Donald Janelle

Research

Don Janelle's research and publications are based broadly within geography and affiliated social and behavioral sciences. Primary themes include space-time analyses of individual behavior, the time-geography of cities, the temporal-spatial ordering of social systems, locational conflict analysis in urban environments, social issues in transportation, and the consequences of transportation-communication technologies to the spatial structuring of settlement systems and socioeconomic organization.

Research associated with the Center for Spatial Studies addresses the role of spatial thinking and spatial analysis across knowledge domains, the understanding of core spatial concepts in different disciplines, and the promotion of spatial literacy in the undergraduate curriculum.

Publications

• Janelle, D.G. and M.F. Goodchild (2018) Territory, Geographic Information, and the Map. In S. Wuppuluri and F.A. Doria (eds.), The Map and the Territory, Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality, The Frontiers Collection, Springer, Cham, 609–627. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2_33
• Janelle, D.G. (2017) Time, Space, and the Human Geographies of Opportunity. In S. Wuppuluri and G. Ghirardi (eds.) Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding, The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham, 487–501. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5_38
• Janelle, D.G. (2015) Time-Space in Geography. In James D. Wright, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, Volume 24. Elsevier, Ltd., Publisher, pp 415–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.72070-8
• Grossner, K. and D.G. Janelle (2014). Concepts and Principles for Spatial Literacy. In D. Montello, K. Grossner, and D.G. Janelle, editors, Space in Mind: Concepts for Spatial Education, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 239–261.
• Janelle, D.G, (2014) Time-space Convergence. In R.J. Stimson, ed., Handbook in Spatially Integrated Social Science Research Methods. Edward Elgar, 43–60.
• Janelle, D.G. (2012) Space-adjusting Technologies and the Social Ecologies of Place: Review and Research Agenda. International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences 26(12): 2239–2251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.713958
• Janelle, D.G. and M.F. Goodchild (2011) Concepts, Principles, Tools, and Challenges in Spatially Integrated Social Science. In T.L. Nyerges, R. McMaster, and H. Couclelis, eds. The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society. SAGE Publications, pp. 27–45.
• Goodchild, M.F. and D.G. Janelle (2010) Toward Critical Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences and Humanities. GeoJournal 75(1): 3–13. Online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-010-9340-3.
• Janelle, D.G., M.F. Goodchild, and B. Klinkenberg (1998) The Temporal Ordering of Urban Space and Daily Activity Patterns for Population Role Groups. In: R.G. Golledge and M. Egenhofer, ed. GIS and Disaggregate Behavioral Travel Modeling, Special Issue, Geographical Systems: The International Journal of Geographical Information, Analysis, Theory and Decision, 5(1–2), pp. 117–137.
• Janelle, D.G. and H.A. Millward (1976) Locational Conflict Patterns and Urban Ecological Structure. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 67(2): 102–113