Geography

La quarta sezione del quinto clima nella Geografia di al-Idrisi

by Giuliano Mion

published in A. Arioli (ed.), 'Miscellanea Arabica 2010-2011', La Sapienza Orientale, Roma, 2011, pp. 193-217.

Firth, R. (2011) Making geography visible as an object of study in the secondary school curriculum, The Curriculum Journal 22(3): 289-316.

by Legitimation Code Theory

A GIS Comparative Analysis of Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and the Contemporary Physical Landscape in the Jazira Region of Syria

by Tony Mathys

Most of the datasets presented in this thesis are available for free in ArcGIS shapefile format on the ShareGeo Open data repository at http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/.

These datasets are available for everyone to use as it is important to encourage data sharing in support of research activities.

There are also some CORONA satellite images available on ShareGeo for the Syrian Jazira region. The plan is to eventually provide complete CORONA coverage for this region, though geo-referencing will not be precise as it's intended to be more for user orientation.

Acknowledgement should go to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which makes CORONA imagery available via its EarthExplorer online data service at http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/
Many CORONA images are available to download for free from this service, though require processing and geo-referencing for use in a GIS or a software package for processing remotely sensed imagery.

Relevant to this, and the thesis, is the following paper presented which first introduced how CORONA satellite imagery could be applied to archaeological work in the Near East. Martin Fowler also wrote about the potential of CORONA in the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) news.

Mathys, Tony. “The Use of Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs in a GIS (IDRISI) to Map Archaeological Sites and the Surrounding Landscape in the Northeastern Region of the Syrian Jazirah. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute, NASA and St. Cloud State University Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology Conference. St. Cloud, Minnesota, May 29-31, 1997.

Unfortunately, papers presented at this conference were not published.

My gratitude and thanks to Dr Sarah Parcak for citing this unpublished conference paper in her book (Satellite Remote Sensing in Archaeology), and to Dr Aled Rowlands and Dr Apostolos Sarris for citing it in their Journal of Archaeological Science article 34 (2007).

Fingerprint, Bellwether, Model Event: Climate Change as Anthropology per se

by Jerome Whitington

This paper discusses three figures of climate anticipation in order to show that climate change poses the problem of... more This paper discusses three figures of climate anticipation in order to show that climate change poses the problem of anthropology per se, that is, the planet with respect to anthropos.

Regional unemployment and industrial restructuring in Poland

by Francesco Pastore

Co-authored with Andrew Newell.
Eastern European Economics, 2006, 44(3): 5-28.
(also available as IZA DP, n. 194, November 2000, University of Sussex DP, n. 63, May 2000, e CELPE DP, n. 51, February 2000)

This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that regions experiencing greater change in... more This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that regions experiencing greater change in industrial structure have higher unemployment rates. We also find that high-unemployment regions have higher inflow rates to unemployment rather than longer spells of unemployment. These findings suggest that regional unemployment varies importantly with job destruction in Poland. Econometric analysis of the determinants of employment to unemployment flows reinforces this impression. We use our estimates to assess the extent to which regional unemployment variation is due to economic restructuring. We show that this cannot be done unambiguously, and offer reasons why many previous attempts to separate out the effects of restructuring on unemployment have been unsuccessful.

Yet another strategic planning Tool

by PJ Hooker

by Piergiorgio Roveda and Deborah Savoia

Paper presented in INPUT2012 Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning at 12 May... more Paper presented in INPUT2012 Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning at 12 May 2012.
Abstract:
The land use planning (which in this paper we call “LUPlanning”) is a complex matter that needs of clearness and standardize methods. This work proposes an effective tool for strategic planning, which provides the use of informatic systems to aid the decision makers and insiders of public body that are not professionals. The use of informatics makes easier and real time the public participation, an important critical point of planning, often difficult to implement for scepticism and in many town hard to really carry out, due to inadequate means.
The aim of the proposed tool is to furnish a way to simplification of LUPlanning process and decision, using available and cheap hardware and software solutions. Computerization is not just a fad, but is almost inevitable evolution of management systems, so make it the most for the municipality means facilitating the work of technicians and insiders and the active involvement of citizens, for a more effective, rational and strategic land planning.

Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour

by Simon Springer

Springer S, Ince A, Pickerill J, Brown G, and Barker A. Forthcoming. Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter... more The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what is today known as ‘radical geography’, attempted to reintroduce anarchism as a legitimate political philosophy. Unfortunately, quiet followed once more, and although numerous contemporary radical geographers employ a sense of theory and practice that shares many affinities with anarchism, direct engagement with anarchist ideas among academic geographers have been limited. As contemporary global challenges push anarchist theory and practice back into widespread currency, geographers need to rise to this occasion and begin (re)mapping the possibilities of what anarchist perspectives might yet contribute to the discipline.

Beyond Kurdistan? The Mesopotamia Social Forum and the appropriation and re-imagination of Mesopotamia by the Kurdish Movement.

by Marlies Casier

Published in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 13:4, 417-432, December 2011.

Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice

by Adam Moore

Published in Progress in Human Geography, 2008

La expansión de la soja y el cambio socio ambiental en el Chaco Argentino en la década de 1990

by julieta krapovickas

Cambio socio-ambiental en el chaco argentino y su relación con la expansión de soja en la década de 1990

by julieta krapovickas

Foreign Policies of the States of the Caucasus: Evolution in the Post-Soviet Period

by Uluslararası İlişkiler

Brenda Shaffer, "Foreign Policies of the States of the Caucasus: Evolution in the Post-Soviet Period", Uluslararası İlişkiler, Cilt 7, Sayı 26 (Yaz), 2010

Bu makale Güney Kafkasya ülkelerinin-Ermenistan, Azerbaycan ve Gürcistan-Sovyet sonrası dönemde dış politikalarının... more Bu makale Güney Kafkasya ülkelerinin-Ermenistan, Azerbaycan ve Gürcistan-Sovyet sonrası dönemde dış politikalarının gelişimini ve stratejilerini incelemektedir. Makale ilk olarak her üç ülkenin ittifak kurmalarında ve dış politika yönelimlerinde ideoloji ve kimliğin çok az etkili olduğunu öne sürmektedir. İkincisi, her üç ülke Rusya’ya ilişkin olarak tamamen farklı politikalar benimsemişlerdir. Üçüncüsü, coğrafi faktör bu ülkelerin dış politika tercihlerinde önemli bir etkiye sahiptir. Dördüncüsu ayrılıkçı çatışmaların sonuçlarının düzenlenmesi dış politika çabalarının en esas amacı olmuş ve çatışmalar komşu güçler için faydalı manivelalar teşkil etmiştir. Beşincisi, üç ülkenin de dış politika yapma kabiliyeti büyük ölçüde artmıştır. Son olarak, üç ülkenin dış politika seçenekleri büyük güçlerin bölge politikaları tarafından sınırlandırılmaktadır.

Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West

by Greg Woolf

Drainage network detection and assessment of network storage capacity in agrarian landscape

by Paolo Tarolli

Published in Hydrological Processes, 2012. Co-authored with Federico Cazorzi, Giancarlo Dalla Fontana, Alberto De Luca, Giulia Sofia

Drainage networks in agrarian landscape within floodplains constitute surface's discontinuities that are expected to... more Drainage networks in agrarian landscape within floodplains constitute surface's discontinuities that are expected to affect hydrological response during floods. Drainage network recognition and quantification of water storage capacity within channels are, therefore, crucial for watershed planning and management. These evaluations require accurate spatial information for the area of interest and in most cases, when studying large catchments, broad datasets of ditches locations and descriptions are not available. In order to characterize drainage networks for large areas, the availability of high resolution topography derived by airborne laser scanner (LiDAR) represents a new and effective tool. Nowadays LiDAR DTMs covering large areas are readily available for public authorities, and there is a greater and more widespread interest in the application of such information for the development of automated methods aimed at solving geomorphological and hydrological problems. While LiDAR DTMs reliability in steep landscape has been proven by several recent studies, only few researches have been conducted to take into account the effectiveness of these data in agrarian low relief landscapes. The goal of this research is to propose a semi-automatic approach based on a LiDAR DTM to (1) detect drainage networks in agrarian/floodplain contexts, and (2) to estimate some of the network summary statistics (network length, width, drainage density and storage capacity). The procedure is applied in two typical alluvial-plain areas in the North East of Italy, and tested comparing automatically derived network with surveyed ones. The results underline the capability of high resolution DTMs for drainage network detection and characterization in the context of agrarian landscapes within floodplains, opening at the same time new challenges to evaluate some hydrological processes in these areas

Définir l'intermédiarité par le système des mobilités spatiales

by Hadrien Commenges

Entre banalité et exotisme, le panel individuel des destinations touristiques

by Hadrien Commenges

Lacoste Y., Lorot P., 2010, La géopolitique et le géographe. Entretiens avec Pascal Lorot, Paris, Choiseul Éditions, 268 p

by Hadrien Commenges

Urban Geopolitics 8 Years on. Hybrid Sovereignties, the Everyday, and

by Sara Fregonese

Geography Compass, Volume 6, Issue 5, pages 290–303, May 2012

Urban events like 9-11 and the Arab Spring have deeply marked the first two decades of a century in which the majority... more Urban events like 9-11 and the Arab Spring have deeply marked the first two decades of a century in which the majority of the world population will live in cities. This essay reviews present and potential future debates about the relation between cities and geopolitics, particularly the work of urban geopolitics. I trace three debates centred on three relationships: that between city and sovereignty; between official and everyday urban practices; between violent and peaceful geographies. I point towards three avenues of potential engagement of geographers with the theme of geopolitics and the city. The first avenue leads to appreciating the complex relationships between the state and the non-state that are nowadays increasingly relevant and visible. The second concerns geographies of the everyday, the unofficial, and the unplanned. The third concerns the possibility for an urban geopolitics of peace and its inclusion, rather than focussing exclusively on war and its avoidance.

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

Diversity of bats in two protected limestone areas, Sarawak, Borneo. 2010b. Ridwan_et_al_SMJ

by M.T. Abdullah, PhD

This paper updates that of Hall et al 2004. Found new records. This paper updates that of Hall et al 2004. Found new records.