Some aspects of the transformation of the Hungarian peasantry in the 20thcentury in The peasantry of Eastern Europe. Volume II. 20 th Century developments.
Early in the 20thcentury, E. Huntington wrote of the impact of climate on civilization and of climate change on history and society. J. Lovelock, writing late in the century, claimed that the Earth is a living organism capable of self-regulation
From exploration to systematic investigation : development of geocryology in 19th and Early-20thCentury Russia
Climatic change ; Ground ice ; Nineteenth Century ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Russia ; Thermal regime ; Twentieth Century
This paper presents an overview of permafrost investigations in Russia during the 19th and early 20thcenturies. The A. emphasizes investigations focused on geothermal observations, permafrost modeling and mapping, ground ice, and the organization
The A. examines the mutual relations of religion, ethnicity and fertility in the territory of the former Hungarian Kingdom at the beginning of the 20thcentury. This period is interesting for the fact that fertility rate in Hungary decreased
The Debeli Namet glacier from the second half of the 20thcentury to the present
Alps (The) ; Climatic change ; Geomorphology ; Glacier ; Glacier retreat ; Glaciology ; Montenegro ; Twentieth Century
in response to temperature increases that occurred at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st centuries. The A. presents partially revised data accompanied by results related to the glacier’s recent behaviour, its surroundings and climate. - (IKR)
20thcentury stage trends along the Mississippi River
Flood ; Fluvial hydrology ; Hydraulic works ; Mississippi ; Statistics ; Stream ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America
This study compared 4 measures of river hydrology at the beginning (1910-1930) and at the end of the 20thcentury (1980-2000). River-stage data were statistically analyzed from 15 equidistant gauges along the main stem of the Mississippi River
Analysis of geomorphology citations in the last quarter of the 20thcentury
Bibliographic analysis ; Bibliography ; Fluvial processes ; Geomorphology ; Research ; Riparian vegetation ; Twentieth Century
, and Arts and Humanities. At the close of the 20thcentury, well-cited geomorphology is highly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. The very strong English-language bias of well-cited journal articles creates a geographical bias in study site selection
Hungary ; Settlement system ; Theoretical geography ; Twentieth Century
Tibor Mendöl was founder of the Hungarian settlement geography and professor of Budapest University in the middle of the 20thcentury. He did research about the internal functional and morphological structure of Hungarian towns, and the development
of the national settlement system. This paper provides an overview about his life - work and impact on the development of Hungarian geography in the 20thcentury. - (JS)
Recent studies regarding the climate variability in South America during the 20thcentury, revealed the existence of climate cycles that influenced the hydrologic conditions in the Paraná River basin. How that variability affected the channel
bathymetric charts, satellite images and hydraulic and sedimentologic data recorded in the Paraná River since the very beginning of the 20thcentury.
South African cities were highly segregated in the 20thcentury as a result of the attempt by the White minority to maintain political and economic dominance. An analysis of the data from successive censuses offers a means of measuring the changes
effected in the South African city in the course of the 20thcentury. - (AJC)
The precipitation climate of the swedish fells during the 20thcentury - some remarkable features in Climatological extremes in the mountains, Physical background, geomorphological and ecological consequences.
Population, landownership and the landscape. Changes in the Ystad-region in Southernmost Sweden during the 19th and 20thcenturies in Populations rurales et populations agricoles.