The Dictionary of Human Geography

question, and from which the truth value of other propositions can be inferred. Rationalist foundationalism identifies this grou ...

defined as those in extreme incomepoverty and/or living in the so-calledfaminebelt of sub-Saharan Africa. Many suffer fromhuman ...

2006 had 237 SEZs approved, with a further 306 applications pending (see http://sezindia. nic.in/). rj free trade area (FTA) A g ...

and that lands not used for that purpose were at best wasted, even empty. Viewed, rather, as an act of colonialism or imperialis ...

equilibrium and effortless reproduction. Structural functionalism entered sociology through the work of American sociologist Tal ...

G game theory A theory of interdependent decision-making. Individuals (‘players’) choose their actions (‘strategies’) with limit ...

patrolled by private security guards. They are also frequently governed by community asso- ciations that regulate residents’ act ...

norm (see performativity; subjectivity). Butler does see opportunities to prise perform- ances of sex and gender apart: the subv ...

empowerment – has become increasingly identified with GAD. Since the 1980s, writings by post-colonial and Third World feminists ...

Suggested reading Dean (1994); Elden (2001, chs. 4, 5). general linear model (GLM) A family of statistical procedures, used in t ...

Initially, a large number of possible solutions is identified using random generatingprocesses, and by iterative processes built ...

racialized terms that are impregnated with a eurocentrismthat identifieseuropewith a privileged sense ofcivilization. In fact, g ...

lower-income population. The process was first named by Ruth Glass, as she observed the arrival of the ‘gentry’ and the accompan ...

the self-conscious formation of national iden- tities through maps, and in particular through ‘logo maps’ that sketch in outline ...

criticisms ofpositivism, which have been used as the stick to beat other areas of quantitative, computational and spatial scient ...

Africa, parts of Asia and some of China, includ- ing Hong Kong. Many geographers have been active in developing geodemographic c ...

andscience. By the beginning of the 1990s, however, there was a sense among academic researchers that GIS had forged new intelle ...

GIScience is concerned theoretically with every stage of digital representation. Spatial phenomena must be delineated and classi ...

(iv) data reporting, such as maps, reports and plans. The GIS acronym has tended to focus on the software developed by specific ...

to map forest cover in order to recommend locations for new growth; Pratt worked for the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture, which ...