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Cognitive distance is analyzed in relation to various elements of the built environment. The basis for accepting a power function as the underlying functional relationship between cognitive distance and its objective counterpart is discussed. This counterpart has been assumed to be objective distance. Evidence is presented to indicate that cognition of distance is based upon travel time rather than upon objective distance or upon objective distance modified by other elements of the built environment.     

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Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880–1920. A. William Hoglund.

Geology of the Industrial Rocks and Minerals. Robert L. Bates.

Readings in Culturul Geography. Philip L. Wagner AND Marvin W. Mikesell, eds.

Anglo-America: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. P. F. Griffin, R.N. Young, AND R.L. Chatham

Undergraduate Education in Foreign Affirs. Percy W. Bidwell.

Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York. Michel-Guillaume: Jean DE Crevecoeur. Percy G. Adams, trans. and ed.

Canada and the Canadians: Profile of a Modern Nation. Alistair Horne.

Four Thousund Years Ago: d Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C. Geoffrey Bibby.

Interpretation of Aerial Photographs. T. Eugene Avery.

A Geography of the U.S.S R.: The Background to a Planned Economy. J.P. Cole AND F.C. German.

Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. John Wesley Powell. Wallace Stegner, ed.     

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BRITAIN-An informal review by L. Dudley Stamp.     

Environmental Science Education Programs: Opportunities for Geographers

Abstract

Environmental agencies in most states have an environmental education Web page that can point geography teachers to a variety of opportunities and resources to enhance their teaching. Most states provide linkages to local and national programs such as Project WET and Project WILD, and access to lesson plans and other teaching materials. A number of state agencies have environmental resource centers, teacher workshops, and grant programs for field trips and class projects. A few states have workshops that provide graduate academic credit and special certification. Much of the content of these programs contributes to fundamental geographic education themes as specified in the 1983 Guidelines in Geographic Education K–12 and Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994.     

North American Geographers and the Pacific Rim: Leaders or Laggards

The ascendance of the Pacific Rim is an indisputable global happening. North American geography, a logical leader in the study of this high profile phenomenon, has lagged behind other disciplines in Rim-focused research. This article argues in favor of a heightened Rim awareness, surveys recent publications, suggests promising Pacific Rim research directions, and proposes how the Association of American Geographers can help promote Rim studies.     

西方金融地理学研究进展及其启示

金融地理学作为一门新兴的分支学科,已受到越来越多地理学者的重视。本文试图总结国外学者在金融地理学领域的研究进展,阐述其当前主要研究议题,提出对我国金融地理研究的启示。国外金融地理学的研究主要经历了以下几个发展阶段：自20世纪70年代以来,地理学家开始关注金融机构在引导特定地区资本流动过程中所起的作用; 80年代,学者们转向研究金融在西方社会中的角色、特定金融制度的空间组织与运作、金融中心的发展、金融流动与产业发展的关系等; 90年代以来,金融地理研究中出现了三个贯穿、且相互增强的研究对象,即解除管制、技术创新及全球化,相关研究中出现了文化制度转向。当前主要研究议题包括： 金融中心的形成、发展及萎缩; 金融排除及其带来的地方货币系统的研究;货币地理学研究等。根据国外的研究进展及经验,我国可以在金融服务网络的空间格局、货币流地域差异、金融排除及其相关的社会问题等方面展开研究。