Internet‐Based GIS Mapping in Support of K‐12 Education     

Thomas R. Baker 《The Professional geographer》2005,57(1):44-50

Internet‐based mapping provides a powerful alternative for successfully establishing GIS technology in the K‐12 education community, while simultaneously avoiding the traditional barriers associated with desktop GIS. Internet‐based GIS can support standards‐based inquiry methods of teaching and learning while providing basic analysis tools for studying and exploring geographic or scientific data in the classroom.  相似文献   

Whose forecast will be verified in 2025: Malthus’ or Condorcet’s?     

Arie S. Issar 《Hydrogeology Journal》2007,15(2):419-422

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关于地球科学人才培养的实践与思考   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王德滋  赵连泽 《江苏地质》2001,25(3):129-133

世纪之交的我国地质行业和地质学人才培养遇到了前所未有的困难,而资源、环境与灾害已成为新世纪人类社会发展面临的严峻问题.面对挑战和机遇,南京大学地球科学系以邓小平教育理论为指导,以创建“地质学“国家理科人才培养基地为契机,在教学改革的实践中探索并建立了基础型和应用型两类地质学人才的培养体系,依托本系雄厚的教学科研基础和师资力量,建成“三三三“培养模式和全新的课程体系,改革教学内容和方法、手段,提高学生综合素质和创新能力,七年来改革成果丰硕.2000年以来,在教育部世行贷款重点教改项目支持下,结合地学类学科在新世纪的发展趋势,正在努力探索按“大地学“口径培养人才的模式,创建培养具有大理科基础、大地学特色的地球科学人才的实施方案,为我国国土资源的合理开发利用、灾害防治和环境保护等的迫切需要培养新一代地学人才.  相似文献   

The African Renaissance and its relation to the geosciences: a South African perspective     

M.N. Mtimkulu  M. Motloung  I.T. Graham  P.G. Eriksson  A.J. Bumby 《Journal of African Earth Sciences》2001,33(3-4)

Implicit in the African Renaissance is the synergy between government, the private sector, the educated minority and the disadvantaged majority. For this concept to work, belief and commitment must arise first from the African individual, whatever his or her potential contribution may be. The geosciences in South Africa provide a currently vibrant example of such cooperation, which has the potential to contribute significantly to the upliftment of the country and its neighbouring states. Based largely on personal interviews with various role players, from the Presidency of South Africa, through ministerial levels, the corporate sector and down to the individual, we present a spectrum of viewpoints and initiatives which are starting to result in practical implementation of the African revival. An end to conflict and xenophobia, the entrenchment of democratic government and corporate expression of the entrepreneurial spirit are essential to provide the framework within which the individual African can become a “Renaissance Man or Woman”.  相似文献   

北京沙河地区地面沉降及抗浮设防水位的探讨     

马波 《岩土工程技术》2007,21(4):202-203,F0003

论述了北京沙河高教园区项目在建设中将遇到的地面沉降及抗浮设防水位的确定问题,并提出了相应的解决措施。  相似文献   

测绘职业教育培养模式的探索与实践     

李俊锋 《北京测绘》2009,(4):93-94,39

从测绘科学的发展、社会需求和职业教育的特点等方面，介绍了现代测绘背景下测绘人才培养所出现的问题，分析了测绘职业教育的结构，提出了测绘职业教育人才的培养模式。  相似文献   

Education for development, CD for Peace: Producing the “globally competitive” child     

Andrew Boulton 《Geoforum》2010,41(2):329-336

This paper is set against the backdrop of an increasingly pervasive discursive coupling of peace with development, and of extremism with underdevelopment. An evolving knowledge economy discourse casts education as both a key determinant of economic development, and as a crucial tool in the battle for “hearts and minds” in a global war against terrorism and extremism. Education for development, and education as anti-extremism are the twin goals of the Filipino CD for Peace - a contribution to the UN-backed International Power Users of ICT (Information Communication Technology) Symposium. In this paper, I examine the ways in which this youth Symposium feeds into and mobilizes powerful logics around the links between education and development/counterterrorism. My argument is that education for development, and one of its articulations, the CD for Peace, are undergirded by and reproduce neoliberal development logics in several overlapping respects. I illustrate the ways in which the language of connection and collaboration reproduces a distinct rationality related both to the transformative potential of (private investment in) ICT and to the production of particular kinds of subjectivities: youth as connected, informed, economically valuable global citizens beyond the reach of extremists. The Power Users project works to (re)construct teenagers as “gurus”; conflict (and poverty, and terrorism) becomes solvable through education and ICT. I show how knowledge economy discourse powerfully constructs youth as learning subjects who come to imagine their own roles and identities in specifically neoliberal ways: not only as learners, but also as advocates for this nexus of technology, education, development and peace.  相似文献   

An Apollonian appreciation of Google Earth     

Gwilym Eades 《Geoforum》2010,41(5):671-673

This short article reviews and critically appraises Kingsbury and Jones’ (2009)Geoforum article entitled “Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth”, and finds it lacking in several regards. First, the use of Nietzsche’s Dionysus/Apollo dichotomy is in fact a double binary, in which Apollonian logic is constructed as a binary within the dichotomy, while the Dionysian logic is ‘bacchanalian’. Second, Walter Benjamin as exemplar of Dionysian logic is shown to be problematic and more a distraction from the flawed Nietzschean logic than a useful construct in itself. Lastly, the educational potential of Google Earth is overlooked by Kingsbury and Jones, in their haste to see Google Earth through ‘Google goggles’, in which everything Google appears through Dionysian-tinted lenses.  相似文献   

The use of ocean color remote sensing in integrated coastal zone management—A case study from Himmerfjärden,Sweden     

《Marine Policy》2014

In this study the use of ocean color data as a diagnostic tool in integrated coastal zone management was investigated as part of the Science Policy Integration for Coastal Systems Assessment (SPICOSA) project. Parallel to this, an operational coastal monitoring system has been set up in close collaboration with end-users. The core work of the bio-optical part in the project was to develop Secchi depth and attenuation of light as indicators for coastal zone management, by linking remote sensing with the socio-economic and ecological model developed in SPICOSA. The article emphasizes the benefits of stakeholder involvement and end-user feedback for efficient and improved system development. Furthermore, conceptual models were developed on how to integrate remote sensing data into coastal zone management and into a physical-biological model of the Baltic Sea. One of the work packages in the SPICOSA project was academic training. In this work package, on-line teaching material in the field of remote sensing and bio-optics was developed and disseminated on the SETnet web page. The article presented here may act as supportive material for training in bio-optics and remote sensing.  相似文献   

Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action     

《Global Environmental Change》2014

Researchers, advocates and policymakers have proposed urban conservation as an emerging, integrative discipline that can contribute to sustainable cities by delivering co-benefits to human and non-human components of biodiversity. Given the recent growth in biodiversity-friendly designs and management schemes, there is an urgent need for a synthesis of this fragmented research base to inform planners and decision-makers. We conducted a systematic multidisciplinary literature review (787 papers) and found that the importance of urban areas for general conservation is not convincingly supported by empirical research. Only few studies demonstrated that cities can directly contribute to conservation efforts, by hosting viable populations of rare or endangered species, or by providing green corridors for the passage of natural populations. From a social perspective, while several studies demonstrated that green infrastructure could provide services for people (notably cultural services), only few studies explored the role of species diversity per se. Our review also shows strong geographical, location and taxonomic biases in urban biodiversity conservation research that make generalisations difficult. It is a disturbing paradox that while research in urban biodiversity conservation is rising exponentially, the main motivations for conserving urban biodiversity remain largely untested and unproven. We thus propose a framework for promoting integrative urban conservation research to bridge those gaps. Together, these findings warn against expanding cities under green planning and call for enhancing biodiversity experience by improving the quality of existing green spaces throughout the entire urban matrix. We provide a set of recommendations for practitioners and decision-makers to continue action.  相似文献