Academic Articles & Research Papers

Investigando o perfil e elementos motivacionais de plantadores de árvores em suas práticas de protagonismo ambiental

O presente artigo origina-se de pesquisa que teve por objetivo investigar práticas de protagonismo ambiental relacionadas à arborização. Dessa forma, procurou-se investigar as motivações envolvidas em práticas de arborização promov...

PENGARUH INTERVAL TRAINING TERHADAP KECEPATAN

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh interval training terhadap kecepatan. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah anak SSB BBC Batung Taba Kota Padang U-13, yang berjumlah 52 orang. Pengambilan sampel dengan (purposive sampling) de...

AN INVESTIGATION OF LOCAL EFFECTS ON SURFACE WARMING WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR)

Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In the literature the spatial ...

Analysis of physical and morphological parameters of silk fibers in the aesthetic properties of silk fabrics

This article outlines the issues of providing the medium-sized industrial sector with natural fiber products, analyzing the aesthetic properties of fabrics in the production of fabrics that meet the aesthetic and hygienic requirements of co...

Uncertainty in Geographical Information

Preface. Geographical Information and Uncertainty. Geographical Perspectives. Geographical Measurement and Data. Exploring Geographical Uncertainty. Uncertainty in Continuous Variables. Uncertainty in Categorical Variables. Uncertainty in O...

Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Abstract Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch – and the manner in which these work alone, o...

Introducing Human Geographies

Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full ...

From Military Geography to militarism's geographies: disciplinary engagements with the geographies of militarism and military activities

This paper reviews contemporary approaches in Anglophone human geography to the geographical constitution and expression of militarism and military activities. Three main approaches are identified, and the merits, limitations and insights o...

The Geography of Development

We develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced-growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. Different migration sc...

Ecosystem Geography

The Geography of Transport Systems

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

Sports Geography

'Space' and 'place' are concepts central to both geography and sport. Places, for example, are the means of identifying most sports teams, while sport both affects, and is affected by, the physical environment and landscape.In this fully re...

Imaginative geographies

Reanalyzing the work of Eward Said the essay illuminates the complexity and fractured formation of Orientalism as a constellation of power, knowledge and geography. In doing so the author reconstructs Said's geographical imagination and its...

Geography, Memory and Non‐Representational Geographies

Abstract I discuss the presence of memory within geography, particularly in relation to the interweaving non‐representational/peformative/affective ‘turns’. Memory seems under‐considered in these non‐representational geographies (nrgs) whic...

Geographic Profiling

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...

Geographies of Disability

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...

Children's Geographies

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:...

The Geography of Transport Systems

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...

Geographically Weighted Regression

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 ...

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

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...