Nordicity
The term nordicity (English: nordicity , French: la nordicité ) was introduced in the 1960s by the Canadian geographer Louis-Edmond Hamelin . The idea was to describe individual places according to the values of their "northernity". In contrast to other descriptive criteria such as climate belts, vegetation zones and others, several features flow into the northerly factor . The maximum northernity is reached at the geographic North Pole and has the fictitious value 1000 there. The northernicity results from the following ten anthropogenic and natural factors:
- Geographic latitude
- Summer temperature
- Average annual temperature
- glaciology
- Precipitation
- vegetation
- Accessibility via traffic routes, excluding air
- Air transport connections and accessibility
- population
- Economic power measured in terms of GDP
Each individual feature can have a value from 0 to 100, which explains the maximum value of 1000. The minimum value, to even speak of the fictitious term “northerly”, is 200. The northery of individual settlements changes to different degrees over time, mostly in the direction of less northerly. Hamelin’s nordicity is not only used in Canada . The state of Canada maintains a list of the northery of its settlements, but also of its provinces and territories. For example, Saskatchewan Province's northericity by 1881 was about 200; today (2007) it is given as 116. Other examples: Vancouver 35, Alert 878 and Isachsen 925 (2007). The idea of the classification according to northernity originated in the Soviet Union .
See also
literature
- Amanda Graham: Indexing the Canadian North: Broadening the Definition . In: The Northern Review . No. 6, 1990, pp. 21-37, ISSN 0835-3433 .
- Roger G. Barry and Jack D. Ives (Eds.): Arctic and alpine environments . Methuen, London 1974, ISBN 0-416-65980-2 .
- Louis-Edmond Hamelin: Canadian Nordicity: It's Your North, Too . Harvest House, Montreal 1979, ISBN 0-88772-174-5 .