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TerraTinker: Crafting Playful Geospatial Visualizations

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract With the onset of digital technologies, conveying information to the young generation is becoming evermore challenging, forcing us to explore alternative methods, such as using video games. A typical area that could benefit from innovation is geography, where we want to convey the relationship between selected geographical locations and ...
J. Rosecký   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kartografski zakladi slovenskega ozemlja = Cartographic Treasures Of Slovenian Territory

open access: yes, 2020
The book presents a wealth of historical cartographic representations of Slovenian territory. It is divided into two main parts. The first or the text part briefly presents the history of European cartography up to the end of the nineteenth century, maps
Zorn, Matija   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Children's Constructive Play as Materialised Memory Practice

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how memory becomes entangled with materials in children's constructive play. Using visual ethnography, elicitation interviews and Visual Network Analysis with a 15‐year‐old Mongolian child living in Finland, the findings reveal that memory is not a fixed recollection of the past but a relational, non‐linear process enacted ...
Sinyoung Kim, Kristiina Kumpulainen
wiley   +1 more source

Methods of thematic cartography for Czech historical atlas

open access: yes, 2019
Náplní této práce jsou metody tematické kartografie s cílem realizovat jejich využití při tvorbě map pro Český historický atlas zaměřený na období 20. století.
Zuzana Vaňková
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The (In)visibility of the SDGs in Students' Learning in England: Evidence From Focus Groups With 15‐Year‐Olds

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the English key stage four curriculum, where pupils are preparing for standardised assessment at age 16, many subjects include content pertinent to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, due to the assessment focus and exam content of this educational phase, these are rarely explicitly referenced or discussed.
Penelope Williams, Gwadabe Kurawa
wiley   +1 more source

The historical layers of the Lower Silesia towns - the investigations based on historical cartography

open access: yes
Tyt. z nagłówka.Bibliogr. s. 92-93.Studies on the historical layers of historical towns belong to the most important stages of Atlas historyczny miast polskich' volumes' creation.
Eysymontt, Rafał
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Historical Cartography of Confessions and Religions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Between Historical Geography and Spatial History

open access: yes, 2019
Historical thematic cartography devoted to confessional or, in yet broader terms, religious problematic enjoys a stable status in Poland. Religious issues have usually been treated in a two-fold way: 1.
Szady, Bogumił
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An effective model for community‐based conservation around authorized fishing settlements inside a devolved Wildlife Management Area in southern Tanzania

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study examines the relationship between community‐defined land use plans and de facto land use practices, and the influence of the latter on the relative abundance and distribution of large wild mammals across the Ifakara‐Lupiro‐Mangula (ILUMA) WMA, which acts as a key buffer zone between Nyerere National Park (NNP) to the east and adjacent ...
Lily M. Duggan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The transformations of the place names of Naples in historical and contemporary cartography, between landscape changes and territorial identity

open access: yes, 2019
Naples, a city with a powerful identity, has become the emblem of the whole of Italy: our nation, through many aspects of its culture (from music, to art, to gastronomy), is internationally known thanks to the symbols of the Neapolitan cultural heritage.
Silvia Siniscalchi
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

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