The Geographical Journal articles from March 1995

The Geographical Journal archives from March 1995

A review of ozone pollution in the United Kingdom and Ireland with an analysis using Lamb Weather Types.
March 1, 1995... Tropospheric ozone is a highly toxic gas. It causes damage to vegetation (Ashmore et el., 1985; Rose, 1990), crops (Skarby and Sellden, 1984; Colbeck, 1985; Krupa and Manning, 1988) and human health (WHO, 1987; Lippmann, 1989; National Research...

Environmental contradictions in sustainable tourism.
March 1, 1995... There is probably no other economic activity which transects so many sectors, levels and interests as tourism. These will range from the hotel industry to National Parks authorities, from tourist boards to government departments, and from tour...

Environmental auditing: a tool for assessing the environmental performance of tourism firms.
March 1, 1995... All activities consume resources and produce wastes and, therefore, have a potential to damage the environment. Tourism is no exception: the global environment is the source of all material inputs feeding the tourism subsystem and is the sink for...

Segregation and cemeteries in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
March 1, 1995... The spatial development of urban residential segregation and apartheid in South Africa has been extensively documented in the geographical literature (Christopher, 1994; Drakakis-Smith, 1992; Lemon, 1991; Smith, 1992; Swilling et al., 1991). The...

Acid drainage from mines.
March 1, 1995... Waters which drain naturally from abandoned mine workings are often characterized by a low pH and alkalinity with elevated concentrations of metals (e.g. iron, manganese and aluminium). These waters, commonly referred to as acid mine drainage,...

Snowpack influences on geomorphic processes in Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range.
March 1, 1995... Snow is an important component of all mountain landscapes, especially in the alpine environments above the treeline which retain a snow cover for much of the year. There, the seasonal cycle of snow accumulation and ablation exerts a crucial...

Geographical differences in British property acquisitions in rural France.
March 1, 1995... British migration to continental Europe was limited until recently (Zlotnik, 1992). Yet, in the 1980s, first to Spain and then to France, the number of 'permanent' British residents on mainland Europe increased sharply (King and Rybaczuk, 1993)....

Transhumance among European settlers in Atlantic Canada.
March 1, 1995... A high level of residential sedentism was a goal of most European settlers overseas, as it had been in Europe itself since Neolithic times. Settlers did occasionally practise pastoral transhumance (see Guelke, 1985 for Afrikaner examples), but...

The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise.
March 1, 1995... Geographers display a habitual diversity in varying attitudes to the history and methodology of their discipline. Many openly, if not proudly, cleave to individual homespun philosophies and show no interest in the debates that rage in much of...

The Place of Geography.
March 1, 1995... Geographers display a habitual diversity in varying attitudes to the history and methodology of their discipline. Many openly, if not proudly, cleave to individual homespun philosophies and show no interest in the debates that rage in much of the...

Geography in a Changing South Africa: Progress and Prospects.
March 1, 1995... Apartheid was in very many ways a peculiarly spatial policy, and its manifestations will remain written in the geography of South Africa for many decades to come. Thus the discipline of geography has potentially a particularly important role in...

The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology and Utilization.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The Nile has generated a rich bibliography and this new title by the eminent Egyptian geologist, Rushdi Said, is a very welcome addition to the corpus. His authority is clear in the substantial section on the geological history of the Nile Basin,...

Borneo: Change and Development.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This book provides a long-term view of the emergence of the current rapid economic, social and environmental changes experienced by the various territories that comprise the island of Borneo. Emphasis is given to the questions of resource...

Scottish Geographical Studies.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This festschrift is presented to Professor James Caird (Dundee) and Professor Bruce Proudfoot (St Andrews) who have retired recently from their Chairs. The book (an impressive 352 pages long) contains 27 papers on aspects of the geography of...

La production agricole de la France de 1810 a 1990: departements et regions, croissance, productivite, structures.
March 1, 1995... At his base in the Laboratoire d'histoire et d'analyse de la croissance economique at the Universite de Paris I, Jean-Claude Toutain has worked for many years on the highly complex task of assembling, comparing, adjusting and interpreting vast...

Society, Action and Space: An Alternative Human Geography.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This book, perhaps more than many others, will be placed at an immediate disadvantage in the minds of some readers by the 'hype' provided not only by the publishers but also by the distinguished sociologist who has provided a Preface. Rob Shields...

The Informational City. Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This is an important book because it takes on two very difficult tasks. It is an attempt to summarize the changing geographies of the economically more advanced nations of the world as they adapt to a new round of technological innovations and to...

Enterprise and Human Resource Development: Local Capacity Building.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This book examines the nature of Britain's ability to compete in the context of global economic change. It focuses on local capacity building initiatives in enterprise and human resource development as the basis for an appropriate response to...

The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The World Health Organization estimates that, by the year 2000, there will be some 40 million individuals globally carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS. With at present no known cure and certain mortality,...

Subsistence and Survival in the Tropics.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The stated aim of the research covered by this monograph was to understand the complex position of Sahelian households in fluctuating and deteriorating production conditions. For the latter the impact, environmental and social, of the Sahel...

Geographic Information 1994.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... This thick book, published in collaboration with the Association for Geographic Information, is the AGI Yearbook 1994. It aims to raise awareness about geographic information systems (GIS) and related technologies and to provide an overview of...

An Atlas of International Migration.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The importance of international migration needs no underlining, although its significance has changed from time to time. Discussion of this theme is complicated by difficult problems of classification. Three types of international migration may...

The Map-maker's Art: A History of Cartography.
March 1, 1995... In recent years historians of cartography have placed their studies before us as never before, with writings and reproductions demonstrating both the wide range of the subject and also its marriage of science and art. The six volumes of Harley...

Agricultural Research Alternatives.
March 1, 1995... This is an interesting, but unusual, book. Its aim is to improve the process of agricultural research and this is achieved through an examination of how, where and by whom agricultural research is done. There is no attempt to describe and explain...

Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
March 1, 1995... The 21 papers collected in this volume were originally given at a Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop held in April 1989, which the Preface states was the 'first conference on gender and development for geographers'. The contributions are...

The Geographical Association: The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Any who have had occasion to consult the archival material of academic societies and professional organizations will appreciate the problems faced by the author of this account of the first hundred years of the Geographical Association. There are...

On the Edge of Europe: Mountaineering in the Caucasus.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... The exploration in a mountainecring sense of the Caucasus, the highest mountain range in Europe and arguably the finest, started only with the end of the Golden Age of mountaineering in the Alps, when British climbers and their continental guides...