What spatial environments mean

Tenbrink, Thora

doi:10.5311/josis.2020.20.662

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“…The first three items on the list, however, are more promising from a linguistic point of view. There is abundant literature on spatial location terminology and concepts [49], at least in English. As spatial prepositions constitute a closed set, they can be examined in their entirety [45] (provided that the language in question is sufficiently well documented), covering a vast territory in the realm of spatial language.…”

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“…For instance, insights have been gained into how humans understand space and spatial relationships, how they manage to identify the location of objects and navigate to places, the extent to which functionality, salience, and relevance come into play, and much else -a rich array of insights on spatial cognition based on linguistic study. However, despite the fundamental recognition that humans relate to the space around them from the day they are born, linguistic research hasn't invested nearly as much effort into addressing the nature of this relationship, that is: what the space around us actually means to us as humans, and how this meaningfulness is represented in language [49].…”

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Linguistic expression of place appreciation in English and Welsh

Tenbrink¹,

Williams

2022

JOSIS

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Despite the prominence of 'place' notions in human geography and beyond, the language of place is surprisingly poorly understood. Platial research addresses human relations to places beyond the purely (geometric and cognitive) spatial aspects, whose linguistic features are well researched. This paper offers an in-depth case study of platial discourse in English and Welsh, contributing to a better understanding of how people use language to describe their attachment to a place. We asked 72 people to describe three local areas in North Wales in terms of what makes each one special and distinctive, along with further questions. We explore the responses in terms of a range of qualitative linguistic features indicating aspects such as proximity and ownership, identify a range of semantic categories relevant to the notion of place, and offer an exhaustive analysis of how one particularly popular local feature - castles - is referred to in our data. Beyond identifying how the three local areas differ with respect to the platial attachment associated with them, this paper offers lists of keywords for each of the identified platial semantic categories as a basis for future studies in the field. Our findings further suggest that ownership terminology, time references, and spatial inferences frequently characterise expressions of place appreciation, in different ways in English and Welsh.

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Linguistic expression of place appreciation in English and Welsh

Tenbrink¹,

Williams

2022

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“…In the spatial domain, insights gained in this way include culture-dependent ways of conceptualising object configurations [ 44 , 45 ], key features of route concepts [ 46 ], and profession-based differences in understanding spaces [ 47 ]. However, the linguistic expression of place attachment requires further scrutiny [ 48 ].…”

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Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Tenbrink,

Willcock

2023

PLoS ONE

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Climate change is a global threat to ecosystems and the people that depend on them. However, the perceived threat of climate change may vary spatially. Previous research suggests that inhabitants in rural areas show higher levels of place attachment (associating meaning with a specific place) than urbanites, possibly because rural people depend more directly on their local environment. This can shape perceptions and behaviours, such as enhanced willingness to engage in landscape preservation. Here we ask if it also makes rural people perceive climate change as a greater threat, using a representative sample of 1,071 survey respondents from across the United Kingdom (UK) to provide first-order insights. We found that, whilst indicators of place attachment were indeed more frequent in rural areas, the perceived threat of climate change in the most rural locations was lower. We discuss possible explanations for this pattern (including lower levels of awareness of the anthropogenic causes of climate change, lessened first-hand experiences of climate change impacts due to higher levels of regulating ecosystem services, and higher levels of resilience in rural areas related to a closer relationship with nature), and call for further research to investigate this.

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“…The computational tools we develop and apply are profoundly important, and linking these to cognition is essential [5]. New data sources such as geo-tagged social media can provide us with different ways of exploring such cognition in a bottom up way [10] and perhaps contribute to more nuanced considerations of the ways in which the environment is represented [14]. Analytical approaches to deal with large volumes of data, which are increasingly generated by the crowd [2] or Internet of Things sensors, encompass geospatial artificial intelligence, machine learning [9,15] and visual analytics [1], and must communicate and consider uncertainties [7].…”

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“…Analytical approaches to deal with large volumes of data, which are increasingly generated by the crowd [2] or Internet of Things sensors, encompass geospatial artificial intelligence, machine learning [9,15] and visual analytics [1], and must communicate and consider uncertainties [7]. These have paved the way for more efficient decision support systems, for example in agriculture [13], and for solving ecological problems [5,14,3]. Analysing and influencing mobility, across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales is a crucial challenge if we are to create a sustainable, and not simply an optimised but profoundly unequal, future [16,12,11].…”

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JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature

Adams¹,

Dodge²,

Purves³

2020

JOSIS

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JOSIS' 10 th anniversary special feature JOSIS, as Mike Worboys put it in his editorial introducing the first issue ten years ago, is "an online publication and all articles are free to access for any person" [17]. In that first issue, Michael Goodchild set out his view of the progress that GIScience had made in the last twenty years, and made some predictions about where the subject might find itself in the future [6]. Amongst these were the ubiquity of positional information; the role of citizens in producing, and not just consuming, geographic information; the possibilities and limits of real-time, continuous monitoring of geographic phenomena; a move from two dimensional representations to methods which capture the third, fourth and fifth dimensions; and the challenges of education. Ten years on, these predictions are still relevant, and indeed (as so often the case with Goodchild) startlingly prescient. JOSIS has published papers addressing many of these areas, with a strong focus on methodological and theoretical contributions.However, since JOSIS' launch the world has also changed. Climate change has become a climate emergency, biodiversity and nature's contributions to people have been recognized as important contributors to Sustainable Development Goals 1 , easy access to locationenabled devices in many people's pockets has changed the way that societies operate, and most recently, a global pandemic has impacted on all of our lives. All of these events bring into sharp focus the ways in which the data, technologies, and methods we work on can be used for good. However, they should also make us remember that geographical information can be used to reinforce inequalities, and that the use of technology is never neutral. With this in mind, we asked all members of our editorial board to write vision pieces showing the diversity of ways in which our field can contribute to both basic science and major societal challenges. Each of these pieces aims not only to review, as Goodchild did, where we are, but also to say something about where we are going.Of course, when we sent our invitations we had no inkling of the global crisis which was about to unfold. Some of the pieces make reference to this, some do not. But COVID-19 put things into focus for many of us in academia. Just as in many other walks of life, for a few it was an opportunity, for many a struggle, and for some, far too many, a tragedy. COVID-19 brings home to many of us who are more privileged, what uncertainty really means, and shines a light on the incredible luxury of mobility. As we attempt to deal with it through technology, the real implications of privacy and location awareness, and ways in which these can be misused are more important than ever. And the implications of how we communicate even seemingly simple scientific information used in making literally life 1 https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

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What spatial environments mean

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Linguistic expression of place appreciation in English and Welsh

Linguistic expression of place appreciation in English and Welsh

Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature

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