Czech Republic ; Geographic school ; Human geography ; Research
Evaluation of research trends in the Czech human geography. The consequences of the long lasting isolation, as well as the impact of current world geography aspects. The theoretical issues of human geography, such its cognitive applied fonction, its
In quest of a new humanism : embodiment, experience and phenomenology as critical geography
Agency ; Difference ; Human body ; Human geography ; Humanism ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Post-humanism ; Social life
The paper aims to explore how a practice-oriented re-reading of phenomenology can contribute to a ‘new humanism’ after anti-/posthumanism. It starts from a research study on ‘The Stranger, the city and the nation’. . The purpose is to embed
in the directions and possibilities of social life ; and the phenomenological travel along the anti-/posthumanist lane. The paper concludes with a suggestion of a ‘new humanism’ that avoids the rationalist and self-righteous claims of the old ones but maintains
elements of the experiential dimension of social life, the acknowledgement of the other and the significance of human agency.
Karst Terrains. Environmental changes and human impact
England ; Human impact ; Impact ; Ireland ; Karst ; Limestone ; Pollution ; Quarry ; Settlement ; United Kingdom ; Wales ; Water resources
Human activiy has affected the landscapes of karstic areas of the British Isles since the Mesolithic. Six main categories of human impact on limestone areas are considered in detail: ground-subsidence related; water related; quarrying; surface stone
Regional differentiation of selected conditions for the development of human and social capital in Czechia
Czech Republic ; Development ; Human capital ; Polarization ; Region ; Social capital ; Spatial differentiation
This article addresses the analysis of theoretical and methodological concepts of the quality of human and social capital and their relation to the theory of spatial polarisation. Selected conditions for the development of human and social capital
and their territorial differentiation in Czechia are evaluated. On the basis of an evaluation of component indicators of human capital and social capital problematic areas are identified at a micro-regional level. - (EN)
Ethics, space, and somatic sensibilities : comparing relationships between scientific researchers and their human and animal experimental subjects
Bioethics ; Ethics ; Human body ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Social sciences ; Somatic sensibility ; Space ; Well-being
Drawing on geographies of affect and nature-society relations, the AA. propose a radical rethinking of how scientists, social scientists, and regulatory agencies conceptualise human and animal participants in scientific research. They consider
the implications of the differentiation between human and animal bodies in ethical and welfare protocols and practices.
Effects of human disturbance on the dune vegetation of the Georgia Sea Islands
Biodiversity ; Coastal environment ; Dune ; Ecology ; Georgia (USA) ; Human impact ; Island ; Plant cover ; Taxonomy ; United States of America ; Vegetation
This research investigates how human disturbance has affected foredune vegetation of the Georgia Sea Islands (GSI) in the United States. Both two-factor analysis of variance, ANOVA, and nonmetric multidimensional scaling, NMS, agree that dunes
in human-modified areas have lower dune-grass cover and greater cover of species that are not adapted to building and stabilizing dunes. Therefore, human disturbance may indirectly reduce dune stability by altering the dune vegetation.
Extension of niche theory in human ecology: three patterns of niche occupation
Human geography
Human ecologists have recently adopted a concept of niche as developed by Hutchinson (1957) that has become useful and operational in the study of human social behavior. This article extends this theory of niche by showing that the occupation
of a human niche should theoretically grow in a logistic fashion, and that four empirical data sets conform to the expectation of logistic growth. Three patterns, all variants of a logistic curve, are recognized: the formative, S-shaped, and mature.
Allgemeine sociale geografie. Ontwikkelingslijnen en standpunten.. (General human geography. Developments and viewpoints)
In this book attention has been paid to the relations between human geography and society and the position of human geography in the field of the social sciences. The second part of this study describes the development of human geography until 1950
. The third part traces the debates within human geography over philosophical and methodological issues since 1945. (AGD).
Bibliography ; Bioclimatology ; Climatic change ; Comfort ; Disease ; Forecast ; Health ; Human bioclimatology ; Impact ; Radiation ; Temperature ; The 2000's
The aim of this progress report is to review recent research in 3 strongly emergent areas of human biometeorology, namely human thermal comfort assessment, ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and climate and vector borne disease. Because human
biometeorology focuses on understanding the reciprocal, but often inequitable, relationship between atmospheric processes and humans, and how this plays out at a range of time and spatial scales, it fits firmly within the discipline of geography by adddressing
problems associated with the spatial, human-environment and earth science traditions of physical geography.