Human Geography in a Shrinking World.

Abler, Ronald

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“…This relationship was mainly studied under and evolved from the theory of reasoned action [52,71,72]. This theory was followed by a model stating that beliefs influence attitudes, which then influence behavioural intent and again impacts behaviour [38,61].…”

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“…This behaviour can be seen more or less strongly, or in other words more active or more passive. Hence, Carmichael's [14] model derived from Abler [71] was used to evaluate the variables of residents' attitude towards tourism development and their support for future development to verify the connections between attitude and behaviour or actions. Before differentiating between the active or passive behaviour, it is necessary to test the presence of general support or opposition towards further tourism development.…”

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Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

2018

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Local residents are always the recipients of economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts from tourism development. Residents' perceived impacts, attitudes towards tourism and the resultant supportive or opposing actions collectively affect the success of tourism, but are not thoroughly understood especially in small regions with rapid growth. The study investigated how the tourism impacts receive local perception, determine local attitudes and in turn lead to active or passive supportive action. The predisposition of linkage between attitude and behaviour is explored with the underlying aspects of impacts. Through the establishment of hypotheses of the relationship and an empirical survey-based study in Urlaubsregion Murtal (URM) in Austria, findings from local populations suggest that local attitude is significantly influenced by tourism impacts. In particular, socio-cultural impacts influenced attitude to a greater extent than the economic and environmental dimensions. The overall prevalent residents' attitude in the URM is highly positive as the respondents indicated a sense of openness towards tourism development and the vast majority agreed that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. A significant positive relationship between attitude and support is detected. However, the residents also intended to act more passively than actively to supporting tourism development, but the connection from attitude to specific active or passive actions is not apparent.

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Section: Attitudes Influence Behaviourmentioning

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Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

2018

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“…Presume also the increasing power of each person's temperamental predilections, tastes, and private impulses, of vocative 1961 essay, geographers have begun a virtual stampede in exploring the perceptual and psychological approaches to some of their basic problems [13; 22; 57]; and their interests have converged closely with those of environmental psychologists [51]. These new interests have also been prominent, along with social geography and the study of communications, in an emerging "geography of the future" [2]. Some of the themes in the present study are foreshadowed in the author's recent work [82; 84; 85; 86] and in passages by such other geographers as Campbell [14], Wagner [73, pp.…”

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Selfward Bound? Personal Preference Patterns and the Changing Map of American Society

Zelinsky¹

1974

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Take a large human population. After it has been stirred and seasoned well for two centuries, relax traditional social and economic constraints. Give many of its individual members enough leisure time and money so that they can do pretty much what they wish to please themselves. Add several dashes of new social and technological forces; let the mixture simmer for a couple of decades; then ask: what sorts of choices will be made by the millions of participants in such a macro-experiment? What things will how many persons do, and where will they do them?The ingredients for this recipe are, of course, to be found in the United States; and the challenge to the adventurous chef is enormous, exhilirating-and frustrating. Our nation has witnessed the attainment of a degree of affluence and freedom of attitude and action, of a range of individual and social options, on the part of a quite massive fraction of its total adult population that is unprecedented in human history, yet may be predictive of things to come in other highly advanced countries. But this recent acceleration in social history has been so rapid that social scientists are not yet fully aware of the qualitative transformation of their subject matter. Clearly neither our theoretical nor our data-gathering apparatus has been revamped to the point where one can readily validate, or disprove, the hypoth-* I am most grateful for the assistance in statistical design and computations rendered No direct precedent for this study is known to exist.1 This fact compels more than normal care in designing and explaining its modus operandi. If an axiomatic belief in an ongoing, fundamental 1 But two ultimate ancestors must be acknowledged: Ullman [70] and Lowenthal [42]. Since Edward Ullman published his truly seminal programmatic statement 19 years ago, North American and European geographers have slowly, but surely, turned their attention toward recreation, tourism, and the amenities in general as consequential items in the spatial ordering of man's activities. Thus, for example, we now have booklength treatments of such previously slighted topics as the spatial patterns of summer vacations [19] or the geography of sports [54]. Following Lowenthal's richly pro-

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“…In geography the rhetoric of world contraction can be considered as a fundamental observation with early references of the ancient Greeks that perceived the evolution of shipping vessel technology at the time-scale of the life of a human being, and linked it to the reducing of distances between places in the Mediterranean Sea (Abler et al, 1975;Braudel, 1979). In the 19th century maps of now classical French geography depicted the contraction of the national territory with the improvements in terrestrial transport, while German cartographers mapped the improvement in maritime transport on a global scale showing the reduction in travel times between Europe and the rest of the world (Brunet, 1987).…”

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“…According to Kirsch, the evolution of time-space cannot be seen as a simple contraction or shrinking process. Criticism of the uniform contraction idea can be found in the work of several geographers on cartographical developments (Boggs, 1941;Abler et al, 1975;Haggett, 1990). More recently Knowles used the expression of a ''shrunken but misshapen world" to describe the present time-space where contraction is all but uniform (Knowles, 2006).…”

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The shrivelled USA: representing time–space in the context of metropolitanization and the development of high-speed transport

l'Hostis¹

2009

Journal of Transport Geography

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a b s t r a c tOn the one hand the present globalisation process has only been made possible through a reduction in time-distances allowed by high-speed transport, and particularly through the development of air transport. On the other hand the metropolitanization process seen as the urban counterpart of globalisation is deeply associated with the development of air transport.Understanding distances between places is a fundamental task for the geographer, while the representation of distances constitutes one of the major functions of cartography.Among the types of maps invented to represent time-space, distorted projections were supplemented with time-space relief cartography in the 1990s. This paper proposes a representation of the time-space relief of the USA considering terrestrial and air modes. This constitutes a key innovation in this type of cartography, giving the possibility of creating a representation of global time-space. The metaphors associated with the images proposed are then discussed evoking the shrinking, the crumpling and finally the shrivelling of time-space. The shrivelling metaphor takes account of the complicated contraction/ expansion movement that high-speed transport impacts on space and allows for a rich interpretation of the time-space relief map of the USA in the perspective of the processes of globalisation and metropolitanization.

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Human Geography in a Shrinking World.

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Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

Selfward Bound? Personal Preference Patterns and the Changing Map of American Society

The shrivelled USA: representing time–space in the context of metropolitanization and the development of high-speed transport

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