Nightingale's geography

Environmental Florence Nightingales: nursing's new front line.

Nurses comprise the largest health professional group in terms of number, and they can be found in almost every health care setting, including homes, schools, work sites, and hospitals. To a large extent, nurses have always been aware of environmental factors when doing their job, but the definition of environmental health nursing is being expanded. Today, in addition to considering the possibi...

Communication across territory boundaries: distance-dependent responses in nightingales

Philipp Sprau, Tobias Roth, Rouven Schmidt, Valentin Amrhein, and Marc Naguib Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Boterhoeksestraat 48, 6666 GA Heteren, The Netherlands, Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne, 1 Rue de la Pisciculture, 68300 Saint-Louis, France, University of Basel, Zoological Institute, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland, and Com...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Economic geography