The Geographical Journal articles from September 2000

The Geographical Journal archives from September 2000

Editorial.
September 1, 2000... It was inevitable that I would receive mail concerning the changes we have made to The Geographical journal and, therefore, though I had hoped to move on to the first of a series of Guest Editorials in the GJ, I have taken this issue to respond...

Government Intervention in the Muda Irrigation Scheme, Malaysia: 'actors', expectations and outcomes.
September 1, 2000... At the dawn of the third millennium the problems associated with large-scale irrigation lie largely unresolved. The outcomes of government policies rarely correspond with expectations, leading to conflict and misunderstanding between federal...

The Origin and Diffusion of Qanats in Arabia: New Evidence from the northern and southern Peninsula.
September 1, 2000... In scattered areas of the Arabian Peninsula, beginning several centuries before the first Christian millennium and for several centuries after, public works efforts were mounted to convey water from mountain aquifers, via subsurface aqueducts,...

The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity.
September 1, 2000... The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the...

Views and Visions of Land Use in the United Kingdom.
September 1, 2000... As part of a national study aimed at surveying the land use and landscape of the United Kingdom, 1287 surveyors recorded their views and visions of one-kilometre grid squares in which they conducted fieldwork. This study, which took place in...

Globalization, grapes and gender: Women's work in traditional and agro-export production in northern Chile.
September 1, 2000... Recent changes in the global political economy have had dramatic effects on the lives of women as they are incorporated into globalization processes, such as the expansion of agribusiness, in often marginal and unstable ways. However, it is...

Fifty Years Ago.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... With three papers in this issue on the inter-relations between people and water, J.M. Houston's article entitled 'Irrigation as a solution to Agrarian Problems in Modern Spain' GJ Vol. CXVI (2): 55-63 provides an interesting comparison,...

Borneo: Jewel in a Jade Rainbow.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Borneo: Jewel in a Jade Rainbow. By DAVID and SUE FIELDING. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Koisaan Cultural Institute, 1998, 444 pp. [pound]25 (pbk). ISBN 983 9280 10 4 David Fielding, an Oxford trained geographer, went to North Borneo in...

People, Land and Time: an historical introduction to the relations between landscape, culture and environment.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... People, Land and Time: an historical introduction to the relations between landscape, culture and environment. Edited by PETER ATKINS, IAN SIMMONS and BRIAN ROBERTS. London: Arnold, 1998, 286 pp. [pound]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 340 67714 7 ...

Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries. Edited by ELIZABETH THOMAS-HOPE. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, 1998, 289pp, n.p. (pbk). ISBN 976 8125 43 8 Problems of waste management...

Ecoregions: the Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ecoregions: the Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents. By ROBERT G. BAILEY. London: Springer, 1998, 190 pp. [pound]26.00 (pbk). ISBN 0 387 98311 2 Regions - what they contain and how they are bounded - are fundamental to...

Ecohydrological response modelling: predicting plant species' response to changes in site conditions.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ecohydrological response modelling: predicting plant species' response to changes in site conditions (in English with Dutch summary). By A.C.D. ERTSEN. Utrecht: Netherlands Geographical Studies 245, 1998, 145 pp. Dfl. 34.50. ISBN 90 6809 159 5...

Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: a study of the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: a study of the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia. By JANE BENTON. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, 207 PP. [pound]39.95. ISBN 1 85972 696 8 In the Preface to this book, the author makes a clear case for...

Debt and Adjustment: Social and Environmental Consequences in Jamaica.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Debt and Adjustment: Social and Environmental Consequences in Jamaica. By PATRICA LUNDY. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, 105 Pp. [pounds]32.50. ISBN 1 8597 2114 1 In this monograph, Patricia Lundy of the University of Magee provides an...

Swidden Farming and Fallow Vegetation in Northern Thailand.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Swidden Farming and Fallow Vegetation in Northern Thailand. By DIETRICH SCHMIDT-VOGT Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999, 373 pp. DM 124. ISBN 3 515 07077 X Schmidt-Vogt's monograph on secondary vegetation in the seasonally dry tropics of...

Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods.(Review)(Young Adult Review)
September 1, 2000... Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods. Edited by MICHAEL REDCLIFT. London: Routledge, 1999, 193 pp. [pound]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 4151 9618 3 This is a most useful contribution to debates about sustainable development. To be...

Tropical Pacific Island Environments.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Tropical Pacific Island Environments. By CHRISTOPHER S. LOBBAN and MARIA SCHEFTER. Mangilao: University of Guam Press, 1997, 399 pp. $70. ISBN 1 881629 04 X Even though they are scattered over almost one-third of the Earth's surface,...

Beyond El Nino: decadal and inter-decadal climate variability.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Beyond El Nino: decadal and inter-decadal climate variability. Edited by ANTONIO NAVARRA. Berlin: Springer, 1999, 374 pp. [pound]65.00. ISBN 3 540 63662 5 This edited collection of papers is a useful compendium of research materials...

Public Purpose or Private Benefit? The Politics of Energy Conservation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Public Purpose or Private Benefit? The Politics of Energy Conservation. By GILL OWEN. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, 233 pp. [pound]45. ISBN 0 7190 5025 1 Most environmental and energy policy problems are not well...

Sudan's Predicament: Civil War, Displacement and Ecological Degradation.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Sudan's Predicament: Civil War, Displacement and Ecological Degradation. Edited by GIRMA KEBBEDE. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, 160 pp. [pound]37.50. ISBN 0 7546 1020 9 This volume is an interesting and useful contribution to the recent...

Shock-Shift in an Enlarged Europe: The geography of socio-economic change in East-Central Europe after 1989.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Shock-Shift in an Enlarged Europe: The geography of socio-economic change in East-Central Europe after 1989. Edited by F.W. CARTER and W. MAIK. Aldershot Ashgate, 1999, 1 84 pp. [pound]37.50. ISBN 1 85972 303 9 This text providdes a...

Miombo Ecology and Management: an introduction.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Miombo Ecology and Management: an introduction. By E.M. CHIDUMAYO. London: Immediate Tech Pubs, 1997, 166 pp. [pound]14.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 85339 411 4 This book presents an overview of all relevant research done on miombo woodland from...

Weather and Climate.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Weather and Climate (CD Rom). By HARALD FRATER. Heidelberg: Springer, 1999, [pound]37.71. ISBN 3 540 14667 9 This CD is aimed primarily at teachers but may also be of interest to those who want to teach themselves the basics about how...

The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth. By JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH GRAHAM LYONS and GARY SAU ER-THOMPSON. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999, 196 pp. [pound]45. ISBN 0 333 68144 4 The back cover...

The Sustainable Management of Tropical Catchments.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Sustainable Management of Tropical Catchments. Edited by DAVID HARPER and TONY BROWN. Chichester: Wiley, 1999, 381 pp. [pound]75. ISBN 0 4719 5753 4 'Sustainable management' embraces the immediate post-Rio Earth Summit (1992)...

Precision Agriculture: Spatial and temporal variability of environmental quality.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Precision Agriculture: Spatial and temporal variability of environmental quality (Ciba Foundation Symposium 210). Edited by JOHN V. LAKE, GREGORY R. BOCK and JAMIE A. GOODE, Chichester: Wiley, 1997, 251 pp. [pound]75. ISBN 0 47197 455 2 ...

The Road to Egdon Heath: the Aesthetics of the Great in Nature & Secure From Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Road to Egdon Heath: the Aesthetics of the Great in Nature. By RICHARD BEVIS. Quebec: McGill-Queen's, 1999, 409 pp, n.p. ISBN 0 7735 1800 2 Secure From Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By J. WINTER. London:...

Coastal defence and Earth Science conservation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Coastal defence and Earth Science conservation. Edited by JANET HOOKE. London: The Geological Society, 1998, 270 pp. [pound]59.00. ISBN 1 897799 96 9 This neatly-produced volume stems from a conference of the same title, held at the...

Human Geography Today.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Human Geography Today. Edited by DOREEN MASSEY, JOHN ALLEN and PHILIP SARRE. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999, 340 pp., [pound]14.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 7456 21899 The 'today' in the title of this edited collection is strangely partial, for...

Correspondence.
September 1, 2000... From F. Beavington and J.A. Varley The article by Harris (GJ, 1999 165[3]: 275-85) 'Nutrient management strategies of small-holder farmers in a short fallow farming system in north-east Nigeria' is a commendable attempt to present the...

The Presidential Address.
September 1, 2000... at the Annual General Meeting of The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 5 June 2000 THE EARL OF SELBORNE The Society's Annual Report for 1999, starts with an overview, headed 'Preparing for a New...

Annual General Meeting.(Transcript)
September 1, 2000... 5 June 2000 The President, Lord Selborne, in the Chair The Honorary Secretary, lain Black, read the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 7 June 1999. The Minutes were approved and signed. The Honorary Treasurer, David Hall...