Interesting work on white-blind geographers working on race and ethnicity has recently been initiated, yet a more systematic and wide ranging critique of the norms and assumptions of contemporary geographical research has yet to be fully established
. After reviewing the recent White Studies literature, the paper examines an influential piece of geographical writing and suggests that if geography really is to matter, geographers need to consider more self-consciously how they themselves might
ATKIS is the German topographic cartographic spatial database and presently contains more than 60 different feature types for the whole area of Germany in the scale of 1:25000. The ATKIS data are the basis for a large number of applications in very
different fields, like environmental planing, street information systems, forest monitoring and a lot more. in order to eliminate the bottle-neck of manual updating, a software was developed at the Institute for Photogrammetry (IFP) for the automatic
This study aims to obtain more insight into the extent to which the urban form plays a role in the household's spatial-energetic practices in order to broaden our understanding of the opportunities to achieve a more sustainable future. The study
to topography and a dynamic geologic history. Many plant and animal species are found in only one watershed or are restricted to a narrow altitudinal belt. AA. want more parks and preserves, expansion of small preserves or their interconnection by conservation
corridors, and more efforts to control poaching and arson. - (SLD)
A call for geographers to be more visible in the formulation of environmental policy by participating on boards and commissions and be interjecting themselves in media reports. - (SLD)
A call for geographers to become more involved in the study of their localities and home regions. She also insists that such studies do not lose sight of the global horizon and the role it plays in local change and evolution. - (SLD)
, and therefore are more likely to be eustatically controlled and less sensitive to climate change. If the sediments pre-date the Holocene sea-level rise, they are likely to be more sensitive to climate change.
With the growing need and call for coordination at regional level, more and more importance is coming to be placed, in particular, on sound methods for identifying and assessing potential commercial sites as a basis for regional planing concepts
-owned estates had to be dissolved within a short period of time. 26 000 individual farms and 3 000 partnerships have been established. The successors of collective and state farms cultivate still on average more than 1 000 ha farmland. The individual
, medium-sized farms in the new Länder are even more profitable than their counterparts in the West. - (HPB)
The differences in prosperity between city and rural regions, which were already manifest in the GDR, have become more pronounced in the course of the transformation process. The qualitative improvements in quality of life often took place
at the expense of accessibility, and therefore disadvantaged the less mobile population groups. The thinning out of the infrastructural network has primarily affected the more sparsely populated regions so far, as well as the services provided for young people
-twentieth century period of atmospheric blocking and the more active westerlies that have characterized much of the 1980s and 1990s, especially in winter.
The problems conditioned by differentiated geographical and mainly social-economic conditions have been studied since 1930's. The running changes have become a challenge for researchers from different geographical work places. Studying, in a more
or less isolated way, only segments of the borderland. Two main projects monitoring the part of Czech borderland have been solved with the backing of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs (1998-1999) and the Grant Agency (1999-2000). - (MS)
-equivalent systems in Makhtesh Ramon; evaluate the main factors controlling the development of the morphological systems, and attempt to calculate the rate of pediment formation. Makhtesh Ramon can serve as a natural model for a more general understanding
The AA. analyse Werner's dune-field simulation model for the uni-directional wind regime leading to the evolution of transverse dunes. Following this, they introduce 2 revisions to the Werner model, which lead to dunes that more closely resemble