The A. summarises how new methods of cartography could serve the geographical science not only in the field of description. Projects of the Geographical Research Institute illustrate how the development of digital mapping can be adopted
of the matter and is suited to achieve a thorough understanding by its straightness and great comprehensibility. By means of quantitative analysis, the study examines how often each European area is mentioned, how many illustrations contain an European dimension
and how strong the particular thematic points of the category systems Europe in general an European Union are stressed. The results are consolidated in qualitative analysis. - (IfL)
Shore platform development around Lord Howe Island, southwest Pacific
This paper describes the morphology of near-horizontal basalt and calcarenite shore platforms around Lord Howe Island as well as the lithological and process environment in which they occur. Correlations indicate that the variability in platform
The AA. investigated depth-related changes in saturated hydraulic conductivity on hillslope soils in a managed tropical forest in peninsular Malaysia. The objective was to ascertain how the differing types of logging activities have affected
permeability within the soil profile. By doing so, the AA. hoped to improve their understanding of how stormflow pathways may have been affected by disturbance and how these effects have recovered over time.
Wetlands in the polar desert environment of the High Arctic provide a special ecologic niche for the tundra plants, insects, birds, and animals. This paper examines how these wetlands adjust to short-term fluctuations in the climate, and how
The AA. first explored how the floristic composition of the plant communities is related to the different environmental gradients. They discuss the environmental variables that they found to be highly correlated with the floristic composition
. Second, they determined how the plant communities belonging to the same phytosociological class can be characterized by their specific combinations of environmental factors.
In this volume the results of a research project between geographers from the Humboldt-University (Berlin) and the Eötvös Lorand University (Budapest) are presented. The project has focused on four central questions : How have the spatial structures
of the cities of Berlin and Budapest changed since the fall of the Iron Curtain ? What influence did the political control factors have on this development ? Which actors directed this development ? How was the dynamic of the reconstruction of the city ? - (IfL)
An overview is provided of the Free State economy against the background of national and international trends ; to reflect on how the free State has reacted to national and global stimuli ; and to suggest reasons for the poor performance
of the province. The question is posed as to how well the Free State has responded to globalisation in respect of its mainstream economic policy and development approaches. - (AJC)
This study used a representative and replicated design of artificial stream experiments to assess how an organism of intermediate size and abundance, a benthic crayfish, affects the transport of gravel across a gradient of an abiotic and a biotic
factor that potentially affect crayfish behaviour, and in turn could complicate the crayfish-induced gravel transport. This study also assesses how crayfish abundance in terms of their biomass affects the gravel transport across a variety of experimental
The June 2006 referendum on changing a number of elements of part 2 of the Italian constituttion provides an interesting opportunity to consider how political attitudes can differ from place to place and how geographical terms, such as the North
The present study is an attempt to introduce the main features, the actors and the actual trends of the international migration. The author analyses its effects, regional differences and how they modify the national strategies. - (AM)
A number of attempts have been made to approach the problems of the interplay of individual elements within the context of the whole scientifically. The question is how the elements act with one another and how entireties can be explained from
The study examines the cultural encounter between ethnic tourists and Berbers in Morocco focusing on the analysis of the Berbers image as it is put across by the different actors involved in ethnic tourism. Therefore, the study queries how
the tourists' image of the Berbers develops and how it looks like, as well as the significance it has on the cultural contact which accompanies ethnic tourism in the Berbers' land. For that the author analysed the best-selling guide-books in German languages
. A case study is presenting how relocation was carried out at the multinational company Flextronics, where relocation was concomitant with the area restructuring of production. - (AM)
The aim of this paper is twofold : to show how the scaling laws of river basins may be anticipated based on Constructal Theory, and to present this theory to geomorphologists as a useful tool for the study of the structure of natural flows