The Geographical Journal articles from December 2002

The Geographical Journal archives from December 2002

Water wars? Geographical perspectives: introduction.(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... Will wars be fought by nations over their shared water resources in the coming decades? Have there been such water wars in the past? Are water wars even the point? Answering such seemingly straightforward questions turns out to be a fairly...

The geography of water conflict and cooperation: internal pressures and international manifestations.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Introduction The history of relations over shared water resources is replete with incidents of conflict. Examples range from intrastate violence along the Cauvery River in India, to California farmers blowing up a Los Angeles water...

Water wars in the Middle East: a looming threat.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Introduction There is a growing discussion over the geopolitical consequences of protracted (as opposed to temporary) water 'scarcity', which I refer to as 'stress'. One school of thought argues that resource scarcity triggers...

Water in the Middle East peace process (1).(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Background The peace process The Middle East peace process started in the Madrid Conference on 31 October 1991, and was divided into a bilateral conference and a multilateral conference. In the bilateral, the Arab Core Parties...

Questioning the water wars rationale: a case study of the Indus Waters Treaty.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Introduction The water wars rationale forecasts war between countries dependent upon a shared water resource if there is water scarcity, competitive use and the countries are enemies due to a wider conflict. Following this rationale, a war...

The Mekong River Commission: transboundary water resources planning and regional security.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Introduction The Mekong River Commission (MRC) was founded in 1995 to coordinate water resources planning and development across Southeast Asia's lower Mekong River basin. The MRC's member nations are Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam....

Management of transboundary water resources: lessons from international cooperation for conflict prevention.(Abstract)
December 1, 2002... Introduction With increasing frequency, conflicts over water resources may create unrest as water resources become scarcer due to growing water demand concomitant with increased precipitation variability associated with global climate...

Obituary.(Iorweth Adrian Wozencroft Sparkes, 1922-2001, geographer)(Obituary)
December 1, 2002... Iorweth Adrian Wozencroft Sparkes, 1922-2001. Adrian Sparkes was one of the young geographers who left the older universities after the last war to establish Departments of Geography in the new universities of the former colonial...

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real state of the world. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real state of thw world. By BIORN LOMBORG Cambridge: CUP, 2001, 515 PP. [pounds sterling]17.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 521 01068 3 This book has provoked a great deal of controversy; this was...

Knowledge of the Land: Land resources information and its use in rural development. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Knowledge of the Land: Land resources information and its use in rural development. By B. DALAL-CLAYTON and D. DENT Oxford: OUP, 2001, 428 pp. [pounds sterling]60.00 ISBN 0 19 829601 0 Although the intended audience for this book is...

The Native Tourist: Mass tourism within developing countries. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Native Tourist: Mass tourism within developing countries. Edited by KRISHNA B. GHIMRIE London: Earthscan, 2001, 234 pp. [pounds sterling]1 7.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 85383 804 7 Our common understanding of tourism as crossing international...