Key papers in Geography, Planning and Development
Pofolia’s corpus holds 74 papers from the Geography, Planning and Development subfield (2012–2024). The list below starts with the most cited.
Most cited
Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Corwin Press eBooks · 2012 · FWCI 2067.84 · 7,154 citations
Today's students represent a fundamental discontinuity from previous generations due to the rapid dissemination of digital technology in the late 20th century.
What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks · 2018 · FWCI 404.98 · 5,925 citations
Global solid waste generation is projected to increase by 70% from 2.01 billion tons annually today to 3.40 billion tons by 2050.
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Environmental Humanities · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 453.84 · 2,905 citations · Open access
This paper argues that while human activities have long impacted the planet, the current era is defined by unprecedented scale, rate, synchronicity, and complexity of these changes, necessitating new conceptual frameworks beyond the 'Anthropocene'. It proposes that understanding these systemic, interconnected environmental crises requires acknowledging the agency of diverse species assemblages and biotic/abiotic forces, not just humans.
Geographic Information Systems
Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book series · 2020 · FWCI 1294.82 · 1,768 citations
This chapter introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as computer systems designed for managing, analyzing, and presenting geographically located data.
Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness
Feminist Media Studies · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · 1,452 citations
Simone Browne's "Dark Matters" re-imagines surveillance studies by centering Blackness and its historical relationship with surveillance technologies and practices.
Principles of Categorization
2024 · FWCI 1506.40 · 1,187 citations
A purported ancient Chinese encyclopedia, the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, presents a bizarre and arbitrary taxonomy of the animal kingdom.
Spatial Data Science
2023 · FWCI 495.21 · 1,097 citations
This book introduces fundamental concepts of spatial data science, covering geometry representation, coordinate systems, and the implications of Earth's curvature for analysis.
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
2016 · FWCI 230.55 · 1,070 citations
This work proposes 'geontopower' as a new theory of power, distinct from Foucauldian biopolitics, that regulates the distinction between Life and Nonlife through figures like the Desert, the Animist, and the Virus.
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Ethnos · 2014 · Q1 · FWCI 168.29 · 946 citations
This work proposes a new anthropological framework that moves beyond human-centric perspectives to include the agency and thought processes of non-human entities, specifically forests.
Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data
2019 · FWCI 124.54 · 857 citations
This third edition of 'Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data' is a comprehensive textbook updated with new standards, practices, and methodologies for evaluating maps derived from remote sensing technologies.
On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Open Collections · 2017 · FWCI 180.61 · 835 citations
This article proposes dating the Anthropocene from the colonization of the Americas, arguing this shift would better incorporate Indigenous knowledges and highlight the ongoing nature of dispossession and environmental transformation.
Decolonizing posthumanist geographies
Cultural Geographies · 2013 · Q1 · FWCI 65.34 · 830 citations
This paper critiques how posthumanist geography, while aiming to decolonize, often reproduces colonial knowledge systems through universalizing claims. It identifies two specific Eurocentric performances within the field.
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking
Environment and Planning D Society and Space · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 152.70 · 822 citations · Open access
This paper proposes an 'oceanic thinking' and 'wet ontology' to better conceptualize volume in geographical studies, moving beyond static, horizontal, and abstract models.
Google Earth Engine Applications Since Inception: Usage, Trends, and Potential
Remote Sensing · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 197.97 · 763 citations · Open access
A review of 300 papers published between 2011 and mid-2017 reveals Google Earth Engine (GEE) is widely adopted across diverse fields, but its use is dominated by institutions and study sites in developed nations.
Annals of the American association of geographers
interactions · 2016 · Q4 · FWCI 253.02 · 763 citations
The journal title 'Annals of the American Association of Geographers' has been in use since January 1, 2016, following a name change of the associated organization.
Digital turn, digital geographies?
Progress in Human Geography · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 175.47 · 743 citations
Geography is undergoing a 'digital turn,' characterized by an intensifying relationship between the discipline and the digital realm.
Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) · 2017 · FWCI 80.12 · 738 citations
This work explores speculative ethics by examining care within non-human contexts, moving beyond anthropocentric views.
Multispecies Studies
Environmental Humanities · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 142.47 · 738 citations · Open access
Multispecies studies is an emerging field in the humanities and social sciences that uses passionate immersion in diverse life forms to foster new understandings and accountabilities.
Assemblages and Actor‐networks: Rethinking Socio‐material Power, Politics and Space
Geography Compass · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 170.61 · 722 citations · Open access
This paper reviews how assemblage thinking and actor-network theory (ANT) offer a socio-material perspective to understand space, power, and politics as emergent from human and non-human associations.
Early millet use in northern China
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 101.34 · 668 citations · Open access
Ancient starch grain analysis from pottery and grinding stones pushes back the earliest evidence of foxtail millet use in China by at least two millennia, to 11.5-11.0 cal kyBP.
Recently added
Principles of Categorization
2024 · FWCI 1506.40 · 1,187 citations
A purported ancient Chinese encyclopedia, the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, presents a bizarre and arbitrary taxonomy of the animal kingdom.
Spatial Data Science
2023 · FWCI 495.21 · 1,097 citations
This book introduces fundamental concepts of spatial data science, covering geometry representation, coordinate systems, and the implications of Earth's curvature for analysis.
Pollution Is Colonialism
2021 · FWCI 189.50 · 627 citations
This paper models an anticolonial scientific practice, grounded in Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and relations, to expose the deep entanglements between capitalism, colonialism, and environmental science.
Time in Geographic Information Systems
2020 · 435 citations
This book introduces methods for incorporating the temporal dimension into computerized spatial data handling within GIS.
Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics
Environmental Politics · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 110.06 · 369 citations
This essay introduces multispecies justice as a new framework for environmental politics, challenging liberal theory by broadening the subject of justice beyond humans and demanding new forms of recognition and political communication.
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