Recently added articles from Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers:

Editorial notes.(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Craine, Jim ... As ALL APCG MEMBERS KNOW, the Yearbook is the publication of record for all things related to our annual meetings. As such, this issue of the Yearbook contains all of the material related to the Seventieth Annual Meeting: the Presidential Address, the Meeting Report, the Student Paper ...

Beyond the crisis? Moving water and people away from the margins.(Association of Pacific Coast Geographers)(Speech)

Jan 01, 2008 ... Presidential Address delivered to the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 70' annual meeting, Long Beach, California, October 20, 2007 HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED how many words we have in English for when very bad things happen suddenly? Consider the range of terms used: ...

"Berkeley School" genius: musings on a feng-shui perspective.

Jan 01, 2008; Nemeth, David ... ABSTRACT Exotic feng-shui practices are an increasingly popular form of applied geography in Anglo-America today. Hardly scientific, feng-shui is, however, systematic, complex, and profound in the context of its own cosmology and symbolism. In this article, I muse on the ...

Music in the fields: constructing narratives of the late 19th century Hawaiian plantation cultural landscape.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Kingsbury, Aaron ... Musical lyrics can infuse semantic breath and cultural meaning to particular localities, helping to transform abstract environments into specific and definable places. Despite this, the literature of geography has been slow to conceptualize and systematically study musical lyrics as source ...

Heat waves in Southern California: are they becoming more frequent and longer lasting?

Jan 01, 2008; Tamrazian, Arbi ... Los Angeles is experiencing more heat waves and also more extreme heat days. These numbers have increased by 3.09[degrees]F (1.72[degrees]C) per century and 22.8 per century occurrences, respectively. Both have more than tripled over the past 100 years as a consequence of the steady ...

Declining cotton cultivation in Maricopa County, Arizona: an examination of macro-and micro-scale driving forces.(Industry overview)

Jan 01, 2008; Judkins, Gabe ... Once the dominant location of cotton cultivation within the state of Arizona, Maricopa County has undergone significant changes during recent years, resulting in substantial shifts within the regional agricultural economy. The dramatic decline in cotton over the past nine years has ...

The Columbia Basin Project: seventy-five years later.

Jan 01, 2008; Bloodworth, Gina ... ABSTRACT The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is the largest comprehensive reclamation project in the United States. An intertwined system of water diversion, capture, storage, movement, and use for hydroelectric production and irrigation, made famous by the capstone of Grand Coulee ...

The perceptual Northwest.(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Lowry, James ... ABSTRACT Our goal is to survey cultural perceptions defining the U.S. Northwest region. As geographers, we should concern ourselves with mental constructs of regions, as they can easily impede or facilitate communication. Assumptions of others' regional boundaries and images ...

Seattle roots: Roosevelt High School's class of 1957.

Jan 01, 2008; Nostrand, Richard L. ... ABSTRACT In 1957, Roosevelt's sizable senior class lived entirely in northeast Seattle--within Roosevelt's old high school district boundaries and in Seattle's recently annexed Shoreline district to the north. By 1967, two-thirds of the class continued to live in Seattle and ...

The perpetual undoing of San Diego's East Village.

Jan 01, 2008; Kayzar, Brenda ... ABSTRACT The falloff in investment in the blocks adjacent to Petco Park, downtown San Diego's most recently completed catalyst project, could be attributed to the current national housing market downturn. A number of proposed residential condominium projects have been placed on ...

Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography.(Book review)

Jan 01, 2008; Timms, Benjamin F. ... Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco (editors) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008 STUDYING LATIN AMERICA can seem like a fatalistic endeavor, with the heavy ...

Report of the Seventieth Annual Meeting.(Association of Pacific Coast Geographers )(Conference notes)

Jan 01, 2008; Del Casino, Vincent J., Jr. ... Long Beach, California October 17-20, 2007. THE 70TH ANNUAL MEETING of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers was held at the Downtown Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, California, 17-20 October 2007. The event, hosted by the Department of Geography at California State ...

APCG Distinguished Service Medal.(Association of Pacific Coast Geographers' William A. Bowen)

Jan 01, 2008 ... THE APCG TAKES GREAT PLEASURE in honoring William A. Bowen, professor emeritus, Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, with this year's Distinguished Service Medal. Bill is a careful and thoughtful scholar, a dedicated teacher, and an influential ambassador for ...

APCG Distinguished Service Award.(Association of Pacific Coast Geographers )

Jan 01, 2008 ... THE APCG TAKES GREAT PLEASURE in honoring Nancy Lee Wilkinson, from the Department of Geography and Human Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University, with this year's Distinguished Service Award. Nancy has been an active member of the APCG for more than 30 years, during which ...

APCG student paper awards.(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... THE AWARDS COMMITTEE, under the leadership of Jim Keese, presented the following student paper awards at the 70TH annual meeting held in Long Beach, California, in October 2007. THE TOM MCKNIGHT AND JOAN CLEMONS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER Vanessa Massaro, ...

Resolutions of the 2007 APCG meeting Long Beach, California.(Association of Pacific Coast Geographers )(Conference notes)

Jan 01, 2008; Crowley, Bill ... WHEREAS, the geography faculty of CSULB has hosted the 70th meeting of the APCG with wondrous zest, skill, and aplomb, and WHEREAS, we have all benefited from their splendid efforts at organization, planning, and hospitality, and WHEREAS, we particularly want to ...