Greening U.S. National Parks: Expanding Traditional Roles to Address Climate Change     

Langdon Smith  Laura Karosic  Elizabeth Smith 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(3):438-446

The U.S. National Park Service has embarked on a new campaign to address climate change. This directive includes new programs to encourage visitors to change their behaviors once they return home. By becoming involved in issues that go beyond park boundaries, these changes mark a shift in how the National Park Service fulfills its mission. This article explores how these efforts evolved and the possible implications to the visitors being exposed to a new message. Visitors were surveyed in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The results revealed that the majority of those surveyed support these new efforts by the National Park Service.  相似文献   

Activities of American Geographers     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):30-32

Cognitive distance is analyzed in relation to various elements of the built environment. The basis for accepting a power function as the underlying functional relationship between cognitive distance and its objective counterpart is discussed. This counterpart has been assumed to be objective distance. Evidence is presented to indicate that cognition of distance is based upon travel time rather than upon objective distance or upon objective distance modified by other elements of the built environment.  相似文献   

The Asian Economic “Flu”: A Geography of Crisis     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(2):184-196

This paper examines the recent economic turmoil in East Asia which has been linked to the convulsive nature of global capital movements. East Asia, once the site of rapid capital accumulation, lost its economic momentum beginning in July 1997 with a series of currency devaluations, culminating in a net outflow of private capital within a year. International capital's ability to disembed the region, however, has been highly uneven over space. That China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are far more territorially resilient while others like Indonesia, Thailand, and South Korea initiated major political changes suggests that the geography of crisis is far more complex than is currently presented.  相似文献   

THE ORAL HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY∗     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):430-435

Book Reviewed in this article:

Latin America: Case Studies. Richard G. Boehm and Sent Visser

Locality and Rurality: Economy and Society in Rural Regions. Tony Bradley And Philip Lowe

The City and the Grassroots. Manuel Castells

Geopolitics and Conflict in South America. Quarrels among Neighbors. Jack Child

Post-Industrial America: A Geographical Perspective. David Clark

Coastal Research: UK Perspectives. Malcolm W. Clark

A Rural Policy for the EEC? Hugh Clout

Peasant Agriculture in Assam: A Structural Analysis. M. M. Das.

Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology. I. Douglas and T. Spencer

Advances in Abandoned Settlement Analysis: Application to Prehistoric Anthrosols in Colombia, South America. Robert C. Eidt

Measuring Culture. Jonathan L. Gross and Steve Rayner

North America: A Human Geography. Paul Guinness and Michael Bradshaw

A Geographical Bibliography for American Libraries. Chauncy D. Harris et al.

Geography and the Urban Environment: Progress in Research and Applications, Vol. VI. D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston

Changes in Global Climate: A Study of the Effect of Radiation and Other Factors During the Present Century. K. Ya. Kondrat'ev.

Rural Development and the State: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Developing Countries. David A. M. Lea and D. P. Chaudhri

The Martial Metropolis: U.S. Cities in War and Peace. Roger W. Lotchin

The Climate of the Earth. Paul E. Lydolph.

Weather and Climate. Paul E. Lydolph.

Spatial Divisions of Labor: Social Structures and the Geography of Production. Doreen Massey.

Panorama of the Soviet Union. N. Mikhailov.

Soviet Armenia. K. S. Demirchian.

USSR: Geography of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period. K. Spidchenko.

Planung und Verwirklichung der Wiener Ringstrassenzone (Planning and Materialization of the Ringstrasse-Zone of Vienna). Kurt Mollik, Hermann Reining, Rudolf Wurzer.

The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War Gerald D. Nash.

An Overview of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Dawn Nelson, David McMillen, and Daniel Kasprzyk.

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences. John Pickles.

Biological Diversification in the Tropics. Ghillean T. Prance

Die Wanderviehwirtschaft im gebirgigen Westen der U.S.A. und ihre Auswirkungen im Naturraum. Gisbert Rinschede.

Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal: Considerations for Institutional Management

World-Wide Weather. K. Takahashi

Coastal Geomorphology in Australia. B. G. Thom

Settlement System in Rural India: A Case Study of the Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab. Ram Chandra Tiwari.

Computer Programming for Geographers. David J. Unwin and John A. Dawson.

Late Quaternary Environments of the Soviet Union. A. A. Velichko, ed. H. E. Wright, Jr. and C. W. Barnosky

Ethics in Planning. Martin Wachs  相似文献   

MODELLING OF LOCAL CLIMATE FOR PREDICTION OF ROAD SLIPPERINESS     

Jörgen Bogren  Torbjörn Gustavsson 《自然地理学》2013,34(2):147-164

Recent research for the Swedish Road Weather Information System (WIS) is discussed along with a method for determining temperature variations attributable to topography during different weather situations. Topographical areas are classified according to factors determining temperature differences. The investigation concentrates on areas where great temperature differences occur during different weather situations, producing a risk of local road slipperiness. Geographical factors analyzed and discussed include valleys, height differences, shadow areas, bridges, and regional climate. Cold air pool intensities are shown to be influenced by weather but a variation between different valleys also occurs owing to valley width, area of cold air production, wind shelter, and ratio between height and width of valley slopes. During neutral or unstable lapse rate conditions, the lowest road surface temperature is closely related to the air temperature and decreases with increasing altitude above sea level. Screened areas have a lower surface temperature than areas exposed to sun. Factors such as bridge size and type also affect road surface temperature on bridges. These different factors are integrated into a local climatological model. [Key words: topoclimatology, local climatology, modelling, road slipperiness, road surface temperature.]  相似文献   

Address databases for national SDI: Comparing the novel data grid approach to data harvesting and federated databases     

Serena Coetzee  Judith Bishop 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(9):1179-1209

The original purpose of addresses was to enable the correct and unambiguous delivery of postal mail. The advent of computers and more specifically geographic information systems (GIS) opened up a whole new range of possibilities for the use of addresses, such as routing and vehicle navigation, spatial demographic analysis, geo‐marketing, and service placement and delivery. Such functionality requires a database which can store and access spatial data effectively. In this paper we present address databases and justify the need for national address databases. We describe models used for national address databases, and present our evaluation framework for an address database at a national level within the context of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). The models of data harvesting, federated databases and data grids are analyzed and evaluated according to our novel framework, and we show that the data grid model has some unique features that make it attractive for a national address database in an environment where centralized control and/or coordination is difficult or undesirable.  相似文献   

新时期中华民族精神的培育     

吴桂花 《广东海洋大学学报》2003,23(5):129-133

民族精神是一个民族赖以生存和发展的精神支撑。建设中国特色的社会主义现代化事业是一项前无古人的伟大创举 ,它更加需要一种积极向上的民族精神的支撑。培育新时期的中华民族精神是我们的一项重要任务 ,在培育民族精神的时候应该继承民族文化的优秀传统 ,吸收其他民族文化的优秀成分 ,同时又要使民族精神保持与时俱进 ,不断丰富和发展  相似文献   

论全国1:250000数据库的建立与更新   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

商瑶玲  王东华  李莉 《地理信息世界》2003,1(2):16-20

全国l：250000数据库是国家基础地理信息系统的重要组成部分，该数据库于1998年建成，目前已在国家许多部门得到广泛应用。它的设计和建立成功与否直接影响到数据库的使用方便程度和应用方向。同时随着时间的推移和用户使用的不断深入，数据库的更新问题变得越来越重要，国家测绘局于200l～2002年底立项并完成了对l：250000数据库的全面更新工程，使数据库主要要素的现势性达到2000～2002年。基本可以满足现阶段用户的使用需求。本文主要介绍l：250000数据库主要数据内容，数据库设计及建立；数据库更新的各种资料使用、技术流程以及更新数据库的建库等。  相似文献   

遥感解译标志建立思路研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陈晓宁  吴满意  温建兵  陈华 《测绘与空间地理信息》2017,(2)

针对地理国情普查与监测中遥感解译工作量大、解译难度高,解译工作人员不可能逐一实地核实每一个图斑的具体问题,提出了建立遥感解译标志库辅助作业人员解译的思路,以国情普查遥感解译样本数据库的建立为例,建立遥感影像解译样本标志库,方便遥感解译人员进行准确解译。  相似文献   

基于地理国情普查的兰州新区城市人居环境分析     

胡晓娟 《测绘与空间地理信息》2017,(4)

兰州新区自2012年8月被确定为国家级新区之后便开始了大规模的城市建设。本文从绿地/水面覆盖情况、道路通行能力、公园服务能力、居住适宜性分析等方面,基于地理国情普查数据,对兰州新区建成区内的城市人居环境建设效果进行了分析与评价。  相似文献