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Situating knowledges : positionality, reflexivities and other tactics

Feminist geographers recommend a kind of reflexivity that aims at a full understanding of the researcher, the researched and the research context. The article begins with the A.'s failure at that kind of reflexivity. It then goes on to explore
1997

Seven journeys to map symbols: multiple intelligences applied to map learning

Gardner's theory of seven kinds of intelligence is the framework to teach map symbols to upper elementary school students and as a way to encourage them to identify and practice their own strengths. - (DWG)
1997

Meta-analysis of environmental issues in regional, urban and transport economics

Meta-analysis is concerned with the formal analysis of results and findings of scientific studies. The kinds of policy or scientific study which are suitable for a meta-analysis are considered. Application of traditional statistical meta-analysis
1997

Inhuman/nonhuman/human : actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society

the prospects for theories of this kind. Particular emphasis is on the transgression of the nature-society distinction in actor-network theory.
1997

Floodplain stripping : another form of adjustment to secular hydrologic regime change in Southeast Australia

The main aims of this paper are : 1) to demonstrate what kinds of alluvial stripping have occurred in the coastal valleys of Southeast Australia; 2) to show how these can be related to post-deforestation periods, and in particular to illustrate
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Bioclimatic conditions of coffee plantation in Central Vietnam

The paper presents some results of topo- and microclimatic investigations carried out on coffee plantation on Tay Nguyen Plateau (central Vietnam). The studies dealt with influence of various kind of shading and wind protecting plants on bioclimatic
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Cartographie de la télécommunication

Development of telecommunication systems have led to appearence of the specific type of geoinformational mapping, i.e. telecommunication mapping (TM), aimed at creation, dissemination and interactive use of electronic maps, atlases, and other kinds
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Whose words ? On gender identities, knowledge and writing practices

biases in language, this article advocates a strategy of unsettling intellectual structures from within and seeks to make this kind of strategy accessible to geographers whose primary interests are not theoretical or linguistic.
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The new development of rural China

system has aroused peasant's enthousiasm and 50% of the surplus labourers shifted to rural industries. Another 25% of the surplus rural labourers have moved to the towns and cities to run services of all kinds, enhancing the links of the rural
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Geographic patterns of international telecommunications in Korea

The article examines the geographic patterns of international telecommunications for the period 1960-96, and their relations with other kinds of international movements, namely the flows of commodity and people between Korea and the rest
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Reconstruction of the natural environment during the life span of Nanjing Homo erectus

From the comparison of the corresponding strata to the skull of the relic Homo erectus which was found in the Calabash cave of Nanging Tangshan and dated in 350,000 BP with other cave strata, the region of Tangshan is a kind of periglacial
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Tree-limit stress and disturbance. A 25-year survey of geoecological change in the Scandes Mountains of Sweden

This paper reviews various kinds of geoecological change in the tree-limit ecotone of the Scandes Mountains during the period 1970-95. The focus of the study is a part of a regional network of sites intended for long-term tree-limit monitoring
1997