Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts
much more difficult to exploit and thus having a much lowercarrying capacity for animals and humans. This landscape change has a ...
space and is the opposite ofsupranationalism. Demands for devolution of politi- cal power often are the result of the coalescenc ...
end of World War II. The legal basis for the implosion of the Yugoslav state lay in devolutionary measures contained in the Yugo ...
others face when devolving political power is determining the critical limit between successfully decentralizing authority, or u ...
extent on the geometry of the distance covered, not simply the absolute distance intervening between the two interacting points. ...
E Earth Earth is the formal name for the planet on which we live. Although we know of other planets, including some outside of o ...
observing from orbit, this difference is negligible. In practicality, the radius of Earth is usually rounded and taken to be 6,4 ...
Earth has a magnetic field that is thought to be caused by the circulation of interior fluids combined with Earth’s rotation pro ...
Earthquakes The study ofplate tectonicsmakes it clear that the crust of theEarthis in long-term motion being driven by giant con ...
Energy released by earthquakes varies of orders of magnitude. There are a cou- ple of dozen major earthquakes (Richter magnitude ...
was heavily damaged because of the differential rise and fall of the land and the resulting rending of gas lines, water mains, a ...
annual income per capita is typically several tens of thousands of dollars per year, often more than one hundred times greater t ...
the Group of 20 (G-20). The G-20 contains a more diverse membership, with sev- eral countries from the “South” that are rapidly ...
The electoral regions for U.S. senators do not change over time, because these regions are the states themselves, since each sta ...
For example, spices in the 1600s were frequently transported along a series of entrepoˆt ports of call between Southeast Asia, w ...
Environmental determinism, in its simplest form, argues that human cultural traits are either determined, or at least strongly i ...
“naturally” conquers and absorbs weaker neighbors. Kjellen’s thinking was deeply influenced by the work of Friedrich Ratzel, a G ...
that the physical conditionsa group faced imposed certain limits, Sauer and his supporters argued that environmental determinism ...
Ethnocentrism The point of view that one’s own culture, ethnic group, religion, or race is funda- mentally superior to others. S ...
attitudes toward nomadic peoples, especially those in Central Asia, considering them little better than “savages” who lacked int ...
«
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
»
Free download pdf