Of all the nineteenth-century authors who examined the relationships between disease and geography, August Hirsch (1817-1894) was probably the most respected in his time, and is the best remembered today. During his career he was first a critic of, and then a contributor to, the literature on geographical medicine and medical geography. In the process he conceptualized the nature and scope of t...

1 Most research on the sources of militarized conflict between nation-states has emphasized characteristics of the states themselves or of the larger interstate system, with little emphasis on the geographic context of relations between states. Vasquez (1998), for example, finds that realist variables such as capabilities and alliances account for most variables and hypotheses used in quantitat...

A . X . Z h u a,b,c,d, J . L i u d, F . D u d, S . J . Z h a n g c, C . Z . Q i n c, J . B u r t d, T . B e h r e n s e & T . S c h o l t e n e aSchool of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China, bJiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China, cState ...

Change has always been an issue for studies in politics and economics. However, there are few systematic treatments of institutions. This paper exemplifies how institutions (i.e., rules, norms and conventions) relate to the time-geography concepts of constraints, which affect different agents, policy-making, as well as economic performance. This paper seeks to advance the current discussion and...

Information behaviour studies have the potential to inform the design of effective information services that incorporate the information needs, information-seeking and preferences for information sources of target users; hence a doctoral study was conducted on the information behaviour of geography teachers in Lesotho with the aim of guiding the design and implementation of an information servi...

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