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Experiencing the past : some thoughts on historic preservation
  • The A. poses multiple questions about how we feel about the past ; how we see the landscape ; how and what we learn from them ; and when we should make a decision to preserve them. - (DWG)
  • 1993
Why do shelter conditions differ in Ecuadoran cities and how do we know that they do?: a comparative locality study
  • Why do shelter conditions differ in Ecuadoran cities and how do we know that they do?: a comparative locality study
  • 1993
The duration of breast-feeding : how is it affected by biological, sociodemographic, health sector, and food industry factors?
  • The duration of breast-feeding : how is it affected by biological, sociodemographic, health sector, and food industry factors?
  • 1993
Japan's landscape in literature
  • Shows how children's literature about Japan can be used to teach students in the 5 to 12 age group about that country and its culture. - (DWG)
  • 1993
A developmental approach to teaching geography in the primary grades
  • Describes how the geographic themes of location, movement and region can be taught in the lower grades by having students move from concrete to semiconcrete to abstract tasks.―(DWG)
  • 1993
Geography and math : a technique for finding population centers
  • An exercise that explains how to calculate the mean point of a population.―(DWG)
  • 1993
New Zealand and environmentalism: an outsider's view
  • This paper is a personal perspective on how New Zealand appears to have changed in its approach to environmental management in the twenty years since 1970.
  • 1993
The spread of natural decrease
  • A. believes that ca. 2040-2050, the USA will reach zero population growth. A. prognosticates how that will shake down in geographic terms and which regions will decrease the most. - (DWG)
  • 1993
Inward investment and local linkages: how deeply embedded is Silicon Glen?
  • Inward investment and local linkages: how deeply embedded is Silicon Glen?
  • 1993
How the West End was won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London
  • How the West End was won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London
  • 1993
Developments in photogrammetry; the geomorphological potential
  • This article will illustrate the advantages of the photograph as a means of providing and storing information on three dimensional landform, showing how developments within photogrammetry can increasingly allow the use of the photograph as a means
  • 1993
Social policy in poor countries
  • The topics coveres include privatization, decentralization, debt and development, natural and civil disasters, and social insurance. This selective approach aims to highlight how governments have responded to the pressures of social policy
  • 1993
Soil map legends as tools of cartographic communication
  • This paper reports on one series of experiments to evaluate how varying the symbolization of soils on maps and the concomitant legend design affect the map's readility.
  • 1993
Analysis of riverbank instability due to toe scour and lateral erosion
  • Technical and software bulletin 1993
  • This paper provides instruction in the use of the computer spreadsheet to undertake the calculations necessary to apply the Osman-Thorne bank stability analysis for steep, eroding riverbanks. The guide explains how to input the necessary parameters
  • 1993
Individual environmental responsibility and its role in public environmentalism
  • The A. looks at the role of environmental responsibility in public environmentalism and particularly at how this notion is articulated by individuals involved in a range of pro-environmental behaviours. The translation of this environmental
  • 1993
Geomorphology and hydrology of upper sinking cove, Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee
  • This study examines in detail the spatial and temporal patterns of landform evolution, hydrology and denudation in one cove dissecting the Cumberland Plateau of south-central Tennessee. The aim is to gain a better understanding of how solutional
  • 1993
Prospects for Vrancea : a traditional mountain community in Romania
  • The paper examines the physical and cultural landscapes of a small Carpathian district and shows how a traditional economy now looks with guarded optimism towards an uncertain future. Agriculture remains fundamental but the potential for small
  • 1993
Changes in the hypsometric curve through mountain building resulting from concurrent tectonics and denudation
  • This paper simulates how the shapes of the hypsometric curves change through mountain building resulting from concurrent tectonics and denudation. Next, it discusses the relationship of the hypsometric curve to the stage of a geomorphic cycle
  • 1993
Choropleth mapping in secondary geography : an application for the study of Middle America
  • The basic steps in constructing choropleth maps are followed by a discussion of how such maps might be used in a secondary school lesson using Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean as a case study. The A. argues that the value of making
  • 1993
Computer network resources for physical geography instruction
  • Introduction to the Internet computer network (which allows people to connect to other computers), showing how to access and use current network resources in a physical geography course. Using this network one can get text information, satellite
  • 1993