Twentieth-century precipitation variability and directional vegetation change in southeastern Arizona
Annual variation ; Arizona ; Climatology ; Drought ; Global change ; Moisture ; Potential evapotranspiration ; Precipitation ; Rocky Mountains ; TwentiethCentury ; United States of America ; Vegetation
Studying a century of rainfall records, the AA. find no conclusive evidence that periods of precipitation abundance or deficiency could have been responsible for vegetation change in southeastern Arizona during that period. - (DWG)
Hungary ; Hydrology ; Nineteenth Century ; TwentiethCentury ; Water management
The article is an overview of the development of the Hungarian hydrology. The A. describes the foundation of hydrological institutes and offices and the main projects in the 19th and 20th century. - (AM)
Planning environmental racism : the construction of the industrial suburb in Los Angeles County in the early twentiethcentury
An analysis of the role of urban planners in creating environmental inequalities in Los Angeles County in the early twentiethcentury, with special consideration of the industrial suburb of Torrance. Author finds environmental racism to have been
Urban land use in Tokyo in the early twentiethcentury : a comparison with Edo
Edo and the early twentiethcentury, phenomenal changes occurred in land use. Nearly all feudal land uses gave away to such modern land uses as imperial, military, manufacturing and educational. - (KA)
Twentieth-century variability in snow cover conditions and approaches to detecting and monitoring changes: status and prospects
This review describes the status of the understanding of snow cover and current and potential monitoring techniques. The observed variability during the twentiethcentury is discussed, with particular emphasis on recently acquired data from
Twentiethcentury dune migration at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado, relation to drought variability
Aeolian features ; Aeolian transport ; Arid area ; Barchan ; Colorado ; Drought ; Dune ; Geographical information system ; Satellite imagery ; TwentiethCentury ; United States of America
. The extent of dune migration is evaluated with respect to climate parameters like precipitation and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) to better understand the landscape response to varying drought in the twentiethcentury. This contribution provides
Architecture ; Commercial infrastructure ; Great Britain ; Historical geography ; Land speculation ; Nineteenth Century ; Real estate property ; TwentiethCentury ; United Kingdom ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban geography
The paper examines the individuals and bodies engaged in the development of towns and cities between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentiethcentury. Particular attention is given to the supplanting of local owners, architects and builders
Biogeography ; Canada ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Dendrochronology ; Dendrology ; Eighteenth Century ; Global change ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Northwest Territories ; Tree line ; TwentiethCentury ; Vegetation
Dendrochronology and the analysis of historical records from eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century expeditions are used to reconstruct the response of the central Canadian treeline to recent climatic variations and to anticipate
The demographic revolution started in the first half of the 19th century and ended between the two World Wars. The demographic development in the second half of the 20th century corresponds to the political appartenance to the Soviet-block
Carpathian Mountains ; Cartography ; History of cartography ; Hungary ; Second Century ; Topography ; TwentiethCentury
The article is an overview of the history of cartography in Hungary from the first map of the Carpathian basin made in the 2nd century until the 20th century. The author summarises the main results of the Hungarian cartographers
Agriculture ; California ; Historical geography ; Labour dispute ; Labour migration ; Social geography ; TwentiethCentury ; United States of America
Polemic in tone, this is a social geography of labor conflict in California agriculture in the first half of the twentiethcentury. The landscape in the title does not reflect the book's content. - (DWG)