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ABSTRACTS OF PAPER PRESENTED Contents The Application of the Theory of Dissipative Structures in Assessing Social Change and in PlanningPractice .................................................. 121 A Preliminary Assessment of the Changing Hierarchy of Small Towns in Montana, 1930-1980 ................................................................ 121 EffectofSoil Heterogeneity on Small-ScaleDistributions ofForest Herbs ......... 121 Strategies and Problems of Conducting Attitude Surveys of Residents Living NearSmall-PlaneAirports: AMethodology ...................................... 122 The Central Rusiness District in America and Elsewhere: Will the Center Hold? .................................................................................. 122 TheProcessofCreatingaStateHistoricalAtlas ........................................ 122 AQuantitativeAnalysisofUrbanVegetation .......................................... 122 Alluvial Morphology, Settlement Situation, and Flood Hazard in the Upper Santa Ana Rasin ...................................................................... 123 The Economic Integration of the Opium Poppy Farmer: The Thailand Example ............................................................................... 123 Intraurban Variations in Quality of Life ............................................... 124 Catastrophe Theory in Geography: Concepts, Criticisms, Applications, and Potentials ............................................................................. 124 Spatial Choice and Constraints on Rehavior ........................................... 124 Forest Pattern at the Time of American Settlement in Western Whatcom County, Northwest Washington .................................................. 125 UseofRock Varnish in theDatingofSurfaces .......................................... 125 The Management of Urban Growth: Regional Inequities Within the Metropolitan System ................................................................ 125 The Role of Upland Dairies in the Agricultural System of Preindustrial Scandinavia .......................................................................... 125 UrbanDesignand theSkyscraper ........................................................ 126 Housing Density and Residential Rurglary Incidence in Redondo Reach, California ............................................................................. 126 TheLosAngeles"RlueWhale": AFountofCultural ChangeandCreativity ...... 126 Righorn Sheep in the Southern California Mountains ................................ 126 Neighborhood Landscapes, Urban House Types, and the Impact of the Automobile ........................................................................... 127 Regional and Urban Development Strategies for Arid Zones— The Negev Case ...................................................................... 127 The Use of Color Infrared Film to Determine Naturalization of Eucalyptus on Santa Cruz Island, California ...................................................... 127 Weather-Climate Modification and theJonglei Canal ............................... 128 Pacific Ocean-Air Interactions: Summer Water Temperatures and Fall 500MR AirTemperatures ........................................................... 128 119 120ASSOCIATION OF PACIFIC COAST GEOGRAPHERS PatternandPlace: ReflectionsonCultureTheoryin Geography .................... 128 Residential Mobility ofIndochinese Refugees in Orange County ................... 129 Geographical Concerns Regarding the Application of Forestry Research to Management Situations ............................................................. 129 Geographic Location as an Influence on Assessments and Participation in Oregon'sSpecial Farm UseAssessmentProgram ................................ 129 A New 24-Hour Snowfall Record for California ....................................... 130 A Geography of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan ........................................... 130 Gentrification—Viewsofa Contemporary Urban Process .......................... 131 Issues and Strategies in Ski Resort Planning ............................................ 131 TheRoleofthePrivateSectorin Hawaii'sPublicWaterSupply ..................... 131 Creation of an Ethnic and Religious Landscape: The Sikhs of Fremont, California ................................................................. 131 Strategies of Corporate Growth: Internal Development Versus Merger and Acquisitions .......................................................................... 132 Ciguatera, Health, and Human Adaptation ........................................... 132 InadvertentNaturePreservation in the Metropolitan LosAngelesRegion ........ 133 Place-NameResearch inIreland andthe United Kingdom ........................... 133 Fire Managementin Californian Coastal Sage Scrub ................................. 133 UnitedStatesEnergy: Inventoryand Prospect ......................................... 134 Small-Scale Hydropower: Effects on Channel Morphology and Aquatic Habitat in the Sierras ................................................................ 134 Public Parks and Private Lands: National Parks in the U.S. and Great Rritain ......................................................................... 134 Greco-Albanian Villages ................................................................. 135 A Geographer Replies to the City Vendor's Cries ...................................... 135 A Lesson inDespair: HomesteadinginArizona's Harquahala, 1925-1940 ......... 136 Vegetation Stratification UtilizingNOAA Meteorological SatelliteImagery ..... 136 The Eldorado Ditch: An Example of Early Water Supply for N.E. Oregon Mining ................................................................................. 136 Environment, Politics, and Reality in New Zealand Energy Development ....... 137 A Survey of Diurnal Microclimate in a Scabland Channel of Eastern Washington ................................................................. 137 A Field MetholologyforCultural GeographersExploringUrban Space ........... 137 Teaching Reginning Interactive, Color, CRT Cartographies on Microcomputersto Inexperienced Students ...................................... 138 Venice, California: Images and RealitiesofLifeon the Edge ........................ 138 The Lodgepole Needleminer Moth in YosemiteNational Park ...................... 138 Filling in the Pacific: The Regional Air Carriers Connecting the New NationsAmongthe Pacific Islands ................................................. 139 The Anglers' "Middle Landscape": Stream Flow Maintenance Dams in the Desolation Area, California ........................................................ 139 Irregular Street Patterns ofWestern Oregon Towns .................................. 140 Lumberingand Population Change in a Coastal Community ....................... 140 YEARROOK · VOLUME 45 · 1983121 DAVID R. ANDERSON, Western Washington University The Application of the Theory of Dissipative Structures in Assessing Social Change and in Planning Practice The theory of dissipative structures, set forth by Professor Ilya Prigogine, is an attempt to explain the tendency displayed by living (and some nonliving) systems to follow a path of ever-increasing complexity, i.e., evolution, instead of falling into greater disunity and equilibrium as predicted by the entropy law of Newtonian physics. The investigation explores the usefulness of the dissipative structures theory in analyzing the phenomenon of social change, and thus the potential of the theory as a planning framework. Further, the importance of maintaining balance between the constructs of the dissipative structures theory and those of the entropy law is discussed within the context of planning. JOSEPH M. ASHLEY...