Association de géographie ; Geographical association ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Institute of British Geographers ; Pratique de la géographie ; Royal geographical Society ; Royaume-Uni
Association de géographie ; Didactique ; Enseignement de la géographie ; Etats-Unis ; Généralités sur la géographie ; National Geographic Society ; Pratique de la géographie ; Pédagogie
Updating of the geographic alliance movement to restore geography in American schools| thirteen states now have these alliances in which the National Geographic Society has played a crucial role. - (DWG)
Geographical environmental research in Hungary in Geographical essays in Hungary.
The concept of the total geographical environment is interpreted, the significance of the investigation of the interactions between environmental factors is emphasized and the research trends in Hungarian geography are summarized. (DLO).
A seat at the table : geographers and the formulation of environmental policy
Environnement ; Planification ; Pratique de la géographie ; Protection de l'environnement ; Rôle du géographe
Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Geographer's role ; Planning ; Practice of geography
A call for geographers to be more visible in the formulation of environmental policy by participating on boards and commissions and be interjecting themselves in media reports. - (SLD)
Concept ; Definition ; Digitization ; Geographical information ; Geographical information system
Author begins by considering the various possible definitions of GIS : Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Science, Geographic Information Studies or merely Geographic Information, all of which are restricted to digital
Europe de l'Est ; Idéologie ; Pratique de la géographie ; Russie ; Rôle du géographe ; Système économique ; URSS
Eastern Europe ; Economic system ; Geographer's role ; Geographical practice ; Ideology ; Russia ; USSR
L'A. s'interroge sur les pratiques des géographes qui ont travaillé sur l'Europe de l'Est ou l'URSS, et sur l'image qu'ils ont contribué à en donner à travers diverses publications.
Recent trends in studies on the history of geographical thought in Japan - mainly on the history of Japanese geographical thought
The problems of the articulation of traditional or indigenous Japanese geographical thought with modern academic geography. The roles played by the authors of geographical writings in the early Meiji period. The significance of the pioneers
The traditions of the geographical research. 25 years of the Geographical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
The main research programme and results of the Czechoslovak geography after the Second World War. The organisation of geographical investigation of Geographical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its applications. - (MS)
Slovenia in geographical typifications and regionalizations of Europe
Geographical tidbits from Slovenia
Geographic research ; Landscape analysis ; Landscape unit ; Regional geography ; Regionalization ; Slovenia
This article establishes whether Slovenia’s landscape diversity and its position at the intersection of four major European geographical units (the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian Basin, and the Dinaric Alps) is also reflected in non
-Slovenian geographical divisions of Europe. - (IKR)
Socio-geographical systems, institutional mechanisms and risk processes
The paper considers the character of socio-geographical systems. It is concerned with complex characteristics of socio-geographical systems and basic types of institutional mechanisms. The paper makes an attempt to elaborate on a qualitative model
of socio-geographical systems with different mechanisms relating to social inequalities and territorial differentiations. There are considered conceptualisations of uncertainty and risk in relations to socio-geographical systems. - (EN)
Geographer ; Geographic research ; Geography ; Slovenia ; Theory
The author assesses the strenghs and weaknesses of the third successive group of Slovenian geographers, active between 1945 and 1990, which he himself belongs to. Their achievements include increases in the number and staffing of geographical
research institutes and departments, a greater volume of published research, following global development trends in geography, inclusion in international geographical circles, and the completion and publication of basic Slovenian synthetic works