Settlement Systems In Sparsely Populated Regions

Author : Richard E. Lonsdale,John H. Holmes
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483162317

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Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions by Richard E. Lonsdale,John H. Holmes Pdf

Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions: The United States and Australia provides an understanding of the special difficulties encountered by those living in sparselands and the issues facing government policy makers. This book discusses the regional aspects of human settlement as well as the regional differences in human welfare. Organized into 18 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the special set of characteristics and problems of sparsely populated regions. This text then describes the rapid changes affecting lightly populated areas. Other chapters consider the collective accessibility of any location in connection to the total national population as represented by maps of population potential. This book describes as well the more self-sufficient nucleated rural settlement of the far outback. The final chapter deals with the six general observations concerning sparsely populated lands thought to have applicability beyond just the United States and Australia. This book is a valuable resource for government policy makers.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000091211585

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Department of Housing and Urban Development and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1989 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : Roy Jones,Alexandre M.A. Diniz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351684316

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Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes by Roy Jones,Alexandre M.A. Diniz Pdf

Land settlement schemes, sponsored by national governments and businesses, such as the Ford Corporation and the Hudson’s Bay Company, took place in locations as diverse as the Canadian Prairies, the Dutch polders, and the Amazonian rainforests. This novel contribution evaluates a diverse range of these initiatives. By 1900, any land that remained available for agricultural settlement was often far from the settlers’ homes and located in challenging physical environments. Over the course of the twentieth century, governments, corporations and frequently desperate individuals sought out new places to settle across the globe from Alberta to Papua New Guinea. This book offers vivid reports of the difficulties faced by many of these settlers, including the experiences of East European Jewish refugees, New Zealand soldier settlers and urban families from Yorkshire. This book considers how and why these settlement schemes succeeded, found other pathways to sustainability or succumbed to failure and even oblivion. In doing so, the book indicates pathways for the achievement of more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable forms of human settlement in marginal areas. This engaging collection will be of interest to individuals in the fields of historical geography, environmental history and development studies.

Author : Don Parkes
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483277370

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Northern Australia by Don Parkes Pdf

Northern Australia: The Arenas of Life and Ecosystems on Half a Continent provides a geographical study of the interplay of environmental challenge and human endeavor in the vast arena of Northern Australia. This book is organized into three parts. Part A presents the contextual setting for Parts B and C. It includes a historical geographer's perspective on the ecological impact of 200 years of European settlement; a description of the use of satellite imagery; and discussion of some of the interactions among natural subsystems as they impinge on human activities (especially in the extensive rangelands). Part B discusses some of the human ecosystems which extend over a very large geographical territory. In these ecosystems the human population is small in terms of absolute number and relative to the population of other living things. These include the tropical marine ecosystems and their growing utilization for mariculture; and rangeland ecosytems dominated by cattle and the overlapping semi-arid grasslands. Part C discusses intensive ecosystems, where the human population is dominant in number.

Author : Richard E Lonsdale,Gyorgy Enyedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000310467

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Rural Public Services by Richard E Lonsdale,Gyorgy Enyedi Pdf

Interest in the special problems of rural areas and concern with rural development in general have increased substantially throughout much of the world in the years since about 1960. Attesting to this has been the dramatic increase in attention to rural problems in the scholarly and popular literature and by government agencies. At first the dominant focus was on development projects and the creation of new jobs. It was not long, however, until other related issues came to the fore, in particular the availability and quality of public services essential to achieve economic growth and improvement and having a direct bearing on the well-being of rural peoples. Most nations of the world have developed plans and launched pro-jects to improve rural public services and narrow urban-rural dif-ferentials in their provision. As one would expect, there have been great differences between nations in the severity of problems, foci of attention, program strategies and their general effectiveness, and degree of commitment and effort. Given this diversity, it seems ap-propriate to examine and compare rural service problems and efforts to ameliorate them in a sample of contrasting societies. Implicit is the conviction that (1) all nations can learn at least something from the experiences of others, and (2) by taking an international, com-parative view of the subject, certain generalizations can be established.

Author : William A. Kandel,David L. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402039115

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Population Change and Rural Society by William A. Kandel,David L. Brown Pdf

This book contains the latest research on social and economic trends occurring in rural America. It provides a unique focus on rural demography and the interaction between population dynamics and local social and economic change. It is also the first volume on rural population that exploits data from Census 2000 The book highlights major themes transforming contemporary rural areas and each is examined with an expanded overview and case study.

Author : David E. Kromm,Stephen E. White
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700631629

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Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains by David E. Kromm,Stephen E. White Pdf

The High Plains region was once called the Great American Desert and thought to be, in the words of explorer Stephen Long, “wholly unfit for cultivation.” Now we know that beneath the surface, unbeknownst to the explorers and early settlers, lies the Ogallala aquifer, an underground formation that stretches for 800 miles from the Texas panhandle to South Dakota. It holds more water than Lake Huron. Indeed, the Ogallala has been referred to as the sixth Great Lake. It is the water pumped for irrigation from the Ogallala that has enabled a naturally dry region to produce up to 40 percent of America’s beef and 20 to 25 percent of its food and fiber, an output worth about $20 billion. In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the High Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. In 1978 the volume of water pumped from the aquifer exceeded the annual flow of the Colorado River. In Texas, water levels are down 200 feet in some areas. In Kansas, 700 miles of rivers that once flowed year round no longer flow at all. In short, the High Plains may be becoming the desert it was once thought to be. Is it too late to solve the problem? Geographers David Kromm and Stephen White assembled nine of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains to help answer that question. The result is a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives they address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation. They have included three case studies: the Nebraska Sand Hills, Northwestern Kansas, and West Texas. Kromm and White provide an introduction and conclusion to the volume.

Author : Richard Munton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351882378

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The Rural by Richard Munton Pdf

The rural has long been regarded as an important site of geographical inquiry even if our understanding of it has not always been treated as conceptually different from the urban. That said, rural research has pursued a number of distinct empirical agendas ranging from the operation and impacts of agribusiness, to local resistance to global food supply chains, to differing representations of the rural. In doing so, rural geographers have critically examined the relevance and significance of ideas drawn from numerous traditions including political economy, ecological modernization and cultural theory, amending them as appropriate, in their search to understand the nature and trajectory of rural areas. Up until the 1980s, attention remained largely focused upon agriculture as the primary land-use but increasingly new forms of rural consumption - housing, recreation, nature conservation - have taken centre stage as the primacy of local agricultures has been undermined by reduced state protection and 'new' rural populations which have migrated out from the city. More recently, research has been dominated by the 'cultural turn' with particular emphases upon society-nature relations, interpretations of landscape, marginalised others, and analyses of the relations between representation and practice. In the last decade, a more holistic view of the rural, bringing together different aspects of the two previous themes, has emerged through more politically-oriented studies of rural governance concerned with the functioning of interest groups, participation, protest and the allocation and management of resources. The volume is thus structured into three sections concerned with agriculture and food, the rural, and rural governance. The great majority of the selected papers combine both empirical material - often highly informative case studies - and important conceptual arguments about change in the rural condition that can be linked to ideas being employed elsewhere in Geography and the Social Sciences more generally. These critical reflections have been drawn very largely from research conducted in advanced economies which at least provide some commonality of experience allowing the transfer of ideas between what otherwise might be seen as very differing geographical contexts.

Author : Bill Pritchard,Phil McManus
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0868405787

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Land of Discontent by Bill Pritchard,Phil McManus Pdf

This text examines the recent changes to the economic, social and cultural landscapes of regional and rural Australia. Issues it considers include the delivery of government services; the closure of bank branches in rural areas; and the restructuring of rural industries.

Author : Yehuda Gradus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400953963

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Desert Development by Yehuda Gradus Pdf

The fact that approximately one-third of the world's land mass is arid desert may be congenial for the camel and the cactus, but not for people. Nevertheless, well over half a billion people, or 15% of the world's population live in arid desert areas. If the world's population were distributed evenly over the land surface, we would expect to find about 30% of the population inhabiting arid desert areas. Does the fact that 'only' 15% of the world's population live in an arid desert environment reflect the harshness of the environment? Or is it a testimony to the adaptability and ingenuity of mankind? Do we view the glass as half-full? Or half-empty? The contributors to Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands adopt the position that the cup is half-full and, in fact, could be filled much more. Indeed, many arid desert zones do thrive with life, and given appropriate technological develop ment, such areas could support even greater popUlations. While the dire Malthusian prediction that rapid world population growth exceeds the carrying capacity of existent resource systems has gained popularity (typified by the 1972 Club of Rome book, Limits to Growth), there is a growing body of serious work which rejects such pessimistic 'depletion' models, in favor of models which are mildly optimistic.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110711855

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Emergency preparedness and the licensing process for commercial nuclear power reactors by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : LOC:00184236576

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Emergency Preparedness and the Licensing Process for Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors: The San Onofre nuclear generating station by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134694563

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Policies and Plans for Rural People (Routledge Revivals) by Paul Cloke Pdf

This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major problems faced within rural areas, and policy responses to these problems. Each study deals with the political and institutional frameworks involved in the management of rural areas and the means by which policies have been implemented. With an introduction from Paul Cloke that places rural policies and plans within the context of the state, this reissue will be of great value to any students with an interest in the planning and organisation of rural communities across the world.

Author : John W. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351514484

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Human Ecology as Human Behavior by John W. Bennett Pdf

Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new dependence on nature in the form of complex "socionatural systems," as Bennett calls them, in which human society and behavior are so interlocked with the management of the environment that small changes in the systems can lead to disaster. Bennett's essays cover a wide range: from the philosophy of environmentalism to the ecology of economic development; from the human impact on semi-arid lands to the ecology of Japanese forest management. This expanded paperback edition includes a new chapter on the role of anthropology in economic development.Bennett's essays exhibit an underlying pessimism: if human behavior toward the physical environment is the distinctive cause of environmental abuse, then reform of current management practices offers only temporary relief; that is, conservationism, like democracy, must be continually reaffirmed. Clearly presented and free of jargon, Human Ecology as Human Behavior will be of interest to anthropologists, economists, and environmentalists.

Author : Alistair Harkness,Rob White
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800436466

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Crossroads of Rural Crime by Alistair Harkness,Rob White Pdf

Using the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide.