A Systematic Approach to New Zealand Geography

Book reviewed in this article:
MAN, MAP AND LANDSCAPE IN NEW ZEALAND. By D. W. McKenzie     

Mentoring: A New Approach to Geography Teacher Preparation

Abstract

Geography teacher preparation is an ongoing problem for the discipline. Changes in certification requirements and federal and state educational policies have diminished the role of colleges and universities in educating teachers. At the same time, geography education reform efforts have resulted in higher standards and an increased quantity of geography in the curriculum, pre-service programs have failed to produce an adequate supply of highly qualified geography teachers. This paper suggests that geographers implement geography mentoring programs to improve the quality of geography instruction in early-career teachers. A model developed for the National Geographic Society is described. The model uses Teacher Consultants as mentors to assist novice teachers at the stage in their development when they are most ready to improve practice: between years two and five of their career.     

国外大都市区规划体系评述

本文探讨了国外大都市区在规划编制中的一些最新做法和特点，包括规划负责机构、规划组织体系、规划编制大纲三个方面，并介绍了美国纽约、英国伦敦和日本近畿圈规划的特点。由于各国管理制度的差异性和大都市区组织结构的多样性，国外大都市区的规划呈现不同特点和效果。     

降雨型滑坡预报中计算前期有效降雨量的一种新方法

在许多地区,前期降雨条件对滑坡的发生有重大影响,前期有效降雨量是滑坡预报的一个重要参数。基于累积滑坡频度-降雨量分形关系导出了一种新的计算前期有效降雨量的方法。在这个方法中,降雨衰减系数是由给定区域内引发滑坡的累积降雨阀值随观测时段天数变化的标度指数所决定,滑坡前每天降雨对总有效雨量的贡献并非是独立的,前i天降雨的衰减过程与前i-1天的降雨相关联。     

新一轮土地利用总体规划修编的几个问题

新一轮修编面临着国家粮食安全形势更加严峻,城镇化、工业化对耕地需求更加旺盛,不正确的“政绩观”没有得到根本扭转的严峻局面。因此,规划修编工作任重道远。为此提出如下建议：（1）耕地需求量和基本农田保护数量以国家预测为主,然后按行政区逐级分解,上下级协调确定;（2）建设用地需求量预测以市、县预测为主,上下结合确定;（3）建议成立国家、省、市、县的土地利用总体规划与城市总体规划这两个规划编制与协调委员会,负责两个规划的协调;（4）加强规划方法研究,提高公众参与程度,建立土地规划师执业认证制度,做好基础数据的整理与变更。加强乡级规划的领导,以确保规划修编的质量。     

Ensemble Spatial Interpolation: A New Approach to Natural or Anthropogenic Variable Assessment

Natural Resources Research - This paper presents a novel and versatile framework for building ensemble spatial interpolation functions. As with all ensemble methods, the central idea is to assemble...     

旅游体验--旅游规划的新视角

旅游是一种天然的体验活动,其目的是为旅游者营造难忘的旅游体验和值得回味的旅游经历.旅游的这种体验属性决定了旅游业将是体验经济的时代先锋 .在分析旅游本质的体验内涵的基础上,认为面对体验经济旅游规划工作的核心在于为旅 游者营造独特而美妙的旅游体验.回顾分析旅游体验的内涵、类型、层次,并探讨旅游体验 的规划设计,希望通过旅游的体验规划在横向上丰富旅游体验的类型,纵向上提升旅游体 验的层次,通过横向和纵向的更新发展建立旅游体验系统,实现旅游景区的可持续发展.     

Meta分析及其在生态环境领域研究中的应用

Meta分析(Meta-Analysis)是当今比较流行的综合具有同一主题的多个独立研究的统计学方法,是较高一级逻辑形式上的定量文献综述.20世纪90年代后,Meta分析被引入生态学领域的研究,并得到高度的重视和长足的发展.文章介绍了Meta分析的基本概念;回顾了Mata分析的发展历程,及其在生态环境领域研究中的应用;归纳了如何进行Meta分析;最后讨论了Meta分析的局限性.以期能合理应用Meta分析,为生态环境领域综合研究提供合理有效的分析方法.     

分析及其在生态环境领域研究中的应用

Meta分析（Meta-Analysis）是当今比较流行的综合具有同一主题的多个独立研究的统计学方法,是较高一级逻辑形式上的定量文献综述。20世纪90年代后,Meta分析被引入生态学领域的研究,并得到高度的重视和长足的发展。文章介绍了Meta分析的基本概念;回顾了Mata分析的发展历程,及其在生态环境领域研究中的应用;归纳了如何进行Meta分析;最后讨论了Meta分析的局限性。以期能合理应用Meta分析,为生态环境领域综合研究提供合理有效的分析方法。     

A New Approach to Optimize Ultimate Geometry of Open Pit Mines with Variable Overall Slope Angles

Natural Resources Research - The optimization method for determining open pit limit is important, as it is crucial to achieve the most profitable outcome from the limited amount of reserves...     

基于GIS的洪水灾害风险区划研究

洪水灾害区划是洪灾评估与管理的重要内容,本文在分析洪灾形成的各主要因子的基础上,提出了基于地理信息系统的洪灾风险区划指标模型,并结合辽河流域具体情况,以降雨、地形和区域社会经济易损为主要指标,得出了辽河流域洪灾风险综合区别。     

国外国土规划的特点和新动向

本文首先阐明国外国土规划的基本概念和体系结构，然后对欧盟、日本、韩国及东南亚等国家的新世纪国土规划体系和制度改革的特点、新理念、发展趋势进行比较研究。最后，指出国外国土规划对中国国土规划的启示和中国新时期国土规划编制的重要性。     

A Thematic Approach to Regional Geography1

Abstract

Despite the continued importance of regional courses in college curricula and the far-reaching innovations in systematic geography, the formats and organizational structure of regional geography has remained obdurately stable. The persistent demand for a regional course on Africa, together with the disturbing anachronistic curricular materials and our difficulty in finding adequate materials for our class, stimulated us to develop a different approach to teaching African geography. The approach is thematic and is intended to modernize African regional geography, bring it into phase with the rest of the discipline, and emphasize the essential unity of the spatial viewpoint. Five themes are used as the framework for providing an integrating overview of the continent and its problems.     

A Point-Based Intelligent Approach to Areal Interpolation

Areal interpolation is the data transfer from one zonal system to another. A survey of previous literature on this subject points out that the most effective methods for areal interpolation are the intelligent approaches, which often take two-dimensional (2-D) land use or one-dimensional (1-D) road network information as ancillary data to give insight on the underlying distribution of a variable. However, the 2-D or 1-D ancillary information is not always applicable for the variable of interest in a specific study area. This article introduces a point-based intelligent approach to the areal interpolation problem by using zero-dimensional (0-D) points as ancillary data that are locationally associated with the variable of interest. The connection between zonal variables and point locations can be modeled with a linear or a nonlinear exponential function, which incorporates the distribution of the variables in the transferring of the information from the source zone to the target zone. An experimental study interpolating the population data at a suburbanized area suggests that the proposed method is an attractive alternative to other areal interpolation solutions based on the evaluation of its resulting accuracy and efficiency.