This paper argues the case for widening the perspectives used in the analysis of industrial location decisions to consider both procedural rationality and expressive rationality alongside the standard instrumental view.
Sectoral fallow systems and the management of soil fertility : the rationality of indigenous knowledge in the High Andes of Peru
Agricultural practice ; Agrosystem ; Andes ; Bolivia ; Environmental management ; Fallow land ; High mountain ; Land use ; Mountain ; Phytomass ; Rationaluse
approach was used to obtain information on indigenous knowledge of farming practices. Subterranean phytomass was identifed as the key factor in nutrient storage during the fallow period. Author found farming practices to be entirely rational. - (SLD)
Sectoral fallow systems are commonly used in the Bolivian High Andes. Fields in the study erae (Japo, Department of Cochabamba) are cultivated for 3 years with potatoes as the first crop and then lie fallow for 9 years. A participatory research
Building societies and credit rationing : an empirical examination of redlining
Redlining in the housing market occurs when building societies explicity delineate sections of cities where they will not usually grant mortgages. It is considered as part of the broader question of credit rationing, and derives a number
of alternative passible explanations of the spatial distribution of mortgage finance. These are considered using data on house sales, and surveys of building society managers and house buyers in Glasgow.
The rational development and administration of resources in the Sanjiang Plain to match its climatic resources.
Rational development is seen to be dependant on (1) further intensive use of the rich light energy resource in agriculture| (2) regulating river courses to control waterlogging and drought that might result from the unsteady precipitation pattern
Rational utilization of mountain soils in southeast Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau
Afforestation ; China ; Deforestation ; Ecology ; Forest soil ; Land use ; Mountain ; Pastureland ; Qinghai ; Resource management ; Slope gradient ; Soil ; Tibet
to be instable. So rational cutting and forest conservation, barren mountain afforestation, returning the cultivated land on steep slopes to forest, controlled grazing, and soil amelioration constitute important means for rationaluse of soil resources
Problems of rational utilization of hilly area in Hunan province from ecological viewpoint.
Describes the basic ecological conditions of the Hunan hilly area, problems of present land use, desirable directions of growth and development. (TNC).
Basic characteristics of housing relations, tenancy title, dwelling providers, general act on the allotment of dwellings, use of dwelling, exchange of dwellings, subtenancy and co-tenancy, private ownership of dwellings, rationaluse of dwelling
An empirical example of a multi-level spatial investigation is summarized. The empirical advantages of using a hierarchy of levels in spatial analysis are then discussed. The use of various analytical methods in the spatial hierarchy leads
Preliminary comment on rational development of Meizhou port.
developed the port could handle an annual throughput of over 40 million tonnes of cargo. The types and scales of industries most suited to the port is then examined. Details of siting different land use districts is proposed for the port city. (TNC).
Rational regime model of alluvial channel morphology and response
for alluvial systems. Discharge, sediment supply (quantity and calibre) and valley gradient are accepted as independent governing variates. The model is used to define a dimensionless alluvial state space characterized by aspect ratio, relative roughness
Channel adjustment and a test of rational regime theory in a proglacial braided stream
The AA. analyze the historical trends in channel pattern and the contemporary downstream changes in channel geometry, grain size, and gradient in the gravel bed, proglacial Sunwapta River, Alberta. The rational equations incorporate the effect
pattern thresholds and demonstrates, using spatial transitions in channel pattern, that channel pattern predictions based on stream power alone are inadequate.
This paper shows that Sneed and Folk ternary diagrams provide an appropriate standard method of representing data and a rational basis for the choice of descriptive indices and analytical methods. Such diagrams have the unique quality
of representing the variation of particle shapes without bias or distorsion. The use of ternary diagrams in studies of clast shape is illustrated using data from Slettmarkbreen, Norway.
with the intent of providing a more rational climate classification for everyday use in a classroom setting. This classification uses an amended version of the Thornthwaite moisture index.
Preliminary study on land-use investigation and method of mapping.
Land-use investigation serves as one of the basic tasks on examining the land resources, current state of their utilization, and the ways and approaches of rational utilization in the light of the requirements of planning regionally and nationally
. Both traditional geographic methods and new technology will have their parts to play in data capturing. Criteria for land-use classification are discussed and land-use map making and analysis briefly described. (TNC).
Congress ; Marine environment ; Ocean ; Rationaluse ; Resource management ; Sustainable development
in order to guarantee a rationaluse and efficient management of the planet's resources. Another international conference, already known as Rio+10, will be held in Johannesburg in September 2002 with the aim to verify how much of that envisaged in Agenda 21
has actually been implemented and how much still remains on paper. Using the preliminary works of the next international conference the AA. examine the conditions of sustainability in the development of the marine environment and oceans. - (NF)
to restructuring, the AA. analyze the strategies of coercion that must be used when there is resistance to restructuring. They recognize important qualifications about the utility of rational choice theory.
Despite arguments about the necessity of restructuring, for many the use of this notion in government and business policy making is at best opportunistic and at worst deliberately exploitative. Having noted a number of empirical and moral objections