Academic Articles & Research Papers

Nested Within or Swallowed Up: Le dilemme des chercheurs francophones en pédagogie postsecondaire au Canada

La littérature dans le domaine de la recherche en pédagogie postsecondaire (RePP) a pris une expansion importante au cours des dernières décennies, particulièrement dans les espaces anglophones tels que l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe de l’Oue...

Glacier variations in the European Alps at the end of the last glaciation

The Last Glacial Maximum in the Alps lasted from approximately 30 to 19 ka. Glaciers reached out onto the forelands on both sides of the main Alpine chains, forming piedmont lobes in the north and filling the Italian amphitheatres to the so...

Designing an accurate system for temperature measurements

The method of compensation of changes in temperature field along the legs of inhomogeneous thermocouple, which measures a temperature of an object, is considered in this paper. This compensation is achieved by stabilization of the temperatu...

THE CARPATHIAN-DANUBIAN-PONTIC SPACE – THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF THE BIRTH OF THE ROMANIAN CHRISTIANITY

The activities undertaken by Constantine the Great in the Danube, but particularly in the north of them, will contribute not only to return the territory part of borders in Dacia Traian Empire, but also to strengthen of the Romanity and the...

Pasea: senderismo, cultura y naturaleza con Ecologistas en Acción. Una propuesta de Educación Ambiental

Visual Programming per l'interfaccia utente di GEOPOI 2.0 in Sogei

Da qualche tempo è  stato  coniato  il  termine  mass customization (personalizzazione di massa) che vuo-le indicare la strategia per la produzione di beni e servizi orientata a soddisfare i bisogni individuali dei Clienti e  contemporaneam...

Geography and Economic Development

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choice...

Economic Geography

Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologi...

The Geographical Cycle

All the varied forms of the lands are dependent on—or, as the mathematician would say, are functions of—three variable quantities, which may be called structure, process, and time. In the beginning, when the forces of deformation and uplift...

Geographies of Economies

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultura...

The Geography of Money

The traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity ...

On Geography and Materiality

In the context of human geography's encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter sh...

The Geography of Transport Systems

This expanded and revised fifth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an unde...

Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia

‘Area studies' use a geographical metaphor to visualise and naturalise particular social spaces as well as a particular scale of analysis. They produce specific geographies of knowing but also create geographies of ignorance. Taking Southea...

On assemblages and geography

In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblage responds to or opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descriptor, assemblage thinking can be placed wit...

Geography and development

Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysi...

Geographies of Resistance

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemp...

Geographies Of Policy

The paper develops a geographical approach to the issues of policy transfer and transformation, taking the form of a critical dialogue with three literatures at the borderlands of political science, comparative institutionalism, and politic...

The Geographical Cycle

GEOGRAPHICAL CYCLE.continental coast, whichever it proves to be, along the Pacific to the meridian of Peter island.Magnetic observations, deep-sea soundings, and dredgings would be taken throughout the three seasons; but, looking to the unc...

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore divers...