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Potential Urban Hazard Zones Of Shanghai, Prc, C. Nicholas Raphael, Jinan Li
Potential Urban Hazard Zones Of Shanghai, Prc, C. Nicholas Raphael, Jinan Li
The Geographical Bulletin
Land-use data derived from large scale aerial images were used to determine potential hazard zones of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Using a GIS, nine cultural and physical parameters in onekilometer2 pixels are identified, classified and mapped. A coefficient of urban hazard is calculated per square kilometer within the city. Of the 10 administrative municipalities, Jinan and Luwang, in the central city, are determined as having high urban disaster potential. Natural hazards such as storm surges and subsidence in the delta complex have been recognized and addressed. However, in view of increasing urbanization, urban hazard is yet to be adequately …
Measuring Greenness: A Study Of The Southwest Texas State University Recycling Program, Rebecca S. Beard
Measuring Greenness: A Study Of The Southwest Texas State University Recycling Program, Rebecca S. Beard
The Geographical Bulletin
Successful recycling programs at colleges and universities require active student, faculty, and staff participation. Such programs often have to be funded by additional student fees, but increasing tuition rates leave students divided on their level of support for the program. Nevertheless, such debate increases environmental awareness and students' concern about university policy. A sample of 120 students at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas were asked 15 questions regarding recycling . The survey revealed that students would support an increase in the number of recycling bins on campus, though they are in need of instruction on how and where- …
Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comment Geography Education: The Road Ahead, Daniel P. Donaldson
Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comment Geography Education: The Road Ahead, Daniel P. Donaldson
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More than a decade ago, Geography in America (Gaile and Willmontt, 1989) was released. Among the updates and discussions of geography's systematic subfields, was a chapter assessing the past, present, and future of geography education (Hill and LaPrairie, 1989). That work outlined the progression of geography's place of relative prominence in the early 1900s, to its virtual disappearance in American K-12 education. While the authors pointed to a plethora of challenges, they also noted that geography education was showing signs of new life. Indeed, geography has begun to show up in more and more school classrooms, and geographic literacy has …
Alice Rechlin Perkins Former President Of Gamma Theta Upsilon Dies, C. Nicholas Raphael
Alice Rechlin Perkins Former President Of Gamma Theta Upsilon Dies, C. Nicholas Raphael
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Alice Rechlin Perkins, 70, a leading figure in geographic education who in 1994 became the first woman to hold the title of " Geographer" at the National Geographic Society (NGS) in Washington, died of cancer June 1,2002 at her home in Fairfax, Virginia. She had a distinguished career as professor at Valparaiso University and later as a cartographer with the NGS.
Volume 45-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
Volume 45-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 45-1 Complete Issue
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
A History Of Gamma Thetaupsilon International Geographical Honor Society, O. Orland Maxfield
A History Of Gamma Thetaupsilon International Geographical Honor Society, O. Orland Maxfield
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The 75th Anniversary of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) is an auspicious time to chronicle the past, assess the present, and preview the future. The 50th Anniversary, celebrated in New Orleans in 1978, is commemorated in The Geographical Bulletin, (Vol. 16:1), by four papers: “Editor’s Comments,” James W. Gallagher (The Geographical Bulletin Editor and GTU Treasurer); “Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet,” address by Thomas Frank Barton (1929 initiate in Alpha Chapter, founder of Lambda and Tau Chapters); “1928–1978 Fifty Years of Service to Geography,” James Snaden (GTU Historian 1977–1982); “How Gamma Theta Upsilon Chanced to Originate” Robert Guy Buzzard (founder of GTU).
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael
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Cover and Forewords
Volume 45-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
Volume 45-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 45-2 Complete Issue
Human Impact On Ancient Environments. By Charles L. Redman, James D. Lowry, Jr
Human Impact On Ancient Environments. By Charles L. Redman, James D. Lowry, Jr
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Having just taught conservation of natural resources to a small group of students over the summer, and just gearing up to teach it again in the fall, current environmental problems were foremost in my mind as I picked up Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Although my research background includes the Mayan culture area of MesoAmerica (via an interdisciplinary mix of geographers, archaeologists, and others) and I discuss their maladaptive environmental strategies in class, I offer them only briefly as an example of population growth and its relationship to environmental damage. My focus is on the present. In Human Impact Redman …
The Coming Age Of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death And Genocide In The Twenty First Century. By Michael N. Dobkowski And Isidor Wallimann (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr
The Coming Age Of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death And Genocide In The Twenty First Century. By Michael N. Dobkowski And Isidor Wallimann (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr
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The Coming Age of Scarcity is a collection of essays examining the relationship between population growth and resource depletion and genocide (and the collapse of our civilization!). The authors immediately jump into a fatalistic doomsday scenario. The Foreword, by John K. Roth, has the essence of strong anticapitalism bias. For example, Roth states “the great transformation from agricultural to . . . industrial societies has always been on the back of peasants” (4), refers to Eastern Europe as “once a highly selfsufficient economic and political system” (13), and states “markets, if left to themselves, cannot factor in long-term scarcity” (14). …
News From The Chapters 2002–2003, C. Nicholas Raphael
News From The Chapters 2002–2003, C. Nicholas Raphael
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News from the Chapters 2002–2003
Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Post Socialist States. By Hermine G. De Soto And Nora Dudwick (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr
Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Post Socialist States. By Hermine G. De Soto And Nora Dudwick (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr
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Fieldwork Dilemmas is a collection of essays from 10 anthropologists’ experiences in postsocialist eastern Europe. The primary focus is not to recount the results of their ethnographic research, but to detail the many problems and dangers they encountered in conducting the research in communities undergoing tremendous change in almost every facet of life. Research reports from Armenia, Macedonia, Serbia, eastern Germany, Kyrgystan, Siberia, Uzbekistan, and Bulgaria are included into three collections.
Blame Walt Rostow For Miss Som Rasmey’S Acid Bath, David J. Nemeth
Blame Walt Rostow For Miss Som Rasmey’S Acid Bath, David J. Nemeth
The Geographical Bulletin
In general, the legal rights of women in Asia are ignored. The paper provides anecdotal evidence of “young, beautiful” women in several Asian countries who have been the targets of acid attacks by angry men and women over personal issues. Battery acid is the weapon of choice. The acid attacks intentionally transform these women from “beautiful” to “ugly.” Most of the victims are alone and poor, and youth and beauty may be their only assets. The courts of law, however, blame the victims’ beauty and wile for initiating the circumstances that result in their suffering. The attackers generally go free. …
Race And American College Testing (Act) Scores In Illinois, Wendy Shaw, Bin Zhou
Race And American College Testing (Act) Scores In Illinois, Wendy Shaw, Bin Zhou
The Geographical Bulletin
This paper explores links between race and ethnicity, and performance on the American College Testing (ACT) within Illinois. This paper utilizes information about the performance of Illinois’ 85, 480 year 2000 graduating seniors who took the ACT assessment. The ACT scores reported by county are broken down into various racial and ethnic groupings, and a Geographic Information System was used to map and explore the spatial dimensions of the data. The results of the analysis indicate that performance on the ACT varies by the type of county involved, and is linked to family income rather than to race per se. …
Indonesia: A Geopolitical Study, Jasem M. Karam
Indonesia: A Geopolitical Study, Jasem M. Karam
The Geographical Bulletin
Indonesia is one of the southeast Asian countries that had faced an economic disaster in 1997. As a result of this and its political and ethnic problems, Indonesia’s political future became unstable. Problems had begun when East Timor, a Portuguese colony that fell under Indonesian control in 1975, demanded its independence. Following a long struggle that cost many human lives, the East Timorese succeeded in voting for independence with the help of the United Nations in August, 1999. In May, 2002 it became an independent state. The separation of East Timor provoked other provinces such as Aceh, Riau, Papua, Kalimantan, …
Multimedia Technology In The School Geography Classroom: A Case Study, Daniel P. Donaldson
Multimedia Technology In The School Geography Classroom: A Case Study, Daniel P. Donaldson
The Geographical Bulletin
Today, educators are being called on to cultivate a more geographically literate body of students. Just as computer technologies have found use in nearly all aspects of North American society, they are now looked upon as a tool which will enhance students’ geography learning. Through the use of multimedia software packages, it has been suggested that students will gain a more intricate collection of spatial understandings. This work draws on results of direct intervention in two sixth-grade classrooms in Cleveland, Ohio. It compares two methods of teaching and learning geographic concepts: one employing the use of multimedia and the other …
Afghanistan’S Cultural Diversity: A Reflection Of Its Turbulent Past, James B. Dalton, Jr
Afghanistan’S Cultural Diversity: A Reflection Of Its Turbulent Past, James B. Dalton, Jr
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This paper examines the historical geography of the distribution of people occupying Afghanistan and the surrounding the region. The analysis reveals a complex political pattern that defies the international boundaries displayed on most world maps. Further understanding is gained from this examination of human occupation patterns as it relates to people who have controlled the space now known as Afghanistan. The history of this region provides valuable insights into the present conditions and the current geopolitical reality of Afghanistan. The periods examined are pre-18th Century, 18th and 19th Centuries and concludes examining the early 20th Century with an analysis of …
Geography, Gamma Thetaupsilon (Gtu), And The Millennials In The New Millennium, M. Duane Nellis
Geography, Gamma Thetaupsilon (Gtu), And The Millennials In The New Millennium, M. Duane Nellis
The Geographical Bulletin
In reviewing GTU’s Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) history, one sees where this international honor society has experienced periods of sustained growth, and it continues to play an important role in geography’s success (Maxfield, 2003). And today, we not only celebrate the first 75 years of GTU’s history but also we begin to look forward to a new generation of college students, a new generation of geographers—a generation some have referred to as the millennials—with their changing values and expectations. In this keynote address, I would like to briefly comment on this new generation in the context of GTU and geography …
Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley
Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
Volume 46-1 Complete Issue, Lawrence R. Handley
Volume 46-1 Complete Issue, Lawrence R. Handley
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 46-1 Complete Issue
On-Line Internet Learning Resources For Distant Giseducation, Shivaji Prasad
On-Line Internet Learning Resources For Distant Giseducation, Shivaji Prasad
The Geographical Bulletin
Knowing where to find GIS-related information in Cyber Space for beginners of GIS is crucial. This paper provides some of the important Universal Resource Locator (URL) addresses for various GIStopics. The intent is to encourage distantlearning in Geographic Information System (GIS). It is hoped that this paper will encourage on-line learning and will provide an opportunity to seek knowledge from the vast on-line Web-based resources for novice distant learners of Geographic information System (GIS). It will also provide flexibility toward timeand place-constraints as is with the traditional methods of classroom oriented environment. Distant Learners in GIS can set their own …
Long-Term Trend Of Summer Rainfall At Selected Stations In The Republic Of Korea, Il-Kon Kim, Rafique Ahmed
Long-Term Trend Of Summer Rainfall At Selected Stations In The Republic Of Korea, Il-Kon Kim, Rafique Ahmed
The Geographical Bulletin
The Republic of Korea (or South Korea) is located in the extreme northeastern region of the East Asian Monsoon climatic zone. Summer (June–September) is the rainy season in the country, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the annual precipitation. Using 50 years of summer (June–September) rainfall data (1951–2000) at 23 stations, this paper presents the geographic distribution of summer rainfall and its coefficient of variation in South Korea; and the long-term trend of summer rainfall at four selected stations. Summer rainfall in South Korea varies from less than 700 mm in the northeast to 800–900 mm or more …
Public-Private Partnerships In Tourism Development: An Analysis Of The Kuwait Experience, Obaid Al Otaibi
Public-Private Partnerships In Tourism Development: An Analysis Of The Kuwait Experience, Obaid Al Otaibi
The Geographical Bulletin
Tourism and recreation has become one of the important and influential sectors in most of the modern economies. This sector has been accepted as one of the alternative sources of national income, employment, and foreign exchange. The state of Kuwait has many potentialities in tourism and recreation, and exploitation of this leads to more diversification of the economy besides augmenting its contribution to the GDP. Because Kuwait is an import oriented economy, it requires hard currencies (foreign exchange) to meet the import cost as well as to maintain stability in the international market. To compensate for the revenue fall stemmed …
When Wal-Mart Doesn’T Come To Town: Competitive Responses Of Established Retail Merchants In Edenton, North Carolina, Preston W. Mitchell, Derek H. Alderman, Jeffrey T. Webb, Dustin W. Stancil
When Wal-Mart Doesn’T Come To Town: Competitive Responses Of Established Retail Merchants In Edenton, North Carolina, Preston W. Mitchell, Derek H. Alderman, Jeffrey T. Webb, Dustin W. Stancil
The Geographical Bulletin
The study of retail geography is moving beyond an orthodox, spatial science tradition to include a consideration of the cultural and symbolic dimensions of retailing and consumption. This paper contributes to this emerging literature by exploring the cultural politics of retail change. The entry of a large format (or “big box”) retailer into a community is conceptualized as a socially contested process open to a variety of responses from local stakeholders. In the late 1990s, a coalition composed of elected officials, private citizens, and area business and property owners contested a possible plan to locate a Wal-Mart store in Edenton, …
Pioneer Migration To The Western Fringe Of Settlement:1837–1850, H. Jason Combs
Pioneer Migration To The Western Fringe Of Settlement:1837–1850, H. Jason Combs
The Geographical Bulletin
The Platte Purchase region did not become part of the state of Missouri until 1837. Prior to its annexation the area had been part of the territory reserved for Native American relocation. By 1850, the region had attracted over 40,000 pioneers from all areas of the globe. The majority of the early settlers followed the major river routes as they migrated west to the Platte region. The census data indicates that upon arrival many of these early pioneers clustered with other pioneers of similar heritage. As a result, there is a north-south settlement gradation present. Finally, the data highlights the …
Editor's Comments, Lawrence R. Handley
Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley
Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley
The Geographical Bulletin
Cover and Forewords
Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems By Keith C. Clark, Shivaij Prasad
Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems By Keith C. Clark, Shivaij Prasad
The Geographical Bulletin
Since its first edition, this book has been an excellent contribution to the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This fourth edition is considerably improved over the previous edition in terms of both extraordinary breadth of subject matter covered and the straightforward manner in which the information is presented. In four sections and 340 pages total, Getting Started With GIS covers the core of most GIS applications needed to address fundamental spatial questions such as where, what, and why. This very readable text is logically ordered with each chapter nicely balanced between GIS concepts and its practical applications. Throughout the …
Volume 46-2 Complete Issue, Lawrence Handley
Volume 46-2 Complete Issue, Lawrence Handley
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 46-2 Complete Issue