World Heritage Site M´zab Valley in Algeria. Social Change and Safeguarding Cultural Landscapes
;on the integrity, the authenticity and the conservation of the valley;governance of the valley as a world heritage site;the “New Ksar” project. - (IfL)
Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world
Cartographical display ; Cultural studies ; History of cartography ; History of geography ; Landscape ; Perception ; View of the world
In a dozen essays, the A. provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. Ranging from the 16th century to the present day, the essays cover geographical
Deconstructing the global city : unravelling the linkages that underlie Hong Kong's world city status
China ; Economic strategy ; Hong Kong ; Network ; Producer services ; Quaternary sector ; Tertiary sector ; Urban function ; Urban geography ; World city
Economic geography ; Epistemology ; Human geography ; Political geography ; View of the world
depending on limited numbers of empirical cases. He invites us to form a geography that is always open to surprise in the face of the world’s inherent complexity rather than hiding behind predefined theoretical armor that hides and misleads more than
Epistemology ; Geographical thought ; Human geography ; Myth ; Theory ; View of the world
The fraud committed by Prometheus to Zeus in order to help mankind tell us that the appearances it transmits to us also persuasive and performing vision of the world. Starting from these thoughts inspired by a myth, the article addresses some issues
Discoveries ; Human geography ; Value system ; View of the world
In their own way, Marie and Pierre Curie were peculiar geographers, who looked at the world with a kind of wide-angle lens, through which they managed to see, or at least, to know by intuition, theorize and then demonstrate certain dynamics from
As a result of its recently acquired world heritage status and the anticipated influx of tourists into the area, the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site in South Africa is experiencing pressure for development. Basic guidelines in the form
The global extension of environmental problems is, to a high degree, a consequence of a highly entropic model of the world economy which is making income also on account of excessive pressure on environment. A model of sustainable development
appears to be a globally acceptable developmental alternative, treating the world economy as merely one of the planetary ecosystem components. The Slovene economy will also have to adjust to the limits of the environment since it is excessively wasting raw
Health ; Life expectancy ; Mortality ; Social geography ; Social indicators ; Social inequality ; World
The aim of the study is to put the health inequalities in an international context. The countries of the world were classified into three groups (developed, reformer and developing) to compare them by the main health indicators. The east-west gap