Die deutschen Volksstämme und Landschaften.

Includes bibliography.

Forschungen zur Deutschen Landeskunde.

Mode of access: Internet.

Die deutschen Volksstämme und Landschaften.

Includes bibliographical references.

El factor geográfico en la política sudamericana,

At head of title: Real Academia de jurisprudencia y legislacion.

The red man's continent; a chronicle of aboriginal America,

"Abraham Lincoln edition."

The pulse of progress : including a sketch of Jewish history /

"List of books and articles by Ellsworth Huntington from which much of the material in this book has been drawn" : p. 321-324.

Habitat, economy and society; a geographical introduction to ethnology.

Mode of access: Internet.

Siedlungsgeographie des Königreichs Württemberg /

Includes bibliographical references.

Kulturgrenze und kulturzyklus in den polnischen Westbeskiden. Eine prinzipielle kulturgeographische untersuchung

With this is bound: Fischer, Alfred. Die hurricanes oder drehstürme Westindiens; Tsvijic, Jovan. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Eisernen Tores; Auler, Karl. Die Hedschasbahn II; Tsvijic, Jovan. Grundlinien der geographie und geologie von Mazedonien und Altserbien;

Wirtschaftsgeographische Verhältnisse, Ansiedlungen und Bevölkerungsverteilung im mittleren Teile des sächsischen Erzgebirges.

Also paged: [275]-416.

Britain and the British seas /

Includes index.

Education and Development : A spatial-econometric approach on spatial change and permanence in southern Brazil

The Brazilian state of Paraná exhibits a violent geography of inequality and duality, hosting both the most developed city in the country, internationally recognized by its urban and environmental innovations, and southern Brazil’s most concentrated cluster of poverty and underdevelopment. Over the course of the past decades, the state underwent a major economic transformation, modernizing and increasing its industrial structure and shifting to the service sector with a larger participation of the knowledge economy. This study is concerned on the interplay between formal education and socioeconomic development during this process, and above all its spatial character. It attempts make sense of the rich literature on education and growth and/or development, discussing it through the lenses of human geography and planning. In order for the analysis to be possible, this study created a consistent database of municipal scores of education over the course of 40 years, dealing with changing census methodologies and municipal boundaries. Making use of modern exploratory spatial data analysis combined with spatial regressions, the study identifies a clustered, time-persistent interplay between education and development that is stronger for low and basic levels of education. Moreover, it provides evidence that not only education is a predictor of future development, but also that analyses of this kind must take into consideration spatial autocorrelation in order to be accurate.

Localizing a global discipline - Designing new planning programs in Sri Lanka

In order to be relevant and useful in a fragmented developing country context, community and regional planning needs to shift away from the use of rigid tools to more flexible, adaptive approaches. An international review of planning curricula indicated a widespread consensus with respect to key competencies required of planners. This understanding was used in the development of new teaching programs at three Sri Lankan universities. Complementing the technical core knowledge areas, strong emphases on problem structuring, critical and strategic thinking, and the understanding of the political and institutional contexts appear to be crucial to making the agenda of planning for sustainable development more than a fashionable cliche. In order for these core areas to have relevance in a developing country context, however, planning curricula need to achieve a balance between local priorities and a global perspective.

Management effectiveness: Assessing management of protected areas?

To maximise the potential of protected areas, we need to understand the strengths and weaknesses in their management and the threats and stresses that they face. There is increasing pressure on governments and other bodies responsible for protected areas to monitor their effectiveness. The reasons for assessing management effectiveness include the desire by managers to adapt and improve their management strategies, improve planning and priority setting and the increasing demands for reporting and accountability being placed on managers, both nationally and internationally. Despite these differing purposes for assessment, some common themes and information needs can be identified, allowing assessment systems to meet multiple uses. Protected-area management evaluation has a relatively short history. Over the past 20 years a number of systems have been proposed but few have been adopted by management agencies. In response to a recognition of the need for a globally applicable approach to this issue, the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas developed a framework for assessing management effectiveness of both protected areas and protected area systems. This framework was launched at the World Conservation Congress in Jordan in 2000. The framework provides guidance to managers to develop locally relevant assessment systems while helping to harmonise assessment approaches around the world. The framework is strongly linked to the protected area management process and is adaptable to different types and circumstances of protected areas around the world. Examples from Fraser Island in Australia and the Congo Basin illustrate the use of the framework.