1. Subnational Credit Ratings – penetrating the cultural haze

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 510

2. Ocean geography for ocean science

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 511 - 522

3. Fire Weather in Israel — Synoptic Climatological Analysis

   • Noam Levin
   • Hadas Saaroni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 538

4. The causes of forest cover loss in the hill forests in Bangladesh

   • Md. Abdus Salam
   • Toshikuni Noguchi
   • Masao Koike

   OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 549

5. Urban settlement program and land dispute resolution: The State of Israel versus the Negev Bedouin

   • Shaul Krakover

   OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 561

6. Supporting Mongolian pastoralists by using GIS to identify grazing limitations and opportunities from livestock census and remote sensing data

   • M.S. Rasmussen
   • R. James
   • B. Baasanjargal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 571

7. Stratification and synthesis of crop-livestock production system using GIS

   • Shrikant Jagtap
   • Abigail Amissah-Arthur

   OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 582

8. Teaching GIS in the Gulf Co-operation Council Universities – With a case study of the geography department, University of the United Arab Emirates

   • Saif Salim Al-Qaydi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 586

9. Patricia A. Stokowski, Riches and Regrets: Betting on Gambling in Two Colorado Mountain Towns

   • Anton F. Gosar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 588

10. North Sea Ports in Transition: changing tides. T. Kreukels and E. Wever (eds)

    • Brian Slack

    OriginalPaper Pages: 588 - 589