The Geographical Journal articles from September 2005

The Geographical Journal archives from September 2005

Gender and agrobiodiversity: a case study from Bangladesh.
September 1, 2005... In the development and biological diversity discourse there is a growing consensus that women's knowledge and practices are not only necessary and relevant, but also essential for sustainable development. It is not long since women were seen as...

Tree integration in homestead farms in southeast Nigeria: propositions and evidence.(forest management)
September 1, 2005... Introduction The definition and characterization of forest management has changed since the early 1980s. There has been significant progress in the development and testing of new paradigms and interpretation of forest management...

Challenges of forest governance in Madagascar.
September 1, 2005... Introduction Madagascar hosts large and unique forest resources, and attempts to protect them from conversion to agriculture date back at least two centuries, with a huge surge in interest in the past two decades. From the early nineteenth...

The landslide hazard and human vulnerability in La Paz city, Bolivia.
September 1, 2005... Introduction The global costs and damages attributed to hydro-meteorological hazards, such as floods, droughts, landslides, tropical storms, hurricanes, and thunderstorms, have exhibited a rapid upward trend in recent decades. The number...

Annual General Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (with the institute of British geographers) 6 June 2005.
September 1, 2005... What do Melvyn Bragg, Ringo Starr, Terence Conran and the Prince of Wales all have in common? The answer, of course, is that they are anguished about what they see happening to the landscape--of Britain in general and of England in particular....

The President, Sir Neil Cossons, in the Chair.(Annual General Meeting)
September 1, 2005... 6 June 2005 The Honorary Secretary, Dr MICHAEL FIRTH, read the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 7 June 2004. The Minutes were approved and signed. The Director, Dr RITA GARDNER, presented a review of the year with the use of...

Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks. Edited by CAROL KERVEN Routledge: London, 2004, 276 pp. [pounds sterling]75.00. ISBN 0 415 30376 1 This book is part of a series by...

Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities. By STEPHEN WEARING and JOHN NEIL Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2000, 163 pp. [pounds sterling]23.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 7506 4137 1 Ecotourism remains a popular topic for researchers,...

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Natural Disasters and Cultural Change. Edited by ROBIN TORRENCE and JOHN GRATTAN. London: Routledge, 2002, 352 pp. [pounds sterling]87.50. ISBN 0 415 21696 6 Natural disasters, large or small, wide-ranging or localized, sudden or...

Making Waves: Integrating Coastal Conservation and Development.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Making Waves: Integrating Coastal Conservation and Development. By KATRINA BROWN, EMMA TOMPKINS and NEIL ADGER London: Earthscan, 2002, 176 pp. [pounds sterling]17.95 (pbk). ISBN 1 85383 912 4 The general context of this book is...

The Human Geography of East Central Europe.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Human Geography of East Central Europe. By DAVID TURNOCK London: Routledge, 2003, 390 pp. [pounds sterling]100.00. ISBN 0 415 12191 4 It is indeed a challenge to review the latest work by one of English-language geography's most...

Les Etats postsovietiques: identities en construction, transformations politiques, trajectories economiques.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Les Etats postsovietiques: identities en construction, transformations politiques, trajectories economiques. Edited by JEAN RADVANYI Paris: Armand Colin, 2003, 240 pp. [euro]21.00 (pbk). ISBN 2 200 26462 3 For anyone not resident in...

Dynamic World: Land Cover and Land-Use Change.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Dynamic World: Land Cover and Land-Use Change. By A M MANNION London, Arnold 2002 230 pp, [pounds sterling]16.99 paperback, ISBN 0 340 80679 6 Since the collection of land use information and remote sensing technologies, land cover has...

The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations. Edited by I R BOWLER, C R BRYANT and C COCKLIN Dordrecht, Kluwer 2002 280 pp, [euro]98.00 ISBN 1 4020 0513 X Rural areas in developed countries have experienced radical...

The Nile Basin National Determinants of Collective Action.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Nile Basin National Determinants of Collective Action. By JOHN WATERBURY New Haven, Yale University Press 2002 211 pp, [pounds sterling]75.00 ISBN 0 300 08853 1 This book is separated by 23 years since the author's influential...

Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method. Edited by ERIC SHEPPARD and ROBERT B MCMASTER Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 272 pp. [pounds sterling]19.99 paperback. ISBN 0 631 23070 X Arguably scale is the chief theoretical...