The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Prescott ◽  
Clive Schofield
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries

scholarly journals Orchids without borders: studying the hotspot of costa rica and Panama

Lankesteriana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Bogarín ◽  
Franco Pupulin ◽  
Clotilde Arrocha ◽  
Jorge Warner
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research System ◽  
Species List ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
New Research

The Mesoamerican region is one of the richest in orchid diversity in the world. About 2670 species, 10% of all orchids known have been recorded there. Within this region, most of the species are concentrated in the southernmost countries. Costa Rica with 1598 species (or 0.030 spp/km2) and Panama with 1397 species (0.018 spp/km2) stand at the top of endemic species list of all Mesoamerica, with 35.37% and 28.52%, respectively. These figures, however, are misleading, as political boundaries do not have any relationship to orchid diversity. If we ignore the political frontier, there is a common biogeographic area. However, if we put the border back, the numbers in terms of scientific production and research change dramatically. Costa Rica has increased the knowledge of its orchid flora through the establishment of a successful research system, whereas Panama has lacked a similar process. To address this problem, the Lankester Botanical Garden at the Universidad de Costa Rica and the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Panama, established a new research center focused on the study of orchids. The aim of the cooperation is to provide the methodology, information, and expertise for a longterm project on taxonomy and systematics of the orchids of Panam.

scholarly journals CULTURAL DISTORTION AND HARMONISATION ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: THE PANACEA FOR SUCCESS

2022 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Dr. Macaulay Enyindah WEGWU
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Local Market ◽  
World War ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
National Norms ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
Second World

The purpose of this paper was to study and unravel the implications of cultural distortion on businesses, gains and gradual harmonization of culture across national boundaries globally. Despite the national and political boundaries around the world, the activities involving cross-border operations have always persisted, but have had a dramatic growth since the Second World War. Successful business operations globally depend largely on the understanding of the cultural differences of countries which enormously have the tendencies of affecting the degree of business relationship. It is very obvious that every institution across nations of the world is deeply attached to societies with diverse cultures such as language difference, different tradition of trust, individualists and collectivists tendencies which globalization concept intends to harmonise and be accepted by the local market around the world. As a consequence, it is very imperative to strive for gradual harmonization of culture. This however implies making suitable changes on the differences among national norms, traditions, values, beliefs and rituals of different nations in order to achieve uniformity. KEY WORDS: Culture, Cultural Distortion, Cultural Harmonization, Globalization

Long-term global threat assessment: Challenging new roles for emergency managers

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Richard A. Bissell, PhD ◽  
Andrew Bumbak, MS ◽  
Matthew Levy, DO, MS ◽  
Patrick Echebi, MD, MS
Keyword(s):  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Global Threat

Based on currently available published data and literature from multiple disciplines, this article introduces medium- and long-term global developments and changes that will likely impact human society in disastrous or even catastrophic fashion, with significant impact on the roles and challenges of emergency managers. Some of the phenomena described include the following: (1) loss of fresh water, (2) significant sea level rise with resultant flooding, (3) increased heat leading to desertification and crop losses, (4) storms that are both more frequent and more violent, (5) massive food emergencies as crops fail for lack of water and/or saltwater inundation, (6) loss of the petroleumbased economy, and (7) massive population relocations on a level the world has never experienced. The perspective used is purposely global, in that the trends described do not respect political boundaries. We also recognize that mitigation and response activities may well involve many nations simultaneously. The article concludes with introductory suggestions of steps emergency management should take in preparing to serve new and more complex tasks to meet coming challenges, and a “call to action” for emergency managers to assume a more active role in confronting the risks imposed by forces that are now underway.

The maritime political boundaries of the world

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-524
Author(s):  
Ken Booth
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries

scholarly journals Environmental Geochemistry on a Global Scale

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane A. Plant ◽  
Barry Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Environmental Geochemistry ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries

Recent population growth and economic development are extending the problems associated with land degradation, pollution, urbanization, and the effects of climate change over large areas of the earth’s surface, giving increasing cause for concern about the state of the environment. Many problems are most acute in tropical, equatorial, and desert regions where the surface environment is particularly fragile because of its long history of intense chemical weathering over geological timescales. The speed and scale of the impact of human activities are now so great that, according to some authors, for example, McMichael (1993), there is the threat of global ecological disruption. Concern that human activities are unsustainable has led to the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development Our Common Future (Barnaby 1987) and the establishment of a United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development responsible for carrying out Agenda 21, the action plan of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Considerable research into the global environment is now being undertaken, especially into issues such as climate change, biodiversity, and water quality. Relatively little work has been carried out on the sustainability of the Earth’s land surface and its life support systems, however, other than on an ad-hoc basis in response to problems such as mercury poisoning related to artisanal gold mining in Amazonia or arsenic poisoning as a result of water supply problems in Bangladesh (Smedley 1999). This chapter proposes a more strategic approach to understanding the distribution and behavior of chemicals in the environment based on the preparation of a global geochemical baseline to help to sustain the Earth’s land surface based on the systematic knowledge of its geochemistry. Geochemical data contain information directly relevant to economic and environmental decisions involving mineral exploration, extraction, and processing; manufacturing industries; agriculture and forestry; many aspects of human and animal health; waste disposal; and land-use planning. A database showing the spatial variations in the abundance of chemical elements over the Earth’s surface is, therefore, a key step in embracing all aspects of environmental geochemistry. Although environmental problems do not respect political boundaries, data from one part of the world may have important implications elsewhere.

scholarly journals The Mapping of Center and Periphery, and the Geography of Otherness

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Locke Hart
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Political ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Shifting Boundaries

Some literatures, like Canadian literature, may be considered minor because Canada is not a major power. But in reality, Canadian literature and other literatures, large or small, are part of a cultural history that is not merely local or even national, but international. The territories of culture and literature in literal or metaphorical terms shift over time. Using a comparative method, this article examines texts—such as The Saga of Eric the Red and works by Columbus, Verrazzano, Jeannette C. Armstrong, Marie Annharte Baker and Carrie Best—to demonstrate the shifting boundaries of time and space and to explore the connections between cultures and literatures in Canada, Europe and the Atlantic and international worlds as part of a longstanding globalization. The article demonstrates that the hybridity resulting from cross-cultural contact and colonization typically blurs the distinction between center and periphery, revealing the historical fluidity of the political boundaries on which the concepts of national and world literatures are based. In doing so, it focuses on how North America, particularly Canada, and the historical process of its discovery, settlement, and colonization have connected this region to other parts of the world.

Collective Action in the Utilization of Shared Freshwater: The Challenges of International Water Resources Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Benvenisti
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
International Water ◽  
Competing Priorities

There is enough freshwater in the world to meet the existing and future needs of the world’s population. Water, however, is poorly distributed: there are regions that suffer severe drought, while others are heavily flooded; regions that have ample water in winter, but not enough in summer; and regions that abound in water during certain years, but are threatened by droughts in others. Thus, the management of freshwater is largely a question of redistribution of a natural resource, given certain physical, economic, environmental and social constraints. Such management inevitably brings into play the competing priorities of different uses and users; and, since most water resources traverse political boundaries, these competing priorities often become regional conflicts between riparian states.

The Role of Language in the Development of Swiss National Consciousness

PMLA ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Henry de Torrenté
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
Primary Element ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Unity Of Language ◽  
Balkan States

The Map of the world conveys to us the fact that political boundaries are very often identical with linguistic boundaries. This is particularly the case in Europe. Each people there has its own language and this language is also the primary element of its particular culture. This is true of the larger countries like England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia and Poland, and is almost true of France, whose linguistic domain on the European continent overlaps part of only Belgium and Switzerland. This statement applies also to the smaller countries: Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the Balkan States. For all these peoples, and for many others, unity of language is one of the features contributing to political unity.

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