6 articles in this issue
Barney Warf
Conventional analyses of labor markets assume their boundaries to be fixed. For exan1ple, urban geography long focused on the urban commuting sheds of workers, in which it was assumed that the high friction of distance involved in commuting limited the ex... see more
Maria Fadiman
Geographers have long been interested in how people utilize resources (e.g. Denevan 1992; Sayre 2008). This study looks at the nipa palm (Nypafruticans Wurmb.; Arecaceae), a unique palm in that it is the only species in the Arecaceae family considered a m... see more
Ronald R. Schultz
The establishment and maintenance of election or representation districts within counties and cities has its supporters and its detractors. Citizens, elected city and county comn1issioners or council members, scholars, and political operatives have been d... see more
Jason D. Self, Herbert Stroud
Across the peninsula of South Florida, people from all walks of life have come to catch a glimpse of a peculiar bird, an owl that makes its home in burrows rather than trees. The owl does not have the majesty of our national symbol, the bald eagle, nor do... see more
Angela Gilbert, Jayajit Chakraborty
The term 'environmental justice' is used to describe the movement concerned with inequities in the distribution of environmental pollution and adverse health consequences of industrial activities and environmental policies. While the movement began in the... see more
Mohammad Kamiar
The purpose of this paper is to correct that mistaken assumption and the associated statements. After a brief explanation of the scientific facts associated with the orientation of rivers in general, an approximate number of major rivers that flow north w... see more