Destacando as relações entre os Estados nacionais e a produção dos mapas, Barbara
Lynch1 afirma que, como “discurso político a serviço do Estado”, os mapas foram …

Over the last decade, a new research program has emerged at the interface between
geographic information science and geographical social theory, now called critical GIS. In …

Urban climatology and environmental justice frequently share the same research site: the
city. However, they study urban areas in distinct ways. Urban climatology has contributed to …

Environmental justice is the principle that environmental costs and amenities ought to be
equitably distributed within society. Due to the ethical, political, and public–health …

The relative risk model (RRM) used in Port Valdez, AK, and in Oregon's
Willamette/McKenzie Watershed was applied to the Codorus Creek Watershed in south …

This article presents the Varenius perspective on the societal dimensions of geographical
information technologies and the geographical dimensions of information technologies in …

This book is an expression of the myriad ways in which the range of geospatial methods and
technologies can be applied to the analysis of issues related to human and environmental …

This paper examines the relationship between the location of environmental risks and
federally assisted public housing (Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Section 8) in a …

Increased attention to global climate change in recent years has resulted in a wide array of
maps and geovisualizations that forecast various scenarios. Since many consequences of …

Assessments of environmental and territorial justice are similar in that both assess whether
empirical relations between the spatial arrangement of undesirable hazards (or desirable …