U.S. Bank Failures and Regional Economic Structure*     

Barney Warf  Joseph C. Cox 《The Professional geographer》1995,47(1):3-16

U.S. commercial bank failures approached historically high levels in the 1980s. The collapse of such institutions can have severe impacts on local economies, disrupting the supply of available investment credit. This paper situates bank failures within the broader transformation of global capitalism in the late 20th century. Next, it reviews the causes of bank insolvency, including mismanagement, deregulation, the glutted commercial real estate market, and depressed agricultural and petroleum-dependent local economies. It then illustrates multiple aspects of the spatial distribution of bank failures. A pooled time-series regression analysis, using primary causal variables as well as location quotients of state output in four industrial sectors, indicates that with the vital exception of petroleum, and to a lesser extent services, regional economic structure is not strongly related to bank failures. This finding likely reflects the structural and spatial transformation of the industry as it adapted to the highly competitive conditions of the last decade.  相似文献   

Estimating limiting age for pleistocene erosional surfaces in central Montana by uranium-series dating of associated travertines     

Barney J. Szabo  David A. Lindsey 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1986,11(2):223-228

Travertine deposits overlie the highest Number 2 surfaces in central Montana and clasts of travertine occur in gravels on lower Number 2 surfaces. Dating these travertine deposits may provide limits on the ages of surfaces that record intervals of extensive erosion during Pleistocene time. Analysis of three travertine samples from the southeast side of The Park yield an average uranium-thorium age of 73 000 ±+M 7 000 years. Another sample from the west side of The Park is 320 000 (+ 160 000, ? 70 000) years old. These results indicate that travertine deposits may have formed at several intervals. The surface beneath The Park travertine is older than about 320 000 years. Number 2 pediment gravels that contain travertine downslope from the oldest dated sample may be younger than about 320 000 years.  相似文献   

International Competition Between Satellite and Fiber Optic Carriers: A Geographic Perspective*     

Barney Warf 《The Professional geographer》2006,58(1):1-11

International telecommunications traffic relies entirely on two modes of transmission, satellites and fiber optics, which exhibit considerable but not complete fungibility. This article explores the economic and geographic dimensions of these two industries in the context of the growing market in global data and telephony traffic. First, it summarizes the changing conditions that have accentuated competition between them, including deregulation, technological change, and globalization. Next, it examines the changing cost structures, transmission capacities, and traffic volumes for each technology in the critical transatlantic and transpacific markets. Throughout, it documents the steady encroachment by fiber optics firms that threatens the viability of commercial satellite operators, a challenge the latter hope to meet though the growth of the cellular telephone market.  相似文献   

New York: the Big Apple in the 1990s     

Barney Warf 《Geoforum》2000,31(4):487-499

New York plays a fundamental role in the world economy as both a motor and beneficiary of globalization. This paper traces New York’s international ties in the 1990s. While the city’s global pre-eminence as a center of finance capital is well known, New York is also an important international center of corporate headquarters, business services, communications, tourism, and commercial real estate. Next, it reviews the spatial configuration of employment, with an emphasis on the overwhelming concentration of jobs in Manhattan, a reflection of the enormous agglomerative economies found there. Third, it notes the marginalized populations that have not benefited from globalization. Fourth, it addresses changing regimes of governance that have accompanied the city’s intersections with the global economy.  相似文献   

The Geography of Religious Diversity in the United States   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Barney Warf  Mort Winsberg 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(3):413-424

Religious pluralism is an important and contested topic within the literature on religion. This article explores the spatiality of religious diversity in the United States. It opens with a summary of major conceptual perspectives on the causes and consequences of religious diversity. Second, to unpack the geography of U.S. religious diversity, the article uses Glenmary and Polis data for 2000 to construct four indexes of diversity and presents these results with both choropleth maps and Dorling cartograms. It explores the relation between the distribution of denominations and county population size. The analysis reveals that the most diverse regions include the Pacific Northwest, a broad belt stretching from Denver to Pittsburgh, and central Florida, and the least diverse parts are dominated by Mormons, Baptists, and Catholics. Indexes more sophisticated than the simple number of denominations per county are sensitive to the internal configuration of adherents and reflect a more complex relationship in which population size is not assured of generating greater degrees of religious diversity.  相似文献   

Geographies of the tropical Internet: An overview   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Barney Warf 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2007,28(2):219-238

The literature on the geography of cyberspace has focused heavily on the economically developed countries in the mid-latitude regions of the world. This paper addresses the spatiality of the Internet among countries located in the tropics. It charts the network of optical fibre lines that make access possible and the critical role played by telecommunications deregulation. It also accounts for the rapidly changing pools and explosive growth of Internet users between 2000 and 2005 in relation to the socioeconomic variables closely associated with access: costs, wealth, literacy and telephone penetration rates. Finally, the paper also looks at government censorship in various regional contexts and summarizes the status of e-commerce and e-government in different regions within the tropics.  相似文献   

THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE 1980s*     

Barney Warf 《The Professional geographer》1991,43(2):150-162

The construction industry has expanded to an increasingly global scale of production. International spatial and temporal dimensions of this sector, including changes in international market share, rising global competition, and its strong linkages to the petroleum industry are explored. Focus then shifts to the geographic patterns engendered within the United States by foreign construction contracts with US firms, including the spatial distributions of total and foreign contracts, an input-output analysis of the economic impacts of foreign contracts, and an examination of contracts of three specific foreign petroleum-related projects. A research agenda for future work concludes the study.  相似文献   

Uranium-Series Dating of Carbonate (Tufa) Deposits Associated with Quaternary Fluctuations of Pyramid Lake, Nevada   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Barney J. Szabo  Charles A. Bush  Larry V. Benson 《Quaternary Research》1996,45(3):271-281

Uranium-series dating of dense tufa deposited in a small cave, at former lake margins, and in large tufa mounds clarifies the timing of lake-level variation during the past 400,000 yr in the Pyramid Lake basin. A moderate-sized lake occasionally overflowed the Emerson Pass sill at elevation of 1207 m between ca. 400,000 and 170,000 and from ca. 60,000 to 20,000 yr B.P., as shown by²³⁰Th/²³⁴U ages of the cave samples,²³⁰Th-excess ages of tubular tufas, and average isochron-plot ages of shoreline-deposited tufas. (By comparison, modern Pyramid Lake is 50 m below this sill). There is a lack of tufa record during the intervening period from ca. 170,000 to 60,000 yr B.P. After ca. 20,000 yr, Pyramid Lake underwent abrupt changes in level and, based on previous¹⁴C ages, reached its highest elevation (ca 1335 m) at ca. 14,000 yr B.P. The youngest uranium-series ages are comparable with previously reported¹⁴C ages.  相似文献   

Constructing a Dialogue: Geographic Education and Geographic Research   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Barney Warf 《The Professional geographer》1999,51(4):586-591

Geographic researchers and those who specialize in educational issues have paid insufficient attention to one another. Many theoreticians are openly contemptuous of those who study education; many who focus on pedagogy are unnecessarily defensive. This essay calls for a program of sustained intercourse that is explicitly mutually transformative in nature. It reviews what each perspective offers the other. A change in attitude among those who emphasize geographic research is needed that takes pedagogy far more seriously than it has hitherto. Conversely, geographers whose professional interest is in education would benefit from including new conceptual material such as social theory and political economy in pedagogic works. The results of such an intersection would be to inject new energy into the field, including secondary schools, widen geography's audience, and enhance its popular reputation.  相似文献   

Teaching Digital Divides     

Barney Warf 《The Journal of geography》2019,118(2):77-87

Digital divides—uneven patterns of access—are a major feature of cyberspace. This article opens by noting that most students are digital natives who grew up with the Internet. Second, it summarizes digital divides, including global patterns, rural–urban differences, ethnic and gender discrepancies, and the role of smartphones. The third section justifies teaching digital divides as a way of understanding of sociospatial inequality. Next, it offers six strategies to get students to appreciate this topic, including mapping Internet users, interviewing a nonuser, discussing rural–urban differences, going without the Internet, exploring strategies for reducing the divide, and imagining the pre-Internet world.  相似文献