Alex Tarr Worcester State University Dept Of Earth, Environment and Physics Beyond Berkeley: Critical Cultural Landscape Studies and A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area has long been celebrated and decried as a hearth of liberalism and radicalism in the United States. Place names like “San Francisco,” “Berkeley” […]
Danielle Wood Joint Colloquium with the George Perkins Marsh Institute MIT Media Lab, Director of the Space Enabled Research Group Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group The presentation will present the work of the Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. The mission of […]
April 6-10, 2020: AAG Annual Meeting: Denver 2020 Join the American Association of Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo., April 6-10, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center and the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. Learn More
James L. Wescoat Jr. Aga Khan Program for Islamic ArchitectureLeventhal Center for Advanced UrbanismMassachusetts Institute of Technology “Rural Drinking Water Planning in Maharashtra, India—An Important Chapter in Panchayati Raj Reforms.” Rural drinking water planning remains a small field of research notwithstanding the severe deficiencies faced by almost one billion people. There are many […]
Kevon Rhiney Bitter Grounds: Smallholder Vulnerability and the Coffee Rust Epidemic in the Jamaican Blue Mountains Just as coffee farmers in the Jamaican Blue Mountains (BMs) were rushing into their fields amidst news of a long-awaited upturn in coffee prices on the world market, they were thrown into a tailspin as the first severe outbreak of […]
David Kaplan Kent State, President AAG Changes in Geography over the Last Century: Evidence from Doctoral Dissertations Geography as a field has undergone dramatic changes in terms of where it is taught, the growing presence of women in the field, and in the relative prominence of various specialties. Using a database which includes the […]
Jessa M. Loomis, PhD Clark University Graduate School of Geography Dispossession by Inclusion: Examining the Nonprofit Spaces of the Democratization of Finance In the last thirty years, the ‘democratization of finance’ has resulted in an uneven economic landscape with benefits for some and burdens for many. In this talk, I examine the democratization of […]
Jenn Baka Assistant Professor of Geography, Penn State Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective Co-sponsored with the George Perkins Marsh Institute A massive industrial re-development project is underway in the wet gas regions of the Marcellus and Utica shale basins of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. State governments have been coordinating and competing to […]
Urban and Unruly Please join us for our first Higgins Faculty talk of the year, as Asha Best (Geography) presents Urban and Unruly next Thursday. Higgins Faculty Series Urban and Unruly Thursday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA 01603 What does it mean to be urban? […]
Graduate School of Geography Lecture Can formalizing smallholder land rights slow tropical deforestation? Insights from projects around Amazonian reserves in Ecuador and Peru Lisa Naughton, Professor, Department of Geography, UW Madison Land ownership is often uncertain in the world’s most biodiverse and carbon-heavy forests. Many Latin American countries are promoting formal titling programs not only to […]
Matthew Hansen Monitoring Global Land Change using Earth Observation Data From deforestation to urbanization, the human footprint on the land surface is ever expanding, converting natural land covers into land uses or intensifying current land uses. Land use change results in loss of biodiversity, increased greenhouse gas emissions, alteration of hydrological systems, among other impacts. […]
Copy of Colloquium Braverman Irus Braverman - Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo A Beastly Travelogue: Regulating Nonhuman Animals in Palestine/Israel
