The Geographical Journal articles from July 1996

The Geographical Journal archives from July 1996

Irish migrant responses to urban life in early nineteenth-century Manchester.
July 1, 1996... Urban alienation and, in particular, the fate of migrants in the urban environment have long been the subject of investigation by scholars in geography and cognate disciplines (Dickens, 1994). An historical approach can throw light upon...

On the dry valleys of the Kalahari: documentary evidence of environmental change in central southern Africa.
July 1, 1996... The Kalahari desert contains an impressive suite of landforms, including vegetated dunefields, ancient lake basins, pans (playas), cave features and an extensive network of fossil valleys, which, since the seminal work of Grove (1969), have been...

Romancing colonial forestry: the discourse of 'forestry as progress' in British Burma.
July 1, 1996... There is probably more romance wrapped up in the history of the great teak forests of Burma...than in any other afforested region of similar size in the world. Stebbing, 1947:818 Tropical deforestation is widely seen as one of the leading...

Identifying the inner city in Latin America.
July 1, 1996... The inner city is characterized by 'dilapidation, poor housing and economic and social deprivation' (Johnston, Gregory and Smith, 1994: 290). The term inner city implies a complex web of urban problems combining decayed infrastructure, high...

Estimating above-ground carbon fluxes from UK agricultural land.
July 1, 1996... Historically land use changes have brought about significant increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, surpassing fossil fuel contributions as the leading source of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) worldwide until the...

Spatial patterns and problems in contemporary Namibian tourism.
July 1, 1996... As a tourist destination, the Republic of Namibia has to date been largely ignored by academics, even though its tourism sector is relatively large and growing rapidly, and despite widespread recognition that tourism functions as an increasingly...

The Human Geography of Ireland.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... These are at first sight two quite different pieces of work, yet there are several connections. Both may be described as being the outcomes of a lifetime's association with Ireland and the product of much scholarship. Johnson in his Introduction...

The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... These are at first sight two quite different pieces of work, yet there are several connections. Both may be described as being the outcomes of a lifetime's association with Ireland and the product of much scholarship. Johnson in his Introduction...

Geographical Information Systems and Dynamic Models.
July 1, 1996... This is an interesting set of books because it represents a broad selection of material ranging from the publication of 19 papers from the Remote Sensing Society's Terra 2 Conference to Van Deursen's thesis on GIS and environmental modelling....

Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing.
July 1, 1996... This is an interesting set of books because it represents a broad selection of material ranging from the publication of 19 papers from the Remote Sensing Society's Terra 2 Conference to Van Deursen's thesis on GIS and environmental modelling....

Geographic Information from Space.
July 1, 1996... This is an interesting set of books because it represents a broad selection of material ranging from the publication of 19 papers from the Remote Sensing Society's Terra 2 Conference to Van Deursen's thesis on GIS and environmental modelling....

Terra 2: Understanding the Terrestrial Environment.
July 1, 1996... This is an interesting set of books because it represents a broad selection of material ranging from the publication of 19 papers from the Remote Sensing Society's Terra 2 Conference to Van Deursen's thesis on GIS and environmental modelling....

The Nile; Sharing a Scarce Resource: An Historical and Technical Review of Water Management and of Economic and Legal Issues.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This book is the latest in a series of recent authoritative works on the Nile countries e.g. Craig, 1991, 1993 and Said, 1993. This one is different in that it brings together for discussion a variety of issues for the basin as a whole. It is an...

The Geography of Change in South Africa.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... Writing about contemporary South Africa has, in recent years, inevitably run the risk of instant obsolescence as the pace and scope of change have accelerated. Fortunately, Tony Lemon was able to add a postscript addressing the momentous...

Discourse of Western Planting.
July 1, 1996... It is a reflection of the gathering interest in colonial history that the most important statement of English colonial intentions of the late sixteenth century is now in New York Public Library. The importance of Richard Hakluyt's A Particuler...

The Mapping of California as An Island: An Illustrated Checklist.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... The notion that California was an island west of America was a product of imaginative speculation born of ignorance, first expressed cartographically in 1622. A credulous world seized upon the idea and for well over a century maps showed...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This handsome volume comprises the second edition of a work originally published in 1982 and at [pounds]40 it must be good value considering that it has been compiled by more than 130 experts on the area and spreads over 600 pages, with many fine...

Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... The great rivers gushing from the Himalayas have elicited awe and reverence, myth and hope, for as far back as chronicles reach. The tradition continues today, though the myths and reverence tend to be environmental and political in character,...

The New Germany: A Human Geography.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... Books written by British academics on the geography of Germany - Dickinson in 1953, Elkins in 1962, Burtenshaw in 1974, Mellor in 1978, Wild in 1979 and 1983, and now Jones in 1994 - have appeared too infrequently, though collectively they do...

Europe's Population: Towards the Next Century.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... In this edited volume are gathered together ten contributions from leading population geographers and demographers, originating, for the most part, from papers presented at a Population Geography Study Group session of the 1992 Annual Conference...

Soils: A New Global View.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This is a very unusual, stimulating and sometimes frustrating book. In the introduction a very convincing case is made for a re-assessment of the zonal concept of soils. The evidence for clay translocation is found wanting and, thus, other...

Coastal Problems: Geomorphology, Ecology and Society at the Coast.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... In this timely book, the authors define coastal problems as 'natural and/or human-induced events or processes that affect environment and society at the coast'. Throughout, they attempt to provide the reader with a sound understanding of coastal...

Geomorphology of Desert Dunes.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... There has been a recent spate of books on desert geomorphology, on aeolian geomorphology and on desert, aeolian geomorphology. This contribution from Nick Lancaster is as good as any of them. In his Preface, Professor Lancaster says that this...

Geoecology: An Evolutionary Approach.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This book presents geoecosystems as dynamic entities which respond to both internal and external changes. The conceptual framework of the book is the 'brash' equation or set of equations which describe the dynamics of the geoecosphere. 'Brash' is...

Humid Tropical Environments.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This volume claims to be 'an attempt to provide a holistic approach to the study of the physical environment of the humid tropics' (xii). It has systematic chapters (2-7) on atmosphere, climates, soils, vegetation, landscapes (really...

Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples.
July 1, 1996... This is a very welcome addition to the increasingly voluminous literature on development, not only because it is a well-structured and informative text but primarily because it brings to our attention the situation with regard to indigenous...

Postmodern Cities and Spaces.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... Are you for it, or are you against it? Debates about postmodernism rumble on. And yet, as the editors of this volume recognize, all the to-ing and fro-ing of the last ten years has done little to further our understanding of this complex, and...

Service Industries in the World Economy.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... During the last two decades there has been an insistent internationalization of urban economies. To understand large cities it is necessary to explore their role in a changing world economy. In urban geography, investigation of the commercial and...

Stadte ohne Wettbewerb (Uncompetitive Towns).(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... With the expectation of considerable social and economic improvements for the inhabitants of developing countries in the Third World, following the recent GATT agreements, the appearance of this comprehensively researched and well-presented book...

Fashionable Resort Regions: Their Evolution and Transformation with Particular Reference to Bournemouth, Nice, Los Angeles and Wiesbaden.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This study compares the evolution of successful resorts in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. Some readers may be unhappy that only a single resort is taken from each country, and that Los Angeles has been given a 'resort' label,...

A Geography of the Welsh Language 1961-1991.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This a hardy perennial of a subject which brings back memories of dashing to the Stationery Office in the early 1960s, the day the 1961 census report on the Welsh language was published so that an article could be written for the Geographical...

Money, Power and Space.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... In the mid 1970s the hegemony of Fordism gave way to a post-Fordist word which is much more eclectic. The consequent reordering of economy and society which is still going on, influenced and was influenced by, the reordering of space. Within...

World Cities in A World System.
July 1, 1996... This set of essays derives from a conference held in Washington in 1993 which used as a bench mark the 'world city hypothesis' as argued by Friedmann and Wolff in 1982. Central to the hypothesis is the idea that world cities and the world system...

Human Geography: Society, Space and Social Science.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... For the third time in the past three decades, geography is undergoing a reappraisal and so it is timely to examine how it is confronting the break-up in its post positive phase. Four themes are noted - the questioning of the privileges of grand...

Polar Tourism: Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... Tourism frontiers have encompassed the polar regions. Their hostile, challenging, wilderness landscapes are attracting increasing tourism interest. Albeit still a highly specialist, minority activity when viewing tourism at a global scale, polar...

Developing the Environment: Problems and Management.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This book provides an interdisciplinary wide-ranging consideration of environmental problems and suggests management methods which could reduce them. The author stresses the need to promote new development ethics and to address the political and...

Soil Erosion and Conservation.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... The first edition of this text has been essential reading for all serious students of soil erosion and conservation since its publication in 1986. This new edition retains the same structure with the contents arranged under the same 11 chapter...

Patterns of Development: Resources, Policy and Economic Growth.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... Patterns of Development focuses on particular themes of development in the Third World arranged in ten groups, eight of which are located in what the author feels to be the most appropriate major region, e.g. rural neglect in Africa, urbanization...

Mountain Environments and Geographic Information Systems.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... For those working with GIS in mountain environments this book should be a mandatory purchase. For those working in other areas of GIS and the environment, students in GIS, mountain geomorphologists, ecologists, etc. the price is rather...

Geographia Antiqua. Rivista di geografia di geografia storica del mondo antiquo e di storia del geografia.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... With nine articles in four languages (German, Spanish, Italian, French), the second number of this handsomely-presented and interesting annual reflects the internationality of its steering committee (only English is missing). The stress on...

The Politics of Population: The International Conference on Population and Development.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1996... This is an authoritative and well-written book by a keen observer of the population scene. It is essentially a narrative account of the agenda, debates and conclusion of the Conference. It also includes a brief post-war history of global...