geography

Introduction Selecting an appropriate location for healthcare infrastructure is an important task in urban and regional planning. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide powerful spatial analysis tools that help planners identify suitable locations based on multiple criteria. This project demonstrates a Hospital Suitability Analysis workflow developed using QGIS. The objective of the study i…

Tehran's average Route Factor is 1.52, meaning trips between its 22 districts are about 52% longer than direct distances. While indicating moderate network efficiency, this highlights important planning challenges related to air pollution, car dependence, and fragmented land use.

Tehran’s sprawl is not only outward growth. Our study combines satellite and municipal land-use data to reveal low-density peripheral expansion, weak land-use mixing, longer trips, and rising air-pollution pressure.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 30 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07781-0 Spatial distribution and driving factors of bronze drums in Hechi, Guangxi: a comprehensive approach based on spatial econometrics and statistical modelling

Often overlooked by Western policymakers, Madagascar holds major critical mineral reserves and sits astride key maritime routes. As Russia deepens ties, the United States can’t afford to cede strategic ground. The post The race for Madagascar has already started appeared first on Atlantic Council .

Increasingly strengthened impact and pressure of population growth on land for nature (LN) seriously interferes with ecological balance. Clarifying the relationship between population increase and LN, either conflict or coordination, is of great significance to regional sustainable development. Although a large number of previous studies have explored the relationship between socioeconomic system…

Shoppers in urban areas remain more reliant on home delivery than rural households, according to new research.

Before Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took his great big American road trip, Mikah Meyer did it first.  Meyer is a travel writer and blogger. In 2019, he became the first person to visit all of the National Park Service sites in a single journey — over 400 in total. The full list includes national monuments, […]

As former Soviet Republic goes to the polls, it finds itself in a strategic tug of war between Russia, the US, Turkey, Europe and Azerbaijan To describe Yerevan, a charming city of liberal values encased in imposing Soviet architecture, as the centre of the world is a stretch, but Armenia’s claim that it can become the strategic crossroads of the landmass of Eurasia is becoming less and less fanc…

_Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences_ 23 (1):5-21. 2020Geography has received great attention since the 19th century. Kant established it as a discipline which resulted in the development of geographical equipment. Consequently, surveying projects were launched in England. This paper argues that Friel’s Translations depicts the extinction of the Irish culture, done by the Army’s impl…

Nature Communications, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73288-6 Using large-scale data on seven mobility types across Europe, this study moves beyond permanent migration to reveal how regional characteristics shape diverse forms of movement and to inform more targeted regional policy.

By Frederic Hanusch, Justus Liebig University Giessen After the global Human geography has been one of the central fields for understanding globalisation. It has shown that space is not a neutral container but is produced through power, movement, labour, technology, memory, imagination and material life. Yet the present moment suggests that the language of the […]

Data lays bare the extent and geographical spread of attacks in Africa’s most populous country Data from Acled and the Global Terrorism Index shows that after a few years of improvement, insecurity in Nigeria has worsened. With general elections less than a year away, the crisis has come under increasing scrutiny – both abroad and at home. Experts say the primary long-term driver of insecurity is…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 18 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07557-6 Decoding the tourism-economy coupling dynamics: self-driving tourism as a catalyst for the socio-ecological system transition of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Forty years ago, a family moved from India to Canada, and raised their children with “Indian values”. When those children visited India last year, the locals laughed at their outdated beliefs. What their family had said were facts were just a perspective from 1980. Twenty years ago, I lived in Los Angeles. Talking with an old friend that’s still there, I said it’s the nicest place I’ve ever lived…

Our Forum envisions East Asia as part of Islamic Asia, treating it as a space where Muslim communities have forged cross-border networks across time, episodically, and where discourses about Islam have circulated and been appropriated in interconnection with Muslim-majority regions of the continent (that is, ‘Islamic’ Asia). We hold that Islam, as a constellation of religious, political, cultural…

Sailor Walter’s undergraduate research brought him closer to a complex issue in his home region and helped shape how he sees geography beyond the classroom.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 11 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07579-0 Level measurement, regional differences and dynamic evolution of new quality productivity in the Yellow River Basin

If you want to build a strong foundation in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), AGSRT offers a comprehensive training program designed to equip you with practical skills. This course is ideal for students and professionals from civil, geography, environmental, and computer science backgrounds. It also suits those working in engineering, planning, data roles, and organizations needing scalable g…

Since 2012, Mali has faced a security crisis fuelled by violence from groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State “The Grand Ball of Bamako,” as organisers tagged the Saturday evening soiree at the Hotel de l’Amitié in the Malian capital, was meant to provide one of the west African country’s biggest headlines last weekend. Many sponsors including Orange Mali, the local subsidiary of the French t…