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Urban green space (UGS) plays an indispensable role in urban spaces, providing important ecological services to compensate for natural environment functions damaged by rapid urbanization.
Xuemiao Wang +3 more
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Analysis of geographical origin of solar terms based on the STTMD method
The 24 solar terms are a significant component of traditional Chinese culture. Amid global warming climate change, research on the Solar Terms has gained increasing prominence.
Jun-feng Li +3 more
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The Historical Development of the Concept of Areal in Geography [PDF]
Chorology - Region - Landschaft - Landscape - Geosphere - Compage, all of these terms represent the historical stages of the development of concepts of geographical Areal.
Salar A. Khedher
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Towards the Study of Oirat Hydronyms of the Ili River
The paper explores Oirat hydronyms of the basin of the River of Ili (known as Ili, Tekes, Dzhirgalan, Ulan Bulak, Artsata Musar, etc.) recorded in a variety of written and oral sources of the 17th–21st centuries in different graphic and phonetic variants
Boskha Kh. Borlykova, Badma V. Menyaev
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Diversification Strategy and Financial Performance of Insurance Firms: Evidence from Iran [PDF]
This paper investigates the impact of diversification strategy on firm performance. The paper looks into three dimensions of diversification strategy in terms of staff, product and geographical presence, using return on asset (ROA) and return on equity ...
Seyed Amirhossein Shojaei
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Crossings as Key Elements of Land Routes (Based on Geographical Vocabulary and Toponymy of Karelia) [PDF]
The paper explores the usage of the terms of crossing (bridges, walkways, fords, piers, ferries) in the vocabulary and toponymy of Karelia. The author reveals a set of toponymic stems of Russian and Karelian origin marking these road sections and ...
Ekaterina V. Zakharova
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K problematice převodu toponym mezi češtinou a polštinou – exonyma a endonyma [PDF]
The article deals with the transfer of geographical names between Czech and Polish. It defines the terms endonymy and exonymy terminologically. It examines the scope of codification and official lists of geographical names and exonyms.
Marie Grigová
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Areal Distribution of Veps Topographical Vocabulary; pp. 106-123 [PDF]
The paper is based on data provided by the Linguistic Atlas of the Veps Language, which is currently under preparation at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Nina Zaitseva
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Physiognomy and Geosophy of Pergamon according to Aelius Aristeides
Geographical depictions in ancient texts are often personal, biased, subjective, and sometimes imaginative. Therefore, the concept of geosophy coined by J.
Murat Tozan
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Geographical terms of Finnic substrate origin in the toponymy of Eastern Obonezh’e
The paper offers an analysis of one of the best represented groups of substrate appellative lexis fixed in the toponymy of Eastern Obonezh’e – the landscape term, which is found in all structural types of the Finnic toponymic substrate in the study area.
Ekaterina Zakharova
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