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Claiming the high ground : theories of imperial authority and the British hill stations in India
The paper examines the expanding administrative use of the hill stations from the early nineteenth century through the 1880s. Conflicting srategies and practices for maintaining imperial control required mediation and contrasting frameworks
for defining duty and loyalty between government and subject vied for dominance. The significance of Utilitarian thought, changing appraisals of climate and constructions of race are evaluated in an analysis of the imperial hill stations.
1997

Slash-and-burn rice systems in transition: challenges for agricultural development in hte hills of northern Laos
Agricultural technique ; Agriculture ; Crop ; Crop yield ; Farming system ; Hill ; Laos ; Rice cultivation ; Slash and burn agriculture
Rice production in the Laotian hills have undergone reduction in length of fallow. Although shorter fallow periods resulted in excessive labor needs for weeding, they have had few visible effects on soil fertility and crop yields. - (DWG)
1997

Geomorphic effect of surface runoff in the Myjava Hills, Slovakia
Natural conditions and land use make the Myjava Hills particularly liable to geomorphic processes induced by surface runoff. The investigation of geomorphic effects focused on a detailed mapping of the spatial distribution of rills and soil loss
1997

Phytolith and carbon isotope evidence for late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota
Analyses of phytoliths and carbon isotopes document the rate and nature change in late Quaternary grasslands in the Red Valley of the southern Black Hills. This paper will evaluate the temporal sensitivity and spatial limits of the methods.
1997

The Indarri Falls travertine dam, Lawn Hill Creek, northwest Queensland, Australia
Indarri Falls is a spectacular travertine dam which impounds Lawn Hill Creek, a perennial karst stream draining the Barkly Tableland in northwest Queensland, Australia. Carbonate precipitation at the Falls is favoured by downstream changes
the middle reaches of lawn Hill Creek from a fluvial to a lacustrine environment.
1997

The Dirt Hills structure : an ice-thrust feature in southern Saskatchewan, Canada
Etude de la structure de Dirt Hills, formée durant la dernière glaciation lorsque le glacier, en régime d'écoulement compressif, a ré-avancé contre l'escarpement de Missouri Coteau, ce qui a provoqué l'empilement des dalles de substratum rocheux et
1997

Land-cover change and forest institutions: a comparison of two sub-basins in the southern Siwalik hills of Nepal
1997

Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the Late Miocene Davis Creek silt, East Block of the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan
1997

Late Holocene eolian activity in the mineralogically mature Nebraska Sand Hills
The age of sand dunes in the Nebraska Sand Hills has been controversial, with some investigators suggesting a full-glacial age and others suggesting that they were last active in the late Holocene. New radiocarbon ages of unaltered bison bones
Hills must have had a long history, probably extending over more than one glacial-interglacial cycle, and the potential for reactivation is high.
1997

A beremendi löszfeltárás vizsgálata

This paper provides an examination of the Beremend loess exposure in the southern part of the Villány Hills (S-Hungary). Author gives concrete figures on the physical and chemical analysis of the loess and states, that the formation of the series
1997

Asia ; Cambodia ; Geomorphogenesis ; Geomorphology ; Hill ; South-Eastern Asia ; Tropical zone ; Vietnam
1997

Erosion control in South China

broken hills. These have led to the disintegration of hillslopes and the deposition of colluvium and fines on the agricultural land. Gully treatment includes the stabilization of the headwalls, the containments of sediments in the gully floor zone
1997

? Relationship changes between lowlander and hill tribes in Xishuangbanna, China.
1997

Agricultural hydrology ; Agricultural practice ; Altitudinal zonation of vegetation ; Environment ; Farming system ; Hill ; Italy ; Legislation ; Patrimony ; Rural history ; Rural landscape ; Toscana
1997

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