The aim of the article is to describe emotional geography, i.e. a research trend located on borderline between human geography and contemporary affect studies, which focuses relationship emotions broadly understood environmental, socio-cultural, spatial, economic, political context. For this purpose, author refers theoretical analyses in area so-called affective turn, critical theories emotions...

Education and learning take place in a situation that is heavily influenced by the culture of the learners’ context because this context affects a learner’s cognitive processes in learning. Hence, to improve the conditions for learning, e-learning environments and their contents have to be presented and interact with the learner in a culturally appropriate way. Therefore, an e-learning system f...

In the year of his 100th birthday, this contribution considers unusual story Scottish geographer James Macintosh Houston (1922-). Following passage from undergraduate at University Edinburgh to postdoctorate and then lecturer in geography Oxford, aspects Houston’s approach – increasingly a cultural-historical geography, sometimes framed by him as ‘history ideas’ are reconstructed. Narrating dra...

Representations of quantitative geography, both by practitioners and by others, have tended to associate quantification with empiricism, positivism, and the social and academic status quo. Qualitative geography, by contrast is represented as nonempiricist or postempiricist, sensitive to complexity, contextual, and capable of empowering nonmainstream academic approaches and social groups. Attemp...

B. Ramezani Gourab1 and P.Foroughe2 1-Dept. of Physical Geography, Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Iran. 2- Dept. of Geography and Tourism Planning, USM, Malaysia. * Corresponding author?s E-mail: [email protected]

One of the delightful attractions that mathematics and geography have in common is that they offer fresh views of the world. Both fields of inquiry are circumspect almost by definition, and as soon as one looks around without prejudice, one discovers alternatives to one’s provincial world view. In mathematics, formalism and generalization are the seemingly sterile keys that open the gates to fe...

The objective of the study was to present socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in adolescent smoking in Scotland. The international literature suggests there is no obvious pattern in the geography of adolescent smoking, with rural areas having a higher prevalence than urban areas in some countries, and a lower prevalence in others. These differences are most likely due to substantive diffe...