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This paper examines the contemporary racial attitudes of white American adults towards black Americans, using data from the General Social Surveys and classifies these attitudes using latent class analysis. The purpose of the analysis is to resolve ongoing debates between (a) those who contend that o...
Traditional residential location choice (RLC) models are based on the characteristics of location and demographics, revealing important patterns of RLC, but no RLC models have yet incorporated individual preferences. This study fills this gap by integrat
using data from the General Social Surveys and classifies these attitudes using latent class analysis. The purpose of the analysis is to resolve ongoing debates between (a) those who contend that overt forms of racism have lar...
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But little research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in climate change-attributed extreme weath
According to the time geography theory (Hägcrstrand, 1970; Lenntorp, 1976), the systematic definition of activity space represents the individualistic space-time experience that encompasses all the locations people visit. The notion of “activity space segregation” was developed to reveal the full...
Humans and ecosystems are deeply connected to, and through, the hydrological cycle. However, impacts of hydrological change on social and ecological systems are infrequently evaluated together at the global scale. Here, we focus on the potential for soci
China can be divided into eight human geographic regions, namely Northeast China, North China, East China, Central China, South China, Northwest China, Southwest China, and Qinghai-Tibet (Fang et al., 2017), and the scopes of the administrative divisions for each human geography region are giv...
Data Science Institute, University of Lancaster, South Drive, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK Anastasios Noulas Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Mirco Musolesi Corresponding author Correspondence to Desislava Hristova. ...
Geography. To infer state-level location of a Twitter user, we build an algorithm to map location strings to U.S. cities and states. The algorithm considers only the locations that mention the country as the U.S. or do not mention any country at all, and uses a set of rules to reduc...