The terms “state” and “government” are often used interchangeably in political discourse, but they can also refer to very different entities. In political geography, a distinction between the two is often not made, or made weakly. Thus, this article reviews how these terms have been used in political geography and across allied disciplines, especially in international law. Political geographers...

extended abstract 1. introduction the term “state” owing to its simultaneous presence in two epistemological and scientific fields named political science and political geography has assumed multiple meanings, applications, natures and synonyms, in a way that it has stirred a kind of chaos and lack of consensus, especially among political geographers. according to various texts, “state” is an a...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

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location, is an effective element on human life and is also a motivating element on his feelings in relation to his past and present. location is not an end in poetry; otherwise, it would become political geography. therefore, location is an instrument and its realization in poetry rather than being objective is often psychological and artistic and full of various meaningful contents. different...

THE POLITICS OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT In human geography, the interest in the politics of local economic development and the emergence of a literature on the topic date from approximately the early to mid-‘eighties. This was initially an American interest but it was then taken up in Britain. There have been studies in countries other than the United States and the United Kingdom and there ...