The A. thinks that, to maintain its vital role among the sciences, geographers would be wise to articulate more clearly the ways they can contribute to the grand challenges facing contemporary science and humanity more generally, which in turn
the Caribbean, where more than a half of visitors are cruise ship passengers. The article tries to answer the question: do Caribbean islands with more protected areas also attract more visitors? In the article the hypothesis is that the islands with more
protected areas are more frequently visited by tourists. The author uses the Spearman correlation coefficient to verify the hypothesis. - (BJ)
Sticky lives : slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden
This article examines slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden in London, England. First, it describes how slugs and gardeners are ‘sticky’: joined together by shared histories, curiosity and disgust. It then shifts to examine how
, and being transformed by that recognition. The analysis shows first, that the emphasis on gathering together and relationality obscures what lies outside relations, and second how detachment emerges not as the negation, but as an enabling constituent of more
-than-human ethics. In conclusion the paper argues for looser mappings of relationality and ethics that attend more fully to the distance between species.
City inhabitants are becoming more and more sensitive to weather changes and extreme atmospheric events. According to certain scientific reports, mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases is associated with oppressive weather conditions
of the influence of combined meteorological parameters on humans (via a biometeorogical index) is seen to be much more fruitful and justified than using separate meteorological parameters in calculations. - (BJ)
An analysis of picture postcards from Boston shows that, in 1977, Boston was portrayed as a center of heritage and science and technology. In 1990 more postcards featured more views of more sights, emphasising shopping and academe. A new class
CBD establishment, expansion of hypermarkets and commercial centres, housing construction under new conditions and transportation problems and solutions. Under the influence of these processes the spatiofunctional structure of the city becomes more
and more complex. In this connection the city has started to have more influence on the urban region's development. - (IKR)
The temporal and spatial characteristics of these water supply precipitation droughts were assessed revealing that droughts typically : a) begin in warm season months| b) become more widespread when more severe and/or of shorter duration| c
) are more severe and frequent in central Illinois| and d) end with much above normal precipitation in the initial post-drought months, but tend to recess to slightly drier than normal conditions (but not drought levels).
Azovskoe more. Osnovy rekonstrukcii.. (La mer d'Azov. Principes de sa restauration)
Action anthropique ; Azovskoe more ; Biologie marine ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Géographie humaine ; Hydrologie marine ; Littoral ; Mer Noire ; Mer intérieure ; Milieu marin ; Productivité biologique ; Protection de la nature ; URSS d'Europe
Unsolved problems caused by mobility and transportation means in terms of transportation policy that in future the issue is not the expansion of transportation infrastructure, i.e. neither more roads nor more railway tracks are needed, but rather
their better and more intensive use. This requires a real integrated network, for all means of transport, a consequent management of transport spaces and an open competition for transport clients with new, attractive transportation services. - (IFL)
Science, systems and geomorphologies : why LESS may be more
. Epistemological issues, arising both from the use of systems theory over multiple spatial and temporal scales, and from the demands of contemporary environmental science, are then introduced, and these lead to a conclusion that geomorphology might more
appropriately be assessed against (or seen as part of) a more locally orientated ESS, which they term LESS.
Is urban land price adjustment more sluggish than housing price adjustment? empirical evidence
This article hypothesises that, due to factors such as thin trading and lack of publicly available data on transactions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area land market, urban land prices react more sluggishly to shocks in market fundamentals than
housing prices do. The results suggest that new information regarding the market fundamentals is more rapidly reflected in housing prices than in land prices. Nevertheless, it is the housing price level, instead of land prices, that adjusts towards
Is flooding in South Asia getting worse and more frequent?
To answer the question whether flooding in South Asia is getting worse and more frequent, all available data were considered: the annual peak discharge data for major rivers, post-1985 information on floods from the global archive of large floods
. Notwithstanding the limitations of data, there is enough evidence to conclude that (1) incidences of flood-generating extreme rainfall event are rising and (2) human interventions have made the recent floods more destructive.
- to the beginnings of ninetieths spatial studies in agriculture were more sintetic and devoted to such a problem as : agricultural typology and spatial organization of agriculture. At the same time geographers more frequently have been adopt quantitative methods
in their studies. Last years agricultural geography is oriented more to the problems of changes after 1990 and integrated more with rural geography. - (BJ)
A diverse range of approaches and techniques continues to be used to study arid geomorphic processes and landform development. As more is known about the operation of processes, interpretations of the response of landforms to climatic changes become
more reliable. This article builds on a number of recent reviews (1987-1992) of processes and landforms in arid regions and on other planets (Mars).
Recent literature has argued that a policy of invariant tax abatement awards is more costly than necessary, and has suggested several ways of improving tax abatement policy by allowing officials discretion in granting abatements. Analysis suggests
tax abatements should be abandoned as a development policy. More generally, rent-seeking should be recognised as an important concept in the analysis and evaluation of development programmes.
More than 12 000 Vietnamese settled in New Orleans in the 1980s. The AA. study one neighborhood which reflects the culture they brought from Saigon. Already, however, the more prosperous immigrants are moving elsewhere.―(DWG)