Examen de la valeur des théories de la pratique sociale pour la géographie culturelle. L'A. considère la relation entre culture et usage de la langue en s'inspirant de la philosophie récente de Wittgenstein, qui explore les concepts de compréhension
President's plenary session : revisiting regional geography : state of the art in APCG
Practice of geography ; Regional geography ; United States of America
Etats-Unis ; Géographie régionale ; Pratique de la géographie
Arreola, the APCG President, asked three distinguished West Coast geographers, Alec Murphy, Paul Starrs and Bill Crowley, to expound on the practice of regional geography. - (SLD)
Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urban society ; Urban structure
The book is divided into two parts. 1- Krung to global city : the dynamics of transformation ; 2- Making Bangkok : studies in place, practice and representation. The work is an in-depth study of the institutions and the people who shaped the Thai
metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, the A. examines the city's variety from the inner-city slums to the rural-urban fringe. He explains the daily life of the city's inhabitants, middle class suburbanites
Biography ; Epistemology ; History of sciences ; Philosophy of sciences ; Practice of geography
Biographie ; Epistémologie ; Histoire des sciences ; Philosophie des sciences ; Pratique de la géographie ; Sauer (C.O.)
Perspective on the geographer C. Sauer (1889-1975) whose life and epistemology were suffused with the time dimension. In Sauer's view more important to the practice of geography than space. - (DWG)
Production effects of improved management practices in East African cattle grazing systems
Elevage ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Productivité ; Tanzanie ; Zone intertropicale
Geography of Africa
Cattle productivity is low in East African cattle grazing systems, and uncontrolled communal grazing is a major reason. Four low-cost, improved management practices are evaluated for a representative livestock village herd in two rainfall regions
in Tanzania. The four practices are a restricted breeding season, shorter weaning periods for calves, supplemental feeding of weaner calves and a sales policy of unproductive cows. (L'A.).
The geography of outdoor recreation. Suggestions for practical exercises and fieldwork.
Analyse de la demande ; Analyse spatiale ; England and Wales ; Fréquentation ; Ghum ; Géographie humaine ; Loisir ; Loisirs de plein air ; Parc national ; Parc naturel ; Royaume-Uni
Activity space ; Behaviour ; Consumption ; England ; Retail trade ; Shopping behaviour ; United Kingdom ; Urban practice
The AA. address questions of shopping as practised and its relation to shopping space. They argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods, relations of looking, the place of shopping
in the rythms of everyday life, and the socialities of sopping, are used to invest meaning in particular types of shopping space and to produce personalised shopping geographies. These arguments are developed in relation to charity shops and charity shopping.
School desk atlases : South African practice and international trends
Afrique du Sud ; Atlas ; Enseignement de la géographie ; Pédagogie
Atlas ; Pedagogy ; South Africa ; Teaching of geography
Although geography educators agree that school atlases are essential teaching aids, the effeectiveness and frequency of use are reported to be low. The reasons why this should be so are explored and some remedies suggested. - (AJC)