The Dictionary of Human Geography

towards bridging the gap have been made in studies of disease diffusion and war (e.g. Smallman-Raynor and Cliff, 2004). dg Sugge ...

the width and left- and right-hand address ranges of a street segment. Each format has particular advantages. Maps in raster for ...

The general point is that digitizing may appear straightforward, but producing an out- come that is fit for purpose requires mor ...

planners and building control officers (design- ers and ‘the state’) for producing spaces that effectively ‘lock out’ disabled p ...

have found Foucault’s work on power gener- ally unremittingly bleak, the critique of indi- vidual agency and the analysis of the ...

eradicate alternatives or end resistance, and are thus constantly having to be reproduced. . Discourses are regulated: discourse ...

necessitates an encounter with the discursive given the impossibility of apprehending an extra-discursive realm beyond language ...

Its importance in the evolution of spatial pat- terns was enshrined in Tobler’s (1970) famous ‘first law of geography’: ‘everyth ...

Other applications of the concept of the division of labour include: (3) Gender division of labour– in which spe- cific jobs are ...

its importance to the economy. Withinmarx- ism, domestic labour is seen as necessary to the social reproductionthat supports and ...

up withcapitalismandpatriarchy(Gregson and Lowe, 1994). Feminist geographers have studiedthegender,classandracializedpower relat ...

domino theoryAtheoryofgeopoliticsorig- inally proposed by the USA in the 1950s, claim- ing that if one country joined or was for ...

E ecofeminism An umbrella term for a wide variety of environmental concerns and ap- proaches that integrate diverse feminist and ...

europe’Crosby(1986)describedecological imperialism as the environmental destruction of large tracts of the Earth by European col ...

are linked to their biotic and abiotic environ- ments. Some view ecology as the science of environment, although ecology may be ...

capacities defined by limits on keyresources (e.g.food) in closed systems. These are gen- eralizations, in some sense crude, but ...

E¼SþB, P¼aE, S¼bP: The coefficientsaandbcan be obtained by regressionusing observations for asampleof cities or for one city or ...

suspicion of theory (although presumably no contemporary economic geographer would go as far as Chisholm ‘to wish ... th[e] love ...

economic geography from the mid-1990s (Thrift and Olds, 1996). Often drawing upon post-structuralism, there was an attempt to re ...

geography. Processes beginning from the 1970s, such as the emergence of anew inter- national division of labour, the increasing ...