Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cellulose industry and the progress of eucalyptus silviculture on the agricultural border of maranhense Amazonia

This paper has as the main goal present the recent evolution of the eucalyptus silviculture over the agriculture border of Legal Amazon in the State of Maranhão. It’s considered the propagation of historical appropriation and commodificatio...

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...

A Festa de Santos Reis como resistência espacial da cultura caipira (Juquitiba-SP)

A Festa de Santos Reis, uma manifestação da cultura caipira e do catolicismo popular, é realizada anualmente no município de Juquitiba-SP, no bairro rural dos Camargos. A partir dos conceitos de território e de territorialidade, busca-se co...

Green corridors as climate-resilient infrastructure in smart cities: a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines

Urbanization has accelerated climate change-related risks in cities, such as urban heat islands, flooding, loss of biodiversity, and loss of ecosystem services. Green corridors have been identified as effective multifunctional approaches fo...

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...

Educação infantil na rede pública de Salvador e as relações de gênero: escrevivência quanto à resistência docente e à formação da criança como sujeito

Este resumo refere-se à resistência docente na educação na rede pública em Salvador. A partir da escrevivência (EVARISTO, 2017) – escrita a partir das experiências vividas –, constrói-se a narrativa deste trabalho. Os relatos presentes no t...

Fieldwork for Human Geography

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......

Principles of Human Geography

Methods and Techniques in Human Geography

Exploring geographical data testing hypotheses measuring associations multivariate analysis generalized linear models and categorical data analysis spatial allocation spatial interaction spatial datatistics, spatial models and spatial struc...

Human agency and human geography

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...

Remaking Human Geography

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...

Space‐Time, ‘Science’ and the Relationship between Physical Geography and Human Geography

This paper explores the possibility that there may be commonalities between physical geography and human geography in emerging ways of conceptualizing space, time and space‐time. It argues that one of the things holding physical and human g...

Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities

1 Introduction: Some Background Basics Part 1 Themes and Fundamentals of Human Geography 2 Roots and Meaning of Culture 3 Spatial Interaction and Spatial Behavior 4 Population: World Patterns, Regional Trends Part 2 Patterns of Diversity an...

Horizons in Human Geography

Preface - Introduction: Making Geography - D.Gregory and R.Walford - ART 1 BEYOND THE QUANTITATIVE REVOLUTION - Introduction - Geography and Information Technology - M.J.Clark - Mathematical Models and Geographical Theory - A.Wilson - Philo...

Human Geography

Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social ...

Methods in Human Geography

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 ...

The Postmodern Challenge: Reconstructing Human Geography

In this paper, I argue in favour of regarding human geography as part of the social theory movement. By confronting the intellectual disarray in human geography, and addressing the challenge of postmodernism and deconstruction, the discipli...

Researching Human Geography

Researching Human Geography is an essential new text for any geography student about to embark on a research project. An understanding of how different theories of knowledge have influenced research methodologies is crucial in planning and ...

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...