Philip W Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 232126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip W Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip W |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development
A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development
The inevitability of differences culture, kinship, and gender institutional/structural inequalities views from the core - propagating development views from the periphery - encountering development population growth and the demographic the atmospheric cycle and the hydrologic cycle the carbon cycle soils, vegetation, pests, water and agriculture the earth's crust as a resource disease and health the management of tropical and sub-tropical ecosyst…
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa
From the Best Authorities’: The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa
This study goes beyond the ‘first and last appearance’ approach of cartographic historians to examine the social contexts in which the Kong Mountains were first depicted in and then eliminated from nineteenth-century maps of Africa. This history shows that the conventional periodization of the history of cartography into ‘decorative’ and ‘scientific’ phases is greatly exaggerated. We trace the mountains' origins to the geographer James Rennell an…
Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organization of the Nonfarm Sector
Food and Development in the Semi-Arid Zone of East Africa
Geography as Human Ecology: A Decade of Progress in a Quarter Century
T]he contest between geographers and their adversaries is identical with the old controversy between historical and physical methods. One party claims that the ideal aim of science ought to be the discovery of general laws; the other maintains that it is the investigation of phenomena themselves.... While physical science arises from the logical and aesthetic demands of the human mind, cosmography has its source in the personal feelings of man to…
Development Geography and Radical‐liberal Dialogue
The atlas of Africa: The persistence of European perspectives
Régine Van Chi‐Bonnardel. The Atlas of Africa. Prepared by Jeune Afrique. New York: The Free Press, 1974. 335 pp. Maps, bargraph diagrams, index‐gazetteer, and glossary. $80.00
Shape in Revealed Mental Maps∗
Shape is an integral part of the spatial information contained in mental maps. A central problem in isolating shape representations in revealed mental maps is to expunge the measurement effects we incorporate into the data during analysis. Using two independent data sets derived from portrayed shapes of Africa, factor analytic tests indicate that we can separate measurement error from systematic misrepresentations of the African shape. Independen…
Liberia in Maps
Computer Mapping and Geographic Cartography
(1971). COMPUTER MAPPING AND GEOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 796-799
Current Research in Rural Geography
Research Directions and Needs in African Rural Geography
Obviously everything needs to be done immediately. This is the first desperate thought one has in contemplating the undone tasks which litter the geographical research landscape of Africa. The urgency of the tasks, their intellectual allure, and the tiny band of geographers which lightly peoples this landscape make for a kind of permanent agony of the mind. A first priority would seem to lie in helping more Africans to become professional geograp…
East Africa: Population Distribution as at August 1962
East Africa - Population Distribution
(1966). EAST AFRICA - POPULATION DISTRIBUTION. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 180-180
Economic Transition in Africa
Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation
Environment and Policies in West Africa
What Is the Point of Minimum Aggregate Travel? 1
THE January, 1954 issue of Economic Geography carried an article by John Fraser Hart in which he described properties of certain kinds of statistical centers and available means of determining these centers.2 In discussing center known as of minimum aggregate travel, he remarked, with a certain note of despair, that it could only be found by trial and error, using a polar-coordinate annule. This method gave a reasonably close approximation of tru…
Gravity and Potential Models in Economic Geography
(1960). GRAVITY AND POTENTIAL MODELS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 493-504
Earnest and the Orephagians —A Fable for the Instruction of Young Geographers 1
Economic Transition in Africa
From the Best Authorities’: The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa
This study goes beyond the ‘first and last appearance’ approach of cartographic historians to examine the social contexts in which the Kong Mountains were first depicted in and then eliminated from nineteenth-century maps of Africa. This history shows that the conventional periodization of the history of cartography into ‘decorative’ and ‘scientific’ phases is greatly exaggerated. We trace the mountains' origins to the geographer James Rennell an…
Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation
Geography as Human Ecology: A Decade of Progress in a Quarter Century
T]he contest between geographers and their adversaries is identical with the old controversy between historical and physical methods. One party claims that the ideal aim of science ought to be the discovery of general laws; the other maintains that it is the investigation of phenomena themselves.... While physical science arises from the logical and aesthetic demands of the human mind, cosmography has its source in the personal feelings of man to…
Liberia in Maps
Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organization of the Nonfarm Sector
Shape in Revealed Mental Maps∗
Shape is an integral part of the spatial information contained in mental maps. A central problem in isolating shape representations in revealed mental maps is to expunge the measurement effects we incorporate into the data during analysis. Using two independent data sets derived from portrayed shapes of Africa, factor analytic tests indicate that we can separate measurement error from systematic misrepresentations of the African shape. Independen…
Gravity and Potential Models in Economic Geography
(1960). GRAVITY AND POTENTIAL MODELS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 493-504
Earnest and the Orephagians —A Fable for the Instruction of Young Geographers 1
Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa
Development Geography and Radical‐liberal Dialogue
Research Directions and Needs in African Rural Geography
Obviously everything needs to be done immediately. This is the first desperate thought one has in contemplating the undone tasks which litter the geographical research landscape of Africa. The urgency of the tasks, their intellectual allure, and the tiny band of geographers which lightly peoples this landscape make for a kind of permanent agony of the mind. A first priority would seem to lie in helping more Africans to become professional geograp…
East Africa: Population Distribution as at August 1962
Gravity and Potential Models in Economic Geography
(1960). GRAVITY AND POTENTIAL MODELS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 493-504
Earnest and the Orephagians —A Fable for the Instruction of Young Geographers 1
What Is the Point of Minimum Aggregate Travel? 1
THE January, 1954 issue of Economic Geography carried an article by John Fraser Hart in which he described properties of certain kinds of statistical centers and available means of determining these centers.2 In discussing center known as of minimum aggregate travel, he remarked, with a certain note of despair, that it could only be found by trial and error, using a polar-coordinate annule. This method gave a reasonably close approximation of tru…
Environment and Policies in West Africa
Environmental Potentials and Economic Opportunities-A Background for Cultural Adaptation
East Africa - Population Distribution
(1966). EAST AFRICA - POPULATION DISTRIBUTION. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 180-180
Economic Transition in Africa
East Africa: Population Distribution as at August 1962
Current Research in Rural Geography
Research Directions and Needs in African Rural Geography
Obviously everything needs to be done immediately. This is the first desperate thought one has in contemplating the undone tasks which litter the geographical research landscape of Africa. The urgency of the tasks, their intellectual allure, and the tiny band of geographers which lightly peoples this landscape make for a kind of permanent agony of the mind. A first priority would seem to lie in helping more Africans to become professional geograp…
Computer Mapping and Geographic Cartography
(1971). COMPUTER MAPPING AND GEOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 796-799
Liberia in Maps
Shape in Revealed Mental Maps∗
Shape is an integral part of the spatial information contained in mental maps. A central problem in isolating shape representations in revealed mental maps is to expunge the measurement effects we incorporate into the data during analysis. Using two independent data sets derived from portrayed shapes of Africa, factor analytic tests indicate that we can separate measurement error from systematic misrepresentations of the African shape. Independen…
The atlas of Africa: The persistence of European perspectives
Régine Van Chi‐Bonnardel. The Atlas of Africa. Prepared by Jeune Afrique. New York: The Free Press, 1974. 335 pp. Maps, bargraph diagrams, index‐gazetteer, and glossary. $80.00
Development Geography and Radical‐liberal Dialogue
Geography as Human Ecology: A Decade of Progress in a Quarter Century
T]he contest between geographers and their adversaries is identical with the old controversy between historical and physical methods. One party claims that the ideal aim of science ought to be the discovery of general laws; the other maintains that it is the investigation of phenomena themselves.... While physical science arises from the logical and aesthetic demands of the human mind, cosmography has its source in the personal feelings of man to…
Food and Development in the Semi-Arid Zone of East Africa
Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organization of the Nonfarm Sector
From the Best Authorities’: The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa
This study goes beyond the ‘first and last appearance’ approach of cartographic historians to examine the social contexts in which the Kong Mountains were first depicted in and then eliminated from nineteenth-century maps of Africa. This history shows that the conventional periodization of the history of cartography into ‘decorative’ and ‘scientific’ phases is greatly exaggerated. We trace the mountains' origins to the geographer James Rennell an…
Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development
A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development
The inevitability of differences culture, kinship, and gender institutional/structural inequalities views from the core - propagating development views from the periphery - encountering development population growth and the demographic the atmospheric cycle and the hydrologic cycle the carbon cycle soils, vegetation, pests, water and agriculture the earth's crust as a resource disease and health the management of tropical and sub-tropical ecosyst…
Geography (17 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Regional science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Cartography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)