Employment structure ; Family structure ; France ; Ile-de-France ; Large city ; Paris ; Segregation ; Social class ; Socio-professional category ; Urban area
Economic development ; Employment structure ; Euroregion ; Investment ; Kent ; Labour ; Labour market ; Regional economy ; Regional planning ; Trans-border area ; United Kingdom
International migration and ethnic segregation : impact on urban areas. Special Issue
Australia ; Ethnic community ; Ghetto ; Local labour market ; Netherlands (The) ; Poverty ; Residential mobility ; Segregation ; Social space ; South Africa ; Spatial concentration ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban immigration ; Urban
International migration and ethnic segregation : impact on urban areas. Special Issue
Employment structure ; Family structure ; France ; Globalization ; Ile-de-France ; Minority ; Paris ; Segregation ; Social change ; Social class ; Social space ; Social status ; Urban area ; Urban society
Agricultural modernization ; Argentina ; Employment ; Labour market ; Patagonia ; Production system ; Rural area ; Rural change ; Rural economy ; Rural life ; Social change ; Socio-economic system
The karst area of Great Britain are very varied regarding their formation and construction. The AA. take the following areas in turn : the karst areas of the Yorkshire Dales and the North Pennines, the Peak District, the Mendip Hills, the magnisium
limestone areas of Northern England, the Cretaceous chalk areas of Southeastern England, the Devonian carbonates of Southwestern England, the karst area of wales and Scottland. - (ZK)
The development process and some features of large-scale housing estates in the Morioka urban area
This study aims to explain the development process of large-scale residential areas, 20 hectares and over each, in the Morioka urban area, and to compare some features with other urban and metropolitan areas. - (KA)
Co-managing the boundaries between urban and natural areas : a case study of Scarborough (Cape Peninsula)
The characteristics of protected areas that adjoin urban areas are analyzed, focusing primarily on the problems and opportunities presented by co-managing these areas through buffer zones. A set of criteria are drawn from the case study that could
be used to determine whether an area in the urban fringe should be included in a buffer zone around a protected area. It is shown that reserve boundaries do not offer sufficient protection for protected areas and that the buffer model is an effective
Arid area ; Atmospheric circulation ; Bibliography ; Climatology ; Energy balance ; Forest ; Mesoclimate ; Microclimate ; Periglacial features ; Semi-arid area ; Tundra ; Urban climate
This survey is limited to 3 themes prevalent in research published in 1996 : land-surface heterogeneity, mesoscale circulations, and the energy budgets and microclimates of 4 particular surface classes (forests, arid and semi-arid areas, urban areas
Variability of soils in urban and periurban areas in Northern Germany
Germany ; Heavy metals ; Human impact ; Pedogenesis ; Schleswig-Holstein ; Soil pollution ; Soil properties ; Spatial variation ; Urban area ; Waste
The soil pattern of urban areas is strongly influenced by human activities. Urban soils are sinks for the aerial dispersion of pollutants and sometimes sources for environmental hazards. Therefore, the aims of this study are : to analyse
the properties of soils developed from anthropogenic substrates; to investigate the interrelationship of soils in different urban landscapes (inner city, outer area).
The assessment of the effect and function of non-fragmented landscape areas with minimal disturbances for vertebrata with large spatial requirements can involve some methods. The more commonly-used methods of analysis and evaluation of such areas
Runoff and erosion processes after a forest fire in Mount Carmel, a mediterranean area
Forest fire ; Israel ; Mediterranean area ; Mountain ; Rill wash ; Sediment budget ; Soil erosion ; Water erosion
In the mediterranean forest area of Israel, fires increase runoff and sediment yield rates relative to undisturbed forested land. This study aims to : 1) determine the rates of water runoff and sediment yield from burnt slope sites, related
to unburnt areas; 2) analyze the factors affecting the geomorphic processes.
Topographical thresholds for ephemeral gully initiation in intensively cultivated areas of the Mediterranean
Concept ; Cultivated land ; Gully erosion ; Mediterranean area ; Murcia ; Portugal ; Rill wash ; Slope gradient ; Soil erosion ; Spain ; Threshold ; Watershed
Ephemeral gullying is an important erosion process in Mediterranean areas. The objective of this study was to investigate to what extent one could use field measurements of S (local slope) and A (drainage-basin area) to predict the location
of ephemeral gully initiation in intensively cultivated Mediterranean environments. Two relatively homogeneous study areas in Southeast Spain and Northeast Portugal with widespread ephemeral gullying were selected.
Changes in commuting flows in metropolitan areas, Japan : effects of cohort size and female labour
The purpose of this study is to consider the changes in commuting flow in the three major metropolitan areas in Japan in terms of cohort size and female labour using longitudinal data on residential, occupational and family careers and cohort
Applied ecology ; Ecotone ; Hungary ; Land use ; Outer conurbation area ; Urban area ; Urban ecology ; Urban fringe
Besides the investigations into the basic elements of the ecological spatial networks : the ecological matrix areas, corridors of barriers and also the biocores and buffer zones, the analysis of the edge-zones, the so-called ecotons
, is an increasingly popular topic of landscape ecology. The ecological role of the edge zones is proportional to the contrast between the ecological properties of the areas they separate. The ecological contrast is the sharpest possible round the town outskirts. - (ZK)
Urban redevelopment and spatial change of the central shopping area in Sakai city from the viewpoints of vertical growth
Honshu ; Inner city ; Japan ; Redevelopment ; Retail trade ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban function
This paper is to clarify the reorganization of retail activities and changes of the accumulation of urban core functions in Sakai City, located near the Sakai-Higashi station of the Nankai Koya line, Osaka metropolitan area. - (KA)
Women's status, environmental changes and child health in the riverine area of Ondo State, Nigeria
The paper uses the concept of vulnerability as a departure point from which to map the health risk to children in Igbekun area, an oil-rich coastal area of Nigeria. The paper attempts to highlight the poor quality of life and health of children