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In the Brazilian Amazon, the long-distance river trading system known as aviamento has linked commodity producers in remote areas to markets in urban centers since the colonial period. Based on a case study from the rural

High-frequency climate variability is one of the most common features associated with climatic zones and yet, one of the least understood aspects of climate sciences, and unsurprisingly, one of the least implemented 

For four decades, Colorado’s Rocky Flats plant served as the core facility producing plutonium triggers for the United States’ nuclear arsenal. Military production halted in 1992 and fifteen years later the site was designated

Over the past 30 years Chile has implemented neoliberal policies on the promise that open and free access to global markets through commodity exports will lead the country to its development. These policies have had

The US has seen a recent resurgence in interest in alternative birth, and a slow but steady increase in out-of-hospital labor and delivery. Although most out-of-hospital births occur at home, there is a growing movement towards

Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o

Author: Sean F. GallenAffiliation: Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University Abstract:The Critical Zone is the thin layer of terrestrial Earth where interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere,

Hattie Houser (advised by Joe Bryan)Documenting Femicide In Mexico: Connecting the Disappeared to a Larger Body PoliticAbstract: Femicide, the disappearance and death of women due to their gender, is occurring

While internal climate variability is known to affect climate projections, its influence is often underappreciated and confused with model error. Why? In general, modeling centers contribute a small number of realizations to

How is Geographic Information Systems (GIS) taught in formal and informal educational institutions?  How should it be taught? Due to the advent of web GIS, the open data movement, citizen science, mobile field