基于3S技术的广西喀斯特石漠化驱动机制图谱分析--以广西壮族自治区为例

喀斯特石漠化是指喀斯特区地表出现类似荒漠景观的土地退化过程。图谱分析为喀斯特石漠化研究提供了一种谱系化、定量化与定位化相结合的研究方法。以广西喀斯特区为例,从组成喀斯特生态系统的地质、岩性、植被、地貌、气候及人类活动等多个方面入手,采用3S技术,得出石漠化分布及其驱动因子图;对石漠化分布图及驱动因子图进行图形叠加运算及相关分析,诊断出石漠化驱动机制。结果表明,喀斯特石漠化是在脆弱的生态环境地质背景上由于人类的强烈扰动而形成的,是多种因子综合的结果。     

基于RS和GIS的喀斯特石漠化驱动机制分析--以广西都安瑶族自治县为例

喀斯特石漠化(Karst Rocky Desertification，KRD)是指喀斯特区地表出现类似荒漠景观的土地退化过程。采用RS和GIS技术，对都安喀斯特石漠化程度分级状况与驱动因素进行全面调查，建立全县1：10万喀斯特石漠化数据库。利用相关分析、因子分析和回归分析等方法，分析导致石漠化的影响因子，即喀斯特石漠化的重要驱动力，建立了喀斯特石漠化动力指数模型，算出了各因子对石漠化的贡献值，指出石漠化产生的主导原因是不合理的人为活动。所建的动力指数模型输出结果与遥感调查有相对一致性，表明石漠化动力指数能较好地反映该地区石漠化过程，可为喀斯特石漠化治理提供理论依据。     

嘉陵江中下游地区近30年土地利用与 覆被变化过程研究

喀斯特石漠化问题是存在于喀斯特区的一种重要的地质-生态灾害。石漠化灾害的预警分析包括设计警标、明确警情、寻找警源、分析警兆和预报警度等；而石漠化灾害风险评估是在喀斯特石漠化预警分析的基础上，进行灾害危险性评价，结合易损性分析，进行期望损失评估，目的就在于评估和监测石漠化的演变状态与引起的不良环境效应。要构建一个具有操作意义的石漠化灾害预警与风险评估模型库系统，首先要建立一套合理的喀斯特石漠化灾害预警与风险评估概念化模型，据此来辩识石漠化的发育度，诊断潜势度，预警危险度，核算易损度和评估危害度。本文在于揭示脆弱的喀斯特生态环境系统的演变过程及其引起的石漠化灾害系统的成因机理与致灾过程，在此基础上，进行喀斯特生态安全预警和石漠化灾害风险分析指标体系；利用GIS技术与空间统计分析和数学模型，建立石漠化灾害风险评估模型，为我国西南喀斯特山区土地石漠化预警和灾害防治评估与不同类型石漠化区的可持续发展提供可借鉴的范例。     

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.     

贵州喀斯特石山植被的自然恢复———以公路裸岩陡边坡为例

选取贵州喀斯特山区公路建设同一山体不同时段开挖的裸岩陡边坡上的植被自然恢复情况调查;选取贵州喀斯特山区不同地质背景,同一时段开挖的裸岩陡边坡上的植被自然恢复情况调查,对喀斯特地区基础建设形成的裸岩陡边坡植被自然恢复及其速率进行讨论.为石漠化地区工程建设开挖的裸岩陡边坡生态恢复治理提供思路,并对喀斯特石漠化治理具借鉴意义.     

广西喀斯特山区土地石漠化与扶贫开发探析

石漠化是喀斯特脆弱生态环境和不合理人类活动的共同产物。石漠化地区人口-资源-环境的矛盾非常突出,生态恶化与贫困化的双重压力严重制约区域可持续发展。广西石漠化面积达2.93×104hm2,占石山面积的30%,且以每年1.03%的速度发展,这已经成为影响当地社会经济、资源与环境协调持续发展的关键因素。在分析广西喀斯特山区石漠化及其环境影响效应基础上,对土地石漠化的时空特征、区域环境进行了阐述,认为自然生态环境脆弱、人口素质低和外部基础条件差是广西石漠化治理的难点所在。结合广西喀斯特山区的自然、社会、经济发展实际情况,以适生适种、生态补偿、综合开发为准则,因地制宜地制定广西喀斯特山区石漠化治理与扶贫开发的模式及策略。     

黔西南脆弱喀斯特生态环境空间格局分析

西南喀斯特地区是我国四大生态脆弱带之一。黔西南具有典型的喀斯特生态环境,是西部大开发中生态环境的重点治理区。长期以来,由于人类不合理的开发利用使得喀斯特地区出现了严重的土地石漠化、土壤侵蚀以及森林生态系统退化等生态问题,制约着地区生态-经济的持续发展。本文根据已有的研究成果,在GIS技术的支持下,分析了研究区内主要生态退化问题的现状和空间格局及其影响因素,运用空间叠加分析功能,构建了生态脆弱度指标,并将研究区分为四个亚区,为生态环境治理提供科学依据。     

中国西南喀斯特石漠化治理对生物多样性的影响

生态修复措施会对生物多样性热点区域产生强烈影响,因此量化石漠化治理对生物多样性的贡献在西南喀斯特地区是至关重要的。本文通过回归分析以及残差趋势分析等方法,揭示了2000—2020年中国西南喀斯特地区石漠化及生物多样性的时空演变规律,量化了石漠化治理等因素对生物多样性的贡献。结果表明：中国西南喀斯特地区石漠化以轻度石漠化和中度石漠化为主,石漠化总面积减少了10.25万km²,减少速率为0.49万km²/a;喀斯特地区生物多样性总体呈增加趋势,生物多样性综合指数均值为0.40,总体维持在中等水平;石漠化治理和生物多样性呈正相关关系,其对生物多样性的贡献为26.39%;气候变化和人类活动对生物多样性的贡献分别为52.78%、47.22%。结果表明,石漠化治理对生物多样性表现出积极贡献,对后续生态修复工程的实施以及生物多样性的保护具有一定指导意义。     

喀斯特高原峡谷与高原盆地区石漠化及变化特征对比

以贵州典型喀斯特峡谷和高原盆地区为研究对象,以5期卫星遥感影像为数据源,综合运用“3S”技术,辅以其他参考图件获得研究区不同时段石漠化图,通过对研究区石漠化状况及工程治理后动态变化特征作对比分析,探讨不同地貌类型区石漠化及其变化特征的差异性。研究表明：石漠化发生与演变和地貌类型存在一定相关性,花江喀斯特峡谷区和清镇喀斯特高原盆地区石漠化发生率分别为67.4％和31.6％,花江喀斯特峡谷区石漠化面积、石漠化发生率、石漠化强度明显地高于清镇高原盆地区。2000―2010年,花江喀斯特高原峡谷区和清镇喀斯特高原盆地区石漠化面积分别减少2.79和5.04 km²,石漠化年变化率分别为-0.91%和-2.78%,清镇喀斯特高原盆地区石漠化减少更明显。在监测时段内,花江喀斯特高原峡谷区石漠化年变化率先增加后逐渐减少,而清镇喀斯特高原盆地区则一直保持较高的石漠化年变化率,这在一定程度上说明石漠化越严重,治理越难,治理成效越不明显。当前开展的石漠化治理专项工程应根据不同地貌类型差异合理布设治理工程,先易后难,重点做好轻、中度石漠化地区的石漠化治理工作。     

喀斯特石漠化评价指标体系探讨——以贵州省为例

从喀斯特石漠化的科学内涵出发,探讨喀斯特石漠化评价的具体内容,指出喀斯特石漠化评价应从现状、危险性以及发展速率3个方面进行.评价指标选取所依据的原则,探讨了指标体系适用的时、空尺度范围;根据已有研究成果,分析喀斯特石漠化不同等级指标量化界线确定的生态基准,初步建立了石漠化评价的指标体系.     

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.

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.     

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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,