Problems of state-sponsored land schemes for small farmers : the case of Sarawak, Malaysia
Agricultural land use ; Agricultural practice ; Development strategy ; Farming system ; Farming;Agriculture ; Irrigation ; Land improvement ; Land;Real estate ; Malaysia ; Rural development ; Sarawak ; Settlement
The West Victorian Uplands of southeastern Australia : origin and history
This paper discusses the origin and development of the West Victorian Uplands, and compares the morphology and history of the area with that of the remainder of the Eastern Highlands of Australia. It is suggested that the West Victorian Uplands may
Hydrographic characteristics of the Strokdammane plain, west Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Give a description of some of the forms and processes characterizing the shores of both small ponds and larger lakes of an area representative for the west coast of Spitsbergen. This study is based upon field studies and inventories performed during
The geographical imagination of Frederic Remington : the invention of the cowboy West
This artist was one of the most important iconographers of the nineteenth-century American West. He invented an image of man and nature in the West by taking his preconceptions and applying them to Darwinian philosophy to create characters
Horizons of the sublime : the invention of the romantic west
Much of the invented tradition that developed from the early images of the West was based in American interpretations of the European Romantic tradition and grew out of the art and literature that surrounded the American fur trade of the Rocky
Third World meets First World in the West Coast region of the South Island : possum hunting and the role of social forestry in indigenous forest management
The radical change in forest policy has profound implications for the West Coast, and an alternative to the conventional forest management framework is required which recognises the Government's desire to protect the indigenous forest cover, yet
Summer energy balance on West Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, and linkages to a temporal synoptic index
This paper analyzes summer, 1986, daily surface energy budgets, ablation, and variations of synoptic weather types experienced on the West Gulkana Glacier. Daily summer (June-August) synoptic conditions analyzed for the period 1948-86 were
Obsidian-hydration dating of fluvially reworked sediments in the West Yellowstone region, Montana
This study evaluates obsidian-hydration dating in postglacial fluvial terraces cut into an outwash plain near West Yellowstone. Fluvial transport fractures obsidian grains. However, some old hydration rinds may be preserved, thus, a grain may record
Influence of terrestrial vegetation on sediment-forming processes in kettle lakes of west-central Minnesota
The composition, magnetic characteristics, and pollen content of sediments from two small kettle lakes near the prairie-forest border in west-central Minnesota were used to infer changes in terrestrial vegetation, shoreline erosion, eolian inputs