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On November 3rd, long before U.S. voters learned the results of the 2020 presidential election, some digital privacy advocates scored …
When I first heard about the EthicalGEO initiative, I thought of the vast range of challenges that exist within the …
Property ownership data management is one of the primary applications for a geographic information system (GIS). My first GIS job …
What gets measured gets changed The tradeoff of privacy for societal value is a false choice. We can compute useful …
We are now well into the second half of the summer season and it has been months since the novel …
Who is a geographer? What are the competencies necessary to practice geography? The impact of geography on our lives is …
In 2015, the oceans made an unexpected appearance into the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …
Ethical issues in geography mean very different things across different contexts. I tend to think of them from an international …
After protesters gathered in at least 140 cities across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd on …
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on Michael Rozier’s post, Bad Data Always Leads to Bad Ethics, where he underscores the importance …
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that a budget is a moral document. There is always genuine disagreement how to …
The American Geographical Society (AGS) and its EthicalGEO Initiative has been awarded a grant by the Henry Luce Foundation to …