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Why Socio-metabolic Studies are Central to Ecological Economics

Simron J Singh, Simran Talwar, Megha Shenoy • Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal (2021)

Global material extraction has tripled since the 1970s, with more than 100 billion tonnes of materials entering the world economy each year. Only 8.6% of this is recycled, while 61% ends up as waste and emissions that is the leading cause o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.37773/ees.v4i2.461

A critical review of dark tourism studies

Aigerim Assylkhanova, Gyula Nagy, Cezar Morar, Zhanassyl Teleubay et al. • Hungarian Geographical Bulletin (2024)

The topic of dark tourism emerged in the last three decades as tourism became more accessible. It allows forgotten history to be revised and transferred to the public. This study aims to restructure existing categorization regarding dark to...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15201/hungeobull.73.4.5

Latvian Migrants’ Circular or Permanent Migration to Norway: 'Economic and Social Factors'

Oksana Zabko, Katrine Fangen, Sylvi Endresen • Nordic Journal of Migration Research (2019)

This article analyses migration decisions and labour market manoeuvring of Latvian migrants to Norway, as well as the economic and social conditions that influence their choices. How do they adapt to the labour market in Norway? Do they pra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0007

The Study of Words Related to Nature and Natural Phenomena in Iranian Oykonyms: Their Use and Background

مجید طامه • مجله مطالعات ایرانی (2021)

Introduction One of the most important tools for studying the history and culture of any nation or tribe is to recognize the language and linguistic materials of that nation. Linguistic data can be divided into written and unwritten or or...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22103/jis.2021.16544.2071

Uncovering the spatiotemporal evolution of the service industry based on geo-big-data- a case study on the bath industry in China

Bingyu Zhao, Jingzhong Li, Bing Xue • Computational Urban Science (2023)

Abstract The bath industry has multiple attributes, such as economic, health, and cultural communication. Therefore, exploring this industry's spatial pattern evolution is crucial to forming a healthy and balanced development model. Based o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s43762-023-00085-y

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

Sarah Greenwood, Elisa Fuentes‐Montemayor, Catherine Cowie, James Levine et al. • People and Nature (2026)

Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover whi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/pan3.70321

Quantifying and mapping land use changes and regulating ecosystem service potentials in a data-scarce peri-urban region in Kenya

Peter Waweru Wangai, Benjamin Burkhard, Felix Müller • Ecosystems and People (2019)

Recent scientific developments are advancing to link land use and land cover (LULC) change with ecosystem service (ES) potentials. Such links within peri-urban ecosystems are scanty due to methodological and expertise challenge, and data li...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/21513732.2018.1529708

Fieldwork for Human Geography

Timothy Edmund Heleniak • Journal of Geography (2014)

This wonderful book fills a gap by introducing under- graduates to the whys and mechanics of human geography fieldwork. Of course, one of the features that sets geography apart from other disciplin......

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2014.923490

Human agency and human geography

Derek Gregory • Routledge eBooks (2017)

This commentary discusses the prospectus for a humanistic geography provided by the contributors to D. Ley, M. Samuels (eds) Humanistic geography: prospects and problems. The resurgence of a humanist tradition in geography has drawn its imp...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315236285-14

Remaking Human Geography

David Sibley, Audrey Kobayashi, Suzanne Mackenzie • Geographical Journal (1990)

Introduction: Humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography, Suzanne Mackenzie and Audrey Kobayashi. Part 1 Issues: the social and economic imperatives of restructuring - a geographic perspective, John Bradbury restru...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/635346

Methods in Human Geography

• Routledge eBooks (2013)

List of figures List of tables List of boxes List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Philosophies underlying human geography research Section A Preparing for the research project 3 Choosing a topic 4 Finding previous ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315837277

On Human Geography

Ron J. Johnston (1987)

This work is a critical examination of the purposes, methodologies and perspectives of human geography. The author considers the relationship of human to physical geography, as well as to the other social sciences. He assesses the value of ...

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Human geography without scale

Sallie A. Marston, John Paul Jones, Keith Woodward • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2005)

The concept of scale in human geography has been profoundly transformed over the past 20 years. And yet, despite the insights that both empirical and theoretical research on scale have generated, there is today no consensus on what is meant...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00180.x

Progress in Human Geography?

Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Vicky Lawson, Anssi Paasi et al. • Progress in Human Geography (2009)

The possibility of progress - especially with a capital 'P' - is a question that has troubled philosophers, historians and social schemers for centuries. It also has a range of profoundly political dimensions. In David Livingstone's (2006b)...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508100651

Practising Human Geography

PJ Cloke, Ian Cook, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin et al. • SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (2004)

This work provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography examining those methods and practices which are integral to doing geography...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446221235