The article is about the new kind of migrant recently defines as ecorefugee. In particular, the contribution focuses on the definition, still under debate, the geographic distribution and the problems related to the quantitative assessment
of the phenomenon. It also refers to the relationship between ecorefugee and internally displaced persons with reference to recent natural disasters (L’Aquila earthquake and Katrina hurricane). Finally, the typology is interpreted from a geopolitical point of view
Typologies of sprawl : investigating United States metropolitan land use patterns
Cluster analysis ; Economic activity ; Land use ; Typology ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization
that geographic, historic, economic, demographic, and transport variables differentiate land use pattern types. Based on their multidimensional distinctions, this research labels the four types of metropolitan areas: Ascendants, Insulars, Redevelopers
A Wildland-Urban Interface Typology for Forest Fire Risk Management in Mediterranean Areas
Environmental management ; Forest ; Forest fire ; GIS ; Geographical information system ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Mediterranean area ; Preventive measure ; Risk ; Sierra Calderona ; Urban fringe ; Vulnerability ; fire risk ; landscape
and prevention. We have developed a methodological approach in order to assess the hazard and vulnerability of WUI which is based on landscape analysis, on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques and remote sensing. Unlike traditional
, a landscape character assessment and finally, a WUI typology. The last WUI typology has been based on the identification of different urban morphologies and their context within the type of landscape in which they occur.
. On the problem of studying the boundaries of economic-geographic systems, 5. Typology and mapping of boundaries of the BEA Economic Areas of the United States.
geographers are examining them through the prism of new concepts and methods. 5 Articles: 1. Geographical boundaries: contradictions and paradoxes, 2. Basic types of geographical boundaries, 3. Geographical boundaries as a factor in region-formation, 4
In this paper we examine whether Slovenia's landscape diversity is reflected in natural geographical classifications (landscape typifications and regionalizations) on the European level. We examine how many European natural geographical types
Physisch-geographische Prozessforschung zur Umweltbelastung und ihre Bewertung. Physico-geographic investigations on processes of environmental loading and its valuation
The contribution focuses on physical geographical features of two mocroregions : those of the Putnok Hills and the Sajó Valley, with a special reference to the evaluation of the man-induced changes. Landscape typological units seem to be most
Summary of the four main direction in remote sensing research at Stockholm : vegetation mapping, typology of marshlands, monitoring land use change and geographical information system. - (DLO)
Presentation of vernacular house characteristics and their geographical distributions based on surveys in 20 small study towns in the eastern half of the U.S.A. Typology of 67 dwelling types. These houses reflect American social, economic
procedures and an exclusively typological approach to the study of stone artifacts have also contributed to create an illusony pattern of geographic differentiation.
L'A. défend son point de vue: un territoire karstifié représente un ensemble physico-géographique particulier, un système géographique au sens typologique avec une nature déterminée du territoire. En drainant le territoire le karst améliore les
Biodiversity ; Ecosystem ; European part of Russia ; Flora ; Island ; Kandalaksha Gulf ; Nature conservation ; Neotectonics ; Typology ; White Sea
espèces caractéristiques et leur diversité pour chaque type d’île (classification des îles selon BRESSLINA I.P.). La différentiation de la flore insulaire est analysée dans des situations physico-géographiques diverses (la position par rapport au sol, le
Classification des Etats ; Critère ; Ecole soviétique ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Taxonomie ; Typologie physico-géographique ; Typologie socio-géographique ; Typologie économico-géographique
Problème de classification des pays non socialistes| l'A. essaie d'établir 3 typologies: une fondée sur la géographie économique, une autre sur la géographie sociale, et la troisième sur la géographie physique| mais pour chacune d'elles, l'A
The A. deals with the origin of the Caprivi name, the history of the territory with its physico-geographical conditions, population and with its strategic-economic significance. (CK).