1 School of Environmental Systems Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Australia 2 Centre for Water Research, The University of Western Australia, Australia 3 Environmental Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences & Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 4 School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash Universi...

The study of the landscape was once the main subject of study in geography. Now, it is a core topic in many disciplines, such as geography and ecology, soil science and land survey, landscape architecture and planning, psychology and philosophy, history and archaeology. This essay analyses how this evolution came about in Europe in general and focuses then upon the Belgian situation. Landscape ...

'At a time in history, when the earth was thought to be flat, a complete solution of geography was clearly not possible. Someone might have said: "For each continent that is discovered there are ten continents beyond". It turned out, however, that the earth is round, and by the time the explorers reached Australia on their way around the globe, it was evident that geography was, in principle, s...

Abstract The plant pathogen Phytophthora capsici can be found all throughout the USA, and population genetics of this organism have been studied within many these states. Until now, no work has done in state Tennessee to investigate structure P. there. was explored using 296 isolates collected from five counties 2004, 2007, 2018, 2019. Samples were genotyped 39 single nucleotide polymorphism (S...

This chapter investigates poverty and social welfare among China’s minority groups. Focusing on the Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, and Uygur populations, China’s five largest minority groups, as well as other minorities in the aggregate, this chapter will begin by providing an introduction to the classification of ethnic groups in China. We consider the relationship of this classification scheme to...

The literature on economic geography has given us many deep insights into the spatial location of economic activity, the forces behind agglomeration, and their implications. For example, Paul Collier’s paper at this conference points out the difficulties that Africa will have in gaining a foothold in labor-intensive manufactured articles (such as textiles) now that South Asia has established a ...

This paper explains the development of affiliative ethnic identity: an individual identity rooted in knowledge, regular consumption and deployment of an ethnic culture that is unconnected to an individual’s ethnic ancestry until that individual regards herself, and may be regarded by others, as an affiliate of a particular ethnic group. While ethnic culture remains identifiably linked to a part...

Datuk Kong (拿督公) are shen (神) – a Chinese term that can be glossed in English as ‘deity’ or ‘spirit’ depending on context. They have long been known to venerated by West Malaysia but not investigated until now Sarawak, where they of increasing importance, Kalimantan, appear worshipped for much longer. In both and Borneo closely associated with (a) the ethnic groups were already living area befo...