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Using Public Data to Improve Population Estimates Within Consistent Boundaries Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 John R. Logan, Wenquan Zhang, Zengwang Xu
Studies of neighborhood change rely on interpolated data to cope with inconsistent boundaries of geographic units over time. The standard approach introduces error by assuming, counterfactually, th...
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Food Swamp Versus Food Desert: Analysis of Geographic Disparities in Obesity and Diabetes in North Carolina Using GIS and Spatial Regression Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Connolly Baxter, Yoo Min Park
This study examined how two different types of food environments—food deserts and food swamps—were associated with geographic disparities in obesity and diabetes in North Carolina using geographic ...
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Improving the Understanding of the U.S. Urban Racial Geography and Its Temporal Change Using the Racial Landscape Method Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Anna Dmowska, Tomasz F. Stepinski
Racial landscape (RL) is an innovative methodology for studying racial geography that offers several advantages over current approaches. This article aims to highlight two key features of RL that h...
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Hit the Road: Spatial Characteristics of Labor Absorption in South Africa Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Gina Weir-Smith, Simangele Dlamini
Unequal spatial concentration is at the heart of economic imbalance in South Africa. This research aimed at spatially characterizing labor absorption patterns and exploring the link to spatial deve...
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Bowling for Better: Reforming World Geography Bowl to Create a More Inclusive Geography Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Bethany Craig, Jack Swab, Jed DeBruin
Since 1993, the World Geography Bowl (WGB) has been a part of the fabric of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), with competitions happening at nearly all AAG regional and national meetin...
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Spatial Environment and Open Defecation: In Pursuit of Social Valuation of Sanitation Ecosystem Services Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Saurav Chakraborty, Josef Novotný, Jadab Das, Priyank Pravin Patel, Indranil Maity, Utpal Roy
This article examines the social valuation of the external environment used for open defecation (OD). For this, we distinguish between the necessity-driven OD hypothesis that emanates from the reas...
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Urban Streetscape Changes in Portland, Oregon: A Longitudinal Virtual Audit Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tomoya Hanibuchi, Shohei Nagata, David Banis, Hunter Shobe, Tomoki Nakaya
Streetscape imagery has considerable potential for observing urban change. The literature lacks sufficient longitudinal studies, however, on urban change considering human perception and activities...
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Evaluating Urban Green and Gray Space Interaction: A Spatiotemporal Land-Use Monitoring and Land Degradation Susceptibility Modeling over Balurghat City, India Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Nilanjan Bal, Ali Raza Moosvi, Sanjit Sarkar, Archana Kujur
Most Indian cities restrict access to green spaces due to the fast growth of urban gray spaces. The dynamic convergences of these two spaces could enhance city-level land degradation. This issue is...
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Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Michael Hardman, Lydia Hubbard, Hayley Watson
Post-COVID policymaking has accelerated investment and support for urban greening initiatives. Even prior to the pandemic, we witnessed across the globe an ever-increasing appetite for the idea of ...
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Advanced Placement Human Geography Exam Participation and Performance in Texas School Districts Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Michael A. Scholz, Ruojing W. Scholz, Michael Solem
Texas is the state with the largest number of students taking the Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography exam. State policy allows schools to offer AP Human Geography in ninth grade as a substitut...
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Twenty Years of Advanced Placement Human Geography: A Program Assessment Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Michael Solem, Richard G. Boehm, Joann Zadrozny
This Focus section of The Professional Geographer contains four articles that were prepared for a program assessment of Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography. Using twenty years of AP program dat...
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Advanced Placement Human Geography: Program Access and Effectiveness by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, 2001–2020 Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Carmen P. Brysch, Michael Solem
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program initially developed by the College Board to engage “superior” high school students with rigorous college-equivalent coursework. Because the AP program has the p...
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Correction Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-16
Published in The Professional Geographer (Vol. 76, No. 1, 2024)
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Public Perceptions of Resilience and Vulnerability Concepts for Adaptation Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Greg Oulahen, Christopher Randall, Calvin Nguyen, Carrie Mitchell
Resilience is everywhere in plans, policy, and academic literature on risk reduction and adaptation, and a common refrain of elected officials and disaster victims alike. Geographers have contribut...
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Manuscript Reviewers Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-12-12
Published in The Professional Geographer (Vol. 75, No. 6, 2023)
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The Professional Geographer Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-12-12
Published in The Professional Geographer (Vol. 75, No. 6, 2023)
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Hydrological Responses to Land-Use Land-Cover Changes in the Manafwa Catchment, Eastern Uganda Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Godwin Erima, Anthony Gidudu, Yazidhi Bamutaze, Anthony Egeru, Isa Kabenge
This study evaluated the impact of land-use land-cover (LULC) change (LULCC) on the hydrologic processes of the Manafwa Basin in eastern Uganda using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model...
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Toward People’s Budgets: Public Economic Geography for Movement Building Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Emily Barrett, Sara Safransky
In this article, we respond to Narayan and Rosenman’s call for a more public economic geography by considering the ways in which economic geographers could contribute to social movements. We do thi...
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Research, Power, and Care: Limitations to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Melisa Argañaraz Gomez, Dena Aufseeser
This article considers the obstacles and opportunities in collaborative action research. It focuses on two examples: a virtual participatory action research with five migrant Latina young women and...
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Geographies of Opportunity for Youth Across the Contiguous United States Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Elizabeth Hatch, Chuyuan Wang, Wei Kang, Brajesh Karna, Natalie Sabinsky, Kristin M. Ferguson
Opportunity youths (OY) are youths between 16 and 24 years of age who are neither in school nor working. Research suggests that youth disconnection can have negative consequences on youths’ well-be...
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Environmental Perceptions of College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sydney Kaylor, Yasin Elshorbany, Jennifer Collins, Robin Rives
In this study, we investigate the environmental perception changes in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the almost worldwide lockdown between March and December 2020, many stude...
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Conference Organizing in the Hybrid Age: Lessons from the Fourth International Feminist Geography Conference Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Hanieh Molana, Deirdre Conlon, Jennifer L. Fluri, Nancy Hiemstra
The 4th International Feminist Geography Conference, Pushing Boundaries, was held both virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 15–17 June 2022. The goal of the conference ...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Biodiversity Conservation and Community Networks at Kibale National Park, Uganda Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Dipto Sarkar, Jan F. Gogarten, Xiaofan Liang, Clio Andris, Emmanuel Abwa Opito, Kim Valenta, Urs Kalbitzer, Raja Sengupta, Colin A. Chapman
Conservation, like all aspects of society, was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there have been projections and speculations about impacts on conservation plans and actions, dat...
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From Professional Geography to Public Geography, from Representational Certainty to Not Knowing the Answer Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Robert W. Lake
Most practices of professional geography employ a realist ontology of knowledge, seeking accurate representations of an external world that exists in itself, prior to our attempts to know it. Certa...
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Multiplicity and Path Dependency in the Modeling of Historical Routes: A Case Study of the Wonju Basin in the Central Region of the Korean Peninsula Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Ilhong Ko, Woojin Shim, Hyunjoo Jung
This article introduces how an interdisciplinary approach to modeling historical routes enriches route formation discourses. It combines the current least cost path-based modeling with a novel meth...
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The Gender Citation Gap in Human Geography: Indications from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Philipp Aufenvenne, Christian Haase, Malte Steinbrink
The Matilda effect describes the phenomenon that findings generated by women receive less recognition in the scientific community than those generated by men. The Matilda effect is particularly con...
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Why AP Human Geography? Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Suneal Kolluri
This commentary attempts to contextualize the articles in this issue by interrogating the purpose of Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography. Why should students learn geography? Why should they le...
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Stopping the Steal: The Ecology of Conspiracy in a Politically Polarized Nation Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Marco Lorenzo Allain, Asmita Bhattarai, Phoebe McNeally, Richard M. Medina
The spread of recent conspiracy theories in the United States has been responsible for general social disorder, and an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. The specific conspiracy th...
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Do Interstate Visits Matter? Political-Geographic Analysis of Slovak Economic Diplomacy Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Filip Šandor, Daniel Gurňák, Matúš Bilka
The aim of this article is a political-geographical analysis of political and economic relations between the Slovak Republic and the countries of the world from 1993 to 2019. We spatially analyze m...
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Feminist Research Methods and Intersectionality: An Introduction to the Focus Section Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, LaToya E. Eaves
What makes feminist research in geography intersectional? Are all identities included in intersectional thinking? Is intersectionality, as theory and method, for all geographers and geographies? These questions push us to consider the tools and perspectives necessary to incorporate intersectionality into geographic methods and feminist geography research. Intersectionality-associated investigations
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Advanced Placement Human Geography: Program Access and Effectiveness by Grade Level, 2001–2020 Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michael Solem, Brendan P. Vander Weil, Yusik Choi
Since 2001, the Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography program has grown substantially in terms of the sheer number of students taking the course and exam. The program’s growth curve is a marker o...
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How Inclusive, Diverse, and Equitable Is Advanced Placement Human Geography? A Comparison of Participation and Performance by Ethnicity and Race Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jörn Seemann
The Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography course offers a geographic perspective for students to study differences, dynamics, and disparities in society and the globalized world. This article see...
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Accounting for Capital in the Countryside: Toward a Visual Politics of the Asset Form Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Stefan Ouma
This commentary seeks to advance a public economic geography that rests on the ambition of making things public—things that are otherwise “hidden” from societal scrutiny, such as the material footprint of globalized investment chains. This ethos, bridging the concerns of science and technology studies and critical political economy, can be well aligned with Massey’s “global sense of place.” This ethos
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A Bridge between Two Worlds: Why Advanced Placement Human Geography Is Good for the Discipline of Geography Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 William G. Moseley, Max Lu, Greg Hill
Amidst ongoing debates regarding the pros and cons of Advanced Placement Human Geography (APHG) for the field of geography, this article asks whether it has been good for the discipline in the Unit...
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Three Decades of GIS Application in Spatial Crime Analysis: Present Global Status and Emerging Trends Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Subham Roy, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury
Crime exploration using geographic information systems (GIS) has been a topic of interest for decades, but a comprehensive appraisal has yet to be published in the domain. This is the first article...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Plans Should Consider Spatial Distribution of Age-Specific Population Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Jeon-Young Kang, Jihoon Jung, Kyusik Kim
In the early phases of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, most countries adopted age-based rollout plans due to vaccine shortages. The plans, however, might overlook different spatial distributions of ...
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Exploring the Spatial Intersection of Small Firm Innovation, Urban Form, and Demographics in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Bradley Bereitschaft
In an increasingly competitive global market for human and financial capital, cities have embraced a variety of strategies to lure investment and incubate lucrative businesses and industries in sit...
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Care Praxis in Los Angeles’s Antigentrification Movement: On-the-Ground Womxn of Color Geographies Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Carla Macal, Kimberly Miranda
This article analyzes womxn of color (WOC) antigentrification activism and examines the layered embodied politics through a “praxis of care.” Adopting an intersectional lens not only enhances our racial, cultural, and gendered analysis of the impacts of gentrification; it also signals more ethical and holistic approaches to gathering data from aggrieved communities who face precarity across a spectrum
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Global Patterns of Antioxidant-Rich Food Crops Based on Geographical Origins Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Gregory J. Carlton, Paul A. Knapp, Tyler J. Mitchell
We mapped antioxidant values of 118 common food crops at a global scale based on geographical origins using median oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) and total phenolics (TP) for twenty-thre...
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Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Kathryn Grace, Devon Kristiansen, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Maya Luetke
Seasonal shifts in community-level agricultural production and their impact on the severity of the annual hunger season and household coping behaviors are important themes in climate change–health ...
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Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Association between Neighborhood Factors and COVID-19 Incidence Rates in Scotland Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Ruoyu Wang, Tom Clemens, Margaret Douglas, Markéta Keller, Dan van der Horst
This study aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level factors and COVID-19 incidence in Scotland from a spatiotemporal perspective. The outcome variable is the COVID-19 incidenc...
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Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes and Farmers’ Perceptions of Ecosystem Services in an Eastern Amazon Rural Settlement Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Ceália Cristine dos Santos, Jhonatan Andrés Muñoz Gutiérrez, Michel Brossard, Thierry Desjardins, Altamiro Souza de Lima Ferraz Jr.
Understanding the relationship between land-use and land-cover changes, the ecosystem services (ES) offered, and the farmers’ perception about these services is essential for designing adequate str...
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Generating Small Areal Synthetic Microdata from Public Aggregated Data Using an Optimization Method Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Yue Lin, Ningchuan Xiao
Small area microdata contain attributes and locations of individual members of a population in small census geographies. This type of data is critical in research and policymaking, but it is often ...
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Palenque and Afro-Latino in Los Angeles: Social and Environmental Justice through Mixed Methods Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Zihui Lei, Mario Giraldo, Regan Maas
Afro-Latinos, African descendants with Latino ethnicity, have been documented since the 1700s. No geographic studies, however, address the spatial relationships between socioeconomic conditions and...
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Mapping the Travel Geography of the 9/11 Network Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Olivier J. Walther, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Joseph Padron, Jason Scheuer
This article models the geography of the 9/11 network members’ many travels from the moment the hijackers first boarded a plane to the United States until they killed 2,977 people on 11 September 2...
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The Effects of Seoul’s Greenbelt on Travel Mode Share in Its Inside and Outside: A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Leeyoung Kim, Seong Yeun Kim, Sung Moon Kwon, Gil Hwan Park
The primary purpose of urban growth management policies is to control urban sprawl and induce the diversification of travel mode share. Hence, how the greenbelt, as an urban containment policy, aff...
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Geographies of Land Ownership Change in the Rural United States: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Lindsay Shade, Levi Van Sant
Both academic and popular sources have recently pointed to important changes in rural land ownership across the United States: from consolidation and financialization to racialized dispossession. A...
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Communicating the Urban Experience through Biosensing: A Participatory Approach Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Daniel Paiva, Ana Gonçalves, Daniela Ferreira, Tomás Pedro, Inês Boavida Portugal
Advances in biosensing technologies have led to the commercialization of novel lightweight wearable devices, which have been praised by urban scholars for offering the possibility to quantify emoti...
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Perspectives of Southwest Florida Homeowners and Real Estate Agents before Hurricane Ian Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen
In September 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida, causing an estimated $67 billion in damage and the loss of almost 150 lives. Before this date, demand and house prices in this a...
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A Preliminary Investigation of Fake Peer-Reviewed Citations and References Generated by ChatGPT Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Terence Day
An analysis of academic citations and references generated by the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot reveals the citations and references are in fact, fake. They are clearly generated by ...
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How Sustainable Are Indian Cities? Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Pritam Ghosh, Swasti Vardhan Mishra
This article examines the fifth iteration of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) to determine the state of urban India. We have some surprising revelations. First, regardless of class and ca...
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Using Multisensor Earth Observation Data to Understand the Development of the Kourtéré Kori Alluvial Fan and Its Impact on the Hydrology of the Niger River Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Mamane Barkawi Mansour Badamassi, Konate Moussa, Labaly Touré, El-Aboudi Ahmed, Gbetkom Paul Gerard, Hanadé Houmma Ismaguil, Kabore Gérard
The Niger River (NR) is threatened with silting up due to the evolution of alluvial fans (AFs) in the Niamey region. The most significant is the Kourtéré AF. This study aims to map the spatial exte...
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Regional Drinking Water Supply in Pakistan: Regional Disparity, Inequality, and Development Pattern Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Yangyi Wu, Yehua Dennis Wei
This article explores the regional disparities in water supply coverage in Pakistan in the context of intraregional development patterns. We applied the Gini index, Esteban and Ray index, and Moran...
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Digitizing and Geocoding Historical Records to Improve an Understanding of Tornado Climatology Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Tyler Fricker, Taylor Wells, John Thomas Allemeier, Amelia Baxter
Tornadoes have the potential to cause catastrophic destruction and mass casualties. What influence a changing climate has on tornado behavior remains a largely unanswered question. Much of the curr...
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Mapping the Unmapped: Investigating Big Data Companies via Online Sources Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jiang Xu, Aidong Li, Calvin King Lam Chung, Yang Yue
Since the 2010s, big data has become a trendy term across government, business, and academia. There is a great deal of ambiguity in the definition of big data and the so-called big data sector it g...
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The Gallery of Possibilities Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Meghan Kelly
Intersectionality and Black feminist thought invite cartographic thinking. Black feminist thinkers evoke cartographic metaphors and imaginaries like intersectionality and the matrix of domination to better illuminate and challenge systems of power and oppression. Such cartographic frameworks contribute toward an evolving feminist mapping toolkit and a growing expanse of feminist interventions in mapping
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Fragments of Water in a Himalayan Town Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Swasti Vardhan Mishra, Subhadeep Mondal, Sk. Mafizul Haque
Narrativizing water conditions in hill settlements only through the optic of water scarcity hides more than it reveals. This piece has employed fragment as a trope to understand and read the differ...
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Constructing (Im)Perfect Geographical Knowledge: Negotiating Positionality in Comparative Field Sites Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Shyamain Wickramasingha
Positionality has long been at the center of debate on qualitative research and ethnographic field work within and beyond geography. Highly reflective accounts of positionality usually examine the ...
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Assessing Equity in Public Beach Access with Spatial Intersectionality Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jinwon Kim, Seongsoo Jang
Previous research on beach access typically uses socioeconomic variables such as race or ethnicity and different levels of wealth to identify marginalized groups. Such an additive approach, however, fails to consider the intercategorical intersectionality between variables when defining marginalized groups. Moreover, there is little research that assesses the spatial variability of intersectional groups
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Distance Learning of Geographic Information Systems Using Google Classroom: Students’ Assessment and Perception Prof. Geogr. (IF 2.411) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Michaela Žoncová, Jana Vojteková, Anna Tirpáková
Distance education at universities during the COVID-19 pandemic was implemented through various so-called learning management systems (LMSs). These environments are primarily used for teacher–stude...