"The Same But Not the Same": The Discursive Constitution of Large Housing Estates in Germany,France, and Poland

Since the 1960s, large housing estates have shaped the geography of suburbia in many Western and Eastern European cities. This paper examines the constitution of the social and spatial meanings of large housing estates within three different national contexts: in Germany, Poland, and France. Employing discourse theory and an empirical analysis of the coverage of major national newspapers, we identify cross-national and specific national patterns of discourses that (re)produce particular social spaces and distinct social orders. Quantitative discourse analysis reveals differences, similarities, and ruptures in various constructions of the meaning of large housing estates. We find that large housing estates in France and Germany are constituted in print media as threatening places and as places of foreignness located "outside" the "proper society." In contrast, Polish large housing estates are framed discursively as threatened places located in the social "inside."     

No Development,No Conservation: Elements from the Conservation of Farm Animal Genetic Resources

Using concrete examples of conservation of farm animal genetic resources, we show that conservation and development should not be considered as two opposing processes. On the contrary, their synergies can facilitate conservation dynamics. We discuss conservation and development dynamics, and provide examples of synergies between the two dynamics to underline how development dynamics can help conservation programs.     

住房成本与通勤成本的空间互动关系——来自北京市场的微观证据及其宏观含义

住房成本和通勤成本是城市空间结构中两个相互关联的内生变量。居民在进行居住区位 选择时, 会在这两者之间进行权衡, 从而形成住房价格、建筑密度和通勤行为在空间上的变化规 律。本文回顾了通勤成本和住房成本间的理论均衡关系, 探讨了各种现实情况是如何影响这个理 论关系的; 并利用大规模调研所采集的北京市微观个体数据, 提供了这一互动关系的一些定量证 据; 最后从两个角度探讨了这种互动关系在城市管理的公共政策方面的宏观含义: 考虑通勤成本 后的住房支付能力评价, 以及就业与居住过度分离的社会效果分析。     

The dynamics and ethnic composition of the population of Russia in the era of imperialism (from the end of the 19th century to 1917)

"The authors critically survey tsarist censuses before the October Revolution and Soviet works on historical demography, and they re-estimate population numbers, natural and mechanical increase, and internal and external migration between 1897 and 1917, as well as changes in ethnic composition."     

The postal-geographical location: the notion and measurement algorithm (exemplified by the postal network of Siberia in the early 20th century)

An analysis is made of the problems, approaches and methods in the study of the economic-geographical location. The term “postalgeographical location” is suggested. The concept of the location of a settlement in the postal network is formulated. The algorithm has been developed for measuring the postal-geographical location. Results from assessing the location of settlements in Siberia's postal network are presented for the year 1910.     

18世纪以来塔里木河干流河道变化及其与人类活动的关系

 塔里木河是南疆主要的经济生活水源,其河道变化会引起绿洲变化,从而导致人类活动发生变化。学者虽对历史时期的塔河变化有研究,但对18世纪以来的河道变化缺乏细致的研究,这一时期是人类活动对环境影响日益增多的时期。在野外考察基础上,借助历史文献、历史地图对塔河干流沙雅以上和以下段分别进行研究,结果显示,18世纪20年代,塔河干流分南河、北河; 18世纪50年代,南河与北河合为一条,沿北河位置行水; 至19世纪10年代,塔河干流南移,在南河(即大干河)位置行水; 以后至20世纪10年代,沙雅及其以上河段再次北移,沿北河位置行水,以下河段仍沿南河位置行水,称叶尔羌河或塔里木河。至迟在40年代中期,沙雅以下河段向北迁移,沿渭干河行水,形成现代塔里木河河道。20世纪以前河道变化主要受自然气候变化所导致的河水量变化及河流自身运行规律影响比较大,在河道淤积基础上,水量变化是河流改道的主要原因; 以后受人类农业生产的影响日益加大。     

循环经济理念下新型稻米加工企业产业链的构建

在对我国目前稻米加工业发展现状进行分析的基础上,针对目前稻米加工业精深加工水平不高,资源利用率低等问题,提出以循环经济理念为指导,构建稻米加工业新型产业链的思路,并以具体的稻米加工企业为案例,对稻米加工业发展循环经济的经济效益与生态效益、社会效益进行分析,为同类行业发展循环经济提供有利借鉴。     

当代地理学之人地相互作用研究的趋向--全球变化人类行为计划(IHDP)第六届开放会议透视

在扼要介绍了全球变化人类行为计划 (IHDP) 第六届开放会议主要内容的基础上,综合当前ESSP开展的主要研究项目、IHDP已实施的主要科学研究计划等,阐述了当代地理学之人地相互作用研究的主要领域和发展趋势。作者认为：人地系统除具有区域性和综合性特征外,还具有脆弱性、风险性、恢复性与适应性特征。当代地理学从地理要素与格局的综合研究转向现代地理过程的综合研究;从自然地理与人文地理的集成研究转向现代资源与环境的系统研究;从地理环境重建研究转向现代综合灾害风险管理研究;从地理格局与过程的动力学研究转向资源保障与区域安全系统仿真研究;从区域人地系统相互作用机制研究转向全球人地系统相互作用机制研究。     

Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions Based on Geochemical Parameters from Annually Laminated Sediments of Sacrower See (northeastern Germany) Since the 17th Century

The history of hardwater lake Sacrower See (Brandenburg, northeastern Germany) was reconstructed back to the 17th century based on a multi-proxy study of five short sediment cores dated by varve chronology, ²¹⁰Pb and ¹³⁷Cs isotopes. We were able to distinguish three main phases: The lake was mesotrophic prior to the 1830s with an oxic hypolimnion. From the early 19th century on, δ¹³C of organic matter indicates that primary productivity starts to increase slowly. Between the 1830s and 1872, the lake went through a transition towards eutrophy. Low calcite contents in the homogeneous sediment are caused by dissolution connected to increasing primary productivity and growing importance of decomposition processes. After 1873, and accelerated since 1963, Sacrower See is characterised by growing nutrient input, and thus further increasing primary productivity. The lake is eutrophic, and decomposition of organic matter causes high oxygen consumption in the hypolimnion, which becomes regularly anoxic during thermal summer stratification. Biogenic varves are preserved in the sediment, characterised by layers of autochthonous, biochemically precipitated calcite crystals. In this study, we were able to demonstrate that Sacrower See is an example of exceptional slow increase of anthropogenically enhanced nutrient input, and of the imprint which these processes have on sediments of a hardwater lake.     

Style for the Zeitgeist: The Stealthy Revival of Historicist Housing Since the Late 1960s

A revival has occurred in the use of historical architectural styles for modern suburban houses but this has attracted little attention from journalists and academics. Those who have noted it disagree about when it began and gathered momentum. Newspaper and trade journal evidence for Canadian cities indicates that the revival began in the late 1960s; that it has reached market saturation; and that Victorian and neo-classical styles became dominant after 1980. Coinciding with the beginnings of inner-city gentrification, the historicist revival in suburban dwellings preceded the recent interest in neotraditional urban design. Not a fringe taste, it says something about the zeitgeist.     

Solution Chemistry and the 36~(th) International Conference on Solution Chemistry (36 ICSC) in Xining,China

<正>Solution chemistry covers a broad and interdisciplinary area in chemistry,physics,biology,pharmaceutical,and medical sciences,as well as various application fields. With the advent of new theories,analytical methods,computers,and technology,the research area of solution chemistry has now been widely and deeply     

聚焦亚洲:国外人文科学研究动向--UBC亚洲研究所研究律动透视

加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学是全加第二大名校，该校亚洲研究所在北美享誉盛名。本文通过对亚洲研究所研究人员近年研究项目选题，以及与世界各国学者进行的交流互动活动的整理，辅以相关资料的研究，分析了这些研究课题的提出背景，并由此得出若干启示。     

The Gambler: (re)placing the desire of money

Abstract:  The Gambler conjures a world of myth: not as a fiction of human consciousness but as unconscious image-language. Its ambition is to write geography as material subject. In tracing the discourse written in the built environment the text ranges over the analyses of Marx and Freud and into the gestural worlds of Kafka and the blood sports of the ancient Colosseum. It discovers the myth of New Zealand horse racing, written in pictures in the local pub where virtual racing, abstracted from the living world, (dis)plays on the television screen. Here, finally, The Gambler comes to terms with loss.