Human Geography is the study of the spatial organization of human activity and human interaction with the physical environment. The @links provided in this category are subareas that are typically of interest to those studying human and cultural geography...
This page was last updated on September 7th, 2008
This page was last updated on September 7th, 2008
Human Geography (from Geography)
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Urbanizing GIS
A discussion of how Philadelphia is trying to apply GIS (Geographic Information Systems) effectively to the complex circumstances that surround neighborhood planning in a troubled urban environment.
Prisoners of Geography
An article that explains why landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and new technologies they need to flourish in the global economy.
Four Dimensions of the Center-Periphery Conflict in the Polish Electoral Geography
Tomasz Zarycki argues that Polish electoral geography is based both on political ideology and elements of the spatial distribution of the population
Residential Energy Consumption Survey
A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997.
Economic and Business Geography
Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field.
Cultural Profiles Project
Extensive information about the cultures in different countries.
National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography
Historical overview of statistical atlases and census maps that express the cultural landscape of the United States.
Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country
A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography.
Sex Differences in Geographic Knowledge
A Sex Roles journal article describing gender differences in acquisition of environmental knowledge related to wayfinding behavior, spatial anxiety and self-estimated environmental competencies.
Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web
Provides information about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment to support policy development and analysis.
Cultural & Human Geography
A description of employment opportunities provided by the Association of American Geographers.
Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety
Discussion and examples of crime mapping. Features an overview of current research, publications, bibliography, and links to related sites.
BBC Learning: Human Geography Websites
Category page features news stories and links to related resources. Offers a section devoted to Medical Geography.
Cultural Landscapes
Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America.
Rachel Slocum
Information on her research into climate politics, feminist science studies, food security and racism. Features abstracts of publications and curriculum vitae.
The Society for Human Ecology
An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application.
Borderbase
Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news.
The Spatial Economy
Article by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthrony Venables that describes the dramatic increase in research on economic geography. Includes a discussion of spatial aspects of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition.
National Geography Standards
An outline with excerpts from the publication of the same title produced by the National Geographic Research and Exploration. An educational guide that discusses the spatial integration of human and physical phenomena distributed over the Earth's surface.
Project Vital
A laboratory for the study of geographic information technologies as they relate to transportation. Features project overview, links to related resources, job opportunities, and contact details.
The Maritime Cultural Landscape
An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography.
Mable/Geocorr
A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities.
Community Development in the 1990s
A report describing how the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) has successfully helped underwrite the efforts of community development corporations (CDCs) around the United States.
Regional Inversion
Essays by Luis Suarez-Villa, of the University of California, Irvine. Features sections devoted to the role of innovative capacity, tangible and intangible infrastructure, and a description of inversion at the metropolitan level
Decision Support, GIS, and Urban Planning
An article by Michael Batty and Paul J. Densham that discusses the role of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) in community planning.
Lansdowne Geographic Research
Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern.
Economic Geography Research Group
Promotes research in economic geography by organising meetings, developing contact and cooperation among geographers and other social scientists, and encouraging the publication of research.
Program for the Human Environment
A research center at Rockefeller University that explores how long-run technical change relates to productivity and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources, and the consequences for human populations.
Climate and Health Research Program
A research group concerned with climate and health, urban health and wellness and environmental epidemiology. Features descriptions of research projects, links to related resources, and contact information.
Human Geography Directory
An annotated directory of human geography resources hosted by the University of Leicester.
UKBorders
An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom.
Goss, Jon
Contains photo essays and academic papers on subjects such as consumption, shopping malls, tourism landscapes, geodemographics and artisanal fisheries. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii.
H-HistGeog: Historical Geography
H-Net discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information.
CSISS Search Portal
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science offers discussion forums and extensive search resources for locating Human Geography information.
Human Geography Department at Macquarie University
Features information for current and prospective students, staff profiles, current research, publications, and contact details. Also offers links to related resources, career opportunities and calendar of events.
Transport Geography on the Web
A project developed to promote access to transport geography information. Includes material to support undergraduate courses, including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations.
Sociology of the Environment Research Group
A group that carries out social research on environmental topics with the aim of providing inputs to the formation of policy and practice.
International Boundaries Research Unit
Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit, (IBRU) located at the University of Durham. A source of information on boundary and territorial issues around the world.
Virtual Cultural Geography Lesson
A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
Project Gigalopolis
A research project working to extend and refine the Clarke Urban Growth Model for making predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales.
The Canadian Communities Atlas
Offers links and resources for exploring the cultural geography of Canada. Features statistical profiles of communities, resources for educators, and general and contact information for the project.
Human Navigation
An article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by Herbert Pick that discusses cross-cultural research into environmental knowledge and wayfinding behavior.
Consensus-Building in a Multi-Participant Spatial Decision Support System
Abstract of an article by Robert D. Feick and Dr. G. Brent Hall that describes integrating and visualizing spatial data sets for regional planning. The complete text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
History of the U.S Cultural Environment
A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the cultural geography of the United States.
SDSS for Location Planning, or The Seat of the Pants is Out
A paper by Larry Daniel that reviews the general characteristics of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) applied to site analysis.
A discussion of how Philadelphia is trying to apply GIS (Geographic Information Systems) effectively to the complex circumstances that surround neighborhood planning in a troubled urban environment.
An article that explains why landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and new technologies they need to flourish in the global economy.
Tomasz Zarycki argues that Polish electoral geography is based both on political ideology and elements of the spatial distribution of the population
A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997.
Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field.
Extensive information about the cultures in different countries.
Historical overview of statistical atlases and census maps that express the cultural landscape of the United States.
A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography.
A Sex Roles journal article describing gender differences in acquisition of environmental knowledge related to wayfinding behavior, spatial anxiety and self-estimated environmental competencies.
Provides information about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment to support policy development and analysis.
A description of employment opportunities provided by the Association of American Geographers.
Discussion and examples of crime mapping. Features an overview of current research, publications, bibliography, and links to related sites.
Category page features news stories and links to related resources. Offers a section devoted to Medical Geography.
Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America.
Information on her research into climate politics, feminist science studies, food security and racism. Features abstracts of publications and curriculum vitae.
An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application.
Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news.
Article by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthrony Venables that describes the dramatic increase in research on economic geography. Includes a discussion of spatial aspects of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition.
An outline with excerpts from the publication of the same title produced by the National Geographic Research and Exploration. An educational guide that discusses the spatial integration of human and physical phenomena distributed over the Earth's surface.
A laboratory for the study of geographic information technologies as they relate to transportation. Features project overview, links to related resources, job opportunities, and contact details.
An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography.
A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities.
A report describing how the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) has successfully helped underwrite the efforts of community development corporations (CDCs) around the United States.
Essays by Luis Suarez-Villa, of the University of California, Irvine. Features sections devoted to the role of innovative capacity, tangible and intangible infrastructure, and a description of inversion at the metropolitan level
An article by Michael Batty and Paul J. Densham that discusses the role of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) in community planning.
Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern.
Promotes research in economic geography by organising meetings, developing contact and cooperation among geographers and other social scientists, and encouraging the publication of research.
A research center at Rockefeller University that explores how long-run technical change relates to productivity and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources, and the consequences for human populations.
A research group concerned with climate and health, urban health and wellness and environmental epidemiology. Features descriptions of research projects, links to related resources, and contact information.
An annotated directory of human geography resources hosted by the University of Leicester.
An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom.
Contains photo essays and academic papers on subjects such as consumption, shopping malls, tourism landscapes, geodemographics and artisanal fisheries. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii.
H-Net discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information.
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science offers discussion forums and extensive search resources for locating Human Geography information.
Features information for current and prospective students, staff profiles, current research, publications, and contact details. Also offers links to related resources, career opportunities and calendar of events.
A project developed to promote access to transport geography information. Includes material to support undergraduate courses, including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations.
A group that carries out social research on environmental topics with the aim of providing inputs to the formation of policy and practice.
Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit, (IBRU) located at the University of Durham. A source of information on boundary and territorial issues around the world.
A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
A research project working to extend and refine the Clarke Urban Growth Model for making predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales.
Offers links and resources for exploring the cultural geography of Canada. Features statistical profiles of communities, resources for educators, and general and contact information for the project.
An article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by Herbert Pick that discusses cross-cultural research into environmental knowledge and wayfinding behavior.
Abstract of an article by Robert D. Feick and Dr. G. Brent Hall that describes integrating and visualizing spatial data sets for regional planning. The complete text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the cultural geography of the United States.
A paper by Larry Daniel that reviews the general characteristics of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) applied to site analysis.
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