{"results":[{"id":"ss_f0af7f97e3fabfdd631e1c81a56f56c5659de625","title":"Geography, Ethnicity or Subsistence-Specific Variations in Human Microbiome Composition and Diversity","authors":[{"name":"V. Gupta"},{"name":"Sandip Paul"},{"name":"C. Dutta"}],"abstract":"One of the fundamental issues in the microbiome research is characterization of the healthy human microbiota. Recent studies have elucidated substantial divergences in the microbiome structure between healthy individuals from different race and ethnicity. This review provides a comprehensive account of such geography, ethnicity or life-style-specific variations in healthy microbiome at five major body habitats—Gut, Oral-cavity, Respiratory Tract, Skin, and Urogenital Tract (UGT). The review focuses on the general trend in the human microbiome evolution—a gradual transition in the gross compositional structure along with a continual decrease in diversity of the microbiome, especially of the gut microbiome, as the human populations passed through three stages of subsistence like foraging, rural farming and industrialized urban western life. In general, gut microbiome of the hunter-gatherer populations is highly abundant with Prevotella, Proteobacteria, Spirochaetes, Clostridiales, Ruminobacter etc., while those of the urban communities are often enriched in Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, and Firmicutes. The oral and skin microbiome are the next most diverse among different populations, while respiratory tract and UGT microbiome show lesser variations. Higher microbiome diversity is observed for oral-cavity in hunter-gatherer group with higher prevalence of Haemophilus than agricultural group. In case of skin microbiome, rural and urban Chinese populations show variation in abundance of Trabulsiella and Propionibacterium. On the basis of published data, we have characterized the core microbiota—the set of genera commonly found in all populations, irrespective of their geographic locations, ethnicity or mode of subsistence. We have also identified the major factors responsible for geography-based alterations in microbiota; though it is not yet clear which factor plays a dominant role in shaping the microbiome—nature or nurture, host genetics or his environment. Some of the geographical/racial variations in microbiome structure have been attributed to differences in host genetics and innate/adaptive immunity, while in many other cases, cultural/behavioral features like diet, hygiene, parasitic load, environmental exposure etc. overshadow genetics. The ethnicity or population-specific variations in human microbiome composition, as reviewed in this report, question the universality of the microbiome-based therapeutic strategies and recommend for geographically tailored community-scale approaches to microbiome engineering.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2017,"language":"en","subjects":["Biology","Medicine"],"doi":"10.3389/fmicb.2017.01162","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f0af7f97e3fabfdd631e1c81a56f56c5659de625","pdf_url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01162/pdf","is_open_access":true,"citations":864,"published_at":"","score":86.92},{"id":"ss_77283faa33879103b0a8478d609aa9167a3c9a55","title":"Technology, Geography, and Trade","authors":[{"name":"J. Eaton"},{"name":"Samuel Kortum"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2002,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1111/1468-0262.00352","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77283faa33879103b0a8478d609aa9167a3c9a55","is_open_access":true,"citations":4496,"published_at":"","score":80},{"id":"ss_b1d50ef739801dcdd62a7af6819e09cc9bd85c54","title":"Epidemiology of fractures in the United Kingdom 1988-2012: Variation with age, sex, geography, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.","authors":[{"name":"E. Curtis"},{"name":"R. Y. van der Velde"},{"name":"R. Moon"},{"name":"J. V. D. van den Bergh"},{"name":"P. Geusens"},{"name":"F. de Vries"},{"name":"T. van Staa"},{"name":"C. Cooper"},{"name":"N. Harvey"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2016,"language":"en","subjects":["Medicine","Geography"],"doi":"10.1016/j.bone.2016.03.006","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b1d50ef739801dcdd62a7af6819e09cc9bd85c54","pdf_url":"https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/331012/Epidemiology.pdf?sequence=1\u0026isAllowed=y","is_open_access":true,"citations":397,"published_at":"","score":71.91},{"id":"ss_5b8d23a6265b5b9842028f58412d46e03300d411","title":"On the Geography of Global Value Chains","authors":[{"name":"Pol Antràs"},{"name":"Alonso de Gortari"}],"abstract":"This paper develops a multi‐stage general‐equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage in a GVC is not only a function of the marginal cost at which that stage can be produced in a given country, but is also shaped by the proximity of that location to the precedent and the subsequent desired locations of production. We show that, other things equal, it is optimal to locate relatively downstream stages of production in relatively central locations. We also develop and estimate a tractable, quantifiable version of our model that illustrates how changes in trade costs affect the extent to which various countries participate in domestic, regional, or global value chains, and traces the real income consequences of these changes.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":["Economics"],"doi":"10.3982/ECTA15362","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5b8d23a6265b5b9842028f58412d46e03300d411","pdf_url":"https://www.econometricsociety.org/sites/default/files/ecta200174-sup-0001-onlineappendix.pdf","is_open_access":true,"citations":241,"published_at":"","score":71.22999999999999},{"id":"doaj_10.1016/j.iswcr.2025.09.004","title":"Global patterns of gully occurrence and their sensitivity to environmental changes","authors":[{"name":"Yixian Chen"},{"name":"Sofie De Geeter"},{"name":"Jean Poesen"},{"name":"Francis Matthews"},{"name":"Benjamin Campforts"},{"name":"Pasquale Borrelli"},{"name":"Panos Panagos"},{"name":"Matthias Vanmaercke"}],"abstract":"Gully formation is a significant driver of soil erosion and land degradation worldwide and often leads to important downstream impacts. Nonetheless, our understanding of the global patterns and the factors controlling this process remains limited. Here, we present the first global assessment of gully density's spatial patterns. Using mapped observations from over 17,000 representative study sites worldwide, we trained random forest models that simulate both the susceptibility to gullying at a 1 km2 resolution and the corresponding gully head density (GHD). Through an interpretable machine learning framework, we demonstrate that global GHD patterns result from a combination of environmental factors with non-linear interactions, leading to significant regional variations in the dominant factors controlling GHD. We distinguish between gully hotspots driven primarily by natural factors such as topography, geomorphology, tectonics, pedology or climate and those where land use and land cover play a dominant role. Based on these insights, we identified critical global areas of gully erosion, i.e., hotspots where gully occurrence is likely highly sensitive to anthropogenic drivers. These include the Chinese Loess Plateau, the Ethiopian Highlands, and large parts of the Mediterranean and Sahel regions. Also desert regions are often characterized by high GHDs. However, in these cases, their occurrence is mainly driven by natural factors. The insights we provide are valuable to inform land management and targeted erosion mitigation strategies.","source":"DOAJ","year":2026,"language":"","subjects":["Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)"],"doi":"10.1016/j.iswcr.2025.09.004","url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209563392500111X","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":70},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/echogeo.12555","title":"Notes sur la dimension immunitaire des enclaves pétrolières","authors":[{"name":"Nicolas Donner"}],"abstract":"This paper considers the ways of establishing oil enclaves in difficult environments and it focuses on procedures that aim to safeguard the extractive activity from external disturbance and/or hostility. First, in addressing the case of enclaves located in extreme environments (hostile to life), we show that the organization of enclaves is an important tool of their immunization: by producing an inclusive and autonomous space, an \"architecture of vacuum \"(Sloterdijk) allows to free the activity from the conditions and contingencies of the external environment. Secondly, we move to the case of enclaves established in environments that are inhabited and territorialized, where immunization procedures are enriched by defensive (fencing) and intrusive mechanisms (sustainable practices). Finally we discuss the emergence of an ethical paradigm that tangled in strategies that aim to ensure the continuity of extractive activities.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Geography (General)"],"doi":"10.4000/echogeo.12555","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/12555","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.1016/j.eehl.2024.05.006","title":"Long-term exposure to air pollution and incidence risk of various arrhythmias: A prospective cohort study","authors":[{"name":"Lu Zhou"},{"name":"Qingli Zhang"},{"name":"Huihuan Luo"},{"name":"Kexin Yu"},{"name":"Xia Meng"},{"name":"Renjie Chen"},{"name":"Haidong Kan"}],"abstract":"To investigate the association of long-term exposure to air pollution with incident arrhythmia from various causes, this prospective cohort study included 442,386 participants from the UK Biobank cohort. Residential annual average exposures at baseline were evaluated, including fine particles (PM2.5), coarse particles (PM2.5–10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and nitrogen oxides (NOx). We further constructed a composite air pollution score (APS) to evaluate the concomitant exposure to these four pollutants. The associations of air pollutants with various arrhythmia subtypes were assessed utilizing the Cox proportional hazards model, and the hazard ratios (HRs) for incident arrhythmias were estimated. A total of 41,021 patients with incident arrhythmia were recorded. The HRs of overall arrhythmia associated with a 10 μg/m3 increment in PM2.5, PM2.5–10, NO2, and NOx were 1.26, 0.95, 1.03, and 1.02, respectively. The HR was 1.08 in the highest quintile of the APS compared to the lowest one. For cause-specific arrhythmias, the HRs per unit increment in APS were 1.45, 1.67, 1.51, 1.80, 2.63, and 4.66 for atrial fibrillation, atrioventricular block, ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia, intraventricular block, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular premature beats, respectively. Females, older individuals, overweight or obese individuals, and those with low education attainment, low income, or cardiometabolic morbidities had higher HRs associated with pollutants. Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to increased incidence risks of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. More focus should be shifted to the impact of air pollution on other arrhythmias besides atrial fibrillation.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Ecology","Environmental sciences"],"doi":"10.1016/j.eehl.2024.05.006","url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772985024000474","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_https://doi.org/10.60842/rass-pgpa.05.vol.4.n2.2024","title":"Le recyclage des coquillages fossiles dans l’espace sénégambien : histoire et archéologie ","authors":[{"name":"Michel Waly DIOUF "}],"abstract":"Cet article examine la réutilisation des coquillages fossiles et décrit en même temps les anomalies ou les déformations observées sur les individus. La démarche adoptée repose en effet sur une combinaison de plusieurs activités allant de la recherche documentaire à l’examen du mobilier coquillier, en passant par les enquêtes ethnographiques, la prospection et les fouilles archéologiques. Nos fouilles effectuées sur le site de Balloum, près du village de Moundé (basSaloum) ont mis au jour des spécimens coquilliers déformés ou réutilisés le plus souvent en des objets de parures ou d’ustensiles. Mots-clés : ,","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Anthropology","Sociology (General)","Education","Political science"],"doi":"https://doi.org/10.60842/rass-pgpa.05.vol.4.n2.2024","url":"https://www.rass-pgpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Texte-Complet-Vol4-N2-Bon-75-94.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"ss_1ffa7567d7feabdd2572e33b80a5e0f7b873e916","title":"Geography Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Systematic Review","authors":[{"name":"E. Smit"},{"name":"Hanneke Tuithof"},{"name":"E. Savelsbergh"},{"name":"T. Béneker"}],"abstract":"Abstract Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. The importance of PCK to quality teaching is widely recognized. However, an overview of research about geography teachers’ PCK is missing. To fill this gap, we conducted a systematic review. We analyzed 43 empirical studies, but only 9 used PCK as a framework. Most studies addressed instructional strategies or teaching orientations. The studies were too diverse to draw conclusions on geography teachers’ PCK in general. But portraits of 16 geography teachers emphasized the necessity of geographical knowledge and teaching experience for PCK-quality.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1080/00221341.2023.2173796","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1ffa7567d7feabdd2572e33b80a5e0f7b873e916","pdf_url":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2023.2173796","is_open_access":true,"citations":19,"published_at":"","score":67.57},{"id":"ss_4d669fd87f53b16ef249bb3b57b072b4e9251f6a","title":"The geography of maritime networks: A critical review","authors":[{"name":"C. Ducruet"}],"abstract":"Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown apace, backed by newly available shipping data, increased computational power, and renewed conceptual frameworks to study networks in general. The evolution of maritime network analysis, in geography and other sciences, is marked by a wide diversity of methods and themes, which we classify into three main parts. We first present studies looking at maritime flows in an abstract space, focusing on operational, statistical, or managerial aspects where navigation, graph structure, and firms' strategies are the key concerns. Second, we review researches where maritime flows and networks are markers and vectors of wider geo-economic structures and dynamics, such as regional inequalities and areas of dominance. Lastly, maritime networks have also been considered as integral parts of territories and wider chained systems, such as urban networks, regional networks, and coupled networks. We conclude that network analysis and maritime transport still share many uncovered areas and discuss potential research pathways for future works.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102824","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4d669fd87f53b16ef249bb3b57b072b4e9251f6a","pdf_url":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S0966692320305895","is_open_access":true,"citations":112,"published_at":"","score":67.36},{"id":"doaj_10.1016/j.wss.2023.100161","title":"Immigrant attraction and retention: An exploration of local government policies","authors":[{"name":"Evan Cleave"},{"name":"Cailin Wark"},{"name":"Emmanuel Kyeremeh"}],"abstract":"For cities, immigration is now considered a vital part of local economic and community development. Over the past half-century, many cities have experienced a series challenges caused by the impacts of late-stage demographic transition; the slow bleeding of skilled domestic workers to larger metropolitan areas; and the decline of traditional economic sectors. As a result, there has been a prioritization of attracting and retaining high-skilled and well-educated immigrants by local governments through locally-focused, place-based policies. Within this context, this paper examines the ways that cities in the Province of Ontario, Canada are constructing and implementing immigrant attraction, integration, and retention strategies. To achieve this goal, we identified and examined the local immigration policies of the 52 cities in Ontario, 36 of which have a formal immigration policy document. A comprehensive content analysis was conducted on these available to identify the ways that immigration is conceptualized, and the specific policies and approaches that local governments are implementing. Statistical analysis was used to determine if there was variation in policy across different types of cities. Based on this analysis, local governments are generally developing holistic, place-based policies – however, there is variation in approaches across cities of different sizes and geographies. These place-specific policies draw on local assets and advantages (i.e. existing migrant communities; local amenities and attractions; economic and education opportunities) while also work to enhance enhancing local capacity (i.e. building networks and immigration partnerships; training employers and city workers).","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Human ecology. Anthropogeography","Social sciences (General)"],"doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2023.100161","url":"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666558123000349","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"ss_c272ca3e6adfa83060b68e36f47fcca660e53aaf","title":"Deep learning, deep change? Mapping the evolution and geography of a general purpose technology","authors":[{"name":"Joel Klinger"},{"name":"J. Mateos-Garcia"},{"name":"Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2021,"language":"en","subjects":["Computer Science"],"doi":"10.1007/s11192-021-03936-9","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c272ca3e6adfa83060b68e36f47fcca660e53aaf","is_open_access":true,"citations":35,"published_at":"","score":66.05},{"id":"doaj_10.2478/quageo-2022-0034","title":"New Meanings of Computer-Based Entertainment and Communication among Students in Poland During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":[{"name":"Mokras-Grabowska Justyna"},{"name":"Mroczek-Żulicka Aleksandra"},{"name":"Olasik Marta"}],"abstract":"This article is an attempt at investigating new meanings and significance of computer-based entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors explore how and to what extent students in Poland have been using electronics for entertainment during the global crisis, what emotions appeared and whether they were able and willing to engage in an auto-reflexive process. The article presents the results of the questionnaire interview designed for the purposes of this particular study. The authors chose to reveal the multi-facetedness of the theme in question, i.e. focus on the possibilities and the future that computer-based etertainment offers, leading to transformations both externally and internally.","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Geography (General)"],"doi":"10.2478/quageo-2022-0034","url":"https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2022-0034","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"doaj_10.30892/gtg.454spl20-991","title":"TOURIST SATISFACTION DURING THE PANDEMIC: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF MEASURES TO PREVENT COVID-19 IN A MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL DESTINATION","authors":[{"name":"Indrajeet MALLICK"},{"name":"Daniel MIRAVET"},{"name":"Aaron GUTIÉRREZ"}],"abstract":"The impact of the COVID-19 on tourist satisfaction is a particular relevant issue, due to the role that elements such as the prevention measures implemented at the destination might play. For this reason, this article examines tourist satisfaction during the peak tourist season of 2020 in a mature coastal destination in Catalonia in relation to safety and prevention measures imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We use explanatory factor analysis and partial least squares path modelling for comparing the determinants of tourist satisfaction prior and during the pandemic based on surveys conducted in 2019 (N = 1556) and 2020 (N = 2220). The results suggest that the determinants of overall tourist satisfaction in 2019 remained significant in 2020. Moreover, although tourists especially appreciated feeling safe in 2020, our results suggest that such a perception was unrelated to measures to prevent COVID-19. The paper raises concerns towards the management of situations such as the pandemic in tourist destinations, as a proper balance must be found between the need of making visitors feel safe, and avoiding measures that can be felt as invasive or annoying, hampering the tourist experience. ","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Geography. Anthropology. Recreation","Geography (General)"],"doi":"10.30892/gtg.454spl20-991","url":"https://gtg.webhost.uoradea.ro/PDF/GTG-4spl-2022/gtg.454spl20-991.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"doaj_10.3389/fevo.2022.983337","title":"Assessing the impact of forest structure disturbances on the arboreal movement and energetics of orangutans—An agent-based modeling approach","authors":[{"name":"Kirana Widyastuti"},{"name":"Kirana Widyastuti"},{"name":"Romain Reuillon"},{"name":"Romain Reuillon"},{"name":"Paul Chapron"},{"name":"Wildan Abdussalam"},{"name":"Darmae Nasir"},{"name":"Mark E. Harrison"},{"name":"Mark E. Harrison"},{"name":"Helen Morrogh-Bernard"},{"name":"Muhammad Ali Imron"},{"name":"Uta Berger"}],"abstract":"Agent-based models have been developed and widely employed to assess the impact of disturbances or conservation management on animal habitat use, population development, and viability. However, the direct impacts of canopy disturbance on the arboreal movement of individual primates have been less studied. Such impacts could shed light on the cascading effects of disturbances on animal health and fitness. Orangutans are an arboreal primate that commonly encounters habitat quality deterioration due to land-use changes and related disturbances such as forest fires. Forest disturbance may, therefore, create a complex stress scenario threatening orangutan populations. Due to forest disturbances, orangutans may adapt to employ more terrestrial, as opposed to arboreal, movements potentially prolonging the search for fruiting and nesting trees. In turn, this may lead to changes in daily activity patterns (i.e., time spent traveling, feeding, and resting) and available energy budget, potentially decreasing the orangutan's fitness. We developed the agent-based simulation model BORNEO (arBOReal aNimal movEment mOdel), which explicitly describes both orangutans' arboreal and terrestrial movement in a forest habitat, depending on distances between trees and canopy structures. Orangutans in the model perform activities with a motivation to balance energy intake and expenditure through locomotion. We tested the model using forest inventory data obtained in Sebangau National Park, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. This allowed us to construct virtual forests with real characteristics including tree connectivity, thus creating the potential to expand the environmental settings for simulation experiments. In order to parameterize the energy related processes of the orangutans described in the model, we applied a computationally intensive evolutionary algorithm and evaluated the simulation results against observed behavioral patterns of orangutans. Both the simulated variability and proportion of activity budgets including feeding, resting, and traveling time for female and male orangutans confirmed the suitability of the model for its purpose. We used the calibrated model to compare the activity patterns and energy budgets of orangutans in both natural and disturbed forests . The results confirm field observations that orangutans in the disturbed forest are more likely to experience deficit energy balance due to traveling to the detriment of feeding time. Such imbalance is more pronounced in males than in females. The finding of a threshold of forest disturbances that affects a significant change in activity and energy budgets suggests potential threats to the orangutan population. Our study introduces the first agent-based model describing the arboreal movement of primates that can serve as a tool to investigate the direct impact of forest changes and disturbances on the behavior of species such as orangutans. Moreover, it demonstrates the suitability of high-performance computing to optimize the calibration of complex agent-based models describing animal behavior at a fine spatio-temporal scale (1-m and 1-s granularity).","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Evolution","Ecology"],"doi":"10.3389/fevo.2022.983337","url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.983337/full","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"doaj_10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-201-2022","title":"MAINSTREAMING METADATA INTO RESEARCH WORKFLOWS TO ADVANCE REPRODUCIBILITY AND OPEN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE","authors":[{"name":"J. Holler"},{"name":"P. Kedron"}],"abstract":"Reproducible open science with FAIR data sharing principles requires research to be disseminated with open data and standardised metadata. Researchers in the geographic sciences may benefit from authoring and maintaining metadata from the earliest phases of the research life cycle, rather than waiting until the data dissemination phase. Fully open and reproducible research should be conducted within a version-controlled executable research compendium with registered pre-analysis plans, and may also involve research proposals, data management plans, and protocols for research with human subjects. We review metadata standards and research documentation needs through each phase of the research process to distil a list of features for software to support a metadata-rich open research life cycle. The review is based on open science and reproducibility literature and on our own work developing a template research compendium for conducting reproduction and replication studies. We then review available open source geographic metadata software against these requirements, finding each software program to offer a partial solution. We conclude with a vision for software-supported metadata-rich open research practices intended to reduce redundancies in open research work while expanding transparency and reproducibility in geographic research.","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Technology","Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)","Applied optics. Photonics"],"doi":"10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-201-2022","url":"https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLVIII-4-W1-2022/201/2022/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W1-2022-201-2022.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"ss_d377c8d65b8ddda20f4d0f04959da1053f172239","title":"Digital storytelling, student engagement and deep learning in Geography","authors":[{"name":"A. Ryan"},{"name":"Jørund Aasetre"}],"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to provide insight into the usefulness of integrating digital stories in teaching and learning activities in Geography in higher education. More specifically, to identify how digital stories can enhance deep learning in Geography. Deep learning indicates understanding and creative use of knowledge in new settings, i.e. the highest levels in the revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy, a knowledge dimension from factual knowledge to meta-knowledge. Data are based on two evaluation processes: a university student who conducted a process of making digital stories in a class of upper secondary school students, and secondly, by 41 university students who did a two-step evaluation process of these stories. Despite the Norwegian learning context, from which data are obtained, the approaches will largely be recognizable in other countries because of the general learning principles and framework for teaching geographical topics. The study shows that digital storytelling has the potential to improve interactive learning outcome that can enhance ethical and deep learning of geography, including “the affective domain” of how geography is felt and valued. The awareness of integration of technology into the learning process is underlined.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1080/03098265.2020.1833319","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d377c8d65b8ddda20f4d0f04959da1053f172239","is_open_access":true,"citations":42,"published_at":"","score":65.25999999999999},{"id":"ss_08ed6e8578914e9dc5bfac5b001686048ae77e04","title":"Income, political affiliation, urbanism and geography in stated preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in Northern Europe","authors":[{"name":"B. Sovacool"},{"name":"Johannes Kester"},{"name":"L. Noel"},{"name":"G. Rubens"}],"abstract":"Abstract Despite a potentially revolutionary shift towards electric mobility in the passenger vehicle market, the academic and policymaking communities remain wedded to a techno-economic paradigm that may not fully appreciate deeper social and geographic elements of a transition to electric vehicles. In this paper, based primarily on bivariate statistical analysis as well as a hierarchical regression analysis of a survey distributed to \u003e5000 respondents across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, we analyze how perceptions and attitudes towards electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid technologies differ by income, political affiliation, and geography. Although our findings confirm EV ownership and mobility patterns in general are related to income—those with higher incomes both own more EVs and drive more generally—they also confirm that interest in EVs is not so strongly related. Lower income groups seem to ask less from their cars, thus potentially opening up a market for cheaper low-range alternates. Political orientation is correlated to car and EV ownership, with those on the “left” more interested yet those on the “right” more able and willing to buy expensive cars. Moreover, we see variation in preferences across urban and rural subcategories, and our findings strongly suggest that EVs need not be promoted only for city or suburban areas. When controlling for variables, a multilevel regression analysis does not change the overall thrust of these associations.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1016/J.JTRANGEO.2019.06.006","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/08ed6e8578914e9dc5bfac5b001686048ae77e04","pdf_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.06.006","is_open_access":true,"citations":69,"published_at":"","score":65.07},{"id":"doaj_10.2166/nh.2021.179","title":"Detecting the dominant contributions of runoff variance across the source region of the Yellow River using a new decomposition framework","authors":[{"name":"Jingkai Xie"},{"name":"Yue-Ping Xu"},{"name":"Yuxue Guo"},{"name":"Yitong Wang"}],"abstract":"Quantifying the contributions of climatic variables to runoff variance is still a great challenge to water resource management. This study adopted an extended Budyko framework to investigate the effects of terrestrial water storage changes (ΔS) on runoff variance across the source region of the Yellow River, China, during the period of 2003–2014. A new decomposition framework based on the extended Budyko framework was proposed to effectively quantify the contributions of different climatic variables including precipitation, PET and ΔS to runoff variance. The results demonstrated that the extended Budyko framework showed a better performance in presenting the water and energy balance than the original Budyko framework, especially at fine time scales. Meanwhile, the variance in runoff estimated by the new decomposition framework was close to that of runoff observations, indicating that this framework can effectively capture the variation in runoff during 2003–2014. It was also found that precipitation was the most important factor that contributed to runoff changes, while PET made a slightly smaller contribution compared to precipitation. Notably, the results also emphasized the important effects of ΔS on runoff variance at fine time scales, which was useful to better understand the interactions between atmospheric and hydrological processes for regions. HIGHLIGHTS \nA new decomposition framework was proposed to effectively quantify the contributions of different climatic variables to runoff variance.;\nPrecipitation was the most important factor that contributed to runoff changes, while PET made a slightly smaller contribution compared to precipitation.;\nThe important effects of ΔS on runoff variance at fine time scales can not be neglected.;","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["River, lake, and water-supply engineering (General)","Physical geography"],"doi":"10.2166/nh.2021.179","url":"http://hr.iwaponline.com/content/52/5/1015","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/belgeo.48963","title":"Analyse des stratégies territoriales multi-niveaux au sein du « Collectif 5C », un réseau wallon de coopératives alimentaires","authors":[{"name":"Florence Lanzi"},{"name":"Julien Noel"},{"name":"Kevin Maréchal"}],"abstract":"Our empirical study is based on the qualitative analysis of a Collective of cooperatives engaged in proximity-based food systems in Belgium. By comparing the territorial strategies of three member-cooperatives, we underline the diversity of spatial and organizational forms coexisting within the Collective “5C”. We also show that this diversity is not simply needed in order to answer the variety of context faced by coops within-territory; but it also represents opportunities for strategies between-territories. Which in turn could benefit the relocalization and reconnexion project hold in each cooperative. Indeed, by collaborating between organizations situated in cities and countryside areas, they could overcome some of their internal obstacles that often leads to trade-offs between the alternative dimension of the project and its economic viability. We then point to the crucial role played by meta-organizations as the “Collective 5C” for the coordination and regulation of inter-territorial relations.","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["Geography (General)"],"doi":"10.4000/belgeo.48963","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/48963","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65}],"total":9627450,"page":1,"page_size":20,"sources":["DOAJ","CrossRef","Semantic Scholar"],"query":"Geography (General)"}