元江干热河谷区坡耕地景观格局变化研究

基于元江干热河谷区1990年、2000年和2010年三期土地利用数据为基础,利用景观生态学原理选取8个景观指数,定量分析坡耕地景观格局的变化。结果表明:元江干热河谷区坡耕地面积大、比例高,退耕还林还草工程成效显著,2010年坡耕地的空间分布格局接近于1990年。坡耕地向坡度小的区域扩张,25°以上的陡坡耕地面积变化不大。500~800 m的海拔范围坡耕地分布面积最广,且斑块最为复杂和破碎。距离河流越近坡耕地分布面积越大、坡耕地斑块越破碎。     

土地利用分类对景观格局指数的影响

基于景观格局指数的空间格局分析是当前景观生态学研究的重要基础内容,不仅数据源准确度、尺度效应显著影响景观格局指数,土地利用类型划分也对景观格局指数具有显著影响,但我们对这种影响的总体理解尚很缺乏。本研究选取24种常用景观格局指数,以深圳市宝安区为试验区,探讨景观格局指数随土地利用分类系统变化的基本规律。研究结果表明,土地利用分类对景观格局指数的确具有显著影响。而根据景观格局指数对土地利用类型数目变化响应的可预测性,可将其分为三类：① 第一类指数随土地利用分类系统变化的可预测性强,能用简单函数关系 (对数函数关系、S形曲线、反比曲线关系) 来表达,包括斑块数目、斑块密度、边界密度、平均斑块面积、景观形状指数、平均斑块形状指数、周长面积比分维数、平均斑块分维数、聚合度、Shannon多样性指数、Simpson多样性指数和修改Simpson多样性指数;② 第二类指数随土地利用分类系统变化可预测性较差,表现为典型的分段 (或阶梯形) 变化,存在多种可能 (S形曲线、直线、反比曲线与复合曲线关系),包括斑块面积标准差、斑块面积变异系数、最大斑块指数、面积加权平均斑块形状指数、面积加权平均斑块分维数、分离度和斑块结合度;③ 第三类指数由于在度量相关空间格局特征时考虑了土地利用类型数多少的影响,随土地利用分类系统变化呈无规律变化,难以用一种简单函数或分段函数来预测其变化行为,包括蔓延度、Shannon均匀度指数、Simpson均匀度指数、修改Simpson均匀度指数和优势度指数。这些指数随土地利用分类系统变化的变化规律,使试验区不同时期、不同土地利用分类系统下的空间格局比较成为可能。     

滨海开发带景观格局指数的尺度效应及对土地利用变化的响应——以江苏省大丰市为例

以江苏省大丰市为例,基于景观生态学方法,从斑块类型和整体景观两个水平研究了滨海开发带景观格局指数的尺度效应及其对土地利用变化的响应。结果表明:斑块水平上,耕地、水域及水利设施用地是对尺度变化较为敏感的用地类型;斑块密度、斑块结合度指数、斑块聚集度指数、有效网格大小、面积加权平均形状指数是对尺度变化较为敏感的指数。景观水平上,不同转换尺度形成的土地利用景观的空间异质性差异不大;各景观指数随尺度增加均呈现出下降的趋势,其变化可用指数函数或二项式函数进行拟合。2008年以来土地利用变化使景观的丰富度和结构的复杂性有所提升,景观斑块的破碎度、连通性和聚集性降低,分离度增大。总体上滨海开发带土地利用变化使研究区景观格局更加合理,生态稳定性进一步增强。     

石漠化景观格局对土地利用时空演变的响应

土地利用是人类活动最直接的表现形式,喀斯特地区的石漠化演化与土地利用变化有密切关系,石漠化治理是在人为干预下加快恢复脆弱的喀斯特生态系统.运用3S技术和景观格局空间分析技术相结合的手段,对石漠化综合治理下,紫云县水塘小流域的土地利用及石漠化景观格局时空演变关系进行了探讨.结果表明:1.2004-2010年间水塘小流域土地利用类型以林地及草地变化较多,其他地类变动较少,其中林地面积增加10％,草地面积增加5％;2.2004-2010年间水塘小流域石漠化变化主要类型为,中度石漠化转轻度石漠化面积5％,轻度石漠化转潜在石漠化面积10％;3.2004-2010年间水塘小流域土地利用和石漠化景观格局,多样性指数各提高了0.3和0.12,破碎度指数各减少了0.138和0.16,优势度指数各降低了0.181和0.126,均匀度指数各提高了0.092和0.209,分维度指数各提高了0.02和0.18.研究发现运用土地利用与石漠化转移矩阵与景观格局相结合的分析方法,可为评价石漠化治理成效提供借鉴意义.     

丘陵山区土地利用的景观空间格局与农业景观生态设计

通过对2002年TM遥感影像(4、3、2波段)的解译并结合土地利用现状图,首先在区域尺度上将研究区(咸宁市)划分出六类农业景观生态功能区,据此又将农业景观类型在不同尺度上划分为广域型景观和镶嵌型景观,其中广域型景观19个,镶嵌型景观(单元)类型36个.在GIS的支持下实现了景观类型图的编绘和空间格局分析,结果显示:(1)中山地天然林区多样性指数最低,为0.111,破碎度指数也最低,为0.016,反映该区景观类型单一,山地林地景观面积和规模较大;而山间盆地农林牧区最高,为0.932,反映该区景观类型多,人类土地利用受地形影响较大;(2)平原高产农业区均匀度指数最高为0.755,反映该区土地利用方式主要受人类控制而有规律分布;(3)低山地用材林区优势度指数最高为0.990,反映该区既受自然条件控制又受人类活动影响,但自然条件占主导;(4)岗台地农林渔区和平原高产农业区破碎度指数较高分别为0.028、0.029,反映该区每类景观面积规模不大,但呈有规律相间分布的特点.在此基础上,根据研究区景观空间格局与自然环境特征,结合生态过程和社会经济需求,提出了该地区农业景观设计的目标和不同类型农业景观的生态设计模式.     

柴达木盆地荒漠绿洲景观格局定量分析

以柴达木盆地土地利用观状图为基本图件,在CIS支持下编制了柴达木盆地土地利用景观图。在此基础上选取多种景观指数,即选取斑块大小、斑块数、聚集度、相似邻接百分比、景观优势度指数、面积加权的平均斑块分形指数、散布与并列指数、香农多样性指数和香农均度指数等主要景观格局指数,定量地分析柴达木盆地荒漠绿洲景观格局特征。结果表明：柴达木盆地景观的主要斑块类型为未利用土地和草地,二者面积之和占全区的95％左右;绿洲景观以耕地、园地、林地以及城镇工矿用地等形式镶嵌在景观中,它们由于受到绿洲内人类活动的强烈影响,分形指数大,破碎度高;园地、水域与沼泽、林地和耕地的分布均比较分散,与其它类型相互混杂分布,说明绿洲内部缺乏高度连接的景观,生态系统脆弱;总体上看,柴达木盆地的景观比较单调,多样性指数较小,破碎化程度较低,景观异质性不高。     

基于GIS的土地整理景观效应分析

以北京市怀柔区的土地整理项目为例,基于GIS,应用景观生态学方法,分析了土地整理前后的土地利用结构和景观格局变化。结果表明:(1)土地整理实施后,项目区超过70％的面积为耕地,其他土地利用类型多转变为耕地。(2)土地利用的斑块数量和斑块密度降幅超过50％;平均斑块面积、最大斑块面积和最小斑块面积分别增加1.2倍、0.4倍和79倍,而斑块面积变异系数降低了24.18%。(3)土地利用斑块形状变得简单规则、空间分布集中,景观边缘密度、形状指数和分离度指数明显降低,降幅超过29％,分维数略有降低,而聚集度升高。(4)土地整理在减轻景观破碎化的同时也降低了景观多样性,斑块类型丰富度指数降低14%,而Shannon与Simpson的多样性指数和均匀度指数的降幅超过30%。     

流溪河流域土地利用景观生态安全动态分析

在GIS技术支持下,基于景观干扰指数和景观脆弱度指数构建景观生态安全评价指标体系,分析流溪河流域2000年、2005年和2009年3相土地利用景观生态安全变化。景观生态安全指数定量化地表征了流域景观生态安全状况,结果表明：（1）流域景观生态安全格局受城市化及人类活动干扰显著增强,林草地和耕地面积减少,园地面积增加,10年间各景观类型的破碎度、分离度总体呈现增加趋势,且流域内优势景观类型发生改变,2000年和2005年以林草地和耕地为优势景观,而2009年优势景观转变为林草地和园地;（2）2000-2005年,流域过半景观生态安全格局发生了变化;2005-2009年期间流域景观生态安全转移率约为60%,约有90%的流域景观生态安全格局在空间分布上发生了变化;（3）2000年整个流域景观生态安全指数都大于0.6,其中大于0.8的面积占99.99%;2005年,生态安全度大于0.6的面积比例为98.48%,景观生态安全指数大于0.8的面积较2000年降低55.93%;景观生态安全度大于0.6的区域2009年比2005年减少了72.93%,主要分布于流域上游;整个流域范围内没有生态安全指数大于0.8的区域分布,流域景观生态安全度呈现整体降低趋势。     

2000-2010年中国退牧还草工程区土地利用/覆被变化

在3S技术支持下,结合景观格局定量分析方法,基于30 m分辨率的土地利用/覆被数据,对中国退牧还草工程区2000-2010年土地利用/覆被时空分布特征进行研究。通过利用土地利用转移矩阵和动态度来判定土地利用变化的速度和区域差异,并在斑块类型和景观水平上分析研究区景观格局特征,探讨土地利用格局变化的生态效应。结果表明：①近10年来,研究区土地利用/覆被类型以草地和其他类用地为主,整体内部结构稳定少动。草地变化面积仅占2000年草地总面积的0.37%;林地、湿地、耕地和人工表面的面积均有所增加;其他类用地面积有所减少。②全区土地综合动态度均小于0.1%,土地利用/覆被变幅较小,除人工表面较活跃外,其他各类型变化相对缓慢,且各省土地利用区域差异较小。③研究区内景观基质未发生改变,区域景观破碎度递减,景观多样性水平上升,景观聚集度和连续性微弱下降,景观整体保持较完整态势。退牧还草工程的实施使土地利用/覆被结构和景观格局均得以优化。     

山地丘陵区土地利用分布及其与地形因子关系——以河北省怀来县为例

为探究山地丘陵地区不同地形因子对土地利用空间格局的影响,以河北省怀来县为例,研究了各土地利用类型在不同地形上的分布特征。同时,定性和定量分析了土地利用景观格局与地形环境的相关性。研究表明:土地利用景观格局分布存在明显的地形梯度特征,较高地形级别主要分布着林地和草地,其分布指数在较高地形级别占据优势位;而受人类活动干扰影响较大的城乡建设用地、采矿用地、耕地、园地和水域的优势位分布在较低地形级别上。移动窗口法得到的景观格局指数的分布定性显示出土地利用景观格局随地形变化的梯度特征,典范对应分析结果定量显示出典范对应分析排序的前4个轴的累计土地利用景观指数—地形解释变量为96.98%,地形因子第1排序轴与土地利用变化景观格局指数特征第一排序轴的相关系数达到0.671,其土地利用景观格局指数与地形因子存在显著的相关性。由此可见,高程、坡度和地形起伏度这三类地形因子对山地丘陵区的土地利用类型的结构和空间分布起着重要的影响作用。     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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.

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.     

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)     

Guidelines to Authors

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,