The Geographical Journal articles from March 2007

The Geographical Journal archives from March 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... During 2006, the Geographical Journal carried 22 full papers, 31 book reviews, and 2 commentary papers in relation to the Indian Ocean Tsunami special section published at the end of 2005. Two out of the four issues were Special Issues, the...

Referees.
March 1, 2007... The Editorial staff of The Geographical Journal would not be able to publish the GJ without the help of the people listed below, who acted as referees for papers between 1 November 2005 to 31 December 2006. Their help is gratefully...

Environment and development in the former South African bantustans.(homelands)
March 1, 2007... Introduction South Africa's first fully democratic elections of 1994 were typified by a wave of optimism that its social and spatial history would be transformed to redress the inequities of the apartheid era. The rigid imposition of...

Developing KaNgwane: geographies of segregation and integration in the new South Africa.
March 1, 2007... Introduction More than 12 years after its first democratic elections, South Africa serves as a fitting example of the complex and dialectical relationships between society and space. Colonial and apartheid governments undertook an...

Land-cover change and human-environment interactions in a rural cultural landscape in South Africa.
March 1, 2007... Introduction Analyses of the drivers of environmental change have been increasingly criticized for being too simplistic (e.g. Leach and Mearns 1996; Lambin et al. 2001; Geist and Lambin 2002). These authors assert that a deeper...

Resilient geographies: land, boundaries and the consolidation of the former bantustans in post-1994 South Africa.
March 1, 2007... Introduction Although the academic attention to bantustans in South Africa was inseparable from that of the implementation of apartheid in a broad sense, the question arose as to whether studies on the bantustans might actually legitimate...

Apartheid spatial engineering and land use change in Mankweng, South Africa: 1963-2001.
March 1, 2007... Introduction South Africa's transition out of apartheid has been complex and the break with past traditions has been incomplete. A primary concern in the apartheid era was physically separating black from white people whilst keeping the...

Cities and global environmental change: exploring the links.(urbanization and global environmental change: 21st century challenges)
March 1, 2007... Introduction Research into global environmental change (GEC), itself a deliberately broader and more encompassing term than climate change, has been dominated by natural sciences concerned with climate change and modelling and the...

Megacities and global change: key priorities.(Urbanization and global environmental change: 21st century challenges)
March 1, 2007... New faces of worldwide urbanization By 2015, it is projected that more than 600 million people will live in approximately 60 megacities worldwide (i.e. metropolises with more than 5 million people (1)). More than two-thirds of the...

Urbanization and global environmental change: local effects of urban warming.(Urbanization and global environmental change: 21st century challenges)
March 1, 2007... Introduction The extent and rate of global environmental changes, whether greenhouse gas-induced warming, deforestation, desertification, or loss in biodiversity, are driven largely by the rapid growth of the Earth's human population....

Climatic perturbation and urbanization in Senegal.(urbanization and global environmental change: 21st century challenges)
March 1, 2007... Introduction Senegal benefits from a Sudano-Guinean climate and thus from more favourable ecological conditions in the southern part of its territory. Furthermore, the temperate climate of the Atlantic seaboard has played an important role...

Water Resources Planning.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Water Resources Planning. By ANDREW A DZURIK Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003, 393 pp. $59.95 ISBN 0 7425 1744 6 This book deals with water resources planning and management within the USA at a level suitable for use by...

Encyclopedia of World Climatology.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Encyclopedia of World Climatology. Edited by JOHN E OLIVER Springer, Heidelberg, 2005, 854 pp. [pounds sterling]276.00 ISBN 1 4020 3264 1 Way back in the mists of time a friend of mine decided that, for his undergraduate dissertation...

Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and what it Means for Our Future.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and what it Means for Our Future. By JOHN D COX National Academy Press: Oxford, 2005, 215 pp. [pounds sterling]17.95 paperback ISBN 0 309 09312 0 It's a cliche, but don't judge this book by its...

Granite Landscapes of the World.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Granite Landscapes of the World. By PIOTR MIGON Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 384 pp. [pounds sterling]95.00 ISBN 0 19 927368 5 This is an attractive book, the second in a series Geomorphological Landscapes of the World being...

The Ethics of Waste: How we relate to rubbish.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Ethics of Waste: How we relate to rubbish. By GAY HAWKINS Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005, 156 pp. [pounds sterling]15.99 paperback ISBN 0 7425 3013 2 How do you think about waste? As useless and contaminating: the...

Capitalism as if the World Matters.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Capitalism as if the World Matters. By JONATHON PORRITT London: Earthscan, 2006, 336 pp. [pounds sterling]18.99 ISBN 1 84407 192 8 This is a brave, savvy and interesting book. Brave because the author expects that the book will attract...

The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes. By JACQUELINE HAYDEN London: Routledge, 2006, 178 pp. [pounds sterling]65.00 ISBN 0 415 36805 7 Jacqueline Hayden has been involved with...

Confronting Saffron Demography: Religion, Fertility, and Women's Status in India.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Confronting Saffron Demography: Religion, Fertility, and Women's Status in India. By PATRICIA JEFFERY and ROGER JEFFERY Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2006, 161 pp. US$15.00 paperback ISBN 81 88789 40 2 This timely collection of...

Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies of India. Edited by SARASWATI RAJU, M SATISH KUMAR and STUART CORBRIDGE London: Sage, 2006, 368 pp. [pounds sterling]35.00 ISBN 0 7619 3436 7 The fifteen original essays in this edited volume are...