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Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are based on these simple models.
Maarten Bosker +3 more
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Geographical Knowledge and Teaching Geography [PDF]
, 2006 Recent events in England and Wales would suggest that geography teachers need to re-engage with their subject matter to enable them to improve how they teach the geography. However, this requires a detailed understanding of how teachers use their subject
Brooks, Clare
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Importance of traditional landscapes in Slovenia for conservation of endangered butterfly
Open Geosciences, 2020 Maintenance of traditional cultural landscapes largely depends on traditional agricultural practices, which are nowadays in decline as a result of increasingly intensive and mechanised land use. Losing traditional practices may result in impoverishing of
Zupan Sara +3 more
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Changes, challenges and responsibilities in geographical education: The International Geography Olympiad [PDF]
, 2014 Geography has never been so accessible; new media present documentaries about diverse places, supported by travelogues that ask intriguing questions, with superb imagery of natural and cultural features, all supported by emerging digital cartographies ...
Berg, Kathryn, Chalmers, Lex
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2022 Comparative law holds the promise of improving knowledge. Looking at other legal systems enables a nuanced understanding of the rules of one's own country. While comparative law traditionally starts with a concrete issue, the purpose of this paper is to
Thomas Möllers
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The Geography of Warscape [PDF]
Third World Quarterly, 2010 This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority.
Korf Benedikt +2 more
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Quaestiones Geographicae, 2015 Is mathematical category theory a unifying tool for geography? Here we look at a few basic category theoretical ideas and interpret them in geographic example. We also offer links to indicate how category theory has been used as such in other disciplines.
Arlinghaus Sandra L., Kerski Joseph
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The Geography of Evolution and the Evolution of Geography [PDF]
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2012 Abstract Insights into the geography of life have played a fundamental role in motivating major developments in evolutionary biology. The focus here is on outlining some of these major developments, specifically in the context of paleontology, by emphasizing the significance of geographic isolation and allopatric speciation, punctuated ...
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Geographer Harm J. de Blij: Academic Contributions and Scientific Communication in Geography
Redai diliThis study aims to broaden the research scope of the history of geography in China. The materials used for the study included Harm J. de Blij's profile (CV), website, autobiography, geography textbooks, and research papers, as well as reviews and ...
Tang Maolin
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