Venäjän dynaaminen aluemaantiede

Antti Helanterä & Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen: Maantieteelle Venäjä ei voi mitään. Ajatus Kirjat. Gummerus, Jyväskylä 2002. 262 s

Historiasynteesi Suomen autonomian ajan maantieteestä

Kirjallisuusarvostel

The spatial characteristics of the livestock and meat trade in Finland with special reference to slaughterhouses

This study is concerned with spatial and functional features of the livestock and meat trade in Finland. Slaughterhouses are the central starting‑point, because the study material has been obtained from them by the method of inquiry. The network of supply areas for slaughterhouses in Finland is found to be highly complicated. Overlapping of these areas is chiefly evident in the south, south‑west and west, where meat production is most intensive. Meat distribution by slaughterhouses (how meat is apportioned to the wholesale trade of carcass meat, to retail outlets of slaughterhouses themselves, to processing and prepared food factories) and marketing are shown with the aid of spatial models. As terminal points in the flows of meat marketing, Helsinki and Uusimaa as a whole proved to be of quite central importance. A weaker flow (mainly pork) is directed east and northward from the over‑production areas of the west and south-west

Finnish thematic atlases: an examination of their content and methodology

A detailed study is made of Finnish thematic atlases, principally the four existing editions of the Atlas of Finland, those of 1899, 1910, 1925 and 1960, and, for comparison, the Atlas of Social Statistics of the Rural Communes in Finland (1901), Atlas of Finnish History (1959), Atlas of the Archipelago of Southwestern Finland (1960) and Atlas of Finnish Folk Culture (1976). Each illustration, i.e. diagram or thematic map, in these works is reduced to its essential components and an analysis is made of the resulting variables: volume, topics, cartographic design, scale, areas described, areal units, points in time described and cartographic methods. The approach is a quantitative one to some extent, so that this work departs markedly from those surveys of research or presentational devices which are based only on intuition. The quantitative measures employed are the numbers of illustrations and their area on the pages of the atlases, problems of validity and reliability being obviated by the use of generalized diagrams to give the reader an impression of the results in relative terms rather than exact numerical tables. Finally these analyses are employed to build up a general picture of the nature of Finnish thematic atlases and of changes observable in the manner of their construction and the philosophies lying behind them

Trends in Finnish geography in 1920-1979 in the light of the journals of the period

A detailed, broad‑based analysis of Finnish geographical research during the period since Independence (1920–1979) is presented, derived from evi­dence contained in the corresponding journals. As a background to this, some account is given first of earlier research of this kind, certain theoretical aspects and the institutional and philosophical development of geography during the period in question. The actual material is covered in the following order: (1) volume analysis, (2) analysis of branches of research, (3) analysis of areas studied, and (4) analysis of methods and presentation. The results of the analyses are used to construct a synthetic description of trends in Finnish geographical research over the Independence period. Finally, the factors affecting these trends are discussed

Kun William Richard Mead Suomen lapsekseen otti

Adopting Finland, W. R. Mead, Helsinki (2007

Centenary bibliography of papers published in the journals of the Geographical Society of Finland, by topic, 1888-1987

This bibliography lists by topic all the papers published in the journals of the Geographical Society of Finland and the Finnish Geographical Association, which was merged with it in 1921, over the hundred years that have elapsed since the founding of the two bodies in 1888. It does not include separate publications by the Society such as atlases and handbooks. The journals in question are FEN­NIA, ACTA GEOGRAPHICA, GEOGRAFISKA FORENINGENS TIDS­KRIFT, TERRA and MEDDELANDEN AF GEOGRAFISKA FORENINGEN 1 FINLAND. The classification into topics follows that used in the authors ear­lier work >>Trends in Finnish Geography in 1920‑1979 in the Light of the Jour­nals of the Period>>, published in Fennia, vol. 160, in 1982. The introduction con­tains an explanation of the classification system and other background factors. It is emphasized that this bibliography does not cover all the geographical jour­nals published in Finland, nor by any means the whole Finnish geographical litera­ture