The Geographical Journal articles from March 2001

The Geographical Journal archives from March 2001

Editorial.
March 1, 2001... It may not be obvious but this issue of the GJ is the first not to be published by RGS-IBG. We welcome Blackwell as our new partner in publishing all three of the Society's journals, as well as its Book Series. Academic publishing is changing...

Review article: Silt and the future development of China's Yellow River.
March 1, 2001... Silt loading is a critical problem in the use of the Yellow River for irrigation, domestic, and industrial water supplies. Nearly all of the silt comes in runoff from the immense and highly erodible Loess Plateau. Salinity has a secondary but...

Hurricane 07B in the Godavari Delta, Andhra Pradesh, India: vulnerability, mitigation and the spatial impact.
March 1, 2001... Few hurricane impact studies provide robust spatial parameters of damage or relate geographical patterns of destruction accurately to storm trajectories or agencies. A detailed spatial analysis is, therefore, presented of the destruction caused...

Coastal defence and the Habitats Directive: predictions of habitat change in England and Wales.
March 1, 2001... Future coastal defence policies and 'natural' processes will have an impact on habitats within Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Areas (SPA) and Ramsar sites. An overview of the potential nature and extent of these changes...

Mining and hydrological transformations in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
March 1, 2001... This paper analyses the influence of mining on hydrological conditions in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The perturbation of local hydrological conditions began in the fifteenth century as a result of wide-scale...

Evolution of disturbed oak woodlands: the case of Mexico City's western forest reserve.
March 1, 2001... Mexico City is the largest city in population and area in the world. In the last 30 years it has expanded its area westwards to include the mountains of the Sierra de las Cruces. These mountains contain the nearest forest reserve for the...

Fifty Years Ago.(MEXICO: LAND USE CHANGE IN MEXICO, 1519 AND 2000)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... MEXICO: LAND USE CHANGE IN MEXICO, 1519 AND 2000 Arturo Garcia Romero's article (this volume, pp. 72-82) on land use cover change and its ecological impacts on the western fringes of Mexico City provides an example of the dynamic nature of...

Mapping a northern land. The survey of Canada 1947-1994.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by GERALD MCGRATH and Louis SEBERT. London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, 668 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 7735 1689 1 It is now 30 years since Don Thomson completed his three-volume history of surveying and mapping in Canada, Man...

Images and Icons of the New World.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by KAREN SEVERUD COOK. London: The British Library, 1996, 112 pp. [pound]17.50 (pbk). ISBN 0 7123 4520 5 This slim volume contains five essays on various aspects of the early cartography of North America, reprinted from the...

County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703: a bibliography, Vol. III. Atlases published 1764-1789.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703: a bibliography, Vol. III. Atlases published 1764-1789. Compiled by DONALD HODSON. London: The British Library, 1997, 208 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 7123 4524 8 The third volume of Donald...

Enzyklopadisches Worterbuch Kartographie in 25 Sprachen, 2 erweiterte Ausgabe.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... By JOACHIM NEUMANN. Munich: Sauer, 1997, 586 PP. DM480. ISBN 3 598 10764 1 The problem with this book begins on the title page. Only in reference to the five languages stated is it infact encyclopaedic, in the normal sense of being a...

Historical Atlas of South-West England.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by ROGER KAIN and WILLIAM RAVENHILL. University of Exeter Press 1999, 584 pp. [pound]55.00. ISBN 0 85989 434 7 It is difficult to know where to start a review of this volume, and one cannot do better than to quote Roger Kain's...

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: No. 4, Europe and Turkey.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by GERALDINE BEECH. London: The Stationery Office, 1998, 1068 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 11 440275 2 A specialist volume, this -- full of interesting facts and references to the obscure -- but nonetheless an important one. The aim of the...

Artillery's Astrologers: A history of British survey and mapping on the Western Front 1914-1918.(Review)
March 1, 2001... By PETER CHASSEAUD Lewes, Sussex: Mapbooks, 1999, 558 pp. [pound]50.00. ISBN 0 951 2080 2 0 The awful story of the Great War of 1914--18 still commands the interest of historians, biographers and novelists, and a visual history of...

An Introduction to the Theory of Spatial Object Modelling for GIS.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... By MARTIEN MOLENAAR London: Taylor and Francis, 1998, 246 PP. [pound]24.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 7484 0774 X This book is one of a new series of research monographs in GIS, which aims to provide an alternative, more focused channel for the...

Who's who in the history of cartography. The international guide to the subject (D9).(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by MARY ALICE LOWENTHAL. Tring: Map Collector Publications Ltd, 1998, 204 pp. [pound]24.00 (pbk). ISBN 0 906430 18 6 The first edition of this guide appeared 25 years ago under the joint Editorship of Eila Campbell and Peter...

La geographie appliquee Du geographe universitaire au geographe professionel.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... By MICHEL PHLIPPONNEAU. Paris: Armand Colin, 1999, 300 pp. 135ff. (pbk). ISBN 2 200 01878 9 This book addresses the question: 'What is the use of Geography?' The answer given is resoundingly positive. Geography graduates possess many...

Policy issues in Modern Cartography.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by D.R. FRASER TAYLOR Amsterdam: Pergamon, 1998, 277 Pp. $155.00. ISBN 0030431119 This third volume in the series is a response to the 'technologized' focus of recent literature at the expense of a discussion of the wide range...

Atlas de la Poblacion Espanola: Analisis de Base Municipal.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... PEDRO REQUES VELASCO VINCENTE RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ. Santander: Servico de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cantabria, 1998, 123 pp. n.p. ISBN 84 8102 212 8 In the last two decades the reputation of Spanish geography and Spanish...

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (Second edition).(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... RAYMOND S. BRADLEY. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999, 613 pp. $69.95. ISBN 0 12 124010 X The first edition of this book, published in 1985, has proven to be an indispensable text for anyone with an interest in Quaternary Science,...

State of the World 1999.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... LESTER R. BROWN et al. London: Earthscan, 1999, 259 pp. [pound]14.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 85383 594 3 This year's addition to the Worldwatch Institute's flagship series is a 'Special Millennium Edition': a review of past trends and options...

Restructuring Global and Regional Agricultures: Transformations in Australasian agri-food economies and spaces.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by DAVID BURCH JASPER GOSS and GEOFFREY LAWRENCE London: Ashgate, 1999, 320 pp. [pound]42.50. ISBN 1 840 14 975 2 This is the third publication in four years from the Agri-food Research Network, a group of Australian and New...

Land Cover Change: Scotland from the 1940s to the 1980s.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Edited by E.C. MACKNEY, M.C. SHEWRY and G.J. TUDOR. London: The Stationery Office, 1998, 263 pp. [pound]80.00. ISBN 0 11 495882 3 This is the sixth volume published by Scottish Naturall Heritage in the Natural Heritage of Scotland...

Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by FELIX DRIVER and DAVID GILBERT. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, 283 pp. [pound]45.00. ISBN 0 7190 5413 3 That European empires were reflected in their home cities is well known. The landscapes of London, Paris...

Looking at Maps in the Dark.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by LEO DE HAAN and PIERS BLAIKIE. Utrecht: AGIDS, 1998, 165 pp. n.p. (pbk). ISBN 90 6809 261 8 The book, Looking at Maps in the Dark, originated from the papers presented at the symposium on Land Management and Sustainable...

The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... By R.C.L. WILSON, S.A. DRURY and J.L. CHAPMAN. London: Routledge and The Open University, 1999, 267 pp. [pound]19.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 19842 9 This erudite and very readable book introduces and explains two areas which are often dealt...

A Right to Roam: Should We Open Up Britain's Countryside?(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... By M. SHOARD. Oxford: OUP, 1999, 438 pp. [pound]8.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 19 288016 0 This is a substantial, but very readable book, which argues a convincing case for a universal right of access to the countryside of Great Britain and...

The Natural History of Oman: A Festschrift for Michael Gallagher.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Edited by MARTIN FISHER SHAHINA GHAZANFAR and ANDREW SPALTON Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 1999, 206 pp. NLG 96 (hbk). ISBN 90 5782 050 1 In his contribution to this volume, Michael Gallagher writes that festschrifts he has read 'Honour...