Browsing Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta by Departments "Department of Geographical and Historical Studies / Geography"
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Accessibility in the provinces of Finland
(Geographical society of Finland, 1981)Relative, mean and integral accessibility in the existing provinces of Finland and in the proposed new provinces was studied applying graph theory, through evaluating the shapes of the provinces by reference to polygonal ...article
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Assessment and optimization of economic restructuring in a small peripheral region
(Geographical society of Finland, 1990)An evaluation model is presented which is suitable for planning methods related to the construction of regional economic scenarios. The model is constructed for assessment and optimization the regional economic structure ...article
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Bridging the gap between ecosystem service indicators and ecosystem accounting in Finland
(Elsevier BV, 2018)In this paper, we examine how progress on ecosystem service indicators could contribute to ecosystem accounting within the scope of environmental-economic accounting in Finland. We propose an integration framework and ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Commuting with on-site accommodation in the mining industry and its effects on spatial structures
(Geographical society of Finland, 1996)An analysis is made of experiences and spatial effects of commuting by air with on-site accommodation for the purposes of resource extraction in sparsely populated areas. The case concerned is that of the Forrestania Nickel ...article
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Degrowth in city planning
(Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 2018)This paper summarises the key arguments of degrowth thinking and examines their validity in a city planning setting. The paper argues that much of the reorientation work that is necessary to meet the goals of international ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Flow patterns and morphological changes in a sandy meander bend during a flood-spatially and temporally intensive ADCP measurement approach
(MDPI AG, 2017)The fluvio-geomorphological processes in meander bends are spatially uneven in distribution. Typically, higher velocities and erosion take place near the outer bank beyond the bend apex, while the inner bend point bar grows ...info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Havaintoja ihmisten liikkuvuudesta ja nettomuuttoliikkeestä koronapandemian aikana
(Maaseudun uusi aika ry, 2021)Koronapandemian aikana entistä suurempi osa ihmisistä on asunutmonipaikkaisesti useammassa kuin yhdessä asunnossa ja työskenteli paikasta riippumattomasti etäällä varsinaisesta työpaikastaan. Tässä artikkelissa tutkitaan, ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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In Search of Invisible Cows: Collaboration, Resistance and Affection in Human-Animal Relationships on Contemporary Dairy Farms
(Ethnologia Fennica, 2020)The notion of “invisible cows” has become popular in Finnish dairy production. This concept emerges in a very specific historical context: Increasing herd size, changing technological infrastructure in cowsheds, and the ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making
(Elsevier BV, 2018)Decision makers are increasingly interested in information from ecosystem services (ES) assessments. Scientists have for long recognised the importance of selecting appropriate indicators. Yet, while the amount and variety ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Middle and Late Quaternary glacial lake-outburst floods, drainage diversions and reorganization of fluvial systems in northwestern Eurasia
(Elsevier BV, 2020)The Middle and Late Pleistocene glaciations of northern Eurasia had a great impact on the evolution of the modern drainage system. This paper presents a review and synthesis on the palaeogeography of glacial lakes, their ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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New ways to learn geography - challenges of the 21st century
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018)The aim of the article is to get a closer overview of the non-instructional methods of the teaching-learning process of geography. To achieve this goal, the results of the international project Borderland: Border Landscapes ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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People and post-mining environments: PPGIS mapping of landscape values, knowledge needs and future perspectives in northern Finland.
(MDPI AG, 2018)Mining can have a notable environmental and social footprint both during the production phase and after the mine closure. We examined local stakeholders’ viewpoints on two post-mining areas in northern Finland, Hannukainen ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Periphery syndrome - a reinterpretation of regional development theory in a resource periphery
(Geographical society of Finland, 1988)A study is made of industrialization and the transition in economic structure as it has affected a remote peripheral region of Finland with a predominantly resource‑based economy over the last twenty years or so. The ...article
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Potentials for innovative restructuring in industry in Northwestern Russia
(Geographical society of Finland, 1998)This paper examines the innovative restructuring of industry in Northwestern Russia, an area that includes St. Petersburg and its hinterlands and extends to the Barents Sea and the Ural Mountains. Profound restructuring ...article
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Primary school closures and population development - is school vitality an investment in the attractiveness of the (rural) communities or not?
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Over the last two decades, many municipalities in Finland have attempted to cut costs by closing small schools. In particular, rural schools with low enrolment have been the target of these savings. The main argument has ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Sub-arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open-channel flow period
(Wiley, 2020)There is growing concern that rapidly changing climate in high latitudes may generate significant geomorphological changes that could mobilise floodplain sediments and carbon; however detailed investigations into the bank ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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The role of lake size and local phenomena for monitoring ground-fast lake ice
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)In this study, we assess the effect of the lake size on the accuracy of a threshold-based classification of ground-fast and floating lake ice from Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. For that purpose, two ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Topographical change caused by moderate and small floods in a gravel bed ephemeral river - a depth-averaged morphodynamic simulation approach
(Copernicus GmbH, 2018)In ephemeral rivers, channel morphology represents a snapshot at the end of a succession of geomorphic changes caused by floods. In most cases, the channel shape and bedform migration during different phases of a flood ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit