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Capacity Strengthening Towards Application of Earth Observation Tools and Services to Enhancing Marine and Coastal Areas Management in West Africa
Capacity development forms the core and contributes to the success and sustainability of every emerging field and technology. The use of Earth...
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The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive
YouthMappers live and thrive in an ecosystem of university chapters, organizers, sponsors, ambassadors, and partners. This system places youth at the...
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Three Scales of the Spatial University
The spatial university foregrounds the spatiotemporal nature of people, places, and processes in meeting its core missions of scholarship, teaching,...
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Geographic Education and Spatial Citizenship: Collaborative Map** for Learning the Local Environment in a Global Context
This work recapitulates the foundations and didactic principles of geography teaching by means of resources based on Geographic Information...
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Where Is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers Map Their Communities Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
YouthMappers chapters are both locally and globally situated, fostering a confluence of community input, GIS skill sets, subject-matter expertise,...
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Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa
As leaders of tomorrow, we, the African YouthMappers, are taking the initiative of contributing toward the attainment of the Sustainable Development...
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Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership
Dedicated to designing and organizing student-centered work, we highlight the Geomatics Engineering Students’ Association of Nepal (GESAN)’s...
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Map** Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria
YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap and IoT tools to help map where rural communities have good, poor, or no access to electricity throughout Nigeria,...
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Educational Tourism as an Outlook Component of the Marketing and Operational Strategy of a Modern Educational Organization
The chapter is devoted to the problems of educational tourism. The attempt to combine the two concepts of “education” and “tourism” and to determine...
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Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth-Oriented Approach
Through YouthMappers, young women students are able to design and participate in activities that collect, create, and disseminate spatial data and...
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Spatial Thinking and Learning
The spatial university aims to help students learn to think spatially. This chapter outlines the many different ways in which spatial thinking...
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Personnel Training for Sustainable Development in the Arctic
Russia has no special guiding documents, specific requirements, or established rules governing sustainable development personnel training. This makes...
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Open Map** with Official Cartographies in the Americas
Governments need data to be effective and accountable to the SDGs. Spatial data are key to meeting these goals, and youth open map** represents one...
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The Identity and Community Life of Urban New Immigrants
Although they are both citizens, they have the distinction between “urban new immigrants” and “locals”. This segregation reflects the fact that there...
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On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals
The theory-practice gap (TPG) is well known in the environmental realm, referring to disconnects between knowledge generated through scientific...
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Cross-Border Vocational Training in the Polish-German Border Region: A Stakeholder Perspective
This paper explores the opportunities for cross-border cooperation in vocational education and training in the Polish-German border region and...
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Advancing equity and justice through community science programming in design, construction, and research of a nature-based solution: the Duwamish Floating Wetlands Project
Dx w dəw refers to the Black-Green Rivers confluences that made the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, USA, prior to the 1910s. Significant...
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Spatial University for Service and Support
Spatial information systems and approaches are central to the provision of many forms of service and infrastructure at the spatial university....
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Digital Earth Education
Digital Earth (DE) education provides students with geospatial knowledge and skills to locate, measure, and solve geographic problems on Earth’s...
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Promoting Market Gardens and (Re)producing Uneven Development
This chapter describes systems that support and constrain urban agriculture in today’s sustainable, neoliberal cities. Through applying an urban...