北京市中学教师生态旅游认知与态度研究

尽管生态旅游已是一个研究颇久的领域,但对生态旅游认知与态度的研究却鲜有涉及。在问卷调查的基础上进行数据统计,定量化分析北京市中学教师群体生态旅游的认知状况和态度趋向,以及基本变量与认知和态度的关系,从而找出该群体生态旅游认知和态度方面存在的问题,并提供提高其认知和态度、发挥其在环境教育和生态旅游推广方面作用的建议,以供政府管理单位和学校以生态旅游方式融入和推动户外教学活动的依据和参考。     

重大事件网络演绎中浏览者感知态度、评价及其影响——以上海网络世博会为例

以2010上海网络世博会为例,采用SPSS18.0和AMOS17.0数据分析软件,通过对网络浏览者调研数据的分析与处理,建立重大事件网络虚拟旅游消费者感知态度的测量模型,并进行测度研究,通过建构SEM模型探索网络虚拟游客消费感知态度及评价对行为意图的影响关系。研究结果表明:①上海网络世博会虚拟旅游消费感知态度包括实用维度和享乐维度2个测量维度。②上海网络世博会游客旅游消费感知态度总体均值较高,10个测量指标均值均达到满意水平,网络游客对于实用维度的感知均值高于享乐维度;女性群体感知态度的均值在两个维度上均高于男性;未婚群体在实用维度上感知均值高于已婚群体;参观过世博会的旅游者的享乐维度感知均值高于未参观过世博会的群体。③感知评价满意度是网络游客感知态度影响行为意图的中介变量,网络游客感知态度通过对感知满意评价的显著影响而影响网络虚拟旅游者的网络行为和其世博旅游行为意图。④网络游客消费感知态度中的享乐维度对网络游客世博游览行为意向产生直接而显著影响,而实用维度的影响不显著。该研究有益拓展了游客消费行为理论和方法的研究领域与实证应用,对世博会等类同国际性重大事件的营销推广与可持续发展具有一定的理论和现实意义。     

珠三角岭南文化与主要外省人原籍文化的比较

比较分析珠三角地区岭南文化与主要外省人原籍文化之间的共同性和差异性特征。研究表明:珠三角六大主要外省人文化与岭南文化具有共同的文化基石和文字表达方式,在文化传统和文化特征上也有一定程度的共同性;受地理环境、历史发展等因素的影响,中原文化具有浓厚的北方旱作农耕文化的特色,长江流域荆楚文化具有显著的稻作农耕文化的特色,而岭南文化则具有明显的南方海洋文化的特色;具体在饮食文化、服饰文化等物质形态文化领域也表现出明显的差异性。正确认识各种文化之间的异同点,能有助于实现文化的趋同和融合,发展有利于现代化的文化要素,逐步革除不利于现代化的文化要素,在文化互动中实现文化的现代化和文化大省的建设。     

人与保护区:理解态度差异提高保护成效（英文）

如果当地群众对野生动物以及保护的态度与其他利益相关群体不一致,则易引发显著的冲突,削弱或破坏保护工作的成效。本研究收集了中国西南部一个自然保护区周边171位当地居民和59位当地政府工作人员的态度数据,这些问题覆盖了受访者对生态系统服务、自然保护区和人类与野生动物共存三类主要问题的态度。通过对当地居民与政府公务人员态度的相似度统计分析,探究这些差异存在的本质。两个群体对涉及保护区和人与野生动物共存问题的态度的相似度极高,分别为60%和100%,而对有关生态系统服务的态度的相似度只有25%。政府工作人员群体的属性特征与他们的态度并无直接相关,当地民众的态度常常与其居住地所在的子村寨相关。本研究对不同利益群体的态度的分析结果显示,鉴于两个主要利益相关群体之间的态度差异,未来在利益相关问题上存在产生冲突的潜在可能性,应当予以关注和认真对待。     

中国大陆社会与文化地理学研究领域综观

中国人文地理学的发展经历了一条充满艰辛而又曲折的道路。改革开放以来,中国人文地理学开始回暖,社会与文化地理研究重焕新生,但学科所占位置相对边缘。在“文化转向”的背景下,近年来社会与文化地理学开始呈现出欣欣向荣之势。从文化区、文化传播与文化整合,民族文化地理,文化景观与文化经济,地方和基于地方的政治,边缘群体研究五个方面对中国大陆社会与文化地理研究现状进行综观性的概述和批判性的反思。建立在西方学术话语霸权之上的社会与文化地理学,需要开展建设性的对话并加以研究。未来的社会与文化地理学研究应更加强调跨学科视角和对当前社会问题的关注。     

基于区域制定土地可持续利用指标体系的分区方案

制定土地资源可持续性指标体系是“21世纪议程”中对各国提出的科学技术优先研究领域，为此国土资源都启动了中国土地资源可持续利用指标体系和评价方法研究。本文主要探讨制定区域性土地可持续利用指标体系的土地利用分区问题，服务于建立区域性指标体系，反映出不同区域土地可持续利用程度的不同评价标准和指标体系中指标类别的差异。根据分区基本依据，包括以自然特征和利用状况的相对一致性。注重使所划分的区域之间在重要指标或相同指标的阈值方面具有显著差异性，并行政区域的完整性，在全面分析不同区域的土地利用特征、生态环境条件、经济社会状况以及利用管理措施等基础上，进行全国土地利用分区。最终全国共划分出10个土地利用区域，作为制定区域性土地可持续利用指标体系的分区范围。     

中国旅居者文化融入及对生活质量的影响——以英国伯明翰市为例

文化融入是文化地理研究的重要内容。本文以英国伯明翰市中国旅居群体为例,着重探求文化融入与生活质量间的耦合关联。研究发现,生活质量与英国文化融入呈正相关关系,相关系数为0.286,与国际认可的Ward系数基本吻合;在文化融入的众多指标中,"与本地居民交往"对生活质量的影响最为突出。中国旅居群体在伯明翰的文化融入状况处于从"基本生存"向"身份认同"转化的过渡期,希望与本地居民交往并得到认可与尊敬,但是这种需求远远没有实现,致使整体生活满意度偏低。为了缓解文化冲击带来的焦虑,中国旅居者特别是"分离"等类型的群体十分依赖中国文化并从中寻求各种支持,表现为居住的集聚及族裔经济的繁荣。但研究表明,对母国文化身份的坚守与生活质量提升并无直接关联;而"整合"与"同化"人群英国文化融入的行为性和实践性等方面较强的情况下,生活质量比较高。     

中国旅居者文化融入及对生活质量的影响

文化融入是文化地理研究的重要内容。本文以英国伯明翰市中国旅居群体为例,着重探求文化融入与生活质量间的耦合关联。研究发现,生活质量与英国文化融入呈正相关关系,相关系数为0.286,与国际认可的Ward系数基本吻合;在文化融入的众多指标中,“与本地居民交往”对生活质量的影响最为突出。中国旅居群体在伯明翰的文化融入状况处于从“基本生存”向“身份认同”转化的过渡期,希望与本地居民交往并得到认可与尊敬,但是这种需求远远没有实现,致使整体生活满意度偏低。为了缓解文化冲击带来的焦虑,中国旅居者特别是“分离”等类型的群体十分依赖中国文化并从中寻求各种支持,表现为居住的集聚及族裔经济的繁荣。但研究表明,对母国文化身份的坚守与生活质量提升并无直接关联;而“整合”与“同化”人群英国文化融入的行为性和实践性等方面较强的情况下,生活质量比较高。     

国家主体功能区空间型监测评价指标体系

对国家主体功能区开展监测和评估是掌握主体功能区规划落实情况、动态监管主体功能区运行状态的基本途径。本研究首先提出了国家主体功能区空间型监测评价指标体系概念,继而分析了指标遴选原则,即体现国家主体功能区核心功能、具备较强空间展示能力、满足管理基本需要,以及指标的可操作性、综合性与独立性等要求。在此基础上,建立了包括9个指标组和60个具体指标的体系框架。具体为:监测评价指标组包括资源、环境、生态、自然灾害、经济、人口社会、政策、交通和主体功能区运行等9个指标组;每个指标组内包含若干个可操作的具体指标。进而,还讨论了空间型监测评价指标体系的完备性与实用性、指标数据的获取方法、指标数据的空间化处理与表达等关键问题。     

大学校园意象空间研究——以中国地质大学（武汉）校园为例

现阶段对意象空间的研究缺少对小尺度空间的研究。本文以中国地质大学（武汉）为研究区域,采用认知地图法,从构成要素、基本类型、发展阶段和感应级别三个方面,对小尺度下的意象空间进行研究,并尝试与大尺度的意象空间进行对比;同时,通过对大学生这个特定群体的“校园认知地图”调查,为学校的规划提供新的视角和建议。研究结果表明：小尺度研究对象,其空间要素与城市大尺度下的相比,节点数目多,区域数目少;基本类型和发展阶段上基本一致。地大校园建设需要建立“大校园”概念,更突出地学特色,竖立绝对标志物并进行道路文化建设。     

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)     

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: 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,