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Christopher C. Harvey Michel Gangloff Todd King Christopher H. Perry D. Aaron Roberts James R. Thieman 《Earth Science Informatics》2008,1(1):5-13
As soon as the first data became available online over the Internet, it was obvious that different sites holding related datasets
should appear to the end user as a single data system, even if the data itself is stored at multiple locations. To achieve
this objective in the context of continuing parallel development of multiple data centres, in 2003 several actors in the realm
of space plasmas created the international consortium Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE). Since 2005 US participation
in SPASE has been supported by NASA, and early in 2006 NASA funded five new Virtual Observatories to cater for different aspects
of solar system plasma science. This paper outlines the current status of the SPASE effort, the opportunities it offers, its
specificities with respect to other parts of the astronomical virtual observatory, and the possibilities it offers for space
weather.
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Christopher C. HarveyEmail: |
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The aim of this paper is to use an economic framework to derive decision making rules for river basin management with a focus on groundwater resources. Using an example from northern Nigeria, the paper provides an example of how decision making for sustainable water resources management may be facilitated by comparing net benefits and costs across a river basin. It is argued that economic tools can be used to assess the value of water resources in different uses, identify and analyze management scenarios, and provide decision rules for the sustainable use and management of surface and ground water resources in the region.
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Gayatri AcharyaEmail: |
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Space Physics Interactive Data Resource—SPIDR 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Mikhail Zhizhin Eric Kihn Rob Redmon Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Mishin 《Earth Science Informatics》2008,1(2):79-91
SPIDR (Space Physics Interactive Data Resource) is a standard data source for solar-terrestrial physics, functioning within
the framework of the ICSU World Data Centers. It is a distributed database and application server network, built to select,
visualize and model historical space weather data distributed across the Internet. SPIDR can work as a fully-functional web-application
(portal) or as a grid of web-services, providing functions for other applications to access its data holdings.
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Mikhail ZhizhinEmail: |
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Airline data for global city network research: reviewing and refining existing approaches 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Information on air passenger flows is potentially a prime data source for assessing spatial patterns in the global city network,
but previous analyses have been hampered by inadequate and/or partial data. The ensuing analytical deficiencies have reduced
the overall value of these analyses, and this paper examines how some of these deficiencies may be rectified. First, we review
the rationale for using airline data to analyse the global city network. Second, we assess the data problems encountered in
previous research. Third, we elaborate on the construction of datasets that may circumvent some of these problems. The proposed
refinements include the omission of the hub function of major airports and ways to extract relevant business flows from the
data.
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Jon BeaverstockEmail: |
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This paper describes an application of the geographic information system (GIS) technology to a ground stability assessment
in the karst area of Dzerzhinsk, Russia. In the stability analysis, the groundwater level changes in the karst aquifer could
cause suffosion sinkholes when the gravitational force was greater than the soil strength. The GIS technology was used to
combine various data and to delineate the zones of potential gravitational collapse and suffosion collapse in the area.
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V. V. TolmachevEmail: |
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Contract farmers in central Honduras have been producers of Asian vegetables for American markets since 1989. Contract farming
holds the potential to provide benefits to small farmers who would otherwise be unable to access export markets but production
relations between firms and farmers are often asymmetric and can be exploitative. Poor communication and legacies of mistrust
between commodity agriculture and small farmers lead to ambiguities in the contracting system that are misinterpreted by both
firms and farmers, creating social tensions between contracting parties. This article will consider how farmers’ navigation
of the contracting system and competition between export firms has led to changes in the system. Through competition for a
limited pool of outgrowers, firms adjust their policies in favor of farmers without explicit attempts of labor organization
on the part of the farmers.
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Valerie ImbruceEmail: |
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Over the past five years or so, Anglo-American hegemony in human geography has been widely debated. This debate has highlighted
the obstacles put in the way of the building of a more international geographical discipline. In this paper, we reflect on
the possibilities and also the limitations of Europe as a context for the experimentation with a more cross-national discipline.
In doing so, we notice on the one hand the increasing attention towards the Europeanisation of human geography, particularly
at an institutional level, but on the other hand we also notice the lack of some basic forms and tools of communication and
exchange that might facilitate the mobilisation of scholars around the ‘European project’. The paper tries to offer a contribution
to this issue by discussing the ways in which a European journal of human geography might be conceived and also concretely
organised. In this respect the paper takes into account issues of language, access to scientific knowledge and recognition
of cultural and academic diversities.
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Ugo RossiEmail: |
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Dorian Speakman 《Natural Hazards》2008,44(1):111-127
A vulnerability index for the Fire Service in the UK has been designed to identify vulnerable locations during episodes of
severe floods. Taking recent case studies with the UK Fire Service, the patterns of vulnerability, in terms of demand on time
and resources, can be explained by investigating the environmental causes and their interaction with the adaptive capacity
of the response agencies.
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Dorian SpeakmanEmail: |
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This study seeks to gauge how far China’s container-related dynamics between 1990 and 2005 fit into the wider perspective
about transport and development within developing countries. In particular, attention is focussed on the role of specific
modes to determine the extent of the penetration of containers within China. Before addressing these key issues extant models
relating to an understanding of port and transport evolution in less-developed countries are recalled, synthesized and used
as a base upon which an appropriate review of China’s case can be conducted. Applying them to China’s northern, central and
southern port ranges not only helps assess the efficacy of these models but also highlights the contribution of individual
modes.
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Claude ComtoisEmail: |
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Unidata’s Common Data Model mapping to the ISO 19123 Data Model 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Access to real-time distributed Earth and Space Science (ESS) information is essential for enabling critical Decision Support
Systems (DSS). Thus, data model interoperability between the ESS and DSS communities is a decisive achievement for enabling
cyber-infrastructure which aims to serve important societal benefit areas. The ESS community is characterized by a certain
heterogeneity, as far as data models are concerned. Recent spatial data infrastructures implement international standards
for the data model in order to achieve interoperability and extensibility. This paper presents well-accepted ESS data models,
introducing a unified data model called the Common Data Model (CDM). CDM mapping into the corresponding elements of the international
standard coverage data model of ISO 19123 is presented and discussed at the abstract level. The mapping of CDM scientific
data types to the ISO coverage model is a first step toward interoperability of data systems. This mapping will provide the
abstract framework that can be used to unify subsequent efforts to define appropriate conventions along with explicit agreed-upon
encoding forms for each data type. As a valuable case in point, the content mapping rules for CDM grid data are discussed
addressing a significant example.
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Lorenzo BigagliEmail: URL: www.imaa.cnr.it |
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Spatial and temporal knowledge representation 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Antony Galton 《Earth Science Informatics》2009,2(3):169-187
Knowledge Representation (KR) originated as a discipline within Artificial Intelligence, and is concerned with the representation
of knowledge in symbolic form so that it can be stored and manipulated on a computer. This article surveys that part of KR
that is concerned with the representation of space and time, with particular reference to the use of such representations
in geographical information science.
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Antony GaltonEmail: |
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Igor Vojnovic 《GeoJournal》2007,69(4):271-300
Throughout the 20th century, government in the U.S. has gone through significant changes; initially responding to the disorder
of early capitalism, and later, to the economic crisis of the 1970s. This article will explore the changes in the U.S. political
landscape over the last century, as well as the recent rise of neo-liberalism. In addition, with the analysis of the model
laissez-faire municipal government, the City of Houston, the article will illustrate how the basic weaknesses of neoliberalism
at the national level are also evident at the local scale of government.
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Igor VojnovicEmail: |
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Giorgio Hadi Curti 《GeoJournal》2009,74(3):201-208
Ostensibly, subtitles in films serve as linguistic approximations of meaning. Expectedly then, much of the debate surrounding
subtitling has been concerned with representational accuracy, fidelity and authenticity. In this article I argue that by encountering
subtitles as affective bodily expressions, as opposed to approximate representations of pre-existent meanings or intentions,
filmic experiences may be(come) transformed and differently transformational. As a result, meaning and accuracy in subtitles
as superimposed signifiers or static representations become secondary to subtitles as spatially affective- and expressive-movements
intimately part of filmic scapes. The creative use of subtitling in Bekmambetov’s Russian language film Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor; 2006 [2004]) is discussed.
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Giorgio Hadi CurtiEmail: |
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Consideration of natural hazards in the design and risk management of industrial facilities 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Recent chemical accidents precipitated by natural disasters have prompted governments in the United States, Japan, and Europe,
among other countries, to re-evaluate current practices in the design and risk management of industrial facilities. This paper
presents an overview of natural hazard design considerations and external events risk management requirements in the industrial
sector, with particular emphasis on industrial practices in the United States, Japan, and Europe. The analysis shows that
although regulations exist to ensure industrial plant structures are built to resist natural hazards (up to the design level),
there are few laws to address the performance of non-structural elements and safety and emergency response measures during
a natural disaster. Laws usually also refer to natural hazards only indirectly, and provisions to prevent or respond to simultaneous
disasters from single or multiple sources concurrent with the natural disaster are usually not present.
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Ana Maria CruzEmail: |
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Ethnic coexistence in a pluralistic campus environment 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh 《GeoJournal》2006,66(3):223-241
In Malaysia, ethnic segregation seems to have grown more and more pronounced at all levels of education, which may have in
the main contributed to increasing occupational segregation by ethnicity when the graduates left to join the job market. Such
trends may be disturbing given the effort the country has put in to promote interethnic understanding and reduce interethnic
economic disparity since 1970. By critically investigating the dynamics of ethnic coexistence in the microcosm of the university
campus environment, this paper provides statistical evidence to show how far the country has progressed in terms of ethnic
relations since the watershed events of May 13, 1969; to what extent Malaysian multiethnic society is different now compared
to the unmistakable racial “corporateness” and interethnic “separateness” that Furnivall observed in his classic study of
1948; and in what ways ethnic relations have been reshaped by three decades of affirmative action policies and the form of
ethnic democracy adapted for this unique society.
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Emile Kok-Kheng YeohEmail: |
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David Havlick 《GeoJournal》2007,69(3):151-164
Since 1988, more than 20 US military bases have been redesignated as national wildlife refuges. In order to understand the
processes of these military-to-wildlife (M2W) conversions and their implications, I examine three logics that help to produce
these particular changes: Biodiversity, Brownfields, and Serendipity. These logics contribute to a broader discourse of ecological
militarization that frames military practices as compatible with and contributing to environmental protection. I focus on
the case of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, USA, to examine how these logics of conversion are mobilized into practice,
and what such changes mean as they bring militarism and environmental conservation together in reconfigured spaces.
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David HavlickEmail: |
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Melt inclusion formation mechanisms and compositional effects in high-An feldspar and high-Fo olivine in anhydrous mafic silicate liquids 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Important aspects of melt inclusion formation and potential compositions effects have been addressed through a series of experiments using anorthite/fosterite saturated anhydrous mafic liquids. Experimental charges were cooled from 1,300 to 1,230 and 1,210°C at rates of 1–10°/min followed by 0–24 h isothermal periods. Hopper and skeletal crystal morphologies with variable degrees of completeness developed during the cooling period. Planar overgrowth of these textures during isothermal periods led to the formation of inclusions, the majority of which formed after 6 h of isothermal run time. We suggest that the change in morphologies is related to a decrease in growth rates and changes in dominant growth mechanisms. In general, inclusion compositions were uniform and similar to the host glass, indicating that with the isothermal times required for most inclusions to form, a boundary layer was not entrapped that could be detected within the limits of our analyses.
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Edward KohutEmail: Phone: +1-541-7373023Fax: +1-541-7371200 |
Roger L. NielsenEmail: Phone: +1-541-7371235 |
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Daniel F. Merriam 《Environmental Geology》2009,56(8):1697-1706
The State of Kansas, as an energy-producing and agriculture-based state, faces problems in production of natural resources
and potential pollution from their production. To coordinate information on the exploration, production, and use of coal,
nuclear, petroleum, natural gas, hydro, wind, geothermal, coalbed methane, biofuel, solar, and other energy resources, the
Kansas Energy Council and the University of Kansas Energy Research Center were created. Water, surface and subsurface, is
the other important and maybe the most important natural resource in the welfare of the state. To ease the problems of contamination,
situations are monitored by regulatory agencies: the Kansas Corporation Commission, Kansas Department of Health and Environment,
and Division of Water Resources of the Kansas Department of Agriculture. The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) at the University
of Kansas serves as the archive for energy and natural resource data and conducts research pertinent to the exploration and
exploitation of mineral resources, including energy and water. The Kansas Energy Research Center coordinates and supports
energy activities. The Kansas Water Office and the staff for the Kansas Water Authority are charged with water planning and
preparing reports on water problems and possible solutions. The cost of preserving the environment in a relatively pristine
state really is of no concern considering the possible consequences; living conditions should be preserved to assure future
generations, a suitable, sustainable, stable environment. With all the dire predictions for the future and energy-producing
and pollution problems, Kansas is a model state in this modern industrial age for protecting the environment and is a leader
in conservation.
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Daniel F. MerriamEmail: |
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This article explores the impacts of floods on the economy, environment, and society and tries to clarify the rural community’s
coping mechanism to flood disasters in Central Viet Nam. It focuses on the social aspects of flood risk perception that shapes
the responses to floods. The research findings revealed that flooding is an essential element for a coastal population, whose
livelihood depend on productive functions of cyclical floods. The findings also revealed that floods, causing losses and damages,
often inhibited economic development. The surveyed communities appeared to have evolved coping mechanisms to reduce the negative
impacts of the floods, yet these coping mechanisms are under pressure due to environmental degradation. Integrated flood risk
management is considered as a suitable paradigm for coping with flood disasters.
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Phong TranEmail: |
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Indigenous people often exclusively depend on the natural resources available within the ecosystems where they live, and commonly
manage their resources sustainably. They have developed, and continue to develop indigenous knowledge systems which encompass
sustainable management of natural resources. This study compares indigenous knowledge of natural resource management developed
by two different communities in two different environments—Maori in the temperate environment in New Zealand and Dusun in
the tropical environment in Brunei Darussalam, and comparatively evaluates the role of indigenous knowledge in sustainable
resource management in three categories of knowledge such as spatial and seasonal distribution of natural resources, sustainable
harvesting, and habitat management. The comparison reveals that despite the differences in environment and the great geographical
distance between the two communities, there are remarkable similarities between the two knowledge systems in concepts, principles,
strategies and technologies used in natural resource management.
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Rohana UlluwishewaEmail: |