The drainage of the Lake Ha!Ha! reservoir and downstream geomorphic impacts along Ha!Ha! River, Saguenay area, Quebec, Canada
On July 18-21, 1996, a severe rainstorm caused widespread flooding along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. At the Lake Ha!Ha! reservoir, inadequate available capacity to spill during the storm at the outlet dam resulted in the overtopping
The pedological development in a sandy loamy soil in Northern Jutland, Denmark, has been described. The profile was strongly leached, a clay migration has taken place, and a marked Bt-horizon was developed. The Bt-horizon was later slightly
degradated. In the eluvial horizon to this Bt-horizon a podzol has been formed, in which a new clay migration has taken place. (Ed.).
During the past 30 years, precipitation for the month of September has increased in this region of California, which has more than 1,3 million ha of irrigated farmland. - (DWG)
The Polish public space was enriched after 1990 by ca 77,600 ha of post-military land of which 11,861 ha are located in towns and cities. Compact redevelopment areas (former military garrisons, with barracks, hospitals, warehouses, fuel stations etc
.) are located in 107 towns. In total, such areas occupy 10,000 ha. In addition, 5 former proving grounds were released and they are not currently used by the Army. The total area of that land is 49,933 ha. Also, 48 former airfields were given up, with the total
surface area of 17,000 ha. Such a large surface area has been exceptionally important in the context of land resources. – (BJ)
Inequality in Sweden : has the spatial dimension been annihilated?
The A. analyzes the detailed statistics on Swedish life to conclude that Sweden has gone far toward obliterating regional differences in the important indices of well-being.―(DWG)
In this book a first attempt has been made to provide a more detailed, quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of the River Rhine discharge to climate change. The attempt indicates the order of magnitude of the effect of a climatic change
. In this respect the sensitivity of the river has been analysed, a spatially distributed water balance model has been developed and finally discharge scenarios are assessed. - (AGD)
Regional devolution has been a major issue in many Latin American countries as a way to decentralize the power structures. In Chile this has been strongly influenced by geopolitical ideas in the Chilean military. In Bolivia, regionalization has
A quantitative estimation of water resources of every 200-meter height belts has been carried out. The structure elements has been estimated by means of analysis of hydrographes. A phase of primary high water and low water level has been established
The A. states that while British manufacturing output has not declined, its world share has fallen since 1979. The South has benefited at the expense of the North, and villages and small cities have seen more industrial growth than large old cities
The opening up of the Romanian forests has involved a number of different transport systems. Technology has been advanced and the problem of inacessible forests has gradually been solved. Many communities were able to expand through the development
On the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the Province of Alberta has developed a recreational area that has relieved pressures on the adjacent national parks but which, in turn, has created some negative environmental effects. - (DWG)
The traditional textbook scheme interpretation that karst phenomena are the result of rock-dissolving work of precipitation water is erroneous. It has been proved that rain-water in itself has scarcely any dissolving action on limestone. Modern
science has unambiguously demonstrated that most of the karst phenomena on the surface of the Earth reflect the effect of the activity of the biological world. (CK).
Parallel to demographic polarization, population numbers decreased. The mid-Békés town assemblage has a decisive role in demography. The regional balance of population has to be maintained. Settlement development influences of agrarian production
There has been a process of ageing during the last forty years. Agricultural population has decreased, industrial has increased. By definition agrarian towns have at least 50 per cent agrarian population and 30 per cent outskirts population living
The spread of maize cultivation has shown all the characteristic features of an innovation process: it has been initiated by one group of farmers with a distinctive feature matrix of its own. Strating point has been the southern part of the Upper
The central Cape of Good Hope has an arid climate and has been subject to environmental degradation as a result of overgrazing by small stock. Continuing rural-urban migration has resulted in locally severe depopulation and farm abandonment. (AJC).
After a palynological analysis a humic layer has been dated through the C-method. The age is 2660 100 B.P. (bottom) and 1965 110 B.P. (top). This dating matches the Iron Age material that has been found. The knowledge of the ecology
of the prehistoric site at La Panne has been enlarged. (LW).
Ron Mader is a journalist, free-lance writer who has contributed greatly to the dissemination of knowledge on the geography of Latin America. He has published two books on the adventures in nature of Mexico and Honduras and has created
Since the 1960s, three major changes have occurred in the Western aid regime. The international coordination of the Western aid programs has increased. The US role as the dominant aid donor has come to an end. The countries of the European Community
and Japan dominate Western aid-giving today. A framework for coordination of the aid program within the EC has emerged. The geographic distribution of aid has been altered, but there is not a panregional division among the donors.
With the implementation of economic reform and open policy, China has expanded its foreign trade, utilized a lot of foreign investment, and therefore its economy has been increasingly integrated into world economy. The coastal region has got more
opportunities of development. The existing urban clusters are spreading and new ones are appearing. Environmental pollution has become a serious problem in coastal cities.