Interconnecting spaces : truck drivers, diesel pollution, and networking in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
The article assesses the position of port truck drivers who are caught between their regulatory misclassification as independent contractors and the consumerist fantasies of a neoliberal citizenry. The AA. examine how a community coalition endeavors
Human migrations are not necessarily caused by an external drive, be it environmental, economic or social. The very aspects that are specific of human actions, such as the expectation for a better life or the idea of being able to move, can
be enough to explain the migratory drives. The hypothesis that the climatic change by itself can force people to move is inherently insufficient. - (NF)
Transboundary water vulnerability and its drivers in China
, the AA. analyzed the major drivers affecting shared water vulnerability in China, namely : 1) changes in physical conditions affecting the availability of water; 2) competing objectives between economic development and ecological conservation; 3) lack
The paper investigates land use changes in a rural landscape with contrasting biophysical potential for agricultural production in western Denmark in a 136 year period (1870-2006). The purpose is to explore links between drivers of landscape change
are then interpreted on the basis of searching out and explaining the main political, economic and social factors (or societal driving forces) that caused them. Their interaction with natural conditions is taken into account as well. - (EN)
is the main driver of the clastic sedimentation on upland valleys and fans, but water table rise is the main driver on the wetlands of the coastal plain because the aggraded sediments here are dominantly composed of gypsum, in which the groundwater
The AA. first select and quantify the major drivers of the historical cropland distribution, and conduct an empirical model to pixelize the historical cropland data. In a case study, this model is used to reconstruct the pixelized cropland data
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the degradation of soil and water conservation (SWC) structures and the relative importance of the driving forces. It describes a case study of the headwaters of a marl catchment (Cárcavo) in Murcia region
across the escarpment. Finally, the AA. quantify variations in the rates and extent of chemical weathering at the hillslope scale across the escarpment to suggest new insight into how climate differences and hillslope topography help drive landscape
climatic drivers both by decades, and by several ka within a few hundred meters. The combined modelling and fieldwork resulst allow a more complete understanding of these responses to climate change and can fill in hiatuses in the stratigraphical record
that decrease of pan evaporation indicates an increase of actual evaporation in Xinjiang in the past half century. The correlation analysis shows that diurnal temperature range, wind speed, low cloud cover and precipitation are the most likely driving forces
of the derived sediment budget calculations to drive a management response within the philosophical context of the National Park Service mission. Starting in 1997, detailed topographical surveys were begun to track sediment budget in the eroding Critical Zone
into a framework for the assessment of geomorphic changes and responses based on the four Rs : response (reaction and relaxation times), resistance (relative to the drivers of the change), resilience (recovery ability, based on dynamic stability), and recursion
and soil types, land use types, topography, rainfall. The aim of this paper is to further discuss the basic driving mechanism to the changes of soil and water loss, simulate and forecast soil and water loss in the TGRA and its response to eco-environment
as a mechanism driving the polycyclic behaviour of lakeside thaw slumps. The linkage between polycyclic thaw slump activity and talik expansion was investigated by : 1) examining the frequency of association between active slumps and areas of previous disturbance