This review deals with the entrainment of gravel bedload : theory, laboratory studies, field studies, the relevance of studies in nonfluvial environments and the significance of studies of bedload entrainment.
Recent trends in hydro-geographical studies in Japan
The recent trends of hydro-geographical studies in Japan dealing with the hydrological environment and the relationship between water and man. The problems for future study. - (SGA)
The contributions of Chauncy Harris to geographical studies of the Soviet Union| an appreciation in Geographical studies on the Soviet Union. Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris.
Presidential plenary session : studying, teaching, and serving your locality in a globalizing world
A call for geographers to become more involved in the study of their localities and home regions. She also insists that such studies do not lose sight of the global horizon and the role it plays in local change and evolution. - (SLD)
Those works can be categorized into studies of spatial organization, studies of landscape formation and other studies. The studies of landscape formation have been concentrated on the hot spring and minshuku settlements because Japanese people
visited these places most often. The fields of landscape evaluation, recreational resource perception, and environmental preservation are in their early stages. Japanese recreational geography lacks also applicational studies oriented towards regional
This study aims to review the development of central place studies in Japan. He indicates that two major research directions can be recognized in central place studies in Japan. One direction aims to elucidate structural characteristics
of the Japanese central place system. Second direction of study has made effort to introduce quantitative approaches in Anglo-Saxon geography. Both directions of central place studies have developped in parallel, though over time the quantitative approach has
Post-war planning in the inner-town of Leiden: a study of changing perceptions and policies.
The findings of two case studies conducted in the inner-town of Leiden are presented. One study concerns the evolution of policy and plans for the inner-town as a whole since the Second World War. The second study concerns the problems of plan
-making and implementation in one particular area in the inner-town. Planning activities are studied within their social context as a response to a perceived problem. The response will vary according to the planners'perceptions of their task
and the resources available to them. General theoretical observations are made which can contribute to an analytical framework for the study of urban planning. (AGD).
9 chapters : Development of urbanization| Comparative studies in the present features| The concepts of urban system and the development of urban systems studies| Advancement and problems of central place studies| Studies in elements or urban systems
| Studies of inter-urban linkage| Developing processes of urban systems| Improving strategies of urban systems| Research problems on urbanization and urban system. - (KA)
Criminele geografie : inleiding en case study Criminal geography : introduction and case study
Criminal geography is in the first stage of development in western Europe. The geographical approach and methodology towards crime is reviewed. The difficulties are discussed. The second part is a case study on the city of Ghent, where five
Time-space approaches developed for the study of human spatial behavior may be extended for the study of regional spatial organization. Though the two scales are different in terms of their temporal dimension, they also share a few common aspects
. The time-space approach for the regional scale may be defined using the same languages as used for the human scale. The time-space approach is useful particularly for the study urban growth.
Technologie-Entwicklung und Grundbedürfnisse: Empirische Studie über Mexiko.. (Technological development and basic needs: empirical study on Mexico)
This study was elaborated, within the programme global development at the International Institute of Comparative Social Science Research of the Science Centre (Wissenschaftszentrum) Berlin. While this programme is focused mainly on a critical
analysis and an improvement of theoretical world models, complementary country studies concentrate on special aspects, in this case the development of adequate technologies for the supply of basic needs and the possibilities of relevant cooperation. (EG).