geography

Exploring ‘Lost Person Behavior’ and the Science of Search and Rescue
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April 24, 2024

Exploring ‘Lost Person Behavior’ and the Science of Search and Rescue

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How British Literary Psychogeography Offers Possibilities for Researchers
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December 20, 2022

How British Literary Psychogeography Offers Possibilities for Researchers

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Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography
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December 14, 2022

Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography

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Mapping the Ebb and Flow of Psychogeography
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December 12, 2022

Mapping the Ebb and Flow of Psychogeography

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Research and the Census: Exploring the Labor Force

Research and the Census: Exploring the Labor Force

The concept of the labor force describes a person’s employment status, and like all U.S. Census Bureau definitions, the terminology is quite specific. The labor force consists of all people 16 years of age or older who are working (employed), are not working but are actively seeking work (unemployed)…

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What is Census Data?

What is Census Data?

When most Americans think of the census, they think of the 10-year or decennial census that is used to gather basic data about the total population. The decennial census is an actual count of people and housing units, and it serves as the baseline for measuring and generating other census data-sets…

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Lying With Maps and Census Data

Lying With Maps and Census Data

Geographer Frank Donnelly notes that census geography and maps are not automatically reliable – they can be used to intentionally skew research findings.

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Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Christine Drennon, a Texas geographer whose youth and professional life have given her a front-row seat to see how access and equality play out in American cities, has received the annual Urban Affairs Association award for a scholar/activist.

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Doreen Massey on Space

Doreen Massey on Space

In honor of the late Doreen Massey, an eminent geographer who died Friday at age 72, we repost her Social Science Bites podcast, which has long been one of our most popular. In this interview, Massey asked us to rethink our assumptions about space — and explained why.

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“Fighting for the social sciences”

“Fighting for the social sciences”

A new post on the Center for International Forestry Research blog sets out the importance of social sciences in understanding the causes […]

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How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide

How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide

Henry G Overman, professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre Last week was the first […]

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