When Is a Matrix a Geographical Network? Neal, Zachary P.; Derudder, Ben; van Meeteren, Michiel
Annals of the American Association of Geographers,
12/2023
Journal Article
Abstract
Water User Associations are community-based institutions that cover segments of rivers and are responsible for water management decisions. These are the result of institutional blueprints ...designed by the international community, widely adopted around the world. However, the implementation gaps between these generic institutional designs and the working on the ground are vast and require site-specific information to support water management decisions at the local scale. We used a hydrological modelling approach to assess how community-based decisions can maximize their outcomes and improve overall availability of water resources in the Great Ruaha River Catchment in Tanzania, a catchment that is under severe drought pressures and is of the utmost ecological, social, and political relevance at the national scale. We provide information to support decisions on when and where to focus conservation and management strategies by identifying the seasonal and spatial variability of water availability in the catchment. Our methods have the potential to be used in other catchments around the world. This study shows the importance of assessing the hydrological processes affecting the geographies of community-based institutions to identify priority areas of action.
This is a new edition of the accessible and student-friendly 'how to' for anyone using R for the first time, for use in spatial statistical analysis, geocomputation and digital mapping. The authors, ...once again, take readers from 'zero to hero', updating the now standard text to further enable practical R applications in GIS, spatial analyses, spatial statistics, web-scraping and more. Revised and updated, each chapter includes example data and commands to explore hands-on, scripts and coding to exemplify specific functionality, self-contained exercises for students to work through, embedded code within the descriptive text. The new edition includes detailed discussion of new and emerging packages within R like sf, ggplot, tmap, making it the go to introduction for all researchers collecting and using data with location attached. This is the introduction to the use of R for spatial statistical analysis, geocomputation, and GIS for all researchers - regardless of discipline - collecting and using data with location attached.
"Covers a broad range of subjects that undergraduates in the discipline should be familiar and comfortable with upon graduation. From chapters on the scientific method and fundamental research ...concepts, to experimental design, sampling and statistical analysis, the text offers an excellent introduction to the key concepts of geographical research. The content is applicable for students at the beginning of their studies right through to planning and conducting dissertations. The book has also been of particular support in designing my level 1 and 2 tutorials which cover similar ground to several of the chapters." \- Joseph Mallalieu, School of Geography, Leeds University "Montello and Sutton is one of the best texts I?ve used in seminars on research methodology. The text offers a clear balance of quantitative vs. qualitative and physical vs. human which I?ve found particularly valuable. The chapters on research ethics, scientific communication, information technologies and data visualization are excellent." \- Kenneth E. Foote, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder This is a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research, covering both geography and environmental studies. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students, it: * Explains both the conceptual and the technical aspects of research, as well as all phases of the research process * Combines approaches in physical geography and environmental science, human geography and human-environment relations, and geographic and environmental information techniques (such as GIS, cartography, and remote sensing) * Combines natural and social scientific approaches common to subjects in geography and environmental studies * Includes case studies of actual research projects to demonstrate the breadth of approaches taken It will be core reading for students studying scientific research methods in geography, environmental studies and related disciplines such as planning and earth science.
Reorganisation of dental services in Britain gives new opportunities for planning. Geographical methodology provides new techniques. An elementary spatial analysis of variations in dental health in ...Newcastle Area Health Authority (Teaching) shows that dental health varies with availability and access to treatment facilities. Opposite types of geographical distribution of community (School) and general dental services are illustrated showing location biases for each type of service. The evaluation of the spatial distribution of dental services is shown to be basic to planning and a key to improved dental health.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Professional Geographer,
November 1984, Letnik:
36, Številka:
4
Book Review
Recenzirano
Book reviewed is the article:
Small‐State Security in the Balkans. Aurel Braun.
South American Development: A Geographical Introduction. Rosemary D. F. Bromley and Ray Bromley.
Interregional ...Migration, National Policy and Social Justice. Gordon L. Clark.
Marketing Architectural and Engineering Services. Weld Coxe.
A Geography of the Third World. J. P. Dickenson, C. G. Clarke, W. T. S. Gould, R. M. Prothero, D. J. Siddle, C. T. Smith, E. M. Thomas‐Hope, and A. G. Hodgkiss.
Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation. Robin W. Doughty.
At the Sea's Edge. William T. Fox. Englewood Cliffs
Geography and Ecology. I. P. Gerasimov.
Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America. Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Urban Issues. Alan Gilbert in association with Jorge E. Hardoy and Ronaldo Ramírez, eds.
The Coming of the Transactional City. Jean Gottmann. College Park
Visions of City and Country: Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth‐Century France. Bonnie L. Grad and Timothy A. Riggs. Worcester
Soviet Geography Today: Physical Geography. N. A. Gvozdetskiy, ed.
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. Raymond B. Hames and William T. Vickers, eds.
Urban and Regional Industrial Research: The Changing UK Data Base. Michael Healey, ed.
Cuando se Acaban los Montes. Stanley Heckadon Moreno.
A Panama Forest and Shore: Natural History and Amerindian Culture in Bocas del Toro. Burton L. Gordon. Pacific Grove
Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution, 1900–1982. Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman.
Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy. Robert G. Jensen, Theodore Shabad, and Arthur W. Wright, eds.
The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom. R. J. Johnston and J. C. Doornkamp, eds.
Pluralism and Political Geography—People, Territory and State. Nurit Kliot and Stanley Waterman, eds.
Landmarks Preservation and the Property Tax. David Listokin.
Irrigation Horticulture in Highland Guatemala: The Tablón System of Panajachel. Kent Mathewson.
Her Space, Her Place: A Geography of Women. Mary Ellen Mazey and David R. Lee.
Man, A Geomorphological Agent. Dov Nir. Dordrecht
The Book of America: Inside the 50 States Today. Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom.
Rivers. Geoffrey E. Petts.
Proceedings, United States/Australia Workshop on Design and Implementation of Computer‐Based Geographic Information Systems. Donna Peuquet and John O'Callaghan, eds.
Outdoor Recreational and Resource Management. John Pigram.
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design. John S. Pipkin, Mark La Gory and Judith R. Blau, eds.
The Crust of Our Earth: An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the New Geology. Chet Raymo. Englewood Cliffs
Concepts and Themes in the Regional Geography of Canada J. Lewis Robinson. Vancouver
Secondary Cities in Developing Countries: Policies for Diffusing Urbanization. Dennis A. Rondinelli. Beverly Hills
Legal Foundations of Environmental Planning, Vol 1. J. G. Rose.
Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? Stephen Seidel and Dale Keyes.
Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World. R. Paul Shaw.
Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota. William C. Sherman.
The Future of Conflict in the 1980s. William J. Taylor, Jr. and Steven A. Maaranen, eds.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Edward R. Tufte.
U.S. 40 Today: Thirty Years of landscape Change in America. Thomas R. Vale and Geraldine R. Vale. Madison
Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Michael Watts.
Readings in Historic Preservation: Why? What? How? Norman Williams Jr., Edmund Kellogg and Frank Gilbert, eds.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Professional Geographer,
11/1/1984, Letnik:
36, Številka:
4
Book Review
Recenzirano
Book reviewed is the article:
Small-State Security in the Balkans. Aurel Braun.
South American Development: A Geographical Introduction. Rosemary D. F. Bromley and Ray Bromley.
Interregional ...Migration, National Policy and Social Justice. Gordon L. Clark.
Marketing Architectural and Engineering Services. Weld Coxe.
A Geography of the Third World. J. P. Dickenson, C. G. Clarke, W. T. S. Gould, R. M. Prothero, D. J. Siddle, C. T. Smith, E. M. Thomas-Hope, and A. G. Hodgkiss.
Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation. Robin W. Doughty.
At the Sea's Edge. William T. Fox. Englewood Cliffs
Geography and Ecology. I. P. Gerasimov.
Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America. Critical Approaches to the Analysis of Urban Issues. Alan Gilbert in association with Jorge E. Hardoy and Ronaldo Ramírez, eds.
The Coming of the Transactional City. Jean Gottmann. College Park
Visions of City and Country: Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth-Century France. Bonnie L. Grad and Timothy A. Riggs. Worcester
Soviet Geography Today: Physical Geography. N. A. Gvozdetskiy, ed.
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. Raymond B. Hames and William T. Vickers, eds.
Urban and Regional Industrial Research: The Changing UK Data Base. Michael Healey, ed.
Cuando se Acaban los Montes. Stanley Heckadon Moreno.
A Panama Forest and Shore: Natural History and Amerindian Culture in Bocas del Toro. Burton L. Gordon. Pacific Grove
Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution, 1900-1982. Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman.
Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy. Robert G. Jensen, Theodore Shabad, and Arthur W. Wright, eds.
The Changing Geography of the United Kingdom. R. J. Johnston and J. C. Doornkamp, eds.
Pluralism and Political Geography-People, Territory and State. Nurit Kliot and Stanley Waterman, eds.
Landmarks Preservation and the Property Tax. David Listokin.
Irrigation Horticulture in Highland Guatemala: The Tablón System of Panajachel. Kent Mathewson.
Her Space, Her Place: A Geography of Women. Mary Ellen Mazey and David R. Lee.
Man, A Geomorphological Agent. Dov Nir. Dordrecht
The Book of America: Inside the 50 States Today. Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom.
Rivers. Geoffrey E. Petts.
Proceedings, United States/Australia Workshop on Design and Implementation of Computer-Based Geographic Information Systems. Donna Peuquet and John O'Callaghan, eds.
Outdoor Recreational and Resource Management. John Pigram.
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design. John S. Pipkin, Mark La Gory and Judith R. Blau, eds.
The Crust of Our Earth: An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the New Geology. Chet Raymo. Englewood Cliffs
Concepts and Themes in the Regional Geography of Canada J. Lewis Robinson. Vancouver
Secondary Cities in Developing Countries: Policies for Diffusing Urbanization. Dennis A. Rondinelli. Beverly Hills
Legal Foundations of Environmental Planning, Vol 1. J. G. Rose.
Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? Stephen Seidel and Dale Keyes.
Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World. R. Paul Shaw.
Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota. William C. Sherman.
The Future of Conflict in the 1980s. William J. Taylor, Jr. and Steven A. Maaranen, eds.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Edward R. Tufte.
U.S. 40 Today: Thirty Years of landscape Change in America. Thomas R. Vale and Geraldine R. Vale. Madison
Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Michael Watts.
Readings in Historic Preservation: Why? What? How? Norman Williams Jr., Edmund Kellogg and Frank Gilbert, eds.
Higher education institutions in Norway have implemented reform as part of the Bologna Agreement. The reform also aims to follow up students more closely and to change the way in which they learn by ...increasing the amount of formative assessment, including grading. This paper presents a case study of a first-year methodology course in geography, in which students' performance in exercise work and tests based on multiple-choice questions was graded. Multiple-choice tests were used to increase the level of reflection during exercise work and to encourage students to read continuously throughout the semester.
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