The Geographical Journal articles from September 2006

The Geographical Journal archives from September 2006

Sustainable farmland management as political and cultural discourse.
September 1, 2006... Introduction Sustainability, it is often claimed, is a nebulous and slippery resource for thought and practice, one able to marshal together a range of competing, and indeed contradictory, narratives about society-nature relations....

Competing narratives for the future of European agriculture: the agri-environmental consequences of neoliberalization in the context of the Doha Round.
September 1, 2006... Introduction Neoliberalism seems to be ever more firmly established as the dominant policy discourse of our times. As an idea it has complex origins in an ideological reaction against the Keynesian demand management policies of the 1970s...

From market to multifunctionality? Land stewardship in Australia.
September 1, 2006... Introduction There are few places, in the western world at least, where concerns for the sustainability of farming resonate as strongly as they do in Australia. The most recent national state-of-the-environment account observed: 'In many...

Canada's environmental farm plans: transatlantic perspectives on agri-environmental schemes.(Ontario's Environmental Farm Plan )
September 1, 2006... Introduction During the last two decades a series of agri-environmental programmes has been introduced throughout the Developed World to counter detrimental impacts of farming upon the environment. Strong environmental lobbies have...

Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks: a case study from Italy.
September 1, 2006... Introduction This paper focuses on the representation of a rural development strategy deployed by the manager of a high-altitude sheep dairying farm in the Abruzzo National Park, central Italy. After an introduction exploring notions of...

Can we sustain sustainable agriculture? Learning from small-scale producer-suppliers in Canada and the UK.
September 1, 2006... Introduction ... geographers need to continue to delve into the micro-politics of delivering new sustainability mechanisms. O'Riordan 2004, 238 There is a growing willingness to question the sustainability of the systems and...

Commentary on the special section on the Indian Ocean Tsunami: disasters, generosity and the other.
September 1, 2006... The Indian Ocean Tsunami has invited unseen scales of generosity, both by 'ordinary' people and by donor governments. The Tsunami fitted nicely into a conception of 'natural' disaster that invites images of innocent, 'pure' victims. There is...

Reply: when response becomes responsibility.
September 1, 2006... Benedikt Korf's searching remarks on our commentaries on the Indian Ocean Tsunami remind us that we need to ask how responses (as donors, as academic researchers) carry with them responsibility. In this piece, and elsewhere (2005), Korf makes a...

Presidential Address: Annual General Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 5 June 2006.(Speech)
September 1, 2006... In presenting this, my third and final Presidential Address, I begin by formally expressing my thanks to my fellow members of Council, and to the Director and her staff for all that they have achieved over the last three years. The Royal...

Annual General Meeting, 5 June 2006, the President, Sir Neil Cossons, in the Chair.(Royal Geographical Society)(Conference notes)
September 1, 2006... The Honorary Secretary, DR DAVID NASH, read the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting on 6 June 2005. The Minutes were approved and signed. The Director, DR RITA GARDNER, presented an outline of the year with the use of slides and drew the...

Theories and Practices of Development.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Theories and Practices of Development. By KATIE WILLIS. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005, 256 pp. [pounds sterling]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0-415-30053-3 Theories and Practices of Development is a clear and concise introductory text which...

Children, Youth and Development.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Children, Youth and Development By NICOLA ANSELL London: Routledge, 2005, 286 pp [pounds sterling]60.00 (hbk), [pounds sterling]16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 415 28768 5 (hardcover), 0 415 28769 3 (softcover) This book opens with a memorable...

Re-Presenting GIS.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Re-Presenting GIS. Edited by PETER FISHER and DAVID J UNWIN Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2005, 286 pp [pounds sterling]60 ISBN 1 39780 470 84847 0 The editors, Peter Fisher and David Unwin have put together a series of papers on...

Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home. By ALISON BLUNT Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 288 pp, [pounds sterling]24.99 paperback ISBN 1 4051 00 559 This book tells the story of the mixed-descent community...

Studies in Military Geography and Geology.(SQ)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Studies in Military Geography and Geology. Edited by DOUGLAS R CALDWELL, JUDY EHLEN and RUSSELL HARMON London: Kluwer, 2005, 348 pp, [pounds sterling]79.00 ISBN 1 4020 3104 1 In June 2003, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New...

Global Environmental Issues.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Global Environmental Issues. Edited by FRANCES HARRIS Chichester: John Wiley, 2005, 324 pp, [pounds sterling]24.95 paperback ISBN 0 470 84561 9 The market for texts that consider environmental issues at the global scale is becoming...

Environmental Hazards, Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Environmental Hazards, Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster (fourth edition). By KEITH SMITH London, Routledge, 2004, 273 pp [pounds sterling]24.99 paperback ISBN 0 415 31804 1 Environmental hazards do not respect international...

Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modelling for Sustainable Use and Development.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modelling for Sustainable Use and Development. Edited by I ETHAM GONENC and JOHN P WOLFIN CRC Press, London, 2005, 500 pp [pounds sterling]74.99 ISBN 1 566 70686 6 This book deals with the...