Brazil ; Civil society ; Conflict ; Legal status ; Porto Alegre ; Right to the city ; Rio Grande do Sul ; Territoriality ; Urban conflict ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement
China ; Civilization ; Decision making process ; Emergence ; Modernization ; Perception of the urban environment ; Public space ; Shanghai ; Social practice ; Urbansociety
Arid area ; Arizona ; Heat island ; LANDSAT ; Remote sensing ; Semi-arid area ; Society-environment relationship ; Space time ; Spatial analysis ; Temperature ; Town ; United States of America ; Vegetation ; Vegetation index ; Water use
Focusing on water-scarce Tucson, the AA. examined whether outdoor water use by residents of single-family homes contributes to urban “greenness” and the mitigation of urban heat island (UHI) effects. Their data sets include Landsat-derived
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[a1] School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Etats-Unis
Canada ; Ecology ; Human impact ; Mexico ; Natural resources ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; North America ; Protected area ; Society-environment relationship ; United States of America ; Urbanization ; Wilderness
Local development ; Local population ; Lodz ; Perception ; Poland ; Social geography ; Suburbanization ; Territorial identity ; Urbanization ; Village
of the Polish society, and the changing perception of the village and its resources. It is worth considering how the population with specific needs and value system creates the suburban village. Knowledge of these processes is necessary to develop further
Chihuahua ; Civil society ; Decentralization ; Firm ; Local development ; Mexico ; Participation ; Political geography ; Political party ; Power ; Role of the State ; Urban economy
Burma ; Cultural studies ; Gender ; Policy ; Power ; Social status ; Society ; Woman
of queens and the arguments put forward about women’s relatively high social status and economic influence in pre-colonial society. Over one hundred years ago Burmese women assume a freedom unknown elsewhere. While Burmese society has undergone dramatic
. By plotting a range of concepts of waste and dualist concepts of waste and society, she contextualizes scholarship on waste within the broader discussion about the ‘rematerialization’ of geography and social science.
Buddhism ; Burma ; Civilization ; Cultural studies ; Geography ; History ; Institution ; Language ; Nation ; Settlement ; Society ; Tradition
-2011) is devoted to Reconstruction and Nation-Building during the juntas. Burma’s future will be shaped by its own past, its historical patterns, its own human and material contexts and its own beliefs. Burmese society is steadfastly devoted