We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub-panel (H-32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative ...
Most importantly, it is argued that economic geography should take more seriously the nature and scope of behaviour recognizing its attributes including related social and cultural aspirations. These ideas are illustrated by a set of recent studies dealing with financial decision‐making and individuals'...
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The geography of conventional agriculture’s unsustainability An in-depth examination of the factors driving rising greenhouse gas emissions in the production of wheat, maize and rice uncovers trends that conflict with the objective of reducing emissions while simultaneously boosting production. Stefano Me...
Using lesser-known works by pre- and early-modern scholars of philosophy, history, science, and geography, as well as the records of navigators and expeditioners, Bravo argues that the value of the Arctic to contemporary thinkers rests in recovering the region's past of robust Inuit social ...
But for designers, biology offers lessons in hyperefficient resource stewardship and circular economies. Nature also practices a kind of “critical regionalism,” the belief that architecture should reflect the geography and culture of its setting. For example, there are parasites so specifically evolved...
Land Degradation in Mediterranean Environments of the World: Nature and Extent, Causes and Solutions, edited by A. J. Conacher and M. Sala. Wiley, Chichester, 1998. ISBN 0 471 96317 8, £85·00 (hardback), xxviii+491 pp.doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(200003/04)11:2<195::AID-LD...
environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes ...
The low cultivability of most environmental bacteria is well known, but previous estimates focused on the proportion of cultivable cells. Here, the authors use various techniques to show, for soil and activated sludge samples, that the proportion of cultivable taxa exceeds that of cultivable cells...
In the process of trialling implementations of LUCI within the VMD’s unique environmental conditions and data contexts, we identify and suggest potential model enhancements to make the LUCI model more applicable to the VMD as well as other tropical deltaic regions. LUCI generated informative results...