Geography has engaged in the study of empire since its early days as an academic discipline. Few disciplines have such a clear complicity with this political formation, that feeds on territorial growth through military power, and limits sovereignty peripheries. In fact, temporal correspondence exists between birth modern geography emergence new phase capitalist imperialism during 1870s. Viewed ...

Those of us working and living in temperate countries often disregard the effects of heat stress on crop yield and quality, possibly to the frustration of our colleagues from hotter parts of the world. That is changing as global warming is predicted to increase the frequency and severity of ‘heatwaves’ in temperate zones (Semenov, 2007; Semenov and Halford, 2009) but the paper from Ginzberg and...

The subject of this paper is the causes and consequences Ukrainian crisis. armed conflict between two Slavic peoples a tragic epilogue decades processes in relations Russia United States. NATO's expansion to east, despite promises made, has permanently exacerbated leading military powers. aim research discover essence cause that led actions as well theoretical foundation current geopolitical pr...

Children's ability to modify their drawing procedures changes in their rst decade. Young children make size/shape changes and end-of-sequence insertions/deletions of drawing elements. Older children also make middle-of-sequence insertions/deletions and position/orientation changes in drawing elements. Why do modi cations occur in this order? We argue that older children's modi cations require p...

Reading groups can be spaces of resistance, both from the competitive performances of some classroom seminars and from the calculative fields of neoliberalizing departments and universities. As graduate students, we offer this intervention as a consideration of the bodily politics of academic reproductions. In discussing the embodiment of textual practices in seminar and in reading groups, we p...

What role can public participation play in environmental management? Among major tools for environmental management, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been widely practised in many countries. Its effectiveness, however, varies depending on the extent to which transparency and public participation are incorporated in its process. In this article, we analyse the role of public participati...

Organizations use environmental scanning to monitor important events in their surrounding environment. It is a way to answer the question, "What's happening in my environment that will affect my future?" Scanning involves identifying the issues and trends that have important implications for the future. The scanning includes analysis of the information about these issues and trends to assess th...