Biogeography ; Latin America ; Peru ; Regional geography ; Twentieth Century
Universidad Católica del Péru, and he has published monographs and articles on many subjects in Peruvian geography. His many accomplishments and honors make him the Dean of Peruvian geography and perhaps of all of South America. - (SLD)
Sans conteste, c'est la région la plus originale, le chef d'oeuvre d'une ingénierie d'hydraulique sans hydrauliciens, d'architecture sans architectes et d'urbanisme sans urbanistes, un patrimoine devant faire face aux conséquences de déséquilibres
Argentina ; Economic activity ; Mendoza ; Quality of life ; Region ; Regional economy ; Regional geography ; Regionalmonograph ; Rural population ; Spatial organization ; Urban population
Activité économique ; Argentine ; Economie régionale ; Géographie régionale ; Mendoza ; Monographie régionale ; Organisation de l'espace ; Population rurale ; Population urbaine ; Qualité de la vie ; Région
Bulgarie ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Géographie physique ; Géographie économique ; Région socio-économique ; Régionalisation
Last (Third) volume of the monograph Geography of Bulgaria which contains two parts : physical and socio-economical regionalisation of the country. The first part (40 % of the whole text) begins with theoretical setting and review of the previous
regionalisations. The AA. delimitate 2 physical-geographical provinces - Northern and Southern - each consisting 3 parallelly situated districts. The Black Sea region is not determined as independent province or district. Each district is thoroughly characterized
as a natural complex. The socio-economic part (60 % of the text) also begins with theoretical-methodological clarification and review of the former attempts at regionalisation. According to a concept for 9 socio-economic regions (4 in South and 5 in North
Bulgaria) follows extensive characteristics of each region. - (MB)
France ; Frontier region ; Innovation ; Languedoc-Roussillon ; Mountain ; Pyrénées ; Pyrénées-Orientales ; Regionalmonograph ; Spatial organization ; Tradition ; Valley
France ; Innovation ; Languedoc-Roussillon ; Monographie régionale ; Montagne ; Organisation de l'espace ; Pyrénées ; Pyrénées-Orientales ; Région frontière ; Tradition ; Vallespir ; Vallée
frontière franco-espagnole dans les Pyrénées Orientales, ont été distingués entre une zone frontière, la Haute-vallée du Vallespir, une région charnière, le Moyen Vallespir et un espace très traditionnel, le Bas-Vallespir. - (CG)
-scale circulation and local and regional-scale climate conditions, both for present-day climate and for that of the future. The remainder of this review is devoted to recent articles or monographs examining applied climatological aspects of world food
security, Caspian Sea level variations and cold region applications in studies of snow loading and icing problems.
Daniel Faucher was trained in the Institut de Géographie Alpine in Grenoble, and worked in a provincial teacher-training college for over a decade. His doctoral thesis, written withencouragement from Raoul Blanchard, was a comprehensive regional
monograph on the lower Rhône valley. He was an all-rounder in both teaching and research, but his preference was for rural geography. Teaching at the University of Toulouse for a quarter of a century, he pioneered the promotion of geographical research
in south-western France. His holistic vision of geography and his belief that knowledge of the past helped understand the present and might be of value in shaping the future were inseparable from his commitment to the cause of regional development
Cultural area ; Epistemology ; French school ; Geographic school ; Historical geography ; Human geography ; Regionalmonograph ; Rural geography ; Social sciences
Robequain was a pioneer of colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph on a region in the tropical world, the Thanh Hoa in Annam. He was a passionate traveller who visited many tropical lands and wrote
Through his teaching and especially his writing, P. George influenced generations of schoolchildren, students and academics. After submitting a traditional regionalmonograph on the Bas-Rhône for his doctoral thesis, he focused his writing
Alps (The) ; Epistemology ; French school ; Geographical knowkedge ; History of geography ; History of sciences ; Human geography ; Mountain ; Pastoral ; Regionalmonograph ; Switzerland ; Valais
Alps (The) ; Cultural geography ; History of geography ; History of sciences ; Human geography ; Italian school ; Italy ; Linguistic area ; Physical geography ; Practice of geography ; Regionalmonograph
; Regionalmonograph ; Regional planning ; Salt lake ; Soil ; Soviet Central Asia ; Syr Darya ; Uzbekistan ; Vegetation ; Water economics ; Water resources
Amudarya ; Aral Region ; Archaeology ; Arid area ; Catastrophe ; Ecological catastrophe ; Ecosystem ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Fauna ; Former USSR ; History ; Hydrology ; Irrigation ; Kazakhstan ; Lake ; Pollution ; Regional geology
développement de la région, les AA. analysent comment la catastrophe écologique est devenue inéluctable.
-guerre, le jeu du découpage des circonscriptions polonaises fait considérer la Silésie tantôt comme une région, tantôt comme un ensemble réparti entre plusieurs voïévodies. Elles ne coïncident pas entièrement avec la Silésie historique, d'où un certain