地理教学与可持续发展教育

在地理教学中加强可持续发展教育，是地理教学的主要内容之一，是可持续发展由思想转变为实践的重要途径。为此，在地理教学中要明确进行可持续发展教育的教学目标，把握进行可持续发展教育的重点内容，探寻构建新的地理教学模式、方法体系。     

The Long Arm of Poverty: Extended and Relational Geographies of Child Victimization and Neighborhood Violence Exposures

Current models of neighborhood effects on victimization predominantly assume that residential neighborhoods function independent of their surroundings. Yet, a surprising proportion of violence occurs outside of victims’ residential neighborhoods. The current study extends on recent advances in spatial dynamics and neighborhood effects to explore the importance of different geographic scales and relational exposures to poverty for child violent victimization. We examine longitudinal data on over 4400 low-income children from high poverty neighborhoods in five cities, who participated in the Moving to Opportunity randomized intervention. The results suggest that surrounding poverty matters for child victimization beyond the effect of residential poverty. Moreover, moving farther from extreme poverty also seems to buffer against victimization and to amplify the benefits of moving to improved extended (residential and surrounding) neighborhoods. All the children in the study, but especially boys older than 10 years of age, seemed to be affected by the long arm of poverty.     

华侨华人历史地理研究刍议

建设和发展华侨华人历史地理研究有利于促进华侨华人学科的完善,拓展历史地理学的研究领域,对推动当今华侨华人问题的解决也有重要现实意义。华侨华人历史地理研究是一门交叉学科,其学科属性是探索历史时期与华侨华人相关的地理现象的演变及两者间的相互影响,并进而探索演变和影响的规律的学科;华侨华人历史地理的研究对象是历史时期与华侨华人相关的地理现象的演变;研究内容主要包括华侨华人历史地理理论和方法研究,侨乡历史地理,移民历史地理,海外华侨华人历史人文地理、社会地理,华侨华人历史自然地理等;研究方法主要是历史文献法、实地考察法、新技术手段及其他相关学科的方法。     

主导产业的形成与经济发展分析

主导产业的形成是科学技术发展的结果,同时也离不开社会经济环境、自然资源、地理位置和交通条件。主导产业对其它产业具有牵动作用。科学地选择对国民经济发展起关键作用的主导产业,是产业结构合理化的核心所在。由于我国正处于经济腾飞的时期,分析主导产业的形成条件和世界一些国家主导产业的异同,有利于推动我国区域经济的发展。     

Evaluating partisan gains from Congressional gerrymandering: Using computer simulations to estimate the effect of gerrymandering in the U.S. House

What is the effect of gerrymandering on the partisan outcomes of United States Congressional elections? A major challenge to answering this question is in determining the outcomes that would have resulted in the absence of gerrymandering. Since we only observe Congressional elections where the districts have potentially been gerrymandered, we lack a non-gerrymandered counterfactual that would allow us to isolate its true effect. To overcome this challenge, we conduct computer simulations of the districting process to redraw the boundaries of Congressional districts without partisan intent. By estimating the outcomes of these non-gerrymandered districts, we are able to establish the non-gerrymandered counterfactual against which the actual outcomes can be compared. The analysis reveals that while Republican and Democratic gerrymandering affects the partisan outcomes of Congressional elections in some states, the net effect across the states is modest, creating no more than one new Republican seat in Congress. Therefore, the partisan composition of Congress can mostly be explained by non-partisan districting, suggesting that much of the electoral bias in Congressional elections is caused by factors other than partisan intent in the districting process.     

Space,scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility

Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre delivers the significant benefits of harm reduction, but has been controversial regards the law. Its contested history is examined here through the lens of legal geography. Narrative analysis reveals that the arguments for and against the centre's establishment referenced matters ranging from international treaties through to municipal governance. These arguments and their outcome were variously shaped by the different spaces and scales of jurisdiction but not simply in a zero sum game of law played out through the hierarchically ordered nesting of container-like territories. The implications for legal geography and for public health are discussed.