Did humid-temperate rivers in the Old and New Worlds respond differently to clearance of riparian vegetation and removal of woody debris ?
In this paper, geomorphic responses of rivers to rapid, systematic clearance of riparian vegetation in New World (colonial) societies are contrasted with changes associated with gradual, piecemeal, yet progressive clearance of riparian forests
in northern Europe (the Old World). It is postulated that the dramatic nature of river metamorphosis experienced in landscapes such as southeastern Australia records the breaching of fundamental geomorphic thresholds in a different manner to that experienced
The world's local bank : Finanzdienstleister, globale Güterketten und das world city network
Chile ; Commodity flow ; Financial services ; Location ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Network ; Production ; Santiago ; Service ; Spatial concentration ; Town ; World city ; World system
China ; Civilization ; East-West relations ; History of geography ; Journey ; Thirteenth Century ; View of the world ; World system
East and West become more and more complex. In the next several decades not only the Southeast of Asia but the entire world system requires the establishment of a peaceful co-existence with this ancient civilisation on the rise. - (NF)
The local politics of going global : making and unmaking Minneapolis-St Paul as a world city
Identity ; Minnesota ; Neo liberalism ; United States of America ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban function ; Urban infrastructure ; Urban policy ; World city
Atlas ; Cartography ; Sixteenth Century ; South America ; World
The oldest map of America drawn by Piri Reis in 1513 is the only surviving fragment of World Map. Some elements of the map need solution, explanation, which gave opportunity for interesting, mainly unscientific speculations, e.g. the map represents
The text deals with the question of how school enables young pupils to recognize structures of the outer world. Imaginative and comprehension intensive learning is an alternative educational approach to the question. Learning processes are organised
in four steps : to tie on experiences, to build up imaginations, to grasp and to form terms and concepts, to reflect. Geography is not meant to standardize a world view, but to open it up in or to expose and to see its plurality and to reflect upon