STATE ATLASES: FUNDING SOURCES AND THEMATIC CONTENT*

Is the thematic content of state atlases influenced by the primary sources of atlas funding, private or public? Maps portraying economic conditions, the physical environment, and population dominated state atlases produced between 1970 and 1986, accounting for over 80% of all thematic content. Funding sources effected modest differences in content. Publicly funded state atlases devoted more attention to introductory, physical, and cultural topics, and privately funded state atlases emphasized population, industrial, and agricultural themes.     

Active Learning Strategies and Assessment in World Geography Classes

Abstract

Active learning strategies include a variety of methods, such as inquiry and discovery, in which students are actively engaged in the learning process. This article describes several strategies that can be used in secondary-or college-level world geography courses. The goal of these activities is to foster development of a spatial perspective in students through frequent analysis and interpretation of spatial data. Detailed examples of one particular technique, the “atlas warmup”, are included. Active approaches supplement expository teaching of standards-based geography concepts and current geographic issues. Assessment of the impact of these methods reveals the need for ongoing guided practice in the use of these skills.     

Planning the Next Generation of Regional Atlases: Input From Educators

Abstract

The regional atlas is an important educational resource that needs to be updated on a periodic basis to remain current and valuable. Contemporary advances in digital cartography and digital information dissemination are offering opportunities to rethink the traditional hard-bound paper atlas when working towards a new edition. It is argued in this paper that innovative atlas work ought not be undertaken without market research, including user consultation. This paper presents the results of a user survey conducted in British Columbia, Canada, to solicit educators' attitudes towards regional atlas content and design, including educators' reactions to digital atlases. Where appropriate, results are compared to a previously conducted user survey of the general public and other interest groups including grade 10 high school pupils. We learned that high school teachers in British Columbia are not ready for a digital atlas unless it also is published in paper format. Any digital initiative must also be hardware independent. We learned further that teachers emphasize simplicity and that they value high quality and up-to-date information presented in a clear and concise manner.     

中国工业中小企业省区分布及其影响因素

20 世纪90 年代乡镇企业改革以来,中国中小企业空间格局发生了显著变化。现有地理学文献主要关注中小企业空间集聚、集群研究以及八九十年代的中小企业空间分布问题,对于近20 年来宏观层面中小企业空间分布的研究比较薄弱,实证研究尤为缺乏。基于文献回顾,运用GIS 空间分析、测算变差系数CV等方法,分析1997-2010 年中国工业中小企业省区分布的时空格局变化;在此基础上,选取20 个影响因素并建立计量模型,运用SPSS及Eviews软件,系统测算导致中国工业中小企业省区分布变化的影响因素,并根据研究结果提出相关政策建议。研究表明：① 1997-2010 年间,中国工业中小企业的省区分布更加集中、空间差异不断扩大;② 中国工业中小企业省区分布格局是多因素综合作用的结果,其中地区经济实力、金融环境、市场环境及技术创新是首要因素,信息化、劳动力、铁路密度及农业资源是次要因素。     

近期我国省域经济增长的基本态势分析

本文对1991年～1996年间，我国省域经济增长的区域差异性进行了分析。重点是：揭示国家宏观发展政策对省域经济发展格局的作用效果，总结省域经济发展水平变化及对国家经济总量增长贡献程度分异的规律，以及划分省域经济增长类型、并探讨主要类型形成的内在机制。     

社会地图研究综述与展望

用地图方法研究社会空间已有较长历史,在不同的研究背景下形成了多种研究模式。近年来,大数据的出现和空间信息可视化技术的发展,不仅为社会地图的广泛应用提供了更多数据和方法支撑,也为社会空间的再认识提供了新的契机和可能。本文在对面向社会空间研究的国内外社会地图运用成果进行系统梳理的基础上, 将社会地图的研究应用归纳为要素呈现、问题解释和理论验证3个阶段,并对其具体应用内容、方法和数据形式进行了综述,总结为统计图、点值图、网格图、密度图等四种类型,并就社会地图在中国社会空间研究中的应用可能性及其方向进行了讨论和展望。     

中国农村深度贫困的空间扫描与贫困分异机制的地理探测

从自然和社会经济因素中选取贫困的影响因子,建立评价指标体系,通过Pearson相关分析确定了贫困的主要影响因素,利用GIS空间分析和BP人工神经网络,分别模拟了省域、市域和县域3个尺度下的自然致贫指数与社会经济消贫指数,进一步计算获得了3个尺度下的贫困压力指数,对其空间分布格局进行分析;借助Flexible空间扫描探测识别出深度贫困县,在此基础上运用地理探测器揭示其主导致贫因素,并提出差别化的减贫对策建议。结果表明：① 省域、市域、县域3个尺度的自然致贫指数和贫困压力指数在空间分布上具有较高的一致性,呈现出明显的“东低西高”的空间分布格局;社会经济消贫指数的空间分布一致性不高,县域尺度更为破碎。以黑河—百色线为界,县域贫困压力指数在空间上表现出“大分散、小聚集”的分布状态。识别出的全国贫困县共计655个,主要分布在重点生态功能区和农产品主产区。② 3个尺度下,空间扫描识别出的贫困高风险区主要分布在西北、西南少数民族和边疆地区。县域尺度下识别出208个深度贫困县,多位于省际边缘区。③ 地理探测器识别出深度贫困县的7个致贫主导因素,按照主导因素将深度贫困县划分为地形要素制约型、区位交通制约型、经济收入制约型和生态环境制约型4类。     

产业特性、区域特征与中国制造业省区集聚

产业地理集聚存在产业差异和区域差异。本文结合产业特性和区域特征揭示产业集聚的形成机制。采用2004 年第一次经济普查数据,本文发现交通密度、政府支出比重、开发区数量以及贸易壁垒强度等区域特征显著影响产业集聚。在产业特性与区域特征交叉分析中发现,市场化促进了农业投入依赖性强、产业联系强、劳动密集型及研发密集型的产业的空间扩散,交通网络的完善有利于产业联系强的、规模经济显著的产业的分散布局,在市场潜力较大的省区规模经济显著的产业更为集聚;地方政府的产业和区域政策促进了产业联系较强的产业集聚,而拉动了利税率高的、国有企业主导的、属于国家重点计划的产业分散布局;各级政府建立的开发区和园区则尤其不利于国家计划重点产业的集聚和规模经济的实现。本文研究表明,贸易理论与新经济地理理论对于中国的制造业集聚具有一定的解释力,而中国的政策制度环境也是产业集聚的重要影响因素。产业集聚需要一定的产业和区域条件,并非所有产业和所有区域内都能够实现高水平的产业集聚。     

Decolonization and the Making of Middle Indonesia

Indonesia contains about 200 provincial cities with populations between 50,000 and one million, yet they have attracted far less scholarly attention than the country's few million-plus cities. Recent democratization and decentralization have brought to light patterns of communal and local mobilization in these cities, centered on elections and other political events, that have not been seen in Indonesia since the 1950s and early 1960s. Provincial cities have talked back to the central state in ways that belie their supposed passivity as expressed in the term "urban involution." This study attempts to build a synthetic and historical explanation for those patterns by examining the social embeddedness of the state in the provincial city. Most of Indonesia's towns and cities, particularly beyond Java, became urban only through the formation of the modern colonial state from the mid- to late 19th century onward. After decolonization began in 1945, the expanding but chronically underfunded bureaucracy became an arena for contestation among the emerging middle classes in these urban centers, which lacked manufacturing. The new provincial classes were politically significant because of their numbers and their mobilizing skills rather than their wealth. They successfully seized the state at the local level. The central state, anxious to establish political stability, appeased them with substantial political transfer rents, particularly during the oil boom years of the early to middle New Order.     

冀豫鄂三省农用地分等成果一致性检验

农用地省级分等成果是国家级成果汇总的基础,省级成果是否具有一致性,省际是否平衡协调是国家级汇总研究的重点内容。以冀豫鄂三省为例,标准样地为样本数据,分析标准粮产量与农用地等别关系,剖析农用地省级分等成果的内部一致性以及省际差异程度。检验结果表明:各省农用地分等结果与标准粮产量间具有相同的变化趋势,但相关程度与变化关系不具有整体一致性。     

省域差异的警戒水平及调控研究──以山东省为例

差异与均衡是区域发展中必须兼顾的两个方面,差异是经济增长的内在动力,也是实现均衡的手段和途径。本文通过省域差异变化与增长速度联动分析,结合山东省案例,表明二者间存在函数关系,可利用拟合模型揭示其相互作用、动态变化的规律,并在适度差异的基础上建立差异警戒水平,作为实施省域差异调控的依据。当差异较小则通过倾斜发展以提高增长速度,当差异逼近或越过警戒水平则控制和缩小差异以保持增长势头,使省域差异合理化。     

IDENTITY,BANAL NATIONALISM,CONTESTATION, AND NORTH AMERICAN LICENSE PLATES*

In the early 1900s, U.S. state and Canadian provincial governments began to register automobiles and issue license plates to their owners. Within several decades of the first issuance of license plates, state and provincial governments began to use these plates for advertising purposes, such as promoting local economies and tourism. In recent decades, however, governments have used license plates to promote national identities and nationalist ideals. Using examples from the United States and Canada, I examine how governments have used such banal signifiers of place as license plates to craft and promote these identities and how drivers have contested that usage.     

珠三角城市区域治理的尺度重构机制研究——基于产业合作项目与交通基础设施项目的比较

珠三角作为中国东南沿海的巨型城市区域,旨在构建跨越经济社会系统的多元协同的综合一体化地区。本文以深汕特别合作区与穗莞深城际铁路两个区域合作项目为例,借鉴“新国家空间”理论,基于区域治理所面临的经济发展困境与行政治理困境,分析区域治理过程中的权力上移和下移,即省市关系调整的弹性应对策略。研究发现：区域产业合作项目中,为克服城市间合作的制度化不足的行政治理困境,省政府进行了包括资源注入、事权下放、去管制和扩大地方自主权的区域治理权力的尺度下移;区域基础设施项目中,为了解决省政府财权不足的行政治理困境,省政府进行了水平权力重组以构建综合博弈体、强制性地方事权上收和以收权导向的行政奖励的区域治理权力的尺度上移。由此,本文认为珠三角区域治理并非单向、机械的尺度建构过程,而是区域项目建设导向下,以修复行政治理困境为目标,灵活多向的尺度重配过程。     

海洋产业影响省域经济增长估计及其分异动因判识

采用静态和动态计量方法分析2006~2015年海洋经济对沿海省（市、区）经济发展的影响程度并通过空间计量方法识别差异动因。研究发现：① 海洋经济对中国省域经济发展具有显著地影响,其中天津、上海、福建、山东、广东、海南海洋经济总量贡献率高于全国平均水平;② 省域海洋产业对区域经济影响度分异呈现省际绝对差异不断扩大、相对差异不断缩小,且具有显著的空间相关性;③ 引起省域经济增长差异的海洋经济相关因素中,海洋第二产业、海洋进出口贸易额等起到正向促进作用（即拉大差异）,且海洋第二产业结构具有显著的溢出效应。相关发现有助于中国沿海省（市、区）经济的协调发展和科学决策。     

小城镇信息图谱初探

小城镇建设将成为我国农村经济发展的一种重要模式。为了引导小城镇的可持续发展,有必要对小城镇演变的内在规律作深入研究。运用“图谱”的表达方式和GIS分析工具,从小城镇图谱的基本构成要素入手,对小城镇的群体空间、外部形态和内部结构的演变规律进行了探讨。并以泰州市城镇群、兰溪市永昌镇为例,作了实证研究。研究表明,采用图谱的表达方式有助于我们对城镇发展进行了历史总结、规律挖掘,客观地把握城镇的发展阶段,从而了解不同时期城镇工作的重点,以有的放矢地采取措施,部署长远规划。     

国家自然地图数据库信息分类与编码体系

本文着重研究利用《中华人民共和国国家自然地图集》,作为主要的信息来源,建立“国家自然地图数据库的信息分类与编码体系,分类原则和子分类体系。在此基础上完成了编码方案、分类原则、编码标准和专题编码的结构,同时描述了建立“国家自然地图数据库”的技术路线、地理数据组织、元数据库及数据字典等。     

The state and its agencies in coastal resources management: The political ecology of fisheries management in Pattani, southern Thailand

Various stakeholders contribute to the current state of resource management in the inshore fisheries of Pattani, southern Thailand. Taking the state, empowered by national legislation, as the main agent of enforcement, this paper uses an actor-oriented approach derived from political ecology to evaluate how key agents in state agencies at provincial and district levels translate Thai political and legal systems at the local level; more specifically, how cross-scalar institutional linkages and translations affect coastal resources management and the access of village-based, small-scale fishermen to coastal resources. The paper shows that trans-scalar interpretations have created a space of contestation and negotiation in resource governance at the local level that reveals intrastate tensions. Based on extensive fieldwork, the paper demonstrates that access to environmental resources at the local level is highly influenced or regulated by the unequal power relations between different actors at various levels.     

“一带一路”背景下的中印贸易关系分析

中国与印度的双边关系一直牵动着亚洲乃至世界的经济发展格局,研究其贸易关系对推进双边关系、推动孟中印缅经济走廊合作及“一带一路”建设均具有重要意义。本文从贸易角度入手,深入剖析中印贸易关系发展态势,探讨中印贸易商品结构及敏感行业,评估中印贸易对两国经济发展的带动作用,以期为中印关系演变提供有利支撑。研究发现：（1）2001—2017年中国与印度的贸易规模迅速扩大,但印度在中国的贸易地位提升较慢;（2）东部沿海省份与印度的贸易联系较紧密,西部地区大部分省份与印度的贸易联系相对较弱;（3）中、印双方均未能识别出明显的敏感行业,中国从印度进口主要商品为资源密集型和劳动密集型商品,而中国出口印度的商品逐渐转为技术密集型商品;（4）机械设备、化学制品业的出口拉动对中国的经济发展贡献相对较高,而非金属矿物制品、矿物的出口拉动对印度的经济发展贡献相对较高;（5）出口印度对东部沿海贸易大省的经济拉动比较明显,对于印度毗邻的西藏、新疆两个自治区的拉动也相对较大。     

Research and compilation of the Geomorphologic Atlas of the People’s Republic of China (1:1,000,000)

Geomorphologic maps are one of the most fundamental materials of the natural environment. They have been widely used in scientific research, resource exploration and extraction, education and military affairs etc. An editorial committee was established in 2001 to collect materials for researching and compiling a set of new 1:1,000,000 geomorphologic atlas of China. A digital geomorphologic database was created with visual interpretation from Landsat TM/ETM imageries and SRTM-DEM etc. The atlas compiled from the database was finished. The main characteristics of the atlas are as follows: Firstly, Landsat TM/ETM imageries, published geomorphologic maps or sketches, geographical base maps, digital geological maps, and other thematic maps were collected, which were uniformly geometrically rectified, clipped into uniform sheets, and stored in the foundation database. Secondly, based on the legends of 15 sheets 1:1,000,000 maps published in the 1980s, a geomorphologic classification system was built by combining morphology and genesis types. The system comprised seven hierarchical layers: basic morphology, genesis, sub-genesis, morphology, micro-morphology, slope and aspect, material composition and lithology. These layers were stored in the database during visual image interpretation. About 2000 kinds of morpho- genesis and 300 kinds of morpho-structure were interpreted. Thirdly, the legend system was built, which included color, symbol bases and note bases etc., compilation standards and procedures were developed, 74 sheets of 1:1,000,000 covering all land and sea territories of China were compiled, the 1:1,000,000 geomorphologic atlas of the People’s Republic of China was finished and published. The atlas will fill the blanks in national basic scale thematic maps, and the geomorphologic database could be applied widely in many fields in the future.     

《中华人民共和国地貌图集》的研究与编制

Geomorphologic maps are one of the most fundamental materials of the natural environment. They have been widely used in scientific research,resource exploration and extraction,education and military affairs etc. An editorial committee was established in 2001 to collect materials for researching and compiling a set of new 1:1,000,000 geomorphologic atlas of China. A digital geomorphologic database was created with visual interpretation from Landsat TM/ETM imageries and SRTM-DEM etc. The atlas compiled from the database was finished. The main characteristics of the atlas are as follows:Firstly,Landsat TM/ETM imageries,published geomorphologic maps or sketches,geographical base maps,digital geological maps,and other thematic maps were collected,which were uniformly geometrically rectified,clipped into uniform sheets,and stored in the foundation database. Secondly,based on the legends of 15 sheets 1:1,000,000 maps published in the 1980s,a geomorphologic classification system was built by combining morphology and genesis types. The system comprised seven hierarchical layers:basic morphology,genesis,sub-genesis,morphology,micro-morphology,slope and aspect,material composition and lithology. These layers were stored in the database during visual image interpretation. About 2000 kinds of morpho-genesis and 300 kinds of morpho-structure were interpreted. Thirdly,the legend system was built,which included color,symbol bases and note bases etc.,compilation standards and procedures were developed,74 sheets of 1:1,000,000 covering all land and sea territories of China were compiled,the 1:1,000,000 geomorphologic atlas of the People’s Republic of China was finished and published. The atlas will fill the blanks in national basic scale thematic maps,and the geomorphologic database could be applied widely in many fields in the future.