The author gives an overview of the information economy and the new economy. These notions are used from the 1980s when the information became such a strong factor that people became to talk about informational economy as a new way of development
The study of earthquakes and aseismic building construction evolved with each new earthquake. Fallen and standing structures were studied. Chasing earthquakes became a way of life for some investigators, as they gained confidence that they could
Californians became believers in a culture of prevention grounded in societal confidence that people can control the natural world with science and technology.
In Tokyo which became recently one of the first three world money markets, domestic and foreign financial institutions are located in a small area which got congested. That situation created numerous urban problems, such as a dramatic increase
Campeau, a Canadian property developer, became the owner of the largest tranche of retail assets in the USA. The mecanisms by which funding was put together in order to finance the Campeau takeovers exemplify the functioning of the arbitrage economy.
The purpose of the study is to present András Rónai, the geologist, who became involved in the newly initiated mapping of the Great Hungarian Plain, organised and managed groundwater mapping of lowland areas to the very end. - (AM)
Air-photographs became the important basic material of largescale maps and with its photogrammetric interpretation we save both significant financial means and much time. (CK).
Several contributions about the discussion concerning landscape parks, which became actual in the Netherlands after the publication of the so called Green Reports by the government. These reports contain a proposal for the creation of landscape
intense around reverse-reactivated faults. This stress system changed so the intermediate compressive stress (σ2) became vertical, causing strike-slip faults that are conjugate about N-S. This probably reflects the reduction of the Alpine compression
and the reduction of E-W compressive stresses during Atlantic spreading. The maximum horizontal compressive stress (σH) became perturbed to ~ NW-SE across much of north-western Europe, probably during the Neogene, as indicated by the dominant orientation of joints
Kenneth Cumberland was a Yorkshireman who became the first geographer by qualification to teach the subject at university level in New Zealand. He joined the new Department of Geography at Canterbury University College inChristchurch in May 1938
. To Cumberland the dramatic and active landscape of the South Island soon became a geographical laboratory. He quickly established a position for himself as a prolific author on the theme that came to define his research career, that of the wise use of resources
During the Second World War Spitsbergen became an important strategic point. According to the treaty signed on February 9th 1920 in Paris, Spitsbergen became an integral part of the Norway’s territory. Until 1940 this treaty was signed by more than
Soil is primarily a topic in geography lessons. Concerning the subtopics one cannot recognize any main emphasis, however, it became clear that the students do not know single terms as soil horizon or desertification. These topics are neglected
at school. Teachers' lectures and dialogues between teachers and pupils are still prevailing methods while activating methods are used only rarely. In freely formulated answers of the students concerning selected terms of soil science it became clear
is divided in four stages. Landscape geography became common during the 1930's in Japan. This trend promoted the utilization of photography. Nowadays photography became less and less utilized. Although geographers take a lot of photographs by themselves
, Malacca fell into a decline because Singapore became a British colony and a flourishing free port, where some enterprising Italians also went to work, managing well to get into the commerce of colonial goods, but then they became such a small group
Although associated with geology in the same department from 1876 to 1957, geography at this university in Eugene, USA, became later known for its strong program in cultural geography. Between 1965 and 1900, 89 Ph. D. degrees were awarded
Geography is a subject first taught at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1890 where it grow out of a geology program. Its one claim to fame came in the 1950s when it became the intellectual leader in the quantitative revolution
History of measuring snow in the Sierra Nevada of the western USA, the effort of a Nevada professor who became the world's leading cryologist (scientist of cold weather). - (DWG)