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Understanding the corporation through emotion and affect
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Authors: Alison Braithwaite*, University of Waterloo
Topics: Economic Geography
Keywords: economic geography; emotion; affect; the corporation
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Understanding the distribution of the benefits of Montreal’s new active transportation infrastructure in response to COVID-19
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Authors: Linnea Soli*, , Kevin Manaugh, McGill University
Topics: Transportation Geography, Urban Geography, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: equity, active transport, COVID-19, bike lanes, Montreal, sidewalks
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Understanding the Drivers of Adoption and Abandonment in Conservation: An Analysis of Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile
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Authors: Elisa Denis*,
Topics: Environment, Coastal and Marine
Keywords: conservation, adoption, management
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Understanding the Effects of China’s Agro-Environmental Policies on Rural Households’ Labor and Land Allocation with a Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model
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Authors: Ying Wang*, China University of Geosciences, Qi Zhang, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA , Conghe Song, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA, Richard Bilsborrow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Topics: Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model; Social-Ecological Systems; Land Use; Labor Allocation; Agro-Environmental Policies
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Understanding the knowledge gaps between flooding data and risk perceptions for building institutional resilience: A comparative analysis of flood risk knowledge systems across seven North American cities
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Authors: Chingwen Cheng*, The Design School, Arizona State University, Parisa Setayesh, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Heejun Chang, Department of Geography, Portland State University, William Solecki, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science & Institute for Sustainable Cities Hunter College - City University of New York , Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Tiffany Troxler, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Changdeok Gim, School of Humanities, University of California Irvine, Yeowon Kim, Urban Systems Lab, The New School, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Robert Hobbins, Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, David Iwaniec, Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, Cliff Davidson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, Syracuse University, Timon McPhearson, Urban Systems Lab, The New School, Bernice Rosenzweig, Environmental Science, Sarah Lawrence College
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Urban and Regional Planning, Social Geography
Keywords: risk perception, flood hazard, urban flood resilience, institutional knowledge systems, knowledge gap, institutional resilience, risk communication
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Understanding the outdoor heat exposure of runners of Boston metropolitan area in summer
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Authors: Xiaojiang Li*, Temple University
Topics: Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Geography and Urban Health, Temporal GIS
Keywords: GPS trajectories, heat exposure, urban modeling
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Understanding the population risk from malaria using human mobility
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Authors: Yao Li*, Center for Geospatial Information Science, Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, Kathleen Stewart, Center for Geospatial Information Science, Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Topics: Medical and Health Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: malaria,mobility
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Understanding the relationship between food environments and childhood obesity: An exploratory spatial analysis in Arkansas
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Authors: Ling Zhang*, University of Central Arkansas
Topics: Health and Medical, Food Systems, Applied Geography
Keywords: childhood obesity, food environment, spatial analysis, Arkansas
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Understanding the Selection Bias in Location-based Social Media (LBSM) - A Case Study in Georgia
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Authors: Ruowei Liu*, University of Georgia, Xiaobai Yao, University of Georgia
Topics: Cyberinfrastructure, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Spatial Analysis & Modeling
Keywords: Selection Bias, Location-based Social Media, Twitter, Machine Learning
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Unearthing the Decolonial Environmental Mentality: The case of Jamaica
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Authors: April Baptiste*, Colgate University
Topics: Environmental Perception, Environment
Keywords: decolonial environmentalism, Caribbean, environmental worldview, SIDs
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Unequal housing affordability across European cities. The ESPON Housing Database, Insights on Affordability in Selected Cities in Europe
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Authors: Ronan Ysebaert, Université de Paris. UMS RIATE CNRS, Renaud Le Goix*, Université de Paris. UMR Géographie-cités
Topics: Urban Geography, Europe, Economic Geography
Keywords: housing price, affordability, socio-spatial inequalities, functional urban areas, open access database
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Uneven Geographies of Financial Control: Financialization as the New Regime of Property Relations
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Authors: Albina Gibadullina*, University of British Columbia
Topics: Economic Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Business Geography
Keywords: financialization, finance, US, computational methods, capitalism
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Unfettering the Frame: The Geographic Matter of Black Life, Image and Form in Oakland, California
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Authors: Kaily Heitz*, University of California - Berkeley
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Black Geographies, visual culture, gentrification,
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Unfolding expeditious and massive scale of urban transformation in post-global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-08 era through the lens of portfolio urbanism: the case of West Loop, Chicago
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Authors: Youngjun Kim*, University of Illinois - Chicago
Topics: Economic Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Geography
Keywords: Real Estate Developer, Urban Development, Financialization, Economic Geography, Political Economy
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Ungrounding the Urban Region through Affects and Effects of Air Pollution
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Authors: Mor Shilon*, UC San Diego, Nati Marom, School of Sustainability, IDC Herzliya
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Social Geography, Social Theory
Keywords: air pollution; urban region; urban political ecology; affect; Tel Aviv
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Unhappy performatives of property among Colombian campesinxs: a contribution to a relational approach to property and dispossession
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Authors: Natalia Perez*, Simon Fraser University
Topics: Legal Geography, Latin America
Keywords: Property, Colombia, peasants, land dispossession, performativity
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Universal citizens or unwelcome refugees? Venezuelan refugees and migrant rights in Ecuador
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Authors: Nancy Hiemstra*, Stony Brook University
Topics: Immigration/Transnationalism, Latin America, Political Geography
Keywords: xenophobia, refugees, asylum, borders, Ecuador, Venezuela
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Universities as financing vehicles of (sub)urbanisation: the development of university towns in Shanghai
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Authors: Jie Shen*,
Topics: Asia
Keywords: Financialisation of the state, University towns, China, Shanghai
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Unjust Waters: Water Allocation Reforms That Produce Hydrosocial Territories in Mumbai’s Hinterlands
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Authors: Prakriti Shukla*, University of Michigan
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: Water governance, urban-rural water transfers, water grabbing, urbanization, reallocation
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Unlikely alliances in rural-urban water conflicts
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Authors: Sophia Borgias*, University of Nevada, Reno
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Water Resources and Hydrology
Keywords: water, political ecology, unlikely alliances, rural livelihoods, California
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Unlocking the long-term potential of land value uplift in new subsidiary centres: How does planning matter?
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Authors: Tianren Yang*, University of Cambridge
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Geography, Spatial Analysis & Modeling
Keywords: Land value capture, urban spatial structure, spatial equilibrium, land use and transport, planning support systems
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Unruliness in Research: Translating Across Boundaries with Dowsers, Geomancers and Academics
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Authors: Cheryl Morse*, University of Vermont, T. Morehouse, University of Vermont
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Anthropocene, Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: Collaboration, the academy, unruliness, geomancy
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Unsettling academic spaces: Disrupting speech-as-presence and creating space for listening
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Authors: Emily Billo*, Goucher College, Kelsey Hanrahan, Towson University
Topics: Gender, Careers and Professional Development
Keywords: Listening, academia, silence, care, disruption
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Unveiling Taxonomy of Daily Travel and Time Use Patterns Using Human Mobility Motifs and Sequence Analysis
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Authors: Rongxiang Su*, University of California Santa Barbara, Konstadinos Goulias, University of California Santa Barbara, Elizabeth McBride, University of California Santa Barbara, Jingyi Xiao, University of California Santa Barbara
Topics: Transportation Geography, Quantitative Methods, Urban Geography
Keywords: human mobility, motif, sequence analysis, travel survey, telecommuting, senior
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Unwrapping the multi-level control and subordination mechanisms and their impact on refugees living in ITSs on the Lebanese-Syrian borderscape
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Authors: Paul Moawad*,
Topics: Middle East, Migration, Political Geography
Keywords: control, subordination mechanisms, refugees, ITSs, Lebanese-Syrian borderscape, Foucault
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Urban Agriculture and Migration as Gendered African Livelihood Strategies in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization
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Authors: Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo*, SUNY Cortland, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, State University of New York, College at Cortland
Topics: Gender, Africa, Women
Keywords: Keywords: Livelihoods, Gender, Migration, Urban Agriculture, Africa, Feminist Geography
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Agriculture and the 21st Century Agrarian Transformation?: Ag-tech, Ag Policy, and the Agrarian Question
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Authors: Kristin Reynolds*, Independent Scholar, New York, NY; Lecturer, The New School; Lecturer, Yale F&ES
Topics: Food Systems, Agricultural Geography, Social Theory
Keywords: Urban agriculture, ag tech, agrarianism, agrarian question, urban food systems, social justice, food justice
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Agriculture in Asia: A Review
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Authors: Melody Lynch*, McGill University, Sarah Turner, McGill University
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Urban Geography, Asia
Keywords: urban agriculture, sustainability, food security, food safety, urban development, Asia
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban backyard refuges - sharing space with the more-than-human community
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Authors: Laurel Ladwig*, University of New Mexico
Topics: Animal Geographies, Urban Geography, Land Use
Keywords: Citizen Science, More-Than-Human Geography, Critical Physical Geography, Biodiversity Conservation, Urban Habitat
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban climate politics and activism amidst COVID-19: the case of Barcelona
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Authors: Mar Satorras*, Universitat Oberta De Catalunya, Isabel Ruiz-Mallen*, Universitat Oberta De Catalunya, Hug March*, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Topics: Urban Geography, Hazards and Vulnerability, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: climate change governance, climate activism, COVID-19, resilience planning, urban politics
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Farms, Resilience, and COVID-19: Towards Food Sovereignty in Salt Lake City
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Authors: Adrienne Cachelin*, University of Utah, Leah Joyner, University of Utah, Blanca Yague, University of Utah
Topics: Food Systems
Keywords: Food sovereignty, Urban Agriculture, Resilience, COVID-19
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Financialization: Towards a Typology
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Authors: Manuel Aalbers*, KU Leuven, the University of Leuven
Topics: Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: urban geography, neoliberalism, urban governance, finance, risk
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban flood Resilience Through Flood Modeling, Stakeholder Engagement, and Managed Retreat: A Case Study of Four US Cities
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Authors: Heejun Chang*, Portland State University, Arun Pallathadka, Portland State University, Jason Sauer, Arizona State University, Jola Ajibade, Portland State Univesity, Marta Berbes, Arizona State University, Elizabeth Cook, Barnard College, Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University, David Iwaniec, Georgia State University, Carolyn Kousky, University of Pennsylvania
Topics: Hazards and Vulnerability, Water Resources and Hydrology, Urban Geography
Keywords: urban floods, resilience, Social-ecological-technological system, vulnerability, managed retreat, scenario
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Flood Risk and Green Infrastructure: Who is exposed to risk and receive benefits?: A case study of three US cities
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Authors: Arun Pallathadka*, Portland State University, Jason Sauer, Arizona State University, Heejun Chang, Portland State University, Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University
Topics: Water Resources and Hydrology, Urban and Regional Planning, Hazards and Vulnerability
Keywords: Green Infrastructure, Pluvial Flood Risk, Urban Flooding
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban forest changes and their drivers in Sacramento Region, CA.
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Authors: Natalie Van Doorn*, U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station, Erika Teach, U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station , Francisco Escobedo, U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station, Alyssa Thomas, U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station
Topics: Environmental Science, Urban and Regional Planning, Natural Resources
Keywords: urban forest dynamics, mortality, recruitment, urban forest function, urban forest structure, urban forest composition, california, socioeconomic
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Urban forest equity: An analysis of the distribution of edible trees in Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana
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Authors: Erin Hardman*, Indiana University, Ava Hartman, Indiana University, Samantha Hamlin, Department of Biology, IU College of Arts and Sciences, Dana Habeeb, Department of Informatics, IU Luddy School of Informatics
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: Urban foraging, edible, equity
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Urban gardening a secret to sustainable waste management in Mumbai, India?
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Authors: Pradnya Garud*, University of Arizona
Topics: Urban Geography, Human-Environment Geography, Sustainability Science
Keywords: urban sustainability, urban gardening, waste management, labor, caste
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Infrastructure and the Denial of Personhood: A case study from India
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Authors: Pallavi Gupta*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Topics: Urban Geography, Political Geography, Legal Geography
Keywords: Urban Infrastructure, Personhood, Caste, Labor, Death, India.
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban infrastructure development and social vulnerability to extreme climate events in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Authors: Kyle Pecsok*, , Rinku Chowdhury, Clark University
Topics: Hazards and Vulnerability, Urban Geography, Social Geography
Keywords: Climate resilience, Flooding, Infrastructure, Urban, Vulnerability, Miami, Social-Ecological-Technological Framework
Session Type: Virtual Poster
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Urban Knowledge Infrastructures and the Political Capabilities of Planning in Nepal and Thailand
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Authors: Robert Farnan*, SEI-York
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Geography, Political Geography
Keywords: Urban planning, knowledge infrastructures, political capabilities
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Oceans
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Authors: Jesse Rodenbiker*, Cornell University
Topics: Urban Geography, Human-Environment Geography, Oceanography
Keywords: Urban, Ocean, Wet Ontologies, More-than-human, Right to the city
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Planning with Fanon: The Puerto Rico Planning Board and Alienation in San Juan, 1942-1955
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Authors: Joaquin Villanueva*, Gustavus Adolphus College
Topics: Urban Geography, Historical Geography, Social Theory
Keywords: Fanon; planning; alienation; Puerto Rico; Black Geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Stream Bank Composition and Network Sedimentation Patterns
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Authors: Dan Royall*, UNC-Greensboro
Topics: Geomorphology, Soils
Keywords: fluvial, sediment, urban, regolith
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urban Tree Cover, Vegetation Diversity, and Asthma: Evidence from 500 Cities
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Authors: Shawn Landry*, University of South Florida, Geoffrey Donovan, USDA Forest Service
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: human health, cities, vegetation, species diversity
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urbanization Induced Increase in Impervious Surface & Linkages to Land Surface Temperature: A Time-Series Analysis and Future Perspectives
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Authors: Hafiza Nayab Gul*,
Topics: Land Use and Land Cover Change
Keywords: Land use, urban growth, ANN, land surface temperature
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Urbanizing Climate Justice: Constructing Scales and Politicising Difference
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Authors: Kian Goh*, UCLA
Topics: Urban Geography, Cultural and Political Ecology, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: climate change, urbanization, social justice, spatial politics, urban theory
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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US Military Places and Spaces as Geographies of Care and the Battle Against Military Sexual Violence
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Authors: Connie Buscha*, Texas State University
Topics: Military Geography, Sexuality, Social Theory
Keywords: military geographies, neoliberalism, sexual violence, care
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Use of Landsat Satellite Imagery to Identify the Salinization of Soil Due to Brine Spills in Northwestern North Dakota
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Authors: Bradley Rundquist, Professor, University of North Dakota (MS Thesis Committee Member), Neha Patel*, University of North Dakota, Gregory Vandeberg, Professor, University of North Dakota (MS Thesis Advisor)
Topics: Temporal GIS, Environmental Science, Agricultural Geography
Keywords: GIS, Soil Salinity, Oilwell Exploration Activities, CRSI Salinity Index
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Use of proximity as a baseline for comparison in validating models of irreversible land change
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Authors: Saeed Harati*, Université de Montréal, Liliana Perez, Université de Montréal, Roberto Molowny-Horas, CREAF, Robert Pontius Jr, Clark University
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Land Use and Land Cover Change
Keywords: Land Use and Cover Change, model validation, irreversible process, area partition, proximity, disagreement analysis
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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Using Activity Space and GIS Space-Time Approaches to Understand the Importance of Rest Day for Female Domestic Workers
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Authors: Fikriyah Winata*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Immigration/Transnationalism, Women
Keywords: Activity space, GIS, rest day, Indonesian domestic workers, Hong Kong
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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