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Reflections Of An American Geographer On The Anniversary Of September 11th, William G. Moseley
Reflections Of An American Geographer On The Anniversary Of September 11th, William G. Moseley
William G Moseley
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G-Portal : A Map-Based Digital Library For Distributed Geospatial And Georeferenced Resources, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
G-Portal : A Map-Based Digital Library For Distributed Geospatial And Georeferenced Resources, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
As the World Wide Web evolves into an immense information network, it is tempting to build new digital library services and expand existing digital library services to make use of web content. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of G-Portal, a web portal that aims to provide digital library services over geospatial and georeferenced content found on the World Wide Web. G-Portal adopts a map-based user interface to visualize and manipulate the distributed geospatial and georeferenced content. Annotation capabilities are supported, allowing users to contribute geospatial and georeferenced objects as well as their associated metadata. The other …
Peripheral Vision: Globalization, Sustainable Development, And The Political Ecology Of Cotton Production In Mali, William G. Moseley
Peripheral Vision: Globalization, Sustainable Development, And The Political Ecology Of Cotton Production In Mali, William G. Moseley
William G Moseley
This chapter examines the evolving dynamic among cotton production for the world market, environmental degradation, and global development paradigms in Mali. It examines how cotton production policy in Mali has changed over time and how this evolution implicate globalization discourse. It also examines the environmental impacts of cotton production, how this is problematized, and how solutions are evoked within globalization discourse. A major sub-text of this analysis is that the economy-environment nexus in Mali is the result of intersecting processes operating at different spatial scales: the global cotton market, national level policy, and local production decisions; all underlain by environmental …