The Geographical Journal articles from March 2005

The Geographical Journal archives from March 2005

Editorial.
March 1, 2005... It is with some trepidation that I write my first end of year Editorial for The Geographical Journal. It really does not seem just over a year that I took over from Andrew Millington as Editor. Without doubt, the first year of editing the GJ...

Launch of the Coastal and Marine Working Group.(Announcement)
March 1, 2005... The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has a long association with the study of the seas and coasts of the world. This connection is evident in the expeditions undertaken by members of the RGS-IBG, in...

A geographical perspective on poverty-environment interactions.
March 1, 2005... The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Thomas Malthus 1798 Degradation of these [environmental]...

Card-carrying hunters, rural poverty, and wildlife decline in northern Cote d'Ivoire.
March 1, 2005... Introduction The impact of hunting and the bushmeat trade on the wildlife populations of the tropics are topics of considerable interest in the conservation and development literature (Alexander and McGregor 2000; Duffy 2000; Gibson and...

Global cotton and local environmental management: the political ecology of rich and poor small-hold farmers in southern Mali.
March 1, 2005... Introduction With the rise of the sustainable development paradigm in the late 1980s, poverty came to be identified as one of the major causes of environmental degradation in the tropical regions of the world, especially Africa. Emblematic...

Understanding community forestry: a qualitative meta-study of the concept, the process, and its potential for poverty alleviation in the United States case.
March 1, 2005... Introduction Residents of rural America have historically derived part or all of their livelihoods from natural resources, such as the forests, and continue to do so in many parts of the country. However, over time, given changes in...

What kind of intensification? Agricultural practice, soil fertility and socioeconomic differentiation in rural Burkina Faso.
March 1, 2005... Introduction Farmers in Burkina Faso, like other regions of sub-Saharan Africa, are changing their landscapes through intensification. They are responding to increased population pressure and land scarcity by intensifying their production...

Poverty, hunger and population policy: linking Cairo with Johannesburg.
March 1, 2005... Introduction The Third UN Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, marked a step forward by proposing a set of ethically acceptable measures for reducing population growth. These have since received acceptance among...