The Geographical Journal articles from November 1995

The Geographical Journal archives from November 1995

Shall we go home? Increasing urban poverty in African cities and migration processes.
November 1, 1995... That the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have been urbanizing rapidly since the 1960s is very often accepted without question. It was common in the 1980s for Africa to be characterized as the continent with the lowest levels of urbanization, but...

Limestone pavements in the British Isles: a review.
November 1, 1995... No one walking in the Burren hills of County, Clare, or in the Ingleborough district of Yorkshire, can fail to be impressed by limestone pavements. These naked expanses of rock, once scoured by glaciers and now fretted by solution, have long...

Geomorphological investigations for the Channel Tunnel terminal and portal.
November 1, 1995... Consultant geomorphologists were involved at four stages during the geo-technical investigation of the Channel Tunnel portal and terminal: 1 in carrying out an historical study of old maps to determine the extent of made-ground, particularly...

Culture, environmental experience and environmental awareness: making sense of young Kenyan children's views of place.
November 1, 1995... In a recent review of the development of young children's spatial thinking, Gauvain (1992) speculates on the importance of culture as an artefact to geographical understanding. Espousing a transactional stance, she reasons that as culture affords...

Directories as elements of town life: the case of National Socialist Germany.
November 1, 1995... Previous literature discussing the role of directory material within urban historical geography has very largely focused on their qualities as quantitative sources, providing names and addresses of individuals or more especially businesses....

Economic and political prospects for the British Atlantic Dependent Territories.
November 1, 1995... The post-colonial era has not yet arrived, for numerous places retain some form of colonial relationship with a distant state. The French administer nine inhabited overseas territories with a total population of about 1.75 million (Aldrich and...

The presidential address. (The Earl Jellicoe speech)(Transcript)
November 1, 1995... at the Annual General Meeting of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 5 June 1995 I rise to welcome you all here this afternoon. I am indeed glad and honoured to be making this the very first Presidential...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan.
November 1, 1995... In the sense that it does not consist of a long list of entries arranged in alphabetical order, this is not a conventional encyclopedia: rather it is a lavishly illustrated handbook which in conception, organization and high standard of...

Climatic Change in the Intra-Americas Sea.
November 1, 1995... This volume results from the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme (Wider Caribbean Region) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (Caribbean and Adjacent Regions). It largely comprises the reports submitted to...

International Counterurbanization: British Migrants in Rural France.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... This fascinating research monograph concentrates on the growing number of British people who acquired residential property in the French countryside during the late 1980s, for use as a second home, for retirement or, less importantly, as a base...

Economic and Social Development in Pacific Asia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... This volume originated in the Second Geographical Symposium held at the University of Keele in September, 1990. The authors of the 11 chapters represent a roll-call of prominent academics (mostly geographers) working on Asian development based in...

Landscape Sensitivity.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... An understanding of landscape sensitivity is crucial to its management. The notion of 'sensitivity' implies that there are thresholds between stability and instability, between the status quo and change. It is a concept which is crucial,...

The Oxford-Hammond Atlas of the World.
November 1, 1995... Any new world atlas is a major cartographic publishing event. This atlas claims to be the first made entirely by computer, using a data base and a new optical conformal projection both created by the mathematical-physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum....