崩岗研究及其与相邻学科的关系

崩岗主要分布在中国南方花岗岩地区,是一种主要的水土流失方式.从崩岗的定义、分类、发育过程与形成机理、综合治理方面论述了崩岗研究的现状与进展.在前人研究基础上对崩岗的学科归属进行了探讨,并从多方面综合分析了崩岗与灾害的关系,认为地貌学是崩岗过程与分布研究的理论基础,因此将崩岗划为地貌学研究范畴比较合适.由于崩岗不直接造成超出人类社会承受能力的损失,以及崩岗的自然不稳定能量释放过程与滑坡、泥石流、洪水等自然灾害的快速能量释放过程存在质的差别,因此认为崩岗不等同于灾害,但在某些特定条件下,崩岗可以转化为泥石流从而转变为灾害.所以,崩岗的整治应该引起足够的重视.     

基于信息量模型与随机森林模型的崩岗风险对比评估

崩岗是发生在我国南部地区一种典型的水土流失现象,对其进行风险评估有利于崩岗防控.建立崩岗风险评估体系和崩岗评估模型是崩岗风险评估的基础,而不同的评估模型对崩岗风险的评估结果存在差异.探究不同模型在崩岗风险评估中的应用差异,提高预测精度是目前亟需解决的问题.本研究以福建省安溪县龙门镇小流域为例,根据风险因子与崩岗发生之间...     

广东五华乌陂河流域崩岗发育规律及其治理——以迎龙山为例

崩岗侵蚀是华南花岗岩风化壳深厚地区特有的水土流失形式.这种水土流失不仅侵蚀规模大,发展速度快,危害十分严重,而且治理非常困难,被称为当今"生态环境溃疡".在总结前人研究成果的基础上,通过多次野外实地考察,在对五华县乌陂河流域迎龙山崩岗的发育规律进行分析后认为,迎龙山的崩岗多数为条形,鲜有瓢形和爪形,没有弧形和箕形等,但各坡向崩岗发育不均一,阳坡崩岗成对或成群发育且有一个超大型的崩岗群,而阴坡崩岗均单独发展.形成崩岗的主要机理包括径流冲刷、水蚀和重力侵蚀的相互效应以及岩石自身的风化膨胀等,最后提出了治理崩岗的工程措施和生物措施.     

应用三维激光扫描监测崩岗侵蚀地貌变化——以广东五华县莲塘岗崩岗为例

崩岗复杂的地形及其动态发育过程是崩岗监测关注的重点和难点。三维激光扫描技术具有高精度、非接触性、穿透性、快速性等特点,能够突破传统监测手段的空间限制,有效获取崩岗地形的细部特征。在介绍基本原理和应用现状的基础上,利用Leica ScanStation 2三维激光扫描仪,对广东五华县莲塘岗崩岗进行连续3 a共6次实地监测。选择2011-06-03和2012-05-12两次监测结果,通过ArcGIS对数据进行处理分析。结果表明：莲塘岗崩岗体积侵蚀量为1 007 m³/a,年侵蚀量为1 380 t,侵蚀模数为269 268 t/（km²·a）,崩岗中下部位侵蚀强度高于上部。侵蚀最强烈地带出现在中下部海拔高度为111~116 m和116~121 m的崩积锥分布部位,侵蚀量分别为202和178 m³/a,崩积锥土体松散,极易在片流和股流作用下出现侵蚀,崩积锥快速侵蚀导致崩壁加高,使得崩岗呈现出越高越陡的态势。此外,在崩岗下部96~101 m和101~106 m两个区段的侵蚀作用也比较强烈,侵蚀量分别为151和157 m³/a,这一高程区为多条支沟汇合后的主沟道段,每年雨季水力侵蚀十分强烈,沟道侧蚀加宽和下切加深,进一步加速崩岗的重力侵蚀过程,致使莲塘岗崩岗仍处于快速侵蚀和崩壁加高变陡的壮年期阶段。三维激光扫描连续监测结果的对比分析,不但能够定量得到崩岗侵蚀量及地形的变动信息,还可进一步探究侵蚀泥沙的来源及其精细的空间分布特征,是崩岗监测较为理想的先进技术。     

韩江中上游地区的崩岗分布特征

选取韩江中上游地区2016—2022年的Sentinel-1/2卫星星座遥感影像和其他辅助数据,基于机器学习方法进行区域尺度的崩岗识别和崩岗影响因子测度。结果表明：1）分类模型的总体精度达到84%,Kappa系数为0.8。其中,崩岗识别的用户精度和生产者精度都超过95%,且其FScore为0.97。2）截至2022年,韩江中上游地区的崩岗侵蚀面积共有435.5 km2,各县（市、区）崩岗侵蚀面积差异明显,年变化趋势不一。其中,五华县崩岗侵蚀面积最多（199.2 km2）,其年平均变化率为16.29 km2/a。梅江区崩岗侵蚀面积最少（1.6 km2）,其年平均变化率为0.18 km2/a。3）韩江中上游地区崩岗发生概率与高程、坡度、植被覆盖、地质类型、人口密度、大气压、降雨量、经向风速、纬向风速和风速等10个因素存在显著相关性（P<0.001）。在一定的变化范围内,高程、坡度、地质类型、大气压、经向风速、纬向风速和风速对研究区崩岗发生为正向影响,植被覆盖、人口密度和降雨量对崩岗发生为负向影响。     

全球视野下崩岗侵蚀地貌及其研究进展

典型的崩岗具有“圆形露天剧场”般的沟头,发育在深厚的红色花岗岩风化壳上,通常包括集水坡面、崩壁、崩积体、沟道、洪积扇5个地貌组成部分;崩壁自上而下可分为表土层、风化红粘土层(红土层)、风化砂质红粘土层(砂土层)、风化粗碎屑层(碎屑层)。中国的崩岗与马达加斯加的lavaka属于同类地貌,两者具有地貌学上的可比性。崩岗群是劣地的表现形式之一,但与欧洲的badland有不同的侵蚀过程,也不同于意大利和巴西的两种沟谷侵蚀地貌calanchi和vocoroca。崩岗主要发育在华南和东南热带和亚热带湿润季风气候区中等偏缓的丘陵坡地上,由沟谷侵蚀发展而成,是沟谷侵蚀的高级阶段。崩岗沟道侵蚀产沙量占崩岗沟谷流域侵蚀产沙量的一半以上,其中沟道沟壁崩塌侵蚀产沙量与沟床下切侵蚀产沙量又各占崩岗沟道侵蚀产沙量的一半左右。野外人工模拟降雨试验是研究崩岗流域侵蚀、产流和产沙过程的有效手段。崩岗流域侵蚀产沙量可以通过崩岗沟谷和洪积扇地形测量加以估算。     

中国崩岗研究进展的文献计量分析

运用文献计量学方法,收集中文科技期刊全文数据库、中国期刊全文数据库、中国优秀硕士学位论文数据库和中国博士学位论文数据库的崩岗研究论文作为样本数据,从论文的发表时间、载文期刊类别、核心作者群、研究区域、研究内容等方面,对中国1984―2014年31 a来发表的崩岗研究文献进行了计量统计,揭示了中国崩岗研究起源早、发展慢的历史和定性描述多、动态监测匮乏的现状,以及崩岗研究论文数量由波动式增长转向稳定增长的发展趋势。     

基于无人机倾斜摄影技术的崩岗动态变化监测

利用无人机倾斜摄影技术,对德庆县马圩镇典型崩岗区域进行2016和2017年连续2年的动态监测,结合ArcGIS软件对数据进行处理分析,分析了崩岗在空间上的变化特征。结果表明：1）研究区域2017年崩岗总面积比2016年增加16 401.2 m²,变化率为10.21%,说明研究区的崩岗仍处于发育状态;2）研究区西南偏南方向的崩岗面积减少最明显,总体侵蚀最严重的坡向集中在南向;3）崩岗侵蚀最为强烈的部位发生在海拔高程51~60 m和81~90 m处,整体侵蚀呈现出中下部位大于上部位的现象;4）研究区崩岗近2年的年侵蚀体积量为1 172.68×10³ m³。无人机航测数据的质量能够满足无人机摄影测量的规范要求,与传统调查方法相比时效性更高、更方便和成本更低。     

崩岗侵蚀地貌的演变过程及阶段划分

崩岗是中国南方一种常见的土壤侵蚀类型,也是一种严重的水土流失方式,多分布于低山丘陵区的花岗岩风化壳之上.崩岗的形成和发展是2个不同的阶段,并始终受到水力和重力的作用.2种外力对比关系的不同使崩岗的演变过程具有明显的阶段性.通过选取适当的指标体现这种规律性,可以对崩岗的发展阶段进一步划分,对崩岗的治理控制具有重要的意义.     

崩岗侵蚀沟的时空侵蚀特征及预测

崩岗是水力和重力复合的土壤侵蚀类型,严重危害我国南方地区的农业生产和生态环境。侵蚀沟对崩岗的侵蚀过程以及地貌变化起着关键作用。本研究以福建省安溪县龙门镇一处崩岗为研究区,以无人机获取的正射影像和高程数据为基础,通过采点重构坡面提取出侵蚀沟,然后对其进行时空动态分析,得到侵蚀沟的时空侵蚀特征;然后将其侵蚀特征与CA-Markov模型耦合,通过修正转移概率矩阵以及制定空间分配规则,构建崩岗侵蚀沟模拟模型。研究结果表明:降雨量与侵蚀沟的侵蚀强度呈正相关,强降雨利于侵蚀沟的下切侵蚀,弱降雨则有利于沟沿的重力崩塌;坡度对侵蚀沟的侧切和下切具有促进作用,沟道距离和坡面高度则对下切和堆积具有抑制作用;由面积差异率0.18和Kappa系数0.81验证了崩岗侵蚀沟模拟模型的精度;在对该崩岗侵蚀沟2018-12-02空间分布预测的基础上,得到其年侵蚀量和侵蚀模数,分别为653.9 m^3和340 606 t·km^-2·a^-1。研究结果为探索崩岗侵蚀过程提供了新思路,并为崩岗侵蚀的防治工作提供了参考。     

BOOK REVIEWS

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.     

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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.     

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

Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

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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)     

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.     

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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 .     

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.     

REVIEWS OF GEOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE

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)     

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1. Aims and scope
Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions （SCAR） is a bimonthly journal that publishes in English the latest research achievements in processes and the pattems of the Earth surface system in cold and arid regions. Researches in cold regions emphasize particularly on the cold-region-characterized physical,