The Geographical Journal articles from November 1997

The Geographical Journal archives from November 1997

An assessment of where people will witness the first sunrise of the new millennium.
November 1, 1997... There is increasing worldwide interest in the rapidly approaching advent of the third millennium, and more especially, the first sunrise of that new epoch. However, confusion exists as to where the first sunrise will take place (McWhirter,...

Rural infrastructure and agricultural development in Southern Africa: a centre-periphery perspective.
November 1, 1997... The provision of rural infrastructure in developing countries is integral to their development and yet it often does not receive adequate attention from researchers or policy-makers. Whenever infrastructure is discussed, it is usually with...

Environmental responsibility and business regulation: the case of sustainable tourism.
November 1, 1997... At a recent conference on tourism, a delegate was overhead to say that regulating tourism was like shackling Santa Claus: a killjoy interference with people's recreation. Yet as evidence mounts that unrestricted tourism growth may create...

The presidential address.(Annual General Meeting of The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 2 June 1997)(Transcript)
November 1, 1997... Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished Fellows of this ancient but very vigorous Society. Some of you may recall that I have already taxed your infinite patience with three Presidential Addresses. I shall doubtless overtax your patience again...

The case for geography funding at 'part laboratory' level. (Conference of Heads of Geography Departments in Higher Education in the UK, Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers)
November 1, 1997... Geography is in holistic and integrative university discipline that bridges the natural and social sciences. It is rare for a subject to make integration a priority and to do so successfully. Geography is strongly focused upon the...

Fifty years ago.(Transcript)
November 1, 1997... After a paper (Geogrl J., 1947 110: 201-22) was read by Dr O.H.K. Spate, on 8 December 1947, Professor L. Dudley Stamp said: After listening to the masterly exposition by Dr Spate, I feel anything I can say will not add much to the evening's...

The Middle Eastern Environment.
November 1, 1997... Edited by Eric Watkins. Cambridge: St Malo Press, 1995, 253 pp. 20.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1898565 03 1 This volume includes a wide range of topics within 18 papers, many of which are concerned with the environment only in the most...

The Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by John N.H. Britton. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, 458 pp. 17.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 7735 1356 6 This volume, the latest in the Canadian Association of Geographers' Series in Canadian Geography, brings...

Les Nations du Prophete: Manuel Geographique de Politique Musulmane.
November 1, 1997... By Xavier De Planhol. Paris: Fayard, 1993, 894 pp. 295FF (pbk). ISBN 2 213 02401 4 Xavier de Planhol is amongst the most eminent of French geographers specializing in Africa and the Orient at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. His book on the...

Canada and the Global Economy: The Geography of Structural and Technological Change.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by John N.H. Britton. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, 458 pp. 17.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 7735 1356 6 This volume, the latest in the Canadian Association of Geographers' Series in Canadian Geography, brings...

Environment and Development in the Caribbean: Geographical Perspectives.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by David Barker and Duncan F.M. McGregor. Kingston: University Press of the West Indies, 1995, 304 pp. 8.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 976 640 007 5 This book presents a timely, if ambitious, attempt to highlight the contribution...

Beijing: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Victor F.S. Sit. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1995, 389 pp. 35.00. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 471 94983 3 This book attempts to employ historical and cultural geography as the basis for understanding the planning and economic development...

After the Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern France after the Great War.
November 1, 1997... By Hugh Clout. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996, 332 pp. 35.00. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 85989 491 6 The killing fields of the Western Front are probably the most poignant landscapes in Western Europe. Few remain who can bear personal...

Europe's Population in the 1990s.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by David Coleman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 346 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 19 828894 8 Europe's Population in the 1990s is a collection of essays based on a conference, held in 1993, to review some demographic...

Population Migration in the European Union.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Philip Rees, John Stillwell, Andrew Convey and Marek Kupiszewski. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 390 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 94968 X European societies have experienced massive and far-reaching population...

The Polar Regions: A Political Geography.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Sanjay Chaturvedi. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 306 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 94898 5 Interest in the polar regions has been stimulated by public awareness of the significant environmental problems associated with...

Climatic Change and the Mediterranean, vol. 2, Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in the Mediterranean Region.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By L. Jeftic, S. Keckes and J.C. Pernetta. London: Arnold, 1996, 564 pp. 89.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 340 64565 2 This is the second volume illustrating possible impacts of future climatic change in the Mediterranean prepared as part of the...

Regolith, Soils and Landforms.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Cliff Ollier and Colin Pain. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 316 pp. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 961 21 3 This is a broad-ranging book which aims to establish a basis for the integrated study of regolith. Of the 17 chapters, the...

Geomorphic Hazards.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Olav Slaymaker. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 204 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 96213 9 Anyone seeking a coherent review of geomorphological hazards and their management need read no further, for this slender but...

Global Continental Palaeohydrology.
November 1, 1997... Edited by K.J. Gregory, L. Starkel and V.R. Baker. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1995, 334 pp. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN O 471 95420 9 This collection of essays introduces GLOCOPH, which is the acronym for an INQUA Commission with the...

The Scientific Nature of Geomorphology: Proceedings of the 27th Binghampton Symposium in Geomorphology Held 27-29 September 1996.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Bruce L. Rhoads and Colin E. Thorn. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 481 pp. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 96811 0 This thought-provoking book is the latest in the long line of Binghampton symposium volumes. It comprises...

The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and Their Parents.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By David Satterthwaite, Roger Hart, Caren Levy, Diana Mitlin, David Ross, Jac Smit and Carolyn Stephens. London: Earthscan Publications, 1996, 284 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1 85383 326 6 Environmental hazards cause, or contribute...

The Urban Transformation of the Developing World.
November 1, 1997... Edited by Josef Gugler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 327 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 19 874159 6 This is a welcome contribution to the literature: it is always reassuring to see Third World urbanization texts...

Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors and Meanings of Economic Space.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Trevor J. Barnes. New York: Guilford Press, 1996, 292 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1 57230 039 6 Trevor Barnes takes economic geography from its grounding in `Enlightenment' (scientific logic) towards `post'-prefixed theories of...

Transport and Developing Countries.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By David Hilling. London: Routledge, 1996, 345 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN O 415 13655 5 David Hilling is well known for his studies of ports and maritime transport, especially in African contexts, and a book by him on general...

The Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture and Power.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By John Rennie Short. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, 506 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk) ISBN 1 55786 361 X The first thing to say about this text is that it is clearly aimed at undergraduate students; this may not be a particularly revealing...

Mountains at Risk: Current Issues in Environmental Studies.
November 1, 1997... Edited by Nigel J.R. Allan. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995, 296 pp. Rs 450.00. ISBN 81 7304 133 4 Mountains at Risk is a timely publication as it has appeared in the wake of the United Nation's Earth Summit conference in 1992. Like that event, this...

The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and Its Survival.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996, 271 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 297 81733 7 The aims of this book are twofold. Firstly, to bring to the reader's attention the fact that modern humans, Homo...

Time-scales and Environmental Change.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Thackwray S. Driver and Graham P. Chapman. London: Routledge, 1996, 275 pp. 15-99 [pounds sterling] (pbk) ISBN 0 415 13253 3 The paradoxes of time can indeed unhinge us. Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before Environmental...

Cities on the Shore: The Urban Littoral Frontier.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Brian J. Hudson. London: Pinter, 1996, 180 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1 85567 3819 This slim, fact-filled book investigates the `advance of the urban littoral frontier by the reclamation of land from the sea and other water bodies'...

Basics of Environmental Science.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Michael Allaby. London: Routledge, 1996, 297 pp. 10-99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 415 13019 0 From the title, some might expect a book covering basic principles of biology, chemistry and physics necessary for understanding environmental...

River Channel Restoration: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Projects.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Andrew Brookes and F. Douglas Shields Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 433 pp. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 96139 6 This is one of a number of publications that focus upon an increasingly important aspect of river...

A New View of Dorset: An Exploration of Dorset's Landscapes and Guidance for Their Future Management.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Richard Burden and Gordon Le Pard. Tiverton: Dorset Books, 1996, 152 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1 871164 30 3 The emphasis of this book is on the management guidelines required to sustain the landscapes of the country of Dorset....

Beach Management.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Eric C.F. Bird. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 281 pp. 34.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 96337 2 This book is intended as a reference work for people concerned with the planning, management, engineering and development of beach...

Mare Balticum: The Baltic - Two Thousand Years.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Ulla Ehrensvard, Pellervo Kokkonen and Juha Nurminen. Helsinki: John Nurminen Foundation, 1995, 287 pp. n.p. ISBN 951 1 13994 0 Finnish publishing houses have established a reputation for producing a steady stream of volumes that match...

The Conquest of the Niger by Land and Sea: From the Early Explorers and Pioneer Steamships to Elder Dempster and Company.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By David Hollett. Abergavenny: P.M. Heaton, 1995, 256 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1 872006 04 3 Early European travellers to the west coast of Africa were decimated by mosquitoes though they knew not what ailed them. Later travellers,...

Ecological Relations in Historical Times.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Robin A. Butlin and Neil Roberts. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, 344 pp. 6000 [pounds sterling] (IBG Special Publication series 32). ISBN 0 631 19506 8 This volume consists of 16 essays by a total of 40 authors. Its theme is human impact...

L'Oeil du Cartographe et la Representation Geographique du Moyen Age a Nos Jours.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Catherine Bousquet-Bressolier. Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1996, 283 pp. 260F (pbk). ISBN 2 7355 0319 4 This work contains papers presented to a colloquium on topographic cartography held in Paris under the...

Atlas de la Russie et des Pays Proches.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Roger Brunet, Denis Eckert and Vladamir Kolossov. Montpellier: Reclus, 1995, 208 pp. FF 220. ISBN 2 11 003428 9 Reclus prepared and published this atlas but the maps and text are really the work of staff of the Geographic Institute of the...

The Maps of Glasgow: A History and Cartobibliography to 1865.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By John N. Moore. Glasgow: Glasgow University Library, 1996, 150 pp. 10.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 85261 555 8 In the early 1920s, Sir Halford Mackinder stated, `Glasgow has changed her geographical environment, has brought the seas to...

North from the Hook: 150 Years of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
November 1, 1997... By Gordon L. Herries Davies. Dublin: Geological Survey of Ireland, 1995, 342 pp. 34.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1 899702 00 8 This is the story of one of the earliest of the national Geological Surveys; a veritable Irish saga telling of the...

Hammond New Century World Atlas.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Hammond Inc. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1996, 183 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0 8437 1196 5 The Hammond New Century World Atlas is the latest in the Hammond line of `computer generated atlases'. The maps are plotted from a digital database, and are...

The Printed Maps of Devon: County Maps, 1575-1837.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Kit Batten and Francis Bennett. Tiverton: Devon Books, 1996, 248 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 86114 900 9 This is a book by two collectors of printed maps of Devon, and there is no doubt that it will be very useful to others in their...

Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by David Buisseret. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 184 pp. 43.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 226 07990 2 The editor of this excellently-produced book faces a challenge: to suggest connections in estate mapping in the Old World...

The Travels of Ibn Battuta AD 1325-1354, vol. 4.
November 1, 1997... Translated from the Arabic text and edited by C. Defremery and B.R. Sanguinetti. Edited by H.A.R. Gibb and C.F. Beckingham. London: Hakluyt Society, 1994, 212 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling] (24.00 [pounds sterling] to members). ISBN 0 904180 37 9...

A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose de Freycinet on Her Voyage Around the World, 1817-1820.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Translated and edited by Marc Serge Riviere. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996, 189 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 642 10676 2 This is the first English translation of the journal Rose de Freycinet kept as she accompanied her husband Louis-Claude...

Geographes Face au Monde: L'Union Geographique Internationale et les Congres Internationaux de Geographie.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Marie-Claire Robic, Anne-Marie Briend and Mechtild Rossier. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996, 463 pp. n.p. (pbk). ISBN 2 7384 4573 X Geographers based at the Centre de Geohistoire in Paris have produced this substantial volume not only to...

Accident and Design: Contemporary Debates in Risk Management.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by Christopher Hood and David K.C. Jones. London: UCL Press, 1996, 253 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1 85728 598 0 In 1983 the Royal Society published Risk Assessment. It treated risk as a phenomenon capable of objective...

Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By David Harvey. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, 468 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1 55786 681 3 David Harvey's books are difficult to read. This is partly because he draws on such a wide range of ideas and material (in this case, Leibniz...

Geography in the School Grounds: Learning Through Landscapes.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... By Ralph Hare, Christine Attenborough and Trevor Day. Exmouth: Southgate Publishers, 1996, 72 pp. n.p. (pbk). ISBN 1 85741 023 8 `Geography is everywhere' is one of the better-known graffiti to have illuminated our subject. This book, written...

European Settlements.
November 1, 1997... By Bernard Dady. Designed with Leeds Development Education Centre. Bradford: Matrix Multimedia, 1996. 79.00 [pounds sterling] each. No ISBNs. CD-ROM technology has much potential for use in teaching, but examples of it are as yet neither so...

Kenya - The Final Frontier?
November 1, 1997... Designed with Leeds Development Education Centre. Bradford: Matrix Multimedia, 1996, 79.00 [pounds sterling] each. No ISBNs. CD-ROM technology has much potential for use in teaching, but examples of it are as yet neither so numerous nor so...

Geography into the Twenty-first Century.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Edited by E.M. Rawling and R.A. Daugherty. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 404 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 96236 8 This book originated in the 1994 Council of British Geography (COBRIG) seminar at Oxford. In it, teachers from...

Norman Leslie Falcon, 1904-1996.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
November 1, 1997... Norman Falcon died on 31 May 1996 aged 92 years. Apart from war service (1940-45), his entire career was spent with the British Petroleum Company, which he joined in 1927. Falcon was one of, if not the greatest petroleum geologist this country...

Professor J.H. Bird, 1923-1997.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
November 1, 1997... The sudden death of Jim Bird on 24 April 1997 deprived the field of transport geography, especially the geography of seaports, of a world-renowned and much-respected figure. Sometimes known as Lucky Jim -- for he was blessed not only with...