Selima Sultana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selima Sultana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selima |
| FAMILY NAME | Sultana |
| SIGNATURE | SULTANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4288-2518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Enhancing the Climate in Geography Through Diversity and Inclusion
Women and underrepresented groups in higher education face persistent barriers stemming from harassment, discrimination, and bias. This article examines gender and other inequities in higher education to highlight how these issues create a hostile climate for women and marginalized groups in the discipline of geography. Our analysis is grounded in a feminist conceptual framework and stress process theory and draws from survey data collected by th…
Gender and Knowledge Gatekeepers in Geography
This article examines the intersection of gender and academic gatekeeping in geography, with a focus on two key entities: the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and academic journals. Whereas institutions are direct gatekeepers, professional organizations indirectly influence faculty, students, and publishers through journal outlets, networking opportunities, and recognition. Focusing on these entities, we aim to contribute to the discours…
Experiences of Women AAG Presidents
Presidents of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) play crucial roles in the direction and health of the organization and the field of geography. The social and academic backgrounds of these leaders often influence the initiatives and priorities they implement during their tenure as president. During its 119-year history, only eighteen AAG presidents were women. These women have served as role models and change agents who significantly i…
In Their Own Voices
Minding the Gender Gap
Barriers to Academic Advancement in Geography
Understanding communication dynamics on Twitter during natural disasters
Transportation sustainability in the urban context
Although the term “sustainability” did not gain traction until the 1980s, concerns about the consequences of transportation technology started long before. This paper reviews the literature on urban transportation sustainability using three frameworks. First, urban transportation can be unsustainable environmentally, economically, and socially (the three pillars of sustainability). Second, sustainable strategies tend to fall into two paradigms. S…
Residential Settlement Patterns among Immigrants in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Georgia
This study investigates the diversity of immigrant populations and their spatial residential patterns at the census tract level within twenty‐nine counties of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (), using 2013 American Community Survey () five‐year estimates summary data from 2008–2012. Correlations coefficient analyses with local job opportunities, education level, and English proficiency and the presence of foreign‐born populations are al…
Transportation and Land Use
The relationship between transportation and land use remains complex, particularly when they are poorly synchronized and cause externalities such as congestion, air pollution, and environmental damage. This entry provides an overview of the changing interactions between transportation and land use as seen in a historical context by reviewing theories, models, and the recent empirical evidence from the field of transportation. The entry concludes …
Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds
This book provides a fascinating look at the amazing diversity of forms of travel and transport around the world today in the context of cultures, politics, economics, and environment of a place. Across the timeline of human history, transportation has played a role in the migration of people and information, nation-building, economic development, environmental alteration, access to and the use of resources, and even the fall of civilizations. Th…
The impacts of high-speed rail extensions on accessibility and spatial equity changes in South Korea from 2004 to 2018
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
The Nature of Urban Growth and the Commuting Transition
The concept of an urban growth wave expanding outwards is used to examine the commuting characteristics of residents of recently developed housing areas within the 50 largest US metropolitan areas at multiple points of time between 1980 and 2000. The results show that not only do areas of recent housing booms have longer commuting times and differing socioeconomic characteristics than older parts of the cities, but this commuting time will subsid…
Why Do So Few Minority People Visit National Parks? Visitation and the Accessibility of “America's Best Idea”
It has been said that national parks are “America's Best Idea,” they are among the most famous and instantly recognizable places in the country, and they attract visitors from all over the world. Yet visitors to these sites are overwhelmingly white. A number of theoretical perspectives have been proposed for the absence of minority visitors, including socioeconomic marginality, differing cultural norms, and the lingering legacy of discrimination,…
The Civil Rights Movement and the Future of the National Park System in a Racially Diverse America
The U.S. National Park System contains places of world-renowned beauty and tremendous historical significance that represent some of the central values and experiences in American culture, democracy, and freedom for everyone, for all time. However, the vast majority of visitors to these parks are white, which has increasingly been seen as a problem as it suggests a lack of full participation by all members of society. While there are several pers…
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore. Thomas J. Vicino." Urban Geography, 31(2), pp. 273–274
What about dual-earner households in jobs–housing balance research? An essential issue in transport geography
Effects of Married-Couple Dual-Earner Households on Metropolitan Commuting
The idea of creating a balance between jobs and housing within different commuter catchment areas of a metropolis has been a prominent approach for reducing traffic congestion, air pollution, and journey-to-work times. Married-couple, dual-earner households, in which both spouses are employed, have been identified as an obstacle to the job-housing balance concept because of their constrained ability to choose a residential location near both work…
Social Change and Sustainable Transport
Key Words: transportationsustainabilityInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Additional informationNotes on contributorsSelima SultanaReviewed by
Job/Housing Imbalance and Commuting Time in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Commuting is the major source of congestion and air pollution in the United States. For almost a decade, urban policy-makers have been concerned about the geographical balance between locations of jobs and housing as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion and air pollution in American cities. Despite the popularity and apparent acceptance of the job/housing (J/H) imbalance concept among public policy-makers, little empirical research has been…
Job/Housing Imbalance and Commuting Time in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Commuting is the major source of congestion and air pollution in the United States. For almost a decade, urban policy-makers have been concerned about the geographical balance between locations of jobs and housing as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion and air pollution in American cities. Despite the popularity and apparent acceptance of the job/housing (J/H) imbalance concept among public policy-makers, little empirical research has been…
Why Do So Few Minority People Visit National Parks? Visitation and the Accessibility of “America's Best Idea”
It has been said that national parks are “America's Best Idea,” they are among the most famous and instantly recognizable places in the country, and they attract visitors from all over the world. Yet visitors to these sites are overwhelmingly white. A number of theoretical perspectives have been proposed for the absence of minority visitors, including socioeconomic marginality, differing cultural norms, and the lingering legacy of discrimination,…
The impacts of high-speed rail extensions on accessibility and spatial equity changes in South Korea from 2004 to 2018
Effects of Married-Couple Dual-Earner Households on Metropolitan Commuting
The idea of creating a balance between jobs and housing within different commuter catchment areas of a metropolis has been a prominent approach for reducing traffic congestion, air pollution, and journey-to-work times. Married-couple, dual-earner households, in which both spouses are employed, have been identified as an obstacle to the job-housing balance concept because of their constrained ability to choose a residential location near both work…
The Civil Rights Movement and the Future of the National Park System in a Racially Diverse America
The U.S. National Park System contains places of world-renowned beauty and tremendous historical significance that represent some of the central values and experiences in American culture, democracy, and freedom for everyone, for all time. However, the vast majority of visitors to these parks are white, which has increasingly been seen as a problem as it suggests a lack of full participation by all members of society. While there are several pers…
What about dual-earner households in jobs–housing balance research? An essential issue in transport geography
Residential Settlement Patterns among Immigrants in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Georgia
This study investigates the diversity of immigrant populations and their spatial residential patterns at the census tract level within twenty‐nine counties of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (), using 2013 American Community Survey () five‐year estimates summary data from 2008–2012. Correlations coefficient analyses with local job opportunities, education level, and English proficiency and the presence of foreign‐born populations are al…
The Nature of Urban Growth and the Commuting Transition
The concept of an urban growth wave expanding outwards is used to examine the commuting characteristics of residents of recently developed housing areas within the 50 largest US metropolitan areas at multiple points of time between 1980 and 2000. The results show that not only do areas of recent housing booms have longer commuting times and differing socioeconomic characteristics than older parts of the cities, but this commuting time will subsid…
Job/Housing Imbalance and Commuting Time in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Commuting is the major source of congestion and air pollution in the United States. For almost a decade, urban policy-makers have been concerned about the geographical balance between locations of jobs and housing as a strategy for reducing traffic congestion and air pollution in American cities. Despite the popularity and apparent acceptance of the job/housing (J/H) imbalance concept among public policy-makers, little empirical research has been…
Effects of Married-Couple Dual-Earner Households on Metropolitan Commuting
The idea of creating a balance between jobs and housing within different commuter catchment areas of a metropolis has been a prominent approach for reducing traffic congestion, air pollution, and journey-to-work times. Married-couple, dual-earner households, in which both spouses are employed, have been identified as an obstacle to the job-housing balance concept because of their constrained ability to choose a residential location near both work…
Social Change and Sustainable Transport
Key Words: transportationsustainabilityInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Additional informationNotes on contributorsSelima SultanaReviewed by
What about dual-earner households in jobs–housing balance research? An essential issue in transport geography
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore. Thomas J. Vicino." Urban Geography, 31(2), pp. 273–274
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
Why Do So Few Minority People Visit National Parks? Visitation and the Accessibility of “America's Best Idea”
It has been said that national parks are “America's Best Idea,” they are among the most famous and instantly recognizable places in the country, and they attract visitors from all over the world. Yet visitors to these sites are overwhelmingly white. A number of theoretical perspectives have been proposed for the absence of minority visitors, including socioeconomic marginality, differing cultural norms, and the lingering legacy of discrimination,…
The Civil Rights Movement and the Future of the National Park System in a Racially Diverse America
The U.S. National Park System contains places of world-renowned beauty and tremendous historical significance that represent some of the central values and experiences in American culture, democracy, and freedom for everyone, for all time. However, the vast majority of visitors to these parks are white, which has increasingly been seen as a problem as it suggests a lack of full participation by all members of society. While there are several pers…
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
The Nature of Urban Growth and the Commuting Transition
The concept of an urban growth wave expanding outwards is used to examine the commuting characteristics of residents of recently developed housing areas within the 50 largest US metropolitan areas at multiple points of time between 1980 and 2000. The results show that not only do areas of recent housing booms have longer commuting times and differing socioeconomic characteristics than older parts of the cities, but this commuting time will subsid…
The impacts of high-speed rail extensions on accessibility and spatial equity changes in South Korea from 2004 to 2018
Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds
This book provides a fascinating look at the amazing diversity of forms of travel and transport around the world today in the context of cultures, politics, economics, and environment of a place. Across the timeline of human history, transportation has played a role in the migration of people and information, nation-building, economic development, environmental alteration, access to and the use of resources, and even the fall of civilizations. Th…
Transportation and Land Use
The relationship between transportation and land use remains complex, particularly when they are poorly synchronized and cause externalities such as congestion, air pollution, and environmental damage. This entry provides an overview of the changing interactions between transportation and land use as seen in a historical context by reviewing theories, models, and the recent empirical evidence from the field of transportation. The entry concludes …
Understanding communication dynamics on Twitter during natural disasters
Transportation sustainability in the urban context
Although the term “sustainability” did not gain traction until the 1980s, concerns about the consequences of transportation technology started long before. This paper reviews the literature on urban transportation sustainability using three frameworks. First, urban transportation can be unsustainable environmentally, economically, and socially (the three pillars of sustainability). Second, sustainable strategies tend to fall into two paradigms. S…
Residential Settlement Patterns among Immigrants in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Georgia
This study investigates the diversity of immigrant populations and their spatial residential patterns at the census tract level within twenty‐nine counties of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (), using 2013 American Community Survey () five‐year estimates summary data from 2008–2012. Correlations coefficient analyses with local job opportunities, education level, and English proficiency and the presence of foreign‐born populations are al…
Enhancing the Climate in Geography Through Diversity and Inclusion
Women and underrepresented groups in higher education face persistent barriers stemming from harassment, discrimination, and bias. This article examines gender and other inequities in higher education to highlight how these issues create a hostile climate for women and marginalized groups in the discipline of geography. Our analysis is grounded in a feminist conceptual framework and stress process theory and draws from survey data collected by th…
Gender and Knowledge Gatekeepers in Geography
This article examines the intersection of gender and academic gatekeeping in geography, with a focus on two key entities: the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and academic journals. Whereas institutions are direct gatekeepers, professional organizations indirectly influence faculty, students, and publishers through journal outlets, networking opportunities, and recognition. Focusing on these entities, we aim to contribute to the discours…
Experiences of Women AAG Presidents
Presidents of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) play crucial roles in the direction and health of the organization and the field of geography. The social and academic backgrounds of these leaders often influence the initiatives and priorities they implement during their tenure as president. During its 119-year history, only eighteen AAG presidents were women. These women have served as role models and change agents who significantly i…
In Their Own Voices
Minding the Gender Gap
Barriers to Academic Advancement in Geography
Geography (17 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Transport engineering (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)