Seismology and Human Geography

Human Geography

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...

Complexity Science and Human Geography

Human geography without scale

subjective–objective or chaotic–orderly. 14 This ready-made character of scale is well suited for adherents of critical realism, since it too sports a hierarchically organized set of ontological building blocks (of structures, mechanisms and events; see Sayer 1992, 141, 237). Realism’s dualisms and scalar hierarchies often intertwine, again notwithstanding Sayer’s cautionary remarks (1991; also...

Discourse in Human Geography

This pape r considers th e status of the v irtual in geogra phical repre sentations a nd practice . Not only is th e virtuality of, for example, cyberspace an object of geographical analysis but the virtual figures in the ontological and conceptu al 'toolkit' deploye d by geog rapher's in their th eoretical w ork. Critical of D eleuze an d Bergso n, the virtual is defined as a ideal-real someth...

Seismology and CTBT Verification

It is well-known that the design and production of nuclear weapons required major efforts in scientific research and engineering, with a supporting infrastructure of weapons laboratories. Less well-known, is that scientific research and development have also played an important role in nuclear arms control. In this paper, my purpose is to explain the role of seismology in treaty verification; t...