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Modelling the Spatial Dynamics of Culture Spreading in the Presence of Cultural Strongholds [PDF]
Cultural competition has throughout our history shaped and reshaped the geography of boundaries between humans. Language and culture are intimately connected and linguists often use distinctive keywords to quantify the dynamics of information spreading in societies harbouring strong culture centres.
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Deep Integration of Physical and Human Geography: The Pivot of Geography Innovation
In the present state of geography, this study proposes a deep integration of physical and human geography. It involves the integration of knowledge from these two sub-disciplines of geography.
Zhu Hejian
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Integrating GIS into Hong Kong Secondary School Geography Curriculum [PDF]
Hong Kong' senior geography curriculum has included GIS since the early 2000s. However, GIS in secondary schools does not play a significant role in Hong Kong secondary geography education. Analyzing GIS benefits by literature review, it is believed that GIS should be included in both the senior and junior geography curriculum. Moreover, the literature
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There are two main branches of geography at the international level and in Hungary: human and physical geography, but the relationship between these two differs significantly in different regions.
Kovalcsik, Tamás+3 more
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Originated in the 1960s, the ‘marine branch’ of Soviet, and later Russian, economic and social geography contributed to the diversification of geographical science and expanded its scope.
Alexander G. Druzhinin
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Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography
This paper explores the contribution that pragmatist philosophy can make to the way that we do research and teaching in human geography. It provides a historical overview of the key ideas in the tradition, their influence on the Chicago School of ...
Liam Harney+3 more
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The spectral dimension of human mobility [PDF]
Human mobility patterns are surprisingly structured. In spite of many hard to model factors, such as climate, culture, and socioeconomic opportunities, aggregate migration rates obey a universal, parameter-free, `radiation' model. Recent work has further shown that the detailed spectral decomposition of these flows -- defined as the number of ...
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The nature of changes in human geography since the 1980s: variation or progress?
This paper concerns the changes in human geographical research over the last 20 years as far as the mainstream Anglo-Saxon publications are concerned.
Christian Kesteloot, Pieter Saey
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Geographies of Energy: Key Issues and Challenges towards Spatial Justice Concepts
The contemporary world is uneven not only in terms of the quality of life and economic development, but also in cultural issues that define awareness of global development processes.
Marcin Wójcik, Pamela Jeziorska-Biel
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Influence of geography on language competition [PDF]
Competition between languages or cultural traits diffusing in the same geographical area is studied combining the language competition model of Abrams and Strogatz and a human dispersal model on an inhomogeneous substrate. Also, the effect of population growth is discussed.
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