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Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Geography
Rebecca Lave
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Geography Introduction STS is an interdiscipline that draws together anthropologists, historians, and ...
Sea-Level Research, Quaternary
Mark Schuerch
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Quaternary Sea-Level ResearchIntroductionSea level variations have been, are, and will always be taking place on local, regional, and global scales as...
Segregation, Ethnic and Racial
David H. Kaplan
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Ethnic and Racial SegregationIntroductionThe segregation of peoples based on particular cultural or racial characteristics has been a feature of urban...
Service Industries, Geography of
Peter Daniels
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Geography of Service IndustriesIntroductionThere are very few business activities, government departments, households, or individual persons that are ...
Settlement Geography
Timothy Anderson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Settlement Geography Introduction The classification of settlement geography as a separate subfield in the discipline has become less clear ov...
Sexuality, Geography of
Phil Hubbard
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Geography of Sexuality Introduction Geography as a discipline has been reticent about recognizing that sexuality is foundational to the making...
Slope Processes
Simon M. Mudd
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Slope Processes Introduction Much of the terrestrial surface of our planet is sloping. Rivers and glaciers occupy some of this terrain, but th...
Social Justice
Marcia England
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Social Justice Introduction Originating from religious doctrine, social justice is concerned with ensuring equitable rights for members of a s...
Soils, Diversity of
J.J. Ibáñez
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Diversity of SoilsIntroductionThe earth’s surface is heterogeneous in nature. This feature of the earth’s crust implies that the distribution in space...
Sonic Methods in Geography
Jonathan Prior
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Sonic Methods in GeographyIntroductionResearch into sound—including both musical and nonmusical sound—amounts to a varied body of work that straddles ...
Spatial Analysis
Tony H. Grubesic, Jake R. Nelson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Spatial AnalysisIntroductionSpatial analysis refers to a process that relies upon both exploratory and confirmatory techniques to answer important que...
Spatial Autocorrelation
Daniel A. Griffith
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Spatial AutocorrelationIntroductionSpatial autocorrelation (SA)—the correlation among georeferenced observations arising from their relative locations...
Sports, Geography of
Neil Conner
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Geography of Sports Introduction Karl Marx is remembered for having stated: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature. . . . It is the o...
Sustainability Science
Eric Clark
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Sustainability Science Introduction Thought concerned with sustaining what we in the early 21st century call societal metabolism and life-supp...
Sustainable Agriculture
Sara Metcalf, LaDona Knigge
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Sustainable Agriculture Introduction Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals for human purposes necessarily involve transformation ...
Synoptic Climatology
Scott Sheridan, Cameron Lee
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Synoptic Climatology Introduction Synoptic climatology was born from the desire to better understand synoptic-scale processes of the mid-latitu...
Technological Change, Geography of
Edward J. Malecki
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Geography of Technological Change Introduction Technological change, traditionally a concern of economists and agriculturalists, has grown int...
Telecommunications
Barney Warf
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
TelecommunicationsIntroductionTelecommunications—the electronic transmission of information over long distances—has a long and fascinating history str...
Teleconnections, Atmospheric
Gregory Goodrich
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Atmospheric TeleconnectionsIntroductionClimate teleconnections are commonly defined as low-frequency variability in the atmosphere and oceans, while w...
Terrestrial Snow, Measurement of
Nicholas J. Kinar, John W. Pomeroy
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Measurement of Terrestrial SnowIntroductionSnow on the land surface is an important component of the hydrological cycle in cold regions and acts as a ...
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