A comprehensive approach to drought and desertification in Northern Nigeria

Drought has been a recurring feature of the arid and semi-arid areas of Nigeria. This paper reviews the extent, severity, and consequences of drought and desertification in Nigeria with particular emphasis on the northern part of the country. The haphazard manner in which these environmental hazards have been tackled is examined and a systematic approach for the formulation of a national policy is proposed. It is recommended that a detailed formulation and implementation of the proposed policy plan is imperative to mitigate the often devastating impacts of drought and desertification in the very prone areas of Nigeria. Until such is done, some areas of Nigeria will always be vulnerable to the whims of an inevitable climatic hazard of drought and associated land degradation in the form of desertification.     

裂变径迹定年标准化的研究

用钴活化箔对SRM962标准铀玻璃进行了刻度,并比较了用钴活化范和用经过刻度的标准铀玻璃测量中子注量的定年方法,结果表明后者的定年结果优于前者,两者都有正系统偏差。利用磷灰石、结石和榍石的7种年龄标准样品和SRM962标准铀玻璃进行多次刻度,发现3种年龄标准矿物的Zeta常数基本一致,为327.4±7.8(±2σ).     

Agricultural policy reforms and sustainable land management: a New Zealand case study

This paper examines the link between poverty and land management within the context of New Zealand's almost total removal of subsidies to agriculture since 1984. The impact of these policy changes is explored through the findings from a detailed study of sixteen farms in the North Island hill country. Stress is identified as a primary link between social damage and environmental degradation. This link reinforces the impact of other linkages expressed in reduced production, lower stocking rates, and reduced capital inputs. Deregulation is claimed to be good. This paper shows that in certain circumstances this is not so.     

地质标准物质的回顾与展望

我国地质物料化学成分标准物质的研究始于七十年代的后期.地矿部西北地质研究所等首先研制了超基性岩和铬铁矿标准物质,继后由物化探研究所和岩矿测试研究所牵头,在区域化探全国扫面的推动下,先后研制了水系沉积物、土壤和岩石三个系列标准物质.稍后核工业部、冶金部和化工部也着手研制了相应专业的地质标准物质.八十年代是地质标准物质研制的全盛时期,在这个阶段之后地质标准物质基本上形成了比较完整的体系.根据1992年国家技术监督局公布的国家一级标准物质目录^[1],在样品数量上冶金类标准物质居第一位,地质类标准物质居第二位,约占四分之一;依发布的标准值项目数计^[2],地质类标准物质居于首位,占50%以上.我国地质标准物质与外国相比,在数量、品种类型和系列性方面均占世界领先地位,在定值的元素和定值精度方面亦为国际先进水平.     

江汉平原农田渍害机理研究*

本文提出了江汉平原的渍害标准,并从地表水动态,地下水动态、微地貌及垦殖与耕作等主导因子分析入手,探讨了江汉平原渍害的形成原因和形成过程,为渍害的诊断改造和利用提供了理论依据。     

陕西省山柞旬地区多金属矿床异常模式预测准则及地球化学环境预测

地球化学环境预测是综合信息成矿预测的重要方法之一。本文重点介绍了山（阳）柞（水）旬（阳）地区已知多金属矿床地球化学异常模式、预测准则及地球化学环境预测方法。并在预测中采用统计方法建立了本区金、铜、铅锌银及汞锑矿产地的混合优选模型及综合评价指标，同时预测了本区金和多金属矿的找矿远景区。     

生产矿山矿产资源储量分类的探索与实践

本文主要介绍了生产矿山按<固体矿产资源/储量分类>国家标准对资源储量进行分类所作的一些探索与实践体会,特别是对可行性评价阶段划分和经济意义属性的分析,从生产矿山的实际情况出发进行了探讨.     

武汉市轨道交通二号线工程场地砂土液化分析

本文详细介绍了武汉市轨道交通二号线工程场地地震地质灾害评价中对饱和砂土液化的分析方法及评价结果。     

Stratigraphy of Middle-Upper Jurassic deposits in the East Russian plate

The work is aimed at litho-, bio- and magnetostratigraphic subdivision of the Middle-Upper Jurassic sedimentary succession in the northeast of the Ul’yanovsk-Saratov depression (the East Russian plate). Problems of regional and interregional correlation of distinguished subdivisions are considered. As is shown, the ammonite biostratigraphy is most effective method for solving problems of chronostratigraphy.     

Brazilian health regions and scales: A geographical perspective

Abstract:  This paper offers a geographical perspective on the way in which health regions have been defined and established in São Paulo as part of overall Brazilian health policy. To accomplish this, I first situate the Brazilian case in the international debate over the regionalization of health services. Second, I examine health regionalization in the case of São Paulo and show how the process is dynamic and complex, involving geographical scales that go well beyond the administrative boundaries of Brazilian municipalities.