喀斯特地区土地利用变化研究——以贵州省为例

分析贵州省1996-2008年土地利用变化情况,揭示土地利用变化差异状况及驱动因子.基于贵州省1996-2008年土地利用变更调查数据,利用土地利用结构信息熵和均衡度、土地利用类型年均变化幅度、年均变化率与相对变化率5个指数,分析土地利用变化情况.结果表明:(1)13年间,贵州省土地利用变化主要以耕地和林地的变化为主,土地利用结构变化表现出林地、园地、居民点及工矿用地、水域、交通用地明显增加,耕地、牧草地和未利用地减少.(2)贵州省土地利用结构信息熵和均衡度呈现"上升--下降--上升"的过程,总体呈增长趋势.(3)8类土地利用类型中,园地的区域变化差异较大,牧草地区域变化差异较小;贵州省西部地区的土地利用类型变化较东部地区显著.贵州省土地利用结构变化的主要驱动力是生态退耕政策的实施和经济社会的发展.     

1996年以来苏锡常地区土地利用结构时空演变研究

以1996-2007年苏锡常地区土地利用数据为基础,选取土地利用变化幅度、动态度、变化强度、相对变化率及景观生态学指标,对该地区的土地利用变化状况进行分析.结果表明:1996年以来,苏锡常地区土地利用结构中,耕地比例锐减,居民点及工矿用地、交通用地所占比例则逐年上升,交通用地的变化幅度及动态度最大;各用地类型的变化强度在此期间呈一定波动,除牧草地外,交通用地历年的变化强度之和最大,期间以2004年各用地类型的变化强度之和最大;土地利用结构的多样化指数、多样性指数以及均衡度指数呈上升趋势,而优势度指数则呈下降趋势;各市耕地、居民点及工矿用地、其他农用地的变化幅度及相对变化率差别不大,而园地、林地、牧草地、交通用地、水利设施用地及未利用地的变化幅度及相对变化率区域差异较大.     

新疆天山北坡经济带土地利用时空变化特征研究

基于GIS平台,以新疆各县市统计资料及Landsat TM 影像解译得到的三期土地利用数据为基础,对天山北坡经济带1996-2004年土地利用数量、类型及其变化进行了分析.结果得出,前后2个4年间,天山北坡经济带林地和未利用土地是先增加后减少.在8年尺度上土地利用总的动态特征是,耕地、园地、林地、水域、建设用地及未利用土地面积增加,草地面积减少.8年尺度天山北坡经济带综合土地利用动态度为12.95%.前4年综合土地利用动态度为12.83%,园地、水域及未利用土地的年变化率较大,林地的年变化率较小.后4年天山北坡经济带综合土地利用动态度为1.58%,建设用地与园地的年变化率较大,草地及耕地的变化率较小,前4年变化程度比后4年明显.最后,引入单一土地利用类型相对变化率反映出天山北坡经济带土地利用变化存在明显的区域差异.政策变动、经济发展、城市化水平、市场需求和人口增长是天山北坡经济带土地利用变化的主要原因.     

贵州省土地利用及其生态系统服务价值与灰色预测

以贵州省1996-2008 年土地利用变更调查数据为基础, 采用生态系统服务价值评估模型、敏感性指数和灰色预测模型, 对土地利用变化引起的生态系统服务价值的变化进行了估算, 对区域土地利用构成和生态系统服务价值进行了灰色预测。结果表明:贵州省近13 年来, 耕地、牧草地和未利用土地面积均呈现减少的趋势, 而林地、园地、建设用地和水域面积呈增加趋势;贵州省2008 年的生态系统服务总价值比1996 年增加了59.08 亿元, 变化率为3.01%;贵州西北地区的生态系统服务总价值的变化率较贵州东南地区显著;敏感性分析表明采用的生态价值系数是合理的, 研究区内的生态系统服务价值缺乏弹性;利用灰色GM(1,1)模型对贵州省2015 年和2020 年的土地利用构成和生态系统服务价值进行预测, 未来10 年贵州呈现林地、建设用地持续增加、耕地持续减少的趋势;2015 和2020 年土地利用结构信息熵分别为1.4320 和1.4331, 表明土地利用结构逐渐趋于均衡, 2020 年区域生态资产增加到2119.03 亿元。     

拉萨地区土地利用变化情景分析

根据西藏拉萨地区1990年、1995年和2000年3个时点的土地利用数据,应用马尔科夫过程模型分析了未来20年内拉萨地区的土地利用情景变化,并与90年代制定的拉萨地区土地利用规划面积进行了对比研究。研究结果:1)10年间,土地利用类型变化最广泛的是牧草地。变化方向主要由牧草地向耕地、园地、林地、居民点及水域转变,其中变成林地的面积最大,为2338.25hm²(占变化面积的94.093%);2)拉萨地区未来20年中土地利用类型发展趋势是耕地、牧草地、水域和未利用土地面积将进一步减少,林地、园地和居民点面积将进一步增加;3)土地利用规划面积与基于马尔科夫模型的土地利用变化情景分析结果比较吻合,马尔科夫过程模型对制定该区域土地利用规划具有重要的参考价值;4)由于土地利用变化是一个复杂的过程,不仅受到众多自然因素的影响,而且受到未来土地利用政策、社会经济发展、区域内大型工程项目及其他人类活动等不确定因素的影响,从而不同土地利用类型之间的转移概率会发生变化,使得基于马尔科夫过程模型预测的精度有一定的局限性。     

中国北方农牧交错带土地利用空间优化布局的动态模拟

合理、最优的土地利用方案涉及到影响土地利用变化的诸多因素,引起了目前学术界的广泛关注与重视。 本文利用CLUE- S 模型的理论框架,构建了中国北方农牧交错带土地利用空间优化布局模拟模型,通过对中国北 方农牧交错带土地利用变化的情景设置,实现了六种土地利用变化分配模式下的空间优化布局。研究表明,中国北 方农牧交错带在不同的分配模式下,各用地类型间的竞争导致区域土地利用类型之间的转移差异较大。经过空间 优化的土地利用空间分布和土地利用现状相比较,耕地和草地更加集中,从不同分配模式的空间分布比较中可以 看出,进行土地利用空间分配时,土地利用变化的敏感地带位于东北部地区和西部地区,东北部地区主要表现为林 地转化为耕地,在西北地区,主要是草地和耕地之间的相互转化,而在广大的中部地区,则主要是耕地转化为草地。     

干旱区不同土地利用类型的时空分形特征研究——以塔里木河干流区域为例

以新疆塔里木河干流1990年、2000和2007年土地利用数据为例,应用分形理论来分析干旱区内陆河流域土地利用空间结构复杂性、稳定性以及动态变化性,通过建立距离河道不同的缓冲区范围来变化空间尺度,研究分形的空间尺度变化效应。结果表明,各种土地利用类型都具有空间分形特征,1990年土地利用分形维值由大到小的顺序是其它用地>牧草地>耕地>林地>居民及独立工矿用地>未利用地,2000年和2007年土地利用分形维值大小顺序为其它用地>牧草地>耕地>林地>未利用地>居民及独立工矿用地;通过空间结构稳定性指数分析得到天然植被(林地、牧草地等)的空间结构稳定性比较小。随着空间尺度的逐级扩大,各土地利用类型的分形特征依然存在,但分形维数减少,土地利用空间结构总体趋于简单状态下稳定。     

新疆南疆地区土地利用变化及其生态效应

基于GIS平台,以新疆各县市统计数据为基础,对南疆土地利用变化特征及其生态效应进行分析。分析得出:①近12 a间耕地、园地、林地、水域及建设用地面积增加,而草地和未利用土地面积减少。12 a间土地利用综合动态度为0.88%,园地、建设用地和耕地的年变化率较大;林地、草地、水域和未利用土地的较低。土地利用变化存在明显的区域差异,巴州除未利用土地以外,土地利用类型的变幅均大于全区相应土地利用类型的变幅,和田所有土地利用类型的变幅均小于全区的变幅。②绿洲耕地面积的扩展以牺牲自然荒漠植被为代价,致使绿洲生态问题日益突出,主要表现为植被退化、沙漠化、生境质量下降、土壤盐渍化和水质恶化等。     

环渤海区域土地利用类型动态变化研究

利用环渤海区域1998,2000,2003,2005,2007年份的分县土地利用详查变更数据,选取耕地、园地、林地、牧草地、水域、城乡居民及工矿用地和未利用地等土地利用类型,在GIs技术与定量模型支持下,进行了环渤海区域不同时段及其内部不同区域土地利用类型变化格局的模拟和分析.结果表明:1998-2007年,环渤海区域水域、耕地减少幅度较大;土地利用类型变化动态度为0.93%:环渤海区域土地利用变化存在明显的区域差异.     

退耕还林（草）背景下中国北方农牧交错带土地利用及碳储量变化

为明析退耕还林（草）背景下生态环境较为脆弱的北方农牧交错带土地利用及碳储量变化,基于该区2000、2010、2018年土地利用数据,通过动态度、土地转移矩阵,景观指数等指标从土地利用变化的数量、速率以及空间格局特征加以分析,同时基于InVEST模型定量估算了该区近20年来的碳储量变化。结果表明：（1）北方农牧交错带土地利用类型以草地、耕地、林地为主,面积合计逾4.30×10⁵ km²,占比超过91.83%;林地、建设用地显著扩张,草地与耕地有明显减少趋势,同时两者之间流转面积最多,高达1.67×10⁴ km²,研究区景观格局总体上收敛于“集中—分散”;（2）近20年来北方农牧交错带总碳储量51.44—52.81亿t,总体呈增加趋势,碳密度稳定在110 t·hm^-2左右,退耕还林（草）政策下碳储量净增加逾300万t。北方农牧交错带土地利用变化程度较为剧烈,退耕还林（草）政策不仅是土地更迭的主要驱动因素,也是该区固碳功能显著提升的重要原因。     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia . S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh, Thomas R. Leinbach, Michael R. Moss. The Rural-Urban Fringe: Canadian Perspectives . Ken B. Beesley and Lorne H. Russwurm, eds. Women and Development . Lourdes Benería, ed. The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and U.S. Responsibility . Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development . Stanley D. Brunn and Jack L. Williams, eds. Time Resources, Society, and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time (Vol. I, Preindustrial Societies). Tommy Carlstein. Urban Geography . David Clark. Spanish City Planning in North America . Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Not On Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care . M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor Unequal growth: Urban and Regional Employment Change in the U.K. Stephen Fothergill and Graham Gudgin. Agricultural Land in an Urban Society . Owen J. Furuseth and John T. Pierce. The Petroleum Industry in Oil-Importing Developing Countries . Fariborz Ghadar. Historical Understanding in Geography, An Idealist Approach . Leonard Guelke. Regional Planning in Europe . R. Hudson and J. R. Lewis, eds. Remote Sensing for Resource Management . Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders, eds. Geography and The State . R. J. Johnston. Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy . Tlrry G. Jordan. The Politics of Location: An Introduction . Andrew Kirby. A Social Geography of the City . David Ley. Energy and the Future . Douglas MacLean and Peter Brown, eds. The Natural Environment of Newfoundland Past and Present . A. G. Macpherson and J. B. Macpherson, eds. Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts . Alister Mathieson and Geoffrey Wall. Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention . Lloyd J. Mercer. Progress in Rural Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Urban Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Patterns in Historical Archaeology . Robert Paynter. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy, Anticipating the Unexpected . William J. Petak and Arthur A. Atkisson. The Nature of Geomorphology . Alistair F. Pitty. Regional Conflict and National Policy . Kent A. Price Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses . Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds. Urban and Regional Analysis for Development Planning . Richard Rhoda. Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels . Keith Richards. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture . John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, gen. eds. The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture . Trevor Rowley, ed. Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population . Gundars Rudzitis. Borderland Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest . Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West, eds. Arctic and Antarctic . David Sugden. Tall Timbers Ecology and Management Conference, February 22–24, 1979, Proceedings No. 16 . Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography (Progress in Contemporary Cartography , Vol. II). D. R. Fraser Taylor, ed. Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities . Jon Van Til. The United States: Habitation of Hope . J. Wreford Watson. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists . D. R. Wilson. Urban and Rural Change in West Germany . Trevor Wild, ed. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson.     

Assessment of GIAHS in Shizuoka: The Traditional Tea-grass Integrated System

<正>1 Introduction In 2013,Chagusaba,which is traditional tea-grass integrated system in Shizuoka,were accepted as new world heritage site of agriculture.Shizuoka prefecture occupies a variety of elevations,from 0 to 3000m or more above sea level.Because of the diversity of land features and climates,this area produces 167 agricultural commodities.In addition,a lot of traditional agriculture and over200 local native varieties of crops have been conserved in Shizuoka     

ERAHS: A New Platform for the Exchange of Regional Information and Experience on Agricultural Heritage Systems

<正>There are more than 10000 years of agricultural development history in the world that has provided very fruitful and ingenious traditional knowledge and experiences reflecting the evolution of humanity and the nature.In2002,the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)initiated an international partnership initiative of"Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The City in Cultural Context . John Agnew, John Mercer, David Sopher, eds. Soils and Geomorphology Peter W. Birkeland. Urbanization and Settlement Systems, International Perspectives . L. S. Bourne, R. Sinclair, and K. Dziewoński. eds. An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography . Harold Carter. Overshoot, The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change . William J. Catton, Jr. Rivers of the World . Eberhard Czaya. Jewish Communities in Frontier Societies: Argentina, Australia and South Africa . Daniel J. Elazar with Peter Medding. Color in Public Spaces: Toward a Communication-Based Theory of the Urban Built Environment. Kenneth E. Foote. Spatial Statistics and Models. Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, eds. Mega-Geomorphology. Rita Gardner and Helen Scoging, eds. Technological Change and Regional Development. Gillespie, ed. The Arid Lands: Their Use and Abuse. R. L. Heathcote. The Location of Industry in Britain. A. G. Hoare. Groundwater as a Geomorphic Agent . R. G. LaFleur, ed. Rural Public Services: International Comparisons. Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyorgy Enyedi, eds. Saving Water in a Desert City. William E. Martin, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, and Adrian H. Griffin. Water Resources: Distribution, Use and Management. John R. Mather. Transnationals and the Third World: The Struggle for Culture. Armand Mattelart. South Hadley, MA: USGS Digital Cartographic Data Standards. R. B. McEwen, R. E. Witmer, and B. S. Ramey, eds. The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran, ed. Boulder, CO: Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor. June Nash and Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, eds. Nuclear Power: Assessing and Managing Hazardous Technology. Martin J. Pasqualetti and K. David Pijawka, eds. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science 1815-1840. Elizabeth Chalmers Patterson. An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology. John Pethick. Late Quaternary Environments of the United States , Vol. 1, The Late Pleistocene. Stephen C. Porter, ed. Planning and Ecology. R. D. Roberts and T. M. Roberts, eds. Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest. William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross, eds. Environment and Health. Anthony J. Rowland and Paul Cooper. Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring. Larry Sawers and William K. Tabb, eds. The Bad Earth. Environmental Degradation in China. Vaclav Smil. Armonk, NY: Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840. Barbara Maria Stafford. The Institute of British Geographers: The First Fifty Years. Robert W. Steel. Visions of the Past. Christopher Taylor and Richard Muir. Glacial Lake Agassiz. J. T. Teller and Lee Clayton, eds. The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge. John Thompson and Edward A. Dutra. The Balkan City 1400–1900. Nikolai Todorov. Explanation, Prediction and Planning: the Lowry model. Michael J. Webber. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region. Victor Westphall. The World Atlas of Revolutions. Andrew J. M. Wheatcroft. The West European City, A Social Geography. Paul White. Urban Elites and Mass Transportation. J. Allen Whitt. Princeton, NJ: Urban Life In Contemporary China. Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union. David Wilson. London and Canberra: Rethinking Geographical Inquiry. J. David Wood, ed.     

PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN PH.D.-GRANTING DEPARTMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY

Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

ESP

GAUSS.

CEMODEL S. Damus

LIMDEP. William H. Greene

MICROSTAT 4.1

OTIS

PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System). H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein.

REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS)

SPSS/PC+

URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .     

Deserts and Aeolian Desertification in China: Book review and some thoughts

Desertification is a global phenomenon that affects about two billion people. It occurs in arid zones where the annual precipitation is below 400 mm, partic- ularly in the marginal areas of the world＇s largest deserts. It is a result of water and wind erosion, over- grazing, global warm-ing, improper soil cultivation, and increased pressure ot population growth, and it causes degradation of soil and natural and agricultural vegetation. The direct result is less food for people and livestock, which influences pop- ulation and animal husbandry fluctuations. Despite ef- forts to combat and reduce desertification, the affected areas are annually increasing.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.