Academic Articles & Research Papers

THE DECLINE OF FIELDWORK IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY∗

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 ...

Mathematical Methods in Human Geography and Planning

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 ...

Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture

1 Introduction to Human Geography 2 Population 3 Migration 4 Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes 5 Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality 6 Language 7 Religion 8 Political Geography 9 Urban Geography 10 Developm...

The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography

VOLUME ONE Part I: Imagining Human Geographies Place - Tim Cresswell Mobilities - Johanna Waters Spatialities - Jacques Levy Difference - Katharyne Mitchell More-than-Human Geographies - Beth Greenough Society-Nature - Andrea Nightingale Tr...

A GRADUAL CONSOLIDAÇÃO DO CONSTRUCTO DE GEOGRAFIA DE HETTNER: 1901 – 1908

No presente artigo serão analisados os textos metódicos e metodológicos fundamentais de Alfred Hettner (1859-1941) publicados no espaço de tempo de 1901 a 1908. Com estes textos Hettner almejava dois objetivos: em primeiro lugar, ele queria...

Zbieżność ścieżek wzrostu gospodarki Polski i polskich województw w latach 1998-2000 do stabilnych stanów równowagi

W artykule rozpatrzymy dwa neoklasyczne modele wzrostu gospodarczego typu Solowa-Swana z deficytem budżetowym i bez deficytu budżetowego dla gospodarki Polski i dla polskich regionów utożsamianych z województwami powstałymi w 1998 r. Modele...

INDUSTRIALIZAÇÃO E TRABALHADORES: NOTAS DE PESQUISA SOBRE TRABALHO OPERÁRIO GLOBALIZADO

Neste texto refletimos sobre a problemática da globalização na perspectiva de trabalhadores da empresa metalúrgica ThyssenKrupp, em São Paulo e Minas Gerais Thyssenkrupp Metalúrgica Santa Luzia S.A. e Sadia S.A. Uberlândia. Explorando a his...

Connecting young people with greenspaces: The case for participatory video

Abstract The values that people hold are thought to be key in bringing about the transformative change needed to halt biodiversity loss. Caring for nature has been conceptualised as a relational value and is thought to be largely shaped in ...

Brüggemann, Axel (2011): Landfrust. Ein Blick in die deutsche Provinz. Reinbek: Kindler Verlag, 269 S. Müller, Christa (Hrsg.) (2011): Urban Gardening. Über die Rückkehr der Gärten in die Stadt. München: Oekom Verlag, 349 S. Reichert,

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

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...

The Relationship between Near-Repeat Street Robbery and the Environment: Evidence from Malmö, Sweden

Near-repeat crime refers to a pattern whereby one crime event is soon followed by a similar crime event at a nearby location. Existing research on near-repeat crime patterns is inconclusive about where near-repeat patterns emerge and which ...

HISTOLOGY OF DERMAL OSSIFICATIONS IN AN ANKYLOSAURIAN DINOSAUR FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF ANTARCTICA

Ankylosaurian remains from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Santa Marta Formation of the James Ross Island in the Antarctic Peninsula include several types of armour, the most abundant being tiny, button-like ossicles (less than 5 mm in diam...

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

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...

Auswirkungen von touristischen Infrastrukturinvestitionen auf die Einkommenslage im Berggebiet

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Los conocimientos tradicionales en el ejercicio de la soberanía y seguridad alimentaria de las comunidades rurales, indígenas y campesinas, una alternativa para la sustentabilidad comunitaria

En el texto se exponen algunas reflexiones sobre la importancia que tiene el rescatar los conocimientos tradicionales de las comunidades rurales, indígenas y campesinas sobre las prácticas agrícolas y alimenticias como recurso y mecanismo p...

Big data and human geography

We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced an...

On Human Geography

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 ...

Complexity science and human geography

Complexity science has attracted considerable attention in a number of disciplines. However, this perspective on scientific understanding remains ill defined. In this paper, ideas and approaches from complexity science are reviewed. It appe...

Human geography without scale

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...

The Dictionary of Human Geography

Preface to the Fifth Edition. How to Use this Dictionary. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. The Dictionary. Index...