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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...
Natural Hazards and Risk
John P. Tiefenbacher
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Natural Hazards and Risk Introduction Natural hazards are processes that occur in nature that threaten the safety, health, and economic intere...
Nature-Society Theory
Alex Loftus, Camilla Royle
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Nature-Society TheoryIntroductionGeography, meaning “earth writing,” has been centrally concerned with how humans and their environments relate to eac...
Neogeography
Matthew W. Wilson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
NeogeographyIntroductionThe use of the term “neogeography” serves as a shorthand for a range of technical practices and attitudes that embrace ludic a...
New Urbanism
Dan Trudeau, Susan Moore
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
New Urbanism: Expansion of a Principle-Based Planning MovementIntroductionNew Urbanism is a contemporary urban planning and design movement that aims ...
Nightlife
Robert Shaw
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
NightlifeIntroductionThe study of nightlife, or the “nighttime economy,” is the study of nocturnal leisure and entertainment. It is not a uniquely geo...
Non-representational Theory
Paul Simpson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Non-Representational Theory Introduction Non-representational theory refers to a diverse body of work that emerged during the mid- to late 199...
Nutrition Transition, The
Daniel C. Ervin, David López-Carr, Anna Carla López-Carr
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
The Nutrition Transition Introduction The nutrition transition theory concerns the broad changes in the pattern of human diet that have occu...
Oceans
Philip E. Steinberg
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Oceans Introduction Until the beginning of the 21st century there were few studies of the ocean, or the world’s seas, in geography. Although c...
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