and culture, and supply and demand. It also argues that each of the two major explanations which have been advanced to account for gentrifrication (the rent gap and the production of gentrifiers) is a partial explanation necessary but not sufficient. Finally, it argues that an integrated explanation for gentrification must involve both explanation of the production of devalued areas and housing and the production of gentrifiers and their specific consumption and reproduction patterns