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Bebbington's early work was on farmer knowledge, livelihoods, and agrarian change in mountain communities of Peru and Ecuador. He made distinctive contributions to human geography and to understanding of rural development in the Andes, combining detailed fieldwork with farming households with broader understanding of rural institutions and social movements.
Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting. The approaches and methods used in field research vary across disciplines .
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 82(3), pp. 731–37, 2000. Geography and Socioeconomic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Chapter 3 of Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1999–2000 Report. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 2000. With Andrew Mellinger and Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
22 geographical subregions as defined by the UNSD. Antarctica is not shown.. The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1]
The annual meeting offers upwards of 4,000 papers and presentations on topics as diverse as soil moisture, [10] climate change, [12] population dynamics, political instability, sustainable agriculture, natural hazards, urban landscapes, geography and militarism, [13] and technologies such as geographic information systems. Hands-on workshops on ...
However, the geography of finance is now gaining individual focus, especially as the link between the financial economy and the real economy is losing strength. [11] This is emphasized by the existence of economic bubbles and the fact that the value of financial transactions is often multiple times larger than the real economy.