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The unequal distribution of the population in Indonesia is caused by the concentration of the population of Java, which led the government to create a population movement program called transmigration. The types of transmigration carried out by the Indonesian government are general transmigration and self-employment transmigration. West Borneo, which is the destination for transmigration, is Rasau Jaya District, Kubu Raya Regency. Of the six villages in the Rasau Jaya sub-district, there are only four villages that are the placement areas for transmigrants, namely Rasau Jaya Satu Village, Rasau Jaya Dua Village, Rasau Jaya Tiga Village and Bintang Mas Village. Rasau Jaya Tiga Village in 1975-1977 became the most transmigration destination area because it had the largest land area among other villages. The method used is descriptive with a qualitative approach and the object under study is the transmigrant who came from West Java.

Intro -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Geleitwort -- Vorwort der Autorin -- Einleitung -- 1 Gesellschaftliche Raumverhältnisse im Wandel -- 1.1 Gesellschaft und Raum: Programm und Potenzial "Gesellschaftlicher Raumverhältnisse -- 1.2 Gesellschaftlichkeit zwischen Tradition und Spätmoderne -- 1.3 Raum/Räumlichkeit zwischen Tradition und Spätmoderne -- 1.4 Von geographischen Weltbildern zu geographischen Weltsichten -- 1.5 Zwischenfazit -- 2 Geographie-Machen. Kognition. Emotion. -- 2.1 Geographie-Machen und Kognition -- 2.2 Geographie-Machen und Emotionen -- 2.3 Zwischenfazit -- 3 Geographische Weltbilder -- 3.1 Weltbilder im Kontext geographischer Forschungen -- 3.2 Populäre geographische Weltbilder im fachgeschichtlichen Kontext -- 3.3 Populäre geographische Weltbilder der Gegenwart -- 3.4 Traditionelle Weltbilder reaktiviert I: Neokolonialismus als spätmoderne Weltbilddimension -- 3.5 Traditionelle Weltbilder reaktiviert II: Rassismus und Neorassismus als spätmoderne Weltbilddimensionen -- 3.6 Zwischenfazit -- 4 Perspektiven einer Sozialgeographie der Medien - zur Medienmacht des Weltenkenners Peter Scholl-Latour -- 4.1 Gesellschaftliche Raumverhältnisse und Mediengeographien -- 4.2 Das Phänomen des Weltenkenners - eine Annäherung an die Machtposition von Deutungsmächtigen -- 4.3 Weltenkenner Peter Scholl-Latour - Beobachtungen der medialen Rezeption -- 4.4 Scholl-Latour und die Medienmacht: Überlegungen zur sozialen Reichweite und kognitiven Einflussnahme von Rezipienten -- 4.5 Zwischenfazit -- 5 Raum und Narration - zum Verhältnis von Geographie und Literatur -- 5.1 Narrationstheorien und der Zugewinn für eine Sozialgeographie der Medien -- 5.2 Narration und Raum - literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven -- 5.3 Raum und Narration I - geographische Perspektiven -- 5.4 Travel writing - Literaturen und Geographien des Reisens.

n endeavouring to deal with a longstanding problem of contamination of waterways in Washington, D.C. due to combined sewer overflows, the responsible utility, DC Water, has recently embarked on a two-fold, simultaneous 'greening' – firstly of the physical infrastructures being installed to address the overflow problem, and secondly of the financing of this capital investment. This article examines DC Water's turn to green infrastructure and green bonds in order to consider the question of how environmental and financial processes in general – and environmental and financial risks in particular – co-determine not just one another but the transformation of contemporary urban socioecological landscapes more broadly. In the process, it aims to inject a greater sensibility both to finance and to 'green capitalism' into urban political ecology. Through a critical consideration of the interlocking temporal, spatial and monetary dimensions of DC Water's two-fold greening project, the article shows that this project has served significantly to augment levels of environmental and financial risk, entangling them in significant new ways.

During the last decade, all Nordic countries have drawn up strategies for their Artic regions, with several countries even revising these Arctic strategies within this short period of time. It shows that the Arctic region has become a matter of higher political interest; not only at national level, where the focus has shifted from seeing the individual Arctic regions as general development areas to regions with geographic specificities that deserve particular attention at this point in time. The interest does not only lie in the Nordic countries but they are reflecting on other actors' increased interest in the Arctic region; such as strategies drawn up by other circumpolar countries as well as the reason EU attention towards the Arctic regions. What are the goals and priorities in the Nordic national Arctic strategies?

Efforts to promote forest conservation have focused on two separate types of policy reforms. Decentralization reforms have attempted to make local forest governance more accountable to demands from voters. Meanwhile, Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes like the REDD program (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) have sought to use economic incentives to promote conservation. These programs make different assumptions about the incentives most likely to work in forest conservation. Decentralization reforms assume that citizen pressures on politicians will encourage conservation, while PES approaches assume that an economic incentive—money—is the best approach. Which type of incentive works best in settings with weak institutions? Here, using a unique longitudinal dataset of forest policy in 100 Bolivian municipalities, we examine the relationships between citizen pressures and economic incentives on forest policy. We find that both types of incentives are positively and significantly associated with government investments in forest conservation, and that the magnitudes of these relationships are similar. Further, we find that economic incentives may be especially effective at promoting conservation where citizen pressures are weak or absent.

Bricolage in natural resource governance takes place through the interplay of a variety of actors. This article explores the practices of a group whose agency as bricoleurs has received little attention, namely the government officers who represent the state in the everyday management of water, land, forests and other resources across rural Africa. Specifically we examine how local Environment Officers in Taita Taveta County in Kenya go about implementing the national environmental law on the ground, and how they interact with communities in this process. As representatives of "the local state", the Environment Officers occupy an ambiguous position in which they are expected to implement lofty laws and policies with limited means and in a complex local reality. In response to this they employ three key practices, namely (i) working through personal networks, (ii) tailoring informal agreements, and (iii) delegating public functions and authority to civil society. As a result, the environmental law is to a large extent implemented through a blend of formal and informal rules and governance arrangements, produced through the interplay of the Environment Officers, communities and other local actors.

In recent years, the notion of the triple helix approach in regional policies has come to represent an important innovation in regional policy making. In the context of industrial policies in Sweden, there are two cases in point. Firstly, "National program for development of innovation systems and clusters in Sweden (Visanu)" and, secondly, the VINNVÄXT program launched by Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. There is now a broad consensus amongst policy makers and practitioners that the triple helix approach is an effective form of economic governance for promoting economic development. In tandem with this new policy orthodoxy, regional scientists and related disciplines have shown an increased interest in the connection between contemporary structures of economic governance and the ability to create and sustain industrial competitiveness over the past decade. The overall objective of this study to examine the emergence and development of the Stockholm BioRegion-initiative, from being constituted as an informal network to a nonprofit association of regional businesses, academic and public actors in the counties of Stockholm and Södermanland. More specifically, the study is focusing on the process of mobilization amongst different actors (business, academia and public sector) with a stake in the biotech and pharmaceutical sector. One important finding is that the triple helix approach in the VINNVÄXT-program has stimulated the formation of collaborative arrangements comprising key organisations in the biotech/ pharmaceutical sector (e.g. AstraZeneca and Karloniska institutet) as well as public-private partnerships (e.g. Stockholm-Uppsala biotech partnership, STandUP). In the concluding part of the paper, implications for the triple helix approach in metropolitan regions are discussed. The empirical findings in the study draw on field research undertaken during autumn 2004 to midsummer 2005.