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Carbon Cycle
Elena Lioubimtseva
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Carbon Cycle Introduction The global carbon cycle plays a central role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels and thus Earth’s ...
Cartography
Keith C. Clarke
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Cartography Introduction The earliest maps date back perhaps 14,000 years, yet the academic discipline and its written literature are very muc...
Cartography, History of
Matthew H. Edney
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
History of CartographyIntroductionUntil the 1980s, the study of the history of cartography was defined by two idealizations: (1) that maps are strictl...
Children and Childhood, Geographies of
Tom Disney
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Geographies of Children and ChildhoodIntroductionThe social sciences traditionally have tended to be adult-centric, with perspectives from and about c...
Citizenship
E.L.E. Ho
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Citizenship Introduction Citizenship is popularly seen as a concept and practice anchored in a national territory that has been ascribed sover...
Climate Literacy and Education
Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, Amanda Cole
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Climate Literacy and EducationIntroductionClimate literacy is a subset of the broader science literacy, where the latter refers to the skills, knowled...
Climatology
Jennifer M. Collins
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
ClimatologyIntroductionAccording to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) glossary, climatology is defined as “the description and scientific stud...
Communication
Paul C. Adams, Khara Lukancic
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Communication Introduction Peter Gould once defined communication as “everything from a kiss to an international shipment of grain” (Gould 199...
Community Mapping
Christopher Perkins
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Community MappingIntroductionCommunity mapping is best characterized as a collaborative mapping exercise, in which local voices are articulated, as ag...
Commuting
Valerie Preston
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Commuting Introduction Commuting—the travel between place of residence and workplace that many people undertake daily—emerged on a large scale...
Comparative Urbanism
Tauri Tuvikene
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Comparative UrbanismIntroduction“Comparative urbanism” refers to research that acknowledges the diversity of urban experiences, avoids assumptions of ...
Complexity
Steven Manson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
ComplexityIntroductionComplexity theory is not a theory in the traditional sense of having a single and readily articulated focus. Instead, it is a co...
Conservation Biogeography
Kenneth R. Young
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Conservation BiogeographyIntroductionConservation biogeography is a relatively new academic endeavor that brings conservation and applied concerns to ...
Consumption, Geographies of
Juliana Mansvelt
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Geographies of ConsumptionIntroductionThe 1980s through the early 21st century saw a relative explosion in consumption research within geography. Geog...
Crime Analysis, GIS and
Lin Liu
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
GIS and Crime AnalysisIntroductionSpatial analysis of crime has gained increasing attention during the past thirty years, coupled with the growth of g...
Crime, Geography of
Richard Yarwood
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Geography of Crime Introduction Crime and the fear of crime are significant aspects of daily life and as such have been studied closely by hum...
Cultural Ecology and Human Ecology
Karl S. Zimmerer
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Cultural Ecology and Human Ecology Introduction Cultural ecology and human ecology are closely related and represent a continuum of approaches...
Cultural Geography
Lily Kong, Junxi Qian
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Cultural Geography Introduction Since the early 1990s, cultural geography has become one of the most vibrant branches of human geography. Inde...
Cultural Landscape
Sara Beth Keough
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Cultural Landscape Introduction The cultural landscape, the imprint of people and groups on the land, has long been of interest to geographers...
CyberGIS
Eric Shook
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
CyberGISIntroductionCyberGIS is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines cyberinfrastructure, geographic information science and systems (GIS...
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