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Geographical events related to human actions.

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artificial recharge

Geography; Human geography

The technique of increasing groundwater supplies by, for example, the pumping of river water into wells, or the impounding of surface water to enable it to soak into underlying rocks. In ...

ASEAN

Geography; Human geography

An abbreviation for the Association of South-East Asian Nations, which was set up in 1967 by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to improve regional ...

Fine powdery material emitted during a volcanic eruption. the ash is often so fine (the particles may be less than 0.25 mm in diameter) that it can be carried by the wind over vast distances. During ...

Asian Tigers

Geography; Human geography

The name given to the four Pacific Rim countries of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, which during the last quarter of the 20th century experienced remarkable economic growth. This was ...

aspect

Geography; Human geography

The direction in which a slope faces. This has effects on the climate of the slope in terms of total insolation received, exposure to rain-bearing winds, amount and duration of frost and snow cover, ...

assembly costs

Geography; Human geography

The transport costs incurred by a manufacturing firm in bringing together its raw material requirements; sometimes referred to as collection costs.

assembly-line production

Geography; Human geography

A serial arrangement of workers and machinery for passing work on from stage to stage in the assembly of a manufactured product, as widely adopted in the motor vehicle industry, for instance. Cf ...