The Changing Geography Of Asia

ABSTRACT The regional development in China in the period 1949-2000 has two stages. In the first one (1949-1978), the aim was to control the territory. During three decades the government encouraged the convergences of per capita income among regions, rural, and urban areas, the industry was decentralized, the growth of central regions was induced, and the growth of coastal regions was constrained. In the second period (1979-2000), the so called “coastal and uneven strategy of development”

------------------------------------------------- THE 30 MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD Pos | Language | Family | Script(s) Used | Speakers (Millions) | Where Spoken (Major) | 1 | Mandarin | Sino-Tibetan | Chinese Characters | 1151 | China, Malaysia, Taiwan | 2 | English | Indo-European | Latin | 1000 | USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand | 3 | Spanish | Indo-European | Latin | 500 | Mexico, Central and South America, Spain | 4 | Hindi | Indo-European | Devanagari |…

these words, tens of thousands of business travellers worldwide are beginning or ending their trips. At the same time, thousands of major conferences and exhibitions are taking place globally, while hundreds of incentive travel programmes are being enjoyed in your country. In other words, business travel and tourism is big business. It employs millions of people around the world and is the core of the tourism market for many leading destinations. Yet, this massive phenomenon of our age…

Abstract The present study proposes to reconcile the different spatial and temporal scales of regional species production and local constraint on species richness. Although interactions between populations rapidly achieve equilibrium and limit membership in ecological communities locally, these interactions occur over heterogeneous environments within large regions, where the populations of species are stably regulated through competition and habitat selection. Consequently, exclusion of…

The Lonely Superpower Samuel P. Huntington THE NEW DIMENSION OF POWER past decade global politics has changed flindamentally in two ways. First, it has been substantially reconfigured along cultural and civihzational lines, as I bave highlighted in the pages of this journal and documented at length in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Second, as argued in that book, global politics is also always about power and the struggle for power, and today…

Abstract The present study proposes to reconcile the different spatial and temporal scales of regional species production and local constraint on species richness. Although interactions between populations rapidly achieve equilibrium and limit membership in ecological communities locally, these interactions occur over heterogeneous environments within large regions, where the populations of species are stably regulated through competition and habitat selection. Consequently, exclusion of…

da história do ensino de geografia no Brasil. Em seguida, na Segunda Parte, para introduzir os temas de cunho teórico-metodológico, foram apresentados, inicialmente, a análise das contribuições metodológicas de David Harvey em Explanation in Geography (1969); uma reflexão sobre os argumentos teóricos e metodológicos da geografia teorética; uma proposição metodológica a partir do pensamento de Henri Lefèbvre; e, finalmente, a apresentação de elementos para uma discussão sobre a…

player in the multipolar international system taking shape since the end of the cold war simply on the basis of its economic size and material capabilities. However, its potential to influence international outcomes is likely to be determined more by the capacity of the country’s elites to identify and harness qualitative assets associated with its stable and democratic governance than by any hard-power assets. Brazil is the quintessential soft-power BRIC. Among the four BRICs, Brazil is…

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A globalização como reterritorialização: o reescalonamento da governança urbana na União Europeia* Globalization as reterritorialisation: the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union Neil Brenner Resumo O presente artigo argumenta que os processos de reterritorialização – a reconfiguração e o reescalonamento de formas de organização territorial, como cidades e Estados – constituem um momento intrínseco do atual ciclo de globalização. A globalização é aqui concebida como uma…