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and exotic lands. He wrote over sixty novels in his Voyages Extraordinaires series, which had a lasting impact on the science fiction genre. He visited Scotland in 1859, and again in 1879 when he witnessed the majesty of Edinburgh, the industrial dynamism
of Glasgow, and the unspoilt beauty of the Highlands and Islands. In addition to a travelogue of his first voyage to Scotland, Verne wrote five novels set wholly or in part in what he regarded as his ancestral country; Scottish characters featured in several
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André Siegfried, 1875-1959

André Siegfried belonged to a rich and culturally privileged political family. He travelled widely and frequently, acquiring first-hand experience of many parts of the world. In Paris, he occupied chairs of economic and political geography
at the Ecole libre des Sciences politiques, and at the Collège de France. On the basis of his observations and personal enquiries, he wrote many books about international affairs that reached a wide academic and popular audience in France and abroad. His
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Pierre Deffontaines, 1894-1978

Pierre Deffontaines developed his interest in geography through a youthful fascination with maps and the countryside. He was captivated by human geography s taught and written about by Jean Brunhes. Deffontaines presented his doctoral thesis
on the regional geography of the Garonne valley, and then occupied teaching positions at the Catholic University in Lille, and at universities in Brazil and Quebec. He was also the long-serving director of the French Institute in Barcelona. He was a prolific
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Juan Carandell y Pericay, 1893-1937

Carandell y Pericay was a distinguished geologist and geographer and a representative of Spanish environmental science. He produced over 300 publications, especially on the geology and physical geography of mountainous areas in Spain, but also
including some work on human geography. His early death meant that he did not develop a school of researchers, and his work has been rather neglected of late. - (HC)
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Norman John Greville Pounds, 1912-2006

Norman Pounds was a highly prolific geographer who single-handedly authored more than thirty books and co-authored or edited a further six. He also wrote more than thirty peer-reviewed articles. He taught at Cambridge (UK) and at Indiana University
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and geography communities. His emphasis on the conceptual understanding of climate as a dynamic rather than static entity represented a paradigm shift for which he has not been credited. He was a true and early advocate for study of the relationship between
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Lionel William Lyde, 1863-1947

Lionel Lyde was an influential pioneer among British geographers, writing short textbooks for British schoolchildren during the 1890s and giving extension lectures at Glasgow and Oxford. After a period in school teaching, he accepted an invitation
to occupy the new chair of economic geography at University College London, then the only geographer in the United Kingdom to hold professorial title. He presented his views vigorously in lectures and in textbooks, never failing to draw on anthropological
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Michael Williams, 1935-2009

. He taught in Australia, and at Oxford (U.K), and held visiting appointments in various North American universities. His writings and teaching illustrate how the rapid growth of environmental history co-existed, often fruitfully but sometimes
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The A. combines the result of fieldwork in Mumbai and other cities with a synthesis of theoretical research on knowledge, space and materiality to show how learning should be viewed as central to the production and politics of cities. He deploys
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The A., specialist in environmental geography, introduces this symposium on climate change. He argues that the 3 papers (a) demonstrate the geographical approaches necessary for understanding broader social, economic, and environmental consequences
opportunity and challenge) for Eurasia and North America. The 3 important papers, he points out, effectively identify and analyze a regional geography for a future world geographical system, as well as illuminate important scientific and policy issues
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Dans cet article, les AA. proposent une méthode de conversion de la hauteur ellipsoïdale (he) obtenue par GPS et exprimée dans le système WGS84 vers une altitude orthométrique exprimée dans le système national NGA en utilisant une surface de
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Anhui ; Channel geometry ; China ; Climatic change ; Data base ; Fluvial dynamics ; Geographical information system ; Hebei ; Henan ; Huang He ; Human impact ; Jiangsu ; Precipitation ; Remote sensing ; Shandong ; Shanxi ; Stream
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Carrying capacity ; China ; Discharge ; Earth surface processes ; Estuary ; Fluvial dynamics ; Huang He ; Human impact ; Periodicity ; Precipitation ; Statistics ; Stream ; Wavelet analysis
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Accumulation rate ; Carrying capacity ; Channel geometry ; China ; Flood ; Fluvial dynamics ; Huang He ; Inner Mongolia ; Sediment budget ; Stream ; Time series
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