Some traditions and methodologies of Japanese historical geography
Historical geography ; Japan ; Methodology ; Research technique
The paper provides a selective review of progress in Japanese historical geography over the last 50 years. It focuses on studies of the geography of Japan from the prehistoric period until the beginning of the modern period in 1868. Traditional
and new approaches to the historical geography of Japan are identified as are the links between historical geography and other disciplines.
Geographic research ; Historical geography ; Hungary
Author provides and overview about the development of historical geography in the interwar period in Hungary. Beside the most outstanding scholars of the era topics of historical geography resaerch of that period are highlighted. - (JS)
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INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS. Historical geography research group
Encomienda and settlement : toward a historical geography of early colonial Guatemala
Colonization ; Guatemala ; Historical geography ; Modern period ; Settlement ; Settlement history ; Social organization
Archival documents on the encomienda in Guatemala and elsewhere in Spanish America permit reconstruction of the historical geography of settlement. Useful article to prospective researchers. - (DWG)
A provisional historical schema for Western Africa based on seven climate periods (ca. 9 000 B.C. to the 19th century)
L'A. distingue 7 périodes climatiques (de 9000 av. J.-C. à 1860) et indique quelques conséquences sur les populations, leurs activités, leur mode de vie.
Geographical information system ; Historical geography ; Honshu ; Internet ; Japan ; Regional analysis ; Spatial statistics ; Statistics
of this project, the available data, its scope and features, and some of the prospects and challenges as an online geospatial database facility of historical statistics of Japan since the Meiji period.
This paper introduces an internet GIS for historical regional statistics developed by the Laboratory of Spatial Information Science, Doctoral Program in Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba. The paper discusses the objectives
A 1,000-year history of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong, Southern China, reconstructed from chinese historical documentary records
Atmospheric dynamics ; China ; Climatic cycle ; Climatic variability ; Guangdong ; Historical geography ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Palaeoclimatology ; Periodicity ; Time series ; Tropical cyclone
documents probably underrepresent the total number of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong, calibration of the historical data against the observations during the instrumental period 1884-1909 suggests that the trends of the 2 datasets are significantly correlated
The AA. have reconstructed a 1,000-year time series of typhoon landfalls in the Guangdong Province, since AD 975 based on data compiled from Fang Zhi (semi-official local gazettes). Even though the 571 typhoon strikes recorded in the historical
, confirming that the time series reconstructed from historical documentary evidence contains a reliable record of variability in typhoon landfalls. Spectral analysis of the Guangdong time series reveals a 50-year cycle in typhoon landfall frequency.
Antwerp : a modern city with a significant historic heritage in Old trends and new impulses in Europe's urban affairs.
The A. discusses recent planning and urban renewal policies in Antwerp within the contexts of the city's extensive cultural heritage and its historic evolution. Special attention is given to the architectural and urban design achievements
of the medieval, baroque and 19th century periods.
A legacy of change : historic human impact on vegetation in the Arizona borderlands
Applied ecology ; Arizona ; Biogeography ; Historical geography ; Human impact ; Rural landscape ; United States ; Vegetation dynamics
change. Lines of evidence used include standard historical accounts, landscape photography taken at different time periods, land surveyors' field notes, and high altitude vertical aerial photography. - (DWG)
Flood frequency and seasonality in the Sázava river catchment based on historical cases
Czech Republic ; Flood ; Historical account ; Nineteenth Century ; Seasonality ; Sixteenth Century
The paper gives an overall report on historical floods in the Sázava River Basin, focused on the pre-instrumental period in particular. The paper presents the first more detailed chronology of flood events on the Sázava River within the time limits
Historical and recent viticulture as a source of climatological knowledge in the Czech Republic
The cultivation of vine (Vinis vinifera) that yields grapes for wine manufacture is strongly influenced by the weather. This relationship enables the use of historical viticultural data for the reconstruction of temperatures and weather extremes
in past times. This paper summarises the basics of the relationship between viticulture and climate in the Czech Lands. We compile historical vations before AD 1500 and for the 16th-18th centuries from various types of documentary evidence. Times
of flowering and grape harvest are compared with temperatures at the Velké Pavlovice station for the period 1956-2007 and 1984-2007, for various grape varieties. - (EN)
Land use history and historical soil erosion at Albersdorf (northern Germany) - Ceased agricultural land use after the pre-historicalperiod
Agricultural land use ; C 14 dating ; Erosion rate ; Geoarchaeology ; Geomorphology ; Germany ; Historicalperiod ; Land use ; Landscape ; Neolithic ; Schleswig-Holstein ; Soil erosion ; Soil properties ; Watershed
The Holocene landscape history and historical soil erosion were reconstructed at Albersdorf (Schleswig-Holstein) from soils and colluvial layers. In contrast to many landscapes in central Europe, agricultural land use and soil erosion were more
frequent during pre-historical times, whereas it has almost ceased after the advent of history. Pre-historical soil erosion rates were reconstructed with no significant differences between the prehistoric cultural phases. The study of buried soils within
Analysis of daily and monthly spatial variance components in historical temperature records
Climatic variation ; Forecast ; Greenhouse effect ; Historical climate ; Model ; Spatial variation ; Temperature
The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in the spatial variance of mean monthly and daily temperatures that may have occurred during the period of historical records. The northern hemispheric lower-tropospheric satellite-based temperature
declined during the period of historical records and spatial variance is negatively related to mean hemispheric temperature. These results are consistent with model predictions.
Crossing the thresholds : human ecology and historical patterns of landscape degradation
Agricultural land use ; Common agricultural policy ; Environmental degradation ; Historical geography ; Human ecology ; Human impact ; Iceland ; Modelling ; Over-grazing ; Soil erosion ; Tephrochronology
observation of soil erosion, temporally defined by tephrochronology, to highlight the extent of land degradation during this period. The tragedy of the commons explanation of degradation is then assessed by evaluating historic documentary sources
The AA. assess the extent to which common land domestic grazing pressures were the primary external force causing soil erosion and land degradation during the period of occupation from ca. 874 AD in Southern Iceland. They first provide field
, and by environmental reconstruction and modeling of historic grazing pressures.
Through detailed statistics and analysis of drought and water disasters in the Weihe Plain in the historicalperiod, the AA. discovered that in more than 2300 years (from 370 BC to 2000 AD), natural disasters occurred most frequently in 2 periods
: 610 to 850 AD; 1580 to 2000 AD. Different natural disasters occurred synchronously : when the drought occurred frequently, water disasters occurred frequently in the same periods. The excessive exploitation of natural resources and human disturbance
Historical geography ; Hungary ; Settlement ; Twentieth Century
historical geography has always been closely linked to the ruling paradigm of geography, and followed the main trends of the discipline. The interwar period was the heyday of human geography in Hungary, Tibor Mendöl and other leading representatives
In this paper, A. analyses the development of historical geography in Hungary over the last hundred years with special attention to the role of Tibor Mendöl, a distinguished human geographer of the country in the 20th century. In general, Hungarian
of the discipline determined the role and position of historical geography within this context. Although his main field of interest was not historical geography (but settlement geography), nevertheless his essays had a strong impact on the development
of this discipline, both with regard theory and methods. After World War II historical geography became politically and scientifically rather isolated, and its revival started gradually only from the 1970s onwards. - (JS)
Climate research on Slovenian territoty in pre-instrumental period : weather and climate in the 17th century
Climatic data ; Climatology ; Historical geography ; Holocene ; Palaeoclimate ; Seventeenth Century ; Slovenia
half of this century is one of the periods which is sufficiently documented in historical sources. In spite of certain limitations, by means of additional information it is possible to present satisfactorily the weather and the climate of that time