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Participatory Mapping Of Tree Equity, Preferences, And Environmental Justice In Portland, Oregon, Kate Gregory, Idowu Ajibade 2024 Portland State University

Participatory Mapping Of Tree Equity, Preferences, And Environmental Justice In Portland, Oregon, Kate Gregory, Idowu Ajibade

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this study, we examine community lived experiences, preferences, and narratives about tree equity in Portland, Oregon. Using an environmental justice framework combined with participatory mapping, focus group discussions, and semi-structured interviews, we examine values, perceptions of canopy cover, and everyday relationships with trees across different racial and socio-economic backgrounds. Results show that participants from neighborhoods with histories of investment and privilege had different lived experiences compared to those with histories of disinvestment and marginalization. While participants overall valued trees, concerns about tree-related risk and safety varied in ways that reflected racial and class identities. Furthermore, memories and historic knowledge …


Spatial Distribution Of The Use Of E-Government Services In The City Of Amman, Hanaa Al-Momani, Hamzeh Al-Khawaldeh 2024 PhD student, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

Spatial Distribution Of The Use Of E-Government Services In The City Of Amman, Hanaa Al-Momani, Hamzeh Al-Khawaldeh

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

This study aims to identify the reality of e-government services in the city of Amman, and to distribute them spatially according to the administrative regions of the Greater Amman Municipality, with an indication of the demographic, social and economic characteristics of their users, and to measure the degree of satisfaction with these services by them. The study used a set of approaches to achieve its objectives, such as the descriptive statistical approach and analysis, through the application of some descriptive statistical methods. Such as the mean, median, percentages, and frequencies, in addition to using geographic information systems software (ARC GIS …


Cover And Forewords, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

Cover And Forewords, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


A Note From The Editor, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

A Note From The Editor, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

A Note from the Editor


Luck In The Life Of A Geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Luck In The Life Of A Geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan

The Geographical Bulletin

Luck plays a far greater role in our life than we are willing to acknowledge, for the obvious reason that it detracts from our role as agents. I, for one, used to see myself as planning my career path and then following it. Only now, in extreme old age, do I find the idea of that planned life untenable. Looking back, at critical points, it was not the wisdom of my planning, but rather happenstance that took me to the more fruitful way. Let me start with graduate school, a choice I had to make in my last year as …


Volume 62-1 Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

Volume 62-1 Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 62-1 Complete Issue


Deep In The Karst: Foundations For A Career In Geography, Michael F. Goodchild 2024 University of California

Deep In The Karst: Foundations For A Career In Geography, Michael F. Goodchild

The Geographical Bulletin

In the last lines of his poem “In Praise of Limestone”, W.H. Auden wrote, “[W]hen I try to imagine a faultless love or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape”. When I was 12, my family moved to two acres of land underlain by Devonian limestone in Paignton, county of Devon, southwest England. At age 15, I began exploring the local caves – small, tight, but beautifully decorated. Later, studying physics at Cambridge, I found the University’s caving club and spent many happy weekends in and under …


The Deviant Geographer, Janice Monk, Casey D. Allen 2024 University of Arizona

The Deviant Geographer, Janice Monk, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

I’ve spent my life being a deviant. When I say that, I don’t necessarily mean in a delinquent sense (though that has been necessary at times). Rather, I mean I’ve always had to approach things differently. Things about your own life and background can help to shape and widen the ways in which we study, and how we see the world – even if you don’t realize it. For me, it was a combination of breaking my work-a-day upbringing cycle (I came from a working-class family and lived/grew-up in the Petersham suburb, west of downtown Sydney, Australia) and being the …


Revisiting Geomorphological Hotspots, Andrew Goudie 2024 University of Oxford

Revisiting Geomorphological Hotspots, Andrew Goudie

The Geographical Bulletin

In 1996, just a quarter of a century ago, I wrote a paper called “Geomorphological ‘hotspots’ and global warming” (Goudie 1996). My motivation to choose this theme, was that various biogeographers and ecologists, fearing loss of biodiversity due to human activities, had used the phrase “biodiversity hotspots” for those areas that may be of greatest significance because of their sensitivity and the richness (and endemicity) of their fauna and flora. A leader in this was a forester, Norman Myers, who had published an influential paper in 1992. T his made me wonder whether there were “geomorphological hotspots” where the environment …


Viral Worlds: Zika And Matter Of Global Health Futures, Deborah Dixon 2024 University of Glasgow

Viral Worlds: Zika And Matter Of Global Health Futures, Deborah Dixon

The Geographical Bulletin

As a site for ‘cutting edge’ research, virology has a profoundly conservative genealogy, its promulgations on the origins of viral disease intimately wrapped in prognostications on the ending of human life. Since the late 19th century, a concern for the reach of pathogenic viral matter into human bodies has emerged as a deeply colonial project, with fears over the transformation of endemic diseases into epidemic ones conjoined with cautions of population decline in the colonies and disrupted trade routes. Colonial authorities in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America framed viral disease as a ‘public health’ problem – a problem …


Find Your Special Place, David R. Butler 2024 Texas State University

Find Your Special Place, David R. Butler

The Geographical Bulletin

Geographers come in all varieties, but many of the best geographers study – and have found – their “special place”. I present examples of work over the course of my career in my special place, Glacier National Park, Montana. Finding your own special place will serve you well and hopefully carry you through the tough times that inevitably occur during (student) life. Geographers study places all over the world and beyond, as well as places in the imagination. We use a diversity of tools and methods in the process. Indeed, some geographers are known primarily as “methods” geographers associated with …


Geography, Exploration, And Metaphor, Carol Harden 2024 University of Tennessee

Geography, Exploration, And Metaphor, Carol Harden

The Geographical Bulletin

Geography, as the study of the world and its many interrelated components, presents an enormous range of opportunities for exploration and discovery. Some explorations involve travel and physical activity while others occur in offices, archives, or focus groups. As a discipline that encompasses a large range of research topics and methods, geography attracts a diverse community, including individuals with multiple interests. Although developing and maintaining focus is necessary for increasing expertise and authority, having a broader view gives us more perspectives to draw from and, often, facilitates new insights into causal relationships among seemingly disparate elements of our worlds. The …


Lithological And Geotechnical Characterization Of Casablanca’S Urban Subsoil, Morocco, Imane Fahi, Fouad El Kamel, Toufik Remmal, Halima Jounaid, Fouad Amraoui, Houssine Ejjaouani 2024 Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Morocco

Lithological And Geotechnical Characterization Of Casablanca’S Urban Subsoil, Morocco, Imane Fahi, Fouad El Kamel, Toufik Remmal, Halima Jounaid, Fouad Amraoui, Houssine Ejjaouani

The Geographical Bulletin

Morocco’s largest city, Casablanca, is expanding rapidly, but geotechnical characteristics related to the region’s subsoil are rarely taken into consideration during construction/building projects. Using field studies, along with a significant database established from civil-engineering work, this study focuses on the lithological and mechanical characterization/behavior of Casablanca’s subsoil in order to gain a clearer interpretation of Casablanca’s (sub)soil. Lithology maps and cross-sections show the variation of Quaternary cover thickness, which is controlled by the shape of the synclines and anticlines in the folded Paleozoic bedrock. The texture of surface soils was described by percentage of gravel, sand, silt, tuff, and clay, …


The Journey, Dawn J. Wright 2024 Esri

The Journey, Dawn J. Wright

The Geographical Bulletin

While I’m an oceanographer first and foremost, I do have formal training in (physical) geography and terrestrial geology. And this background has allowed me to achieve some pretty neat things, especially so considering I’m a Black American female scientist. I’m pretty modest when it comes to tooting my own horn, but when hard work pays off, being acknowledged can be refreshing. I’ve been to bottom of the ocean. I’ve mapped the ocean floor. Well, a lot of it – but in 3D – and we’ll hopefully have the entire seafloor mapped by 2030. But accomplishments aside, I’d like to give …


Modeling The Risk And Potential Spread Of The Asian Long-Horned Beetle In Southeast Michigan, Stephanie Carr, Rudy Bartels, Lisa DeChano-Cook, Diana Casey 2024 Western Michigan University

Modeling The Risk And Potential Spread Of The Asian Long-Horned Beetle In Southeast Michigan, Stephanie Carr, Rudy Bartels, Lisa Dechano-Cook, Diana Casey

The Geographical Bulletin

The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) infestation has been an ongoing problem for the Midwest, Northeast, and parts of the South contiguous United States. The purpose of this project is to identify the currently infested areas and to create a potential spread map for counties in Michigan nearest to the Ohio infestation. There is a strong probability that infestations will spread into Michigan. The climate is ideal for the beetle and Michigan’s native tree species, the sugar maple, is its preferred host. Michigan’s most susceptible counties are Monroe, Washtenaw, and Wayne. The potential destruction of Michigan’s maple trees could significantly …


A Note From The Editor, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

A Note From The Editor, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

A Note from the Editor


Cover And Forewords, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

Cover And Forewords, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 61-2 Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen 2024 The University of the West Indies

Volume 61-2 Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 61-2 Complete Issue


All The World’S A Stage: Aesthetics, Competing Stories And Slum Clearance In Delhi, India, Richard Wolfel 2024 United States Military Academy

All The World’S A Stage: Aesthetics, Competing Stories And Slum Clearance In Delhi, India, Richard Wolfel

The Geographical Bulletin

The rise of the modern commercial political-economic system is influencing rural to urban migration in addition to urban morphology. Slum settlements are one of the major results of rapid and often unregulated rural to urban migration. Slum settlements create a major problem for developing cities. The slum settlements do not fit the leadership’s vision for a modern city, one that can be marketed to outside businesses and organizations for investment. As a result they are often seen as a nuisance by the leadership and targeted for destruction, especially when the land of the slum is valuable. The process of slum …


Student Cyclists Experience Pm2.5 Pollution Hotspots Around An Urban University Campus, Brett W. Luce, Tate E. Barrett, Alexandra G. Ponette-González 2024 University of North Texas

Student Cyclists Experience Pm2.5 Pollution Hotspots Around An Urban University Campus, Brett W. Luce, Tate E. Barrett, Alexandra G. Ponette-González

The Geographical Bulletin

Although cycling has environmental and health benefits, urban cyclists are at risk of exposure to harmful concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). We used a low-cost particle sensor and MapMyRide to collect geolocated 1-minute PM2.5 measurements along four routes surrounding an urban university campus. Measurements were collected from 7:30-9:30 AM during fall 2017 and spring 2018. We found no significant differences in ride-averaged PM2.5 concentrations among routes, but all routes experienced higher concentrations when winds blew from the southeast-south-southwest. Hotspots, areas with consistently elevated PM2.5 concentrations compared to surrounding areas, were detected along all routes in areas with high traffic …


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