The Geographical Journal articles from March 2008

The Geographical Journal archives from March 2008

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... During 2007, the Geographical Journal carried 23 full papers, 33 book reviews, and a commentary piece on 'Urbanisation and global environmental change' based on presentations at the Opening Plenary Session of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in...

The conquering of climate: discourses of fear and their dissolution.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction If we can conquer climate, the whole world will become stronger and nobler. Huntington (1915/2001, 294) The possibilities of deliberately bringing about counter-veiling climatic changes... need to be...

Determinism within human-environment research and the rediscovery of environmental causation.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction The fundamental questions of human experience continue to vex us academically and as a society. Of the major questions that we challenge ourselves with, geography and geographers historically focus most intensively on...

Developers in the public interest? The role of urban development corporations in the Anglophone Caribbean.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction The island nations of the Caribbean share a variety of historical and social features, including small size, a colonial history, and their integration in the global economy as purveyors of raw materials, agricultural...

Climate change in the Arctic: current and future vulnerability in two Inuit communities in Canada.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction There is strong evidence that climate change is already occurring in the Canadian Arctic (McBean et al. 2005; Bonsal and Prowse 2006; Moore 2006). Documented changes include significant warming, increased precipitation,...

Thinking outside the framework: equitable research partnerships for environmental research in Australia.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction Background and aim Many environmental scientists endorse the participation of Indigenous (and non-Indigenous) stakeholders in research that connects the natural and cultural components of global sustainability (e.g....

Power intermittency, redundancy and tidal phasing around the United Kingdom.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Introduction The demand for renewable energy in the United Kingdom is being driven by Government targets (Panmure Gordon 2006) and incentives due to environmental, economic and political pressures. Support for renewables predates the Kyoto...

Global Environments through the Quaternary.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Global Environments through the Quaternary. By DAVID E ANDERSON, ANDREW S GOUDIE and ADRIAN G PARKER Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 359 pp. [pounds sterling]25.99 paperback ISBN 978 0 19 874226 5 It is 30 years since the first...

Trees: National Champions.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Trees: National Champions. Photographs by BARBARA BOSWORTH, foreword by ROGER CONOVER, essays by DOUGLAS R NICKEL and JOHN R STILGOE Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005, 169 pp. [pounds sterling]25.95 ISBN 0 262 02592 2 Barbara Bosworth has...

Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico: Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico: Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change. By HALLIE EAKIN Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2006, 242 pp. US$50.00 ISBN: 978 0 8165 2500 3 This is a subtle but powerful book. It describes how...

Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism. By HARM DE BLIJ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 308 pp. [pounds sterling]15.99 ISBN 978 0 1951 8301 6 Given its...

The Changing Religious Landscape of Europe.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Changing Religious Landscape of Europe. Edited by HANS KNIPPENBERC Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2005, 218 pp. np ISBN 90 5589 248 3 The Changing Religious Landscape of Europe provides a useful overview of the current state of what the...

The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague. By ERIC STOVER Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 230 pp. US$19.95 paperback ISBN 0 8122 3890 7 Stover's text has three objectives: to 'probe... the...

The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia. By KONSTANTIN AXENOV, ISOLDE BRADE and EVGENIJ BONDARCHUK London: Routledge, 2006, 196 pp. [pounds sterling]80.00 ISBN 0 415 39739 1 This book looks at urban space...

Human or Physical: People and Places of Edge Hill.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Human or Physical: People and Places of Edge Hill. Edited by SYLVIA WOODHEAD and ANN CHAPMAN Green Lane Books, Grange over Sands, 2006, 368 pp. [pounds sterling]14.99 paperback ISBN 1 900230 41 0 There are a number of books which deal with...

Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. By THOMAS G WEISS Cambridge: Polity, 2007, 196 pp. [pounds sterling]12.99 paperback ISBN 978 0 7456 4022 8 These are difficult times for those who would like to see a global society governed...