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350 documents for human geography places and regions in global context
  • ... ahead? And I'd like to frame that in the context of who are the audiences to whom we should be spea... us to what is happening in many other places in the world. . And that is total depletion of ou...Finally, we looked at the human health impacts of this event. About 14 million peo... In other words, there was one global settlement which has not yet happened in this situ...GRAHAM: When we visited the -- the regions we were getting varying assessments of how effecti..., about two- thirds of the Gulf is a geography composed of barrier islands with sporadic wetlands...

  • ...Why Migrate? C. The Geography of Migration D. Who Migrates? E. The Timing of Mig...Management. Contexts 1. Wildlife Management in the Context of Land Mana... requires modifying many aspects of human undertakings. . There is room for optimism, howeve... between northern and southern polar regions, making the longest known migration round trip of ..., even though they end up in the same places. . E. The Timing of Migration . Almost by definiti...Continued research into how global change is altering the migratory biology of animal...

  • ... neogeographer in the hazards and crisis context is of particular interest, as the desire to mitiga... For example, Dynes (1970) describes the geography of disaster events based on a series of concentric.... The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Program on Crisis Mapping and Early W... the relationship between people and places?" (p. 2035). . The purpose of this paper hopes to ... topics based on certain geographic regions. . [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] . Expediting Communication o... possible" about the immediate impact [of] global warming" and to change "human perception." . [FIGU...

  • ... of the most powerful corporations in the global ICT/media sector today can be read simply as a "pu... enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)-e.g. freedom of expression, freedom ...In this polarized context, arguing against the state places one in the same ... flow, are forming an additional geography to Anderson's initial conceptualization of the nat... or degrees of compatibility between regions, groups, or individuals. People live and work with...

  • EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are issuing this joint proposal to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for model years 2017-2025. This proposal extends the National Program beyond the greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set for model years 2012-2016. On May 21, 2010, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum requesting that NHTSA and EPA develop through notice and comment rulemaking a coordinated National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of light-duty vehicles for model years 2017- 2025. This proposal, consistent with the President's request, responds to the country's critical need to address global climate change and to reduce oil consumption. NHTSA is proposing C...

    ...Many other countries and regions around the world have in place fuel economy or CO2... in the docket and referenced in multiple places in this section. ---------------------------------...EISA, such as in the context of the ``other motor vehicle standards'' provision... the statutes to conserve energy and protect human health and the environment.\119\ Thus, the decisio... conditions, factoring in differences in geography, climate, and driving behavior across the U.S. EPA...

  • ...In this context, the proposals that arise from neoliberal policies... states, which has a direct impact on the regions and localities. The governance of the global econo... American and 7 were ranked among the first places in 5 sectors. Furthermore, an American transnation..., underpinned and oriented by human resource development, and sensitive to constant en...Regional economic geography began with an analysis of industrial districts in ...

  • ... in particular time periods and world regions, this article develops an expansive view of precar... as to how urges for certainty in the context of precarity might be constructively channeled, th...Keywords: precarity, human condition, war on terror, governmentality, scale, ... enterprises by enclaving times and places thought not to be modern. However, although our ec...://online.northumbria.ac.uk/geography_research/radix/wtc7.html, (2002). . (9.) From this perspect...

  • ...'s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, 2005). A growing body of literature argues that t... community development in many rural contexts (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2008; Moore & Jie Wen, 2009; ..., is the gap between the host and home regions. . Tourism often leads to greater inequities withi... in pilgrimages to experience first-hand places with sacred meaning, or because they feel a person... should contribute to reconciliation in the global sense--they have the means to tell a compelling ci...Journal of Cultural Geography, 24(1), 67-89. . Dewan, S.K. (2004, August 10). Ci...

  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt The United States faces a "diverse set of security challenges"1 and a "wider range of adversaries" than any time in recent history.2 The international environment is characterized by significant instability, insecurity, and uncertainty and America faces substantial strategic challenges as it attempts to maintain an effective international presence in such an environment while facing mounting resource constraints. [...] American leaders must balance national desires, responsibilities, and ideals to meet America's strategic ends while harmonizing the ways and means at their disposal.

    ... to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Th... difficult in a complex international context. Challenges in the international environment deriv... secure from this insurgent threat and regions are stable.5. As opposed to stable countries, nati... spreading insecurity, especially in a global environment no longer constrained by the bipolar c... weakened by insurgency offers terrorists places to hide, train, plan, and operate. America must pu..., have better knowledge of language, geography, and culture. They understand tribal loyalties, re...

  • ... of different species populations between regions and countries could also help to build "social con...--especially those equipped with global positioning systems (GPS)--allow for the collectio... recovery in many instances may be found in places other than their breeding grounds. . The Kirtland'... from that of a common concern of humankind to that of a set of shared sovereign interests tha...In this more granular context, the international law principle of common concern... of subject areas, including science, geography, social studies, visual arts, language arts, and S...



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