Economic geography ; Epistemology ; Human geography ; Political geography ; View of the world
In this essay the A., professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, offers an in-depth analysis of the scientific status of geography, caught between a desire for impartial certitude and the ubiquitous problems that arise from
Climate changes and global warming are nowadays among those themes more frequently debated by the media, but the creation of an official mediatical-political truth has actually been the cause of a distortion of the facts. Many hypothetical scenarios
(which are often questionable) produced by the results of computerised models, are assumed as they were likely to happen, without submitting them to a correct scientific evaluation. - (NF)
Three sample studies demonstrate that environmental adaptations were balanced and confused by economic, political and social considerations, and by the evolution of scientific and technological ideas. Selected themes, periods and areas are : modes
Scientific and technological potentials in developing countries as national and international economic factors
The development of a national scientific and technological potential in developing countries is a vital aspect in their sphere of social and economic life. The authors compare these potentials in different regions of the earth. - (IH)
The impact of scientific research on Australian rural productivity
Contribution of Australian scientific research activity to agricultural productivity for Australian agriculture. The utilisation of a distributed lag function to describe the research/productivity relationship suggested a mean lag of approximately 6
Discourse ; Mexico ; Research ; Scientific publication ; Social geography ; Sociology ; discourse analysis ; journals ; social problems ; sociology
. The study of how sociologists represented Mexican society has revealed several discursive dynamics. The traditional economic and political perspectives blaming social problems on elites predominate. Studies of electoral system flaws, political contention
Greece ; History of cartography ; History of geography ; Nation ; National territory ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Scientific expedition ; State ; Topography
in the Hague, The Netherlands. Participants were asked to discuss in their presentations how local environmental knowledge could be made useful with respect to the distinctiveness of indigenous and scientific knowledge. In addition, poverty alleviation
and political participation were acknowledged by most participants as fundamental conditions for solving environmental problems in developing countries and a point of departure for exploring new avenues in geographical research in the domain of man-land
Colonization ; Congo DR ; Exploration ; History of geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Scientific expedition ; Société de géographie ; State
In this article we argue that social resilience has the potential to be crafted into a coherent analytic framework that can build on scientific knowledge from the established concept of social vulnerability, and offer a fresh perspective on today’s
. Viewed in this way, the search for ways to build social resilience, especially in the livelihoods of the poor and marginalized, is revealed to be not only a technical, but also a political issue.
Colonization ; Frontier ; Israel ; Nation-state ; National territory ; Political geography ; Settlement ; Territories ; Thematic mapping ; West Bank
in order to identify recurring genres of maps that are used in territorial and geopolitical controversies. The types of maps produced embody different levels of institutional and scientific authority; they possess different substances and designs
The article presents the scientific achievements of Swedish academic Rudolf Kjellén (1864-1922), who established the term “geopolitics” to describe a new research discipline, and who joined Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904) in determining its theoretical
of geopolitics. Information on Kjellén’s attitudes to the world political situation of his day is also included. – (BJ)