About geography

• Dartmouth College - the need for Geography
• Social Sciences - Geography
• Lots of academic stuff including geography
• A report on the Geoweb Project
• University of South Carolina Dept. of Geography
• Some more geography departments
• This Human World: An Introduction to Geography
• EarthWorks: An Online Journal of Geography
• Geography departments worldwide
• Geography-Related Servers
• Geography Professional Journals
• Geography Departments Worldwide
• WWW/Multimedia & Geography
• Geography And Geographical Phenomena
• North Harris College Department of Geography - a somewhat off-beat page!
• Geography 12 Home Page
• The Geo-Images Project Home Page
• Kids Web - Geography
• Geography Links
• Geographic Thought
• Review - The Gender of Geography
• Greek and Roman Contributions to Geography
• Biographical Sketches Of Influential Geographers
• What is Geography?
• Miscellaneous Geography
• Dr. Lew's Geography and Planning Links - Geography, and the US & Canada
• CoVis Geosciences Web Server
• Synergetics And Articulation Of Geography
• The End Of Geography
• History of Applied Geography Conferences
• The Canadian Geographer
• Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• The Geographer - by Jan Vermeer
• Synergetics And Articulation Of Geography
• NCGE Suggested Geographic Sites
• Rice Model Science Laboratory Geography Links
• Geography - A Diverse Discipline
• NYGA Geography Links
• Assorted GeoLinks
• Geography and its Subfields Links
• Human, Social And Economic Geography Links
• CalTech Geography Links
• NSCSS Law, Planning and Geography Links
• Websurfer's Biweekly Earth Science Review: Hot Links Page - Maps, GIS, Remote Sensing, Geology, Paleontology, Space, etc.
• Links To Geography Sites
• Albert's Geography Links
• Taylor Geography Links
• Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
• Gary's Geographical Gnome
• Craig McKie's Geography Links
• The Jenkins' Geography File
• Geography Internet Resources
• Cyber Classroom Geography Links
• Brevard County Library System - Geography
• Miami University Library - Geography Links
• Geography Resources for Teachers
• Hawaii Geographic Alliance
• geographer.com - geography
• HelpWiz - Geography
• Geography Links
• Internet Resources For Geographers
• Geography World
• Richard Hartshorne: The Nature of Geography
• Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society - online book
• Geography URLs
• GEOSOURCE homepage, web resources for human geography, planning, physical geography, environmental science and policy
• Electronic Resources for Geography
• Geography Links
• Geography World
• Geography Links
• History/Geography
• Geography
• Links to History/Geography Resources
• Society for Philosophy and Geography
• Test Area: History and Philosophy of Geography - Biographical sketches of some key geographers
• Geography - THE starting place for exploring Geography
• History of Geography
• Geography - selected resources
• GEOSOURCE homepage, web resources for human geography, planning, physical geography, environmental science and policy
• The Argus Clearinghouse - general web resource list
• International Critical Geography Group -- ICGG
• Summary of the 1st meeting of EARCAG in Kyungju S. Korea
• Ptolemy's Geography - Full text of Ptolemy's Geography, with maps (based on Ptolemy's coordinates), annotations and introduction, by Bill Thayer.
• "Public Interest" Show Archives: January 3-7, 2000. National Geographic Society>/a> - Link to a Real Audio file with a 'Public Interest' radio interview broadcast 20000107 on the history of the National Geographic Society and geography in general. With the editor and president of National Geographic (Society).
• From The Past To The Future - a need for new geographical knowledge - The development in global network communications has given rise to a new generation of social technologies, including mechanisms for the formation and cultivation of interpersonal relations. In this paper, the fragmented field of electronic geography is divided into a several approaches in order to evaluate and assess the significance and implications of technological advancements to the theory base of geography as a spatial science. The scope is drawn from early quantitative analyses of telephone networks to the latest forms of research spreading encompassing GIS and philosophical analyses of self and space.
• Reconciling geographies: unified fields or chaotic fragments? - Drawing on the work of ecologists, Permaculture theorists identify edges as zones in which a number of different ecosystems overlap. Such edges are often areas of extraordinary productivity, diversity and complexity. They create unique ecological niches, and they juxtapose fragility and stability in relationships of exceptional beauty and wonder. In this way of seeing things, edges are relational.
• The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines: Goals and branching of a research program in the history of geography
• Geography Departments Worldwide - A searchable database of Geography Departments around the world. As of 07/18/00 there are links to 896 Departments in 78 Countries.
• Royal Scottish Geographical Society: Institutions
• Hall of Geography
• CYBERGEO Home Page - CYBERGEO, the electronic European Journal of Geography, is intended to promote faster communication of research and greater direct contact between authors and readers. Created with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas, methods and results, it gives European geographers the possibility of writing in their mother tongues. It deals with the entire range of geographical concerns and interests, with no preferences for any particular school or theme. A high scientific standard is ensured by submitting communications to an international committee of readers. By hosting discussion and mailing list the journal aims to stimulate open debate and intellectual exchange. Access to the published articles is facilitated by a system of headings and key-words. For as long as is possible, access will be kept unrestricted and free of charge.
• Geography Hotlinks - This list of Geographical and Geography-related World Wide Web links has been compiled on behalf of the GTAV to service interested Geographers and other Web users. Links are, to a degree, subdivided by topic to aid use. The most relevant sites to particular topics are listed under topic headings, however, other relevant links on the topic may be found in the "Other relevant links to links" section.
• Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society - The discipline of geography has been undergoing a renaissance in the United States during the past decade. Geography's research focus on the study of human society and the environment through the perspectives of place, space, and scale is finding increased relevance in fields ranging from ecology to economics. At the same time, many of its research tools and analytical methods have moved from the research laboratory into the mainstream of science and business. Geography is undergoing a rebirth in education as well - it has become an organizing framework for presenting a wide variety of classroom subjects. It is recognized as an important subject in American schools, and enrollments in geography programs in American colleges and universities are increasing sharply to meet demands from employers for geographically literate students.
• Dennis Fitzsimons's Bookmarks
• Resource Links and Lists
• Image Analysis Workshop
• World Class Standards: Geography for the Schools of the United States - An historic change is underway in geographic education with the development of voluntary national standards for what all students should learn at the conclusion of grades four, eight and twelve. These new standards clearly identify what students need to know in order to be able to live and work in successfully fulfilling ways in the twenty-first century. The National Geography Standards published in late October under the title Geography for Life were developed through a broadly based consensus process over a two year period. Teachers parents, school administrators, professional geographers, and teacher-educators as well as people from the business and corporate sect were involved. Support for the project was provided by a grant from the United States Department of Education, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Geographic Society.
• Geography for Life - In the last edition of Ubique, James Marran explained the purpose, scope, structure, and a few of the innovations of National Standards in Geography: Geography for Life. At that time, the standards had just been released. By the time you read this, the document will have been available for nearly six months, and during that time, two aspects of the project have taken on special significance: its vision, and the environment into which the standards were released.
• From The Past To The Future - a need for new geographical knowledge - The geographical tradition has gone through several phases, and Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions in the form of paradigms are clearly identifiable. The creation and development of the key-concepts, theories and, in a word, the geographical tradition, do not need to be dealt here in detail, but I would like to point out the significant transition from the strict positivist paradigm to more qualitative and diverse approaches in our field of science. Today, the dynamic adoption of challenging new realms of information technologies and their spatial implications are visible and concrete evidence of the potential that the science of geography has at the dawn of the new millennium.
  This study is about evaluating the theoretical concept of space in the context of cyberspace, a term that was introduced by William Gibson in his classical science fiction novel Neuromancer. This 'collective hallucination', as Gibson puts it, has had an enormous impact on the academic interest of social and cultural scientists during the final years of the second millennium. I approach the issue both through theoretical evaluation and qualitative empirical evidence. It is essential to recognise that at the moment, in the postmodern reality, the life spans of individual studies, especially in the field of rapidly changing information technology, are often very short. However, the purpose of this research is to evaluate the 'cyberspaces' of today and critically examine the factors behind the visible in order to present a geographical idea of space in the electronic world.
• Foreword to Historical Geography by Carl O. Sauer
• The People's Geography Project - The major goal of the People's Geography Project is to popularize and make even more relevant and useful to ordinary people the important, critical ways of understanding the complex geographies of everyday life that geographers have and continue to develop. Our contention is that such knowledge is an important tool not just in learning to cope with constantly developing and transforming relations of power that are deeply geographical, but in learning how to actively transform those relations in the name of social and economic justice.
• Anti-geography - The study of early modern geography is the study of both a practice and a belief. It is the study of practice, since geography is first of all a form of writing; geography is a way of writing the world, of making the world into something written or, perhaps more accurately, of something written upon. But the study of geography is also the study of belief, of what different peoples have believed about the world and its sociophysical organization. And belief too is important. The practice of early modern geography is ultimately incomprehensible unless it is reckoned against the background of beliefs which it is trying to affect. The real culture of geography, I think it is fair to say, is the culture of a dialectic, where practices are exerted upon a system of beliefs, and where a system of beliefs feeds into, elicits, and determines a range of practices. What is at stake, of course, is nothing less than the social organization of the body, the political, moral, and economic orientation of the individual to a world structure.
• AAG: Geography at the Turn of the Century - For the last forty years in particular, geography has grown from a descriptive to an analytic science. Once called "the Queen of the Social Sciences" by noted economist Baumol, geography is now being touted as "the best integrative science today" by representatives from government, business, and academia.
• From The Past To The Future - a need for new geographical knowledge - Livingstone states that stories of different traditions are always told by storytellers. The subject of geography is no exception in this regard. The field of geography has expanded from the earlier years of the discipline. The important work of mapping the world and exploring new countries and continents has changed to the abstract and difficult interpretation of information technology, analyses of flows of financial attributes and goods, and evaluation of the ever accelerating and transforming social and cultural realm of postmodern society. The tellers of the geographical story have changed, but in the end the very essence of the subject is still the same - to explore the world we know in the past, present and future. As Johnston argues, the work of geographers relies on three major concepts: space, place and environment. These very same components are the ones that I am operating with in this study, which deals with a new idea of electronic environments and spaces.
• Selected Chapters from R. Hartshorne's "The Nature of Geography"
• Infrastructure Needs In Geography And Regional Science - This report to the Geography and Regional Science Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) summarizes the proceedings and recommendations of a workshop to identify infrastructure needs within geography and regional science. The workshop was held in Los Angeles on June 2, 1998. The purpose of the Los Angeles meeting was to coordinate the Geography and Regional Science Program response to a request by the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Division of the NSF to identify infrastructure needs.
  Discussion at the workshop focused on some of the most fundamental and pressing geographical concerns, namely the accelerating pace of change in our world, and our inability to understand the dynamic linkages between the physical and social processes that drive such change. Workshop participants noted that while considerable effort has revealed a great deal about the physical and human sub-systems of our world, the integration of these sub-systems is not well-grounded scientifically, and thus our ability to forecast future geographies - future landscapes of physical resources, of economic activity, of environmental pressure and human migration, and of poverty, famine and political dislocation - remains poor. The importance of accurate forecasts of our changing world is clear and such a goal demands coordinated and sustained efforts on behalf of geographers and other scientists. To this end, the participants of the workshop identified a Center for Forecasting Geographic Change as the most compelling infrastructure need within the Geography and Regional Science Program.
• Geography by any other name - The science of geography has a written and map-based history in European civilizations since the days of the Greek writers Eratosthenes, Strabo, and Plato. Even before this, ancient Egyptians included strip maps in coffins to guide souls to their final resting place, and Chinese "geographers" produced scroll maps that identified routes and landmarks between cities. In later centuries, Portuguese navigators such as Diaz and Da Gama produced charts to record land-based features on their exploratory trips to South Africa and India. Marco Polo kept a rigorous record of physical environments and human landscapes and cultures on his trips to China. Explorers of central Africa (e.g., Livingston, Stanley) were funded by the British Royal Geographical Society. Medieval navigators produced Portolan charts based on triangulation methods that were the precursors of modern cartography. The geography of North America unfolded in the diaries of de Soto, Lewis and Clark, and Hendrick Hudson. In this century, geographers have rediscovered the earth from images generated remotely by satellites and space stations. For 3000 years at least, then, geography has been a respected practicing and practical science.
• Communicating about Theoretical Geography - Where does this strange feeling that quantitative research could be excluded from the geographical stage come from? It is paradoxical, since, as it will be shown during the next three days, when papers will be presented in three parallel sessions, quantitative geography is "very much alive and well !", as David says. However, it is doubtful that the feeling of exclusion originates solely in the contemptuous attitude towards quantification held by some post-modernist social scientists. A more common trend, and perhaps more worrying, is a relative absence of geographical theories and concepts from public and academic debates where they should or could be present. Not only most people in the street, but sometimes also our distinguished colleagues, ignore or pretend to ignore the present state of geographical research. There is a huge gap between the success and effectiveness of geographical methods and tools - which are now in use in so many versions of geographical information systems for an incredible variety of fields of application - and the general lack of awareness about the integrated corpus of knowledge that should be included under the name of geography. I would suggest that this may result, at least in part, from a much too discreet contribution of geographers, and especially the so-called quantitative geographers, to the general discussion about their geographical concepts and theories.
• Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography - This text-specific Web site provides a forum where professors and students can expand their investigation of human geography.
• Geometry.Net - Social_Science: Geography - a wide-ranging list of geography websites.
• Internet Geography - Internet Geography has been around for over two years.
  My name is Anthony Bennett. I am Head of Geography at Isaac Newton School, Hull (England) . I have been teaching for six years. I completed a BA (HONS) degree in Geography.
  My interests include Geography (surprise surprise!), The Internet, walking and reading.
  I believe in sharing knowledge and resources to further people's understanding and enjoyment of geography. This is the main reason for the development of Internet Geography. Also, so much good work is produced by teachers I feel that we should share good practice more often. I would like Internet Geography to develop into a centre for shared geographical resources and knowledge.
• WCSU List: Geography Internet Resources - Western Connecticut State University Department of Social Sciences
• Internet Resources for Geography & Geology
• Internet Public Library: Geography
• Geography Departments Worldwide - Welcome to the searchable database of Geography Departments around the world! As of February 23rd, 2006 there are links to 1130 Departments in 90 Countries of which 876 have already signed the "Add Department Form" and thus can be searched by Country, Keyword and Researchfields. Database is maintained by Klaus Fšrster, reproduction and distribution are permissible for non-profit purposes only, but no changes are to be made to these documents without the author's written consent. Please drop me a note if you know of any Departments not included here and don't forget to sign up if you haven't posted your data already.
• The Internet Geographer - The Internet and World Wide Web provide a superb resource for Geography students. The Internet Geographer is a project that aims to give easier access to the vast array of useful resources on the internet.

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