Public Lecture Slides (6.5.2015) Alexander Murphy: Coping With a Fast-Changing World: Why Geography Still Matters
Geographical thinking is vital for addressing some of the critical geopolitical, environmental, and socio-economic challenges facing the contemporary world. Yet the insights geography can offer on the changes unfolding around us are often overlooked because of the tendency to view geography in static, descriptive terms--and indeed rank ignorance of the subject. Alexander Murphy will highlight how geography's concern with spatial patterns and assumptions, mapping, and integrative place-based modes of analysis can enhance understanding of matters ranging from uprisings in the Middle East, to human alteration of natural systems, to the spread of disease, to the impacts of technology on contemporary society. Examples will range widely, but will include developments of contemporary significance to Asia such as growing tensions in the South China Sea, the sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, and disputes over water resources in the Mekong region.
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Public Lecture Slides (6.5.2015) Alexander Murphy: Coping With a Fast-Changing World: Why Geography Still Matters
- 1. Coping With a Fast-Changing World: Why Geography Still Matters Alexander B. Murphy Department of Geography University of Oregon
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- 6. Egypt on the Move – Summer 2009
- 7. The Remarkable Configuration of a Cold Air Mass in the Winter of 1997
- 8. Nicolaus Germanius (after Ptolemy (Geographia): 1st/2nd century AD)
- 9. Core Geographical Concerns • Spatial patterns and relationships • The nature of places and regions • Human-environment interactions • How where something happens affects what happens (locational context)
- 10. Northern Togo Phoenix, Arizona Tools: Landscape Analysis
- 11. Fires in the Western U.S. National Fire Occurrence Data Base http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/fuelman/ From Bartlein et al., 2008 Tools: Mapping
- 12. Strandhagen, Marcus & Meacham 2006 Tools: Geographic Visualization
- 13. Core Geographical Concerns • Spatial patterns and relationships • The nature of places and regions • Human-environment interactions • How where something happens affects what happens (locational context)
- 14. John Snow – mapping of cholera cases in London, 1854 Spatial Patterns/Relationships
- 16. A three-dimensional geographical visualization of the residential mobility of 1000 2842 cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in southeastern Finland. Boyle et al., 2003. Spatial Patterns/Relationships
- 18. Bosnia – Proposed Partition From Murphy, 1994 Spatial Patterns/Relationships
- 19. Another View of the Bosnian Peace Plan (From Murphy, 1994) Spatial Patterns/Relationships
- 20. Core Geographical Concerns • Spatial patterns and relationships • The nature of places and regions • Human-environment interactions • How where something happens affects what happens (locational context)
- 22. Source: Atlas of Saudi Arabia, Hoeckmann Places and Regions
- 27. 1994 Regimes of Territorial Legitimation (RTLs) The institutions, practices, and discourses that are designed to legitimate and sustain particular territorial conceptions of the state Places and Regions
- 28. © 2012 Transatlantic Academy Places and Regions
- 30. Core Geographical Concerns • Spatial patterns and relationships • The nature of places and regions • Human-environment interactions • How where something happens affects what happens (locational context)
- 38. Core Geographical Concerns • Spatial patterns and relationships • The nature of places and regions • Human-environment interactions • How where something happens affects what happens (locational context)
- 40. Travel time to major cities (in hours and days) and shipping land density Locational Context
- 41. “Double Exposure” (Leichenko and O’Brien, 2008) Locational Context
- 43. Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
- 44. 3,272 5,286 7,329 10,47114,139 21,003 29,005 39,878 50,730 68,397 82,692 97,451 114,361 136,448 Est. 160,835 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 180,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
- 45. Thank You!