Daniel Kassahun Waktola
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Kassahun Waktola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Kassahun |
| FAMILY NAME | Waktola |
| SIGNATURE | WAKTOLA D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austin Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2710-8903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Capital mobility and institutional inertia
This article draws on Ethiopia’s record of 23 documented capital centers across two millennia to develop a spatial-energetic framework for explaining transitions between mobile and fixed political centers. Capitals accumulate institutional mass that favors persistence, while environmental, geopolitical, and demographic pressures generate countervailing forces; processual conditions determine whether those pressures can be translated into actual m…
Cartographic Propaganda in the Age of Social Media
Cartographic propaganda is a conscious manipulation of a map to influence the reader’s belief. Countries often use it to claim disputed territories or project fear over opposing nations or political alliances, but little is known about the manipulations of maps along internal sociolinguistic and political fault lines on social media platforms. The author investigated the nature and intent of propaganda maps in Ethiopia before and after the 2018 g…
Mapping college students’ location knowledge of environmental events
This study analyses college students’ locational knowledge of environmental events, based on empirical evidence from Ethiopia and the USA – countries that occupy opposite margins on the socioeconomic, cultural and technological spectrum. Based on geo‐referenced data generated through a map‐embedded questionnaire survey from 200 students in higher learning institution, we employed multiple ring buffer analyses and standard distance functions of Ar…
Challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming environmental education into the curricula of teachers' colleges in Ethiopia
Lack of environmental awareness is one of the underlying causes of severe environmental degradation in Ethiopia. As teachers' colleges are a seedbed of such awareness, assessment of college curricula should shed light on the possibilities they offer to develop capacities to address environmental degradation. This small‐scale study is based on the assessment of the curricula of the Kotebe and St Mary's teachers' colleges, Ethiopia, and the knowled…
Mapping college students’ location knowledge of environmental events
This study analyses college students’ locational knowledge of environmental events, based on empirical evidence from Ethiopia and the USA – countries that occupy opposite margins on the socioeconomic, cultural and technological spectrum. Based on geo‐referenced data generated through a map‐embedded questionnaire survey from 200 students in higher learning institution, we employed multiple ring buffer analyses and standard distance functions of Ar…
Challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming environmental education into the curricula of teachers' colleges in Ethiopia
Lack of environmental awareness is one of the underlying causes of severe environmental degradation in Ethiopia. As teachers' colleges are a seedbed of such awareness, assessment of college curricula should shed light on the possibilities they offer to develop capacities to address environmental degradation. This small‐scale study is based on the assessment of the curricula of the Kotebe and St Mary's teachers' colleges, Ethiopia, and the knowled…
Challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming environmental education into the curricula of teachers' colleges in Ethiopia
Lack of environmental awareness is one of the underlying causes of severe environmental degradation in Ethiopia. As teachers' colleges are a seedbed of such awareness, assessment of college curricula should shed light on the possibilities they offer to develop capacities to address environmental degradation. This small‐scale study is based on the assessment of the curricula of the Kotebe and St Mary's teachers' colleges, Ethiopia, and the knowled…
Mapping college students’ location knowledge of environmental events
This study analyses college students’ locational knowledge of environmental events, based on empirical evidence from Ethiopia and the USA – countries that occupy opposite margins on the socioeconomic, cultural and technological spectrum. Based on geo‐referenced data generated through a map‐embedded questionnaire survey from 200 students in higher learning institution, we employed multiple ring buffer analyses and standard distance functions of Ar…
Cartographic Propaganda in the Age of Social Media
Cartographic propaganda is a conscious manipulation of a map to influence the reader’s belief. Countries often use it to claim disputed territories or project fear over opposing nations or political alliances, but little is known about the manipulations of maps along internal sociolinguistic and political fault lines on social media platforms. The author investigated the nature and intent of propaganda maps in Ethiopia before and after the 2018 g…
Capital mobility and institutional inertia
This article draws on Ethiopia’s record of 23 documented capital centers across two millennia to develop a spatial-energetic framework for explaining transitions between mobile and fixed political centers. Capitals accumulate institutional mass that favors persistence, while environmental, geopolitical, and demographic pressures generate countervailing forces; processual conditions determine whether those pressures can be translated into actual m…
Sociology (3 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Empirical evidence (2 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Geospatial analysis (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Buganda (1 works) · capital mobility (1 works)