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Playing With Landscape: Social Process And Spatial Form In Video Games, Michael Longan
Playing With Landscape: Social Process And Spatial Form In Video Games, Michael Longan
Michael W Longan
Video games not only incorporate representations of landscapes, they are themselves a form of landscape representation that communicates ideas about how the world is and how it should be. Like traditional forms of landscape representation, video games use tricks of perspective and realistic graphics to represent real world places or to create worlds that appear to be real. Through their interactivity, video games also give their players a sense of power and control over the spatial form of the landscape. However, unlike traditional forms of landscape representation, video games offer opportunities to subjectively enter the space of the game and …
Site Fights: Divisive Facilities And Civil Society In Japan And The West, Daniel Aldrich
Site Fights: Divisive Facilities And Civil Society In Japan And The West, Daniel Aldrich
Daniel P Aldrich
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policy makers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects, but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups. In Site Fights, I gather quantitative evidence from close to 500 municipalities across Japan to show that planners deliberately seek out acquiescent and unorganized communities for such facilities in order to minimize conflict. When protests arise over nuclear power plants, dams, and airports, agencies regularly rely on the coercive powers of …
Adding Ecosystem Function To Agent-Based Land Use Models, Vineet Yadav, S Del Grosso, William Parton, George Malanson
Adding Ecosystem Function To Agent-Based Land Use Models, Vineet Yadav, S Del Grosso, William Parton, George Malanson
George P Malanson
The objective of this paper is to examine issues in the inclusion of simulations of ecosystem functions in agent-based models of land use decision-making,
Environment And Development In Uganda: Understanding The Global Influence On Domestic Policy, Christopher Gore
Environment And Development In Uganda: Understanding The Global Influence On Domestic Policy, Christopher Gore
Christopher D Gore
No abstract provided.
A Political Ecology Of Neglect: Race, Gender, And Environmental Change In Philadelphia, Alec Brownlow
A Political Ecology Of Neglect: Race, Gender, And Environmental Change In Philadelphia, Alec Brownlow
Alec Brownlow
No abstract provided.
Healthy Urban Food Production And Local Government, Christopher Gore
Healthy Urban Food Production And Local Government, Christopher Gore
Christopher D Gore
No abstract provided.
Electricity And Privatization In Uganda: The Origins Of Crisis And Problems With Response, Christopher Gore
Electricity And Privatization In Uganda: The Origins Of Crisis And Problems With Response, Christopher Gore
Christopher D Gore
No abstract provided.