Geography - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Cyberspace, Geography of
Aharon Kellerman
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Geography of CyberspaceIntroductionCyberspace, as an image space, constitutes a virtual and nonmaterial entity that consists of computer and transmiss...
Desertification
Sophia Burke, Mark Mulligan
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
DesertificationIntroductionDesertification is a dynamic process that is observed in dry and fragile ecosystems. It affects soils, water resources, and...
Developing World
James A. Tyner
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Developing World Introduction Places and regions throughout the world exhibit vast differences in levels of social, political, and economic ch...
Development Theory
Katie Willis
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Development Theory Introduction At the heart of the concept of “development” are notions of improvement or betterment. However, what is to be ...
Development, Regional
John Tomaney
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Regional DevelopmentIntroductionRegional inequalities of one kind or another have existed since the beginning of human history. The region has been a ...
Disability, Geography of
Dan Jacobson
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Geography of Disability Introduction Geography of disability explores disabled peoples’ experiences of space and place; it is a broad research...
Disease, Geography of
Marilyn O. Ruiz
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Geography of DiseaseIntroductionResearch on the geography of disease seeks to determine how health is influenced by geographical factors. Geographical...
Drones, Geography of
Thomas Birtchnell
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Geography of DronesIntroductionIt is now possible to see remote control drones in parks as leisure toys or on the afternoon news seeing action in conf...
Drought
Woonsup Choi
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
DroughtIntroductionDrought is a natural disaster that has plagued human society throughout history. However, the meaning of drought varies by perspect...
Drugs, Geography of
Stewart Williams
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Geography of Drugs Introduction Drugs are substances that possess psychoactive properties. The capacity of drugs to alter their user’s state o...
Economic Geography
Jessie P.H. Poon
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Economic Geography Introduction Economic geography is a major field and specialization within human geography. It has undergone several theore...
Economic Historical Geography
Robert Lewis, Nick Lombardo
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Economic Historical GeographyIntroductionEconomic historical geography is the study of relationship between economic processes, space, and place over ...
Edge Cities and Urban Sprawl
Ben Gerlofs
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Edge Cities and Urban SprawlIntroductionIn the decades following World War II, the United States witnessed great population shifts away from major cit...
Education (K-12), Geography
David Lambert
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Geography Education (K-12)IntroductionGeography education here means the role and purposes of geography in primary and secondary education (this artic...
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
Brian Bossak
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Introduction El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a coupled ocean–atmosphere phenomenon in the Pacific O...
Elderly, Geography and the
Mario D. Garrett
Subject: Geography »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Geography and the ElderlyIntroductionGeography is an important factor for gerontology. The interconnectedness between space, place, time, and aging ca...
How to Subscribe
Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here.
