The Geographical Journal articles from March 1997

The Geographical Journal archives from March 1997

Community-based planning: Canada's Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP).
March 1, 1997... A recent trend in many parts of the Developed World, has been for government at various levels to promote the use of human and financial resources in schemes in which greater control of the development process is vested in the hands of a local...

Comparative regional geography in India and West Africa: soils, landforms and economic theory in agricultural development strategies.
March 1, 1997... Comparative regional geography is an often fruitful way of highlighting alternative paths of development between regions which have similar physical characteristics. The old possibilist debate finds many fields of application in the Tropics...

Small farmers and forest loss in Cross River National Park, Nigeria.
March 1, 1997... The loss of tropical moist forest (TMF) is recognized as a major environmental problem globally (Park, 1992), and particularly in the West African sub-region (Martin, 1991). The causes of TMF loss vary across the globe and regionally-specific...

Development from below in the 'new' South Africa: the case of Hertzog, Eastern Cape.
March 1, 1997... Africa is distinctive in the degree to which a large proportion of its population still derives its livelihood from agriculturally-related activities. It is small wonder, therefore, that the focus of development in theory, if not always in...

Estimating areas of land under small-scale irrigation using satellite imagery and ground data for a study area in N.E. Nigeria.
March 1, 1997... In order to plan sound land and water development programmes, it is important for governments to have clear and accurate information about the present uses of these resources. It has been all too common in Africa for water development schemes,...

The Middle East: A Geopolitical Study of the Region in the New Global Era.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... It is difficult not to feel disappointed by this book. To begin with, it is not really about the Middle East but focuses on the struggle between Israel and the Arab World, although it makes a brave attempt to put this in a broad regional context...

Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation.
March 1, 1997... This book is designed as an introductory text on Africa's geography. Its scope is very wide - covering the whole continent excluding the five North African countries, but including some of the associated islands, and the complete range of human...

The Physical Geography of Africa.
March 1, 1997... This is the first of a series of texts which Oxford University Press intends to publish on the physical geography of the different continents. It is intended that each volume will include discussion of the main types of environment, the main...

Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy 1900 to 1950.
March 1, 1997... Harris' primary objective is to debunk the myth which identifies the suburbs as an expression of middle class living. In a detailed and penetrating analysis of Toronto he achieves this and asks us, more broadly, to reconsider the nature of...

American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega.
March 1, 1997... The University of Southern Maine is fortunate in having obtained (in 1988 and 1989, respectively) the exquisite maps, atlases, and globes collected by Lawrence M.C. Smith and Eleanor Houston Smith and the rare maps assembled by Dr Harold L. and...

The New Georgia: Space, Society, Politics.
March 1, 1997... As volume number three in UCL Press's Changing Eastern Europe series, this text acknowledges the editorial assistance of Tony French, one of the two Editors of the series and one of Britain's longest-serving and best-known geographers with...

Rural Europe: Identity and Change.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Appropriately enough this reviewer read this book in the heart of Europe, in Crans-Montana in Switzerland, before writing a new course on Rural Planning in Europe and embarking on a two year ESRC-funded research project on the contribution of...

Mass Migration in Europe: The Legacy and the Future.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... This paperback version of the book, originally published by Belhaven in 1993, is greatly to be welcomed. The book's excellent qualities have clearly been appreciated by the readership, and it is good to know that it will now be even more...

Antarctica Sixty Years Ago: A Re-Appraisal of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37.
March 1, 1997... The British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37 (BGLE) was the most important and successful British polar expedition (on land) between the world wars. It was very efficient, costing only [pounds]20 000 (or [pounds]400 000 today) for the work of...

Interactions of Desertification and Climate.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Martin Williams is Director of the Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies in the University of Adelaide. Robert Bailing is Director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Arizona State University. Both have published extensively on recent...

Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... As David Butler asserts in the introduction of this fascinating and timely volume, geomorphological processes are 'frequently presented as if they were operative in a sterile, nonliving void'. His book redresses the balance with verve, focusing...

The Historical Boundaries Between Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia: Documents and Maps, 1815-1945.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... This is an important new work from a publisher concentrating on the regional history of crisis zones through research among primary documents. It provides background diplomatic and cartographic material of a long-running Balkan conflict,...

The Shape of the World: Explorations in Human Geography, 5 vols.
March 1, 1997... These five books, together with the accompanying associated radio and TV broadcast material (which is extremely good) comprise the latest version of the Open University's second level Geography course. It is very much a contemporary statement of...

Geographic Information Systems: Socioeconomic Applications.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... An updated account of recent advances in this rapidly developing area, the author's approach is to set out a non-technical overview of GIS theory and practice for first-time users. It provides a valuable overview of different approaches which...

The conservation of cultural and environmental diversity in Borneo.
March 1, 1997... The fourth biennial conference of the Borneo Research Council was held at the University of Brunei Darussalam from 10 to 15 June, 1996. Previous conferences had been held at Kuching in Sarawak, Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, and Pontianak in West...

Environmental transformation in developing countries.
March 1, 1997... If challenging orthodox thinking is the purpose of academia, recent research into environment and development issues has fulfilled this task. Since the 1984 Mohonk Conference effectively destroyed the so-called Himalayan theory of environmental...