The Geographical Journal articles from July 1995

The Geographical Journal archives from July 1995

An amazing and portentous summer: environmental and social responses in Britain to the 1783 eruption of an Iceland volcano.
July 1, 1995... Recent research has focused much attention on the possibility that prehistoric Icelandic volcanic eruptions exerted a profound impact upon ancient settlement and environment in Britain and Ireland (Burgess, 1989; Baillie, 1989; Blackford et al.,...

Damage to property by runoff from agricultural land, South Downs, southern England, 1976-93.
July 1, 1995... Damage to property by runoff is not a problem unique to the South Downs. The record of flood damage on the Downs is more complete and the problem appears to have been more serious than in other areas of Britain. However, in the last 15 years...

Geography in the national curriculum of England and Wales: rise and fall?
July 1, 1995... With the publication of the revised subject formulations (DfE, 1995) following the reports of working parties set up by SCAA (Dearing, 1994), it seems that a flurry of activity centred around the creation of a National Curriculum for schools in...

The Peoples of Borneo.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... This, the first of 12 books planned on the peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific under the general editorship of Peter Bellwood and Ian Glover, sets a model for content and structure, drawing on fresh archaeological and anthropological...

Tourism in South-East Asia.
July 1, 1995... This volume is the product of a conference held under the auspices of the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the UK (ASEASUK) at Hull in 1991. Reflecting the multidisciplinary membership of the Association, the book's 18 chapters are...

Mass Migration in Europe: The Legacy and the Future.
July 1, 1995... The publication of this volume in the early 1990s is particularly apposite since, in the words of the introduction (p. 1), 'throughout the continent, international migration is once again of great significance. Both within Europe and beyond,...

Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps: Bio-Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570, Based on Leo Bagrow's 'A Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum.'(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... Several leading cartographic historians have quailed at the prospect of updating Leo Bagrow's erudite commentary on the mapmakers consulted by Ortelius for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in 1570. A broader range of cartographical...

Atlante Tematico d'Italia, vols. 3 and 4.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... The first two volumes of the Thematic Atlas of Italy were reviewed in the Journal Vol. 158 (1992: 331-32) and with the publication of these last two volumes the project is now complete. Their format, of course, is identical with that adopted for...

Water and Power.
July 1, 1995... In the last decade between 10 and 15 major works focusing on Middle Eastern water resources have appeared, mostly in Britain and the USA, reflecting the growing interest and realization that water resources in that region serve as a source of...

Managing Water as an Economic Resource.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... The idea that water should be allocated and managed as an economic resource is rapidly gaining currency. This brief, but very comprehensive and densely exampled, text will do a great deal to accelerate the adoption of the sound, if unpopular,...

Tourism Research: Critiques and Challenges.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... This edited text, a compilation of chapters from 11 eminent researchers in the field of tourism, is essentially an attempt to shrink the conceptual distances between the disparate approaches to major research areas and the range of topics that...

Mekong Committee history and lessons for river basin development.
July 1, 1995... One of the notable programmes in international cooperation in river basin development has been conducted in the Lower Mekong River Basin. Since its creation in 1957 the United Nations-sponsored Mekong Committee has been coordinating water...

Rural services, rural infrastructure and regional development in India.
July 1, 1995... This paper analyses the spatial distribution of rural services in selected regions of three states in India (Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu), based on data collected over three decades. In spite of economic disparities between...

Using computers and geographical information systems for expedition fieldwork.
July 1, 1995... This paper examines the potential of portable computers, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as aids to geographical fieldwork on expeditions to remote areas. Observations are based on experiences...

The Thames Gateway - an analysis of the emergence of a sub-regional regeneration initiative.
July 1, 1995... This paper examines the recent evolution of a sub-regional planning initiative in the Thames Gateway which is part of London and the South East region of England. In the late 1980s this area had become a focus for the regeneration strategies...

The Atlas of Apartheid.
July 1, 1995... Geographers have long recognized the inherently spatial character of apartheid, which arises from the attempt by a privileged `First World' minority to protect its position in the same geographical space as a far larger `Third World' majority....