The World seen by Hungarian students: a mental map analysis
Attractiveness ; Europe ; Hungary ; Mental map ; Perception ; Place ; Students ; World
The project “Eurobroadmap”, funded by the European Commission, is setting out a worldwide survey of the opinions of undergraduate students in different fields of learning in order to analyse their perception of the World and Europe. It focuses
mainly on two aspects: attractive and repulsive places, and relevant partitions of the World. The article gives an overview on global and local level on the valuable considerations of the Hungarian students’ cognitive geographical perception. - (AM)
The Antonine Wall – The making of a World Heritage site
Antonine Wall ; Cartographic display ; Delimitation ; Frontier ; Scotland ; Site preservation ; United Kingdom ; World heritage
The nomination of the Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site in 2007 required identification of the proposed boundaries of the Site and its buffer zone on maps. The maps prepared by RCAHMS built on a long history of mapping the frontier
2010 FIFA World CupTM : (South) Africa’s time has come ?
The 2010 FIFA World Cup extravaganza was widely touted as a great African mega event that, while located in South Africa, would bring economic and social benefits across the continent. The aim of this paper is to critically assess four
Resisting urban spectacle : the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and the contradictions of mega events
The paper examines the planning and staging of the 1984 Louisiana Exposition, the last world's fair in the USA. It makes comparisons with other US world's fairs, to provide into the sources of opposition and resistance to urban spectacles
Australia ; Australia-New Zealand history ; Cultural heritage ; Cultural landscape ; Gold ; Land management ; Landscape ; Mine ; New Zealand ; Site preservation ; World Heritage designation ; landscape classification ; landscape history ; mining
mining heritage sites are read as evolved organic landscapes and linked to the surrounding forested and hedged farmland, the disruptive aspects of mining are masked. Cultural landscape is now a separate listing for World Heritage sites and includes
for their heritage, indeed World Heritage, significance and, where appropriate, developed for their sustainable heritage tourism potential. Drawing on a number of research disciplines, a schematic framework is offered for interpreting and classifying these new world
cultural landscapes based upon analysis of gold-rush heritage sites throughout the Trans-Tasman world. We evaluate and apply this framework to place-based case studies in Victoria, Australia and Otago, New Zealand.
Toward a regional and world geography under a changed climate : Symposium on climate change
Adaptation ; Arctic Region ; Climatic change ; Economic policy ; Eurasia ; Forecast ; Global change ; Impact ; Society-environment relationship ; World
of climate change at a range of scales; and (b) allow understanding to be gained of a possible world under changed climate. His review highlights assessments that climate changes in the Arctic will provide a variety of geographical outcomes (entailing both
opportunity and challenge) for Eurasia and North America. The 3 important papers, he points out, effectively identify and analyze a regional geography for a future world geographical system, as well as illuminate important scientific and policy issues
Managing Cape Town’s street children/youth : the impact of the 2010 World Cup bid on street life in the city of Cape Town
for poor children who have limited alternative access to parks and playgrounds. The impact of the securing the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is examined in relation to impoverished young people in Cape Town.
Festivalisation and urban renewal in the Global South : socio-spatial consequences of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
. Infrastructural upgrades and fast tracking of urban development projects, as well as giving focus and legitimation to urban policy makers, are supposedly the further benefits of hosting mega events. These concepts are examined in the context of the FIFA World Cup
World population, 1970-2009 : a perspective of nearly four decades of growth
Climatic change ; Economic growth ; Living standard ; Man-environment relations ; Population ; Population growth ; Population pressure ; Resource management ; World
Landscape democracy in a globalizing world : the case of Tange Lake
The main topic of the article is the question of landscape democracy in a world where local issues are seldom just local. This topic is treated both in general terms and in relation to one particular case : the artificial Tange Lake in Denmark
Antiquity ; Archaeology ; Cartographic display ; Cartography ; Location ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; World heritage
The Antonine Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire in the mid 2nd century AD. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 2008. The nomination process required a detailed assessment of the location and mapping
Aung San Suu Kyi’s eighteen-month detention sentence expired on Saturday 13th November. Burma’s military regime had played its best card with great astuteness. In the cacophonous celebration of the net days, which echoed around the world
, the strategic and the moral, are required for success. Burma is one of the toughest schools of revolution in the world. - (GL)
During the Second World War Spitsbergen became an important strategic point. According to the treaty signed on February 9th 1920 in Paris, Spitsbergen became an integral part of the Norway’s territory. Until 1940 this treaty was signed by more than
30 signatories, who obtained rights to carry out scientific research and commercial activities. The treaty assumed that Spitsbergen should stay a demilitarized zone. However, during the second world war this rule was broken – some battles between