Geography-A Social Science

Geography and computational social science

The emergence of computational social science has had a transformative influence on the geographical sciences, integrating diverse themes of scholarship and allying it with the pursuit of grand challenges in the physical, natural, and life sciences. Geography has benefitted from many of these developments and has, in turn, catalyzed significant advances and innovation in computational social sc...

EditorialAmerican geography , social science and the Cold War American geography , social science and the Cold War Trevor

This article argues that the history of geography should be written from an externalist perspective; that is, its history should be directly related to the larger historical context in which it is embedded. My example is American human geography during the early Cold War period. The argument is that as a result of America’s experience during the Second World War, the USA mobilised its academy t...

Geography and Computational Science

n many U.S. campuses, a rising tide of scholarly activity, called computational science , is being recognized by academic administrators through the establishment of research centers and degree programs (Rice 1994). This nascent discipline has emerged from several traditional fields, including for example, cosmology, geography, and pharmacology, that contain subareas in which computing is the p...

Cultural and Social Geography

Complexity Science and Human Geography