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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...
Orientalism and Geography
David Jansson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Orientalism and GeographyIntroductionOriginally used to signify the academic study of a particular region—that is, “the Orient”—the term “orientalism”...
Participatory Action Research
Sam Halvorsen
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Participatory Action ResearchIntroductionParticipatory action research (PAR) is an approach that strives to take seriously the ethics and politics of ...
Peace, Geographies of
Sara Koopman
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Geographies of PeaceIntroductionPeace is all too often understood to be a universal across time and space, as simply not war. It is also, ironically, ...
Phenology and Climate
Mark D. Schwartz
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Phenology and ClimateIntroductionPhenology is the study of recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, especially their timing and relationships wit...
Photographic and Video Methods in Geography
Tim Hall
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Photographic and Video Methods in GeographyIntroductionPhotographic and video methods (often referred to collectively as visual research methods) have...
Physical Geography
Mark Welford
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Physical Geography Introduction Physical geography is the study of the processes that shape the Earth’s surface, the animals and plants that i...
Place
Jon Anderson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
PlaceIntroductionPlace is a central concept for an increasing number of academic disciplines. Once the preserve of human geography, the spatial turn a...
Polar Geography
Heather Nicol
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Polar GeographyIntroductionOriginally a topic for explorers and scientists, driven by quest for territory, fame, and recognition, polar geography was ...
Policy Mobilities
Nik Theodore
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Policy MobilitiesIntroductionHow do “ideas from elsewhere” shape local policy debates? Over the last decade or two, the policy mobilities approach fro...
Political Ecology
Christian Brannstrom
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Political Ecology Introduction Political ecology emerged in the 1980s within the field of geography from cultural ecology and development stud...
Political Geography
Jason Dittmer
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Political Geography Introduction Political geography is a subdiscipline of human geography that has an evolving relationship with the other su...
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