Geographical information system ; Pedagogy ; Spatial analysis ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Literature survey of issues that clarify the importance of business interest in geographic information systems to academia. One aim is to provide a starting point for a curriculum design that addresses business needs. - (DWG)
Les géographes et la Société de géographie de l'URSS pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale
Pendant cette guerre un grand nombre de géographes, en particulier des étudiants, a combattu sur les fronts. La géographie a joué un grand rôle dans toutes les actions militaires. A l'arrière les géographes professionnels fournissaient au front des
Brazil ; Epistemology ; Europe ; France ; Geographic research ; Geographic school ; Geographical thought ; Latin America ; Scientific publication ; Spain ; Third World ; Twentieth Century ; Underdevelopment ; World system
Aménagement du territoire ; Aménagement régional ; Institution ; Législation ; Planification ; Politique régionale ; Roumanie ; Rôle du géographe
Geographer's role ; Legislation ; Planning ; Regional planning ; Regional policy ; Romania ; Territorial planning
Après 1989, la Roumanie a fait ses premiers pas vers un aménagement du territoire libre de toute idéologie. L'A. en présente les institutions et le cadre juridique ainsi que le rôle des géographes dans le processus de planification. - (DR)
Australia ; Biological indicator ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Environmental management ; Geographical information system ; Land use ; New South Wales ; Plant cover ; Remote sensing ; Vegetation ; Vegetation dynamics
The focus of this study was to measure the extent and nature of woody cover change over a 20-year period in a study area located within the Western Division. Results are reported in a geographical context, with the amount and distribution quantified
Spatial point pattern analysis and its application in geographical epidemiology
Cancer ; Disease ; Distribution of points ; England ; Epidemiology ; Geographical information system ; Lancashire ; Space time ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial concentration ; Statistics ; Stochastic model ; United Kingdom
which abandons the identification of context with a single geographical scale and provides a way of bridging the gap between abstract sociological and concrete geographical analysis. The Italian electoral geography is explored over the period 1947-94
There are some exceptions to the general absence of geographical research on advertising: there is a large and rapidly growing geographical literature on place marketing. There is a need to develop a more subtle cultural geography as well as a more
Cartographic technique ; Cartography ; Geographic school ; Geographical information system ; History of cartography ; Italian school ; Italy ; Thematic mapping
Geographic research ; Regional geography ; Teaching of geography ; Theory
Les années autour de 1970 représentent sans aucun doute une césure dans la géographie qui est souvent désignée comme une révolution quantitative et théorique. Selon de nombreux géographes, elles marquent le début de la fin de la géographie régionale
Paper presented originally as keynote address for the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Using Kansas to illustrate, A. calls for more regional and local studies to further the understanding
cultures. He discussed various American geographers with regional expertise. - (SLD)
There are discussed the approaches to introduction into geographical education of new knowledge on global changes going recently in nature, world economy, and social structures. A principle of sustainable ecological development is advanced
or not geographic phenomena are fractals is discussed in the third section. A review of the literature of geographic issues that have been studied with fractal analysis follows. Finally, the limitations of fractal analysis in geomorphic studies are raised
This study of the evolving meaning of a key geographical term advocates a substantive (real rather than apparent) conception of landscape. A substantive concept of landscape is more concerned with social law and justice than with natural law
or aesthetics. The A. seeks to recover this meaning of landscape through an historical and geographical analysis of the transformations of meanings undergone by the concepts of landscape and nature.
Carpathian Mountains ; Cartographical display ; Ethnic community ; Europe ; Geographic research ; Historical geography ; History of cartography ; Population geography ; Thematic mapping
The author outlines the history of ethnic geographical research and ethnic cartography in the Carpathian Basin. The paper presents the aims and the method of research and cartographic representation of more than one hundred Hungarian, Romanian