that's practical in terms of working with rangers and developing programmes … that brings together traditional and political knowledge with Western science. There's that part of our work that integrates those things and the work that Martin and I do as environmental advocates, they lead very ...
A recent edition of theNew Scientisthas an interesting article about dinosaurs and the rapid shifts in our knowledge of these ancient beasts based on recent fossil discoveries. If theNew Scientistis to be believed, these discoveries have not only revolutionized our views of dinosaurs, they have al...
between dominant visuality and the counter-visualities emerging from the Mediterranean Sea, a particular sea-space where on the one hand, violent geopolitics daily act against migrants' crossing; on the other hand, new imaginative geographies emerge against coloniality devices of power and knowledge. ...
1)No other time in our history have we been exposed to this much information. The best way to make sense of it all is through statistics. Any Geospatial Analyst worth his salt will not only have a greater understanding of statistics, but can use this knowledge to predict future events. Th...
habits and customs all ring true. Embree’s knowledge of the region’s nineteenth century history is equally impressive. As one small example, the story begins in the shadow of St. Michael’s hill in Chapala in May 1833, amidst fear of an epidemic of smallpox. In real life, the nearby...
If you want to be a practitioner in your field, spend time outside the academy. Take the internship with an agency or company. It is critical to get real world experience. Often you’ll find you have more than enough academic knowledge to do the job, but you lack the social network, ...
which is designed to generate new knowledge about the ways in which the physical and mental health of a population shapes their social and economic outcomes. The Health Foundation have funded a number of research projects already that focus on understanding the relationship between a given population...
This water is being used in agriculture, drinking water, and more. This is why it’s important to have good spatial knowledge of groundwater. Groundwater activity can be understood by its rock types, soil, land use, and rainfall. Remote sensing groundwater prospect zone maps are used to lo...
The National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, CONABIO), has identified 81 distinct areas in Mexico that have mangroves with “biological significance and in need of varying degrees of ecological rehabilitation” (...
Mexico has come a long way in 200 years, but amazingly, to the best of our knowledge,Geo-Mexico: the geography and dynamics of modern Mexico,is the first-ever book in English focused exclusively on the nation’s varied and fascinating geography. ...