Public Lecture Slides (6.5.2015) Alexander Murphy: Coping With a Fast-Changing World: Why Geography Still Matters
The document discusses the importance of geography in understanding spatial patterns, human-environment interactions, and the context of locations. It highlights various geographical tools and case studies, such as mapping cholera cases and analyzing human mobility. Additionally, it emphasizes the relevance of geography in contemporary issues like territorial legitimacy and environmental changes.
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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 aFast-Changing World: Why Geography Still Matters Alexander B. Murphy Department of Geography University of Oregon
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- 8. Nicolaus Germanius (afterPtolemy (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 theWestern 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
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- 16. A three-dimensional geographicalvisualization of the residential mobility of 1000 2842 cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in southeastern Finland. Boyle et al., 2003. Spatial Patterns/Relationships
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- 18. Bosnia – ProposedPartition From Murphy, 1994 Spatial Patterns/Relationships
- 19. Another View ofthe 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)
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- 22. Source: Atlas ofSaudi Arabia, Hoeckmann Places and Regions
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- 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 TransatlanticAcademy Places and Regions
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 40. Travel time tomajor cities (in hours and days) and shipping land density Locational Context
- 41. “Double Exposure” (Leichenko and O’Brien,2008) Locational Context
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- 43. Committee on Strategic Directionsfor the Geographical Sciences Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
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