Les ressources forestières du Raath, petit district reculé du Garhwal, sont menacées principalement par l'abattage excessif des arbres et l'emploi du fourrage foliaire. Un projet d'éco-développement est institué. - (LB)
This paper is concerned with qualitative rather than quantitative unpredictability. For example, rather than a concern with estimating runoff volumes or peak flows associated with land use change, the issue is whether runoff will increase, decrease
This paper focuses on the formal description rather than the physical explanation of the ridge and channel patterns in maturely dissected terrain| the object of the description is the connectivity within and between these patterns rather than
To redress the deficiency of globalization studies in the periphery of the world economy, The A. examines globalization empirically from the ground upwards through an analysis of foreign companies. The evidence points to growing inclusion in, rather
than exclusion from, the world economy, to increasing service-sector rather than extractive-sector investment, and to foreign companies producing for local and regional markets as well as for international markets.
The evolution of the study of paleoclimates is reviewed from the rather straightforward stratigraphic studies of a century or more ago, to the rather complex techniques of today, which depend heavily upon principles of physics and chemistry
The reception of newcomers has been rather awkward and sometimes in contradiction with the widely celebrated image of the Netherlands as the heartland of tolerance and multiculturalism. Also, many complaints can be heard about the supposedly tardy
In-house RandD efforts, rather than imported technologies, are the primary sources of industrial innovation in China. Regarding these efforts, it is found that in-house RandD laboratories are important sources for the creation of new products
, though it is enterprise-wide RandD spending rather than the mere presence of in-house facilities that is more likely to lead to market success. The limited nature of efforts to absorb imported technologies has become a serious barrier to fulfilling
on the analysis of spatial planning policy documents and focused on the innovation of the Italian Spatial Planning system. Explicit application of the ESDP in the Italian context appears to be rather scarce. Nevertheless, important changes occured in Italian
context appears to be rather scarce. Nevertheless, important changes occured in Italian planning practices in the last decade are stricly connected to the role of the European Union as an emerging actor for what concern territorial and urban matters. - (BJ)
This study of consumption extends the field of enquiry to include the full range of goods and services consumed by households rather than concentrating upon the narrower field of mass produced articles which has been the concern of those
Biogeography and ecosystem management. The review is illustrative rather than exhaustive; the main criteria for selecting work is the emphases it places on the understanding of the spatial aspects of ecosystem structure and function.
These models are suggested as a means for bridging the methodological and philosophical gap between models of discretionary and constrained spatial behavior. The focus is on psychologically justifiable rather than normative decision models.
This essay proposes that we treat such maps as a text rather than as a mirror of reality, so that we can understand how their rhetoric has narrowed the practice of historical geography. Such a deconstruction opens the way to reintegrate cartography
The major influences on and changes in regional development in Iran since the revolution of 1979. Regional disparity is narrowing rather than widening. - (SGA)
Using Tobago as an example, the study suggests that locally-owned guest houses, rather than large luxury hotels, are best suited to the long-term tourism development of the Caribbean. - (DWG)