How far should we care ? On the spatial cope of beneficence
The question of how far we should care for the others raises important issues at the interface of geography and moral philosophy. The paper reviews partiality conventions manifest in favouring nearest and dearest people. The possibility of expanding
How liverworts build hanging gardens from volcanic ash in Costa Rica
The AA. report how a pioneer liverwort, Nardia succulenta, stimulates accretion of volcanic ash, creating layers adhering to vertical bare cliffs and bridging fresh volcanic boulders, as well as creating habits that probably favour the liverworts
The aim of this study was to explore mechanism of institutional change and stagnation in local water resource management in Balochistan. It particularly wants to contribute to questions of how institutional change relates to sustainable
and efficient resource utilization: how indigenous change takes place and whether and how external interventions in the field of the definition of resource rights or support to user organizations, can strengthen local resource management. -(AGD)
Paper is in two sections. First, A. traces how people came to know about Nicaragua's tunu (Castilla fallax) and how Nicaragua became aware of this resource and legislated access to its forest and tree latexes. There is a discussion of the decision
of Wrigley chewing gum company to invest in Nicaraguan tunu. Second, A. uses extensive field information he acquired in the 1990s to describe how tunu and chicle production operated at the local level between 1950-80. Today, synthetic substitutes are cheaper
Focusing on an area near Tirana (Vagarr komuna), the article examines how rural life and agricultural patterns have been evolving since 1990/91. How have villagers been adjusting to their post-communist reality ? In particular, how have they been
From town to town : how commercial travel connected manufacturers and markets during the industrial revolution
The paper examines how commercial travel created real spatial interactions across the industrial economy of northern England in the period 1810-15. It argues that by integrating production and consumption, commercial travel played a vital part
The demand for competence related assignments in geography lessons that are based on standards even increases the effort that has to be put into the didactic analysis when considering the following questions: How can spatial concepts and competences
be connected? How can isolated knowledge be transferred into skills and how can the subject matters to be dealt with are combined to develop not only geographical but also interdisciplinary competences? What type and quality should the assignments correspond
This progress report reviews how the understanding of environmental dynamics over extended time periods is now incorporated into science dealing with predictions of future climate change by the IPCC consortium, how possible analogues for a warmer
future are still vigorously explored and how information on past environments may better inform an understanding of contemporary ecosystem processes and influence the future management of biodiversity in protected area.
This paper explores the emergence of the subject in power through infant geographies. It focuses upon how subjection occurs in specific material spaces, and the role of a host of human and nonhuman others to the process of subjection. It also
analyses how diversities of kinship and nonkinship social relations might lead to other constellations of power in the subjection of infants. How the geographies of infants can be operationalised methodologically and epistemologically is also studied.
This paper examines the spatial practices of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London (1986–1990). It explains how this movement produced solidarity with those resisting apartheid in South(ern) Africa. It argues that how the need
for anti-apartheid solidarity was framed politically cannot be understood in isolation from how it was performed in practice. The study of solidarity is enriched by paying attention to the micropolitics of the practices through which it is enacted
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)
A. suggests that when we produce spatial reconstructions, we consider the bits of data not only as pieces of a big-picture puzzle, but also as nodes through which many stories and structures are registered and told. She considers how myths, rituals
and practices are repeated in disparate places (place contagion) and how a single site can be thought of as a place of diffusion through which disparate processes occur. To illustrate the first she looks at how various colonizers have mythologized the African
The AA. undertake a geographically sensitive analysis of Quebec's 2007 Bouchard-Taylor Commis-sion to demonstrate how ignorance of Aboriginal realities works strategically to sustain unequally occupied rhetorical and material space. They analyze how
the law, and ignorance of how it applies to Aboriginal peoples, is mobilized by the Commissioners to create a space from which Aboriginal peoples could be excluded, and highlight the continuity of this strategy with past debates over Que-bec identity
. The case of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission demonstrates how ignorance operates in highly sophisticated and often readily justifiable ways to uphold settler interests.
The paper is a part of a larger study that examines how undergraduate students in geography perceive and value water conservation initiatives on an urban Canadian campus in British Columbia. The focus is to examine how participants evaluated
and ranked photographs of prospective campus landscape images and how they perceived its value. It is suggested how student values can be integrated into traditional landscape development and campus planning.
This paper explores how landscapes are narrated through the activity of walking. It follows the footsteps of walkers as they traverse different kinds of terrains in different circumstances and aims to examine how the walking body and the landscape
as entwined entities shape each other. The focus is on narrative compositions and how they appear in the landscape through the course of walking. The paper starts by exploring two different types of compositions and then analyses how walking narratives
L'A. décrit les méso et micro-morphologies d'une plate-forme côtière supratidale façonnée dans les calcarénites à Hells Gate dans l'île de Lord Howe. Il identifie 3 domaines morphologiques et étudie des pinacles, qui présentent des similitudes avec