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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Human Geography"”.
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A philosophical approach to the foundations of human geography / by Geoffrey Wells
Bibliography: leaves 490-527
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Unpacking Geography Teachers' Pedagogical Reasoning and Action While Teaching Sustainable Development in AP Human Geography
… for current and future generations. Despite geography's long tradition of studying human-environment relationships, geography educators have criticized the geographical community for being slow to take a leading role in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), stressing the importance of …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
… fundamental though insufficiently considered Human Geography questions of existence, namely: what unique ways of knowing can African people offer humanity to ensure our collective survival on Earth? Less explored are the foundational assumptions being made about who does and does not …
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Politics of Place in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore
… Moore. Through the critical lens of both human geography and social construction theories of place, this project aims to uncover the underlying political connotations of the representations of place in their poetry.
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Constructing wilderness: the nexus of preservation and ocean-space in the United States
The ocean has long played a minor role in human geography; imagining it as natural space rather than an extractive space even less significant. This dissertation explores the most revered kind of American nature preservation: wilderness. Despite the millions of acres set aside as wilderness in the …
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Multitemporal Imagery Based Analysis of Urban Land in St. Tammany Parish in Conjunction with Socioeconomic Data
… civilization is a profound and intricate part of human geography. By utilizing socioeconomic data and then integrating it with more technological innovations, such as remote sensing, the spread of sprawl and the urban corridor can better be mapped and quantified by researchers. Many different …
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Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context
… urban experience from the fields of art history, human geography, and sociocultural anthropology. This project challenges the assumption that the postsocialist fragmentation of collectivity and critique of modern historical metanarratives are incompatible with Benjamin’s concept of utopian desire. …
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Firms finance and the weather: the UK weather derivatives market
… this within the context of current theories in human geography and science studies, the research also illustrates the material and discursive implications weather derivatives are having not just on firms and meteorology, but also climate change policies.
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Building the Colonial Border Imaginary: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1895
… not only cartography, but the new discipline of human geography, which studies the relationship between people and their environment. Germans and East Africans together produced a hybrid geography that combined precolonial conceptions of race and space and race from both Europe and Africa, and …
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Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
… reduced biodiversity. This research looks at the human geography of remnants of the longleaf pine ecosystem in South Mississippi and the nature of contemporary relationships between South Mississippi residents and this ecosystem.</p> <p>In an effort to make sense of the complex relationships …
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Masculinized Labor Activism and Geographies of Household Reproduction in Thailand’s ‘Detroit’
… Thailand’s most industrialized areas—whose labor geography and organizations were conditioned by Thai state-capital-labor relations. It examines how the social, political and geographical organizations of Thai workers shape their practices of labor activism. By linking workers’ ties to their place …
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Human Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services: A mixed-methods study of Shade-Grown Coffee in Veracruz, Mexico
… there is less research on how that relates to human wellbeing. A practical challenge is balancing these two simultaneous goals—improving farmers’ wellbeing whilst conserving the environment—through interventions like certification schemes. This study uses a case study of a new certification for …
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Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi
… Disaster Resilience literature and the field of Human Geography; in contrast, the aftermath of minor tropical cyclones is understudied. Along the Gulf Coast in 2020 and 2021, more minor tropical cyclones made landfall then major hurricanes (NOAA, 2021). Despite the frequency of minor tropical …
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The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… but this work also engages fields as diverse as human geography, literary studies, the environmental humanities, studies of science and technology, environmental planning, and environmental sociology. In the conclusion of the dissertation, I reflect on associated questions of land justice and …
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Making meaning of community : a multi-case study of three urban, middle-school teachers
… Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Critical Human Geography theories are brought together to form the conceptual framework. In order to investigate these questions, a qualitative multi-case study design is used and data included interviews, observations, artifacts, photography, and mapping. …
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… standards in cities; research methodologies in human geography, and science and technology studies; and conceptual and theoretical debates within Foucault studies, the new materialism, nonrepresentational theory and urban theory.
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Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances in South Louisiana Gumbo Cooking
… is about the cultural and historical geography of gumbo. This study delves into the background, evolution, and how gumbo became a symbol for south Louisiana. In the historical perspective we see that gumbo is not just a Louisiana food but a dish that has ties to the greater history of …
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Conceptualizing Anthropogenic Change in Fluvial Systems: Drainage Development on the Upper Embarras River, Illinois
… the ""meeting ground"" between physical and human geography, essentially the interface between human society and the biophysical environment, and to make an attempt at negotiating the conceptual bridge between many of the dichotomies existing in contemporary geography. While the geomorphic …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… boundless and unstable; in the last few decades, human geography has countered these assumptions to show that space is also a sphere of heterogeneity. The novels I read both anticipate and critique human geography by representing interior spaces as at once stable and shifting. That is, rather than …
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