The Geographical Journal articles from September 2003

The Geographical Journal archives from September 2003

Mountain geography: a review.
September 1, 2003... Introduction Geographers have long had a fascination with mountains, from earlier exploratory accounts to contemporary geomorphological and geophysical research, using the latest scientific techniques. Many early physical geography books...

Science and the St Elias: an evolving framework for sustainability in North America's highest mountains.
September 1, 2003... Introduction The St Elias Mountains constitute the largest group of high mountains in North America, containing 15 of its 30 highest peaks (Matz 1999). Bounded largely by the Gulf of Alaska to the south and the Shakwak Trench to the north...

Peopling mountain environments: changing Andean livelihoods in north-west Argentina.
September 1, 2003... Structural adjustment and neoliberal policy implementation in Latin America have had dramatic consequences for livelihoods and patterns of natural resource use in mountain regions. Restructuring of the agricultural economy has increased...

Ethnic minorities and marginality in the Pamirian Knot: survival of Wakhi and Kirghiz in a harsh environment and global contexts.
September 1, 2003... Introduction The remote valleys and plateaux of High Asia are well known for their inhabitants who survive under harsh conditions at high altitudes. For example, the ecologically defined upper limits of wheat and barley are found here. In...

Promoting social justice and conserving montane forest environments: a case study of Nepal's community forestry programme.
September 1, 2003... Introduction This paper examines the Forest User Group (FUG; a local Nepali institution for forest resource management), the ways in which the poor, women and other disadvantaged groups of forest users are involved in forest resource...

Alpine medicinal plant trade and Himalayan mountain livelihood strategies.
September 1, 2003... The trade in plant products is huge across the Himalayas. Each year tens of thousands of tonnes composed of hundreds of species and products are traded, the majority being collected from the wild and having medicinal or aromatic uses (Edwards...

Tourism and deforestation in the Mt Everest region of Nepal.
September 1, 2003... Only half a century ago Sir Edmund Hillary and his companions on the 1953 British Mt Everest expedition were among the first foreigners to visit the region. Today the Mt Everest area is one of the Himalaya's premier centres for mountaineering...

Presidential Address: Annual General Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 2 June 2003.
September 1, 2003... Much has changed since the Society's Presidents, such as Sir Roderick Murchison and Sir Clemence Markham, complemented their Annual Reports by presenting the Society each year with massive surveys of world geography. Their global reviews,...

Fifty Years Ago: the 'conquest' of Mount Everest: high mountain environments fifty years on.
September 1, 2003... The September 1953 issue of The Geographical Journal is a collector's item changing hands for large sums of money. Why? Well, it was in this issue that the success of Lord (then Colonel) Hunt's Everest Expedition (jointly organized by the Royal...

Annual general meeting 2 June 2003, the President, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, in the chair.
September 1, 2003... SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING 2 June 2003 The President, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, in the Chair The President explained that the Special Meeting was needed to vote on a resolution that makes a total of four small clarifications and changes that...

Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Edited by J. BONGAARTS and R. BULATAO Washington: National Academy Press, 2000, 236 pp. 21.95[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 309 06990 4 This volume presents the findings of a twenty-one-person panel established in 1998 by the National Research...