the embankment, this resulting first and foremost from a process of downcutting erosion within the channel, and later from a lowering of the water table and management of the area. A steadily increasing threat of the Włcławek Reservoir dam being breached
to cascade construction of the valley floor within the floodbanks, as well as appropriate hydrotechnical measures beyond those banks, it should be possible to achieve renaturalisation of the degraded flood level. - (BJ)
The study area lies within a complex, interlobate moraine. Fieldwork involved mapping in groups of 2 or 3, as well as soil and vegetation sampling. Spatial data products assembled and used in the project included topographic maps, a digital
elevation model (DEM), aerial photographs, and NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service) soil maps. Most of the soils are dry and sandy, with the main differentiating characteristic being the amount of, and depth to, subsurface clay bands (lamellae
This paper presents a well-dated 20th century pollen record at near-annual resolution from a South-Florida wetland. It shows a gradual shift from a wet to a relatively dry assemblage during the past 100 years. Timing of drainage activities
in the region is accurately reflected by the onset and duration of vegetation change in the swamp. In addition, the relation between high-frequency variation in the pollen record and annual precipitation changes is investigated, the latter being strongly
Islam specialist, the A. has divided his book in two parts. Part I : Studies diverse forms of Islam : origins of Islam in Thailand, being Muslim in Thailand, thai-Muslim structures and demographic importance. Part II : Concerns the Muslims
of the deep south : on the Thai-Malaysian borders ; the weight of history ; the integration of the southern province ; the renewal of Thai Islam ; Muslims and Thais democratization ; being minorities. In the conclusion, the A. explains that Thai Buddhist
The study generally shows a medium interest in geoscientific fields of subject with school boys and girls. The most interesting topics are those that are related to human beings and to life/living beings or environmental threat. Concerning special
of Eurasia. Such concepts are now being recalled and reinstated in today's Russia, the movement's leading exponent being A. Dugin, whose views are presented and assessed here. A final part of the article focuses on the geopolitical consequences of programmes
to better understand and to face such cataclysm, we need a geographical culture of risk. The geography of risk is a central perspective in the understanding of the complex relationships between human beings and the natural environment. - (NF)
that was conducted in the summer of 2004 is presented. For the time being Lake Tisza is favoured by tourism policy. Tourism management and marketing has been organised in the region to support the efforts to maintain and increase competitiveness. - (JS)
- as compared with other categories of region analysed before. The analysis also takes the political context of the formation of transboundary regions (euroregions) into consideration, this being a consequence of international integration processes in Europe
of cities from the past. There is also a presentation of contemporary theoretical approaches to matters of the functioning of large cities in networks, with attention being paid to the difficulties with measuring the inter-city linkages involved. - (BJ)
, for 5 months, for the rock surface and the base of the rock, the blocks being set within a mass of local sediment. The results of the controlled experiment are presented and discussed.
Functional Urban Areas (FUA's) rate as building stocks of polycentric regions as well as for development policies strengthening a polycentric urban structure. They are seen as arenas for supra-regional functions and as nodes for national
of urban regions in the regional, national or international socio-economic networks as well as of the preconditions for their future development in the globalizing world. - (IFL)
The present paper aims at choosing indexes, identifying and characterizing the success areas in general scale, as well as giving the examples and determining the key factors behind economic recovery in some rural areas. The success areas were
identified on the basis of the established economic growth indicator, migration balances, fluctuations in the own revenues of gminas, as well as changes in the number of economic entities registered in the Regon system. - (BJ)
The most frequent methods used for mapping of lakes of natural or anthropogenic origin. The ways of mapping of shorelines and subsequent bathymetric measurements are described. The final format of maps are described as well. - (MS)
Space is a requisite as the air we breathe, the ground on which we stand, we walk over and through it. Human being is with space, he is part of space, he can not be absent from space. To be at all - to exist anyway - is to be somewhere
The aim of the article is to develop an understanding of infrastructure as being shaped by the attempt to overcome constraints set by space and time. It is argued, that it is necessary to produce constantly new infrastructures and material settings
The National Atlas Germany, edited by the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography, is being written by more than 500 authors who use a large number of sources, amongst them many digital specialist information systems. The contribution reflects