Geographia Polonica (1983) vol. 46

R.d. Hill, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Abstract

Kostrowicki (1976) has emphasised that agriculture as a whole should not be considered as a simple sum of its components but as a phenomenon of highly inter-related processes. Individual patterns made up of intricate and complex factors can at best be compared with each other on the basis of their common attributes or characteristics. Thereafter, multifeatured agricultural units can be grouped into a type according to similarities in their inherent characteristics. Out of the various inherent characteristics that form any agricultural type, one can distinguish the so-cial, production, operational and structural problems which are the most signi-ficant in a given situation. Such scientific investigations, by making use of geogra-phical thinking, mathematical models, and cartographic techniques will ultimately pave the way for the formulation of national (state) regional plans for the deve-lopment of the agricultural economy based on past and present experiences.

Jasbir Singh, Department of Geography, Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India

B.l. Sharma, S.D. Government College, Beawar, Rajasthan, India

B.l. Sharma, S.D. Government College, Beawar, Rajasthan, India

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to test the typogram method for the agrarian con-ditions of Norway by applying the 22 variables and the five classes of the 1974 model*. In Norway an agricultural census is made every tenth year. Our data were taken from the 1969 census. In calculating the scores in the table some data were got from other sources of the Central Bureau of Statistics, notably the results of annual sampling surveys. Aggregate data at county level were used on the assumption that this would be the most expedient for comparison on a world scale.

J A. B. Tschudi, Institute of Geography, University of Oslo, Norway
H. Johansen, Institute of Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

Abstract

Finland is situated within the same parallels of latitude as the southern parts of Greenland. Thus Finland can be regarded as one of the most northern agricul-tural countries in the world. Such a peripheral situation is interesting from the stand-point of global agricultural typology. How can the results of the Commission be applied to a region which greatly differs from the core areas of world agriculture?

Kalevi Rikkinen, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland
Tuula Vapaaoksa, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland

Uuno Varjo, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland

Yves Guermond, Institut de Géographie, M.T.G., Université de Rouen, Rouen, France

Jacqueline Bonnamour, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Władysława Stola, Institut de Géographie et de l'Aménagement du Territoire. Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Varsovie. Pologne

Abstract

In his paper to the 1974 meeting cf the Commissicn cn Agricultural Typology Kostrowicki1 isolated a series of twenty-two variates deemed to be of diagnostic significance for the classification, and subsequent regionalization, cf world agricul-tural landscapes. Applying these defining characteristics to a laige sample cf ca-ses, culled from a miscellany of sources, also led him to propose a two-tier typolo-gy composed of fifty-three agricultural classes. Although there is no suggestion that these classes are exhaustive, or for that matter inviolable, it is clear that they are considered sufficiently distinctive and comprehensive to serve as archetypal templa-tes, against which newly derived case data can be matched for purposes cf classi-fication. It is to this matching or identification process and the problems associated with it that the present paper addresses itself.

John William Aitchison, Department of Geography, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

Mirosław Paprzycki, Committee for Space Economy and Regional Planning, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Pierre Brunet, Département de Géographie, Université de Caen, France

Jean-claude Bontron, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France
Chantal Gillette, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France
Nicole Mathieu, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France
Jean-pierre Peyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France
F. Plet, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France
M.c. Robic, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roscs, France

Michael Jon Troughton, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Gerard Fay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France