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<div>Bruno Schelhaas received his PhD from the University of Leipzig. He is Head of the Archive for Geography at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig and is the archivist of the International Geographical Union. His interests include the history of geography and cartography, historical geography and archival science. He is member of the Steering Committee of the Commission History of Geography of the International Geographical Union.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>h2 geography essays</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/88hvJoU3GK </div><div></div><div></div><div>Federico Ferretti received his PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Paris 1 Panth|-on-Sorbonne in 2011. After research and teaching experiences in Italy, France, Switzerland and Brazil, he is serving as Associate Professor at UCD School of geography, working in the fields of philosophy and history of geography and on critical and anarchist geographies with a special focus on Latin America. He authored, co-authored or edited fifteen books in Italian, French and English and published research papers in the major international peer-reviewed journals in my area of study, in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. He is Secretary/Treasurer for the Commission History of Geography of the International Geographical Union, Secretary of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and member of the Geosciences and Geographical Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Andr|- Reyes Novaes is associate professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University. He is currently Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the Royal Holloway University of London and member of the Steering Committee of the Commission History of Geography of the International Geographical Union. He is on the editorial team of the book series Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies and the journal Espa|oo e Cultura, a pioneering publication on cultural approaches in human geography in Brazil. His research interests include visual methods, history of cartography, popular geopolitics and history of South American borders.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Just like in any other task, it is essential to follow geography essay examples and guidelines for you to produce excellent work. The start of your essay is essential as it sets the tone for the rest of the paper. You want to create a great impression regarding your understanding of the topic in the introduction section. Following is a list of what to include in your introduction:</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>One of the most important things when writing a geography essay is to conduct enough research. Keeping in mind that Geography deals with irrefutable evidence regarding phenomena, ensure that you gather as much information as possible regarding the topic.</div><div></div><div></div><div>You might consider hiring a competent geography essay writer to assist you with your essay. Having the guidelines is one thing, knowing what to write in another thing. If you perceive the topic to be complicated and are not sure what to write, there are experienced essay paper writers waiting to help you. You can follow the simple steps to place your order. Call us today!</div><div></div><div></div><div>Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation is a collection of interviews, essays, and collaborative writings by eminent scholar and organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The writings that span more than thirty years focus on the interplay of racial capitalism, U.S. nationalism, and privatization in growing the prison industrial complex. Gilmore illustrates the geopolitical and socioeconomic dynamics involved in dehumanizing people in a capitalistic, profit-driven system. Focusing on the geographies of power and difference, Gilmore explores the complex interplay of globalization and the U.S. criminal justice institution that systematically and disproportionately jails and imprisons Black, Indigenous, Brown, and other people of color.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Geography matters. This is the fundamental premise of this thesis. All three essays utilize time series/cross section data on bilateral trade flows amongst the nations of the world to provide insights about how important developments in one part of the global economy affect other countries. Two issues of contemporary interest are examined. The first essay examines the geographic impact of a biofuel-triggered expansion of crop production in the United States on land use and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This issue has been prominent in the public debate over renewable fuel standards in California, Washington, DC and Brussels. The two most widely used trade models in this debate embody fundamentally different views of how such international land use change occurs. Therefore, this essay develops a model of land use which nests the two competing theories of price transmission in the international coarse grains sector. Statistical tests reject the integrated world market model in favor of the differentiated goods, geography-based model. Allowing competition in third markets to modulate the supply responses of individual countries leads to the prediction that most land use changes occur in the world's relatively more productive regions. This results in less global area expansion and, by extension, less GHG emissions. The second and third essays in this thesis examine different channels by which China's growth over the past two decades has altered the global economic landscape. Essay two examines how China's demand-side growth for has affected food prices in general, and export and import prices more specifically. Empirical findings suggest that China has been a source of mild global price inflation. However, this effect tends to be stronger in countries geographically closer to China. Food exporters in Asia, Latin America, and Southern Africa have all benefited from this upward pressure on global food prices. The third essay focuses on the enormous growth in China's manufacturing supply capacity over the past two decades. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of this growth on manufactures production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Analysis using an econometric model of bilateral international trade identifies two competing effects: the beneficial impact on African importers of manufactures, due to access to lower-priced Chinese goods, and the adverse impact on African manufacturing exporters due to more intense competition in third markets. In the three economies this study focuses on: Kenya, Mauritius, and the South African Customs Union, the findings suggest that the depression of Africa's manufacturing export prices attributable to China outweighs the reduction in manufacturing import prices, leading to a significant reduction in these African economies' terms of trade.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This dissertation comprises two papers studying economic geography in a developing country context. Chapter 1 quantifies the effects of cultural barriers on internal migration and welfare in Indonesia. I estimate internal migration gravity using linguistic distances as a proxy for cultural barriers and instrument for current linguistic differences using data from the 1930 colonial census. I find inverted U-shaped effects of linguistic distance on migration, which are more prominent for unskilled and older populations. To quantify welfare and distributional implications of linguistic barriers, I further develop a quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous skill groups, incorporating linguistic distance as migration and trade barriers. I find that a simulated reduction in linguistic distances by extrapolating the historical migration trend generates smaller welfare gains but improve equity more than a similar reduction in geographic barriers.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Heidi Glaesel Frontani (1965-2016)</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Heidi Glaesel Frontani, professor of geography, onetime chair of the Department of History and Geography, pioneering leader of the Ghana Periclean cohort, gifted scholar, and advocate for the peoples of Africa died too young in February 2016. She lived fully and left an amazing legacy that the Department of History and Geography hopes to continue, in part through the Heidi Glaesel Frontani Memorial Study Abroad Essay Contest.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In this dissertation, I study the effects of geography on firm dynamics. I do so from three different perspectives. The first two chapters explore how geography affects sales of branded retail products in the United States. Chapter 1 focuses on the spread of sales over time and space. It describes each component of sales and discusses the potential role of word-of-mouth in the growth of brands. Chapter 2 studies the cross-section relation of brand sales and distance. The chapter analyses how physical trade frictions and information frictions interact and generate the observed reduction in customer base as distance increases. Chapter 3 uses a reduced-form approach to analyze the border-effect using Brazilian exporters' data. I show that serving a neighboring country increases the probability of entry, the expected growth of sales and reduces the probability of exit. Chapter 1 studies the spread of sales of branded products in the United States. Distance affects the cost of moving goods and people across space. Recent evidence suggests that geography also affects the flow of information. To investigate this hypothesis, I study the causes of brand sales growth over time and space. I analyze data from a large set of branded retail products sold in different regions in the United States and document a series of stylized facts about their life-cycle. I find that brands typically sell to a small number of locations that tend to be geographically close. Growth usually happens around previously successful markets. Furthermore, I decompose sales into three components: customer base, prices, and quantities per customer. Almost all of the variation in brand sales, both across locations and over time, comes from the first term. The evidence suggests that geography plays a vital role in customer acquisition, but not due to differences in prices. Motivated by these findings, I propose a model in which information about brands' existence spreads geographically, similarly to how contagious diseases spread. Consumers aware of a brand might `infect' others with that knowledge, and the probability of contagion depends on their location. Additionally, brands have different costs to deliver their goods to different markets. I use the predictions for the correlation of brand sales and customer base across regions to estimate the model using Simulated Methods of Moments and find that information frictions are more severe between distant locations. Furthermore, eliminating the role of distance in contagion increases consumer welfare by 32.5%. These results highlight the importance of geography for the spread of information about brands. This relationship allows for the description of brand dynamics across space and has significant welfare implications. Chapter 2 studies the cross-section relations of sales and distance. How does distance affect the sales of brands in the United States? To answer that question, I use brand data across 44 different regions in the US. At the brand level, most of the effect of distance on sales is associated with a reduced number of customers in distant locations rather than sales per customer. At the aggregate level, most sales reduction comes from having fewer brands serving other areas. To understand what drives these patterns, I introduce a trade model between regions with shipping costs and search frictions between brands and final consumers. The estimates suggest that the shipping costs are a log-linear function of distance. However, information frictions are lower at the origin than at other destinations but are not affected by distance otherwise. Chapter 3 describes the post-entry dynamics of Brazilian exporters. This article documents post-entry sales dynamics of Brazilian exporters and how they can depend on the set of countries that they exported to in previous years. Controlling for marginal costs and selection on idiosyncratic demand, the results on firm's sales dynamics are similar to the ones in Fitzgerald for Irish firms, and are robust to the inclusion of destination-year controls. The main contribution of this article is to investigate how these dynamics are affected by the set of destinations served by the firm in the previous periods. The evidence collected here suggests that sales to destinations that are close to the ones that were previously served by the firm tend to be higher, to grow more, and that the firm is less likely to exit from those locations. These geographic spillovers seem to contribute to more successful endeavors, and to be economically relevant when describing the dynamics of exporters. Finally, the evidence suggests that these spillovers are correlated with higher idiosyncratic demand in those destinations, but are not associated with lower fixed and sunk costs individually faced by firms.</div><div></div><div> dd2b598166</div>
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