The Geographical Journal articles from December 2001

The Geographical Journal archives from December 2001

Dilemmas of development in Oceania: the political economy of the Tongan agro-export sector.
December 1, 2001... DONOVAN STOREY (*) WARWICK F MURRAY (+) This article critically engages with the recent diffusion of the orthodox development model in Oceania and highlights some evolving dilemmas. In particular, it explores the social, economic and...

Policy and practice in karst landscape protection: Bohol, the Philippines.
December 1, 2001... PETER B URICH (*) MICHAEL J DAY (**) FIONA LYNAGH (*) The karst landscape in the interior of the Philippines' Bohol Province represents one of the world's premier kegelkarst (cone karst) environments. Government efforts to protect...

Sustainability and Sahelian soils: Evidence from Niger.
December 1, 2001... ANDREW WARREN (*) SIMON BATTERBURY (+) AND HENNY OSBAHR (*) It is difficult to produce systems for judging sustainability, despite general enthusiasm for the concept. Here we evaluate the 'capitals' formulation for sustainability,...

Land use/cover change in central Tibet, C. 1830-1990: Devising a GIS methodology to study a historical Tibetan land decree.
December 1, 2001... In this study, historical Tibetan tax-related data pertaining to cultivated land in central Tibet are studied by means of GIS and compared with contemporary patterns. A Tibetan land decree from 1830 contains aggregated data on the amount of...

Patterns and dynamics of urban forests in relation to land use and development history in Guangzhou City, China.
December 1, 2001... Trees in cities display a varied pattern that is often moulded by a city's physical fabric and its evolution through time. The town plan expressed in spatial dimension as land use, and in temporal sense as development history, furnishes a...

Landscaping Ecology: Function and Management. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Landscaping Ecology: Function and Management. Edited by J. LUDWIG, D. TONGWAY, D. FREUD-ENBERGER, J. NOBEL and K. HODGKINSON Collingwood: CSIRO, 1997, 162 pp. $59.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 643 05797 8 Landscape ecology offers an increasing array...

The Great Arc: the dramatic tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named. (Reviews).
December 1, 2001... The Great Arc: the dramatic tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named. By JOHN KEAY London: Harper Collins, 2000, 177 pp. [pounds sterling]14.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 00 257 062 9 The title of this fluently presented narrative of the...

Geographic Information Research: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Geographic Information Research: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. Edited by MASSIMO CRAGLIA and HARLAN ONSRUD London: Taylor and Francis, 1999, 607 Pp. [pounds sterling]49.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 7484 0801 0 This edited collection is the outcome...

Mapping Cyberspace. (Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Mapping Cyberspace. By MARTIN DODGE and ROB KITCHIN London: Routledge, 2001, 260 pp. [pounds sterling]19.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 198844 If cyberspace is a representation of the 'real world', then a review of a book about mapping...

Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference. (Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference. By DAVID M. SMITH Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000, 244 pp. [pounds sterling]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 7486 1279 3 Some time ago Ron Johnston wrote a survey on Philosophy and...

Mappings. (Reviews).
December 1, 2001... Mappings. Edited by DENIS COSGROVE London: Reaktion Books, 1999, 311 pp. [pounds sterling]16.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 86189 021 4 Mappings, the fourteenth volume in the scholarly series, 'Critical Views', joins other titles such as 'The New...

Datums and Map Projections for Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Datums and Map Projections for Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying. By J. C. ILIFFE London: Whittles Pubs, 2000, 150 pp. [pounds sterling]25.00 (pbk). ISBN 1 870325 28 1 The increasing uptake of Geographical Information Systems (GIS),...