Recently added articles from The Geographical Journal:
Re-thinking frontiers in Southeast Asia.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The frontier has a long tradition in geographical study. Exploration, conquest and the colonial project were all about pushing back the frontier of civilisation, and seeking riches at and beyond the resource frontier. Turner's thesis put frontiers as geographical peripheries at the heart ...
Finding common ground: relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction There is growing appreciation within geography of the value of relational concepts of the economy for providing theoretical insights into processes of economic change. Relational perspectives are now influencing research in a variety of contexts in both developed ...
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction A remarkable transformation has occurred over recent decades in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and many areas of Indonesia outside Java with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm plantations. The area ...
Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction: the frontier in Thailand In this paper, I examine three zones of transition under the rubric of frontier in Thailand. The first is the agricultural frontier, but one in which dynamics are significantly different to those I and others wrote about previously (Hirsch ...
Global-local interactions: socioeconomic and spatial dynamics in Vietnam's coffee frontier.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction During the 1990s, Vietnam progressed from being a relatively insignificant coffee producer to become the world's second largest exporter of coffee and the single largest exporter of the Robusta variety. This extraordinary development has been primarily based on the ...
Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction This paper is concerned with the process and the implications of the deepening incorporation of the Southeast Asian country of Lao PDR into global circuits of resource extraction and commodity production. This process is understood through the geographical metaphor ...
Urban China in Transition.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Urban China in Transition. Edited by JOHN R. LOGAN Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 361 pp. [pounds sterling]19.99 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 4051 6146 6 The transformation of urban China has been dramatic during the last 30 years, since the paradigm shift in state development ...
The Slave Ship: A Human History.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Slave Ship: A Human History. BY MARCUS REDIKER London: John Murray Publishers, 2007, 434 pp. [pounds sterling]30.00 ISBN 978 0 7195 6302 7 Those familiar with Marcus Rediker's collaborative work with Peter Linebaugh, The many headed hydra (2000), will recognise in ...
The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe. Edited by ROB KRUECER AND DAVID GIBBS New York: Guilford Press, 2007, 310 pp. US$30.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 59385 499 7 It is not particularly surprising to learn that ...
Backyard: Nature and Culture in Suburban Australia.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Backyard: Nature and Culture in Suburban Australia. BY LESLEY HEAD and PAT MUIR Wollongong NSW: University of Wollongong Press, 2007, 190 pp. A$69.95 ISBN 978 1 920831 51 6 An academic work disguised-beautifully--as a large-format coffee table book, in ...
Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows and Spaces.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Edited by RICHARD KNOWLES, JON SHAW and IAIN DOCHERTY Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 293 pp. [pounds sterling]18.99 (paperback) ISBN 1 405 15322 9 In recent years, the sub-discipline of transport geography has often been rather unfairly maligned as occupying the backwaters ...
Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel. Edited by P N WYSE JACKSON London: The Geological Society of London, Special Publications 287, 2007, 415 pp. [pounds sterling]90.00 ISBN 978 1 86239 234 2 This book makes ...
Torvi[eth] i Foroyum i sogu og si[eth]sogu.(Peat in the Faroe Islands in History and Cultural History)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Torvi[eth] i Foroyum i sogu og si[eth]sogu. By PETUR JACOB SIGVARDSEN Torshavn: Forlagi[eth] Bugvin and Fro[eth]skapur (Faroes University Press), Annales Societatis Scientarium Faeroensis Supplementum XLVI, 5 volumes, 2006, 1992 pp. DKK1296 [pounds sterling]121.00 ISBN 10: 9 ...
Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment. Edited by E FROSSARD, WEH BLUM AND B P WARKENTIN London: The Geological Society, 2006, Geological Society Special Publication No. 266, 196 pp. [pounds sterling]75.00 ISBN 978 1 86239 207 6 In their ...
Patterns in Biodiversity. Spatial Organisation of Biodiversity in the Netherlands.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Patterns in Biodiversity. Spatial Organisation of Biodiversity in the Netherlands. BY MARIEKE A SCHOUTEN Utrecht: Knag/Copernicus Institute, 2007, 152 pp. [euro]20.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 90 6809 403 9 The analysis of biological diversity is an old tradition in ...
Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape (2nd edition). Edited by COLIN A LEWIS Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC, 2008, 188 pp. ZARl 75.00 ISBN 978 1 920033 06 4 The diverse terrain features of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa encompass a wide range of ...
Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America: Soils, Geology, and Vegetation.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America: Soils, Geology, and Vegetation. By EARL B ALEXANDER, ROBERT G COLEMAN, TODD KEELER-WOLF and SUSAN P HARRISON Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 512 pp. [pounds sterling]82.00 ISBN 978 0 19 516508 1 Serpentine is a ...
Does the invisible hand have a green thumb? Incentives, linkages, and the creation of wealth out of industrial waste in Victorian England.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction Many sustainable development theorists believe that pollution prevention measures systematically increase production costs, thereby inducing corporate managers to invest as little as possible effort in that respect. In the past few decades, however, several reports ...
Jamaica bound? Marine resources and management at a crossroads in Antigua and Barbuda.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction High levels of biodiversity and endemism are the Caribbean region's most highly valued natural resources, both on land (Myers et al. 2000) and in the ocean (Roberts et al. 2002). For many Caribbean islands, marine resources have long been one cornerstone for ...
Governing shared groundwater: the controversy over private regulation.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction This paper focuses on questions related to institutional and organisational effectiveness in relation to the management of shared aquifers (Dingwerth 2003). It explores speculative research questions in relation to the institutionalisation of private environmental ...