The Geographical Journal articles from March 1998

The Geographical Journal archives from March 1998

New approaches to sustainable hazard management for Venice.
March 1, 1998... The City of Venice is a major international cultural artefact. Situated in its 550 square kilometre Lagoon, the location was developed from the seventh century onwards to defend the Venetians against their mainland enemies (Comune di Venezia,...

Non-sorted patterned ground in the high Drakensberg, Southern Africa: some new data.
March 1, 1998... Patterned ground is a 'group term for the more or less symmetrical forms, such as circles, polygons, nets, steps and stripes, that are characteristic of, but not necessarily confined to, mantle, subject to intensive frost action' (Washburn, 1956:...

China's future population and development challenges.
March 1, 1998... China has experienced a dramatic decline in fertility, since the early 1970s. The total fertility rate had been reduced from 5.75 in 1970 to 2.0 by 1992 (Peng, 1994). However, the population is still increasing owing to its particular structure...

European snow cover and its influence on spring and summer temperatures.
March 1, 1998... Current concerns about anthropogenic modification of the Earth's climate have concentrated on changes in temperature and precipitation. Less attention has been given to changes in other climatic variables and feedbacks resulting from such...

Landfill as a future waste management option in England: the view of landfill operators.
March 1, 1998... Waste is any substance which constitutes scrap material or an effluent or other unwanted surplus substance arising from the application of a process, or any substance or article which requires to be disposed of as being broken, worn out,...

Indigenous irrigation, agriculture and development, Marakwet, Kenya.
March 1, 1998... Farmer-managed irrigation systems have been an important focus of both theoretical and applied irrigation research in the last decade. Donor agencies have become increasingly disenchanted with large-scale irrigation, not least in sub-Saharan...

Interdependent urbanization in an urban world: an historical overview.
March 1, 1998... The last decade of the twentieth century marks a major watershed in the evolution of human settlement, for it encompasses the period during which the location of the world's people became more urban than rural (Clark, 1996). Variations among...

The Geography of Ohio.
March 1, 1998... The geography of Ohio epitomizes the enormous changes that have taken place in north-eastern USA. The Ohio valley was a major route westwards; subsequently the state became a major and fruitful agricultural region, and 100 years ago was a...

Climates of South Asia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... This book will be welcomed by those who have an interest in the South Asian monsoon, since there are not many books such as this one, which integrates the climates of South Asia in one volume. By drawing on a very extensive literature, the book...

Reconstructing the Balkans: A Geography of the New Southeast Europe.
March 1, 1998... The Balkans are still in turmoil eight years after the demolition of the Berlin Wall, with people protesting on the streets against political and economic corruption. This volume goes a long way in highlighting the background of wars, contested...

Contemporary Poland: Sapce and Society.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... This timely volume is very appropriate to undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Legacies from the recent communist past, and the rapid evolution hallmarking the present, have produced a cautious text: a discussion of ideology spills into...

The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... In The Cartographic Eye, Simon Ryan surveys the cultural, social and institutional factors that influenced the way British explorers described their journeys through Australia. He focuses primarily on the journals produced and published by Thomas...

The Oceans and Climate.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Every few years, for at least the last two decades, a new text has appeared concerned with the interaction between the atmosphere and the oceans and the interdependence of their circulation. The latest, by Bigg, is prompted by the significant...

Aeolian Geomorphology: An Introduction.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Following a relatively prolonged period in the academic wilderness, aeolian geomorphology has experienced a marked surge in research activity during the past two decades, a trend that has been reflected by a huge increase in published journal...

Karst and Caves of Great Britain.
March 1, 1998... This is the twelfth book in the Geological Conservation Review series (GCR) set up by the Nature Conservancy Council before it was split regionally. The objective of the book was to summarize the scientific reasoning behind the designation of...

Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Balick and Cox have combined their own ethnobotanical expertise with documented accounts to produce a beautifully illustrated introduction to this increasingly popular topic. The final book is not only readable and fascinating, but also...

Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... The 1990s have been designated by the United Nations, the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and Roberto Scarpa and Robert Tilling - both world leaders in volcanology - are to be congratulated for producing an excellent and...

Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Ever since the earliest years of feminist geography, there has been an interest in the relationship between the provision, if not lack, of child care and women's employment. Yet despite the obvious relevance of geography to issues of variations....

Managing a Conurbation: Birmingham and Its Region.
March 1, 1998... No longer, alas, does the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science provide us with a regional survey of the area visited. Such surveys were valued for their interpretations of the state of urban and economic...

Atlas and New Zealand Boundaries.
March 1, 1998... This atlas is in fact the fourth in a historical sequence of collections of maps of the various sub-divisions of New Zealand that have been used for administrative and statistical purposes. The first of these, published in 1968 by the Town and...

Spatial Analysis: Modelling in a GIS Environment.
March 1, 1998... In the past five years several books about spatial analysis and GIS have been published, usually originating from conference proceedings. True to this form, the 16 major papers in this volume were first presented at an ESRC/NCGIA sponsored...

The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670.
March 1, 1998... Despite its modest subtitle, Philip Burden's bibliography of early North American maps is considerably more than a list. Compiled by a prominent English map dealer with nearly 20 years of trade experience, this reference book is designed for an...

Senses of Place.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Surveying one's own scientific domain through a new set of lenses can be a humbling and exhilarating experience. This, it is hoped, will be the impression of many fellow geographers after reading this excellent collection of essays. Written by...

Planning for the future of tourism. (Royal Geographical Society's Environmental Forum in Oct 1997)
March 1, 1998... This one-day conference, held in October 1997, and organized by Allan Williams and Gareth Shaw, formed part of the Society's Environmental Forum and raised many issues concerned with the environment. The meeting brought together a range of...

Enhancing coastal resilience: planning for an uncertain future. (Environmental Forum held in Oct 29, 1997)
March 1, 1998... The vulnerability of Britain's coast to both flooding and erosion is well known, and much of its coastline is already managed to counter these hazards. The implications of environmental change, particularly accelerated sea-level rise, have...