A review of the UK government's response to the Rio declaration demonstrates faltering purpose, reinforcing and reflecting public distrust of government. A very modest comfort can be taken from its limited initiatives which range from the greater
dissemination of information to the setting of some environmental targets. The unwillingness of government to promote major fiscal or financial reforms, or to decentralize power and initiative, reveal the inadequacy of the steps so far taken.
The concept of allegory is used as a device for illuminating the possible meanings of a monument. The affinities between monumental and allegorical works are discussed. A thirty-year-old memorial column in Armidale, NSW, is taken as a case study.
Tibet between 4000 and 5000 m a.s.l. has the highest known currently developing karst features. Measurements taken of carbon dioxide pressure (one of the lowest in the world), solubility of Tibetan limestones, and electrical conductivity of karst
The concept of the venta which was an overnight refuge for travelers was taken from Spain to the New World where the earliest ones were set up by Cortez on the Veracruz to Mexico City road. Careful discussion of their role, layout, functions
In this paper authors highlight some of the most important features of the economic and social change in Hungary which have taken place since 1989. Among others political, economic and social factors that have influenced the post-socialist
to augment stream volume and velocity in the spring. Power generation has taken priority because the economic benefits derived from it are easily weighed and the water budget measure may not increase the survival rates of migrating salmonids. - (SLD)
enemy, particularly if we ensure that issues of race and class are taken into consideration. This article is followed by three replies by Steinberg, Luke and Tabor, pp. 13-36.
A micromorphological approach, based upon sets of closely-spaced thin sections taken from 3 sites located along a climatic and depositional gradient, has been utilised to reconstruct the sequence of pedogenic and sedimentary events leading
The objective of this study is to establish the climatological classification of Vietnam, based on the structure of heat and water balances. Data from 85 meteorological stations, for the period 1960-1975 were taken into account for determining mean
regions. The geographic environment of the 3 ecotones were evaluated, their developing tendency predicted and the corresponding measures to be taken in the 21 st century pointed out.
On the occasion of the centenary of the Institute for Regional Geography (Länderkunde) in Leipzig last year a scientific conference was taken place. There are published the addresses held by honorous guests, papers on problems of social and spatial
their housing preferences in a situation of limited supply in the housing market. The case studies are taken from the cities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. - (AGD)
This paper presents the results of measurements taken between December 18, 1994, and January 26, 1996, documenting elevation profiles of UV-B irradiance under clear-sky as well as other sky conditions in Hawai'i. Data were obtained at sea level
This paper reports the results of the analyses of 3 cores, 1.8 to 2.6 m in length, taken from Lebatse Pan in southeast Kalahari. The sedimentary characteristics are compared with other core logs from the region, and an assessment is made
The AA. summarize the debate on is GIS a tool or a science ? that was conducted on GIS-L electronic listserver in late 1993. In evaluating this discussion, it becomes clear that GIS could be understood not by the two distincts positions taken
bias affect the levels of bilateral trade. When such biases are not taken into account, then estimation of the gravity model fails to discriminate between the relative spatial structures of trading regimes. This argument is examined in the context
were taken, for 3 stations representing different altitudinal climatic zones, in the period 1961/62-1990/91. The variability of the dates of winter commencement and end, winter duration and thermal indices were analysed, as was the relation between
In the years 1989-1992, river water samples for physicochemical analyses were taken at 9 points of the Łabuńka river catchment up-stream of the gauging station of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMWM) in Krzak. These show
. The arrival of the market has modified this land-use pattern as manufacturing has almost entirely disappeared. The redundant space has been taken up by wholesaling, retailing and offices, forming a multiple land-use transition zone round the central office
Zealand, but the experiences of different parts of the country have varied considerably. It has decreased the most where subdivision and intensification of land use have taken place, whilst in some pastoral regions farm size has been maintained or has even