Focus articles from September 1993

Focus archives from September 1993

On resurrecting tourism in Vietnam.
September 22, 1993... How does a country that has essentially been ignored by tourists begin to encourage tourist activity? What kinds of problems occur when barriers are removed and tourists are first invited to visit? Vietnam is one place where geographers have an...

Antiguan sugar mills; an adaptive use of relic geography.
September 22, 1993... Antigua, a part of the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, is situated on the northeastern edge of the Caribbean Sea and is one of the Leeward Islands. This island is relatively small with a total land area of just over one hundred square...

Tubing on the Apple River: a new industry?(Apple River, Wisconsin)
September 22, 1993... Tourism, travel, and recreation make up the largest fastest growing industry in most parts of the world and in the United States. Wisconsin has a very significant recreation industry, especially in the northern part of the state where natural...

Running on empty: the dry farming settlements of northeastern Nevada.
September 22, 1993... The very notion of dry farming in Nevada seems preposterous. Anyone traveling through the state, on 1-80 or U.S. 50, for example, can see that little of it is suited for farming, particularly without irrigation. Barren, forbidding mountain...

The great flood of 1993; part II: water, water everywhere.
September 22, 1993... The extent, duration and magnitude of the Great Flood of 1993 place it as one of the greatest floods in the Mississippi River Basin to occur during the last two hundred years. Damage caused by rampaging floodwaters rank the flood as one of the...

Is the monk parakeet the ecological equivalent of North America's extinct carolina parakeet?
September 22, 1993... Since the release of Jurassic Park, maxims like "extinction is forever" have taken a beating. Even though I haven't seen the movie, it's had me thinking about extinction. It's never been proven that all the ecological effects of extinction have...

A walking pilgrimage across Spain to Santiago de Compostela.
September 22, 1993... This is not an account of a major religious experience. It is written by a middle-aged Jewish geography professor who in 1990 decided to test his mettle by walking across Spain to its most important pilgrimage center, Santiago de Compostela....