Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.48088/ejg.d.bur.14.2.076.087
D. Burić, Ivan Mijanović, M. Doderović, J. Mihajlović, Goran Trbić
Lake Skadar on the Balkan Peninsula faces many ecological challenges. The lake is located in the border area between Mon-tenegro and Albania and its ecosystem interacts with important and highly populated urban centres such as Podgorica and Bar. Despite the crucial role the lake plays in the sustainability of the ecosystem and the health of the population, there is a lack of environmental quality assessment and data-based analysis. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess both the wa-ter quality of Lake Skadar and the air pollution in Podgorica and Bar in the period from 2011 to 2018. To assess water qual-ity, the Water Quality Index (WQI) model, i.e. the SWQI method, was used, which was calculated based on 10 parameters of physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of water from 9 hydrological stations (oxygen saturation, biochemical oxygen consumption for 5 days, ammonium ions, pH, total nitrogen oxides, orthophosphates, suspended solids, tempera-ture, electrical conductivity and coliform bacteria). In addition, air quality in the two cities was assessed using timeseries of PM10 concentrations. The results showed that the water quality of Lake Skadar was of good to high quality (WQI 79-95), while the air quality in Podgorica and Bar was a serious public health problem, especially in the cold seasons in Podgorica (i.e. the average seasonal and daily PM10 concentrations were often > 40 and > 50 µg/m3). These results are of great practi-cal importance for environmental management and support decision makers in applying certain environmental protection measures and strategies.
{"title":"Assessment of the environmental quality of Lake Skadar and its ur-ban surroundings in Montenegro","authors":"D. Burić, Ivan Mijanović, M. Doderović, J. Mihajlović, Goran Trbić","doi":"10.48088/ejg.d.bur.14.2.076.087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.bur.14.2.076.087","url":null,"abstract":"Lake Skadar on the Balkan Peninsula faces many ecological challenges. The lake is located in the border area between Mon-tenegro and Albania and its ecosystem interacts with important and highly populated urban centres such as Podgorica and Bar. Despite the crucial role the lake plays in the sustainability of the ecosystem and the health of the population, there is a lack of environmental quality assessment and data-based analysis. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess both the wa-ter quality of Lake Skadar and the air pollution in Podgorica and Bar in the period from 2011 to 2018. To assess water qual-ity, the Water Quality Index (WQI) model, i.e. the SWQI method, was used, which was calculated based on 10 parameters of physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of water from 9 hydrological stations (oxygen saturation, biochemical oxygen consumption for 5 days, ammonium ions, pH, total nitrogen oxides, orthophosphates, suspended solids, tempera-ture, electrical conductivity and coliform bacteria). In addition, air quality in the two cities was assessed using timeseries of PM10 concentrations. The results showed that the water quality of Lake Skadar was of good to high quality (WQI 79-95), while the air quality in Podgorica and Bar was a serious public health problem, especially in the cold seasons in Podgorica (i.e. the average seasonal and daily PM10 concentrations were often > 40 and > 50 µg/m3). These results are of great practi-cal importance for environmental management and support decision makers in applying certain environmental protection measures and strategies.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45540052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.48088/ejg.p.fra.14.2.064.075
P. Fraile-Jurado, Nuria Periáñez-Cuevas
This study investigates the effectiveness of innovative teaching strategies designed to enhance student motivation and engagement in a compulsory Physical Geography of the Iberian Peninsula course taught to first-year history students at the University of Seville. The paper outlines the challenges faced in teaching large and diverse groups of students, and the need to develop instructional approaches that accommodate various learning preferences and academic backgrounds. The re-search evaluates the impact of the implemented strategies on students' perception of the subject matter, with a specific focus on the shift in rankings from the beginning to the end of the academic year. The findings demonstrate a significant improvement in students' appreciation for the subject, as evidenced by a decrease in the percentage of students who ranked the course as their least preferred (from 40.7% to 4.9%) and an increase in the percentage who ranked it as their most preferred (from 0% to 11.1%). The study concludes that the adoption of motivational strategies, including active learning techniques, collaborative tasks, and personalized feedback, can lead to substantial improvements in student engagement and overall learning outcomes in a compulsory university course. The implications for teaching practice and future research are discussed.
{"title":"Enhancing Motivation Strategies in a Mandatory University Geography Course","authors":"P. Fraile-Jurado, Nuria Periáñez-Cuevas","doi":"10.48088/ejg.p.fra.14.2.064.075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.p.fra.14.2.064.075","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the effectiveness of innovative teaching strategies designed to enhance student motivation and engagement in a compulsory Physical Geography of the Iberian Peninsula course taught to first-year history students at the University of Seville. The paper outlines the challenges faced in teaching large and diverse groups of students, and the need to develop instructional approaches that accommodate various learning preferences and academic backgrounds. The re-search evaluates the impact of the implemented strategies on students' perception of the subject matter, with a specific focus on the shift in rankings from the beginning to the end of the academic year. The findings demonstrate a significant improvement in students' appreciation for the subject, as evidenced by a decrease in the percentage of students who ranked the course as their least preferred (from 40.7% to 4.9%) and an increase in the percentage who ranked it as their most preferred (from 0% to 11.1%). The study concludes that the adoption of motivational strategies, including active learning techniques, collaborative tasks, and personalized feedback, can lead to substantial improvements in student engagement and overall learning outcomes in a compulsory university course. The implications for teaching practice and future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43883589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.48088/ejg.m.kre.14.2.044.063
Marko Krevs, Blaž Repe, Tinkara Mazej
Mountain trail categorisation remains an important piece of information for hikers when selecting a trail and preparing for a hike, despite new developments in trail difficulty assessment and trail recommendation systems and tools. National or regional trail categorisations should maintain a simple, mainly descriptive form to remain a useful guide for the majority of hikers. However, they are often still based on subjective expert assessments of trail difficulty. In this paper, we combine findings from our own empirical research and from the literature to support two arguments: available or obtainable geographical information and GIS -based methods can contribute to the objectivity of mountain trail categorisation, and improved categorisation contributes to increased hiking safety. An experimental GIS-based categorisation of mountain trails in two areas in Slovenia is conducted to support the above arguments. The comparison of the experimental categorisation with the existing official categorisation and the identification of potentially dangerous trail sections support perhaps the most important of the two arguments, namely the potential to improve hiking safety. However, it also stimulates further discussion on the establishment and implementation of an international standard-isation of trail categorisation.
{"title":"Reconsidering the basics of mountain trail categorisation: case study in Slovenia","authors":"Marko Krevs, Blaž Repe, Tinkara Mazej","doi":"10.48088/ejg.m.kre.14.2.044.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.kre.14.2.044.063","url":null,"abstract":"Mountain trail categorisation remains an important piece of information for hikers when selecting a trail and preparing for a hike, despite new developments in trail difficulty assessment and trail recommendation systems and tools. National or regional trail categorisations should maintain a simple, mainly descriptive form to remain a useful guide for the majority of hikers. However, they are often still based on subjective expert assessments of trail difficulty. In this paper, we combine findings from our own empirical research and from the literature to support two arguments: available or obtainable geographical information and GIS -based methods can contribute to the objectivity of mountain trail categorisation, and improved categorisation contributes to increased hiking safety. An experimental GIS-based categorisation of mountain trails in two areas in Slovenia is conducted to support the above arguments. The comparison of the experimental categorisation with the existing official categorisation and the identification of potentially dangerous trail sections support perhaps the most important of the two arguments, namely the potential to improve hiking safety. However, it also stimulates further discussion on the establishment and implementation of an international standard-isation of trail categorisation.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46680006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.48088/ejg.d.kev.14.2.032.043
Dominik Kevický
The electoral success of the populist radical right parties (PRRPs) is currently increasing across Europe. These parties are also increasingly commenting on environmental issues. On the one hand, the PRRPs highlight the beauty of nature and strive to preserve the landscape’s traditional rural character. On the other hand, PRRRs deny global climate changes and criticise solutions to reverse these, such as the Green Deal. The study aims to explain Czech and Slovak PRRPs attitude towards environmentalism using the concepts of nationalism, globalism, and populism. The empirical analysis is based on analysing official political texts and statements by selected PRRPs in both countries. The results show that Czech and Slovak PRRPs use nature’s aesthetic, symbolic and material aspects to create an image of a traditional, rural country that the nation can be proud of, and which is crucial to protect. In contrast, the PRRPs are ambivalent on global environmental change, the efforts to mitigate it and environmentalists. Finally, the PRRPs use the environmental issue for populist strategic considerations, demonstrating authenticity and creating part of a chain of equivalence.
{"title":"‘We Will Protect Our Countryside without a Green Deal’ : The Populist Radical Right and the Environment in Czechia and Slovakia","authors":"Dominik Kevický","doi":"10.48088/ejg.d.kev.14.2.032.043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.kev.14.2.032.043","url":null,"abstract":"The electoral success of the populist radical right parties (PRRPs) is currently increasing across Europe. These parties are also increasingly commenting on environmental issues. On the one hand, the PRRPs highlight the beauty of nature and strive to preserve the landscape’s traditional rural character. On the other hand, PRRRs deny global climate changes and criticise solutions to reverse these, such as the Green Deal. The study aims to explain Czech and Slovak PRRPs attitude towards environmentalism using the concepts of nationalism, globalism, and populism. The empirical analysis is based on analysing official political texts and statements by selected PRRPs in both countries. The results show that Czech and Slovak PRRPs use nature’s aesthetic, symbolic and material aspects to create an image of a traditional, rural country that the nation can be proud of, and which is crucial to protect. In contrast, the PRRPs are ambivalent on global environmental change, the efforts to mitigate it and environmentalists. Finally, the PRRPs use the environmental issue for populist strategic considerations, demonstrating authenticity and creating part of a chain of equivalence.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45695844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.48088/ejg.m.pue.14.2.015.031
Miguel-Ángel Puertas-Aguilar, A. E. García Sipols, M. de Lázaro-Torres
Teachers’ increasing use of cloud-based Geographical Information Systems (Web GIS) in an interactive way in Spanish secondary schools highlights the importance of researching the effectiveness of this new approach. This study employs action research qualitative methods, through direct teacher observation, and quantitative methods to analyze student grades following first use of Web GIS. Specifically, the research involved: a) Design: organizing a geopolitics’ lesson plan, with seven tasks, for a sample comprising 92 students at K10 level (15-16 years old); b) Comparison: contrasting the results of a traditional written exam following the use of two technologies (namely, Web GIS and a conventional PowerPoint presentation); c) Data collection: analyzing quantitative data via a descriptive and inference study of grades (involving a geopolitics exam; geography and history final term; Grade Point Average -GPA-; and the average grade of the entire term’s 10 curriculum subjects); d) Direct observation: assessing class interactions in which students are assisted with both technology (Web GIS or PowerPoint) and the clarification of concepts. The results demonstrate that Web GIS is a useful learning tool in geopolitics, with students getting better grades and no significant gender differences. Direct observation confirms how Web GIS technologies engage students; assist ‘ubiquitous learning’ from any place and at any time; improve their understanding of data analysis and spatial concepts; and enhanced digital competencies.
{"title":"Web GIS to Learn Geopolitics in Secondary Education: A case study from Spain","authors":"Miguel-Ángel Puertas-Aguilar, A. E. García Sipols, M. de Lázaro-Torres","doi":"10.48088/ejg.m.pue.14.2.015.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.pue.14.2.015.031","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers’ increasing use of cloud-based Geographical Information Systems (Web GIS) in an interactive way in Spanish secondary schools highlights the importance of researching the effectiveness of this new approach. This study employs action research qualitative methods, through direct teacher observation, and quantitative methods to analyze student grades following first use of Web GIS. Specifically, the research involved: a) Design: organizing a geopolitics’ lesson plan, with seven tasks, for a sample comprising 92 students at K10 level (15-16 years old); b) Comparison: contrasting the results of a traditional written exam following the use of two technologies (namely, Web GIS and a conventional PowerPoint presentation); c) Data collection: analyzing quantitative data via a descriptive and inference study of grades (involving a geopolitics exam; geography and history final term; Grade Point Average -GPA-; and the average grade of the entire term’s 10 curriculum subjects); d) Direct observation: assessing class interactions in which students are assisted with both technology (Web GIS or PowerPoint) and the clarification of concepts. The results demonstrate that Web GIS is a useful learning tool in geopolitics, with students getting better grades and no significant gender differences. Direct observation confirms how Web GIS technologies engage students; assist ‘ubiquitous learning’ from any place and at any time; improve their understanding of data analysis and spatial concepts; and enhanced digital competencies.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46356417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.48088/ejg.c.lei.14.2.001.014
C. Leininger-Frézal, Sandra Sprenger, María-Luisa de Lázaro-Torres, María Ángeles Rodríguez Domenech, Neli Heidari, M. Pigaki, Cédric Naudet, Aurore Lecomte, Marta Gallardo
Global change is one of the greatest challenges facing societies today. Higher education plays a crucial role in providing knowledge on global change, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. How is global change integrated into the planned, delivered and achieved curriculum? Has the pandemic promoted the development of blended learning courses on global change? To answer these two research questions, we conducted 25 interviews with academics about the prominence of global change in their courses and curriculum. We also analysed several geography curricula. It emerged that universities play a central role in mainstreaming global change into curricula in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate change. There were two main findings: (i) ESD has been implemented selectively in higher geography education, with a focus on environmental issues and different approaches and (ii) blended learning is a useful approach to develop new curriculum structures and content to educate students about global change.
{"title":"Global Change Challenge in the Higher Education Curriculum on the Approach of Blended Learning","authors":"C. Leininger-Frézal, Sandra Sprenger, María-Luisa de Lázaro-Torres, María Ángeles Rodríguez Domenech, Neli Heidari, M. Pigaki, Cédric Naudet, Aurore Lecomte, Marta Gallardo","doi":"10.48088/ejg.c.lei.14.2.001.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.c.lei.14.2.001.014","url":null,"abstract":"Global change is one of the greatest challenges facing societies today. Higher education plays a crucial role in providing knowledge on global change, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. How is global change integrated into the planned, delivered and achieved curriculum? Has the pandemic promoted the development of blended learning courses on global change? To answer these two research questions, we conducted 25 interviews with academics about the prominence of global change in their courses and curriculum. We also analysed several geography curricula. It emerged that universities play a central role in mainstreaming global change into curricula in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate change. There were two main findings: (i) ESD has been implemented selectively in higher geography education, with a focus on environmental issues and different approaches and (ii) blended learning is a useful approach to develop new curriculum structures and content to educate students about global change.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42223027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.48088/ejg.s.puh.14.1.47.60
S. Puhach, V. Lazhnik, Iryna Mandryk
Trade relations with EU countries have intensified since the signing of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). The EU lifted trade restrictions on Ukrainian exports and allowed Ukraine to expand trade in goods with the most developed countries, including France. In this paper, we aim to exam-ine the spatial features of trade between Ukrainian regions and France in the context of growing trade and economic relations. We applied various methods such as comparative geographical analysis, statistical analysis, mapping, time series approach, typology and correlation analysis to study the dynamics of trade in goods between Ukrainian regions and France from 2017 to 2021 and to reveal the main geographical features in the distribution of export-import flows. Trade turnover with France increased the most in regions with a high level of socio-economic development. It was found that trade between the regions of Ukraine and France is characterised by spatial asymmetry due to the element of geographical distance. Compared to the eastern regions, the western regions have a higher volume of exports and imports of commodities and a higher coefficient of trade linkage with France. In the spatial differentiation of trade in goods between Ukraine and France, there is a high variability and asymmetry in export and import measures.
{"title":"Spatial features of trade in goods between Ukrainian regions and France","authors":"S. Puhach, V. Lazhnik, Iryna Mandryk","doi":"10.48088/ejg.s.puh.14.1.47.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.s.puh.14.1.47.60","url":null,"abstract":"Trade relations with EU countries have intensified since the signing of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). The EU lifted trade restrictions on Ukrainian exports and allowed Ukraine to expand trade in goods with the most developed countries, including France. In this paper, we aim to exam-ine the spatial features of trade between Ukrainian regions and France in the context of growing trade and economic relations. We applied various methods such as comparative geographical analysis, statistical analysis, mapping, time series approach, typology and correlation analysis to study the dynamics of trade in goods between Ukrainian regions and France from 2017 to 2021 and to reveal the main geographical features in the distribution of export-import flows. Trade turnover with France increased the most in regions with a high level of socio-economic development. It was found that trade between the regions of Ukraine and France is characterised by spatial asymmetry due to the element of geographical distance. Compared to the eastern regions, the western regions have a higher volume of exports and imports of commodities and a higher coefficient of trade linkage with France. In the spatial differentiation of trade in goods between Ukraine and France, there is a high variability and asymmetry in export and import measures.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48386139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.48088/ejg.s.cra.14.1.35.46
Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum
Population displacement is difficult to measure, but quantifying its presence is critical to delineating the scope, scale and potential causes of displacement’s effect in urban areas. This paper considers whether the widely available data used to measure turnover can be effectively used to measure other forms of population change. The article presents two new metrics, the Fresh Faces Ratio and the Replacement Index, that better capture some of the nuances of physical and psycholog-ical displacement. It then applies these metrics to city quarters within the city of Zurich, Switzerland, correlates them with turnover and new construction statistics, and assesses their accuracy against residents’ perceptions of change. The research finds that both metrics offer suitable proxies to identify areas where exceptional population changes are taking place, and where residents have a strong sense of these changes. The new metrics can help assess what physical or psychological displacement may or may not result from urban development and new housing construction. Since the new metrics use turnover data already widely available, they are easily adaptable to less data-rich contexts than Zurich.
{"title":"Quantifying displacement: Using turnover data to measure physical and psychological neighborhood change","authors":"Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum","doi":"10.48088/ejg.s.cra.14.1.35.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.s.cra.14.1.35.46","url":null,"abstract":"Population displacement is difficult to measure, but quantifying its presence is critical to delineating the scope, scale and potential causes of displacement’s effect in urban areas. This paper considers whether the widely available data used to measure turnover can be effectively used to measure other forms of population change. The article presents two new metrics, the Fresh Faces Ratio and the Replacement Index, that better capture some of the nuances of physical and psycholog-ical displacement. It then applies these metrics to city quarters within the city of Zurich, Switzerland, correlates them with turnover and new construction statistics, and assesses their accuracy against residents’ perceptions of change. The research finds that both metrics offer suitable proxies to identify areas where exceptional population changes are taking place, and where residents have a strong sense of these changes. The new metrics can help assess what physical or psychological displacement may or may not result from urban development and new housing construction. Since the new metrics use turnover data already widely available, they are easily adaptable to less data-rich contexts than Zurich.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45978973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.48088/ejg.m.lit.14.1.21.34
Marie-Louise Litmeyer, Philipp Gareis, Stefan Hennemann
Classically, gravity models have been used to estimate mobility flows. However, in recent years, a number of new models, such as radiation models, have been introduced to estimate human mobility. The focus has generally been on models dealing with commuting movements. There is no systematic applica-tion of different versions of the laws of gravity to student mobility. The application of these models to student mobility provides the opportunity to calcu-late reliable forecasts of student mobility flows at the micro level, make medium- to long-term decisions at the university level, and implement sustainable strategic orientation. Therefore, this article uses different models to estimate interactions to improve the forecast of the regional distribution of students in Germany under data limitations. Using publicly available data on high school graduates and historical data on student flows between German counties, we show that radiative models with parameters are best suited to predict student flows at the level of German counties. Among parameter-free models, the population-weighted odds model yields the best results.
{"title":"Comparing student mobility pattern models","authors":"Marie-Louise Litmeyer, Philipp Gareis, Stefan Hennemann","doi":"10.48088/ejg.m.lit.14.1.21.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.lit.14.1.21.34","url":null,"abstract":"Classically, gravity models have been used to estimate mobility flows. However, in recent years, a number of new models, such as radiation models, have been introduced to estimate human mobility. The focus has generally been on models dealing with commuting movements. There is no systematic applica-tion of different versions of the laws of gravity to student mobility. The application of these models to student mobility provides the opportunity to calcu-late reliable forecasts of student mobility flows at the micro level, make medium- to long-term decisions at the university level, and implement sustainable strategic orientation. Therefore, this article uses different models to estimate interactions to improve the forecast of the regional distribution of students in Germany under data limitations. Using publicly available data on high school graduates and historical data on student flows between German counties, we show that radiative models with parameters are best suited to predict student flows at the level of German counties. Among parameter-free models, the population-weighted odds model yields the best results.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48642778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.48088/ejg.p.ago.14.1.1.9
Panagiotis Agourogiannis, Dimitris Kavroudakis, M. Batsaris, Sofia Zafeirelli
The mathematical analysis of a spatial network using graph theory and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for path finding, has created the need to compare possible solutions to better solve spatial problems in road networks. The paper aims to provide a comprehensive and documented selection of the identification of similar routes on a spatial network through the development of a spatial Similarity Index. The index compares the geographical characteristics of routes (altitude, length, distance from points of interest) drawn in a spatial network and calculates the percentage of similarity between the routes and the criteria that contributed to their drawing. The purpose of this multicriteria indicator is to select the optimal solution for spatial problems that occur in a network, such as transport, energy, environment, sport, and tourism. This leads to the Similarity Index serving as a reliable tool in decision-making for local and regional development. The case study is the Greek island of Lesbos, with a complex road network that develops over a relief with strong differences in altitude. In addition, there are many points of tourist, cultural and economic interest on the island, which helps to find the path that largely fulfils all geographical parameters.
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