The Geographical Journal articles from September 2008

The Geographical Journal archives from September 2008

The geography of tyranny and despair: development indicators and the hypothesis of genetic inevitability of national inequality.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Introduction At the turn of the century, two researchers - Richard Lynn (of the University of Ulster, UK) and Tatu Vanhanen (of the University of Tampere, Finland) - employed an old hypothesis to explain the differences we see in the...

Understanding pastoral mobility: the case of Senegalese Fulani.(Case study)
September 1, 2008... Introduction In the debate concerning land degradation, desertification, and pastoral production, the 'new rangeland paradigm' brought new insights into dryland functioning in the early 1990s. (1) Within this paradigm, pastoral mobility is...

Context and contingency: the coffee crisis for conventional small-scale coffee farmers in Brazil.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Introduction Coffee is one of the world's most valuable commodities and at least 25 million people around the world base their livelihoods on its production (ICO 2006). The majority of these producers are small-scale farmers in the...

Learning from the South: common challenges and solutions for small-scale farming.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Introduction Small-scale farmers all over the world face a number of challenges with common dimensions (de Haan et al. 2001). These include political and socio-economic challenges, such as coping with changes to agricultural and rural...

Annual general meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 2 June 2008.(The food crisis)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2008... Today I am going to talk about a crisis that is both topical and reflects a more deep-seated and longer-term problem facing the world. It is not surprising that there has been enormous unrest surrounding the rising cost of food in...

The President, Sir Gordon Conway, in the chair.(Annual General Meeting 2 June 2008)
September 1, 2008... The President, Sir Gordon Conway, welcomed all attendees to the meeting and invited Dr Katie Willis, Honorary Secretary (Research), to read the minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 4 June 2007. The minutes were approved and signed. The...

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. By NAOMI KLEIN London: Allen Lane, 2007, 558 pp. [pounds sterling]25.00 ISBN 978 0 713 99899 3 Considering the political utility of disasters The recent publication of Naomi...

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy .(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy. Edited by Luis L M AGUIAR and ANDREW HEROD Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 266 pp. [pounds sterling]19.99 paperback ISBN 1 4051 5636 3 This is an important collection drawing...

Iraq: People, History, Politics.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Iraq: People, History, Politics. By GARETH STANSFIELD Cambridge: Polity, 2007, 262 pp. [pounds sterling]15.99 ISBN 978 07456 3227 8 This book is a political history of the Iraqi state from its creation under the British mandate to the...

Thin on the Ground: Land Resource Survey in British Overseas Territories.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Thin on the Ground: Land Resource Survey in British Overseas Territories. BY ANTHONY YOUNG The Memoir Club: Weardale, 2007, 230 pp[pounds sterling]14.50 paperback ISBN 978 1 84104 175 9 Dr Young has done a great service to a relatively...

Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... London: Hodder Arnold, 2006, 208 pp. [pounds sterling]24.99 paperback ISBN 978 0 340 71959 1 It is difficult to think of a geophysical topic that is as important and in the public eye as the subject material covered in this book. The...

The Riverscape and the River.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... The Riverscape and the River. BY SYLVIA M HASLAM Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 404 pp. [pounds sterling]65.00 ISBN 978 0 521 83978 5 The fertile field of landscape ecology has produced several notable books dealing with...

Fundamentals of Physical Volcanology.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Fundamentals of physical volcanology. By ELISABETH A PARFITT and LIONEL WILSON Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 230 pp. [pounds sterling]32.50 paperback ISBN 978 0 63205443 5 Volcanology draws on concepts and methodologies from diverse fields...

Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains A New Approach to Paleoseismology.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains A New Approach to Paleoseismology. By WILLIAM BULL Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 316 pp. [pounds sterling]39.99 ISBN 978 I 4051 5479 9 This new book, by the author of the classic textbook Geomorphic Response...