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Chinese interprovincial income disparity via regional mobility dynamics (2023)
Journal Article
Kumari, A., & Smith, I. (2023). Chinese interprovincial income disparity via regional mobility dynamics. Journal of Economic Issues, 57(1), 36-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2023.2154536

The growth paths in China diverge widely between the rich coastal and poor inland provinces. As a result, the impact of institutional effects on reducing provincial disparity in terms of the “Go West” policies implemented in the early-2000s appears t... Read More about Chinese interprovincial income disparity via regional mobility dynamics.

Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries (2022)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & Smith, I. (2024). Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries. Tourism Economics, 30(1), 104-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166221137950

Can international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2019; n=333,... Read More about Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries.

Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems (2018)
Report
Smith, I., Green, E., Whittard, D., & Ritchie, F. (2018). Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems. London: Power to Change

Power to Change was established by the Big Lottery as an organisation whose mission is to fund community businesses and through such investment make an impact on the most disadvantaged places in England. Through setting its mission to target the most... Read More about Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems.

Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action (2017)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., Dörfler, T., Hasanov, M., Rothfuß, E., & Smith, I. (2017). Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 9(3), 193-209. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSOC.2017.088300

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a bro... Read More about Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action.

The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, I. S. (2017). The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs. In J. Hannigan, & G. Richards (Eds.), Handbook of New Urban Studies. SAGE Publications

Given the scale of the climate change challenge, there is a multiplicity of perspectives on the question of why some suburban neighbourhoods embrace the need to adapt to climate change and why some neighbourhoods do not. The chapter compares and con... Read More about The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs.

Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, I. (2017). Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 108(4), 424-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12255

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national... Read More about Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.

Learning to build sustainable communities: An interdependency network perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Lever, J., & Smith, I. (2013). Learning to build sustainable communities: An interdependency network perspective. People, Place and Policy, 7(3), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0007.0003.0001

This paper explores the production of sustainable communities from an interdependency network perspective (Newton, 2001). Drawing on fieldwork that examined how planners worked collaboratively with other professionals to address the challenges of de... Read More about Learning to build sustainable communities: An interdependency network perspective.

What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?
Book Chapter
Smith, I. S., Williams, K., & Gupta, R. What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?. In T. Dixon, S. Lannon, M. Hunt, & M. Eames (Eds.), Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow’s World,. John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Climate change makes many challenges on suburban areas. This chapter focuses on one of the multiple problematics of climate change: the challenge of overheating. Reporting on evidence from the EPSRC-funded SNACC project (EP/G061289/1), the chapter... Read More about What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?.