For four decades David Preston has written about the transformations in Andean America, particularly agrarian and rural change. In the 1980s he was a Senior Research Fellow at Australian National University and studied household livelihoods
and agriculture in Southeastern Asia. He is now a Senior Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Leeds, where he has taugh for 35 years. - (SLD)
The author first examines the formation of karst shapes and then he interprets those karst formation conditions during which karst production occurs. Based on principally Hungarian examples, he differentiates three different types of karst
Dalen discusses his effort to bring back the balsam first in about half of Blister Swamp, which was cleared for grazing by his great, great uncle, John McClure. Then he answers a number of questions about logging practices in West Virginia
as logging is his main source of livelihood. He thinks that the forested area of West Virginia is increasing, mainly due to the abandonment of small farms. - (SLD)
Roman Loayza makes a cogent argument for greater peasant participation in development planning. He believes that the economic and social situation now for the peoples of indigenous cultures in Bolivia (Quechua, Aymara, Tupi-guaraní) is worse than
ever. He wants a recovery of native cultures and a recovery of native traditions that help one live in harmony with Pachamama (Mother Earth). - (SLD)
. Since then he has conducted fieldwork throughout the insular Caribbean. His major monographs are discussed. He is now a Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech. - (SLD)
A. discusses how his publications on ethnic areas of Metropolitan Los Angeles have served local audiences, which have been most interested in the maps. He pleads for more emphasis on interpreting the spatial patterns of ethnic maps, and he gives
Jett discusses his entire academic career and his focus on interhemispheric contacts before Columbus, especially those between Asia and the Americas. He makes a thorough review of his publications. - (SLD)
Story of Carlos Solana, a 46 years old who lives in El Jaular, which is in the Cerro de la Muerte sector of the Talamanca Mountain Range in Costa Rica. Formely a hunter and plunderer of the forest, he now helps conserve the forest and has become
a prominent breeder of trout fingerlings. His transformation stemmed from concern over species' disapperances, conversations with friends, and his family now receive some 250 foreign students per year at the Cuericí Biological Station that he founded
Ron Mader is a journalist, free-lance writer who has contributed greatly to the dissemination of knowledge on the geography of Latin America. He has published two books on the adventures in nature of Mexico and Honduras and has created
Universidad Católica del Péru, and he has published monographs and articles on many subjects in Peruvian geography. His many accomplishments and honors make him the Dean of Peruvian geography and perhaps of all of South America. - (SLD)
rates in the desert. He does find the widespread use of the grass below 1,000 m to threaten native Sonoran plant life and some native fauna. His study of the erosion rates, however, is inconclusive : the exotic grass retards soil erosion, but only after
A. notes how self-guided walking tours using a guidebook of the city can forge a real link between geography students and the local community. He reviews his guidebook of Oakland, California, used at in a large lecture class in the history
an increase in commercially motivated reforestation throughout the country. The A. looks closely at these two processes and its impacts on the physiography of the landscape. He suggests a new sub-discipline Hylogeography to express in a better way the complex