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Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Kimberley Peters • Routledge eBooks (2016)

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547619

A Feminist glossary of human geography

• Choice Reviews Online (1999)

A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography is the first guide to the main theories, concepts and terms commonly used in geographical debates about gender relations. Written by key contributors to feminist theory, it contains over 400 lively and...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-0046

Human Geography and Ecological Sociology

Matthias Groß • Social Science History (2004)

This article discusses how American geography and sociology began their university institutionalization in the 1890s with some very similar disciplinary points of origin and understanding of their subject matter but subsequently carved out ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012852

What time human geography?

Rhys A. Jones • Progress in Human Geography (2004)

This paper seeks to contribute to the debate concerning the current and future state of human geography by focusing on its changing treatment of the past. I argue that, while contemporary human geography has experienced a welcomed explosion...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132504ph481oa

Disability studies in human geography

Deborah C. Park, John P. Radford, Michael H. Vickers • Progress in Human Geography (1998)

Studies of disability have been rare in human geography until a recent blossoming of interest. In this article we review the expanding literature on disability, charting the process by which such studies have become newly significant in the...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1191/030913298672928786

Introducing Human Geographies

Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin, Junxi Qian, Andrew Williams et al. • Routledge eBooks (2024)

The chapter explores the geographies of affect and emotion and argues that they are profoundly important for understanding all geographies. As well as drawing out some of the different ways the terms have been used in geography and why both...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429265853

Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Jerry Pitzl • Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. eBooks (2004)

Human geography focuses on the ways that humans interact with each other and with the environment, illuminating the complex processes and nature of our global society. This book presents the full range of this remarkable field, presenting n...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216973294

THE DECLINE OF FIELDWORK IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY∗

Robert A. Rundstrom, Martin S. Kenzer • The Professional Geographer (1989)

Fieldwork has been an important component of human geography. A multi-decade analysis of articles in three major journals shows that human geographers since the mid-1970s have produced less fieldwork-based research than ever before in this ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00294.x

Fieldwork In Human Geography

Barney Warf • Sage eBooks (2010)

Introduction: Fieldwork for Human Geographers PART ONE: APPROACHING THE FIELD Getting the Most out of Fieldwork Justifying the Cost: Your Degree and Your Job Prospects Before You Go: Research Design and Preparation Ethics: Positioning Yours...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412939591.n426

Human Geography and Area Research

Edward L. Ullman • Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1953)

FIRST glance it might appear that only in physical geography would a A geographer make a contribution to an area research program staffed by social scientists. Geographers, however, do not so delimit their field.' This paper focuses in part...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00045605309352103

Exploring Human Geography

Stephen Daniels, Roger Lee • Routledge eBooks (2014)

A lively and stimulating resource for all first year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loos...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315832555

Mathematical Methods in Human Geography and Planning

Mark Uncles, Alan Geoffrey Wilson, Robert J. Bennett • Journal of the Operational Research Society (1986)

This volume has been written for students, researchers and practitioners in the field of human geography and planning, and describes how mathematics is used as a tool in these subjects by illustration with examples from the field. Detailed ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1986.207