'They don't like girls hanging around there': conflicts over recreational space in rural Northamptonshire     

Faith Tucker  & Hugh Matthews 《Area》2001,33(2):161-168

This paper provides new insights into girls' use of recreational spaces within rural areas. We draw upon data from in-depth discussion work with 10–14 year old girls undertaken in rural Northamptonshire to show how conflict between adults and children, rival groups of children, and boys and girls influences the social ownership of recreational spaces. In contrast to the rural childhood myth, we disclose geographies of anxiety, tension anddisharmony.  相似文献   

Dilemmas of development in Oceania: the political economy of the Tongan agro-export sector     

Donovan Storey  & Warwick E. Murray 《The Geographical journal》2001,167(4):291-304

This article critically engages with the recent diffusion of the orthodox development model in Oceania and highlights some evolving dilemmas. In particular, it explores the social, economic and ecological tensions arising from economic reforms that are exacerbating the fragility of already vulnerable nation-states and communities. In order to illustrate its arguments, a case study of the impacts of agro-export growth in Tonga is presented. Attention is drawn to the socially inequitable and ecologically unsustainable outcomes of rapid growth in this sector. In analyzing the political economy of the squash pumpkin sector, the authors point to the important role that culture plays in mediating and conditioning development outcomes. Reflecting on the Tongan case, it is argued that to better understand the implications of orthodox developmental reform in the region, research must seek to more explicitly incorporate distributional and ethical analysis.  相似文献   

Globalisation, Regionalisation and Local Voices: The Asian Development Bank and Rescaled Politics of Environment in the Mekong Region   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Philip Hirsch 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2001,22(3):237-251

Globalisation is manifested in the Mekong Region both through processes and discourses that reflect the ideology of a borderless world allowing easy passage of capital and commodities, and through resistance to such processes in an increasingly transnationalised civil society movement. However, more immediately significant supranational integrative agendas take the form of regionalisation, a process that has received less attention but which raises analogous concerns of re-scaled governance. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been a catalysing force for regionalisation amidst a host of regional processes and initiatives; as such it has found itself the object of critique as an institution and through the specific projects it has supported that have impacted on local communities and ecosystems. Meanwhile, local and NGO voices associated with the emergence of a vibrant civil society in Thailand and nascent civil society responses in neighbouring countries have challenged claims on resources made in the name of national development and regional integration.
This paper considers some key issues of re-scaling resource and environmental politics in the Mekong Region, and the extent to which challenges have been recast from national to regional development agendas. Politics of environment are shown to exist as a general rather than exceptional response to the region's development direction, and it is suggested that equitable and sustainable development increasingly needs to address simultaneously the re-scaling and reconfigurations of power in both environmental politics and the "infrapolitics" of environment. The paper is illustrated with case studies of dams in Laos and Thailand.  相似文献   

The impacts of urbanization on soil erosion in the Loess Plateau region   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

SUN Hu  GAN Zhi-mao  YAN Jun-ping 《地理学报》2001,11(3):282-290

The accelerated urbanization has resulted in new soil erosion in the Loess Plateau region since the 1980s. A concept of urban erosion and its impacts on environment are discussed. The experimental studies and field investigations show that those loose silt and earth piles formed by urban construction can be eroded seriously: Under stormy rain, the amount of sediment from steep man-dumped slope is 10.8-12.2 times that of from uncovered slope land; the result of experiments with the wind tunnel also shows that the damage to the surface structure of dry loess can cause serious soil erosion by wind in some cities of the region. Even if in the urban built-up area, there are many loose sandy soil, mud and silt, which are washed into rivers by city’s ground flow in the rainy season. So, anthropogenically induced soil erosion has made soil erosion more serious around the urban areas. And the urban eroded environment has several characteristics such as fragility, complexity, seasonality and quick variability. Urban areas witness a quick economic growth and have more construction projects than rural areas, which brings more intensive changes of environments during a short period of time or adds some new elements to the erosion system. Therefore erosion has experienced more intensive impact by human activities. So, the possible impact of urbanization on erosion environment must be taken into consideration when designing or planning to exploit natural resources or to develop urban areas in the Loess Plateau.  相似文献   

太原盆地东南部农村聚落空心化机理分析   总被引：83，自引：0，他引：83  

程连生  冯文勇  蒋立宏 《地理学报》2001,56(4):437-446

在分析和界定空心化聚落的基础上 ,用雷达模型揭示了空心化聚落的激发因素和潜育环境 ;依据相对空化率和绝对空化率区位商构成 2× 2阶矩阵 ,将该区聚落划分为 4个空心化等级 ;并利用家庭预算曲线和地价理论 ,探讨了空心化聚落的成因机制 ;在研究聚落空间消长和应力状况的前提下 ,提出了反映聚落空心化的 5种过程模型 ,最后探讨了制止聚落空心化的若干措施。  相似文献   

塔里木河中下游区域开发对生态环境的影响及生态环境恢复与重建对策——以尉犁县为例   总被引：4，自引：10，他引：4  

许英勤  胡玉昆  马彦华 《干旱区地理》2001,24(4):342-346

随着塔里木河流域进入大规模开发时期，区域开发活动对该流域生态环境的演变产生了重大的影响，虽然绿洲内部产出大幅度增加，但整体生态环境趋向恶化，制约了区域社会经济的可持续发展。以塔里木河中下游尉犁县为例，从分析区域开发活动入手，总结了区域开发对区域生态环境影响的有利与不利方面，进而，讨论了区域生态环境恢复与重建的对策。  相似文献   

黄土丘陵沟壑区作物生产潜力影响因素分析——以王家沟流域为例   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

李忠武  蔡强国  唐政洪  吴淑安  朱远达 《地理研究》2001,(5)

针对黄土丘陵沟壑区土壤侵蚀非常严重、作物产量低而不稳以及农业生产力水平低下的特点 ,本文首先分析了近几年来王家沟流域不同种类和不同年份作物生产力变化的特征 ,然后在地理信息系统 (GIS)技术支持下 ,利用基于土壤侵蚀条件下的YIELD作物生产力模型并结合各作物的实际观测资料 ,从降雨量、气温等气象因素以及地膜覆盖、施肥、梯田等耕作措施两方面分析了该小流域作物生产力变化的原因 ,结果表明在气象因素 (大气降水 )和土壤侵蚀的共同影响下 ,土壤水分和养分的变化是影响该区域作物生产力变化的主要制约因素。  相似文献   

环境与健康的评估问题和空间分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

林绍颜 《地理学报》2001,56(2):239-247

评估环境污染对人民健康影响的研究需要结合空间，时间和统计分析，并吸引不同学科背景的研究人员合作研究，可是，在这个研究领域内，最重要的问题是研究结论的不可靠性程度很高，不同的研究方法会导致不同的结论，一个有系统的研究架构拥有不同的空间分析方法将会减少结论的可疑程度，有效的环保政策是需要可靠的研究成果，文中首先介绍在环境与健康的评估研究领域的四大重要问题，指出这项研究需要这项研究需要空间分析和地理信息系统方法，从而提出一个空间分析的研究框架和内裹的方法，通过路易斯安纳州的一个污染地点和肿瘤发病率关系研究实例，指出这项研究领域的各种问题和空间分析架构的重要性。  相似文献   

Spatial distribution of wind erosion and its driving factors in China   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

ZHANG Guo-ping~  ZHANG Zeng-xiang~  LIU Ji-yuan~ 《地理学报(英文版)》2001,11(2):127-139

Soil erosion by wind means the soil particles are eroded and transported by wind. Fine particles of soil are transported as suspended load and may travel much greater distances than the coarse coarse materials do which are transported as creep and saltation. The finest particles and chemical microsome constitute the aerosol which can even keep for several years in atmosphere from descending. Wind erosion is a serious problem in many parts of the world. In China, up to 2400 km2 of land is dese…  相似文献   

Building Temporal Topology in a GIS Database to Study the Land‐Use Changes in a Rural‐Urban Environment     

Danielle J. Marceau  Luc Guindon  Mireille Bruel  Claude Marois 《The Professional geographer》2001,53(4):546-558

This article addresses the issue of linking temporal and spatial information into a GIS database structure to investigate the land‐use changes in a rural‐urban region over a thirty‐five‐year period. More specifically, it describes the application of a programming package developed to build temporal topology in an historical land‐use GIS database to efficiently perform spatiotemporal queries. The program was created within the MapInfo environment using MapBasic language. Different types of information, such as the rate of change, the relationship between the change of land use and zoning regulations, and land‐use succession were extracted from the database. A user‐friendly interface was also developed to easily address spatiotemporal queries to the database. This approach represents a flexible and performing tool for scientists and planners who need to efficiently capture essential spatiotemporal information required for geographical inquiry and decision‐making.  相似文献