PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES

VOLUME 19

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Prospect for Applied Climatology

J. E. Oliver, Pages: 1-6

 

Designing Three-Dimensional Groundwater Monitoring Networks with Capability for Vertical Profiling: A Texas Case Study

P. F. Hudak, Pages: 7-13

 

The Environmental Impact of Flooding: A Case Study of St. Maries, Idaho

B. E. Montz and G. A. Tobin, Pages: 15-22

 

A Grassroots Watershed Management Association: Problem Perception Before and After a Basin Study

V. P. Gutowski, Pages: 25-30

 

Airborne Videography for the Inventory and Mapping of Point Source Discharges into the Rio Grande and Arroyo Colorado Rivers of South Texas

R. L. Pepic, C. Webster, J. Everitt, D. Escobar and M. R. Davis, Pages: 31-38

 

Climate Studies in Phoenix, Arizona, So What?

A.   J. Brazel, Pages: 39-45

 

The Relationship between Climate Variables and Major League Home Run Totals: A Preliminary Analysis

R. V. Rohli and G. E. Faiers, Pages: 47-53

 

A Field Comparison of Gravimetric Sampling, Neutron Attenuation, and Electrical Capacitance Methods of Soil Water Measurement

D. W. Vandiver, and S. W. Kirsch, Pages: 55-62

 

Field Evaluation of “Low Tech” Microlysimeters

E. Esslinger and S. W. Kirsch, Pages: 63-69

 

Precipitation Seasonality in the Midwest: 1895-1989

H. Hilbert, J. Harrington, Jr., and J. E. Oliver, Pages: 71-75

 

Regional Temperature Change: Case of Northwest Ohio

Y. Zhou and A. Lauck, Pages: 77-81

 

The Utility of a GIS for Three-Dimensional Isentropic Analysis of a Cyclogenesis Event

G. D. Bierly, Pages: 83-88.

 

Impact of ENSO Events on U.S. Climate Anomalies

K. M. McGregor, Pages: 89-94

 

A Technique for Generating Small Area Dwelling Count Estimates in Preparation for the 2001 Census of Population

T. Werchler, Pages: 95-103

 

Identification of Human/Environmental Hot Spots in Urban Growth Regions Using GIS

M. M. Kaufman, Pages: 105-115

 

Travel Distance Substitution Rates between Automobile Users and Transit Passengers

J. W. Neff, Pages: 117-124

 

School District Cost Analysis and Its Policy Implications

A.   Zhou and W. Shaw, Pages: 125-133

 

Valuation and Spatial Structure of PCS Licensing: Towards the Development of a Geo-Demographic Model

J. P. Richetto and M. D. Mullane, Pages: 135-141

 

Demographic Information Systems and Psychiatric Epidemiology

M. Morad, Pages: 143-150

 

Northwest Ohio’s Water Problems During the 1988 Drought

G. R. Frey and Y. Zhou, Pages: 151-156

 

Are Strategic Alliances Pre-Cursors to mergers? Implications for Regional Economic Development

V. Aliberti and B. P. Cecil, Pages: 157-165

 

Socioeconomic and Recerational Ompacts at Ray Roberts Lake, Texas: A Post-Impoundment Study

F. A. Schoolmaster, M. S. Pettit and S. Cairns, Pages: 167-175

 

Socioeconomic Factors and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of India

J. Ghosh, Pages: 177-183

 

Health Care “By-Passer” in Rural Kansas

B.   K. Paul and M. D. Nellis, Pages: 185-191

 

Conflict Over the Uses of Public Lands: Examples from New Mexico

C.   T. Cullen, Pages: 193-199

 

Take It or Leave It – State Legislation and the Takings Issue

M. McNally and O. P. Matthews, Pages: 201-207

 

Cautions on the Use of Soil Data for Prehistoric Reconstructions: A Belizian example

W. I. Woods, C. L. Wells, H. W. Watters, Jr., and D. W. Meyer, Pages: 209-217

 

The Changing Geography of Age-Adjusted Lung Cancer in Texas, 1980-1994

J. R. Oppong, Pages: 219-225

 

Improving Growth Management Practices: A Case Study of Residential Sprawl in the Accra Metropolitan Region of Ghana

S. Aryeetey-Attoh, Pages: 227-235

 

Local Participation in Sustainable Forest Resources Management

W. Y. Osei, Pages: 237-243

 

Improving Health and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

G. C. Obia, Pages: 245-252

 

Identifying an Objective Management Scale for Precision Agriculture: An Empirical Investigation of Maize and Soybean Yields in Low-Relief Fields

A.   J. Krmenec and M. W. Stelford, Pages: 253-264

 

The Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for Mapping Flood Prone Agricultural Land

R. S. Pearson and S. A. Kay, Pages: 265-273

 

International Space Station: New Opportunities for Integrating Geography, Remote Sensing and GIS

K. P. Lulla and M. D. Nellis, Pages: 275-280

 

Progress in the Development of a Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base

D.  O. Ohlen, B. C. Reed, and T. R. Loveland, Pages:: 281-287

 

Neural Networks for GIS Map Reclassification

J. K. Lein, and A. Burk, Pages: 289-296

 

Kansas City Urban Sites: Historical and Modern

K. DeBres, Pages: 299-305

 

Brush Creek: Urban Menace or Asset?

D.  J. Faulkner, Pages: 307-316