The Geographical Journal articles from March 1999

The Geographical Journal archives from March 1999

The changing geography of world food consumption in the second half of the twentieth century.
March 1, 1999... The discussion of food consumption during the last half century has been dominated by world food supplies and population growth, and the extent of undernutrition in the developing countries (FAO, 1996a). Much has also been written on changing...

Military geography: the influence of terrain in the outcome of the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915.
March 1, 1999... The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 ranks as one of the most controversial of the Great War. Often seen as a 'side-show' to the main events of the Western Front (Hart, 1934; Taylor, 1963; Gilbert, 1994), it was a costly gamble intended to knock...

Population growth and poverty in Machakos District, Kenya.
March 1, 1999... The influential book More People Less Erosion (Tiffen et al., 1994) investigated population growth and environmental change in Machakos, Kenya. Tiffen et al. argued that population growth need not lead to environmental degradation, since if...

Regional inequalities in the Peruvian tourist industry.
March 1, 1999... In the developing countries, most tourist studies have focused on international tourist flows between countries of origin and destination (Mansfield, 1990; O'Hare and Barrett, 1994, 1997; Economist Intelligence Unit, 1971-). As a consequence,...

Persistent features from a palaeo-landscape: the ancient tracks of the Maltese Islands.
March 1, 1999... Island landscapes, subject to contemporary anthropogenic transformations, assume a conformity which is an expression of a global rather than any local culture. In contrast, the physical isolation and insularity of island societies in the past...

Geomorphological evidence and Pleistocene refugia in Africa.
March 1, 1999... The success of the pleistocene refugia theory (Haffer, 1969) is based on its ability to explain the unparalleled biotic diversity of the Neotropical rain forests. Its application to Africa must contend with firs fly, a relatively impoverished...

The application of GIS to irrigation water resource management in England and Wales.(geographic information systems)
March 1, 1999... Irrigation forms an essential component of crop production for many growers in the UK. For some crops, particularly vegetables, irrigation is now vital to meet the high quality, reliable and continuous supplies demanded by the major multiples,...

Climates of the British Isles: Present, Past and Future.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by MIKE HULME and ELAINE BARROW. London: Routledge, 1997, 454 pp. [pounds]17.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 13017 4 This volume of papers was brought together to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Climatic Research Unit by...

The Environment: Principles and Applications.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By CHRIS PARK. London: Routledge, 1997, 598pp. [pounds]18.99. ISBN 0 415 12200 7 Publications about the environment are abundant. A cursory key-word search of the reviewer's university library catalogue revealed 3248 entries with the...

Principles and Applications of Economic Geography: Economy, Policy, Environment.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By DEAN M. HANINK. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997, 495pp. [pounds]21.50. ISBN 0 471 10933 9 The stated purpose of this book is 'to introduce the basic principles of economic geography concerning location and spatial interaction...

Mexico Megacity.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... By JAMES B. PICK and EDGAR W. BUTLER. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1997, 411pp. [pounds]62.95. ISBN 0 8133 8983 6 This book is a compendium of data on Mexico City, with plentiful computer-generated maps and graphics, detailed tables...

Biodiversity and Conservation.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By MICHAEL J. JEFFRIES. London: Routledge, 1997, 208pp. [pounds]11.99. ISBN 0 415 14905 3 This reviewer was drawn to review this book because the title immediately caught his attention. As it says on the back cover, the term...

Introduction to the Economics of Water Resources: An International Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... By STEPHEN MERRETT. London: UCL Press, 1997, 211 pp. [pounds]14.95. ISBN 1 85728 637 5 Because water resource issues are increasingly a matter for urgent public debate, one is predisposed to welcome any text which attempts to develop a...

Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North-South Divide.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... By GRAHAM CHAPMAN, KEVAL KUMAR, CAROLINE FRASER and IVOR GABER. London: Routledge, 1997, 327pp. [pounds]18.99. ISBN 0 415 15505 3 In a period when the advent of mass telecommunication is often thought to have forged a global circuit of...

The Evolving Coast.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... By RICHARD A. DAVIS, Jr. New York: Scientific American Library, 1997, 233 pp. [pounds]14.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 7167 6021 5 The Evolving Coast was first published in 1994 in hardback version; this volume has been subject to a number of...

Living the Global City: Globalization as a Local Process.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Edited by JOHN EADE. London: Routledge, 1997, 196 pp. [pounds]13.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 13887 6 This book seeks to explore the process of globalization as it has impacted upon the 'everyday life' of certain groups occupying particular...