The concept of biodiversity arose in the context of, and has remained firmly wedded to, concerns over the loss of the natural environment and its contents. Species richness, endemism, disparity measures and functional diversity are considered.
The using of synthetic maps is necessary for thematic cartography. A synthetic map presents a concrete part of phenomenon, or the complex of several phenomena as a system, by means of total integrated characteristic which arose on the basis
Many problems arose when over 1 000 000 Ghanaians were expelled from Nigeria. Some returned but were forced to go back to Ghana again. The relations between the countries are examined and the economics studied. (EMS).
Contributions to the method and theory of panbiogeography are reviewed in relation to a New Zealand interest that arose from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Progress in panbiogeography over the last decade provides a significant contribution
Through an analysis of restructuring and collective bargaining in the North American automobile industry, it is argued that the split in the UAW was rooted in the tensions that arose over the different strategies adopted by the Canadian and US
Flood of Changjiang River (the Yangtze) in 1998 was so serious that it arose a keen concern about its causes. In this paper, the AA. bring out a brief history of the flood disaster happened to the Changjiang River Valley in the last six centuries
World War II. Race is found to be a modern construct which arose as a consequence of colonialism and slavery. Efforts undertaken by liberals to humanize the concept since the 1960's has been largely unsuccessfull.
By analyzing the origins, extent, structure, and implications of the licensing regime, the paper presents a revised model of firm growth and reinterprets the factors giving rise to industrial corporations. They arose as a response to the problems
The loesses and loessy sediments arose predominantly by eolian activity. Fossil soils of different types with preserved cryogenic structure are divided by loess complexes in the valley of Tarysa. - (MS)
conflicts of the area, which arose after the political changes of 1989-90, when the delta became a nature conservation area, and thus subject of environmental protection. As a consequence a massive habitat reconstruction scheme of agricultural fields
The lack of manpower arose in the Czech border regions after World War Two. Besides immigration of Slovakia and other regions, the situation was solved by employment of Polish workers living in some Polish border regions. Most of them were employed
. In the East the sector of high-ranking establishments (e.g. universities) is less developed. In the new Länder branches of large western firms employing modern forms of enterprise expanded into the east. These arose a diverse range of services, which
By using the mental model-building strategy, authors such as Sibylle Reinfried, Stephan Schuler and Kerstin Drieling have shown in their research, that preconceptions concerning geographic issues can be identified. Therefore the question arose
at the uses and role of maps in school would seem to be required. The work reported here arose out of results of questionnaires supplied to the geography teachers at all the junior-high schools in the Polish city of Wrocław. – (BJ)
literature on sensitive topics was applied and adapted to the South African context. The challenges which arose during fieldwork and the strategies developed to mitigate them are examined, mindful of the need for particular attentiveness to research methods
that the abrupt change of the water discharge from the late 1980s to the early 1990s arose from human extraction, and that the abrupt change in sediment load was linked to disturbance from reservoir construction.
were soon embroiled in litigation. This article examines the legal cases that arose when the geographical information contained in Paterson’s Roads was re-used, and improved upon, in a subsequent publication. It explores the background to the cases