Geography and Geographic Information Science
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Although Chicago’s South Side is often represented in public imaginaries as a “vortex and vector of social disintegration”, following Wacquant’s seminal work on advanced marginality and territorial stigma (Wacquant et al., 2014, p. 1274), contemporary spatial representations of this part of the city are more complicated than that.
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News of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) broke just as I began working as assistant professor at the University of Utah. Therefore, I set up collaborations with researchers across the country to establish a daily tracking program with the goal of finding significant space-time clusters of COVID-19 cases.
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The spatial distribution, magnitude and speciation of legacy P are challenging to quantify, making it a common blind spot in P biogeochemistry that has implications for nutrient management. Illinois has undergone drastic acceleration P fluxes driven by agricultural intensification in less than two centuries, making it a case study on legacy P.
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US homeowners can manage flooding risks through participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), established in 1968. The NFIP was envisioned as a revenue neutral program, where claims paid out equaled premiums collected on active policies, allowing owners of at-risk homes to safely migrate from floodplains following floods.
