By: Jeffrey Smith and Ricardo Aranha What is the main purpose of your study?  The purpose of this article is to showcase how peoples’ mental maps (perceptions) of a place can be used as a tool to reveal their emotional...
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By: Thomas B. Larsen and John Harrington, Jr. What is the main purpose of your study?  This paper begins scholarly conversation to develop and formalize a human-environment timeline.  Numerous scholars agree that an “Age of Humans,” or Anthropocene, exists.  They...
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By: Birgit Glorius What is the main purpose of your study?  When comparing integration patterns, policies and attitudes towards migration, post-socialist European countries stand out from West European countries in having a less developed integration infrastructure, fewer immigrants and less openness...
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By: Maurizio Ambrosini What is the main purpose of your study?  The main purpose of my study was to discuss local policies of reception of asylum seekers, deepening the case of Italy: a Western country concerned by the arrival of...
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By: Peter J Taylor, Ben Derudder & Xingjian Liu What is the main purpose of your study?  The term NYLON is commonly used to denote the specific economic linkage between London and New York; the purpose of this paper is to...
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By: Brian W. Blouet What is the main purpose of your study?  The article has two objectives. Firstly, to document why a negotiated piece in WWI was resisted by the U.K. and France. Secondly, to show how Halford Mackinder’s perspective...
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By: Natalie Koch What is the main purpose of your study?  This article explores the idea of “deep listening” as a methodological tack and mindset to guide geographic fieldwork, rooted in intellectual humility. Deep listening involves a critical reflexivity about...
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By: Amanda Kass What is the main purpose of your study?  To demonstrate my methodological approach, which I refer to as “critical financial analysis.” Critical financial analysis blends critical theory with public finance tools. Critical financial analysis can be used...
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By: Beth Bee What is the main purpose of your study?  This case study examines the outcomes of promoting women’s participation in the Coastal Watersheds Payment for Environmental Services (PES) program in west-central Mexico, which is modeled after the national...
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By: Thomas Larsen What is the main purpose of your study?  The core purpose of this study is to understand how spiritual landscapes change over time—specifically American Trappist monasteries of Roman Catholicism.  Monasteries, in general, are tied with powerful imagery,...
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