Geographical education as one of the important means creating a cultural environment in educational process school opens to student world with all diversity complex relationships nature, society and personality, satisfies need for self-knowledge, promotes formation personal qualities values. gives person great opportunities develop humane tolerant attitude other people, civilizations, political...

Scale has emerged as a major issue in both ecology and geography in recent decades. Little effort has been made to compare these parallel debates, however, or to seek an integrated conception of scale across the two disciplines. This paper argues that such an integration is possible, even between ecology and human geography – the subfield of geography seemingly most removed from ecological conc...

Acknowledgement I would like to thank Tim Bunnel, Neil Coe, and Kris Olds for their very helpful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. Abstract The "firm" has been a contested analytical category in economic geography. Much of neoclassical economic geography takes the firm as a self-contained and homogenous "black box" capable of producing economic outcomes in space. The radic...