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Divergence - Is It Geography? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics.
Straubhaar, Thomas +2 more
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Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2020 Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) was added to the South African Geography school curriculum when the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) was implemented from 2012.
Muofhe Thenga +3 more
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Changing times in England: the influence on geography teachers’ professional practice [PDF]
, 2012 School geography in England has been characterised as a pendulum swinging between policies that emphasise curriculum and pedagogy alternately. In this paper, I illustrate the influence of these shifts on geography teacher's professional practice, by ...
Alexander R. +47 more
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Mapping species diversification metrics in macroecology: Prospects and challenges
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The intersection of macroecology and macroevolution is one of today’s most active research in biology. In the last decade, we have witnessed a steady increment of macroecological studies that use metrics attempting to capture macroevolutionary processes ...
Julián A. Velasco +1 more
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Will geography remain geography? Pondering the state of geography [PDF]
Geographia Polonica, 2014 For decades, we have been witnessing a gradual disintegration of geography. The issue was first flagged at the turn of the 19th century, but the process accelerated in the late 1960s. The term ‘geography’ has been increasingly replaced with other terms and one of the effects has been a diminishing status of geography in public awareness.
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Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2001 We introduce a geographical adaptive fidelity (GAF) algorithm that reduces energy consumption in ad hoc wireless networks. GAF conserves energy by identifying nodes that are equivalent from a routing perspective and then turning off unnecessary nodes ...
Ya Xu, J. Heidemann, D. Estrin
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Environmental Threats and Geographical Education: Students’ Sustainability Awareness—Evaluation
Education Sciences, 2021 Teaching geography creates an opportunity for the transfer of knowledge about environmental problems and ways of solving them. Teachers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and the United Kingdom indicated strengths and weaknesses ...
Magdalena Urbańska +5 more
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, 2001 Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for ...
D. Acemoglu +2 more
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Cultural geography. Different encounters, encountering difference [PDF]
, 2007 In the first half of this paper it is argued that cultural geography is a dynamic and diverse field that extends well beyond a single branch of human geography. The boundaries between it and other sub-disciplines are often blurred. People have «different»
Longhurst, Robyn
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A literature review: Geography learning based on microlearning to increase student’s ecoliteracy [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesGeography teachers find the difficulty to use geography learning to increase the students’ ecoliteracy because the scope of geography subjects is very wide.
Wijaya Nyokro Mukti +2 more
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