The role of migration in urban transition : studies of the relationship between migration and modernisation for Brisbane and Stockholm

Wilbur Zelinsky formulated a Hypothesis of Mobility Transition in 1971,in which he tried to relate all aspects of mobility to the Demographic Transition and modernisation. This dissertation applies the theoretical framework, proposed by Zelinsky and extended to encompass a family of transitions, to understand migration patterns of city regions. The two city regions, Brisbane and Stockholm, are selected as case studies, representing important city regions of similar size, but drawn from contrasting historical settings. A comparison of the case studies with the theoretical framework aims to determine how the relative contributions of net migration, the source areas of migrants, and the migration intensity change with modernisation. In addition, the research also aims to identify aspects of modernisation affecting migration. These aspects of migration are analysed with a "historical approach" and a "multivariate approach". An extensive investigation into the city regions' historical background provides the source, from which evidence for a relationship between migration and modernisation is extracted. With this historical approach, similarities and differences in migration patterns are identified. The other research approach analyse multivariate data, from the last two decades, on migration flows and modernisation. Correlations between migration and key aspects of modernisation are tested with multivariate regression, based on an alternative version of a spatial interaction model. The project demonstrates that the changing functions of cities and the structural modernisation are influential on migration. Similar patterns are found, regarding the relative contributions of net migration and natural increase to population growth. The research finds links between these changes in the relative contribution of net migration and demographic modernisation. The findings on variations in urban and rural source areas of migrants to city regions do not contradict the expected pattern, but data limitations prevent definite conclusion to be drawn. The assessment of variations in migration intensity resulted in the expected pattern not being supported. Based on Swedish data, the hypothesised increase in migration intensity is rejected. Interactional migration data also show patterns different from those derived from the theoretical framework. The findings, from both research approaches, suggested that structural modernisation affected migration flows more than demographic modernisation. The findings lead to a formulation of hypothesised patterns for migration to city regions. The study provides an important research contribution by applying the two research approaches to city regions. It also combines the study of internal and international migration to address the research objectives within a framework of transitional change.

Cooperativism, entrepreneurship and economic development: a linking theoretical model

Cooperatives, as a kind of firms, are considered by many scholars as an remarkable alternative for overcoming the economic crisis started in 2008. Besides, there are other scholars which pointed out the important role that these firms play in the regional economic development. Nevertheless, when one examines the economic literature on cooperatives, it is detected that this kind of firms is mainly studied starting from the point of view of their own characteristics and particularities of participation and solidarity. In this sense, following a different analysis framework, this article proposes a theoretical model in order to explain the behavior of cooperatives based on the entrepreneurship theory with the aim of increasing the knowledge about this kind of firms and, more specifically, their contribution to regional economic development.

Nord-Amerikas Indianer och de, under ett åttaårigt vistande bland de vildaste af deras stammar, upplefvade äfventyr och öden /

Illustrations are hand-colored tinted lithographs.

Caroli Linnaei ... Flora suecica : exhibens plantas per regnum Sueciae crescentes, systematice cum differentiis specierum, synonymis autorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, usu oeconomorum, officinalibus pharmacopaeæorum.

"Opera botanica Svecorum": p. vii-xiv.

Caroli Linnaei ... Fauna svecica sistens animalia Sveciae regni : Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum.

"Autores": 7th-10th prelim. leaves.

Caroli v. Linné Equ. aur. de stella polari ... Genera plantarum : eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm, et proportionem omnium fructificationis partium.

Pages 574-577 misnumbered 564, 517, and 566-567.

Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis /

v. 1. Regnum animale -- v. 2. Regnum vegetabile -- v. 3. Regnum lapideum.

Caroli Linnæi ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.

Also reprinted: Lipsiae : G. Engelmann, 1894-1964.

Car. A. Linné ... Mantissa plantarum altera ...

Paged continuously with the author's Mantissa plantarum [pars prima] which was issued in 1767 with his Systema naturae ... Ed. 12. Holmiae, 1766-1768.

Dissertatio botanica de passiflora ... : quam, cum consensu amplis. facult. medicae, in reg. academi Upsalensi /

In Linné's Amoenitates academicae, v. 1 [ed. 1] 1749, p. 244-279; [ed. 2] 1749, and ed. 3, 1787, p. 211-242. cf. Hulth, Bibl. Linn. (1907) p. 42.

Nova plantarum genera : quae, cum consensu ampl. facult. medicae in regia acad. Upsaliensi /

Library of Congress collection: Dissertationes academicae (Linné) no. 13.

Dissertatio botanica metamorphoses plantarum sistens /

Also published in Linné's Amoenitates academicae, v. 4, ed. 1, 1759 (and 1760); ed. 2, 1788, p. 368-386. For other reprints see J.M. Hulth, Bibliographia Linn. (1907) p. 100.

Sveriges Offentliga Bibliotek. Accessions-katalog.

Annual accession lists of foreign books received in the principal libraries of Sweden: Stockholm, Upsala, Lund and Göteborg.