The Geographical Journal articles from July 1998

The Geographical Journal archives from July 1998

Water management in the Egyptian delta: problems of wastage and inefficiency.
July 1, 1998... Water has long been a fundamental constraint on development for most countries in the Middle East and North Africa. To overcome these constraints such societies have traditionally developed successful techniques to harness the productive force...

Fragmentation around a defended core: the territoriality of a geography.
July 1, 1998... The internal structure of the academic discipline of Geography has been debated recently, with some contending that it is fragmented while others counter that it is not (see Johnston, 1991; Gould, 1994). Furthermore, some of the observers of...

Geography and the history of landscape: half a century of development as recorded in The Geographical Journal.
July 1, 1998... During the second half of the twentieth century, landscape history has come of age. As an area of study or field of enquiry it has gained great popularity, while as an academic subject it has existed as an unusual 'interdisciplinary...

The road to Punt.
July 1, 1998... The mountains of Punt disclose Him who was hidden... Book of the Dead, a hymn to the sun. Were it not for queen hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt as a Pharaoh from about 1490 BC to 1469 BC, the place Punt might well have been overlooked....

Global environmental change: the causes and consequences of disruption to biogeochemical cycles.
July 1, 1998... That global environmental change has been occurring since the Earth came into existence some 5000 million years ago is undisputed. This has resulted in a continual redistribution of chemical elements between the lithosphere and atmosphere. In...

Geomorphological mapping for hazard assessment in a neotectonic terrain.
July 1, 1998... The rapid expansion of population and infrastructure that is occurring in South East Asia as a result of sustained economic growth is driving the development of increasingly steep and unstable terrain. In addition the growth in leisure...

Recent trends and implications of group ranch sub-division and fragmentation in Kajiado District, Kenya.
July 1, 1998... Governments in Africa have generally been frustrated in their attempt to change traditional livestock production systems to increase offtake and bring producers into the commercial networks of monetary market economies (Lane and Moorehead,...

North American Exploration, vol. 1, A New World Disclosed.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by JOHN LOGAN ALLEN. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 538 pp. [pounds]72.00. ISBN 0 8032 1015 9 The recent quincentennials of both the Columbus voyages to the Americas and of John Cabot's journey to Newfoundland...

Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By ANNE KELLY KNOWLES. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 330 pp. [pounds]19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 226 44853 3 This is a study of the Welsh in Ohio. It is also a study of the USA and the American Dream. The author operates with an...

South-East Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By JONATHAN RIGG. London: Routledge, 1997, 326 pp. [pounds]14.99. ISBN 0415 1392 1 X South-East Asian: the Human Landscape of Modernization and Development by Jonathan Rigg introduces a wide-ranging critical debate over the process of...

Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by F.W. CARTER and D. TURNOCK. London: Routledge, 1996, 291 pp. [pounds]14.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 13757 8 This book is an updated paperback version of the original, which appeared in 1993. It contains ten chapters by six different...

Reading the Irish Landscape.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By FRANK MITCHELL and MICHAEL RYAN. Dublin: Town House, 1997, 392 pp. [pounds]18.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 946172 54 4 The first edition of this book appeared in 1986 under the authorship of Frank Mitchell. In this, the third edition of the...

Rockglaciers: Indicators for the Present and Former Geoecology in High Mountain Environments.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By DIETRICH BARSCH. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996, 331 pp. DM 228.00. ISBN 3 540 60742 0 This book presents a summary of some 90 years of investigation into rock glaciers throughout the world. Dietrich Barsch has been involved in...

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-Arid Tropics.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by JESSE C. RIBOT, ANTONIO ROCHA MAGALHAES and STAHIS PANAGIDES. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1996, 175 pp. [pounds]50.00. ISBN 0 521 48074 4 This pair of reports demonstrates the extent to which environmental change is being driven by...

As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By KENNETH M. STRZEPEK and JOEL B. SMITH. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1995, 213 pp. [pounds]19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 521 46796 9 This pair of reports demonstrates the extent to which environmental change is being driven by changes in climate, and...

Quaternary and Glacial Geology.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By JURGEN EHLERS. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 578 pp. [pounds]75.00. ISBN 0 471 95576 0 The title suggests a wide-ranging text that reflects the multi-faceted nature of Quaternary research. The author indicates that the...

The Ultimate Resource 2.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By JULIAN L. SIMON. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, 734 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 691 04269 1 The Ultimate Resource 2 is a challenge to the reader, both in terms of the breadth of material covered (and hence the size of the...

Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By MARK LUCCARELLI. New York: Guilford Press, 1995, 230pp. [pounds]19.95. ISBN 1 57230 001 9 The late Lewis Mumford (1895-1992) remains a challenging subject for biographers. Mumford wrote copiously during the course of a long career and...

Politics, Geography, and 'Political Geography': A Critical Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By JOE PAINTER. London: Arnold, 1995, 206 pp. [pounds]13.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 340 56735 X This book begins to fill an important gap, providing the student with an introduction to political geography from a critical perspective that is largely...

Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by CHRIS REIJ, IAN SCOONES and CAMILLA TOULMIN. London: Earthscan, 1996, 260 pp. [pounds]12.50 (pbk). ISBN 1 85383 372 X Indigenous soil and water conservation has been rediscovered! Those haphazard drifts of dead weeds, scattered...

Land degradation in the Tropics: Environmental and Policy Issues.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by MICHAEL J. EDEN and JOHN T. PARRY. London: Pinter, 1996, 285 pp. [pounds]55.00. ISBN 1 85567 389 4 This volume is the outcome of a Commonwealth Geographical Bureau project to examine the vexed question of land degradation and...

Resource and Environmental Management.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By BRUCE MITCHELL. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997, 298 pp. [pounds]18.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 582 23796 3 This book replaces Bruce Mitchell's earlier publication on the topic: Geography and resource analysis (first published in 1979)....

Environmental Change: The Evolving Ecosphere.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By RICHARD JOHN HUGGETT. London: Routledge, 1997, 378 pp. [pounds]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 14521 X Environmental change has clearly captured the attention of geographers en masse. This is yet another volume with environmental change in its...

Topographical Writers in South-West England.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by MARK BRAYSHAY. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996, 200 pp. [pounds]12.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 85989 424 X These essays were originally presented as papers at the University of Exeter's Centre for South Western Historical Studies...

Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism in the Western World: 1540-1940.(Review)
July 1, 1998... By JOHN TOWNER. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 312 pp. [pounds]34.95. ISBN 0 471 94990 6 Much tourism research has tended to be monopolized by a functional, industry-dominated perspective, and has consequently resulted in an...

The Quest for Longitude.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by WILLIAM J.H. ANDREWES. Cambridge, MA: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1996, 437 pp. [pounds]49.95. ISBN 0 9644329 0 0 This splendidly produced book is derived from a tricentennial celebration of the life of John...

Ile-de-France: 20 Ans d'Amenagement Regional.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... c. 1:450 000. Edited by JEAN-PIERRE DUFAY Paris: Institute d'Amenagement et d'Urbanisme de la Region d'Ile-de-France, 1996, 52 pp. 330F. ISSN 0153 6184 No one studying the geography of France has ever been left in doubt as to the...

The Charting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By PETER WHITFIELD. London: British Library, 1996, 136 pp. [pounds]20.00. ISBN 0 7123 0493 2 This book is worthy of purchase just for its excellent colour reproductions, fully referenced, from the British Library's collections. However, in...

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia.(Review)
July 1, 1998... By JANET WALLACH. New York: Nan A. Talese, 1996, 419 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0 385 47408 3 This is the biography of Britain's first female political officer and her role in drawing the national boundaries of the modern Middle East. Gertrude Bell,...

The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Histoire Naturelle des Indes.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Foreword by PATRICK O'BRIAN. Text by VERLYN KLINKENBORG. London: Andre Deutsch, 1996, 272 pp. [pounds]39.95. ISBN 0 233 99009 7 Prior to the publication of the Histoire Naturelle des Indes, no substantial body of illustrations relating to...

Die Grosse Nordische Expedition: Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746).(Review)
July 1, 1998... By WIELAND HINTZSCHE and THOMAS NICKOL. The Great Northern Expedition and the companion folder Monumenta Sibirae with its 19 folio sheets are a 250th anniversary tribute to the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 - 46). They are...

Monumenta Sibiriae: Quellen zur Geschichte Sibiriens und Alaskas aus Russischen Archiven.(Review)
July 1, 1998... Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha, 1996, 347pp. DM 98.00, ISBN 3 623 00300 X and DM75.00, ISBN 3 623 00480 4 The Great Northern Expedition and the companion folder Monumenta Sibirae with its 19 folio sheets are a 250th anniversary tribute...

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.(Review)
July 1, 1998... By EDWARD R. TUFTE. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997, 156 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0 9613921 2 6 Seven years have elapsed since the publication of Envisioning information and 14 years since The visual display of quantitative information. Tufte's...

World Geographical Encyclopedia, 5 vols.(Review)
July 1, 1998... Five volumes. Edited by SYBIL P. PARKER. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1905, 350 pp each. [pounds]550.00 for set. ISBN 0 07 911496 2 This is an impressive encyclopedia, printed on good quality paper, illustrated with 750 colour photographs and 250...

Frank Steele: 1923-97.(Obituary)
July 1, 1998... Frank Steele died, aged 74, on 20 November 1997. He devoted much of his time, energy and invaluable expertise to the RGS as a member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee (1986-95), the Council (1990-95) and in 1993-1995 as...

Robert W. Steel: 1915-97.(Obituary)
July 1, 1998... There are many who could contribute to an obituary of Robert Steel, who died at the end of December 1997. For he was in every respect a man for all people, whoever and wherever they might be. To him, personal relationships were of the utmost...