Geoinformation & Society Research Group
Under construction until mid-January, 2026
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Digital Geodata
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Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
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Remote Sensing
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Qualitative forms of Spatial Knowledge

Prof. Dr. Blake Walker
Professorinnen und Professoren
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PD Dr. Klaus Geiselhart
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Dr. Tobias Häberer
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Dr. David Spenger
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Leah Burgard
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Sarah Jelinski
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Andreas Neuner
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Lama Ranjous
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Anna Stadlmeier
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Research Projects
- Geodata for Human Rights (GeoDatRights)
- Resilienz durch Kulturlandschaft im Klimawandel (REKKE)
- Grundwasser Isoscapes (IsoGW)
- Digitales Demenzregister (DigiDEM) – Kooperation
- Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology: Spatial Analysis of Cardiovascular Environments (PURE SPACE)
- Violence in Brazil: Analysis of Community Environments (VIBRANCE)
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2025
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Editorial - Digitale Geographiedidaktik außerschulischer Lernorte
In: GW-Unterricht : eine Zeitschrift des "Forums GW - Verein für Geographie und Wirtschaftserziehung" 1 (2025), S. 1-2
ISSN: 2077-1517
DOI: 10.1553/gw-unterricht176s1
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Applied Digital Humanities: Calling for a more engaged Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) (Universität Bielefeld, 3. März 2025 - 7. März 2025)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14942990
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Der GeoExplorer: ein Werkzeug für die Gestaltung ortsbezogener digitaler Lernerfahrungen
In: GW-Unterricht : eine Zeitschrift des "Forums GW - Verein für Geographie und Wirtschaftserziehung" 1 (2025), S. 78-84
ISSN: 2077-1517
DOI: 10.1553/gw-unterricht176s78
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Digital unterstützte Exkursionen: Konzeption und Durchführung mit dem GeoExplorer
In: Geographische Rundschau 77 (2025), S. 16-19
ISSN: 0016-7460
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Social factors, health policy, and environment: implications for cardiovascular disease across the globe
In: European Heart Journal 46 (2025), S. 2959-2973
ISSN: 0195-668X
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf212
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How to assess neighborhood resilience in the context of public health emergencies? Insights from an indicator assessment in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany
In: Cities & Health (2025)
ISSN: 2374-8834
DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2440980
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Urban green spaces and mental wellbeing: A methodology for measuring structural characteristics of individual-level green space exposure and its associations with wellbeing
In: Geomatica 77 (2025), Art.Nr.: 100051
ISSN: 1195-1036
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomat.2025.100051
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Wälder als umstrittene Gesundheitsräume im Klimawandel: Wohlbefinden und Konfliktpotenzial in der Region Bamberg
In: Standort (2025)
ISSN: 0174-3635
DOI: 10.1007/s00548-025-01002-7
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2024
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Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods
Bielefeld: 2024
(Digital Humanities Research)
ISBN: 978-3-8394-6918-7
DOI: 10.14361/9783839469187
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Spatial concepts, approaches and methods for digital humanities-an introduction to the book
Bielefeld University, 2024
ISBN: 9783839469187
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Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods for Digital Humanities – An Introduction to the Book
In: Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (Hrsg.): Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2024, S. 7-12 (Digital Humanities Research, Bd.8)
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6918-3
Open Access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/22/3a/2a/oa9783839469187xd0q4zVqzoIrR.pdf
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Konzepträume: Ein Vorschlag zur besseren Abstimmung von Theoriehintergrund und digitalen Datenanalysen
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Passau, 26. Februar 2024 - 1. März 2024)
In: Joëllle Weis, Estelle Bunout, Thomas Haider, Patrick Helling (Hrsg.): Book of Abstracts 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10698442
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Rendering Cliché? Visual Consumption of Video Games as Virtual-Space Leisure Activities
In: Michael Morawski, Sebastian Wolff-Seidel (Hrsg.): Gaming and Geography. A Multi-perspective Approach to Understanding the Impacts on Geography (Education), Cham: Springer, 2024, S. 137-158 (Key Challenges in Geography)
ISBN: 978-3-031-42259-1
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42260-7_7
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Effiziente Zusammenarbeit in den Digital Humanities. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus drei Jahren Anwendung von Scrum in Forschungskontexten
In: Fabian Cremer, Swantje Dogunke, Anna Maria Neubert, Thorsten Wübbena (Hrsg.): Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities. Zur klugen Gestaltung der Zusammenarbeit, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2024, S. 153-184 (Digital Humanities Research, Bd.9)
ISBN: 9783837669671
DOI: 10.14361/9783839469675-006
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Placing wellbeing: Distant reading approaches for exploratory placial data analysis
In: Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (Hrsg.): Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2024, S. 135-150 (Digital Humanities Research, Bd.8)
ISBN: 9783839469187
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Räumliche Erreichbarkeit von Gedächtnisambulanzen – Eine geographische Analyse im Rahmen von digiDEM Bayern
In: Gesundheitswesen 86 (2024), S. 263-273
ISSN: 0941-3790
DOI: 10.1055/a-2233-6168
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Petrichor and positionality: Occasion for a situated spatial epidemiology in the digital humanities
In: Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (Hrsg.): Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2024, S. 63-79 (Digital Humanities Research, Bd.8)
ISBN: 9783839469187
DOI: 10.14361/9783839469187-005
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2023
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The utility of street view imagery in environmental audits for runnability
In: Applied Geography 162 (2023), Art.Nr.: 103167
ISSN: 0143-6228
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103167
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143622823002989
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Spatiotemporal Patterns of Cyclist Collisions in Germany: Variations in Frequency, Severity of Injury, and Type of Collision in 2019
In: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (2023)
ISSN: 1874-463X
DOI: 10.1007/s12061-022-09476-w
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Tracing Individual Experiences of Everyday Greenness: Initial Results from the SpaceLog Mobile App
In: GI_Forum 11 (2023), S. 47-58
ISSN: 2308-1708
DOI: 10.1553/giscience2023_02_s47
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The Nuremberg Stations of the Cross. Enriching On-Site Experiences of a Historical Pathway by the “FAU GeoExplorer” App.
In: Münster S., Pattee A., Kröber C., Niebling F. (Hrsg.): Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries. UHDL 2023, Cham: Springer, 2023, S. 207-219 (Communications in Computer and Information Science, Bd.1853)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38871-2_12
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38871-2_12
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Co-creation of Place-Based Content for Field Trips and Public Trails by Geo-Content Management
Fourth International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL’23) (Dortmund, 19. September 2023 - 21. September 2023)
In: René Westerholt, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Hrsg.): Transforming Places. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL’23) 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8286273
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2022
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COVID-19 incidence in border regions: spatiotemporal patterns and border control measures
In: Public Health 202 (2022), S. 80-83
ISSN: 0033-3506
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.11.006
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WebGIS meets E-Learning. Werkzeuge für digital unterstützte geographische Exkursionen.
In: Leena Bröll, Julius Erdmann, Björn Egbert (Hrsg.): Bildung auf Distanz: (Medien-)Technologie, Politik und Lebenswelten in aktuellen Lernprozessen, Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, 2022, S. 43-54 (e-culture, Bd.29)
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Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis
In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9 (2022), Art.Nr.: 265
ISSN: 2662-9992
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01264-8
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Explorative spatial analysis of the function of landscape in video games.
In: Burghardt M, Dieckmann L, Steyer T, Trilcke P, Walkowski N, Weis J, Wuttke U (Hrsg.): Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities., Wolfenbüttel: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Melusina Press, 2022 (Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Sonderbände, Bd.5)
DOI: 10.17175/sb005_009
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Geodaten quantitativ, aber kritisch analysieren – die Methode der explorativen räumlichen Datenanalyse am Beispiel von COVID-19 in Brasilien
In: Dammann F, Michel B (Hrsg.): Handbuch Kritisches Kartieren, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, S. 307-324 (Sozial- und Kulturgeographie, Bd.51)
DOI: 10.1515/9783839459584-021
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Placial-Discursive Topologies of Violence: Volunteered Geographic Information and the Reproduction of Violent Places in Recife, Brazil
In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11 (2022), Art.Nr.: 500
ISSN: 2220-9964
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi11100500
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Implementing urban canopy height derived from a TanDEM-X-DEM: An expert survey and case study
In: Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 187 (2022), S. 345-361
ISSN: 0924-2716
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.02.015
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Experiences of place-bound sociality amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of environment-related coping strategies
In: Erdkunde 76 (2022)
ISSN: 0014-0015
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.03.02
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Neighborhood Greenspace and Socioeconomic Risk are Associated with Diabetes Risk at the Sub-neighborhood Scale: Results from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study
In: Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (2022)
ISSN: 1099-3460
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-022-00630-w
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Modelling eye-level visibility of urban green space: Optimising city-wide point-based viewshed computations through prototyping
25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science “Artificial Intelligence in the service of Geospatial Technologies” (Vilnius, 14. Juni 2022 - 17. Juni 2022)
In: Parseliunas E, Mansourian A, Partsinevelos P, Suziedelyte-Visockiene J (Hrsg.): 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science “Artificial Intelligence in the service of Geospatial Technologies” 2022
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-3-27-2022
URL: https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/3/27/2022/
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2021
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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria
In: Land 10 (2021), Art.Nr.: 443
ISSN: 2073-445X
DOI: 10.3390/land10050443
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/5/443
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Spatial-temporal patterns of homicide in socioeconomically deprived settings: violence in Alagoas, Brazil, 2006‒2015
In: Global Health Action 14 (2021), Art.Nr.: 1952752
ISSN: 1654-9880
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2021.1952752
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Armed conflict and cross-border asymmetries in urban development: A contextualized spatial analysis of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gisenyi, Rwanda
In: Land Use Policy 109 (2021), Art.Nr.: 105711
ISSN: 0264-8377
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105711
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837721004348
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2020
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Simulating Urban Land Expansion in the Context of Land Use Planning in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria
In: Geo Journal (2020)
ISSN: 0343-2521
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-020-10317-x
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Perceived differences in the (re)production of environmental deprivation between sub-populations: A study combining citizens’ perceptions with remote-sensed and administrative data
In: Building and Environment 174 (2020), Art.Nr.: 106769
ISSN: 0360-1323
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106769
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A multimethod approach for county-scale geospatial analysis of emerging infectious diseases: a cross-sectional case study of COVID-19 incidence in Germany
In: International Journal of Health Geographics 19 (2020), Art.Nr.: 32
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-020-00225-1
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Qualitative field observation of pedestrian injury hotspots: A mixed-methods approach for developing built- and socioeconomic-environmental risk signatures
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (2020), Art.Nr.: 2066
ISSN: 1661-7827
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17062066
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Towards a Situated Spatial Epidemiology of Violence: A Placially-Informed Geospatial Analysis of Homicide in Alagoas, Brazil
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (2020)
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17249283
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/24/9283
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GIS-based multicriteria evaluation for earthquake response: a case study of expert opinion in Vancouver, Canada
In: Natural Hazards (2020)
ISSN: 0921-030X
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04390-1
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Cancer resection rates, socioeconomic deprivation, and geographical access to surgery among urban, suburban, and rural populations across Canada
In: PLoS ONE 15 (2020), Art.Nr.: e0240444
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240444
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Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation among Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis in Five Canadian Cities Using the CLSA
In: Journal of Aging and Environment (2020)
ISSN: 2689-2618
DOI: 10.1080/26892618.2020.1734138
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2019
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Epidemiological and spatial characteristics of interpersonal physical violence in a Brazilian city: A comparative study of violent injury hotspots in familial versus non-familial settings, 2012-2014
In: PLoS ONE 14 (2019), S. 1-19
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208304
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Land Cover Change in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria: Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Land Use Planning
In: Sustainability 11 (2019), Art.Nr.: 1313
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su11051313
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/5/1313
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A GIS Analysis of East Asian Care Gaps in Residential and Assisted Living Facilities in Vancouver, Canada
In: Journal of Housing for the Elderly 33 (2019), S. 103-119
ISSN: 0276-3893
DOI: 10.1080/02763893.2018.1534177
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The Local Food Environment and Obesity: Evidence from Three Cities
In: Obesity 28 (2019), S. 40-45
ISSN: 1930-7381
DOI: 10.1002/oby.22614
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Volunteer First Responders for Optimizing Management of Mass Casualty Incidents.
In: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 13 (2019), S. 287-294
ISSN: 1935-7893
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2018.56
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2018
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Cluster analysis for the derivation of agents for ABMs in the context of an ageing , super-diverse population : a mixed-methods approach
AGILE 2018 (Lund, 12. Juni 2018 - 15. Juni 2018)
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2017
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Delineation of Spatial Variability in the Temperature–Mortality Relationship on Extremely Hot Days in Greater Vancouver, Canada
In: Environmental Health Perspectives 125 (2017), S. 66-75
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.1289/EHP224
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The Heat Exposure Integrated Deprivation Index (HEIDI): A data-driven approach to quantifying neighborhood risk during extreme hot weather
In: Environment International 109 (2017), S. 42 - 52
ISSN: 0160-4120
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.09.011
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412017312394
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Change detection in bone histology using raster-based geographical information systems.
In: Forensic Science International 277 (2017), S. 57-58
ISSN: 0379-0738
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Socioeconomic disparities in head and neck cancer patients' access to cancer treatment centers
In: Rural and Remote Health 17 (2017)
ISSN: 1445-6354
DOI: 10.22605/RRH4210
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2016
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Disparities in Paediatric Injury Mortality between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Populations in British Columbia, 2001–2009
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13 (2016), Art.Nr.: 651
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13070651
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/7/651
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Socio-economic deprivation: a significant determinant affecting stage of oral cancer diagnosis and survival
In: BMC Cancer 16 (2016), Art.Nr.: 569
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2579-4
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Spatial distribution of individuals with symptoms of depression in a periurban area in Lima: an example from Peru
In: Annals of Epidemiology 26 (2016), S. 93-99.e2
ISSN: 1047-2797
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.11.002
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047279715004536
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Making connections in a tough data scene
In: Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien 60 (2016), S. 285-287
ISSN: 0008-3658
DOI: 10.1111/cag.12296
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A description of methods for deriving air pollution land use regression model predictor variables from remote sensing data in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
In: Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien 60 (2016), S. 333-345
ISSN: 0008-3658
DOI: 10.1111/cag.12279
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2015
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Intentional injury and violence in Cape Town, South Africa: an epidemiological analysis of trauma admissions data
In: Global Health Action 8 (2015), Art.Nr.: 27016
ISSN: 1654-9716
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.27016
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The Pen or the Sword: A Situated Spatial Analysis of Graffiti and Violent Injury in Vancouver, British Columbia
In: Professional Geographer 67 (2015), S. 608-619
ISSN: 0033-0124
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.970843
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Suburbanisation of oral cavity cancers: Evidence from a geographically-explicit observational study of incidence trends in British Columbia, Canada, 1981-2010
In: BMC Public Health 15 (2015), Art.Nr.: 758
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2111-9
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2014
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Population-based incidence trends of oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancers by sex among the poorest and underprivileged populations
In: BMC Cancer 14 (2014), Art.Nr.: 316
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-316
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A GIS-based spatiotemporal analysis of violent trauma hotspots in Vancouver, Canada: Identification, contextualisation and intervention
In: BMJ Open 4 (2014), Art.Nr.: e003642
ISSN: 2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003642
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A multi-criteria evaluation model of earthquake vulnerability in Victoria, British Columbia
In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014), S. 1209-1222
ISSN: 0921-030X
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1240-2
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2013
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A qualitative framework for evaluating participation on the Geoweb
In: URISA Journal 25 (2013), S. 15-24
ISSN: 1045-8077
URL: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84897910807&origin=inward
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2012
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Environmental correlates with violent injury
In: Geomatica 66 (2012), S. 269-278
ISSN: 1195-1036
DOI: 10.5623/cig2012-053
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