TL;DR: In this article, three major sites of erosion are described and explanations for the erosion are sought through an analysis of rainfall conditions experienced during autumn 1982 and in recent changes in agricultural land use on the Downs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of the closure of the Glenbawn Dam on downstream hydrologic effects, including a reduction in mean annual runoff of about 21 × 106 m3.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that in African peasant agriculture, distance takes on increasing significance when farming populations are resettled and agglomerated, there being little intensification in evidence.

TL;DR: In this article, the difference in chemistry between a number of first-order streams can be interpreted in terms of bedrock, soil and land management influences, showing that small-scale calcite mineralization coincided with significant increases in pH and the concentrations of calcium and bicarbonate; other solutes were generally unaffected.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of aerial photography to record the adverse biological conditions of disease, pests, weeds and mismanagement, and the adverse physical and chemical conditions of drought, flood and problem soils are reviewed and illustrated using examples from the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of political factors in river basin planning is discussed, and planning in two particular basins is described, in the Gongola River Basin the pattern of project development demonstrates the lack of integrated basin planning, and in the Sokoto River Basin adverse environmental impacts occurred when one project was developed without considering the resources of the rest of the basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted field surveys of over 200 sites on ski segments in the central Swiss Alps and found that terrrain modification during piste construction is shown to encourage soil erosion, especially in long, concave, linear hollows, on high-angle slopes, shallow or poorly drained soils and on long pistes.

TL;DR: In a pilot classification of 282 10-km squares in Great Britain, data on physiography, climate and geology were extracted and parallel classifications were run using these variables and also using spatial location as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, channel widening and width-depth ratio increases below bridges reflect adjustments to the magnitude and frequency of water discharges in areas of changing land use, particularly newly urbanizing areas, such adjustment reflects a specific phase of the hydrologic and geomorphic response to urban development.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of an area near Grimsby, Ontario is presented, where the volume of sediment supply to the beach was calculated from measurements of bluff height and annual recession rates.

TL;DR: The authors examines the history and characteristics of the system of natural regions devised by the Canadian federal government as a basis for selecting new national parks and in use since 1971, and concludes that the system's lack of those characteristics commonly considered the hallmarks of a logically satisfying regional system, distinct regions and unambiguous boundaries delineated by an objective process, was not important.

TL;DR: Lesotho has for long been thoroughly integrated into this system as an internal supplier of labour and a labour reserve as mentioned in this paper, and the case of rural forestry represents one contemporary rural rehabilitation strategy for the Basotho labour reserve.

TL;DR: In an attempt to elucidate the spatial variability of soils as a preliminary to detailed mapping, 100 sites within a single parent material stratum were sampled along a grid of parallel traverses as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of six policies and strategies available to all California counties found sharp differences in adoption rates and the results of correlation and multiple regression analyses support the hypothesis that these policies are associated with agriculturally oriented areas, with liberal political traditions.

TL;DR: The main sources available to geographers and others for the study of woodland change in Britain, particularly within the 20th century, are Ordnance Survey maps, aerial photographs and satellite remote sensing, Forestry Commission censuses, land utilization surveys and agricultural statistics as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Comparing the value of children against local bank interest rates shows that in all cases but one, children provided a better economic investment than savings accounts and the authors suggest that children are an even greater economic investment in poorer households.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ statistical hypothesis tests to explore the question of whether natural hazards (hail and tornadoes being considered here) are or are not intertemporally random.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meso-scale methodology for obtaining and analyzing primary data from an isolated mountain environment is described, by combining village cropping data with irrigation water supply and tribal affiliation.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of 2,4-D to control Eurasian water milfoil in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, generated considerable local opposition leading to physical, procedural and legal obstruction of the control programme, thereby rendering it ineffective and essentially wasting the resources devoted to the effort.

TL;DR: In this article, the erosion of the narrow neck of the spit was studied and the protection approaches selected for use by the managers of both institutions were a function of differing objectives, and the study provides an example of how management decisions made in the past influence present management actions.

TL;DR: In this article, the utility of a standard Teitz and Bart heuristic for solving location-allocation problems is demonstrated in the location of veterinary clinics in southern Wellington, New Zealand, suggesting that the existing system of clinics, especially the largest multi-veterinary practice is vulnerable to intrusion by competitors.

TL;DR: Adopters of the programmes are found to be better educated, wealthier, have newer homes, and engage in more conservation practices than non-adopters.