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Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 2, July-December 2018., 2018 The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed in response to the 2016 US elections and the resulting political shifts which created widespread public concern about the future integrity of US environmental agencies and policy. As a distributed, consensus‐based organisation, EDGI has worked to document, contextualise, and analyse changes
Dawn Walker +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 The adoption of location-based information sharing technologies, and the emergence of volunteered geographic information (VGI), has seen changes to community involvement in disaster management.
Billy Tusker Haworth +3 more
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Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context
Transactions in GIS, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 503-520, June 2017., 2017 Abstract The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between sense of place and social capital, from a social sciences point‐of‐view.
Albert Acedo +2 more
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 So many soil improvement methods have been developed in order to increase bearing capacity of superstructure of the road to be constructed on the soft clayey road base soils, decrease settlements, and increase other strength specifications (CBR, k, MR values, etc.).
Erhan Burak Pancar +2 more
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The Uncertain Participatory Geoweb
, 2020 Communities in the Okanagan Valley, Canada are increasingly under threat from forest fires due to climate change and expanding urban development into fire interface zones. The effects of forest fires are not always quantifiable ‘hard' impacts. The fluid and chaotic ‘soft' impacts can have a profound effect on the collective consciousness of the people ...
Jon Corbett +2 more
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, 2015 More and more people, objects and sensors are connected to the Internet, in what is now emerging as the Internet of Everything (IoE). The IoE is producing a never-ending flux of raw, unstructured data which can be distilled into information about social interactions, the built and unbuilt environment, traffic, air quality etc.
Horvath, Anca-Simona; id_orcid 0000-0001-5371-5657 +1 more
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Algorithms and Challenges on the GeoWeb [PDF]
, 2011 A substantial number of queries addressed nowadays to online search engines have a geographical dimension. People look up addresses on a map, but are also interested in events happening nearby, or inquire information about products, shops or attractions in a particular area.
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Flood events are the most common weather‐related hazard in Europe and Spain, comprising 41% of such events between 2001 and 2020. Mediterranean catchments, with steep slopes and short river courses, are particularly vulnerable to intense convective rainfall, often triggering flash floods.
Joan Estrany +19 more
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Political Applications of the Geoweb: Citizen Redistricting [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013 There is no abstract with this ...
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European Journal of Geography, 2012 Current web technologies have invaded people’s lifeworld. With mobile devices information can be obtained independently from space and time and works as an omnipresent layer that augments people’s constructions of the world permanently.
Inga GRYL
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