Linguistic geography

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More than forty years ago, Joseph Greenberg (1963) demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct genetic phyla, or families as he called them, namely Niger-Congo (or Kongo-Kordofanian), Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. For subsequent generations of Africanists, this classification has served as a reference system to describe the relationship patterns among Afr...

The Linguistic Geography of the French of Northern France: Do We Have the Basic Data?

Linguistic geography and dialectology in France have a long and distinguished history. Much foundational early work on the geography of accents and dialects was done there in the late 19 and early 20 centuries, with the work of Gilliéron and Edmont, and their successors. Later, such distinguished figures as Martinet, Walter and others continued the tradition. Most of this dialectology, though, ...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Economic geography