The Past,Present, and Future of Geodemographic Research in the United States and United Kingdom

This article presents an extensive comparative review of the emergence and application of geodemographics in both the United States and United Kingdom, situating them as an extension of earlier empirically driven models of urban socio-spatial structure. The empirical and theoretical basis for this generalization technique is also considered. Findings demonstrate critical differences in both the application and development of geodemographics between the United States and United Kingdom resulting from their diverging histories, variable data economies, and availability of academic or free classifications. Finally, current methodological research is reviewed, linking this discussion prospectively to the changing spatial data economy in both the United States and United Kingdom.     

第二次世界大战后英国乡村景观研究的脉络走向及启示

英国是全球乡村景观建设和发展的典范。从地理学、生态学及规划学等综合的视角出发,首先从社会背景上分析二战后英国乡村景观的演变轨迹;其次从学术背景梳理英国乡村景观的研究历程,并从学科角度提炼不同阶段的研究重点及研究特征;最后从研究趋势方面讨论学者们最新的研究议题。在梳理和总结英国乡村景观研究的基础上,提出对中国乡村景观研究的启示和借鉴。     

英国城市绿化带土地利用及其对中国的启示——以斯佩尔索恩（Spelthorne）区为例

绿化带被认为是英国城乡规划的核心元素之一,其在控制城市增长和保护乡村景观方面起着非常重要的作用。土地利用是绿化带政策关注的主要内容。该文首先简要介绍了英国绿化带的功能和范围;然后剖析了英国的规划系统。由于区级（相当于中国的乡镇级）规划在英国的土地利用和绿化带保护中占有重要的地位,因此,该文以位于伦敦绿化带中的斯佩尔索恩...     

A syllabus for teaching geographical information systems

The problems in teaching a course on geographical information systems in higher education are reviewed and a possible syllabus that will be most relevant to needs in the United Kingdom is suggested. The syllabus is divided into six major sections relating to the context, cartographic and spatial analytical concepts, their realization in a computing environment, operations, applications and institutional issues. A particular feature is an attempt to maintain a rigid distribution between underlying theory which is relatively stable and its more volatile operationalization on computers. The paper results from a symposium held in Leicester (U.K.) late in 1988 that brought together nine specialists in the held.     

The Design of Treatment Wetlands in the United Kingdom: Successes, Failures, and Alternative Approaches

Constructed wetland was first introduced into the United Kingdom in the middle of 1980s,following a visit by a group of scientist to Western Germany.In the past 2 decades,the applications of constructed wetlands in this country have expanded substantially,due to the demand for green technologies and rising cost of fossil fuel energies.This paper reported a statistical investigation of the performances of 78 horizontal flow wetlands,representatives of such system in the United Kingdom.Alternative design equations,based on organic matter removal efficiency,have been developed from Monod kinetics,and the accuracy and reliability of current and alternative design approaches have been examined.     

Anglo‐American Electoral Geography: Same Roots and Same Goals,but Different Means and Ends?*

Electoral geographers in the United States and the United Kingdom have similar goals but pursue these through different means. In part, these reflect differences between the two countries' electoral and political systems, but they also reflect different methodological strategies and desired ends. Drawing on the U.K. experience, this article identifies areas for possible expansion in studies of the electoral geography of the United States, which are expressed as five challenges.     

Producer Services Research in the United Kingdom

This paper reviews recent research in the United Kingdom on producer services and suggests directions for further research. A recurrent theme in UK-based geographic research into producer services is the role of service activities, establishments, and trade in uneven development of the UK space economy, a role manifested in uneven provision and quality of services in peripheral regions. During the 1980s, overall growth in demand for producer services and the rapid rise in metropolitan London real estate costs reduced London's dominance, but these trends moderated by the end of the decade. In the absence of adequate government statistics, regular and standardized surveys are needed to compile a time series of service change in the United Kingdom. Directions for continued empirical research include the role of producer services in innovation and technology transfer, the implications of information technology for the location of employment in the sector, and the impacts of productivity increases on employment and wages.     

基于双视角竞争态与亲景度中国入境旅游客源市场分析

利用市场竞争态与亲景度构建综合评价模型,分析1998~2000年和2009~2011年两个时段中国入境旅游客源市场及其变化。结果发现：（1）1998~2000年美国等为明星市场,日本为金牛市场,印度等为幼童市场,英国等为瘦狗市场。（2）2009~2011年新加坡等为明星市场,韩国等为金牛市场,印度等为幼童市场,瑞典等为瘦狗市场。（3）受空间距离的影响,强亲景市场比较稳定,弱亲景、弱疏景、强疏景3种市场则有可能发生较大变化。（4）经过10年的发展明星市场和幼童市场数量保持不变,金牛市场增加到3个,瘦狗市场减少到3个,客源市场逐步壮大,入境旅游市场发展良好。     

Flogging a dead norm? Newspaper coverage of anthropogenic climate change in the United States and United Kingdom from 2003 to 2006

The journalistic norm of 'balanced' reporting (giving roughly equal coverage to both sides in any significant dispute) is recognised as both useful and problematic in communicating emerging scientific consensus on human attribution for global climate change. Analysis of the practice of this norm in United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) newspaper coverage of climate science between 2003 and 2006 shows a significant divergence from scientific consensus in the US in 2003–4, followed by a decline in 2005–6, but no major divergence in UK reporting. These findings inform ongoing considerations about the spatially-differentiated media terms and conditions through which current and future climate policy is negotiated and implemented.     

Recent developments in geographical information systems in the U.K.

Abstract

This paper summarizes the numerous developments in geographical information systems (GIS) in the United Kingdom over the past few years, covering the development of systems, the creation of data bases, the elucidation of user needs, the education and training of staff and the role adopted by government. The review is organized by the different sectors now actively involved in GIS.     

北极航线与传统航线地理区位优势的比较分析

在对样本港口和样本船型进行选择的基础上,运用海洋船舶航运利润核算方法,通过航运利润指标对北极航线和传统航线地理区位优势进行了比较分析。结果表明：（1）与传统航线相比,在北极航线需要破冰服务时,北极航线的航运利润高56%左右;在北极航线无需破冰服务时,北极航线的航运利润高105%左右;（2）在欧亚大陆西端的港口中,勒阿佛尔港以北港口至上海港选择北极航线更具地理区位比较优势,而其以南港口至上海港选择北极航线则处于劣势;在北美东海岸的港口中,纽约港以北港口至上海港选择北极航线更具比较优势,而其以南港口至上海港选择北极航线则处于劣势;（3）与俄罗斯、法国、加拿大、美国、挪威和英国的其它港口相比,上海港至俄罗斯北部、法国西北部、加拿大北部、美国东北部、挪威北部、英国东北部的港口,选择北极航线更具地理区位比较优势;（4）与北极航线需要破冰服务时相比,在无需破冰服务时,上海港至俄罗斯、法国（西北部）、加拿大、美国（东北部）、挪威和英国的港口,选择北极航线地理区位比较优势更大。     

澳大利亚第三大城市布里斯班创意产业集聚研究

早在1994年澳大利亚政府提出"创意国度"概念,将促进文化产业发展列入国家发展政策之中,并积极推动发展本国的创意产业。布里斯班是世界上最早设立创意产业中心的城市之一,创建了世界上第一个创意产业学院,专门用于培养创意产业人才和从事创意产业研究,依托昆士兰科技大学建立了澳大利亚第一个创意产业园区作为创新和产业化发展的基地,积极探索"产官学"的产业发展模式,继而借势第一个明确提出了创建"创意城市"的目标,并逐渐走上了布里斯班自己的城市创意产业发展之路。     

Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
A United Kingdom? Economic, social and political geographies by John Mohan
Losing place, refugee populations and rural transformations in East Africa by Jonathan Bascom
Latin America transformed: globalization and modernity edited by Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay
Spaces of modernity: London's geographies 1680–1780 by Miles Ogborn
Landscape and Englishness by David Matless     

Holocene floodplain metamorphosis in the Midlands, United Kingdom

Many lowland rivers in the United Kingdom, including the Nene, Soar and Severn, have layered floodplains with a basal gravel of Pleistocene or Late glacial age and a structureless silty clay superficial unit burying the entire former floodplain. This burial is illustrated by the existence of variable, mixed and pedologically disturbed sediments and palaeo landsurfaces between the basal gravels and superficial silty clay. This paper presents a comparison of the pre- and post-late Holocene palaeo landsurfaces and palaeochannels using data from the Nene, Soar and Severn valleys. From this comparison it is argued that during the mid to late Holocene (ca 4500 yr BP to 2500 yr BP) floodplains and river channels underwent a metamorphosis. This is indicated by accelerated vertical accretion, a reduction in floodplain relative relief, changed floodplain soil conditions, a reduction in channel W/D ratios and a resultant increase in the silty clay proportion of channel perimeter sediments. There are indications that hydrological change preceded this metamorphosis but the primary cause was an increase in fine sediment supply during the later Holocene and a disequilibrium between channel bed and floodplain aggradation rates resulting in relative incision. This metamorphosis, which is explained in this paper by the proposed stable-bed aggrading-banks model (SBAB), is the key factor in the Holocene evolution of low-energy floodplain systems in the United Kingdom, upon which more subtle short-term fluctuations are superimposed.     

A GIS research agenda

Abstract

This paper is a review of research themes in the field of geographical information systems, as identified from the evidence submitted to the Department of the Environment's Committee of Enquiry into the Handling of Geographic Information (the Chorley Committee) which reported in 1987, the papers and discussions at a workshop on research in GIS held in Edinburgh in 1987 and jointly sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom and the National Science Foundation in the United States, and the proceedings of an international symposium on the research agenda for GIS, organized by the Association of American Geographers and held in Washington in 1987. The interpretation of and the emphases given to these themes are, however, the author's own     

国内外城市规划实施管理比较研究

通过对比分析美国、英国、德国和我国的城市规划实施管理制度,了解到西方发达国家城市规划具有规划设计可实施性和法律权威性强、实施管理程序简洁高效、城市规划调整程序严谨等优点,但在充分发挥建筑师的创造性、引导和促进城市开发建设等方面存在一定的局限性.我们应该认真吸取他们的成功经验,以期为推进我国规划实施管理制度改革与创新提供有益的借鉴.     

The Geography of Religious Affiliation in Scotland

Academic study of the relationships between geography and religion constitutes a long‐established subfield of cultural geography. The tradition is particularly strong in the United States where the seminal work of the Berkeley School stimulated a wealth of research on mapping the religious landscapes of North America. Religion has received far less attention within British human geography, due, in part, to the marginal position of religion within cultural geography and, in particular, to the absence of reliable, comprehensive data on religious affiliation. The present research overcomes these ideological and methodological obstacles to advance knowledge of the geography of religion in the United Kingdom. Employing data from the latest Census of Population, embedded within an established tradition of mapping geographies of religion, the research provides detailed analysis of the geography of religious affiliation in Scotland at the advent of the twenty‐first century.     

Late Carboniferous foreland basin formation and Early Carboniferous stretching in Northwestern Europe: inferences from quantitative subsidence analyses in the Netherlands

The large thickness of Upper Carboniferous strata found in the Netherlands suggests that the area was subject to long-term subsidence. However, the mechanisms responsible for subsidence are not quantified and are poorly known. In the area north of the London Brabant Massif, onshore United Kingdom, subsidence during the Namurian–Westphalian B has been explained by Dinantian rifting, followed by thermal subsidence. In contrast, south and east of the Netherlands, along the southern margin of the Northwest European Carboniferous Basin, flexural subsidence caused the development of a foreland basin. It has been proposed that foreland flexure due to Variscan orogenic loading was also responsible for Late Carboniferous subsidence in the Netherlands. In the first part of this paper, we present a series of modelling results in which the geometry and location of the Variscan foreland basin was calculated on the basis of kinematic reconstructions of the Variscan thrust system. Although several uncertainties exist, it is concluded that most subsidence calculated from well data in the Netherlands cannot be explained by flexural subsidence alone. Therefore, we investigated whether a Dinantian rifting event could adequately explain the observed subsidence by inverse modelling. The results show that if only a Dinantian rifting event is assumed, such as is found in the United Kingdom, a very high palaeowater depth at the end of the Dinantian is required to accommodate the Namurian–Westphalian B sedimentary sequence. To better explain the observed subsidence curves, we propose (1) an additional stretching event during the Namurian and (2) a model incorporating an extra dynamic component, which might well explain the very high wavelength of the observed subsidence compared with the wavelength of the predicted flexural foreland basin.     

OVERCOMING THE APARTHEID LEGACY IN CAPE TOWN SCHOOLS*

ABSTRACT. Restructuring apartheid geographies of racial stratification and spatial segregation poses formidable challenges, not least in education. Increasing intraracial inequality also underscores the importance of widening access and opportunity. Although South African education is not constrained by the highly localized control found in the United States and the United Kingdom, school allocation policies and parental choices create geographies that intersect with those of race and residence. Spatial variations critically influence both the impacts of postapartheid policies and the patterns of school desegregation. In this article we explore the spatial impact of inequality, desegregation, and state policies in relation to fourteen secondary schools in Cape Town, distinguishing outcomes that reflect inherited inequalities and current policies from outcomes that reflect individual school strategies. Capital funding is insufficient to change inherited inequalities, and differential fees and fund‐raising capacities perpetuate inequalities in operational resources. Sharing resources, taxing fee income, and a measure of provincial control over feeder areas could reduce inequalities.