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Olliver, J. G. "SPACE-DERIVED GEOID MAPS OF GREAT BRITAIN." Survey Review 31, no. 244 (April 1992): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sre.1992.31.244.310.
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Smith, D. "Inset town plans on large-scale maps of Great Britain." Cartographic Journal 29, no. 2 (December 1992): 118–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/caj.1992.29.2.118.
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Itämies, Juhani. "Review: The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland." Entomologica Fennica 8, no. 3 (September 1, 1997): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83941.
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A. Maitland Emmet (ed.) 1996: The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 3. Yponomeutidae-Elachistidae. - Harley Books, Martins, Great Horkesley, Colchester, Essex C06 4AH, England. 452pp. (11 colour plates, 8 duotone plates of larval cases, several hundred text figures and 240 maps). ISBN 0-946589-56-9 £75.00 net; P/B ISBN 0 946589 56 9 £37.50 net.
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Gregory, Ian N., Chris Bennett, Vicki L. Gilham, and Humphrey R. Southall. "The Great Britain Historical GIS Project: From Maps to Changing Human Geography." Cartographic Journal 39, no. 1 (June 2002): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/caj.2002.39.1.37.
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Glauser, Beat. "Review of Fischer & Ammann (1991): An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain." English World-Wide 13, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.13.1.10gla.
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Haughton, J. P., T. W. Freeman, Arthur E. Smailes, and D. V. Henning. "Reviews of Books." Irish Geography 2, no. 2 (January 6, 2017): 85–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.55650/igj.1950.1186.
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LEINSTER AND THE CITY OF DUBLIN. By Richard Hayward. Arthur Barker, Ltd., London, 1949. 256 pp., 65 illustrations. 15 /‐.THE LAGAN VALLEY, 1800–1850. A Local History of the Industrial Revolution. By E. R. R. Green. Faber & Faber, Ltd., London, 1949. 188 pp. 16/‐.AN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN. By Wilfred Smith. Methuen, 1949. 747 pp., with 124 maps and diagrams. 32 /6.MAPS, TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL. By T. W. Birch. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1949. 240 pp. 15s.
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Sumardiman, Adi. "AFFIDAVIT OF ADMIRAL ADI SUMARDIMAN (before the International Court of Justice - October 8, 1999)." Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan 33, no. 1 (June 21, 2017): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.21143/jhp.vol33.no1.1366.
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Prior to arriving in Kuala Lumpur, I was in charge of organising the geographical data on Indonesia. including hydrographical or topographical survey reports and maps of neighboring States showing the location of islands and delimitation constructions. I asked the Head of theGroup for the opportunity to collect abroad those informations for a last check of Indonesian territory and delimitation lines based on foreign maps . Malaysian maps were made by the British who had been using datum that were different from those of the maps of tile former Netherlands East-Indies. In this connection, I was aware of numbers of foreign maps which showed the international boundary between Indonesia and Malaysia running due east from the Island of Sebatik along the 4° 10'N parallel established by the 1891 Convention between The Netherlandsand Great Britain.
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Wrede, Maria, Maria Brynda, and Zofia Głowicka. "Informacja o zbiorach dawnego Muzeum Księży Marianów im. ks. Józefa Jarzębowskiego w Fawley Court (Wielka Brytania) – obecnie w Muzeum im. ks. Józefa Jarzębowskiego w Licheniu Starym koło Konina." Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi 14, no. 1 (March 24, 2020): 63–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2020.182.
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History of the Museum of Marian Fathers, founded at the college for boys in Bielany, the district of Warsaw, reconstituted in the Fawley Court at Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain, and finally moved to the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Licheń Stary, is the key to understanding the content and organization of this collection. Patriotic, religious and educational aspects of the museums, its role for the Polish diaspora in Great Britain, and its depletion in the results of historical changes. Presentation of the collection content” museum objects – sidearm, sculptures, artistic fabrics, drawings and watercolors, paintings, graphics, commemorative items; book collection – books from the 19th and 20th centuries, journals, music prints, maps, and cityscapes. A more detailed presentation of the collection of early printed books, ephemera, and journals from the 19th century.
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McMillan, A. A. "A provisional Quaternary and Neogene lithostratigraphical framework for Great Britain." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84, no. 2 (July 2005): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600022988.
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AbstractThis paper presents an overview of a provisional lithostratigraphical framework for the Quaternary and Neogene deposits of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) (onshore). The objective is to provide a workable framework to aid future Quaternary mapping and research, and a stratigraphical scheme capable of use in a wide variety of applications. Using the full hierarchy, a supergroup, group and subgroup lithostratigraphy, based upon the primary mapping unit, the formation, is proposed. It is recommended that some classes of lithogenetically-defined deposits which, at present cannot be accorded formational status, should be assigned informally to one of the proposed groups or subgroups. The framework distinguishes one superficial deposits supergroup within which seven groups are defined: i) Crag Group, marine deposits (Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene); ii), Dunwich Group, fluvial deposits (pre-Anglian/pre-Elsterian); iii) Residual Deposits Group; iv) British Coastal Deposits Group, coastal and marine deposits (Anglian to Holocene); v) Britannia Catchments Group, fluvial, organic and mass movement deposits (Anglian to Holocene) within broadly defined catchment areas related to Late Devensian to present-day physiography; vi) Albion Glacigenic Group, glacigenic deposits (pre-Devensian/pre-Weichselian), and vii) Caledonia Glacigenic Group, glacigenic deposits (Devensian/Weichselian). North of the Devensian (Weichselian) ice-sheet limit, a series of glacigenic subgroups are defined geographically for the two glacigenic groups on the basis of mappable formations of till. The subgroups include associated formations of glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine deposits. Consequently some of the glacigenic water-lain units may extend beyond the Devensian limit. Catchment subgroups of the Britannia Catchments Group are proposed for formations and lithogenetic units defined within broad present-day physiographic regions by major river drainage systems that have developed since Middle Pleistocene time. Lithostratigraphical description and correlation of formations will aid the refinement of the proposed framework and enable the development of lithostratigraphical maps and three-dimensional models. As well as offering a unified framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene deposits the proposed supergroup, group and subgroup structure may prove useful for a wide range of regional applications (e.g. hydrological, hydrogeological, engineering).
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Szaniawska, Lucyna. "Lithological maps visualizing the achievements of geological sciences in the first half of the 19th century." Polish Cartographical Review 50, no. 2 (July 1, 2018): 87–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2018-0006.
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Abstract The paper discusses selected maps of rock strata which exemplify the evolution stages of presentation methods of cartographic data concerning the geological structure of selected countries (France, Great Britain and Germany) which in the first half of the nineteenth century constituted the leaders of the field. The results of geologists’ work are used to present the content of maps, provide explanations and showcase the methods and techniques chosen by the maps’ creators. The analysed maps are accompanied by geological writings which contain descriptions of the chronological order within rock formations and strata defined on the basis of fossils, methods of recreating the geological history of individual regions, and attempts of compiling the acquired knowledge and using it to describe larger areas. The author discusses also two maps of Europe published in the mid-nineteenth century, which are the result of cooperation and research achievements of geologists from different countries.
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Keller, Harold W. "Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe Including Great Britain and Ireland." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 18, no. 1 (July 9, 2024): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v18.i1.1358.
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The introduction takes the reader back to early explorers of river systems and aquatic habits in the 1800s for the geographical areas highlighted in the book. Pages are filled with color photographs illustrating plant morphological examples along with taxonomic key couplets. Each species is profusely illustrated with line drawings and color photographs along with distribution maps. There is an illustrated glossary (pp. 728–733) that aids in interpreting the species descriptions. A literature citation section (pp. 734–738) is organized by topical headings, e.g., Species Identification and Biology. The Index of Latin Names locates the species by page numbers. I found this book easy to use because the authors have focused their attention on organization, function, and usability for the public, as well as aquatic taxonomists. Everything about this book is first class! The size and weight will limit its use in the field and will be more appropriate for in house laboratory or classroom use. The design, layout, printing, binding, and overall quality of the text is of exceptional high quality. I highly recommend this book for botanists interested in European aquatic habitats at a bargain price.
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Knell, Simon. "The Sustainability of Geological Mapmaking: The Case of the Geological Survey of Great Britain." Earth Sciences History 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.26.1.p71448m3245mt6q5.
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Henry De la Beche's leadership of the Geological Survey of Great Britain in the second quarter of the nineteenth century led to the establishment of a number of key institutions which ensured the Survey of survival beyond the initial phase of geological mapmaking. Considered as a finite activity serving only to fix on paper the spatial distribution of an unchanging physical resource, geological mapmaking alone was never a secure basis for institutional or disciplinary development. The actions taken by De la Beche in the 1830s and 1840s, at a time when public and politicians alike were suspicious of government-funded science, were echoed 150 years later by successors who served governments with similar doubts about non-commercial scientific activity. Whether buried within an empire of public institutions, illuminated in museum collections which spoke of utilitarian value, or conceptualised as an income-generating database of rare data, the continuation of geological mapmaking in Britain relied upon a relationship to, and relevance for, a wider world of politics and practice. Seen in the long view, the British Geological Survey demonstrates that a nation can only make and re-make geological maps if that activity can be submerged within, or repackaged as, a new strategically-valued socio-economic initiative.
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Aucott, Paula, and Humphrey Southall. "Locating Past Places in Britain: Creating and Evaluating the GB1900 Gazetteer." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 13, no. 1-2 (October 2019): 69–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2019.0232.
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The GB1900 project used crowd-sourcing to transcribe all text from the second edition County Series six inch to one mile maps of Great Britain, published between 1888 and 1914, a total of c. 2.55m. geo-located text strings. These locate almost every farm and about half of all street names. The paper describes the final datasets, and how they were created. It then presents a detailed comparison with five other freely-available gazetteers of Britain: Geonames, the US government's NGA gazetteer, the Ordnance Survey's 50k and Open Names datasets, and the English Place Name Survey's DEEP project. Comparisons are presented at national level and, more qualitatively, for an area of eastern England. The results demonstrate both GB1900's greater volume of geo-located entries and its ability to locate places and features identified in other historical sources beyond administrative hierarchies: this is the most detailed historical gazetteer, certainly for Britain and possibly for anywhere. The final online system is described, including its integration of place name histories from DEEP.
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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. "Corpus-based dialectometry: a methodological sketch." Corpora 6, no. 1 (May 2011): 45–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2011.0004.
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In this paper, I introduce methodologies to tap corpora for exploring aggregate linguistic distances between dialects or varieties as a function of properties of geographic space. The paper describes the different steps necessary to obtain an appropriate corpus-based dataset (a so-called ‘distance matrix’), and subsequently discusses several cartographic visualisation techniques – network maps, continuum maps and cluster maps – to project aggregate linguistic relationships to geography. In addition, the paper sketches some statistical methods to quantify these relationships. By way of example, a case study draws on the Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects – a major dialect corpus in which more than thirty traditional dialects of English from all over Great Britain are sampled. With a focus on regional variation in morphosyntax and on the basis of text frequencies of several dozen features, the study probes joint linguistic variability between the dialects sampled in the corpus.
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Rogers, Pat. "The Topographic Sources of Defoe’s Tour." Review of English Studies 70, no. 296 (April 10, 2019): 702–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz027.
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Abstract The most important study of the topographic background to Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ Great Britain (1724–1726) is still one written by the historical geographer J. H. Andrews in 1960. This article seeks to amplify what Andrews says about two aspects of the subject: the use that the author made of maps in compiling his work, and his recourse to the text of topographic volumes, including atlases and guides. On the first issue, the evidence corroborates what Andrews suggested about the use of maps in the Tour, but it shows that Defoe enlisted their aid more widely than previously suspected in areas of the country such as Westmorland. The discussion draws chiefly on maps by Robert Morden, but also those by John Speed, Herman Moll, and others. On the second point, Andrews tended to understate Defoe’s acquaintance with counties such as Dorset, Somerset, and East Yorkshire. As a result, except for parts of Cornwall, he exaggerated the degree to which the author relied on A New General Atlas (1721). Some other sources that he did not consider have now surfaced. A full comparison between the Tour and John Macky’s Journey is provided, exploring the kind of topographic detail each writer supplied. It remains the case that much of the treatment by Andrews continues to be valid after 60 years, and the article endorses his conclusion that even when we identify Defoe’s borrowings, they do not diminish the importance of ‘a great pioneer work of economic geography’.
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Guldberg, Christoffer. "Using Google Images, Maps and Earth to teach critical thinking: decolonising the curriculum and beyond." Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice 2 (October 17, 2022): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/jppp.vol2.2022.1231.
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In this article I outline how Google Images and Google Earth can be used to visualise to students the constructed nature of legal and political concepts in law and international relations. The method consists of asking students to critically discuss the gendered and racialised nature of Google results when googling such legal, geographical, and political concepts as “drug trafficker”, “international development”, “Great Britain”, or “Brazil”, as well as discovering the different layers of natural, cultural and political boundaries and connections that crisscross the world by using Google Earth.
As an innovative method for technology-assisted teaching this method can be used in both face-to-face and virtual learning situations to teach students critical thinking in a way that is both interactive and multimodal, while drawing on technology that students know from their everyday lives. The method can be applied creatively by both students and teachers, and ideally should allow for students to become their own critical researchers, able to uncover the ways in which apparently neutral concepts are shaped by and shape global structures of inequality.
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Hughes, T. J., R. H. Buchanan, K. A. Mawhinney, J. P. Haughton, F. W. Boal, Robert D. Osborne, Anngret Simms, et al. "Reviews of Books and Maps." Irish Geography 10, no. 1 (December 26, 2016): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.55650/igj.1977.861.
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REVIEWS OF BOOKSIRELAND IN PREHISTORY, by Michael Herity and George Eogan. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. 302 pp. £8.95. Reviewed by: T. J. HughesTHE LIVING LANDSCAPE: KILGALLIGAN, ERRIS, CO. MAYO, by S. Ó Catháin and Patrick O'Flanagan. Dublin: Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann, 1975. 312 pp. Reviewed by: R. H. BuchananTHE IRISH TOWN: AN APPROACH TO SURVIVAL, by Patrick Shaffrey. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1975. 192 pp. £5.00. Reviewed by: K. A. MawhinneyLOST DEMESNES: IRISH LANDSCAPE GARDENING 1660–1845, by Edward Malins and the Knight of Glin. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1976. 208 pp. ,£15.00. Reviewed by: K. A. MawhinneyNORTH BULL ISLAND, DUBLIN BAY — A MODERN COASTAL NATURAL HISTORY, edited by D. W. Jeffrey and others. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1977. 158 pp. Hardback .£6.50, paperback £3.60. Reviewed by: J. P. HaughtonCONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POLARISED COMMUNITY, by John Darby. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1976. 268 pp. £7.95. Reviewed by: F. W. BoalBELFAST: AREAS OF SPECIAL SOCIAL NEED. REPORT BY PROJECT TEAM. Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. 85 pp. £3.25. Reviewed by: Robert D. OsborncDUBLIN: A CITY IN CRISIS, edited by P. M. Delany. Dublin: Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, 1975. 108 pp. £3.25. Reviewed by: Anngret SimmsIRELAND'S VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, by Kevin Danaher. Cork: Mercier Press for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland, 1975. 82 pp., 68 plates. £1.50. Reviewed by: F. H. A. Aalen18TH CENTURY ULSTER EMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Education Facsimiles 121–140. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1972. £0.45.; PLANTATIONS IN ULSTER, c. 1600–41, by R. J. Hunter. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Education Facsimilies 161–180. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1975. £1.00.; RURAL HOUSING IN ULSTER IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, prepared by Alan Gailey, Victor Kelly and James Paul with an introduction by E. Estyn Evans, for the Teachers' Centre of the Queen's University, Belfast in association with the Ulster Folk Museum and the Public Record Office Northern Ireland. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1974. £0.70.; LETTERS OF A GREAT IRISH LANDLORD: A SELECTION FROM THE ESTATE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE THIRD MARQUESS OF DOWNSHIRE, 1809–45, edited with an introduction by W. A. Maguire, for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1974. 189 pp. £1–65.; ORDNANCE SURVEY MEMOIR FOR THE PARISH OF DONEGORE, Belfast: Department of Extra-Mural Studies, Queen's University, and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1974. v + 64 pp. 1 map and 31 plates. £0.75. Reviewed by: A. A. HornerTHE LANDED GENTRY. Facsimile documents with commentaries. Dublin: The National Library of Ireland, 1977. 20 sheets and introduction. £1.00. Reviewed by: J. A. K. GrahameSANITATION, CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICES IN IRELAND, by Michael Flannery. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1976. 178 pp. £5.75. Reviewed by: Michael J. BannonGEOGRAPHY, CULTURE AND HABITAT, SELECTED ESSAYS (1925–1975) OF E. G. BOWEN, selected and introduced by Harold Carter and Wayne K. D. Davies. Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1976. 275 pp. £6. Reviewed by: J. H. AndrewsDICTIONARY OF LAND SURVEYORS AND LOCAL CARTOGRAPHERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1550–1850 edited by Peter Eden. Folkestone: William Dawson & Sons. Part I, 1975; Parts II and III, 1976. 377 pp. £6.00 per part. Reviewed by: A. A. HornerFIELDS, FARMS AND SETTLEMENT IN EUROPE, edited by R. H. Buchanan, R. A. Butlin and D. McCourt. Belfast: Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1976. 161 pp. £5. Reviewed by: J. H. AndrewsREVIEWS OF MAPSNORTHERN IRELAND — A MAP FOR TOURISTS. 1:250,000(1970); CASTLEWELLAN FOREST PARK. 1:10,000(1975); ADMINISTRATIVE MAPS; MAP CATALOGUE (1975 edition). 26 pp. Reviewed by: J. A. K. Grahame
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Le Dû, Jean. "The Celtic Element in Gallo-Romance Dialect Areas." Studia Celto-Slavica 11 (2020): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.54586/sfww3511.
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The history of the French language was initially marked by Celtomania, which saw Celtic roots everywhere. When this doctrine was discredited and discarded in the XIXth century, the role of the Germanic superstrate became hypertrophied, the more so that Breton, long considered a direct descendant of the native Gaulish, was ranked in the same period as an alien language imported from Great Britain into the Armorican peninsula. Relying on modern geolinguistics, I compare ALF (Atlas Linguistique de la France) maps with Breton ones, using the data recorded in Le Roux’s Atlas Linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne and Le Dû’s Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne. I shall try to show that several of theses maps reveal the presence of ALF data whose origin is clearly Celtic and not Germanic. The study of the Atlas Linguarum Europae and of the Atlas Linguistique Roman has shown that borders between languages and even language families are not waterproof. It is high time to develop such comparisons to bring about a new vision of the history of languages.
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Dhungel, Dwarika, Jagat Bhusal, and Narendra Khanal. "North-Western Boundary of Nepal." Journal of International Affairs 3, no. 1 (May 24, 2020): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/joia.v3i1.29077.
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Following the publication of new political maps by India on 2nd and 8th November 2019, the issues related to the source of Mahakali River and Indian occupation of the Nepali territory east of the river, have, once again, come to the surface. And, the Nepali civil society has come out strongly against the newly published political maps of India, prepared a new map of Nepal, showing the whole of the territory east of Mahakali River (about 400 sq. km) as Nepalese land on the basis of Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816 by East India Company of Great Britain and Raja of Nepal. An analysis of the maps, so far available, shows that changes have been made in the names of the river and places, and there is cartographic aggression and manipulation by India in relation to Mahakali River and its boundary with Nepal’s northwest. It has also been found that Nepal has published a map in the past showing its international boundary without any basis of the treaties and other historical documents. Analysis clearly shows that the river originating from Limpiyadhura is the Mahakali (called Kalee/Kali River) as per Article 5 of the Sugauli treaty and it forms the international boundary between the two countries.
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Ivanov, Konstantin. "Astronomers and Surveyors in the Struggle for Central Asia. Notes on the Epistemology of Colonization." Philosophical Literary Journal Logos 30, no. 2 (2020): 15–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2020-2-15-36.
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Central Asia was mainly desert land that contained just a few small, densely populated oases when it was forcibly occupied by Imperial Russia between 1865 and 1885. What reason was there to gain control of it? It did not serve any military purpose because the Russian Empire was already well protected on its southern frontier by Central Asia’s notorious deserts and dry steppes. Nor was there much economic advantage to be gained. To present it merely as an opportunity for the thievish embezzlement of public money — and theft there was — is somewhat beside the point. The advance of Great Britain into the same region from the opposite side reflected the same trend. What kind of reasoning was behind these incursions? The counterintuitive answer is that the only rational reason to move into the region was a scientific one. At that time the Central Asia was still a blank spot on European maps and it was the only region on Earth in which the great empires had not yet confronted each other. The frontier lines of both empires were bound to move in on each other, although neither empire gained much advantage from the expansion. The article analyzes the way in which the struggle for the territory eventually turned into a symposium about the territory. The main agents in that war — and also its beneficiaries — were the British and Russian military geodesists and surveyors who used the latest astronomical methods. Systematic mapping of the desert region was important not only for the geographical knowledge it produced, but also for advancing the surveyors’ careers and improving their social status and personal prosperity. The so-called Afghan Demarcation between the Russian Empire and Great Britain in 1885 seemed to them more like an enjoyable conference for sharing topographical and geographical information than a hostile confrontation. After the outer and inner demarcations had been fixed, the result was that this region — “Created by the Lord in Anger” — was surveyed and studied not only in terms of geography, but also geologically, ethnically and historically.
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Kay, Alison L., Victoria A. Bell, Helen N. Davies, Rosanna A. Lane, and Alison C. Rudd. "The UKSCAPE-G2G river flow and soil moisture datasets: Grid-to-Grid model estimates for the UK for historical and potential future climates." Earth System Science Data 15, no. 6 (June 21, 2023): 2533–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2533-2023.
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Abstract. Appropriate adaptation planning is contingent upon information about the potential future impacts of climate change, and hydrological impact assessments are of particular importance. The UKSCAPE-G2G datasets were produced, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) UK-SCAPE (UK Status, Change and Projections of the Environment) programme, to contribute to this information requirement. They use the Grid-to-Grid (G2G) national-scale hydrological model configured for both Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and the parts of the Republic of Ireland that drain to rivers in NI). Six separate datasets are provided, for two sets of driving data – one observation-based (1980–2011) and one climate-projection-based (1980–2080) – for both river flows and soil moisture on 1 km × 1 km grids across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The river flow datasets include grids of monthly mean flow, annual maxima of daily mean flow, and annual minima of 7 d mean flow (m3 s−1). The soil moisture datasets are grids of monthly mean soil moisture content (m water / m soil), which should be interpreted as depth-integrated values for the whole soil column. The climate-projection-based datasets are produced using data from the 12-member 12 km regional climate model ensemble of the latest UK climate projections (UKCP18), which uses RCP8.5 emissions. The production of the datasets is described, along with details of the file format and how the data should be used. Example maps are provided, as well as simple UK-wide analyses of the various outputs. These suggest potential future decreases in summer flows, annual minimum 7 d flows, and summer/autumn soil moisture, along with possible future increases in winter flows and annual maximum flows. References are given for published papers providing more detailed spatial analyses, and some further potential uses of the data are suggested. The datasets are listed in Table 1.
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Alrajhi, Muhamad N., and Gottfried Konecny. "THE UPDATING OF GEOSPATIAL BASE DATA." ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-3 (April 23, 2018): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-3-3-2018.
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Topopographic mapping issues concern the area coverage at different scales and their age. The age of the map is determined by the system of updating. The United Nations (UNGGIM) have attempted to track the global map coverage at various scale ranges, which has greatly improved in recent decades. However the poor state of updating of base maps is still a global problem. In Saudi Arabia large scale mapping is carried out for all urban, suburban and rural areas by aerial surveys. Updating is carried out by remapping every 5 to 10 years. Due to the rapid urban development this is not satisfactory, but faster update methods are forseen by use of high resolution satellite imagery and the improvement of object oriented geodatabase structures, which will permit to utilize various survey technologies to update the photogrammetry established geodatabases. The longterm goal is to create an geodata infrastructure, which exists in Great Britain or Germany.
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Gibson, Sarah Katherine. "The Science of Territorial Domination in General Haldimand’s Defence of Quebec, 1778-1783." Scientia Canadensis 34, no. 2 (February 22, 2013): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1014347ar.
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In General Haldimand’s little-studied administration of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War, military strategy depended upon gathering information about the natural environment. Haldimand preserved Quebec for the British not by force, but by applying continental modes of territorial domination. Rather than secure the St. Lawrence Valley in an intimidating show of military force, Haldimand sought to secure the vitality of the fur trade along the Great Lakes corridor. This endeavor required Haldimand to look for the natural laws that created unity out of the social and geographic territory he had to defend, and to protect the most vital links: the economic currents and the transportation system. Thus, the Royal Engineers took precedence over other military officers as they collected a large body of information about the natural environment of the Great Lakes region. They drew maps, sounded bodies of water, and made meteorological observations, turning pleasant bays into safe harbors. The knowledge gathered replaced Mississaugan perspectives of the land, revised French information and set the agenda for Loyalist settlement in the region. This paper however, focuses upon Haldimand’s role in applying continental attitudes towards the landscape that helped solidify the link between natural history and imperialism of late-18th century Britain.
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Hoppit, Julian. "Robin Pearson, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434pp. 17 figures. 52 tables. 5 maps. Bibliography. £49.95." Urban History 32, no. 3 (December 2005): 533–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926805263472.
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Lindblad, B. A. "Meteor Studies." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 98 (1988): 170–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100092733.
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Historically meteor astronomy is one area where amateurs have always been able to make significant contributions. In fact, in the 19th century, it was amateur naked eye and telescopic observations which laid down much of the foundations of meteor astronomy. References to this work can be found in any textbook on meteors. The 19th century observers concentrated on counting meteors, estimating magnitudes and plotting the meteor paths on star maps. Their main interest was to determine hourly rates and shower radiants. An important milestone was Denning’s radiant catalogue (Denning 1882), which included 4367 shower radiants. Although it is now believed that many of these radiants are spurious, the catalogue is still a useful reference. Unfortunately Denning and other 19th century observers often combined sporadic meteors observed on different nights into a minor stream radiant. This habit of “radiant hunting” is even today quite popular among some amateur observers. However, in all fairness it should be emphasized that most of the 20th century amateur meteor observers applied very strict criteria to their radiant determinations. Names such as J.M. Prentice in Great Britain, R.A. McIntosh in New Zealand and R. Rigollet in France may be mentioned.
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Ivanik, О., V. Shevchuk, D. Kravchenko, and К. Haduatska. "LANDSLIDE HAZARD PREDICTION AND IMPACT ON COMMINITY: MAIN APPROACHES, PRINCIPLES AND METHODS." Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geology, no. 1 (100) (2023): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.100.01.
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The problem of predicting the landslide hazard is a priority area of research in the field of assessment of risks and natural disasters, which requires a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the factors of landslide formation, as well as the synthesis of existed theorethical and empiric data for a full understanding of the problem of landslide hazard and comprehensive assessment of its impact on community. The presented research is aimed at the development, implementation, and application of a comprehensive methodology for predicting landslide hazards and assessing their impact on the infrustructure. The research was carried out within the framework of national and international projects with the partiсipation of international partners from universities in France, Austria and Great Britain. The methodology of regional landslide hazard prediction for different structural regions of Ukraine is based on the methods of spatial modelling and aims at the landslide susseptibility mapping, creating multifactorial spatial models. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of landslide factors and spatial modelling integrated landslide hazard maps were created. These maps provide an opportunity to comprehensively assess the landslide hazard for different regions. Methods of local prediction of landslide hazard based on the application of a rational complex of geological, physical, remote, thermographic studies, and deterministic modelling enable to identify the main features and potential activity of landslide processes within landslide-prone areas and suggest preventive measures for risk mitigation. Examples of the integrated methodology applications for landslide hazard prediction within model sites in Kaniv and Kyiv regions are given. The concept of informing people about the potential geohazards was given.
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Zakieva, L. "DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF TERRITORIAL PLACEMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES." Bulletin of Belgorod State Technological University named after. V. G. Shukhov 7, no. 3 (December 16, 2021): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.34031/2071-7318-2021-7-3-42-51.
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The primary task of our work is to determine the distribution and functioning of healthcare facilities in the planning structure of large cities in domestic and foreign practice. Domestic experience is present in cities which are characterized by introducing reforms in the health system: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Tomsk, Perm. We studied the features of the distribution of healthcare facilities in cities which are characterized by an active policy of reforming the health care system: Singapore, Hong Kong, Great Britain, Germany, Israel. The research have been conducted on the basis of general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis and systematization of data identified from literary, graphic and Internet resources. As a result of analysis the spatial placement of the components the healthcare facilities we have been compiled the heat maps, which demonstrating the features of placement in the planning structure of cities. We have been analyzing a land plots of healthcare facilities to identify the compliance to the current regulatory documents and to determine the density of development depending on the location in the structure of the city. We have been carrying out a comparative analysis of the domestic and foreign experience of the spatial distribution of healthcare facilities. As a result, we have been identified two forms of spatial organization of healthcare facilities: point-based «network» and interconnected and functionally dependent organizations concentrated on a local territory the «medical clusters» – one of the most important trends of health care system
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Warrington, G., and H. C. Ivimey-Cook. "Triassic." Geological Society, London, Memoirs 13, no. 1 (1992): 97–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.mem.1992.013.01.11.
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Abstract"The Triassic rocks of Great Britain, if one may judge from statements in the textbooks, are among the simplest of our deposits; but a closer inspection reveals a number of very difficult and intensely interesting problems hidden behind this apparent simplicity." L. J. Wills, 1910.During latest Permian times, northerly-sourced epeiric marine environments, in which the Zechstein sequence formed, were replaced by predominantly clastic sedimentary regimes. The succeeding Triassic deposits, representing about 45 million years, are largely continental; some formed under transient marine influences but few are biogenic. They succeed Permian deposits conformably and overstep these to rest unconformably upon older rocks. Over much of the region the youngest Triassic deposits represent a transgression that re-established marine environments before the end of the Period.The region lay in Laurasia, the northern part of the Pangaean supercontinent, some 15 to 20° north of the equator and close to the northern margin of the Tethys (Tollmann & Kristan-Tollmann 1985) but separated from that ocean by the Variscan mountain chain, denudation of which continued from Permian into Triassic times. A monsoonal climate is envisaged (Robinson 1973; Parrish & Curtis 1982; Parrish et al. 1982).The principal onshore Triassic occurrences are in England and Northern Ireland; others in the British Isles are relatively minor (Warrington et al. 1980, figs 2 & 3). Concealed developments in The Netherlands (Map Tr2) and northeast France (Mégnien & Mégnien 1980; Debrand-Passard 1980; Berners et al. 1984; Maps Tr2-3b & 4c) are contiguous with the tripartite German sequence from
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Hendrix, Melvin K. "Africana Resources in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England." History in Africa 14 (1987): 389–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171852.
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Beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century British naval and shipping interests gradually emerged as one of the major maritime forces operating in African waters and, by the end of the eighteenth century, British shipping dominated the export slave trade. The establishment of colonial plantation economies in the Americas, the global expansion of British political and commercial interests resulting from the Napoleonic Wars, and the anti-slave trade suppression campaign in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century all brought British seafarers into intimate association with African peoples. This relationship became more intense with the scramble for colonial territories throughout the continent in the late nineteenth century.As a direct consequence of this extensive political and economic relationship a voluminous amount of documentary material exists. One of the principal depositories of this material is the National Maritime Museum (NMM) of Great Britain located in Greenwich, southeast of Central London. This essay reviews some of the documentary holdings found in the Library of the NMM, resources that scholars might find useful in reconstructing British maritime activities in relation to peoples of African descent. Located within the Museum its holdings include printed books and other printed materials, maps and atlases, rare and original manuscripts, ship's plans and drawings, collections on shipwrecks, piracy, and boats, together with various photographic and art collections. While the Library is free and open to the public, it is helpful to contact the Secretary of the NMM with a letter of introduction prior to a first visit.
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D., G. L., A. F., A. F., D. E. M., D. E. M., D. E. M., T. J. H., et al. "Reviews of Books." Irish Geography 4, no. 2 (January 6, 2017): 138–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.55650/igj.1960.1097.
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THE CONURBATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by T. W. Freeman. Manchester University Press, 1959. Pp. xii and 393. 8 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. 375. 6d.THE PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, by Frederick E. Zeuner. Hutchinson, London, 1959. 447 pp., 80 figures. 9 × 5 3/4 in. 42s.QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY AND CLIMATE IN THE NEAR EAST, by K. W. Butzer. Bonner Geographische Abhandlungen, Heft 24. Bonn, 1958. 157 pp., 8 figures, 16 plates. 9 × 6 in. DM 11.20.THE WORLD IS ROUND, by Frank Debenham. MacDonald and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London. Pp. 96. 15 1/2 × 12 in. 50s.TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN JUNIOR SCHOOLS. Published by the Geographical Association, Sheffield, 1959. Pp. 46. 9 3/4 × 6 in. 3s. 6d.THE IRISH STUDENT'S ATLAS, originally edited by Elenor Butler and revised to 1958. The Educational Company of Ireland Ltd., Dublin and Cork. Pp. xx + 48 + index. 11 × 8 1/2 in. 7s.6d.LÉARSCÁILÍOCHT ÉIREANN. MAP OF MONASTIC IRELAND. Dublin : Ordnance Survey. 1959. 7s. 6d.ATLAS OF AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES. Dept. of National Development, Canberra. Maps (28 × 30 in.) 10s. 6d. each, including com mentaries. Distributed by Angus and Roberston Ltd., London.MAP OF IRELAND, 1: 500,000. Dublin : Ordnance Survey Office. 2nd. edition, 1958. 26 × 37 in. 2s. 6d. flat, 3s. folded, 11s. flat and plastic coated.SURVEY OF IRELAND, 1: 250,000. Sheet 5 : Ireland, South‐west. Dublin : Ordnance Survey Office, 1959. 32 × 25 1/2 in. 2s. 6d. flat, 3s. 6d. folded, 10s. plastic coated.MAP OF DUBLIN, 1 : 25,000, Dublin : Ordnance Survey Office. Revised edition, 1959. 36 × 25 1/2 in. 3s. 6d. flat, 4s. folded.
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Krause, Oliver. "Mackinder's “heartland” – legitimation of US foreign policy in World War II and the Cold War of the 1950s." Geographica Helvetica 78, no. 1 (March 28, 2023): 183–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-183-2023.
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Abstract. The British geographer Halford J. Mackinder developed two different concepts of a dystopian new global order. The first, developed in 1904 and known as the pivot area concept, was adopted by German geopolitician Karl Haushofer in the 1920s. The second, developed in 1919, was named the heartland theory and was adopted in Great Britain and the USA. Haushofer reversed the dystopian vision of the pivot area concept into a utopian concept for German world power. Due to Haushofer's adaptation, interest in Mackinder's theories rose in the USA in the 1940s. Within the process of adaptation in the USA, both concepts were intertwined, resulting in the perception of the two as a monolithic bloc. Through this multi-layered process of intercontinental reception and adaptation in Germany and the USA, the term “heartland” became a generic spatial denomination detached from the geographical region it originally prescribed, integrable with various geopolitical concepts as the centre of an imagined world order. The reduction of complexity of the theory through the translation of text into maps led to its popularization among the US public during the 1940s and 1950s. Mackinder himself laid out the flexibility of the theory's interpretive possibilities by reflexively revising the theory and adapting it to the history of events over the course of the first half of the 20th century itself. In consequence, the generic spatial denomination “heartland” and the associated adopted theory served as a geopolitical argument for the strategic narrative legitimizing US foreign policy in World War II and during the Cold War.
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Gaimster, David. "Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe 553 pp., 140 colour and b&w photos, 152 maps and figs Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, 2013, £30/$45 (hbk), ISBN 978-0199609338." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 43, no. 1 (February 10, 2014): 206–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12050_4.
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Marston, Christopher G., Aneurin W. O'Neil, R. Daniel Morton, Claire M. Wood, and Clare S. Rowland. "LCM2021 – the UK Land Cover Map 2021." Earth System Science Data 15, no. 10 (October 19, 2023): 4631–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4631-2023.
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Abstract. Land cover is a key environmental variable, underpinning widespread environmental research and decision making. The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) has provided reliable land cover information since the early 1990s; this supports multiple scientific, government and commercial objectives. Recent advances in computation and satellite data availability have enabled annual UKCEH land cover maps since 2017. Here, we introduce the latest, annual UK Land Cover Map representing 2021 (LCM2021), and we describe its production and validation. LCM2021 methods replicate those of LCM2017 to LCM2020 with minor deviations in cloud-masking processes and training data sourcing to enhance accuracy. LCM2021 is based on the classification of satellite and spatial context data into 21 land cover or habitat classes, from which a product suite is derived. The production of LCM2021 involved three highly automated key stages: pre-processing of input data, image classification and production of the final data products. Google Earth Engine scripts were used to create an input data stack of satellite and context data. A set of training areas was created based on data harvested from historic UKCEH land cover maps. The training data were used to construct a random forest classifier, which yielded classified images. Compiled results were validated against 35 182 reference samples, with correspondence tables indicating variable class accuracy and an overall accuracy of 82.6 % for the 21-class data and 86.5 % at a 10-aggregated-classes level. The UK Land Cover Map product suite includes a set of raster products in various projections, thematic and spatial resolutions (10 m, 25 m and 1 km), and land–parcel or vector products. The data are provided in 21-class (all configurations) and aggregated 10-class (1 km raster products only) versions. All raster products are freely available for academic and non-commercial research. The data for Great Britain (GB) are provided in the British National Grid projection (EPSG: 27700) and the Northern Ireland (NI) data are in the TM75 Irish Grid (EPSG: 29903). Information on how to access the data is given in the “Data availability” section of the paper.
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Alborn, Timothy. "Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850. By Robin Pearson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 PP. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-754-63363-2." Business History Review 79, no. 2 (2005): 422–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000768050008082x.
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Fajri, Z., M. Outiskt, Y. Khouyaoui, S. El Moussaoui, H. El Talibi, and K. Aboumaria. "NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST: CASE OF THE CITY OF AGADIR – MOROCCO: PRELIMINARY RESULT." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVI-4/W5-2021 (December 23, 2021): 219–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlvi-4-w5-2021-219-2021.
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Abstract. The coastal zone is a highly complex area because of its location at the interface between land and sea and as a preferred location for many forms of development. A mega tsunami from the Canary Islands will hit not only the Atlantic coasts of Morocco, but also Spain, Portugal, Great Britain and even reach US shores.A slight earthquake or possible volcanic eruption can trigger one of the most violent natural disasters in history. Indeed, according to Steven Ward and Simon Day (2001) the west flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, located on the island of Palma is unstable and could, as a result of a future eruption, collapse into the ocean. It would be in the worst scenario of a huge piece of 25 km long, 15 wide and 1,400 meters thick that would come off, a total of 500 cubic kilometers of land and rocks. This wave could reach 50 meters of height, once arrived on the Moroccan coasts. In this study, a numerical inundation and vulnerability models are used to identify the location and nature of current and future hazards and risk on the Moroccan coast to better understand the tsunami hazard and vulnerability along the Moroccan coast. We have worked on the correction of coastlines from satellite imagery on Google Earth and the digitization of bathymetric and topographic maps, in order to create digital elevation models (DEM). We have also studied the vulnerability assessment of the buildings by using the BTV model (Building Tsunami Vulnerability) such as a combination of tsunami inundation numerical modelling, field survey data and geographic information system.
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Caspers, H. "Cyril O. Hammond, revised by Robert Merritt:The Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland (Second Edition).–With 20 coloured plates, 23 figs, 44 maps, 116 pp. Martins, Colchester, Essex: Harley Books 1983. ISBN 0 946589 00 3. £ 16.95." Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie 70, no. 2 (1985): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19850700211.
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Blikhar, M., N. Mykhalitska, M. Veresklia, I. Komarnytska, and G. Koziar. "FINANCIAL SECURITY OF THE STATE: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CAUSES OF CRISIS PHENOMENA IN THE ECONOMY." Financial and credit activity: problems of theory and practice 2, no. 37 (April 30, 2021): 426–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18371/fcaptp.v2i37.230333.
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Abstract. The article maps out the topical issue of reinforcing the financial and economic security of our country by switching from uncritical compliance with standard requirements of financial institutions affecting the provision and amount of international loans to development of own economic policy on the basis of rethinking the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of the financial and economic security of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to study the issue of increasing the sustainability of the financial system of Ukraine taking into consideration foreign experience and to determine the main direction of its provision with the emphasis on the priority development of the real sector of the economy. The financial security issue has become of paramount importance and relevance not only for Ukraine but for other countries as well. The study of foreign experience showed that stagflation of the 1970s provoked an erroneous neoliberal economic reaction. Policy responses were focused on deregulation of markets, in particular labour and financial markets, on the one hand, and on achieving the price stability instead of full employment on the other hand. This neoliberal «counterrevolution» created the conditions for the emergence of «financialization» or «finance-dominated capitalism» since the early 1980s first in the USA and Great Britain and then spread around the world. Over the past 30 or so years, finance began to dominate the industry, and non-financial corporations are increasingly engaged in financial rather than production activities. For instance, in Japan it resulted in the Great Recession. In Ukraine such policy has been implemented since the early 2000s under the influence of IMF requirements. As a result, the economy has lost the ability to provide a decent standard of living for the population and encouraged the labour migration and the increase of debt burden which was practically unavoidable without catastrophic consequences for state sovereignty. It is proposed to redirect the economic policy of Ukraine from spontaneous development of the «mechanism of financialization» to the creation of a mechanism for the development of real economy and effective creation of high-wage jobs complemented by the social responsibility of entrepreneurs and improving the regulatory requirements for legal regulation of public relations related to ensuring the financial security of the state. Keywords: financial security, gross external debt, liability, social responsibility, law, labour migration; employment of population, budget deficit. JEL Classification Е02, H63, K10, M14, O11 Formulas: 0; fig.: 2; tabl.: 1; bibl.: 26.
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Gibby, Mary. "Britain’s Ferns. A Field Guide to the Clubmosses, Quillworts, Horsetails and Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. J. Merryweather . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Press, WILDGuides (info@press.princeton.edu). 2020. 280 pp., 700+ colour photographs, illustrations, distribution maps and tables. ISBN 978 06 91180 39 7. £20 (paperback)." Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77, no. 3 (July 21, 2020): 551–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960428620000165.
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Malik, Kamila, Agnieszka Bugaj-Nawrocka, and Karina Wieczorek. "Distribution of Drepanaphis acerifoliae – aphid pest of Acer trees – faced with global climate change." Folia Biologica 71, no. 3 (September 29, 2023): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3409/fb_71-3.12.
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The genus Drepanaphis del Guercio currently includes 16 species, all of which are found in North America. Representatives of this genus are narrow oligophages associated mainly with plants of the genus Acer. Previous studies have focused only on the morphology of selected species, while not considering their geographical distribution. Among all species, the painted maple aphid Drepanaphis acerifoliae deserves particular attention, because it represents the broadest range in North America and is the only species of this genus to be found outside of its natural range, i.e. in Europe. Thanks to suitable niche modelling based on a maximum entropy model, we were able to present maps with the potential distribution of D.acerifoliae in its natural range. In North America, its distribution coincides with the natural range of the host plants (native to the eastern part), as well as the areas where they are planted (the western part). An extrapolation of these results to the area of Europe allowed for the designation of places where the aphids can find suitable climatic conditions for developing and expanding their spatial distribution. The model indicated the Mediterranean basin, almost all of Italy, excluding mountainous areas, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the western part of Germany, the southeast and central part of Great Britain, Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula. In a more continental view, the model pointed to areas stretching from the middle of eastern Ukraine, including Crimea, through Russia, to northern parts of Kazakhstan along the border with Russia. Additionally, the impact of climate change on the spread of the species within the next 80 years was analysed, both in North America and Europe. Models considering the potential future climate changes indicate that D.acerifoliaemay find suitable niches further north of its current ranges. In North America, this is mostly areas of eastern Canada, while in Europe it includes the central and eastern part and the Asian part of Russia.
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Borissov, Dimitry. "Agile Methods in the Social Work: Research Landscape Analysis." SocioEconomic Challenges 8, no. 2 (July 2, 2024): 64–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.61093/sec.8(2).64-87.2024.
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The use of flexible methods in social work allows social workers to be more flexible, client-oriented, adaptive and responsive in a dynamic environment, respond to changes faster, achieve better social impact results, and be more coordinated in cooperation with other professionals. The article demonstrates the results of descriptive bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping (using the Biblioshiny software) of more than 750 articles and monographs indexed by Scopus. Since the appearance of the first study in 1969 and until 2000, this topic was almost not the focus of scientists; the year 2000 was determined using Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy as the key date of interest growth (the year preceding the appearance of the Manifesto for Agile Software development), since 2001, the number of publications on this topic has grown exponentially. By a Sankey plot, interdependence between top references, top authors and top keywords was summarized. According to Bradford’s law, scientific journals are structured according to the contribution to the dissemination of knowledge in the subject area. Scientists from the USA, Great Britain, China, Australia and Canada have scientific leadership in this field. The TOP-10 global and local cited documents were analyzed in detail, and “occasional” and “sore” authors were distinguished according to Lotka’s law. The most popular thematic research areas on applying flexible methods in social work are presented in visual design as a word cloud (tag cloud, weighted list) and a treemap. The analysis proved that keywords across various clusters and research sub-themes are closely interconnected. The most relevant and advanced research categories were identified by analyzing the increase in relevance and the level of subject development, as well as their trends over time. A trend toward convergence in scientific research thematic progression in scholarly literature was explored using an alluvial diagram (a longitudinal thematic map). Constructed maps of relevance degree and development degree of subtopic in documents with a focus on agile or adaptive social work methods made it possible to determine niche, emerging, and declining topics.
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Raguin, Virginia. "Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire. (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 9.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. cxcvi, 362; many b&w figs., maps, and diagrams, and 24 color plates. $215. ISBN: 9780197264690." Speculum 87, no. 4 (October 2012): 1210–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003871341200348x.
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Ivanova, Elena A. "“Rumyantsev Readings — 2020”. Research in the Area of Library Science and Book Studies on the Pages of the Conference Proceedings." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science] 69, no. 4 (November 6, 2020): 435–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2020-69-4-435-446.
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International scientific and practical conference “Rumyantsev Readings” in 2020 was held in absentia. The Publishing house of the Russian State Library “Pashkov Dom” prepared the conference proceedings in two parts, which included 176 articles. Among the participants of the conference there are specialists from libraries of all levels and different departmental subordination, museums, archives, Universities, scientific research institutes in Russia, Belarus, Great Britain and Kazakhstan. The articles cover a wide range of issues on the theory and practice of library science, bibliography science, book studies, the history of librarianship and library activities at the present time. Considerable part of the reports was prepared under the theme “Libraries in the context of history: private collections and state book repositories”. In the year of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, many researchers turned to the history of libraries during the Great Patriotic War. The conference proceedings include materials about outstanding representatives of librarianship, researchers and collectors, where the authors analyse and evaluate their activities. Traditionally, “Rumyantsev readings” present a large number of works on the disclosure of the collections of libraries and archives, description of stored materials: manuscripts, rare books and book monuments, art editions, maps and printed music. Within the topics of the section “Library classification systems” there are presented the articles devoted to separate sections of Library Bibliographic Classification and general issues of system modernization and implementing it in practice, publication of LBC schedules and the value of its public e-version for the development of classification search and improving efficient use of library collections. Issues related to the current activities of foreign and, primarily, domestic libraries are presented in extremely wide range: from understanding the place of libraries in the modern space of socio-cultural communication and strategic approaches to innovation management to highlighting specific projects under implementation. The reports raise the topics of training future librarians in higher education institutions and improving their skills in future, developing and implementing standards, digitizing library collections, and bibliometric analysis. The article analyses the state of digitalization of scientific — information activities in libraries, presents characteristics of separate online information resources, raises questions on the development of regulatory framework for labour rationing and the formation of the library’s image in social networks and information publications about it. Publication of the proceedings will serve to achieve the main goal of the conference — to draw attention to the issues of preserving and studying the world cultural heritage, problems of functioning of libraries at the present historical stage, search for ways of innovative development, expand cooperation between cultural, educational, scientific institutions and intercultural interaction.
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Clary, Renee, and James Wandersee. "The journey from elite society to government geologist: Henry de la Beche's (1796-1855) powerful impact on the importance of observation within an emerging professional science." Earth Sciences History 33, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 259–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.33.2.b0764512965g836u.
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Henry De la Beche (1796-1855) entered the scientific realm within an elite group of gentleman geologists. As a firm advocate of observation, De la Beche's philosophy of science involved the collection of fects, from which satisfactory theories or solutions to geological problems could only arise after accumulated observations were compiled. He authored many texts, but insisted that he recorded only fects and did not support particular theories, which often relied on scant observation. When De la Beche's finances floundered, his persistence at procuring government support for his mapping projects resulted in his eventual appointment (1835) as director of what would become the British Geological Survey. As a government scientist, De la Beche maintained a staunch advocacy of observation. He used his position to promote field work, and ensured quality in the deliberate recording of accurate information. He provided clear instructions to local survey directors, and advocated a "general mode of observing and recording fects" for "systematic investigations and uniformity of results" (1845). His methods guaranteed that facts, and not selective interpretations, would be available for those who needed them. He insisted that utilitarian geological products, such as survey maps and mining records, were consistent and of high quality. He also promoted the importance of these products—and the field work that produced them—within the elite societies of which he remained a member. Through his government position, De la Beche successfully advocated for public displays of facts and collections, and largely through his efforts the Museum of Practical Geology, the School of Mines, and the Mining Record Office were established. Therefore, De la Beche's emphasis of observation over theory had far-reaching impact in the emerging Victorian professionalization of science. Although he lost personal funding and could not sustain only an elite participation in the emerging geological discipline, his government position provided a powerful platform from which he was able to teach, systematize, and institutionalize field-based geological observation. De la Beche's success is measured through the establishment of feet repositories in Great Britain, and also through the impact that surveyors who studied his field methods brought to other countries.
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Bendall, Sarah. "Draft town maps for John speed's theatre of the empire of great Britaine." Imago Mundi 54, no. 1 (January 2002): 30–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085690208592957.
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Hoar, Aedan. "The Biopolitics of Mixing: Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies." UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 18 (April 27, 2014): 55–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/38550.
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The Biopolitics of Mixing: Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies.By JINTHANA HARITAWORN. Ashgate, 2012. $99.95Reviewed by Aedan HoarThe Biopolitics of Mixing builds upon Thai histories that were collected during Haritaworn’s qualitative research on experiences of Thai multiraciality in Britain and Germany. The narrative reaches back over a decade and maps out the connections and conclusions of Haritaworn’s journey with race and the question: “What are you?” or “Where do you come from?” By giving voice to the themes that emerged from Haritaworn’s research and interviews, this book maps a social environment that is created through the politics of mixed-raciality and its effect on our interpretations of mixed-race bodies.The book explores the celebratory nature of post-race politics which seeks to erase the history of colonization, replacing memories of oppression with a vision of a new age in which empire was simply a necessary stepping stone towards a future beyond race. Haritaworn makes the important argument that narratives of mixed-race and “tolerance” are used to drive campaigns of humanitarian militarism against “intolerant” cultures. In the process, this book exposes unsettling historical connections between the celebration of mixed-raciality as resulting in stronger genetics, and the racist, white-supremacist culture that was the driving force behind eugenics. Haritaworn’s research confronts the hegemonic narratives that effect the way that ability, gender, and race are represented in transnational politics of the body.Through weaving in histories from their interviews, Haritaworn traces connections in theory and geopolitics that let the reader critically examine the driving forces behind what makes mixed-raced people characterized as beautiful or inferior, celebrated or marginalized. The book draws on an extensive bibliography and historical examples of how mixed-raciality and multiculturalism have been used by racist cultures to re-invent state histories as progressive, inclusive, and liberating. Demonstrating the ways that mixed-race bodies are used to support hegemonic racist and heterosexual norms, this book is an eye-opening exploration of the ways that multiculturalism and “inclusivity” are being used to promote the current geopolitical power structures in neoliberalism.The Biopolitics of Mixing is wonderfully written and extremely reflexive in tone making it an essential resource for any reader who wants to critically examine the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. This book spends a great deal of time establishing Haritaworn’s positionality, mapping out the logic behind the research in a very accessible way. One thing that adds a great deal to the book is the use of footnotes, which seem to predict questions that the reader might have, adding yet another layer to the depth of the analysis. Haritaworn achieves an in-depth exploration of the construction of mechanisms used to place individual bodies within categories of race, gender, or sexuality. The Biopolitics of Mixing reveals how systemic racism is normalized in everyday interactions in multicultural society. The book takes readers on a journey where the assumptions we (and the author) take for granted about the intersectionalities of race, gender, poverty, ability, and sexuality are challenged in an effort to give voice to “that which had been left out” of Haritaworn’s original research model. In this way the reader is informed by Haritaworn’s personal journey that walks the book’s conclusions back through connections that were made over more than a decade of research. The Biopolitics of Mixing makes room for important discussions that challenge readers to reflect upon our own conceptualizations of the body and our relationship to geopolitical narratives. This book is a must read for students interested in Thai-histories, multi-raciality and multiculturalism, social-justice research, biopolitics or intersectional analysis.~AEDAN HOAR is a Masters Candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. His work examines colonization, land use planning, and social transformation through a biopolitical lens.
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Ballantyne, G. H. "Roses of Great Britain and Ireland: B.S.B.I. Handbook no. 7. G. G. Graham and A. L. Primavesi; illustrated by Margaret Gold; distribution maps prepared by the Biological Records Centre, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. London: Botanical Society of the British Isles. 1993. 208pp. ISBN 0 901158 22 4. £11.50 (paperback)." Edinburgh Journal of Botany 51, no. 1 (March 1994): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960428600001773.
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Burl, Aubrey. "Henge Monuments and Related Sites of Great Britain. Air Photographic Evidence and Catalogue. By A. F. Harding with G. E. Lee. 29 × 21 cm. Pp. iv + 443, 181 figs., 2 maps × 170 pls. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (British Series, 175), 1987. ISBN 0-86054-470-2. £40.00 (p/b)." Antiquaries Journal 68, no. 1 (March 1988): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500022708.
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Tikunova, Irina, and Ekaterina Kurlanova. "The place of european cities of the Mediterranean in the sphere of tourism of the European Union." InterCarto. InterGIS 29, no. 1 (2023): 255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35595/2414-9179-2023-1-29-255-271.
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The purpose of the study is to determine the position of Mediterranean cities in the European tourism system. For this purpose, the tourist attractiveness and tourism development of the Mediterranean region and the EU countries are analyzed. The place of the most attractive tourist cities of the Mediterranean in the EU market has been determined. Their strengths and weaknesses in the development of tourism are highlighted and opportunities and threats are considered. The methods of comparative, cluster, SWOT analysis were used in the work, a classification and a series of tables and maps were created. As a result of cluster analysis of a dozen indicators, groups of countries by tourist attractiveness and groups of cities of the European Union by the level of tourism development were identified. The study showed that the cities of the Mediterranean have different degrees of tourism development, while the level of tourism development in the cities of the western part of the region is higher than in the eastern. The largest of them have a diversified tourist offer and attract tourists as centers of resort, cultural and educational, business, event and religious tourism. They are a popular destination for citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Austria and the Scandinavian countries. There is also an interchange of tourists from the Mediterranean countries: France and Italy. Mediterranean cities have different and, in some cases, significantly different values of tourism development indicators. Higher rates of tourism development are observed in cities in the western part of the Mediterranean, while lower rates are observed in cities in the eastern part (cities of Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Cyprus). The predominant number of Mediterranean cities, which are included in the list of the most popular destinations, demonstrate indicators of tourism development closer to the minimum values: economy and business, tourist activity, tourist policy and attractiveness, tourist infrastructure. In terms of characteristics, they are similar to cities in Portugal, as well as cities in Eastern Europe. The weak side of the development of tourism in Mediterranean cities is the indicators of sustainable development (the increase in average air temperature, the content of PM2.5 particles in the air), which affects the index of sustainable tourism. After the lifting of all coronavirus restrictions, Mediterranean cities are capable of rapid recovery due to the fact that they provide a familiar tourist product of good quality, which is important in conditions of uncertainty. Also, a plus is the proximity to the countries-the main suppliers of tourists and a long travel ban, which stimulated the desire to travel.
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Goryainov, Sergey. "Tectonic position of the Ukrainian shield." 59, no. 59 (December 1, 2023): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2023-59-02.
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Statement of the general problem. The analysis of the geological structure of Europe indicates a wide development of Laramian (post-Cretaceous - pre-Cenozoic) deformations in non-Alpine regions. They are traced by the regional angular unconformity between the folded Mesozoic and non-folded Cenozoic from the Caspian Sea to Great Britain. The area of development of the Laramie folding of Europe also covers the Ukrainian shield. An unsolved part of the overall problem. The Ukrainian crystalline shield is described as "uplift of the crystalline foundation of the East European platform", where Precambrian rocks come to the surface. But the same rocks can also be traced far beyond its borders. The question arises - what structural position does the Ukrainian shield occupy in the structure of the Laramie folded region? Analysis of recent research and publications. On the geological maps of the pre-Cenozoic formations of Ukraine, the northern border of the Laramie folded region can be traced along the Chernihiv-Lysychansk line. Mesozoic folds and an angular unconformity in the Cenozoic basement disappear further north. To the south, the Laramie deformations intensify, but unevenly. The purpose of the article is identification of modern structural position of Ukrainian crystalline shield. Research materials and methods. Were involved more than 120 geological maps of Ukrainian regions and author's digital geological model of East Ukraine. Presentation of the main research material. A band of Mesozoic folds and NW vergence thrusts tens to hundreds of kilometers long is developed immediately south of the border of the folded region. The amplitude of the folds is 1.5–2 km. The band of development of these folds and thrusts with a width of about 100 km limits the Ukrainian shield from the northeast. To the south of the Ukrainian Shield, on the shelves of the Black and Azov Seas and in Northern Crimea, a sub-latitude band of Laramie thrusts and folds with a width of 150–200 kilometers has been established. Amplitudes of thrust folds reach 1–2 km, amplitudes of separate thrusts reach 8–10 km. This band of folds and thrusts limits the southern slope of the Ukrainian shield from the south. These Laramie folds and thrusts are overlain by Cenozoic sediments. To the south, in the Mountainous Crimea, the deformations are still intensifying. Folds and thrusts are replaced by wide and extended mélange zones of northwestern vergence. The Ukrainian shield is bypassed by the development of folds and thrusts from the northeast, east, and south. On the slopes of the Ukrainian shield, Mesozoic fold deformations subside, and the Mesozoic there lies gently sloping and monoclinally. Such poorly deformed blocks within folded regions are called middle massifs. This middle massif of the Laramie fold region within Ukraine has an anteclise structure. In the core of the anteclise, Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks emerge from under the sedimentary cover. The western wing of the anteclise is overlain by younger thrusts of the Carpathian folded structure of Attic (post-Miocene) age. Scientific novelty. In the modern geological structure, the Ukrainian shield is the core of the anteclise of the middle massif in the Laramie folded region. Conclusions. As a tectonic uplift, shield was formed in the Paleocene. In the Late Cretaceous, it was still buried under shelf carbonate deposits. Erosion of this uplift formed the Cenozoic deposits of Ukraine with a specific mineragenic specialization. Taking into account the Laramian folding allows us to reconcile the diverse geological phenomena of the region into a single system without contradictions.
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Bradley, A. W. "Recent Reform of Social Security Adjudication in Great Britain." Les Cahiers de droit 26, no. 2 (April 12, 2005): 403–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/042670ar.
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Cet article expose les transformations qu'a subies en 1984 le système des tribunaux administratifs de la sécurité sociale en Grande-Bretagne. Ce système avait jusqu'alors comme caractéristique principale la répartition du contentieux des prestations de sécurité sociale entre deux réseaux de tribunaux locaux. Les uns étaient chargés d'entendre les appels relatifs aux prestations, pour la plupart contributives, prévues par le Social Security Act 1975, tandis que les autres avaient compétence en matière d'aide sociale (supplementary benefits,). L'élément majeur de la réforme de 1984 est la fusion de ces deux réseaux. Les nouveaux tribunaux locaux de la sécurité sociale se distinguent de leurs prédécesseurs par leur composition : ils seront obligatoirement présidés par un juriste, exerçant cette fonction à temps partiel mais encadré au niveau national et régional par un état-major permanent constitué d'un juge et d'avocats ; les autres membres ne seront plus désignés selon le système paritaire syndicats-patronat qui avait traditionnellement prévalu en matière d'assurances sociales. Le renforcement de la présence des juristes prolonge l'évolution amorcée par les réformes antérieures du régime d'aide sociale. Celles-ci favorisaient à la fois la judiciarisation de la procédure et la réduction du pouvoir discrétionnaire de l'administration par le développement de la réglementation. L'unification des tribunaux administratifs avait également été amorcée dès 1980, par l'attribution aux Social Security Commissioners de la compétence de dernier ressort relativement à la plupart des prestations sociales. L'auteur commente cette réforme en fonction des objectifs qu'elle prétend servir : la qualité des décisions, l'indépendance des juridictions, ïaccessibilité d'une instance d'appel unique, la rapidité des décisions. Il fait observer que la réforme n'a rien fait pour simplifier et assouplir la procédure, ou pour rendre l'aide juridique accessible aux prestataires. Il note que les tribunaux administratifs spécialisés chargés du contentieux médical de la sécurité sociale n'ont pas été visés par la réforme, en dépit de la contestation dont ils font l'objet, et que l'aide au logement échappe également à la compétence des tribunaux de la sécurité sociale. Enfin, il fait valoir que le développement de l'encadrement réglementaire des prestations de sécurité sociale ne garantit en rien ni la rapidité du processus juridictionnel, ni la qualité des rapports entre décideurs et prestataires ; par ailleurs, il accroît le contrôle du gouvernement sur la mise en oeuvre de sa politique sociale.