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The challenges for geography in higher education in European universities
Full text linkThis article reports about a joint EUGEO/EUROGEO/IGU panel discussion at the EUGEO Congress in May2019 in Galway, Ireland about the challenges for geography in higher education in European universities. Although the situation is different in the various European countries, the geography departments are facing several common challenges, such as limited budgets for teaching, university managers, politicians, employers and the general public that do not know what geography is and a gap between geography in primary and secondary education and in higher education. The article concludes that communication about the discipline of geography is a key factor and gives some examples of successful ways of communicating in order to make geography more visible
The Geography of Remittances in Ghana
No full textMigrant transfers and their remittances provide a significant source of capital flows and foreign exchange for Developing Countries. While peripheral regions like Sub-Saharan Africa are underrepresented in the remittance literature there is growing recognition that the region is globally important as a migrant sending zone and that subsequent remittances influence local economies (Yeboah 2008). For example, Ghana has experienced increased migration in the post-SAP era of decentralization, and Bank of Ghana estimates place national remittances in the $1billion range (Mazzucato, van den Boom and Nsowah 2008). However, research has largely failed to address the geography of remittances. In particular, little attention has been given to the usage of remittances by receiving households and how these uses vary with respect to their origin and destinations. My specific objective is to address the disparity in geographical research on remittances and Sub-Saharan African subjects by investigating the geography of remittances between migrant sending and receiving scales in Ghana, how this relates to the uses to which payments are put, and from these what deductions may be drawn about the impact of remittances on development
Geography @ University : making the most of your geography degree and courses.
Full text linkThis book gives current and prospective students of geography guidance on the various methods of teaching and assesement they will encounter during their geography degree. It provides advice on how to learn most effectively for each situation, depending on how one prefers to learn. The book also deals with issues of personal development and career management
The Promises and Prospects of Geography in Higher Education
No full text10.1080/03098260601032870Journal of Geography in Higher Education31113-1
Geography and decolonisation
Full text linkThis introduction to a special issue on Geography and Decolonisation examines the complex relationship between the discipline of geography and the process of post-war decolonisation. It argues that little attention has been paid to decolonisation within geographical thought and scholarship or to the role that geographers played in the dissolution of colonial empires. It discusses the semantic difficulties surrounding the term decolonisation and examines the ways in which it used in current projects to reshape the academy and the production of knowledge. Serving as an introduction to the five substantive papers in the special issue it identifies cross-cutting themes and sets out a case for further examination of the spatiality of decolonisation.Peer reviewe
Money flows like mercury: the geography of global finance
No full textIf the social relations and inherited configuration of production were at the core of economic geography a decade ago, these aspects of the world are increasingly taken for granted. The global scope of industry and corporate strategy has claimed increasing attention over the past decade. And while any ‘new’ economic geography must have something to say about the nature of human agency and the role of institutions in structuring the landscape, care must be taken not to exaggerate their significance for constructive interaction. In point of fact, the global finance industry is an essential lens through which to study contemporary capitalism from the top-down and the bottom-up. If we are to understand the economic landscape of twenty-first century capitalism, it should be understood through global financial institutions, its social formations and investment practices. This argument is developed by reference to the recent literature on the geography of finance and a metaphor ���� money flows like mercury – designed to explicate the spatial and temporal logic of global capital flows. Some may dispute this argument, but in doing so they lament the passing of an era rather than advancing a convincing counterclaim about how the world is and what it might become. All this means that we have to rethink the significance of geographical scale and organizational processes as opposed to an unquestioned commitment to localities
Geography, Land Values, and Municipal Taxation: A Spatial Paradigm for the Estimation and Reclamation of Rent
Full text link This dissertation provides an investigation into the confluence of three
basic themes; geography, land values, and municipal taxation. This research
examines the role of geography as it applies to addressing the inherent structural
problems of the municipal property tax system, which result in inequities in
municipal tax burdens. These structural problems are caused, in part, because
traditional specifications of mass appraisal models are unable to sufficiently
incorporate the impact of geography and because the property tax system is based
more heavily on the value of capital improvements, such as buildings, than the
value of land. Convincing evidence suggests a municipal taxation system based
more heavily on the value of land could help mitigate many negative
consequences of the property tax; thus, this research examines a spatial paradigm
for the estimation of urban land values in order to study the short-run implications
of transitioning to a land value tax system. After reviewing geography's contribution to the professional practice of
real estate appraisal, this dissertation describes a spatial decision support system
(SDSS) that was used to extract and validate sales of vacant land from the
population of real estate transactions that occurred in Hamilton, Ontario between
1995 and 2004. Vacant land transaction prices were used to explore the spatial
dynamics of land price appreciation and depreciation rates, investigate the
potential for spatial models to improve the accuracy and fairness of mass
appraisal, and to simulate the spatial distribution of shifting tax liabilities for
residential land uses under the property tax and land value tax systems in order to
examine their relationship to area-based deprivation indices. Results suggest there
remains much potential for geography to make significant contributions to
assessment practice, municipal taxation, and urban planning. Furthermore, there is
much potential for land value taxation to contribute to equitable and sustainable
cities. ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD
Essays on Mathematical Geography
No full textA collection of essays intended to show the range of power in applying pure mathematics to human systems. There are two types of essay: those which employ tranditional mathematical proof, and those which do not. As mathematical proof may itself be regarded as art, the former style of essay might represent "traditional" art, and the latter "surrealist" art.
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The Well-Tempered Map Projection | Antipodal Graphs | Measuring the Vertical City | Concavity and Human Settlement Patterns | Steiner Transformations | Analogue Clocks | Fad and Permanence in Human Systems | Topological Exploration in Geography | A Space for Thought | Chaos in Human Systems--The Heine-Borel TheoremPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58266/2/Mongraph03.pd
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