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GR international 4/2009
Port cities around the world reflect shifts in the global economy. As much as they are integrated into world trade and global manufacturing, any change in such patterns affects the urban fabrics: industrial zones decline, port handling moves away from bulk to containers. Consequently, cities have adjusted to such changes in order to keep urban life... more
Stephan Göttlicher
Lesson Plans for "Core Themes"
The core of the new IB Geography syllabus provides an overview of the geographic foundations underlying the key global issues of our time – from the UN Millenium Development goals to climate change.
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Palaeoflood Records in Monsoon Asia
Monsoon Asia is home to large and the most flood-prone rivers. Assessment of the hydrological consequences of the projected global change is hampered by a paucity of long instrumental records. Palaeoflood hydrology has provided a robust way to lengthen the records of extreme floods by several centuries to millennia. Such an approach has been adopted for several Indian and Chinese rivers with interesting results.
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Counter Urbanization in Indians Cities
Rapid urbanization in India has moved from Class I cities to Class II cities such as Mysore in Karnataka. Those cities experienced a steep growth in population between 1991 and 2001. It has triggered a diverse structural growth at the fringe, the suburbs and also in pockets beyond the city limits. Mysore serves as an example to highlight urbanization trends of a Class II city.
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Urban Change and Economic Expectations in Kaohsiung
After World War II Kaohsiung emerged as key industrial region and major seaport of Taiwan. But with industrial decline and increasing isolation after 1998, the city has been struggling for survival and is looking desperately for new businesses. The economic slump and dwindling shipments have prompted the call for a new and sustainable economic base, the improvement of city life and the development of tourism.
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Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya
The isolated volcanic massifs of Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) and Mount Kenya (5,199 m) rise spectacularly above the tropical East African landscape. The continent’s highest mountains were first ascended by European explorers at the end of the 19th century. Both were geographers, and their conquests were seen as symbolic acts of colonial annexation and expansion.
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A Railway to Heaven?
Linking Tibet to the rest of China’s railway network is regarded as one of the greatest technological achievements in modern Chinese history at least in official rhetoric. Undeniably constructing the high altitude railroad raised many questions and challenges engineers had to overcome.
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Duluth, Minnesota
Planners and managers of cities in the United States are developing ways to deal with the landscape impact of the general shift from an economy of production to the economy of consumption that typifies the post-industrial era. This general shift has produced a variety of new landscapes ranging from plush resorts and shopping complexes to luxurious homes in resort and retirement communities to high-rise commercial buildings in edge cities.
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We Live in a Wikiworld
Each year thousands of geography students around the world write a series of final examinations set for them by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB) as part of its requirements for the award of a Senior Diploma. The goal of the IB programme is the provision of a two-year secondary school curriculum that is comprehensive in scope, avowedly international in character and purpose, and rigorous in standard.
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FRAUKE KRAAS
Developments in Kachin State, Myanmar
Kachin State, as the third largest of the 14 States and Divisions of the Union of Myanmar, is located in the far north of the country. Large river basins form the economic basis for agricultural production. North of Myitkyina, the ”lifeline” of Myanmar, the Ayeyarwady river, begins at the confluence of the Nmai Hka and Mali Hka at Myitsone. As only about 1.27 million inhabitants live in Kachin State (about 35 people per square mile), large areas still form almost unspoilt natural environments.
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The New IB Geography Syllabus
The International Baccalaureate Organisation offers a course in human geography within a programme that is comprehensive in scope, avowedly international in character and purpose, and rigorous in standard. Its recently revised syllabus focuses on key global issues, is action-oriented, and encourages in students a personal commitment to resolving some of those issues.
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