Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Geographical Cycle

All the varied forms of the lands are dependent on—or, as the mathematician would say, are functions of—three variable quantities, which may be called structure, process, and time. In the beginning, when the forces of deformation and uplift...

Geographies of Economies

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultura...

The Geography of Money

The traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity ...

On Geography and Materiality

In the context of human geography's encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter sh...

Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography

The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic geography during the last couple of decades. By separating the three approaches in t...

Progress in Human Geography

The Progress in Human Geography...

Naive Geography

Geography, physics, and chemistry

The Geography of Transport Systems

This expanded and revised fifth 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 unde...

Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia

‘Area studies' use a geographical metaphor to visualise and naturalise particular social spaces as well as a particular scale of analysis. They produce specific geographies of knowing but also create geographies of ignorance. Taking Southea...

On assemblages and geography

In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblage responds to or opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descriptor, assemblage thinking can be placed wit...

Geographic Information Systems

The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located...

Terrae Incognitae: The Place of the Imagination in Geography

(1947). Terrae Incognitae: The Place of the Imagination in Geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 1-15....

Geography and development

Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysi...

Urban Geography

For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: even those living beyond the administrative or fu...

HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY

The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the ...

Geographies of Resistance

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemp...

Geographies Of Policy

The paper develops a geographical approach to the issues of policy transfer and transformation, taking the form of a critical dialogue with three literatures at the borderlands of political science, comparative institutionalism, and politic...

The Geographical Cycle

GEOGRAPHICAL CYCLE.continental coast, whichever it proves to be, along the Pacific to the meridian of Peter island.Magnetic observations, deep-sea soundings, and dredgings would be taken throughout the three seasons; but, looking to the unc...

Technology, Geography, and Trade

We develop a Ricardian trade model that incorporates realistic geographic features into general equilibrium. It delivers simple structural equations for bilateral trade with parameters relating to absolute advantage, to comparative advantag...