Geography as a Science

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...

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...

Complexity Science and Human Geography

Geography as a Causal Variable∗

Political scientists often use natural experiments to estimate causal effects. We explore how variation in geography can be exploited as a natural experiment and review the assumptions that must hold for geographic natural experiments to yield valid causal estimates. In particular, we focus on cases where a geographic or administrative boundary splits units into treated and control areas, and i...

Nature of Geography as a Discipline

The proposed course aims at explaining the nature of the subject. It throws light on the importance of geography and describes the nature of geography as a subject. It attempts to enrich knowledge and illustrate basic concepts as well as technical terms which are building blocks of geographic knowledge. Effort, however, has been made to develop the concepts in a graded and sequencial manner and...