Should Canada Re-join the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)?

PAIGH was formed in 1928, in Havana, as the first specialized organization of the Organization of American States. Headquarters remain in Mexico City. The organization is supported by a quota of its members as determined by the OAS. PAIGH members now include virtually all of the Latin American states. Canada was a member until 1997, but has since withdrawn

Scientific, institutional and personal rivalries among Soviet geographers in the late Stalin era

Scientific, institutional and personal rivalries between three key centres of geographical research and scholarship (the Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography and the Faculties of Geography at Moscow and Leningrad State Universities) are surveyed for the period from 1945 to the early 1950s. It is argued that the debates and rivalries between members of the three institutions appear to have been motivated by a variety of scientific, ideological, institutional and personal factors, but that genuine scientific disagreements were at least as important as political and ideological factors in influencing the course of the debates and in determining their final outcome

Development and Activity of the Institute of Geography, Kazimierz Wielki University in 1995-2016

The Institute of Geography of Kazimierz Wielki University, founded in 1996, initially as the Chair of Geography, is the youngest geography research and didactic unit in Poland. The Institute runs two-cycle studies in two fields: Geography as well as Tourism and Recreation (bachelor’s and complementary master’s studies), and two engineering courses: Inland Waterways Revitalization and Crisis Management in the Natural Environment. After twenty years of student education, graduates of the Institute of Geography have an impact on the natural environment management on a local and national scale, by taking positions at various levels, including managerial positions in local authorities’ units, institutions connected with environmental protection as well as private enterprises. The academic research of the Institute of Geography focuses on issues related to physical geography and socio-economic geography as well as tourism and recreation. Currently, the most important topics are: the impact of human activity on fluvial systems, problems related to revitalization of waterways and riverside areas, geodiversity of selected areas in Poland, contemporary socio-economic processes in Poland and other transition countries, tourism development and economics. The scientific research and expert activities of the Institute’s employees in the indicated fields include research works both worldwide, nationwide, as well as on a local scale – the Kujavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and the city of Bydgoszcz. The research is carried out within the framework of cooperation with Polish and foreign academic institutions, as well as in the scope of implementation works with local authorities’ units, landscape parks and private enterprises. Since 2013, the Institute of Geography has published the “Geography and Tourism” academic journal, which popularizes the results of theoretical and empirical research in the fields of geography and tourism

Forest Cover Changes and Landscape Sustainability – A Retrospective Study in Cultural Borderland, ed. by Jan Marek Matuszkiewicz, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2020, 397 pp.

Forest Cover Changes and Landscape Sustainability – A Retrospective Study in Cultural Borderland, ed. by Jan Marek Matuszkiewicz, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2020, 397 pp

Publication output of the Institute of Geography of Kazimierz Wielki University (1995-2017)

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the publishing output of the UKW Institute of Geography from its foundation in 1995 until the end of the year 2017. The structure of publications was assessed on the basis of bibliometric methods, using a dynamic approach. The results include a breakdown by the number of authors, language, and source. The analysis also addresses the thematic structure of the publications, the structure of their spatial scopes, and the most important trends evident in the analyzed period. The place of the UKW Institute of Geography among all geographical centers in Poland was identified based on the analysis of publications by UKW faculty members, and with the use of bibliometric publications assessing other centers of geographic research in Poland, as well as geographical journals.&nbsp

Using OS Software and Open Standards for implementing a European SDI via Service Cascade

Paper presented at the 27th International Cartographic Conference: Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) 20-21 August 2015, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.http://sdistandards.icaci.org/2015/09/sdi-open-2015-proceedingsam201

Upstream-Downstream Influence of Water Harvesting Techniques (Jessour) on Soil Water Retention in Southeast Tunisia

Weather parameters and soil moisture profiles were measured at an hourly time step during four agricultural years (September to October, from 2018–19 to 2021–22) in two Jessour (water harvesting cultivated terraces) of the same valley in Zmerten (southeastern Tunisia), characterized by an arid climate. One instrumented Jesr (singular of Jessour) was located upstream and the other one downstream. During each dry season, when crops experience water stress, the downstream Jesr had a higher available water content than the upstream one; in the downstream Jesr the soil profile moisture remained above the wilting point, whereas in the upstream soil surface, moisture levels decreased to below the wilting point. High accumulation/low intensity rains (causing saturation/excess runoff) flooded both upstream and downstream Jessour from 50 mm of cumulative rainfall, whereas high intensity/low accumulation rains (causing infiltration/excess runoff) activated the downstream Jesr from an intensity of 15.2 mm/h, and a combination of moderate intensity and moderate accumulation rains activated both Jessour from an intensity of 8 mm/h and a cumulative rainfall of 33 mm. We propose to set 50 mm of cumulative rainfall and/or 6.4 mm/h of intensity as threshold values for the activation of the Jessour system in Zmerten. However, significant soil moisture recharges can occur even without activation of the Jessour system.EEA BarilocheFil: Calianno, Martin. University of Lausanne. Institute of Geography and Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research; SuizaFil: Calianno, Martin. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Ben Fraj, Tarek. University of Tunis. CGMED Laboratory; TúnezFil: Ben Fraj, Tarek. University of Sousse. Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences; TúnezFil: Fallot, Jean-Michel. University of Lausanne. Institute of Geography and Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research; SuizaFil: Abbassi, Mohamed. University of Tunis. CGMED Laboratory; TúnezFil: Abbassi, Mohamed. University of Sousse. Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences; TúnezFil: Ghram Messedi, Aziza. University of Tunis. CGMED Laboratory; TúnezFil: Ghram Messedi, Aziza. University of Sousse. Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences; TúnezFil: Ben Ouezdou, Hédi. University of Tunis. CGMED Laboratory; TúnezFil: Ben Ouezdou, Hédi. University of Sousse. Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences; TúnezFil: Reynard, Emmanuel. University of Lausanne. Institute of Geography and Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research; Suiz

Exposition in Stone Forest National Park: international cooperation between Slovenia and China in research and development of Stone Forest UNESCO Global Geopark

Informal cooperation between Slovenian and Chinese karstologists started as early as 1980's, but the main boost was initiated after 1995 in the frame of several national and international projects. Fruitful long-term cooperation between the Karst Research Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Yunnan Institute of Geography, Yunnan University, successfully culminated in many joint research efforts, among which the research in Stone Forest (Shilin) in South China Karst was the most apparent one

Detection and visualisation of climate trends in China

Research on climate trends in China has been carried out within a co-operation of the Justus Liebig Universities Department of Geography and Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung (ZEU) and the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (CAS). First results were introduced by BECKER et al. 2003 a, b who worked on precipitation trend analyses in the Yangtze River Catchment. In the meanwhile, the National Climatic Centre of China (NCCC) kindly provided climatic data in China within the framework of this co-operation. Financial support from the CAS Key project KZCX3-SW-331 and the NSFC project 40271112 enabled the data acquisition. The analysis of both, precipitation and temperature data for the whole of China from 1951- 2002 can be carried out now. A shorter version of the precipitation trend observation will soon be published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology (GEMMER et al. 2003, accepted for publication/in print). Results of the temperature trend research have not been published yet. They will be submitted to an international Journal when further statistical approaches with regard to daily temperature data are processed. The discussion paper in hand will make the actual results accessible for further research groups in Germany. --