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Justice, Geography of
Alex Jeffrey
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Geography of Justice Introduction The term “geography of justice” can be interpreted in a number of ways. One reading of the term relates to t...
Knowledge, Geography of
Diarmid Finnegan
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Geography of Knowledge Introduction “Geography of knowledge” is, at first glance, an unexpected combination of terms. “Geography” suggests des...
Labor, Geography of
Andrew Herod
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Geography of Labor Introduction Labor is an important productive force in any economy. Typically, the term “labor” is used in one of two ways:...
Land Use and Cover Change
Alexander Zvoleff, Sarah Wandersee, Li An, David López-Carr
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Land Use and Cover Change Introduction Land use and cover change (LUCC) is the study of land surface change. Land use (such as agriculture, pa...
Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Geoffrey M. Henebry, Nathan J. Moore, Jiquan Chen
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Land-Atmosphere InteractionsIntroductionLand-atmosphere interactions encompass a multitude of processes that link the land surface with the atmospheri...
Landscape Interpretation
Tom Mels
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Landscape InterpretationIntroductionIn geographical research, the interpretation of landscape has been theorized in a number of ways. The work conside...
Literature, Geography and
Juha Ridanpää
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Geography and Literature Introduction In human and cultural geographies, fictive literature, novels, and poems have been used in different man...
Location Theory
Alan T. Murray
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Location TheoryIntroductionThe topic of location theory has generally been associated with the descriptive characterization of observed patterns acros...
Marine Biogeography
Marcelo M. Rivadeneira
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Marine BiogeographyIntroductionMarine biogeography is a subfield of the biogeography aimed at understanding the patterns and processes governing the d...
Marine Conservation and Fisheries Management
Jaime Speed Rossiter, David López-Carr
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Marine Conservation and Fisheries Management Introduction Overfishing has occasioned the collapse of many coastal and marine ecosystems global...
Media Geography
James Craine
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Media Geography Introduction Media geography encompasses, at this writing, many different forms: film and television, music, newspapers, comic...
Medical Geography
Jennifer Winston, Michael Emch
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Medical Geography Introduction Medical geography is concerned with the analysis of spatial patterns of disease and health care provision. Jo...
Migration
Wei Li, Emily Skop, Adriana Morken
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Geography of MigrationIntroductionMigration—a spatio-temporal process that evolves over space and time—involves the continual reshaping of place as pe...
Migration, International Student
Yvonne Riaño, Etienne Piguet
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
International Student MigrationIntroductionThe number of international students has grown considerably in the early 21st century. According to the Org...
Military Geography
Francis A. Galgano
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Military GeographyIntroductionMilitary geography involves the application of geographic information, tools, and technologies to military problems. In ...
Moonsoons, Geography of
Eungul Lee, Yaqian He, Jothiganesh Shanmugasundaram
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Geography of MonsoonsIntroductionMonsoons are a seasonally changing wind circulation system often associated with extreme events such as floods and dr...
Mountain Geography
Lynn Resler, Fausto Sarmiento
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Mountain GeographyIntroductionMountain geographies address the study of mountain landscapes and systems from a spatial approach. Although the term “mo...
Mountain Meteorology
Brandon Vogt, PhD
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Mountain MeteorologyIntroductionMeteorology is the science that examines the configuration of fundamental weather elements in Earth’s atmosphere: pres...
Music, Sound, and Auditory Culture, Geographies of
George Revill
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Geographies of Music, Sound, and Auditory CultureIntroductionStudies of music and sound within geography cover a broad range of subdisciplines; topics...
Nations and Nationalism
Fiona Davidson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Nations and Nationalism Introduction Nationalism is a term that is generally used to describe either the attachment of a person to a particul...
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