Geographers
A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" and the Greek suffix, "graphy," meaning "description," so a geographer is someone who studies the earth. The word "geography" is a Middle French word that is believed to have been first used in 1540.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only the details of the natural environment or human society, but they also …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 16 July 2024 English
A volcanic eruption increases the likelihood of children working and dropping out of school.
1981–2002. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(3). 551–566. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306 …
World Bank Group · 11 June 2024 English
This paper was prepared to support the Libyan Ministry of Health in designing and establishing its health economics unit. Over the past decade, Libya’s health system has been significantly and …
irdes.fr/english/home.html. 31 sociologists, geographers, public health physicians, and statisticians—all …
DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier · 7 June 2024 English
New working paper series From Afghanistan and Yemen and from Mali to Somalia, checkpoints are central to dynamics of armed conflict, funding insurgents, driving violence and shaping governance by various …
escorts that armed groups 7 As critical geographers remind us, in such contexts, checkpoints should … Copperbelt. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Bojicic-Dzelilovic, V., and Turkmani, R. (2018) …
UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists · 6 June 2024 English
According to new analysis, federal infrastructure investments in California may fall short of Justice40 Initiative goals.
Underbounding.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 (4): 564–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306 …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 6 June 2024 English
The North Dakota Railroad War of 1905, which pitted a potential entrant (the Soo Line) against an established monopolist incumbent (the Great Northern Railway), offers a lucid empirical example of …
earned mention from a handful of historians and geographers, to my knowledge it has not been previously explored …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 31 May 2024 English
The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evi- dence-based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …
in/Press- utory urbanisation. Trans.Inst.Indian Geographers, ReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1782603#:~:tex- …
Nordic Co-operation | Nordic Council & Nordic Council of Ministers · 30 May 2024 English
This paper summarises that debate and serves as a conceptual overview of the topic in order to provide a better understanding of what factors, or combination of factors, are driving …
Change. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93:89–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8306 …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 21 May 2024 English
The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evi- dence-based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …
in/Press- utory urbanisation. Trans.Inst.Indian Geographers, ReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1782603#:~:tex- …
World Bank Group · 17 May 2024 English
Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how high temperatures affect the decision making of police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that police reduce the number of …
1980”. In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74.4 (1984), pp. 590–604. [4] Craig A Anderson …
AHURI: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute · 13 May 2024 English
419 The role of outcomes-based frameworks in social housing provision in Australia 8 Introduction: Outcomes of social housing provision in Australia From a perspective of driving policy innovation in social …
housing. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 44, no. 4: 763-777. https://doi.org/10 …
