Research in the mountains of the island of New Guinea
Environment ; Landscape ; Man-environment relationship ; Mountain ; Natural resources ; Papua New Guinea ; Research ; Settlement
An Australian perspective on the history of research activities and findings on this vast island. Research dates from the 1950s, mainly in six disciplines, and has given much attention to historical change. Understanding of human adaptation
is increasingly put into the framework of climatic variability and change. Some of this research has an applied dimension in improving land management system. Compared to Papua New Guinea where Australian scholars have been active, the mountains and people
Serving the knowledge-based society : research on knowledge products
This book contains the results of three research projects carried out between 1957 and 1990 on the subject of information transmission and more specific on the quality of information in an educational context. - (AGD)
In the last 30 years, great achievements have been obtained from investigations on mire and peat resources throughout the country. Based on the researches in hydrology, climate, vegetation, soils, ecochemistry of landscape for the variety of mires
in different regions of China, it is found that forming factors, process and types of China's mires have their own features. Researches on models, databases, information systems, mire mapping and some experimental researches on integrated exploitation
Bioclimatological research : the issue of climatic sensitivity
This essay discusses the issue of climatic sensitivity and the problems inherent in its evaluation within the general context of bioclimatological research. The more conventional approach implies that repeated minor perturbations of climate have
Agronomics;Agronomy ; Farming;Agriculture ; France ; Livestock farming ; Research ; Research organism ; Research programme ; Rural development ; Technology ; Tropical zone
Fluvial processes ; Hydrodynamics ; Research technique ; Streams ; United States
There is a recognized need to enhance research of hydraulic, geomorphic and sediment-transport processes in rivers. This research often includes studies of the velocity distribution in rivers. This paper describes the use of the top-setting wading
Research policy and review 34 : the development of ideas of uncertainty representation
. This review of the literature highlights the need for additional research on a number of topics, and the synthesis of new approaches to uncertainty with more traditional decision analysis techniques.
China ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; University
This review focuses on the thirty years geographical education in ten universities then available in China in terms of staffing, teaching and research in two separate periods : 1919 to 1937, and from then on to 1949.
Reports on the 1986 Sino-German Kunlun Shan Taklimakan Expedition organized by the Institute of Desert Research, Academia Sinica (IDRAS), Lanzhou and the Institute of Physical Geography of the Free University of Berlin
Arid area ; China ; Climate ; Dune ; Geographic research ; Geomorphology ; Physical geography ; Scientific expedition ; Vegetation ; Water