Human Geography Geography Social Sciences

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. Historical geography, cultural geography, medical geography, economic geography and political geography are all areas of study within the field of human geography.

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• The Geography of Transport Systems - 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.
  
• The Society for Human Ecology - An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application.
  
• Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country - A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography.
  
• 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.
  
• UKBorders - An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom.
  
• Cultural Landscapes from Around the World - A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
  
• 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.
  
• Economic and Business Geography - Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• The Maritime Cultural Landscape - An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Cultural & Human Geography - A description of employment opportunities provided by the Association of American Geographers.
  
• Cultural Landscapes - Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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
  
• Mable/Geocorr - A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities.
  
• Association for Border Studies - Features membership details, board of directors, information on meetings and calls for papers, and contacts.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Borderbase - Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news.
  
• 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.
  
• Rachel Slocum - Information on her research into climate politics, feminist science studies, food security and racism. Features abstracts of publications and curriculum vitae.
  
• 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.
  
• Lansdowne Geographic Research - Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern.
  
• Residential Energy Consumption Survey - A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997.
  
• 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.
  
  

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