APPROACHING MONUMENTS IN THE PREHISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT: NEW LIGHT ON THE MINOAN PALACES

Summary.   The palaces are the most distinctive feature of the Minoan civilization, although their functions and meanings remain enigmatic. This paper explores these inhabited monuments with the application of a phenomenological approach. By constructing a series of categories based on data collected from all the entrances, not just the main ones, we can highlight the myriad everyday experiences encountered upon approaching and entering them. Categories based on function, yet also sensitive to experiential qualities of the use of space, are utilized in order to draw out the varied ways in which people perceived four different Minoan palaces (Knossos, Malia, Phaistos and Zakros).     

新世纪地理学的新思路新观念新战略

文章阐述了新世纪是一个以知识经济为主体的世纪,用知识经济地理学的观点审视新世纪,新世纪的内涵将赋于地理学新的研究内容。面对这种形势,地理学用哲学观点,周密思考,精心研究,潜心探索其发展的新思路。新思路打开了地理学正视现实,面向新世纪的新视野、新领域,从而产生了一系列的新思路和新观念。地理学有了新思路和新观念,必然探索其发展的新战略。地理学有了新思想、新观念、新战略,就可以在新世纪滚滚而来的知识经济浪潮里抢抓机遇,开拓进取,勇于创新,并确立其应有的学科地位,这样,才能迎来一个灿烂美好的明天。否则,新世纪的到来,将预示着地理学进入危机时代。     

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN ASIA

International migration has a long history in Asia but in recent years it has acquired an unprecedented scale and diversity and is a significant influence on the economic, social and demographic development of all Asian nations. International migration is now an established structural feature of the region although many nations still dismiss it as a temporary, passing phenomenon. Asian nations are developing international migration policies but much of this has not been informed by high quality research relating to the causes and effects of migration. The present paper examines each of the major types of international migration influencing contemporary Asia, reviews major developments within them and puts forward relevant policy and research challenges associated with each type of movement. Issues examined include south–north migration, migration and development, the role of diaspora, international labour migration, the feminization of migration, student migration and the increasing role of governments in influencing movement.     

THE NEW KINDERGARTEN IN THE TOWN OF KARMA

正The year 2010 was a key year in developing the pre-elementary education system in Tibet.It was this year the state called for pre-elementary education to be widely covered.By then,the construction of kindergartens was launched in Tibetan rural areas including those agricultural and animal husbandry areas.The town of Karma is far away from Chamdo County in Tibet.The kindergarten is set up     

TIBET'S DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW CENTURY

From June 25-27, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council held their Fourth National Conference on Work in Tibet and General Secretary Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji both spoke at the meeting. CPPCC Chairman Li Ruihuan made a summing up speech. The National Conference, in which leaders of various provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government also participated, was held when the CPC was celebrating the 80th anniversary of its founding and the 50th anniv…     

西藏城镇发展环境分析

西藏特殊的地理位置、自然条件、发展历史和地域文化构成了其独特的发展环境,环境的特殊性深刻地影响着西藏区域发展及城镇建设的历史、现在和未来。本文分析了西藏城镇发展的自然环境、历史文化背景和社会经济环境等方面较为突出的特征,据此提出了今后西藏城镇发展和建设应该重视和解决的七个方面问题及其解决思路。     

PROBLEMS OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THEIR GLOBAL ASPECT

The dean of Moscow University's Geography Faculty, a physical geographer, takes issue with alarmist predictions of an environmental deterioration and contends that modern technology will find ways of protecting the environment against pollution. Modern cities, which are among the principal sources of pollution, are taking steps to preserve the urban environment by the increased planting of greenery and the systematic installation of waste treatment facilities for noxious industries. Natural processes are found to have a surprising ability to adapt themselves to new conditions and thus play a more important role than generally assumed in restoring the chemical equilibrium of the natural environment. The cost of environmental protection is undoubtedly rising, and an effort at arms limitation is urged to make the necessary money available. The threat of an exhaustion of energy sources is discounted on the ground that new nonpolluting sources of energy are likely to be developed as fossil fuels approach depletion.     

新形势下我国人文地理学建设设想

当前我国正在构建社会主义市场经济,人文地理学应该适应社会经济发展,为社会及经济发展提供理论依据并积极参与实践。     

新时期的新疆人口问题及其调控对策

西部大开发战略给新疆发展带来了难得的历史机遇,人口作为PRED的重要组成部分,对新疆的开发和实施可持续发展具有十分重要的作用。本文详细分析了新疆人口的空间分布特点及其时间变化态势,并运用系统动力学模型对未来人口的变化趋势和绿洲人口合理容量进行了模拟仿真,提出了人口增长的高中低三个方案,在分析了人口增长过快所带来问题的基础上,提出了相应的对策建议。     

试论人-地关系研究中的对称性问题

针对地理学在人地关系理论研究上日益被其他学科挤向边缘的现实危险,本文剖析后认为,根本的症结在于地理学对这一问题始终缺乏一个最能切合地理学学理特征的基本抽象范式。本文将人-地关系对置双方置于地理系统等级序列的框架内,从"分形论"、"界壳论"和"耗散结构论"的理论高度进行深入的讨论和审视,从而得出人-地关系的对称抽象原理。     

新疆脆弱生态区综合分类及分析

本结合新疆实际,对新疆15个地州进行了脆弱生态区的类型划分。首先建立指标体系,然后借助脆弱度模型和聚类分析方法分别对新疆15个地州的自然条件和经济状况进行分析。得出新疆脆弱生态区的分类结果,按照优劣等级排列为：一类,乌鲁木齐市、石河子市;二类,克拉玛依市、吐鲁番地区、巴州;三类,哈密地区;四类。伊犁地区;五类。塔城地区、博州、阿勒泰地区、昌吉州;六类,喀什地区、和田地区、阿克苏地区、克州。其中经济区位占优势,自然生态环境良好或自然资源丰富的地区是新疆脆弱生态区中极具发展潜力,应该优先发展的地区。     

新经济下广州城市竞争力分析

本文评述了新经济及竞争力的研究进展,认为新经济下城市竞争力的系统研究尚不多见;分析了城市竞争力发展的阶段及驱动因素,参考硅谷的发展模式,总结了新经济下城市竞争力系统的要素组成,并受经济全球化、信息技术革命、创新精神等外界环境影响。文章具体构建了新经济下城市竞争力的评价指标体系,选取北京、上海、深圳为对比城市,对新经济下广州竞争力作了比较分析,并对新经济下广州城市竞争力的内部差异作了分析。文章最后对新经济下提高广州的竞争力提出了建议。     

新世纪初以色列的地缘经济战略刍议

二十世纪后期以来的经济全球化、区域集团化的发展趋势表明,世界经济已经开始向地缘经济时代迈进。本文从双边合作和多边合作的角度分析了以色列与周缘国家开展地缘经济合作的现状,并在此基础上提出了以色列发展地缘经济合作的政治、经济和社会目标,最后探讨了其地缘经济合作战略的三层次模式:项目合作、次区域合作和核心扩散合作。