Nordicity

The concept of Nordizität (English: nordicity, French: la nordicité ) was introduced in the 1960s by the Canadian geographer Louis -Edmond Hamelin. The idea was a description of each place according to their values ​​" Nördlichkeit ". Account shall be taken in the Nordizitätsfaktor, unlike other descriptive criteria such as climate belts, vegetation zones, and others, several characteristics a. The maximum Nordizität is reached at the geographic North Pole, where it has the notional value Nordizität 1000 The results from the following ten anthropogenic and natural factors.:

• Latitude
• Summer temperature
• Annual average temperature
• Glaciology
• Precipitation
• Vegetation
• Accessibility via roads exclusively of the airway
• Air transport links and accessibility
• Population
• Economic power, measured by the GDP

In this case, each individual characteristic assume a value of 0 to 100, which explains the maximum value of 1000. The minimum value, in order to speak at all of the fictitious term " Nördlichkeit " is 200 Here, the Nordizität individual settlements in the changes over time to varying degrees, usually in the direction of lower Nordizität. Hamelin Nordizität is applied by no means only in Canada. The State of Canada maintains a list of Nordizität its settlements, but also its provinces and territories. For example, the Nordizität the province of Saskatchewan was in 1881 to about 200; today (2007 ) it is indicated by 116. Other examples: Vancouver 35, 878 Alert and Isachsen 925 (2007). The idea of ​​classification by Nordizität originated in the Soviet Union.