Neo-Environmental Determinism

Meyer, William B.; Guss, Dylan M.T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54232-4_5

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“…This diurnal change of temperature can only alter the weather at short span of time whereas its permanent change throughout the year and continue this time span change the climate permanently. In this scenario, Griffith Tylor's environmental determinism school of thought confirms such change of phenomenon [35]. If it happens continuously from gradual to maximized intensity in terms of time and space, it refers to global warming.…”

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confidence: 86%

Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad, Pakistan

Waseem

Khokhar

Naqvi

et al. 2021

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Urban centers are expanding rapidly due to quickly-increasing population which results in microclimate change due to lack of urban planning. Factors like degradation of green areas, trees, and vegetation are defining a new regime of urban environment giving rise to a lack of drinking water and lowering water tables. Consequently, unplanned urban sprawl with all its varied facets is having adverse impacts on the environment. Rapid variations in some of its climatic factors in the immediate vicinity are alarming and need to redress at war footings. This paper is an endeavor to present a hypothesis that urban sprawl plays a vital role in impacting and the influencing the microclimate of the city or the area. In this research, geospatial approaches were adopted to identify urban sprawl. Rise in land surface temperature (LST) for the last 25 years (from 1990 to 2016) has been highlighted using Landsat (5 TM, 7 ETM+ and 8 TIRS) satellite images. Weather data collected from Meteorological Department is used to identify temperature rising trends. Result of the research clearly indicates that rapid urban sprawl has adverse impacts on microclimate by increasing LST. Built-up area has been changed from 178 to 477 sq. km within the years of 1990 to 2016. Vegetated area has decreased from 770 to 602 sq. km. Water areas have been decreased from 524 to 360 sq. km within the span of last 26 years. The bare land has increased from 494 sq. km to 742 sq. km. LST in winters has risen from 17 °C to 23 °C and at times shot up to 31 °C, which is alarming. Annual mean air temperature increased by 3 °C to 4 °C from the 1980s to 2016. During summers, the average air temperature rose to a startling 33 °C from 28 °C and LST has had a steady rise from 28.4 °C to 35 °C. The alarming urban sprawl in relation to temperature rise warrants measures which are required to plan the urban planning, forestation, and ecological measures to mitigate the disastrous trends which may result in flash floods, landslides, soil erosion and sediment transport endangering downstream reservoirs, water quality and depletion in ground water table in the valley.

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confidence: 86%

Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad, Pakistan

Waseem

Khokhar

Naqvi

et al. 2021

Land

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“…30 Meanwhile, geographers developed a unique sensitivity to all forms of overly deterministic thought due to their perceived association with Imperialism and, later, Fascism. 31 For historians, Adams's idiosyncratic entropic history failed on a number of fronts. First his understanding of entropy was considered outdated.…”

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Energy, history, and the humanities: against a new determinism

Turnbull

2021

History and Technology

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The study of past 'energy transitions' are being reinterpreted as possible guides to a low-carbon future. But little is known about the historians who shaped how we understand our transition into a predominantly hydrocarbon-based energy system. Before energy history emerged as a subfield, historians John Nef, Edward Wrigley, and Rolf Sieferle already explained the Industrial Revolution as a result of coal use. In unleashing industrialism, they argued that coal took on an historically decisive role. These notions of energy determinism will be the central concern of this paper. In revisiting their lives and work, it will be argued that in pursuit of a low-carbon future, we should not ignore the grave concerns posed by fossil energy use nor slip into a crude form of energy determinism.

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“…Physio-environmental determinism is explained how the physical environment factors follow the developmental paths of societies and states (Judkins Smith and Keys 2008; Meyer and Guss 2017; Nayak and Jeffrey 2013). The origin of environmental determinism lies in the work of Charles Darwin (Johnston 1996).…”

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Does Physio-environmental Determinism Influence the Infrastructural Development of Railway Stations?

Roy

Mitra

2022

Journal of Infrastructure Development

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The main aim of the article is to understand the role of physiographical aspects and attributes in the infrastructural development of railway stations. Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System techniques have been used for delineating physiographic factors and data of social interfaces like passengers’ mobility collected from the railway stations. A robust Synthetic Indicator has been used to classify railway stations. The ordinal regression model has run between physio-environmental attributes and Robust Synthetic Indicator. Due to its unique valley and ridge topography and newly developed railway infrastructure, Phenomenological evidence is collected from Tripura, North-eastern state of India. Very few studies have been done addressing the development of railway stations with physio-environmental viability. The study reveals that the physical environment is a significant determining factor, but passenger mobility has a more decisive influence on the infrastructural development of railway stations in Tripura. Infrastructure-driven materialistic possibilism has been proposed as a philosophical model of the infrastructural development of railway stations.

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Neo-Environmental Determinism

Cited by 8 publications

References 65 publications

Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad, Pakistan

Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad, Pakistan

Energy, history, and the humanities: against a new determinism

Does Physio-environmental Determinism Influence the Infrastructural Development of Railway Stations?

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