Quality aspects of environmental impact assessment reports in the Free State Province, South Africa
Afrique du Sud ; Développement durable ; Environnement ; Etude d'impact ; Free State ; Gestion des ressources ; Impact économique ; Réglementation
Economic impact ; Environment ; Free State ; Impact study ; Regulation ; Resource management ; South Africa ; Sustainable development
This paper examines the quality aspects of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) in the Free State Province by utilising the disaggregate approach and applying it to a systematic sample of EAIs conducted from 1997 to 2002. Disparities in the value
Pushing the boundary : state restructuring, state theory, and the case of U.S.-Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s
Capitalism ; Citizenship ; Frontier ; Immigration ; Mexico ; Political economy ; Political geography ; Power ; Security ; State ; United States of America
Ecological and hydrological state of wetlands of the cultural European landscape
In this paper, AA. compare the development, the present state and the potentials of two geographical areas, which used to be wetlands, but during the expansion of human mankind they underwent significant changes. The areas are the Trebonsko
Probit model forecasts of national and state manufacturing and construction employment downturns
Business cycle ; Economic indicators ; Economic recession ; Employment ; Forecast ; Industrial employment ; Simulation ; Time series ; United States of America
Seasonal and regional characteristics of U.S. streamflow trends in the United States from 1940 to 1999
Climatic trend ; Precipitation ; Seasonal variation ; Spatial distribution ; Stream ; Stream flow ; United States of America ; Water resources ; Watershed
The aims are to assess runoff trends in the conterminous United States for the 60-year period 1940-1999, across the entire range of measured discharges (from minimum to maximum); to characterize the regional distribution of these trends by water
Sweden and the Baltic Sea Region co-operation. Contribution to territorial cohesion and sustainable development together with the new member states and Russia
The reflections are focused on the results from three transnational macro-regions projects around the Baltic Sea, in which old and new member states of the EU are comprised. The political and professional networks in the three areas were
with non-member states in the future. It will be fundamental to get Kaliningrad oblast fully participating in all ERN activities. - (IFL)
Social, economic and civil vulnerability in the United States, France and Brazil
Brazil ; Comparative study ; France ; Marginality ; Policy ; Social exclusion ; Social policy ; State control ; United States of America ; Vulnerability ; Welfare
Climate, lightning, and wildfire in the national forests of the southeastern United States : 1989-1998
Atmospheric electricity ; Climatic index ; Drought ; Forest ; Forest fire ; Model ; Natural hazards ; United States of America ; Years 1990-99
The AA. compiled the record of wildfires from each national forest unit in the southeastern United States for the period 1989 to 1998, then regressed annual fire numbers against lightning flash densities and measures of climatic drought (seasonal
Climate change impacts on soil erosion in Midwest United States with changes in crop management
Agricultural land use ; Agricultural practice ; Climatic change ; Forecast ; Impact ; Midwest ; Model ; Runoff ; Soil erosion ; United States of America ; Water erosion
In this study, changes in management were assigned based on previous studies of crop yield, optimal planting date, and most profitable rotations under climate change in the Midwestern United States. The soil erosion model appeared to underestimate
Armement ; Birmanie ; Birmanie du Nord-Est ; Commerce ; Economie régionale ; Géopolitique ; Kachin State ; Opium ; Région frontière
is divided into 5 chapters. 1- Burma’s Northeast Special District ; 2- Kokang during the Colonial Administration Period (1890-948) ; 3- Development Efforts of the Shan State Government ; 4- Intrusion of the KMT Troops into Kokang ; 5- The Administrative
Bassin-versant ; Charbon de bois ; Diagramme pollinique ; Etats-Unis ; New York State ; Palynologie ; Paléo-environnement ; Paléoclimat ; Petit âge glaciaire ; Réchauffement climatique ; Utilisation du sol
Charcoal ; Climatic warming ; Land use ; Little ice age ; New York State ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimate ; Palynology ; Pollen diagram ; United States of America ; Watershed
For the limitation of land consumption the suggested trias of an obligation to inform and justify, a state-based contingency as well as the trade with land certificates on the basis of the existing legal competence of the German federation can
that cross state boundaries, one must draw on the exclusive competence of the federation for state-crossing spatial planning due to the nature of the issue. - (IFL)
A prerequisite for meaningful state economic performance comparisons : adjusting for population density
Economic growth ; Labour productivity ; Living standard ; Population density ; Production fonction ; Regional economy ; Regression analysis ; United States of America ; Wage
Occupational attainment of Latino immigrants in the United States
Assimilation ; Employment ; Ethnic community ; Hispanics ; International migration ; Living conditions ; Occupational activity ; United States of America ; Urban immigration