Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At time when nature future of physical its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing their impacts on discipline itself our collective ability understand address environmental crises. The exploration is through themes disciplinary shape institutional change, ge...

results urban patients were more likely to receive supplementary information and being strongly encouraged by their nephrologists to seek transplant. all participants acknowledged “independence” as the main advantage of transplantation. increased freedom to travel and improved life expectancy were mentioned only among the urban groups. the main themes in all groups regarding perceived barriers ...

Introduction Peter Dicken (2004) lamented geographers' missing out on globalization and becoming more parochial in terms of research, and called for a revitalization of regional geography. Indeed, I often feel unsettled by the fact that, from time to time, geographers have to defend the position of geography, especially in recent response to the argument that globalization means the end of geog...

mokr?n, an iranian district, is located south of baluchistan on northern coasts of mokr?n (oman) sea. its particular geographical situation has caused a promoting economic position since longs ago and its harbors have had an excellent commercial position and a significant economic improvement through the history. mokr?n benefits a thousands-year history and precious civilization. there are diff...

Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that attempts to understand human activity in space, place, and environment by studying it at the disaggregate level of analysis—at the level of the individual person. Behavioral geographers analyze data on the behavior of individual people, recognizing that individuals vary from each other. A key tenet of behavioral geography holds that mo...

Abstrac t . This paper defines the notion and concepts of N a i v e Geography, the field of study that is concerned with formal models of the common-sense geographic world. Naive Geography is the body of knowledge that people have about the surrounding geographic world. Naive Geography is envisioned to comprise a set of theories that provide the basis for designing future Geographic Information...

makrān or mukrān was a vast region in the south eastern plateau of iran, whose border extended from kerman on the west to sind on the east. this extended area was limited to sistan on the north and makrān sea (sea of oman) on the south. makrān, mākā, mīkā, mukrān, gidruziyā, zhidruziyā, etc. are the names applied to this region in different historical periods. the expanse of this region’s borde...