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Volume 38-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 38-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 38-2 Complete Issue

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Rural Restructuring: Global Processes And Their Responses By Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, And Sarah What More, Editors., M. Duane Nellis Jan 2025

Rural Restructuring: Global Processes And Their Responses By Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, And Sarah What More, Editors., M. Duane Nellis

The Geographical Bulletin

(Cloth). To fully understand the transformation occurring in rural areas requires a broader, more geographically holistic approach to analysis ofthe rural system. Research needs to focus on the implications of reorganization of the international food system, as well as changes taking place in rural areas associated with capitalist recombinations and efforts at some form of rural sustainability.

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The Evolving Coast By Richard A. Davisjr, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

The Evolving Coast By Richard A. Davisjr, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The most obvious and attractive boundary to people is that which separates the land from the sea. Although shorelines have been examined and classified since the early part of this century (e.g. Gulliver, 1899: Suess, 1909), understanding of their hazards and the consequence of reckless development seems, until quite recently, to have passed us by.

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Europe At The Margins: New Mosaics Of Inequality By Costis Hadjimichalis And David Sadler, Editors, Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Europe At The Margins: New Mosaics Of Inequality By Costis Hadjimichalis And David Sadler, Editors, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Since the mid 1980's Europe has un122 dergone some fundamental and dramatic transformations, which include the creation of a Single Internal Market and other far reaching economic, political and social changes. The image of Europe that is touted is one of a harmony of differences, of integration, and equality. This integration and harmony is being achieved by allowing the 'logic' of the market to operate, and by engaging in a 'social partnership.' To date, focus has been on the positive aspects of integration, but a darker side exists beyond the rhetoric of a new unified and affluent Europe.

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Entering The Watershed By Bob Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Chris Frissell, James Karrof The Pacific Rivers Council., Evelyn Gallegos Jan 2025

Entering The Watershed By Bob Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Chris Frissell, James Karrof The Pacific Rivers Council., Evelyn Gallegos

The Geographical Bulletin

Watersheds are surface areas connected by a stream network creating an ecosystem of habitats and basic life-support systems. Holistic and inclusive, watersheds are natural and often neglected tools for cost-effective and sustainable riparian-riverine management. Past piecemeal and reactive approaches to our damaged riverine ecosystems have been ineffective, and in some cases have contributed to further degradation.

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Managing Geographic Information Systems By Nancy J. Obermeyer And Jeffrey K. Pinto. G, Kendra Buntrock Barberena Jan 2025

Managing Geographic Information Systems By Nancy J. Obermeyer And Jeffrey K. Pinto. G, Kendra Buntrock Barberena

The Geographical Bulletin

Managing Geographic Information Systems explores theoretical compo - nents of a Geographic Information Sys - tem (GIS) and how to manage them. The authors bel ieve that "previously pub - lished GIS books are instructional texts filled with unrelated case studies with lit - tle theoretical foundation ." They suggest that if the theory behind a GIS is known, it can be effectively applied. Their sec - ondary focus is to enable complete use of the full range of GIS tasks by average users by supplying some basic informa - tion about geographical analysis.

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Political Geography (2nd Edition) By Martin Ira Glassner, Jamie M. Goodwin-White Jan 2025

Political Geography (2nd Edition) By Martin Ira Glassner, Jamie M. Goodwin-White

The Geographical Bulletin

Political Geography begins as all good geographies should, by situating what will follow temporally as well as spatially. "It is possible," Glassner begins, " . .. that many years from now historians will look back and judge that the twenty-first century . . . began during the period in which we are now living, roughly from the mid1980s to the mid-1990s." And even ifthis does not prove true, it is most certainly the case that the current period has witnessed substantial re-orientation of the relations between humans and political contexts of space. The spatial scale of human political geographies, it …

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News From The Chapters 1995-1996, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

News From The Chapters 1995-1996, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Highlights of Activities (1995-1996): This year was packed full of travels, trials, and tribulations for the Alpha Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon. We had approximately 20 active members ofthe organization participating in numerous events. The fall semester started off to a cold, wet camping trip to the ever popular Turkey Run State Park in Indiana. We had a very successful 5th Annual White Elephant Auction, raising $190.00. The local Geography Bee and the State Bee brought in T-shirt sales of $600.00. We made a generous donation to a local charity from the profits we made this year. A new item …

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Charcoal Making: An Element Of Antiguan Folk Culture, Douglas Heffington Jan 2025

Charcoal Making: An Element Of Antiguan Folk Culture, Douglas Heffington

The Geographical Bulletin

Antigua, in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, has a rich cultural history. The residuals of a monoculture agriculture involving sugar cane (Saccharum ssp.) cultivation are seen everywhere, including a large ethnic population of African descent. Blacks brought to the island as slave labor since the late 1600s have contributed significantly to Antiguan folk culture, including active participation in the cottage industry of charcoal making and the maintenance of the associated material culture. This paper is the documentation of a folk industry before it is lost to the inevitable encroachment of modernization.

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Exploring Spatial Structure Effect On Modeling Spatial Interaction, Engdawork Desta Jan 2025

Exploring Spatial Structure Effect On Modeling Spatial Interaction, Engdawork Desta

The Geographical Bulletin

Measuring the relative importance of locations and accounting for the influence of spatial structure are important considerations in spatial interaction modeling. To determine the volume of attracted and/ or generated flows between interacting locations, different formulations of a gravity model are used. In a system of interaction space, whether it is origins, destinations or both, that should be appraised is still not resolved . The exercise in this paper employs various tracks of the gravity model to evaluate the influence of spatial structure on spatial interaction. The conclusion reached does not fully support the findings of similar previous works. The …

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Marketing Distance-Decay And Highland Vegetable Production In Northern Thailand, Richard A. Crooker, Robert N. Martin Jan 2025

Marketing Distance-Decay And Highland Vegetable Production In Northern Thailand, Richard A. Crooker, Robert N. Martin

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper delineates the potential geographical range of vegetable production in Thailand's northern highlands and demonstrates the utility of marketing distance-decay analysis in rural studies. Hill tribes grow vegetables in northern Thailand as replacement cash crops for illegal opium. They produce more vegetables than local markets consume and the surplus is transported to a developing market in Bangkok. The distance-decay rate ofthis new market is treated as a function of transport costs. Isoline maps are used to analyze resulting marketing gradients of important vegetable cash crops. It appears that distance-decay does not inevitably prohibit marketing surplus vegetables in Bangkok. The …

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Of Landscapes And Nightmares: The Geography Of Fictional Horror, Michelle K. Smith Jan 2025

Of Landscapes And Nightmares: The Geography Of Fictional Horror, Michelle K. Smith

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper examines the role of landscape, place, and setting in the horror genre. A brief history of horror is followed by an examination of the trends and changes that have occurred in horror literature over time. Explanations for these trends are offered. Two-hundred horror stories from 1895 to the present are categorized into the three basic genre subtypes (supernatural, psychological, or other), and their associated landscape settings are identified. The city has been and remains the most popular setting in horror fiction, followed by the small town setting, the rural setting, and the suburban setting. All are associated with …

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Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comments: On The Pleasures Of Being A Geographer. James J. Parsons, James J. Parsons Jan 2025

Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comments: On The Pleasures Of Being A Geographer. James J. Parsons, James J. Parsons

The Geographical Bulletin

We often forget our good fortune at being "Geographers." As Carl Sauer once noted ours is not just another academic discipline. We have chosen it because it has special meaning to us, an important premise that does not always apply to those in other fields. For most of us it represents a compelling, almost mystical way of looking at linkages between ourselves and our supporting earth in particular places, regions, or environments. And we do what we do because we like it. Listen to the late Archie Carr, distinguished naturalist-biologist and world authority on turtles and tortoises: "A geographer is …

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The Cake Of Kings: A French January Tradition, Jean Lavigne Jan 2025

The Cake Of Kings: A French January Tradition, Jean Lavigne

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

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Tree-Equity And Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals In Portland: Current Impacts And Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell Jan 2025

Tree-Equity And Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals In Portland: Current Impacts And Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell

Dissertations and Theses

Urban tree equity is critical for addressing environmental justice and mitigating the effects of climate change in cities. This study investigates how professionals in Portland's urban forestry sector conceptualize and implement tree equity, focusing on equity and justice discourses. Through 27 semi-structured interviews with 29 professionals from government agencies and NGOs, I examine how these discourses shape decisions regarding tree planting, distribution, and maintenance, particularly in underserved communities. The analysis draws on political ecology, systems dynamics, and structuration theory to explore the systemic barriers perpetuating inequities in tree canopy distribution. The findings reveal tensions between different approaches to equity, such …

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Scaling Arctic Landscape And Permafrost Features Improves Active Layer Depth Modeling, Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang, Shawn P. Serbin, Joshua B. Fisher, Daniel J. Hayes Jan 2025

Scaling Arctic Landscape And Permafrost Features Improves Active Layer Depth Modeling, Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang, Shawn P. Serbin, Joshua B. Fisher, Daniel J. Hayes

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Tundra ecosystems in the Arctic store up to 40% of global below-ground organic carbon but are exposed to the fastest climate warming on Earth. However, accurately monitoring landscape changes in the Arctic is challenging due to the complex interactions among permafrost, micro-topography, climate, vegetation, and disturbance. This complexity results in high spatiotemporal variability in permafrost distribution and active layer depth (ALD). Moreover, these key tundra processes interact at different scales, and an observational mismatch can limit our understanding of intrinsic connections and dynamics between above and below-ground processes. Consequently, this could limit our ability to model and anticipate how ALD …

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Strategies For Learning A New Language: Some Of Them Are Even Fun, Jean Lavigne Jan 2025

Strategies For Learning A New Language: Some Of Them Are Even Fun, Jean Lavigne

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

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Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

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Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue

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The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg Jan 2025

The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg

The Geographical Bulletin

Edward P. Hogan has done a considerable service for the people of South Dakota by researching and writing The Geography of South Dakota, the first such volume in 78 years. It is a book that was long overdue, but such a project also needs the right person at the rig

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Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The coast is the meeting place of continents and oceans and a zone of interest and concern to a diverse group of social and physical scientist. The notion thatthe earth's climate is changing due to the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is widespread. Increase of fossil fuel consumption is anticipated to result in higher temperatures, weather alterations, dramatic changes in the present-day global agricultural zones, and higher eustatic sea levels due to melting glacial ice.

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Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell Jan 2025

Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell

The Geographical Bulletin

Here is a book that will delight all who love the Great Lakes and wish to know more about them. Among the numerous books available on the Great Lakes, Charting the Inland Seas is the first exhaustive history of the U. S. Lake Survey. This was the governmental agency in charge of overseeing the Great Lakes from 1841 to its demise in 1976 when it became a part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael

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News from the Chapters 1996-1997

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Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Population and the environment are intertwined in a complex web that demands the analysis of numerous theoretical and practical issues. These issues have been neglected in the past, and the topics of population and the environment artificially separated in both thought and action. This book attempts to fill these voids using an inductive and interdisciplinary approach. A series of authors contribute fifteen chapters organized into five sections. Section I explores global per - spectives relating to population and the environment, Section II analyzes the im - portance of the state as an actor, Section III focuses on population-environment dynamics in …

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Transformation Of Japan's Rural Landscape And Economy: The Case Of A Rice Growing Village In Central Japan, Akira Tabayashi Jan 2025

Transformation Of Japan's Rural Landscape And Economy: The Case Of A Rice Growing Village In Central Japan, Akira Tabayashi

The Geographical Bulletin

Rural regions and communities in Japan have changed drastically following the rapid economic development that occurred in the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Important outcomes of rural changes were the rapid outflow of labor from rural areas and the increase in the number of part-time farmers. This paper mainly focuses its attention on the evolutionary processes of rural regions over three decades from 1960 to the present, through a case study of a typical Japanese village named Urayamashin. The traditional rice growing village transformed itself into a non-farming village in the early 1970s partly because of a reduction …

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Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi Jan 2025

Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi

The Geographical Bulletin

The indigenous traditions of Moroccan geography, pioneered by such figures as AI Idrisi and Ibn Khaldun during the classical period of Arab intellectual history (1000-1400), came to be ignored and then replaced with the establishment of a French protectorate in 1912. The era of independence in Moroccan geography was supplanted by an era of dependence on European scholarship, which emphasized resource exploitation and which was to last until political independence in 1956. Following that watershed year, intellectual inquiry became more independent and focused on the development needs of the nation. Following a period of Moroccanization in the 1970s, which included …

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Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman Jan 2025

Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman

The Geographical Bulletin

The Hatchie River in western Tennessee is one of the few remaining free-flowing streams in the Gulf Coastal Plain. Although there have been no major modifications of the main channel, many of its tributaries have been channelized during the past few decades. Channelization has significantly reduced flooding in the upper sections of the watershed. The straightened and hydrologically more efficient channels, however, speed the flow of water that scours the channel bed. Sediment derived from these unstable channels is transported downstream and into the main channel. An examination of changes in bed elevation indicate that the depth and therefore cross-sectional …

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The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly Jan 2025

The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly

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On November 8, 1994 Oregon became the first state in the nation to pass legislation allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the assistance of a physician. Ballot Measure 16, the Death with Dignity Act, removes criminal penalties for assisting a terminally ill suicide, but does not allow lethal injection. In August 1995, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan ruled the Death with Dignity Act violates the equal protection clause ofthe 14th Amendment. The ruling is being appealed. This paper investigates electoral voting patterns regarding Measure 16 in the 36 Oregon counties. It explores the relationships between votes …

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Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comment: The Human Factor In Recent Climate Change Remains Unproven, Carl F. Ojala Jan 2025

Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comment: The Human Factor In Recent Climate Change Remains Unproven, Carl F. Ojala

The Geographical Bulletin

Global warming, the theory and controversy involving artificial enhancement of the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere, has emerged as one of the prime environmental issues of recent years. Proponents conclude it may produce serious worldwide problems in the near future, such as rising sea levels, geographic shifts in farming and forest regions, and changes in agricultural yields, water resources, and wetlands. Conversely, skeptics imply that any warming due to proposed increases in greenhouse gases is undetectable and unpredictable among the natural variations in long-term atmospheric temperatures.

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Suburbanization As A Post-Industrial Essentiality: Revisiting Sweden's Miljonprogrammet, Colin Wood Jan 2025

Suburbanization As A Post-Industrial Essentiality: Revisiting Sweden's Miljonprogrammet, Colin Wood

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

Definitively speaking, suburbanization does not equate to post-industrialism in the same limelight as would urbanization and industrialism. However, anomalous cases, such as the one being discussed in this paper, tangentially interlink on a socioeconomic basis. In 1965, Sweden began construction of the Miljonprogrammet (Million Programme), where over the next ten years, over one million domiciles were built in a suburban setting leading to a mass diaspora of ‘slum living’ Swedish industrial workers. The nation’s renowned welfare state, built on a collaborative system between public and private sectors as well as federal and municipal actors, overlooked housing in its social …

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