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Landslide initiation thresholds in data-sparse regions: application to landslide early warning criteria in Sitka, Alaska, USA [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023
Probabilistic models to inform landslide early warning systems often rely on rainfall totals observed during past events with landslides. However, these models are generally developed for broad regions using large catalogs, with dozens, hundreds, or even
A. I. Patton   +9 more
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Sonic microgeographies and histories: life listening and home [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Tom Ottway firstly provides a broad overview of how home has been conceptualised in terms of space and place by academics in fields as varied as cultural studies, urban studies, sound studies, sonic art, geography, history, law, criminology and migration
Ottway, Tom
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Recent advances and applications in accessibility modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Accessibility is a concept that has become central to physical planning and spatial modelling for more than fifty years. As measure of the relative nearness or proximity of one place and persons to all other places or persons, conceptually linked to ...
Geurs, K.T., Montis, A. de, Reggiani, A.
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Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound

open access: yesEmotion, Space and Society, 2016
The articles that comprise this special issue reflect the growing scholarship that investigates the role of sound in understandings of self, others and place.
Karolina Doughty   +2 more
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'Country life'? Rurality, folk music and 'Show of Hands' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper examines the contribution of folk music to understanding the dynamic, fluid and multi-experiential nature of the countryside. Drawing from literature on the geographies of music, it examines the work of 'Show of Hands', a contemporary folk ...
Agg   +67 more
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Urban park soundscape in distinct sociocultural and geographical contexts

open access: yesNoise Mapping, 2016
The importance of soundscape in urban public parks has galvanised researchers concerned with improving the sound environment in cities. Existing literature reveals, however, a relative paucity of studies on soundscape in particular sociocultural and ...
Lobo Soares Antonio Carlos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traversing Racial Distance in Hip-hop Culture: The Ethics and Politics of Listening [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Hip-hop is often studied as a ‘political’ culture. Listeners, however, often contest the attachment of a political nature to hip-hop. After the ‘dilution’ of “real” hip-hop by record labels seeking to package the sound for mainstream consumption, is it ...
Ganesh, B
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Popular music, psychogeography, place identity and tourism: The case of Sheffield [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Tourism and cultural agencies in some English provincial cities are promoting their popular music ‘heritage’ and, in some cases, contemporary musicians through the packaging of trails, sites, ‘iconic’ venues and festivals.
Anderson N.   +26 more
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A Study on the Phonetic and Morphological Characteristics of the Modern Jordanian Dialect

open access: yesŞarkiyat Mecmuası, 2023
Language is a living phenomenon and consists of many components, including phonemes, part phonemes, which are vowel and consonant phonemes, syllables, supravocal stress, and morphemes which are the ways of inflection and derivation of words.
Seher Doğancı
doaj   +1 more source

Prospects of Bioenergy Cropping Systems for A More Social-Ecologically Sound Bioeconomy

open access: yesAgronomy, 2019
The growing bioeconomy will require a greater supply of biomass in the future for both bioenergy and bio-based products. Today, many bioenergy cropping systems (BCS) are suboptimal due to either social-ecological threats or technical limitations.
M. Cossel   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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