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  Cultural Landscapes http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/setlhome.html
A catalog of US maps showing the cultural modification of the landscape as settlers established farmsteads and villages, and named their surroundings.
  Program for the Human Environment http://phe.rockefeller.edu/
A research center at Rockefeller University that explores how long-run technical change relates to productivity and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources, and the consequences for human populations.
  National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/census2.html
Historical overview of statistical atlases and census maps that express the cultural landscape of the United States.
  UKBorders http://edina.ed.ac.uk/ukborders/
An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom.
  Association for Border Studies http://www.absborderlands.org/
Features membership details, board of directors, information on meetings and calls for papers, and contacts.
  International Boundaries Research Unit http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/
Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit, (IBRU) located at the University of Durham. A source of information on boundary and territorial issues around the world.
  Project Gigalopolis http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/gig/
A research project working to extend and refine the Clarke Urban Growth Model for making predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales.
  Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/
Discussion and examples of crime mapping. Features an overview of current research, publications, bibliography, and links to related sites.
  National Geography Standards http://www.ncge.org/publications/tutorial/standards/
An outline with excerpts from the publication of the same title produced by the National Geographic Research and Exploration. An educational guide that discusses the spatial integration of human and physical phenomena distributed over the Earth's surface.
  Project Vital http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/vital/
A laboratory for the study of geographic information technologies as they relate to transportation. Features project overview, links to related resources, job opportunities, and contact details.
  The Society for Human Ecology http://www.societyforhumanecology.org/
An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application.
  Mable/Geocorr http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr2k.html
A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities.
  H-HistGeog: Historical Geography http://www.h-net.org/~histgeog/
H-Net discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information.
  Human Geography Department at Macquarie University http://www.es.mq.edu.au/humgeog/
Features information for current and prospective students, staff profiles, current research, publications, and contact details. Also offers links to related resources, career opportunities and calendar of events.
  The Geography of Transport Systems http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/
A project developed to promote access to transport geography information. Includes material to support undergraduate courses, including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations.
  History of the U.S Cultural Environment http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html
A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the cultural geography of the United States.
  SDSS for Location Planning, or The Seat of the Pants is Out http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gisapps/sdss.html
A paper by Larry Daniel that reviews the general characteristics of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) applied to site analysis.
  Borderbase http://www.nicolette.dk/borderbase/index.php
Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news.
  The Spatial Economy http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/fkvintro.html
Article by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthrony Venables that describes the dramatic increase in research on economic geography. Includes a discussion of spatial aspects of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition.
  Economic Geography Research Group http://www.egrg.org.uk/
Promotes research in economic geography by organising meetings, developing contact and cooperation among geographers and other social scientists, and encouraging the publication of research.
  The Maritime Cultural Landscape http://www.abc.se/~m10354/publ/cult-land.htm
An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography.
  Regional Inversion http://www.regionalinversion.com
Essays by Luis Suarez-Villa, of the University of California, Irvine. Features sections devoted to the role of innovative capacity, tangible and intangible infrastructure, and a description of inversion at the metropolitan level
  Economic and Business Geography http://faculty.washington.edu/~krumme/ecbusgeo.html
Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field.
  Cultural Landscapes from Around the World http://www.geog.okstate.edu/users/lightfoot/lightfoot.html
A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
  Cultural & Human Geography http://www.aag.org/Careers/Cultural_Human_Geography.html
A description of employment opportunities provided by the Association of American Geographers.
  Cultural Landscapes http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/2outline.htm
Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America.
  Rachel Slocum http://www.rslocum.com/
Information on her research into climate politics, feminist science studies, food security and racism. Features abstracts of publications and curriculum vitae.
  Four Dimensions of the Center-Periphery Conflict in the Polish Electoral Geography http://www.come.uw.edu.pl/kursy/__soc/teaser/zarycki.html
Tomasz Zarycki argues that Polish electoral geography is based both on political ideology and elements of the spatial distribution of the population
  Climate and Health Research Program http://www.ualberta.ca/~ksmoyer/chrp/
A research group concerned with climate and health, urban health and wellness and environmental epidemiology. Features descriptions of research projects, links to related resources, and contact information.
  Consensus-Building in a Multi-Participant Spatial Decision Support System http://www.urisa.org/Journal/protect/vol11no2/feick/feick.htm
Abstract of an article by Robert D. Feick and Dr. G. Brent Hall that describes integrating and visualizing spatial data sets for regional planning. The complete text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
  Urbanizing GIS http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc95/to150/p107.html
A discussion of how Philadelphia is trying to apply GIS (Geographic Information Systems) effectively to the complex circumstances that surround neighborhood planning in a troubled urban environment.
  Prisoners of Geography http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~rhausma/editorial/fp01_prisoners_geog.htm
An article that explains why landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and new technologies they need to flourish in the global economy.
  Community Development in the 1990s http://www.urban.org/pubs/comdev90/index.htm
A report describing how the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) has successfully helped underwrite the efforts of community development corporations (CDCs) around the United States.
  Residential Energy Consumption Survey http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recs97/contents.html
A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997.
  Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web http://jhuniverse.hcf.jhu.edu/~climate/
Provides information about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment to support policy development and analysis.
  Lansdowne Geographic Research http://personal.www.umich.edu/~pdmce/lansdowne_geographic_research001.htm
Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern.
  Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0254/1_60/74643759/print.jhtml
A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography.
  CSISS Search Portal http://csiss.ncgia.ucsb.edu/search/internet.html
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science offers discussion forums and extensive search resources for locating Human Geography information.
  Sex Differences in Geographic Knowledge http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2294/1_41/57590493/print.jhtml
A Sex Roles journal article describing gender differences in acquisition of environmental knowledge related to wayfinding behavior, spatial anxiety and self-estimated environmental competencies.
  Human Navigation http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/pick.html
An article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by Herbert Pick that discusses cross-cultural research into environmental knowledge and wayfinding behavior.

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