The Geographical Journal articles from March 1996

The Geographical Journal archives from March 1996

Distributional and social impacts of flood control in Bangladesh.
March 1, 1996... Bangladesh is probably the world's most flood-prone country. It mostly comprises the combined delta of three major rivers: Brahmaputra-Jamuna, Ganges, and Meghna. These rivers drain a combined catchment of some 1.55 million square kilometres, 11...

The length of the fallow period in tropical fallow farming systems: a discussion with evidence from Sierra Leone.
March 1, 1996... Extensive agricultural systems that rely on a fallow period to restore soil nutrient status between short periods of cultivation are still distributed widely in the tropical lands. Such systems are generally described as shifting agriculture,...

The decline, flexibility and geographical restructuring of employment in British retail banks.
March 1, 1996... This paper discusses the nature and determinants of recent employment decline and restructuring, including geographical restructuring, in British retail banks. As Cressey and Scott (1992: 83) have noted, 'the 1990s seem set to be a watershed of...

Geography in the United Kingdom: 1992-1996.
March 1, 1996... 'Turbulent years' and 'major upheaval' have been phrases used to characterize both the periods 1984-88 and 1988-92 by previous authors of these quadrennial reviews of Geography in the UK (Bennett and Thornes, 1988; Gardner and Hay, 1992). Yet,...

Geophagy in the tropics: a literature review.
March 1, 1996... Geophagy, 'the habit of eating clay or earth' (Weller, 1989: 385), is a common practice undertaken by many members of the animal kingdom (Kreulen and Jager, 1984). Amongst humans, the deliberate consumption of soils occurs extensively in the...

An evaluation of the FAO tropical forest resource assessment, 1990. (Food and Agriculture Organization)
March 1, 1996... Estimates of forest areas and deforestation rates in the humid tropics are notoriously inaccurate. An earlier review (Grainger, 1993) mentioned that a new global survey by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was expected to provide...

The Changing Global Environment.
March 1, 1996... These books represent three contrasting attempts to analyse global environmental change. Each publication looks at the problem from a different perspective, and is designed for separate levels of interest in the topic. Each in its own way...

Global Environmental Change: An Integrated Modelling Approach.
March 1, 1996... These books represent three contrasting attempts to analyse global environmental change. Each publication looks at the problem from a different perspective, and is designed for separate levels of interest in the topic. Each in its own way...

Earth System Response to Global Change: Contrasts Between North and South America.
March 1, 1996... These books represent three contrasting attempts to analyse global environmental change. Each publication looks at the problem from a different perspective, and is designed for separate levels of interest in the topic. Each in its own way...

Globi Neerlandici - The Production of Globes in the Low Countries.
March 1, 1996... Both these works have been published with subsidy. Nonetheless, the former remains formidably expensive for it represents the heart of a research programme at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht University. Globi Neerlandici is...

Globes from the Western World.
March 1, 1996... Both these works have been published with subsidy. Nonetheless, the former remains formidably expensive for it represents the heart of a research programme at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht University. Globi Neerlandici is...

Environmental Change in Drylands: Biogeographic and Geomorphological Perspectives.
March 1, 1996... The dry lands, like the poor, are always with us, and, like the poor, there are always schemes being invented to cope with them. The dry environment also constantly eludes us: more than any other, it changes from day to day, year to year, decade...

Desertification: Exploding the Myth.
March 1, 1996... The dry lands, like the poor, are always with us, and, like the poor, there are always schemes being invented to cope with them. The dry environment also constantly eludes us: more than any other, it changes from day to day, year to year, decade...

More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya.
March 1, 1996... This is a significant and important book, not least because the data and ideas it presents are being widely disseminated and discussed, sometimes without the careful empiricism and cautious analysis that characterizes the work itself. The book...

The Horn of Africa.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The Horn of Africa is a collection of papers by leading experts on one of the world's most turbulent regions, where recent political changes have been remarkable. Sudan has been governed by a radical Islamic fundamentalist regime since January...

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony. A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... With the notable exception of texts written in the mid-1980s by Lester Ross and Vaclav Smil, there are few general introductory works in English analysing the Chinese environment. Edmonds book fills this space, and does so with considerable...

Colonial Green Revolution? Food, Irrigation and the State in Colonial Malaya.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This book is based on the premise that Malaya's colonial 'green revolution' in rice production may offer an alternative framework for the modern green revolution which, the author argues, has been beset by problems of an environmental and social...

Himalaya to the Sea: Geology, Geomorphology and the Quaternary.
March 1, 1996... This book is a review of the geology, landforms and landform history of the area that extends from the Himalaya Mountains to the Arabian Sea, an area which is essentially the state of Pakistan, or in terms of earth systems, roughly the catchment...

Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese.
March 1, 1996... With the signing of the Sino-British joint declaration over Hong Kong in 1984 worries about the future after Chinese take-over in June 1997 have loomed large and hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people have opted for emigration. This book...

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... According to most international statistics, Latin America is the only part of the Third World that approaches the level of urbanization - measured by demographic concentration - achieved in Europe, the USA and Canada. Approximately two-thirds of...

Historical Atlas of Canada, vol.2, the Land Transformed: 1800-1891.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Publication of the final volume of the trilogy comprising the Historical Atlas of Canada has been eagerly awaited by an international audience, which will certainly not be disappointed by this magnificent work. The treatise clearly illustrates...

Birmingham: a Study in Geography, History and Planning.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... There is much to admire in this well-written book. It is an admirable account of the growth of Birmingham from industrial village to great city as interpreted by an experienced geographer, historian and town planner. There are no 'natural'...

Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991.
March 1, 1996... With the advent of glasnost in the 1980s, increasing quantities of detailed demographic data became available to Soviet and Western scholars and contacts between scientists from both groups became more common and fruitful. Both trends are...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... With its combination of text and illustrations, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia offers a comprehensive yet concise picture of Australia. With 92 contributors, 250 photographs and 46 colour maps, the encyclopedia has eight sections: The...

Computerised Environmental Modelling - A Practical Introduction Using Excel.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... In the Preface, the authors argue that environmental science is undergoing two phases of development, which, for undergraduates, are generating two problems. The first is that management of the environment is developing into an analytical...

Geomorphology of Desert Environments.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The concept of this collection is excellent: an authoritative set of reviews of research; and at its best, which it is in many chapters, it resoundingly lives up to expectation. The essays from which this reviewer learnt most were those by Smith,...

Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This book will be of value to anyone interested in global Holocene climates, particularly as reconstructed from pollen analytical data and General Circulation Models. It marks the culmination of the COHMAP Project (Cooperative Holocene Mapping...

World Climate Disc: Global Climate Change Data on CD-ROM.
March 1, 1996... This pack arrives with a disc installation facility, a demonstration slide, a User Manual, a data reference guide and most important of all, the vast resource of a CD-ROM. On this disc, four data sets are stored: mean monthly surface air...

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: the Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests.
March 1, 1996... The causes of tropical deforestation brings together 19 published and previously unpublished papers on this pressing topic under the editorial control of Katrina Brown and David Pearce. The main aim of the book is to investigate the problems of...

Environmental Science for Environmental Management.
March 1, 1996... The Editor makes it plain that this is a text about interdisciplinarity. It should, therefore, be central to a Geography degree, even though it is written entirely by the University of East Anglia (which has no Geography Department), and...

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The highly-fragmented nature of tourism as a product and a process has resulted in references that are scattered over a wide range of literature, in publications from economics to anthropology, architecture to biology. Tourism researchers have...

Everyday Life: Women's Adaptive Strategies in Time and Space.
March 1, 1996... In the early optimistic 1960s days of the women's movement, it used to be assumed that participation in waged labour would make a significant contribution towards women's greater equality with men, if not their total liberation. Now, when more...

Tourism vs Environment: The Case for Coastal Areas.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The major contribution of this edited text is that it covers an aspect seldom covered in an otherwise expansive Literature on tourism, namely the geomorphological/tourism interface. Focusing specifically on coastal areas, the book is the product...

Tourism the State of the Art.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The task of reviewing this collection of 89 articles, is such that it can not possibly do justice to the enormous diversity of topics covered. The wide range of subjects is, in itself, a fair reflection of the state of the art in an industry...

Environmental Auditing - A Management Guide.
March 1, 1996... Environmental auditing is a multidisciplinary methodology used to assess periodically and objectively the environmental performance of an organization, authority, or in some instances, a region. For European industry, environmental auditing has...

Land Use and the Causes of Global Warming.
March 1, 1996... Five years of operation of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme have demonstrated that it is not enough to understand the science of global change. While radiative transfers in the atmosphere, or water movements in the hydrological...

Water Management in Deserts, a Comparative Analysis.
March 1, 1996... The book is published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Earth Science series. Although the book title suggests broad consideration of water resource management in drylands, in fact this is a comparative analysis of the water supply...

Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: a Global Perspective.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The subject of land use and land cover has been of central concern to geographers for most of the present century and on the evidence of this sound but by no means definitive collection of chapters on the topic it will exercise interdisciplinary...

Soil Resilience and Sustainable Land Use.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This is a collection of papers from a symposium held in Budapest in 1992. The contents consist of 30 chapters subdivided into six sections. It is never easy to arrange conference papers into a logical order for publication, however, in this case...

Environment and Housing in Third World Cities.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... In a recent review in this journal, dealing with Hardoy, Mitlin and Satterthwaite's (1992) Environmental Problems in Third World Cities, this reviewer alluded to the point that the volume provided a broad-brush overview of environmental issues in...

Water Quality: Prevention, Identification and Management of Diffuse Pollution.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This large and comprehensive book attempts to 'survey the myriad problems and challenges presented by this form of pollution (diffuse), and offers a wide range of feasible, cost effective solutions for dealing with them.' The authors define...

Geographical Information Handling - Research and Applications.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Geographical Information Handling - Research and Applications represents the summary of the research findings of the Joint Programme of research and research training in Geographical Information Handling funded by the UK Economic and Social...

Fractal Cities: a Geometry of Form and Function.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This book is about a search for a new understanding of the form of cities. It is seen by the authors as part of a drive towards a more profound understanding of physical form that is taking place in science generally. The book is concerned...

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The author, Vandama Shiva, is a leading physicist who abandoned her career in India's nuclear energy programme because of an environmental conscience. She is now Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource...

Blueprint 3: Measuring Sustainable Development.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... This is a welcome addition to the acclaimed series of books written by David Pearce et al., on the topic of sustainable development. The first of the series - Blueprint for a Green Economy (1989), commissioned by the UK Government, identified...

Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, vol. 15.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Volume 15 of this well-established series provides accounts of the lives of eight geographers and evaluations of their influence. Marco Polo's reputation as 'a careful and faithful reporter' is upheld in William L. Thomas's review. Michel Phipps...