На основе литературного обзора и по данным полевых маршрутных наблюдений сделана попытка рассмотрения особенностей основных физико-географических компонентов международной полевой станции Мухрино ее окрестностей: геологического строения рельефа, климата, гидрографии, разнообразия позвоночных животных, растительного почвенного покрова, ландшафтной структуры. Принадлежность территории к геологиче...

Accessibility represents a key element in strengthening developed regions terms of investment transportation infrastructure. is also an equity indicator to measure the ease with which specific location achieves desired outcomes as well spillover effect; traditionally, these effects have been analyzed econometric and engineering techniques, rather than from perspective geographical studies. The ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To establish the geographical relation of health conditions to socioeconomic status in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. DESIGN All reported deaths in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, from 1987 to 1995, obtained from the Mortality Information System, were considered in the study. The 24 "administrative regions" that compose the city were used as the geographical units. A...

Dealing with prepositions such as “near”, “between”, and “in front of” is very important in Geographic Information Systems (GISs). In most systems, real world distances are used to handle these prepositions. One of the difficulties in processing these prepositions lies in the fact that their geographical range are distorted in people’s cognitive maps. For example, size of an area referred by pr...