Geografi på Roskilde Universitet

05/01/2023

Som en del af et feltkursus har en gruppe studerende fra Roskilde Universitet været i Rødbyhavn for at undersøge samspillet mellem byggeriet af Femern-forbindelsen og lokalsamfundet.

10/12/2022

To understand the geopolitics of 21.century, we must start with the twentieth, and that means Europe (Kaplan 2012).

An extraordinary map of a proposed European Union … in 1920!

As the map shows, the future Central European Union (throughout the Union, only four Nations are recognized: Romans, Germans, Slavs, and Magyars) is to be composed of 24 “cantons,” each a long, narrow, wedge named after its capital city. The wedges were to meet at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. The Cantons cut across cultural and ethnic lines as well as traditional state borders (Boston Rare Maps).

28/11/2022

Grå himmel, 5 grader, stærk vind og entusiastiske studerende danner baggrunden for semesterets feltekskursion på Geografi i Praksis i Rødby og Rødbyhavn. I samarbejde med RUC og Femern forbindelsen afholder vi dette semester i Femernforbindelsens geografi. Her undersøger vi hvordan megabyggeri som Femernforbindelsen sammentænkes og samarbejder med lokalsamfundet. Vi kigger nærmere på vandets rolle og hvordan det er og altid har været afgørende for det sydlige Lolland og vi arbejder med hvordan det sydlige Lolland kan præsentere sig selv til de mange tyske turister der forventes at besøge Rødbyhavn når byggeriet er færdigt. Endelig tager vi også et blik på hovedgaden i Rødby og forsøger at komme med indspil til hvordan man kan puste liv i en noget vindblæst og slidt hovedgade.

04/11/2022

Studenterjob hos tænketanken HAV. Søg, søg, søg!

29/10/2022

Nordeafondens legat til studerende der vil på studieophold i udlandet

Nordea-fonden uddeler årligt op til 10 mio. kr. i legater til kandidat- og professionsbachelorstuderende, der vil på studieophold i udlandet. Der er løbende ansøgning, og der gives svar fire gange årligt.

03/07/2022

Interesting breakdown of maritime traffic for the period 1700-1850, based on the data from ship’s logs.

At the top, in green: shipping routes of various nationalities. Below: those nationalities shown in isolation. Red is for British ships, yellow for Spanish, white for French and orange for Dutch.

The British and Dutch rivalled each other both in terms of volume and geographic spread - roaming widely across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The Spanish mainly kept to the Atlantic, crossing over to their possessions in the Americas. The French confined themselves to the North Atlantic, heading mainly towards the Caribbean.

Map via Python Maps:
https://twitter.com/PythonMaps

24/06/2022

“ , photographed at night from the International Space Station. Amid the lights of the capital city is the dark void of the , ’s second-longest river. Budapest’s metropolitan area spans 2,944 square miles (7,626 square km) and houses roughly 3.3 million people — one-third of Hungary’s total population.”

Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Via: Daily Overview

23/06/2022

There are about 3.3 million households in the Greater London area (outlined). Of those, almost 2.1 million own at least one car, and nearly 1.2 million don’t.

This map shows the stark geographic division between both categories. Car-less households (in pink) are concentrated in and near the centre, while car-owning ones (in blue) predominate in the outer zones.

Why don’t central Londoners own a car? Two pull reasons: most destinations are relatively close by, and travel needs are well served by alternatives to the car (bus, tube, bicycle).

And one major push reason: owning a car in Central London is even more bothersome and expensive than elsewhere. Parking spaces cost more than entire houses in other parts of the UK.

Map by Helen McKenzie:
https://twitter.com/helenmakesmaps

Found here:
https://gcp-us-east1.app.carto.com/map/33b241b6-25eb-4ae4-b88d-a5983f8baf3b

06/06/2022

Her en udenærlet artikel om tureknfra provins til udkant