Sentence examples for settlement distribution from inspiring English sources
More specifically, we evaluated the spatial configuration of the Paraná Delta hydrographic network in relation to settlement distribution and hierarchy.
The measured settlement data need to be curve fitted in order to reflect the settlement distribution around the whole tank wall base.
Geomorphological, geochronological and geoarchaeological analysis focusing on six tributaries of the Kura River provide valuable data concerning sedimentation rhythmicity and Holocene human settlement distribution at a regional scale.
Results indicate that distances to rivers and the presence of old river beds are critical to explain the current distribution of settlements, while vegetation, paved roads, and water table depth were not as relevant to explain settlement distribution.
The model could be a useful tool to evaluate effects of land use changes, such as water provision or changes on river flows, on settlement distribution and vegetation degradation in arid environments.
This is spatially and diachronically evidenced in settlement distribution, with almost exclusive localization on perched silty fans and river runoff from the key period of Neolithic development in the region.
Our results indicate that settlement distributions were essentially clustered, even in small areas along the wadis.
Textual accounts and gravity modeling of settlement distributions point toward a pattern of territoriality in which power was present inconsistently across the geographical extent of the city–state, and in which borderlines as conventionally drawn did not apply.
To the south and east where dryland farming becomes impracticable, settlement distributions, being more tied to water supply, become more linear.
As a researcher, he has carried out several researches in the area of my specialization, which focused on aspects of morphommetry, quantitative analysis of landforms, and settlement distributions in many parts of India and Ethiopia.
However, we argue that insufficient consideration has been given to 1) testing the applicability of Zipf's law over the entire range of human settlement sizes, and 2) developing useful "neutral models" for understanding the extent to which settlement distributions represent stochastic vs. deterministic, goal-directed (e.g., optimization) processes.
