Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS)
Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS)
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As meandering rivers migrate laterally through their floodplains, the growth of individual bends increases the overall length and sinuosity of the channel. Intermittently, meander limbs from different bends migrate into one another causing the river pathway to shorten, in a process termed neck cutoff.
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Syndemics refers to complex epidemics involving two types of adverse interaction – the clustering and interactions of two or more diseases or health conditions (the biological–biological interface)and social environmental factors (the biological–social interface). The theory has been widely applied in the fields of medicine, public health and anthropology.
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As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of urban planning and policy, Chicago planners attribute vacancy to abandonment by capital and pursue a two-pronged development strategy that, on one front, seeks ways to efficiently revalorize land and, on another, casts vacancy as an opportunity to promote equitable redevelopment through resident-led revitalization.
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The beginnings of Arab feminisms can be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century against a backdrop of colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, and the emergence of postcolonial nation states.
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Today, center-east areas in the city of Buenos Aires, especially the highly stigmatized villas (slums), seem ripe for a new phase of urban restructuring. Long-time residents of the villas, neglected for decades by public funds, now face “urbanization” processes, a euphemism neoliberal governance uses when transferring public urban land to the private market.
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Join us in a virtual celebration of GIS Day, the annual salute to geographic information science and technologies for achieving broad and transformative impacts. This virtual event on Zoom is free and open to the public.
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Wide variations in health outcomes exist across different neighbourhoods in Toronto, and among different ethno-cultural groups and socio-economic strata. Meeting the health care needs of migrants is a growing priority. The research talk will discuss two case studies to highlight the role of neighbourhood contexts in immigrant health.
