The Geographical Journal articles from December 2005

The Geographical Journal archives from December 2005

The dynamics of vulnerability: locating coping strategies in Kenya and Tanzania.
December 1, 2005... Introduction The concept of vulnerability is receiving increased attention in environmental change research, particularly in assessing the potential effects of dramatic events, variability and trends on both society and the environment...

Wetland sustainability and the evolution of indigenous knowledge in Ethiopia.
December 1, 2005... Introduction The perception of wetlands during the last three decades has shifted significantly from being one of largely unproductive wastelands, to being internationally important havens for wildlife and key natural resources for...

The relationship between herders and trees in space and time in northern Cameroon.
December 1, 2005... Introduction During the twentieth century, in the Central Africa savannas area, several combined factors have led strategic groups like herders and farmers to invest in uninhabited lands and to try and establish secure access to these...

Assessing participatory GIS for community-based natural resource management: claiming community forests in Cameroon.(Geographic Information Systems)
December 1, 2005... Introduction This study addresses participatory-GIS (PGIS) and participatory mapping in participatory spatial planning applications for community-based natural resource management. It queries the implicit assumption that the participatory...

The future of family farming in Israel: the second generation in the Moshav.
December 1, 2005... Introduction In the last few decades the rural space in Israel and its socio-economic components have steadily changed. The changes are attributed to long-term trends and processes common to many developed economies, such as a tremendous...

Introduction: geographical encounters with the Indian Ocean tsunami.
December 1, 2005... The tsunami waves that struck South and South-East Asia in the early hours of 26 December 2004 claimed the lives of at least 283 000 people and displaced a further 1.1 million in the region (USGS 2005). Intense and sustained global media...

The fate of coral reefs in the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean following the Sumatran earthquake and tsunami, 26 December 2004.
December 1, 2005... The Sumatran-Andaman earthquake was the second largest earthquake in the instrumental record, with shifts in the sea floor displacing more than 30 [km.sup.3] of seawater and generating a tsunami that was recorded worldwide (Bilham 2005). The...

The Indian Ocean tsunami: socio-economic impacts in Thailand.
December 1, 2005... Introduction On the morning of 26 December 2004 large areas of coastal southern Thailand were transformed when a tsunami, generated by a powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian Ocean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 confirmed...

Age-dating of tsunami deposits: lessons from the 26 December 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
December 1, 2005... Introduction The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami tragically caught many, many ordinary people unawares, along with researchers, scientists and government officials. As is often the way with such phenomena, it was largely the...

Disaster and generosity.
December 1, 2005... I have been asking some questions not so much about what geography, or any other discipline, can do in the wake of a disaster, but more about what the disaster does for us, what it means for geographers, social scientists, or anyone else lucky...

Contemporary South Africa.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Contemporary South Africa. By ANTHONY BUTLER New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 187 pp. ISBN 0 333 71519 5 More than a decade has passed since its first democratic elections and South Africa remains a country of striking contrasts. It...

Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation, 2d ed.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation (2nd edition) By ROBERT STOCK Guilford Press, 2004, 477pp. [pounds sterling][pounds sterling]18.50 (pbk). ISBN 1 572 230868 Regional geographies are not as fashionable as they...