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21 Feb

Geographical Review Preview: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards dengue fever in Cali, Colombia

Dengue fever is a vector-borne disease transmitted by the Aedes (Ae. aegypti or Ae. albopictus) mosquito, with a presence in more than 100 countries and a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, particularly in the Americas. As an alternative to mosquito habitat control,...
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8 Feb

Geographical Review Preview: ANALYZING THE LATIN AMERICAN CITY MODEL’S OMISSIONS IN STUDIES OF SEGREGATION IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES’ PERIPHERAL TERRITORIES: THE CASE OF MORELIA, MEXICO

The Latin American City Model has been a reference in regional segregation studies since the early twenty-first century. Despite over 20 years of continuous use, its approach has not accounted for the characteristics and processes relating to segregation in peripheral...
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27 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: ATTACHMENT TO PLACE AND COMMUNITY TIES IN TWO SUBURBS OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, CENTRAL FINLAND

This article describes varied place attachments manifested in public (communal) places in the two socioeconomically weakest suburbs of the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland. We conducted ethnographic research and observations, interviewed local experts on their views of the suburbs,...
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17 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: NATURE, SOCIETY, AND CONJOINT CONSTITUTION

The three themes that dominated Western nature-society thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century—a designed earth, environmental influences, and human impact—were joined subsequently by a fourth. It has gone by many labels, of which possibilism has...
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15 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Urban Form and Spatiotemporal Vulnerability of Local Communities to COVID-19

This paper investigates spatiotemporal dynamics of the effects of urban form on the Covid-19 spread within local communities in Salt Lake County, Utah, in the United States. We identify three types of communities—minority, traditional urban and suburban, and new suburban—and...
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8 Nov

Geographical Review Preview: SETTLER IGNORANCE AND PUBLIC MEMORY: KINGSTON, ONTARIO

Since the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, municipalities are increasingly addressing reconciliation in their practice, including new engagement with Indigenous heritage and public memory. Nevertheless, municipal perspectives of heritage are frequently colonial and result in commemorative landscapes...
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17 Oct

Geographical Review Preview: CHILEAN PATAGONIA

Patagonia evokes images of a remote, unpopulated frontier region endowed with a variety of undisturbed natural environments, including arid steppes, high mountains, fjords, forests, and ice fields. Despite idealized depictions, the expansive region, which econmpasses the southernmost tip of the...
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13 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: Hybrid Policy in New Jersey Bear Management Conflict

Bear management in New Jersey is controversial. The Division of Fish and Wildlife’s policies have not reassured factions who oppose their tools, namely hunting, despite being informed by science. This study applies qualitative content analysis to 43 policy documents...
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1 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: Robert E. Lee at West Point: Contested Landscapes and Legacies of the Civil War

The U.S. is currently experiencing an unparalleled transformation of its commemorative landscapes. Statues and memorials that have stood for decades are being removed. In particular, memorials associated with the Confederacy from the American Civil War are being addressed. The case...
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25 Aug

Geographical Review Preview: COMMUNITY FOOD RESILIENCE IN THE TIME OF COVID: AN EXAMPLE FROM AN APPALACHIAN COUNTY

This article explores how Community Based Organizations, in Watauga County, North Carolina, faced a food crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and quickly came together to fill unprecedented local need for food assistance. Existing bodies of literature on Appalachia and...
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