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Geographic Profiling

D. Kim Rossmo • CRC Press eBooks (1999)

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420048780

Modern Geographical Thought

Richard Peet (1998)

List of Figures. Preface. 1. Introduction: Geography, Philosophy and Social Theory. 2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Humanistic Geography. 3. Radical Geography, Marxism, and Marxist Geography. 4. Structuralism and Structural Marxist Geo...

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Cloud geographies

Louise Amoore • Progress in Human Geography (2016)

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamb...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516662147

Between Geography and History

Katherine Clarke (2000)

Abstract The late Hellenistic period witnessed the rise of an imperial power whose dominion extended across almost the whole known world. The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking new ways of describing the earth...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199240036.001.0001

Geographies of Disability

Brendan James Gleeson • Taylor & Francis eBooks (1988)

This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disabil...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203266182

The Economic Geography of Talent

Richard L. Florida • Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2002)

The distribution of talent, or human capital, is an important factor in economic geography. This article examines the economic geography of talent, exploring the factors that attract talent and its effects on high-technology industry and re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8306.00314

Children's Geographies

• Routledge eBooks (2004)

1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine Part I: Playing 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces:...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203017524

Moral Geographies

David M. Smith • Edinburgh University Press eBooks (2000)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612796); This book explores the interface between geography, ethics and morality. It considers questions that have haunted the past, are subjects of controversy in the present, and which affect the ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474472685

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue, Claude Comtois, Brian Slack • Routledge eBooks (2016)

This expanded and revised fourth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an und...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618159

Geographically Weighted Regression

Chris Brunsdon, Alexander Stewart Fotheringham, Martin E. Charlton • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) (1998)

In regression models where the cases are geographical locations, sometimes regression coefficients do not remain fixed over space. A technique for exploring this phenomenon, geographically weighted regression is introduced. A related Monte ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00145

The geography of coordination

Rebecca E. Grinter, James D. Herbsleb, Dewayne E. Perry • International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) (1999)

Geographically distributed development creates new questions about how to coordinate multi-site work. In this paper, we present four methods product development organizations used to coordinate their work: functional areas of expertise, pro...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/320297.320333

Geography and Economic Development

John L. Gallup, Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger • International Regional Science Review (1999)

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choice...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/016001799761012334

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

Juanita Sundberg • Cultural Geographies (2013)

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474013486067

Geographical research

Oliver Pye • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2021)

This chapter discusses how geographical research can contribute methodologically to CAS. Spatial categories that are prominent in CAS, such as territorialisation or place, need to be related to other dynamics such as networks and scale. The...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468.00039