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Citizens as Environmental Sensors: Noise Mapping and Assessment on Lemnos Island, Greece, Using VGI and Web Technologies 公民作为环境传感器：利用 VGI 和网络技术绘制和评估希腊莱姆诺斯岛的噪音地图

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.s.sof.15.2.106.119

Sofianos Sofianopoulos, Stefanos Stigas, Efstathios Stratakos, Konstantinos Tserpes, A. Faka, Christos Chalkias

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Gamification in Geography. Use, appropriateness and proposals ac-cording to university students in Spain 地理学中的游戏化。西班牙大学生对游戏化的使用、适宜性和建议

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.a.mor.15.2.094.105

Álvaro-Francisco Morote, María Hernández-Hernández

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Education for sustainable mobility in Slovenia: Using gamification to influence the travel habits of children 斯洛文尼亚的可持续交通教育：利用游戏化影响儿童的出行习惯

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-04-21 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.b.rog.15.2.081.093

Boštjan Rogelj, Tatjana Resnik Planinc, Blaž Repe, Mojca Ilc Klun

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Analysing leadership in tourism education research: A scientometric perspective 分析旅游教育研究中的领导力：科学计量学视角

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.m.ang.15.1.067.080

Aitor Martínez-García, Miquel Àngel Coll-Ramis, Patricia Horrach-Rosselló

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Homeless migrants’ commoning practices. “Our House” solidarity project in Athens’ Omonia square 无家可归的移民的共同做法。雅典奥莫尼亚广场的 "我们的房子 "团结项目

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-03-30 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.c.tsa.15.1.054.063

Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

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Accessibility, Rural depopulation & the Modified Areal Unit Problem: An analysis of mainland Greece 交通便利性、农村人口减少与修正面积单位问题：希腊大陆分析

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.g.pan.15.1.042.053

G. Panagiotopoulos, D. Kaliampakos

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Uncovering regional typologies in Europe in terms of interregional and intraregional direct investment flows 从区域间和区域内直接投资流动的角度揭示欧洲的区域类型

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2024-02-25 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.m.ada.15.1.011.025

Maria Adamakou, D. Kallioras, P. Manetos, L. Topaloglou

{"title":"Uncovering regional typologies in Europe in terms of interregional and intraregional direct investment flows","authors":"Maria Adamakou, D. Kallioras, P. Manetos, L. Topaloglou","doi":"10.48088/ejg.m.ada.15.1.011.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.ada.15.1.011.025","url":null,"abstract":"Information regarding direct investment flows across European space is scarce, and in most of the cases at the national level. Such a scarcity limits the capacity to undertake the required analyses and to derive the corresponding conclusions on the interrelations among European regions. This is especially so considering that Europe is gradually moving from a “space of States” to a “State of spaces” and from a “space of places’’ to a “space of flows’’. In a nutshell, the pure essence of the European economic integration process is the gradual “thinning” and “melting” of (the artificial) border impediments. Thus, as the process of European economic integration is in full swing, European territories have been experiencing a period of unprecedented change, being transformed into integral parts of the European economic space. The paper uncovers regional typologies in Europe in terms of interregional and intraregional (NUTS 2 level) direct investment flows in year 2018, the year prior to the eruption of the COVID19 pandemic. To this end, the paper compiles an O-D matrix for interregional and intraregional direct investment flows in Europe, constructs tailor-made clustering indicators and employs the k-means clustering technique.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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OSM Sidewalkreator: A QGIS plugin for an automated drawing of sidewalk networks for OpenStreetMap OSM 人行道创建器：为 OpenStreetMap 自动绘制人行道网络的 QGIS 插件

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.k.ves.14.4.066.084

Kauê de Moraes Vestena, S. Camboim, Daniel Rodrigues dos Santos

{"title":"OSM Sidewalkreator: A QGIS plugin for an automated drawing of sidewalk networks for OpenStreetMap","authors":"Kauê de Moraes Vestena, S. Camboim, Daniel Rodrigues dos Santos","doi":"10.48088/ejg.k.ves.14.4.066.084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.k.ves.14.4.066.084","url":null,"abstract":"Sidewalks are a relevant part of the living space in urban environments but are still rarely mapped. In recent years, the mapping of sidewalks has grown in importance among the OSM and academic communities as a matter of concern for many UN SDGs. To cover this gap, we propose a GitHub-hosted, fully open-source QGIS Plugin entitled \"OSM SidewalKreator\" to automatically draw the geometries of sidewalks for OSM crossings and curb crossing interfaces. The plugin workflow encompasses the steps of input area selection; data fetching, data cleaning, sidewalk geometries generation; crossings and kerbs generation; optional sidewalk splitting; and data exporting. Furthermore, the tool gives the user the capacity to have control over the process. Our tests revealed that the proposed method embodied by the plugin surpasses the manual process in many contexts, highlighting completeness, topological and thematic accuracies. We conclude that deepening, improving, and increasing the amount of open sidewalk mapping, mainly in the widely available OSM, can be a valuable asset to improve the development of accessibility and mobility worldwide.","PeriodicalId":38156,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Geography","volume":"15 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Options for micro-mobility data visualization 微型交通数据可视化选项

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.n.kok.14.4.046.052

Nikola Koktavá, Jiří Horák

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The Role of the Territory in an Educating City: Two Italian Laboratory Examples of Participatory Urban Planning 地区在教育城市中的作用:参与式城市规划的两个意大利实验案例

European Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.48088/ejg.s.mon.14.4.037.045

Stefania Montebelli

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