The Geographical Journal articles from November 1994

The Geographical Journal archives from November 1994

Agricultural intensification and the threat to soil fertility in Africa: evidence from the Jos Plateau, Nigeria.
November 1, 1994... AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION refers to increased production of crops and/or livestock associated with population growth, reduced land availability and increased demand for food. This may occur through increased frequency of cultivation (Pingali...

Flood frequency and impacts at Khartoum since the early nineteenth century. (sudanese capital)
November 1, 1994... THE 1988 FLOODS IN KHARTOUM and elsewhere along the Nile in northern Sudan (Ali, 1988; Hulme and Trilsbach, 1989; Abu Sin and Harbi, 1991) have prompted questions regarding their cause, severity compared with previous floods and the likelihood of...

Collected food and domestic knowledge in the Gambia, West Africa.
November 1, 1994... THIS WORK EXAMINES 'DOMESTIC' KNOWLEDGE concerning food preparation (processing, cooking, preservation and storage) of collected foodstuffs in The Gambia, West Africa. 'Domestic' traditionally refers to home-based unpaid activities, undertaken to...

Diurnal river flow variations and development planning in the tropics.
November 1, 1994... MANUAL OBSERVATIONS OF RIVER LEVELS, one or two per day, have been and continue to be the normal method of obtaining data for surface water resources planning throughout many developing countries. In most cases, persons residing close to rivers...

Urban fruit and vegetable supply in Dar es Salaam. (Tanzanian city)
November 1, 1994... THE URBAN AREAS OF MOST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES have experienced very rapid and concentrated growth, creating an ever swelling demand for food. The food supply systems become increasingly complex as the demand and the area required to supply this...

Outgrower barley cultivation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria: a case study of agricultural innovation.
November 1, 1994... THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE PROGRESS of a new outgrower scheme on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, from its inception in 1989. The Jos International Breweries (JIB) barley scheme is neither large, nor has it been widely publicized, but it is representative...

Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico: Attitudes, Experience and Behavior of Homeowners.
November 1, 1994... The incidence of natural disasters seems to be increasing. Major disasters kill up to 140 000 people every year, 95 per cent of them in Third World countries, and the annual cost exceeds US $50 billion. This toll could increase owing to the...

Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... This is a most impressive volume. It provides us with ten valuable papers, each based on intensive field research either in Nigeria or in East Africa. In addition, in contrast to many edited collections, there are substantial introductory and...

Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East.
November 1, 1994... Water is considered to be a very important element in the international relations of the countries of the Middle East and this study reflects a well inspired intent to analyse the issues in an interdisciplinary mode and a scholarly implementation...

State of India's Environment: A Citizen's Report No. 3: Floods, Flood Plains and Environmental Myths.
November 1, 1994... The Centre for Science and Environment is an NGO in New Delhi, led by journalist Anil Agarwal, which has pioneered publicity about environmental problems throughout India. The first Citizen's Report of 1982 was written in about six months, as a...

The Changing Geography of China.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... The Changing Geography of China covers a comprehensive range of topics including: resources, historical development, politics, rural and agricultural issues, industrial change, urbanization and regional variation of development. The main emphasis...

The West Pacific Rim: An Introduction.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... This book challenges several general assumptions about development in the course of explaining the recent economic success of the West Pacific Rim -- here comprising Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines,...

The Geography of the European Community.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... This book is a welcome addition to the geographical literature of Europe. Its aim is set out on page one: 'This work is intended to serve as a basis for the study of the European Communities (...EC...) within a broader European and global...

Mires. Process, Exploitation and Conservation.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... The origins of this book lie in Moor und Torfkunde, edited by Gottlich, and first published in 1976. Heathwaite's aim has been to provide more than just an English edition, and while this version remains focused on Germany there is much that...

Telecommunications and Geography.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... At the start of this small volume, the author says that little has been written about this subject, even though communications between places is basic to the study of geography. He hopes that the volume will go some way to filling the lacuna. It...

Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... Although in the last two centuries much has been written about map projections, literature on the history of the subject has been much more limited. Aside from the historical treatise of d'Avezac-Macaya (1863) no other attempt has ever been made...

Landscape Ecology and Geographic Information Systems.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... Roy Haines-Young and his co-editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a longstanding, but recently revived, tradition (landscape ecology) and a new, dynamic mode of analysis (geographic information systems -- GIS). The former deals...

World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology and Capitalism.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... In a stimulating, if uneven, book Peter Hugill takes a broad view -- over a long time span -- of his theme. The approach is in the Berkeley tradition of Cultural Geography rather than the source-focused analytical approach of much British...

All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas.
November 1, 1994... The first edition of this widely cited account of the history of geography was published in 1972, with a second edition appearing in 1981. The basic structure of the book separates the subject matter into two parts: classical geography and modern...