Landscape ecology. Geographical research direction or an interdisciplinary research programme?
The landscape ecology existing in geography since the time of A. von HUMBOLDT, was named landscape physiology . Since C. TROLL (1939) obtained the name landscape ecology . From the point of view of geography it is a complex research aiming
to the rational space organisation of landscape. As an interdisciplinary applied research programme it is open to biology and other landscape sciences. - (MS)
Guidelines for college and university-level students on the basic steps in conducting research| how to frame research in a problem focus| differences between inductive and deductive method| and the role of theory in geographical investigations
The geometry of a research speciality: spatial diffusion modeling
Analyse multivariée ; Analyse-Q ; Citation ; Concept ; Echelle multidimensionnelle ; Ghum ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Pratique de la géographie ; Research speciality ; Théorie
Despite the growing interest of geographers in the sociology of science, no work has been done on the structural analysis of a community of geographers engaged in a particular research speciality. The paper sketches the set-theoretic foundation
for such work and reviews the literature on research speciality.
Papers of a symposium held on the occasion of the combination of five, up to then more or less loosely connected subfaculties and/or research groups into a single Faculty of Environmental Sciences. The papers focus on the research programmes
DISCUSSES THE RATIONALE, STRATEGIES, AND PROCEDURES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN GEOGRAPHY. AMONG TOPICS COVERED: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PURPOSE OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH AND THE LONG-TERM GOALS OF THE DISCIPLINE: THEORY BUILDING FOR KNOWLEDGE
INTEGRATION AND PROPAGATION| THE NATURE OF MODELS AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THEIR CONSTRUCTION| REGIONALIZATION AS A WAY OF ORDERING VARIANCE| AND COPING WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS IN GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH.
Research policy and review 34 : the development of ideas of uncertainty representation
. This review of the literature highlights the need for additional research on a number of topics, and the synthesis of new approaches to uncertainty with more traditional decision analysis techniques.
This first edition of the Directory of sea-level research has been compiled from the information supplied by the 465 participants, from 60 countries, in IGCP 200 (June 1984). Index of geographical areas of investigation| index of disciplines
An integrated landscape research concerns not only an interdisciplinary cooperation in study of man-land interaction, but first of all, the connection of regional management with information systems for landscape. Geography provides, using
completely based on the optimum organization of geography less on the real contribution of geography to this field of research. Distinctions are to be made between pure science disinterested in application research orientated to application, applied research
, and the applying to planning itself. The more orientated to application the research of the environmental quality is, the more the complex nature of the environmental quality comes to light.
The coordination of geographic research in the USSR
plan and adopted decisions that forstered the subsequent development of geography as a research discipline in the Soviet Union. The present conference is intended to review the implementation of the coordination plan thus far and to determine
the principal research areas for the 12-th five-years plan (1986-1990).
A possible task for the ICA Commission on Cartographic Communication would be to initiate and support practical programs of research that would help provide better understanding of visual characteristics of map symbols. Such research would aid