Testing the waters; the state of the geography standards in Rhode Island
Educational programme ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Evolution of the state geography standards in Rhode Island, one of many reform movements in the USA, each growing out of local responses, not decisions made in Washington. - (DWG)
Regional precipitation variability in the southern United States
Atmospheric circulation ; Cyclone ; Global change ; Precipitation ; Seasonal variation ; Southern United States ; Spatial variation ; Teleconnection ; United States of America
This paper analyzes relationships between large-scale circulation variations and regional precipitation within the southern United States. Results provide a better understanding of the causes of both short-term and long-term precipitation
1996
[b1] Louisiana State University, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, Etats-Unis
Administrative division ; Electoral district ; Foreign policy ; Local policy ; Political geography ; State control ; United States of America
Topics include: a) changing regional responses to political events in American history; b) state and local political geography; c) representation and gerrymandering; d) U.S. and the world; e) post-cold war changes; f) presidential politics
Oil derricks and Corinthian columns : the industrial transformation of the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds
Landscape ; Natural gas ; Oil ; Oklahoma ; Semiotics of space ; State ; United States of America
A. refutes David Lowental's suggestion that the oil derricks around the State Capitol are an example of American's valuing landscape function over form. He uses archival materials and literary accounts to show how oil drilling came to include
the Capitol grounds as Governor Marland, a former oil tycoon, insisted in 1936 that the State exploit the oil in there. After drilling began there, an election was held to include the Capitol grounds in the oil zoning of the Oklahoma City Oil Field. In 1980s
Urban struggles and the transformation of the apartheid local state: the case of community and civic organizations in Durban
The paper examines the role of civic and community struggles in influencing the transformation of the local state from the early 1980s to the present time. The Housing Action Committee resisted rent increases for low-income groups and opposed
evictions, while the Campaign for a Democratic City initiated demands for a non-racial democratic city. These grassroots initiatives forced the local state to negociate with the civic and community organizations.
Bilan sédimentaire ; Coulée boueuse ; Eruption volcanique ; Etats-Unis ; Géomorphogenèse ; Mouvement de masse ; Risque naturel ; Volcanisme ; Washington State
Debris flow ; Geomorphogenesis ; Mass movement ; Natural hazards ; Sediment budget ; United States of America ; Volcanic eruption ; Volcanism ; Washington State
1996
[b1] Dept. of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Etats-Unis
Geographical information ; Settlement ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
As an alternative to maps, profiles provide a visualization technique for representing and analyzing the structure of geographic information. Presents three profiles of human settlement in the United States by way of example. - (DWG)
Spatial, synoptic, and seasonal patterns of heavy rainfall in the southeastern United States
Air mass ; Alabama ; Arkansas ; Atmospheric dynamics ; Cyclogenesis ; Florida ; Heavy rain ; Louisiana ; North Carolina ; Precipitation ; Rainstorm ; Seasonality ; Southern United States ; Spatial variation ; Statistics ; Synoptic climatology
; Tennessee ; Texas ; United States of America ; Weather type
This paper examines the synoptic climatology and seasonality of heavy rainfall across the southeastern United States, in adopting a threshold approach. Frontal systems (particularly cold fronts) were found to be the dominant mechanism that induces
Noncontiguity and political architecture: the parliaments of small island states
For a population of 31 small island states, this paper explores to what extent geography is reflected in the political architecture of legislatures that these political units choose to apply. It searches for possible effects of territorial
Geo-economic competition and trade bloc formation: United States, German, and Japanese exports, 1968-1992
Competition ; Economic system ; Export ; Geopolitics ; Germany ; International economy ; International trade ; Japan ; Spatial analysis ; United States of America
between the United States and its neighbors and between West Germany and its European Union partners, Japan is broadening and deepening its export linkages with extraregional partners.
Economic crisis and the regional and local economic effects of the welfare state: the case of Denmark
Denmark ; Economic crisis ; Income redistribution ; Living standard ; Local authority ; Social policy ; State control ; Territorial unit ; Welfare state
Errors of kinematic-wave and diffusion-wave approximations for steady-state overland flows
Steady-state flows occur in a variety of geophysical processes. Their mathematical treatment is usually based on either the dynamic-wave equations or their approximations: kinematic wave (KW) and diffusion wave (DW). Furthermore, when doing
1996
[b1] Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Etats-Unis
Spatial-temporal spread of the AIDS epidemic, 1982-1990: a correlogram analysis of four regions of the United States
AIDS ; California ; Diffusion ; Disease ; Florida ; Health ; Louisiana ; Space time ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial autocorrelation ; United States of America
1996
[b1] Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Etats-Unis
A synoptic climatological analysis of summertime precipitation intensity in the eastern United States
Air mass ; Atmospheric dynamics ; Classification ; Discriminant analysis ; Precipitation ; Summer ; Synoptic climatology ; United States of America ; Weather type ; Years 1960-69 ; Years 1970-79 ; Years 1980-89
This paper proposes to use a newly developed synoptic classification system (the spatial synoptic classification, or SSC, Kalkstein et al., 1996) to examine the spatial variability and trends in intensity of summertime precipitation in the eastern
United States. Brief description of the development of the SSC, results and conclusions regarding the effectiveness of using this technique to analyze precipitation intensity.
Gender and class identities in process and in place: the local state as a site of gender and class formation
The A. argues that gender and class formation within local states involves processes of conflict, accomodation, co-optation, and transformation. Variations in material conditions of struggle contribute to fragmented or contradictory experiences
of gender and class relations in and against local states. Two Canadian examples are used. The first is that of recent feminist and working-class struggles within Ontario's legal-aid clinic system. The second is that of the development of a women-only