This article establishes whether Slovenia’s landscape diversity and its position at the intersection of four major European geographicalunits (the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian Basin, and the Dinaric Alps) is also reflected in non
-Slovenian geographical divisions of Europe. - (IKR)
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)
Environmental education : a geographical perspective
Education ; Environment ; Geographer's role ; Man-environment relations ; United States of America
Education ; Environnement ; Etats-Unis ; Relation homme-environnement ; Rôle du géographe
Explains four major ways in which geographers study the environment. Offers comments on the future role of geography in environmental education as it relates to standards. - (DWG)
United Kingdom geographers in the Second World War : a report
Armée ; Guerre mondiale 2 ; Géographie appliquée ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie militaire ; Géographie politique ; Royaume-Uni ; Rôle des géographes
Une enquête auprès des 150 géographes encore vivants et l'exploitation des archives permettent de retracer le rôle important qu'ont joué les géographes dans les différents services de l'Armée pendant la 2 guerre mondiale.
Environmental issues and cooperative geographic research : Czechoslovakia and the United States
Congress ; Environment ; Former Czechoslovakia ; Geographic research ; International cooperation ; Research ; Scientific collaboration ; United States
Introduction to the 18 papers (pp. 7-137) of the meeting American geographers representing the Association of American Geographers with Czech and Slovak geographers in Prague, Brno and Bratislava in September (3-13) 1991. The main important
Air temperature ; Climate ; Human bioclimatology ; Human ecology ; Population density ; Spatial statistics ; Statistics ; Temperature ; United States of America
. The real-world geographic variables considered here are human population density (in the year 2000) within the contiguous 48 United States and five-year-average (January 2001 - December 2005) air temperature over the Artic land surface. Discussion
Traditional and geographic box plots of one hypothetical and two real-world geographic variables are constructed and compared to illustrate the often marked differences between traditional and geographic box plots of the same geographic variables
Mars and Minerva : centres of geographical calculation in an age of total war.
Comparative study ; Concept ; Epistemology ; France ; Geographer's role ; Geographic research ; Government intervention ; Participation ; Practice of geography ; United Kingdom ; United States of America
Concept ; Epistémologie ; Etats-Unis ; Etude comparée ; France ; Intervention gouvernementale ; Participation ; Pratique de la géographie ; Première guerre mondiale ; Recherche géographique ; Royaume-Uni ; Rôle du géographe
L'A. examine la signification politique et stratégique de la recherche géographique pendant la Première guerre mondiale et l'impact de cette période sur le développement de la discipline. Comment des experts géographes furent mobilisés en France, en
The biogeography of geographers : a content visualization of journal publications
Bibliographic analysis ; Biogeography ; Concept ; Data base ; Geographer ; Perception ; Physical geography ; United States of America
Base de données ; Bibliométrie ; Biogéographie ; Concept ; Etats-Unis ; Géographe ; Géographie physique ; Perception ; Système complexe
strong. However, physical geography materialized as the core of biogeographical inquiry for geographers based upon the central location of physical geography within these visualizations, and upon the ranking of journals where the geographers publish
. The A. argues that the systems legacy of physical geography provides geographical biogeographers with an identity to connect with the study of complex systems.
. 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