Focus articles from June 2001

Focus archives from June 2001

People and Caves in Madagascar.
June 22, 2001... Of remote Madagascar, the wider world holds two principal landscape impressions. One is a land utterly denuded of vegetation by human activity, a parable of reckless and irreversible destruction. The other is a tropical paradise of lush forest...

Return to Vietnam.(veteran of Vietnam War returns to develop university exchange programs)
June 22, 2001... Joseph S. Wood goes back to a changed country It had been almost three decades since I left Vietnam. In the years intervening, I had traveled several times professionally in Asia but not found a reason, as if I needed it, to return to...

Ecotourism Potential in the Togian Islands, Indonesia.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Ralph Lenz asks which type of tourism is best for ecological protection in this remote location Indonesia, like many Third World nations, has promoted mass tourism as a means of generating foreign currency flows. Indeed, in some countries...

From Salina, Kansas to Taos, New Mexico.(photographs of Western United States then and now)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Martin D. Mitchell revisits the 1936 travels of geographer George J. Miller sixty years later Re-photography and time In July 1936, geography professor George J. Miller of Mankato State Teachers College (now Minnesota State University,...

Alexander von Humboldt.(his life and contributions to the field of geography)
June 22, 2001... Jeff Lee describes the prodigious field work and publications of this early geographer Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the last true generalists in science. While considered a geographer, he contributed to most of the...

Is AOC Really the Best?(Appellation d'Origine Controlee - France's categories of wine)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... William K. Crowley on the geography of French wine quality Anyone looking at France's wine regions for the first time likely senses exasperation and helplessness. The total number of bounded areas seems unending if you begin to look at...

The Mall of America as a Tourist Attraction.(shopping center and recreational facility, Bloomington, Minnesota)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Shopping malls and leisure time The study of leisure activities has expanded at a rapid pace in the past decade. Traditional studies of tourist venues concentrated largely on swimming, hiking, skiing, or cultural discovery. Many of these...