University Education of Geography. Social functions of geography. Environmental Problems and Geography in University Education.

Tartu University Faculty of Bology and Geography

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Geography: research and teaching in nurse education.

This paper outlines how geography might be integrated into nurse education. At one level, researching nurse education geographically could add to the current academic understanding of the many transitional places that make educational experiences and influence outcomes. At another level, as part of a nursing curriculum, teaching geographical concepts and issues to students might provide them wi...

The curriculum of geography in higher education of Iran in the 21st century.

During the recent decades the geography discipline has lost its priority and position to some degree in Iran. Most of the graduates could not enter into the work in the universities and other private organizations. The human-environment system, the main area of geographical specialty has experienced many crises and hazards among which the global warming and climate change being the most destruc...

Cultural and Social Geography

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...