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The aim of this paper is to use an economic framework to derive decision making rules for river basin management with a focus on groundwater resources. Using an example from northern Nigeria, the paper provides an example of how decision making for sustainable water resources management may be facilitated by comparing net benefits and costs across a river basin. It is argued that economic tools can be used to assess the value of water resources in different uses, identify and analyze management scenarios, and provide decision rules for the sustainable use and management of surface and ground water resources in the region.
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| Gayatri AcharyaEmail: |
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Ethnic coexistence in a pluralistic campus environment 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh 《GeoJournal》2006,66(3):223-241
In Malaysia, ethnic segregation seems to have grown more and more pronounced at all levels of education, which may have in
the main contributed to increasing occupational segregation by ethnicity when the graduates left to join the job market. Such
trends may be disturbing given the effort the country has put in to promote interethnic understanding and reduce interethnic
economic disparity since 1970. By critically investigating the dynamics of ethnic coexistence in the microcosm of the university
campus environment, this paper provides statistical evidence to show how far the country has progressed in terms of ethnic
relations since the watershed events of May 13, 1969; to what extent Malaysian multiethnic society is different now compared
to the unmistakable racial “corporateness” and interethnic “separateness” that Furnivall observed in his classic study of
1948; and in what ways ethnic relations have been reshaped by three decades of affirmative action policies and the form of
ethnic democracy adapted for this unique society.
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| Emile Kok-Kheng YeohEmail: |
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The regionalization of urban natural disasters in China 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Jing-ai Wang Pei-jun Shi Xiang-sheng Yi Hui-cong Jia Lai-yin Zhu 《Natural Hazards》2008,44(2):169-179
An integrated urbanization level (CL) index and an integrated natural disaster intensity (QC) index were developed on the
basis of Disaster System Theory and China Natural Disaster Database for integrated urban disaster risk assessment. Integrated
quantitative assessments of the urban socio-economic system and the intensity of hazards in China were carried out by the
Model-Tupu (map series) and inter-feedback process using digital map technology. On the basis of this assessment, China can
be regionalized into three regions, namely, coastal urban disaster region, eastern urban disaster region and western urban
disaster region, 15 sub-regions and 22 units. These results can provide a scientific basis for determining a city’s disaster
risk management and natural disaster relief regionalization in China.
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| Pei-jun ShiEmail: |
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Dorian Speakman 《Natural Hazards》2008,44(1):111-127
A vulnerability index for the Fire Service in the UK has been designed to identify vulnerable locations during episodes of
severe floods. Taking recent case studies with the UK Fire Service, the patterns of vulnerability, in terms of demand on time
and resources, can be explained by investigating the environmental causes and their interaction with the adaptive capacity
of the response agencies.
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| Dorian SpeakmanEmail: |
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Igor Vojnovic 《GeoJournal》2007,69(4):271-300
Throughout the 20th century, government in the U.S. has gone through significant changes; initially responding to the disorder
of early capitalism, and later, to the economic crisis of the 1970s. This article will explore the changes in the U.S. political
landscape over the last century, as well as the recent rise of neo-liberalism. In addition, with the analysis of the model
laissez-faire municipal government, the City of Houston, the article will illustrate how the basic weaknesses of neoliberalism
at the national level are also evident at the local scale of government.
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| Igor VojnovicEmail: |
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Over the past five years or so, Anglo-American hegemony in human geography has been widely debated. This debate has highlighted
the obstacles put in the way of the building of a more international geographical discipline. In this paper, we reflect on
the possibilities and also the limitations of Europe as a context for the experimentation with a more cross-national discipline.
In doing so, we notice on the one hand the increasing attention towards the Europeanisation of human geography, particularly
at an institutional level, but on the other hand we also notice the lack of some basic forms and tools of communication and
exchange that might facilitate the mobilisation of scholars around the ‘European project’. The paper tries to offer a contribution
to this issue by discussing the ways in which a European journal of human geography might be conceived and also concretely
organised. In this respect the paper takes into account issues of language, access to scientific knowledge and recognition
of cultural and academic diversities.
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| Ugo RossiEmail: |
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Spatial and temporal knowledge representation 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Antony Galton 《Earth Science Informatics》2009,2(3):169-187
Knowledge Representation (KR) originated as a discipline within Artificial Intelligence, and is concerned with the representation
of knowledge in symbolic form so that it can be stored and manipulated on a computer. This article surveys that part of KR
that is concerned with the representation of space and time, with particular reference to the use of such representations
in geographical information science.
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| Antony GaltonEmail: |
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Transportation infrastructure has always played an important role in the economic fate of regions. In particular, airline
networks have dramatically decreased the geographic and temporal constraints of moving people, goods and information; all
of which are increasingly crucial inputs for the information economy. As a result, regions have become more concerned with
both the quantity and quality of airline connections. The purpose of this paper is to examine the emerging global hierarchy
of airline network connectivity. Using a proprietary database of nearly 900 airline carrier schedules from 2006, we examine
regional connectivity between 4,650 worldwide origins and destinations. Through the use of network analysis and graph theoretical
techniques, results indicate an increasingly complex web of nodal hierarchies in North America, Europe and Asia.
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| Tony H. GrubesicEmail: |
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Cathelijne de Busser 《GeoJournal》2006,67(4):283-294
Contrary to the absence of a uniform Spanish identity (a phenomenon that is often referred to as Spain being a ‘nation of
nations’), Spain’s confessional map is remarkably homogeneous. From the beginning of its existence as a political conglomeration,
Spain has been a mono-confessional Catholic territory. Even at present, Catholicism is an intrinsic feature of Spanish society
and – though officially a secular state – of state policy. A closer look at Spain’s religious situation and its corresponding
pattern of church–state relations reveals, however, some recent cracks in the century’s old bond between Spain and Catholicism.
Particularly secularization and religious pluralism challenge Spain’s mono-confessional Catholic nature, a development that
fits well into Spain’s post-Francoist focus on Europe and European (secular) values. This paper discusses Spanish church–state
relations from the beginning of its political existence until present times. Special attention will be paid to more recent
societal developments and their impact on religious Spain and church–state relations.
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| Cathelijne de BusserEmail: |
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Space Physics Interactive Data Resource—SPIDR 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Mikhail Zhizhin Eric Kihn Rob Redmon Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Mishin 《Earth Science Informatics》2008,1(2):79-91
SPIDR (Space Physics Interactive Data Resource) is a standard data source for solar-terrestrial physics, functioning within
the framework of the ICSU World Data Centers. It is a distributed database and application server network, built to select,
visualize and model historical space weather data distributed across the Internet. SPIDR can work as a fully-functional web-application
(portal) or as a grid of web-services, providing functions for other applications to access its data holdings.
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| Mikhail ZhizhinEmail: |
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Until recently the traditional spatial configuration of the European geography was based upon the core-periphery model. The
‘pentagon’, broadly defined as lying between London, Paris, Milan, Munich and Hamburg, was seen as the core area characterised
by having the highest concentration of economic development in the European Union (EU), with the remainder of the European
territory viewed as peripheral, albeit to varying degrees. In a number of cases such peripheral areas equated with clear regional
disparities. The elaboration of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) (CEC, European spatial development perspective, towards balanced and sustainable development in the territory of the
European Union, 1999) challenged this core-periphery model. European spatial planning policies, aimed at encouraging social
and economic, and with ever increasing importance, territorial cohesion, seek amongst other aspects to encourage the development
of a balanced and polycentric urban system. This paper adopts a network analysis approach to the analysis of air passenger
flows between some 28 principal European metropolitan urban regions. The evaluation of these flows contributes to an enhanced
comprehension of the spatial dynamics of the European metropolitan territory which goes beyond that deriving from the more
standard analyses of the individual components of the urban system. Several indicators are used, deriving from gravitational
modelling techniques, to analyse the complexity of the air passenger flows. A multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique is
introduced in order to interpret and visualise the resulting spatial configuration and positioning of the different metropolitan
centres within the conceptual European ‘space of air passenger flows’, thereby contrasting with the more traditional map-based
geographical image of Europe, based upon Cartesian coordinates.
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| Malcolm C. BurnsEmail: |
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Melt inclusion formation mechanisms and compositional effects in high-An feldspar and high-Fo olivine in anhydrous mafic silicate liquids 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Important aspects of melt inclusion formation and potential compositions effects have been addressed through a series of experiments using anorthite/fosterite saturated anhydrous mafic liquids. Experimental charges were cooled from 1,300 to 1,230 and 1,210°C at rates of 1–10°/min followed by 0–24 h isothermal periods. Hopper and skeletal crystal morphologies with variable degrees of completeness developed during the cooling period. Planar overgrowth of these textures during isothermal periods led to the formation of inclusions, the majority of which formed after 6 h of isothermal run time. We suggest that the change in morphologies is related to a decrease in growth rates and changes in dominant growth mechanisms. In general, inclusion compositions were uniform and similar to the host glass, indicating that with the isothermal times required for most inclusions to form, a boundary layer was not entrapped that could be detected within the limits of our analyses.
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| Edward KohutEmail: Phone: +1-541-7373023Fax: +1-541-7371200 |
| Roger L. NielsenEmail: Phone: +1-541-7371235 |
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An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas
that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as transfrontier biosphere reserves, transfrontier or transboundary conservation
areas, or Peace Parks, these protected areas are aggressively advanced by conservation agencies for their purported ecological
and economic benefits. This article provides a comparative assessment of two case studies to understand the various impacts
of transboundary conservation. The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, which unites protected areas in South Africa, Mozambique
and Zimbabwe, is contrasted with efforts to protect jaguars along the United States–Mexico border. We argue that while these
cases are promising for the purposes of biodiversity protection, they demonstrate that transboundary conservation can minimize
political context, contributes to the hegemony of international conservation agendas, and remains closely linked to economic
neoliberalism and decentralization in the developing world.
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| Brian KingEmail: |
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Contract farmers in central Honduras have been producers of Asian vegetables for American markets since 1989. Contract farming
holds the potential to provide benefits to small farmers who would otherwise be unable to access export markets but production
relations between firms and farmers are often asymmetric and can be exploitative. Poor communication and legacies of mistrust
between commodity agriculture and small farmers lead to ambiguities in the contracting system that are misinterpreted by both
firms and farmers, creating social tensions between contracting parties. This article will consider how farmers’ navigation
of the contracting system and competition between export firms has led to changes in the system. Through competition for a
limited pool of outgrowers, firms adjust their policies in favor of farmers without explicit attempts of labor organization
on the part of the farmers.
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| Valerie ImbruceEmail: |
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The advent of the Virtual Observatory has begun an evolution in the space physics data environment. A number of nascent and
discipline specific Virtual Observatories have started to emerge with an emphasis on data search and retrieval. As this new
data environment takes shape an emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary communication in attempts to address large scale
and global problems. To this end we formulate the development of a query language to facilitate Virtual Observatory to Virtual
Observatory communication. Furthermore, we outline the goals of such a language, how it would work and how existing community
efforts can be leveraged to speed the development of this query language.
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| T.W. NarockEmail: |
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Remote sensing and GIS based determination of groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Western Cape, South Africa 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Finding the location of groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) is important in determining the extent of restrictions that
need to be placed upon the abstraction of groundwater. Remote sensing was combined with geographical information system (GIS)
modelling to produce a GDE probability rating map for the Sandveld region, South Africa. Landsat TM imagery identified the
areas indicating the probable presence of GDEs and GIS assisted in their delineation. Three GIS models were generated: a GIS
model predicting landscape wetness potential (LWP model) based on terrain morphological features; the LWP model was modified
to highlight groundwater generated landscape wetness potential (the resulting GglWP model); and a groundwater elevation model
was interpolated, combining groundwater level measurements in boreholes in the region with digital elevation model data. Biomass
indicators generated from Landsat were classified and combined with the GIS models, followed by field verification of riverine
and wetland GDEs. The LWP model provided the most accurate results of the three models tested for GDEs in this region.
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| Zahn MünchEmail: |
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John Finn 《GeoJournal》2009,74(3):191-200
After more than three decades of isolation from the West and a paralyzing economic crisis in the early 1990s, Cuba is increasingly
globally active in both cultural and economic realms. In this paper I use Bourdieu’s (The fields of cultural production, 1993)
fields of cultural production as a general frame through with to inspect the commercialization of Cuban music. Through a case
study with Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, the creator of the Buena Vista Social Club, I explore the dialectical relationship of
music as an expression of cultural and a cultural asset, and at the same time a commodity for the international market. I
show that de Marcos uses his position between the international music industry and the local music scene in order to preserve
cultural authenticity and survive economically. In doing so he challenges the all-to-typical place of the artist in the contested
space of cultural production between the West and the Third World.
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| John FinnEmail: |
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Predicting environmental conditions to minimise salt damage at the Tower of London: a comparison of two approaches 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Clifford A. Price 《Environmental Geology》2007,52(2):369-374
The paper compares the results of two studies of salt damage at the Wakefield Tower, Tower of London. The first, in 1993,
was based on semi-quantitative salt analysis and hygroscopicity measurements. The second was based on quantitative analysis
and a thermodynamic model, ECOS. Both studies aimed to predict environmental conditions that would minimise salt damage to
the interior stonework. Their predictions are markedly different, and this paper examines the reasons for the differences.
It is shown that hygroscopicity alone is not a reliable indicator of crystallisation from mixed salt solutions.
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| Clifford A. PriceEmail: |
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This paper describes an application of the geographic information system (GIS) technology to a ground stability assessment
in the karst area of Dzerzhinsk, Russia. In the stability analysis, the groundwater level changes in the karst aquifer could
cause suffosion sinkholes when the gravitational force was greater than the soil strength. The GIS technology was used to
combine various data and to delineate the zones of potential gravitational collapse and suffosion collapse in the area.
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| V. V. TolmachevEmail: |
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This article explores the impacts of floods on the economy, environment, and society and tries to clarify the rural community’s
coping mechanism to flood disasters in Central Viet Nam. It focuses on the social aspects of flood risk perception that shapes
the responses to floods. The research findings revealed that flooding is an essential element for a coastal population, whose
livelihood depend on productive functions of cyclical floods. The findings also revealed that floods, causing losses and damages,
often inhibited economic development. The surveyed communities appeared to have evolved coping mechanisms to reduce the negative
impacts of the floods, yet these coping mechanisms are under pressure due to environmental degradation. Integrated flood risk
management is considered as a suitable paradigm for coping with flood disasters.
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| Phong TranEmail: |