The Geographical Journal articles from July 1994

The Geographical Journal archives from July 1994

Redefining the village and rural life: lessons from South East Asia.
July 1, 1994... How deprived had the generation before me been - a generation that had been satisfied with the accumulation of its own footsteps in the lanes of its villages. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1982 THE 'VILLAGE' - AS AN IDEA, an organizing principle,...

Guests of the crown: convicts and liberated slaves on McCarthy Island, The Gambia.
July 1, 1994... THE MASS DISLOCATION of people as a result of war, drought, famine or economic penury is a rapidly-growing problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the early 1990s, more than five million Africans were classified as refugees or asylum-seekers with...

The conservation and use of the walled city of Tripoli. (Tripoli, Libya)
July 1, 1994... DESPITE THE GROWING INTEREST in conservation, protection and enhancement of ancient cities in the world, recent urbanization in the Arabian states has led to a rapid decline in the indigenous economy and urban forms and in the socio-cultural...

The honorable Robert Edward Clifford, 1767-1817: a cartographer's response to Napoleon. (Napoleon I, Emperor of the French)
July 1, 1994... THE YEAR 1989 marked the two-hundredth anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution, and its Napoleonic sequel. This great upheaval was not confined within the boundaries of France, most of...

The land of Britain, 1930-1990: a comparative study of field mapping and remote sensing techniques.
July 1, 1994... THE LAUNCH, IN 1993, OF THE LAND COVER Map of Great Britain, derived in digital form from satellite sensor images, marks a further significant stage in the description of Britain's landscape. Some hundred years earlier, in the early 1890s, the...

Rejuvenation of population in Tel-Aviv inner city. (Tel Aviv, Israel)
July 1, 1994... SINCE THE 1970S, the trend has been towards the rejuvenation of the population in the centres of the great, Western metropolitan cities. Examination of the processes of rejuvenation of inner-city populations has usually been focused upon...

The Southern African Environment: Profiles of the SADC Countries.
July 1, 1994... The creation of environmentally-sustainable development programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa raises major issues not only of environmental understanding, but also of finance, management quality and experience, and data availability. The poorest major...

Survival Amongst the Kurds: A History of the Yezidis.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The Yezidis, a small Kurdish group and remnant of an Indo-Iranian religion of before 2000 BC, came to revere a Muslim Sufi, Shaikh Adi, in northern Iraq in the twelfth century AD. They have concealed their beliefs in an often futile attempt to...

The View from Within: Geographical Essays on Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
July 1, 1994... This book, produced by the Department of Geography, University of Malaya, is important for what it represents. It is a commemorative volume marking the 30th anniversary of the Department's foundation in 1959. As the Editors write in the Preface:...

What is Asia to Us? Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Potential readers should not be put off by the rather misleading title of this book. The subtitle is much better at conveying what it is about, though it is the Asian heartland of yesterday rather than of today which is mostly depicted and...

Canada's Cold Environments.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Not that many years ago -- so the story goes, inhabitants of the Canadian prairie provinces, sweltering in midsummer heat, would be regularly and infuriatingly hailed -- from cars sporting skis on their roof racks -- by US visitors demanding...

The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This book sets out with two broad objectives in view, to give its readers a deeper understanding of social patterns and recent trends in the urban geography of Canada and to illustrate some contemporary approaches in the study of social geogaphy....

Maraca - Rainforest Island.
July 1, 1994... This interesting book records the findings of one of the most intensive scientific surveys of a tropical rain-forest ecosystem ever undertaken. The survey, carried out in Maraca, a 110 000-hectare fluvial island in the eastern margins of the...

The European City.
July 1, 1994... Apparently employing well-honed publishers' hyperbole, the dust jacket of this book describes it as a tour de force, a phrase guaranteed to invite close scrutiny on the part of any reviewer. For once, however, the epithet is entirely justified....

Hovels to High Rise: State Housing in Europe since 1850.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Anne Power's study is specifically focused upon the economics and politics of social housing provision in five countries of Western Europe since 1850. She defines social housing as accommodation not provided for profit and often let at below...

Transport and Economic Development in the New Central and Eastern Europe.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Derek Hall is to be congratulated on bringing together the series of papers which constitute this book. Unlike many of those published about Eastern Europe during the 1980s, when contributions from the area would have been, at best, of doubtful...

Rural Development in Ireland: A Challenge for the 1990s.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... With agriculture no longer the main provider of employment or family income in most rural regions of developed countries, attention has been turned for many years to other policy sectors and issues in the context of development. The book concerns...

Vienna.
July 1, 1994... This book, the first in a series edited by Ron Johnson and Paul Knox, aims to provide an up-to-date profile of a major urban centre. It is suprising that a city that is rarely noted for a 'world city' label should open the series, but one must...

New Perspectives in Hungarian Geography.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This book is the outcome of the 27th International Geographical Congress held in Washington DC in 1992. The text is split into two sections and comprises 17 papers all written by Hungarian geographers from various institutions around the country....

Ordnance Survey: Map Makers to Britain Since 1791.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... One does not have to like maps in order to enjoy this book. Written to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Ordnance Survey, it is a celebration of the organization, its people, maps and achievements. The format works particularly...

Things Maps Don't Tell Us.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... In its first (1934) edition this book, and the author, will have been known to the generation of geographers now nearing (or passing!) retirement. It, and he, may well have been the catalysts for their geographical blossoming. The link between...

Australia on Paper: The Story of Australian Mapping.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... It is easy to forget that a country the size of Australia needs gigantic resources in order that it may be adequately surveyed and mapped. Linking that size with a sparse population, and a settlement history that only saw a federation of...

The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping.
July 1, 1994... The term 'cadastral' is usually applied to maps of property units made by or for a government agency in order to facilitate taxation. Kain and Baigent extend this definition to include any map showing the possessions of more than one proprietor...

Collecting Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Cartography.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... As attendances at international symposia and conferences signify, there has been a substantial growth in the number of serious collectors of old maps. It is to this audience that Jonathan Potter's Collecting Antique Maps is, without pretence,...

Town and City Maps of the British Isles: 1800-1855.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... 'This prestigious volume shows the towns and cities of Great Britain as they appeared over 100 years ago.' So begins the blurb of this inexpensive volume of reproductions of early nineteenth-century town plans. The selection of towns is somewhat...

World Atlas of Desertification.
July 1, 1994... The United Nations Environment Programme has long been concerned about the advance of desertification and its destruction of the food producing capacity of large tracts of dryland in every continent. In furtherance of the goal of UNEP's 'Plan of...

The 'Ten Mile' Maps of the Ordnance Surveys.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The Charles Close Society has in recent years published a number of monographs on Ordnance Survey map series at the One Inch scale which have proved of great interest to collectors by presenting a vastly increased gathering of information bearing...

Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... In their Preface and Introduction the authors point out that 'there exists a very rich but largely unexplored field of Hebrew' maps of the Holy Land', which 'still requires much study and research'. Their book marks an important stage in...

Impacts of Sea-level Rise on European Coastal Lowlands.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This volume is largely the product of a European workshop on Interrelated Bioclimatic and Land Use Change held at Noordwijkerhaut, The Netherlands in October 1987; it offers, therefore, a benchmark in a fast-moving environmental debate. The...

Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... After a lull lasting almost a decade, 1992 and 1993 have seen the publication of a stream of new textbooks on the Quatenary. Each of these books has its own particular focus, with this by Alastair Dawson covering changes in physical systems...

The Vegetation of Egypt.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The book provides an inventory of the information documented by many ecologists both Egyptian and others about the vegetation of Egypt in a compiled and integrated form. It is made up of seven chapters; the first two of which are introductory....

Atmosphere, Weather and Climate.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Atmosphere Weather and Climate first appeared in 1986 and immediately found wide acceptance among both sixth-formers and undergraduates wanting a non-technical, introductory atmospheric text. The arrival of the sixth edition is like having an old...

Bush Base: Forest Farm - Culture, Environment and Development.
July 1, 1994... This book is an outcome of an arrangement, the EIDOS network, that links British, Dutch and German researchers studying development issues. TIm present collection, papers from a workshop held in London in 1989, is dominated by contributions from...

The Future of Low-Birthrate Populations.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This volume contributes to a burgeoning and highly contested literature addressing the future of populations experiencing incipient decline. Day's conclusion that older age-structures are more likely to be 'desirable than undesirable'...

The Geography of Agriculture in Developed Market Economies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Agriculture in the Western World, particularly in the European Community, faces an uncertain future and is poised to change radically in reaction to overproduction. Decades of technological innovation, subsidy and increasing domination by more...

The Right Place: Shared Responsibility and the Location of Public Facilities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Even in a period of privatization, the location of public facilities -- whether a nuclear power station, a children's playground or the route of a new transport line -- is a topic of considerable academic and general interest, and often the focus...

The Peoples of Europe: The Gypsies.
July 1, 1994... It is good to see that this wide-ranging series on 'The Peoples Europe' should include the Gypsies and that their volume should appear quite early in the publishing programme. The Gypsies have been prominent in Europe for centuries and, although...

Migration and Residential Mobility: Macro and Micro Approaches.
July 1, 1994... This book is an important contribution to the study of population geography in that it brings together an important segment of the literature on the geographical mobility of population, concentrating on the developed world and on the application...

Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries, vol. 2, The Impact of Debt and Adjustment at the Household Level in Developing Countries.
July 1, 1994... David Woodward has produced two splendid books on debt and structural adjustment programmes which will set the standard in this field for many years to come. His books are original, incisive, tightly argued, empirically rich, diverse in their...

Urban Landscapes: International Persectives.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This book is a collection of nine papers which were presented at an international conference. It is divided into two parts, the first deals with historical urban landscapes and the second with the nature and management of urban landscape change....

Cities and Regions in the New Europe: The Global-Local Interplay and Spatial Development Strategies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... For those concerned at the sometimes unsubstantiated use of the terms 'globalization' and 'localization' in the economic development literature, this book should come as a welcome contribution to the global-local debate. The stated objective is...

Environmental Problems in Third World Cities.
July 1, 1994... Notwithstanding the rapid growth of towns and cities in Developing Countries, and the burgeoning literature on the environment-development interface, there remain surprisingly few books which deal with the environmental ramifications of Third...

Structural Adjustment and the Environment.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This book claims 'a provocative avocation' but the only controversy is contrived. Nevertheless it is both informative and interesting. David Reed, Director of the International Institutions Policy Program of the WWFN, provides a largely...

Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition, 2 vols.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The two volumes of this book are based on edited versions of 38 papers delivered at an ad hoc conference held in 1991 in the UK -- surprisingly, the venue is not further identified -- with the financial support of the Social and Economic Research...

Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, vol. 3.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Rural Panning Yearbooks date back to 1980, and this is the third edition in the current format with an extended international content. It aims to 'review the progress of rural policy development and the implementation of these policies on the...

The Americas Before and After 1492: Current Geographical Research.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The quincentennial of the Columbus landing was marked by both celebration and protest. On the one hand, many celebrated the discovery of the New World while others were dismayed by the ensuing depopulation and deculturalization. That 1492...

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History, 2 vols.
July 1, 1994... For many years historical geographers have had to rely upon Ralph H. Brown's classic volume The Historical Geography of the United States as the text covering America. Now we have available the first two of a planned three-volume monumental study...

Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City: A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This is a catalogue of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century books on fortification, in the Newberry Library at Chicago. Its holdings are so comprehensive that we have effectively a conspectus of all important writings on the subject from Durer...

The Voyages of 'The Discovery': The Illustrated History of Scott's Ship.
July 1, 1994... 'On a late November day in 1893, Dr John Murray was beginning his address to the Fellows of The Royal Geographical Society... ......' Thus Ann Savours's story starts. The occasion was to rally support for South Polar exploration and in particular...

Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818-1918.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This volume covers a century during which time over 200 expeditions went to the Canadian Arctic and some 80 resulted in scientific publications. The period commences with the British Royal Naval Expeditions of 1818 which came about after the...

The Myth of the Explorer: The Press, Sensationalism and Geographical Discovery.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... This original study covers the years 1855 to 1910. 'The former date', writes the author, 'corresponds with the beginning of new patterns of Arctic and African exploration, the birth of the popular press in Britain, and the first expedition...

The Challenge for Geography: A Changing World, a Changing Discipline.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The origins of this volume lie in a series of papers presented at the annual conference of the Institute of British Geographers in 1991. Part 1 considers the nature of the changing world that geographers study. The introductory chapter by the...

Cartes commentees et croquis: methode et exemples.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... In the pages of this little book are packed a wide range of geographical examples of France. These are presented in text and map form, many of the latter being in two colours, to illustrate a diverse range of regions and of topics. The studies...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The day before I wrote this review, I was in the Society's House for a conference. Walking past the series of portraits of past Presidents of the RGS, the absence of women from the serried ranks of geographers past and present had its usual...

Monica Mary Cole: 1922-1994. (geo-botanist) (Obituary)
July 1, 1994... Monica Mary Cole died in London on 8 January 1994. She was a leader in the field of geo-botany and her death will be mourned by many friends and colleagues in England and abroad. She was born in 1922 and spent her early years in Wimbledon and...

Professor Jean Gottman FBA: 1915-1994. (University of Oxford geography professor) (Obituary)
July 1, 1994... Jean Gottmann, Professor of Geography in the University of Oxford from 1968-83, died at Oxford on 28 February 1994 at the age of 78. His name will always be associated with the concept of 'Megalopolis'. The idea had earlier been employed by...