A. considers water deficiency to be the defining characteristic of the American West, and he thinks it starts with the Great Plains immediately to the west of the Missouri river in South Dakota. The Black Hill's physiography, biogeography
, settlement and gold mining days, and tourism and recreation are covered. He concludes that the Black Hills is increasingly finding an economic identity associated with the New West (tourism, recreation, and retirees). - (SLD)
A. recounts his recent visit to Vietnam, which he first experienced during the Vietnam War. Article includes detailed descriptions of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as well as of the two major universities in each place. He relates that the French
A. discusses the history of the United States Army Map Service (AMS) and how its materials, which deal with topographical intelligence (terrain, facilities, and transport networks in enemy territory), became available in library collections. He
identifies map collections with high potential as research sources. He concludes by presenting the locations of AMS map collections and working aids for interpreting the material. Emphasis is on World War II German, Japanese, and allied sources. - (SLD)
Tourism has been a mixed blessing to Indonesia. The country is now exploring ecotourism, which is small scale, locally managed, and less harmful to the environment and local cultures. He and some colleagues visited the Togian Islands of Sulawesi
to establish a procedure for assessing social impacts of tourist development there. Discussed are the biological and cultural diversity of the Togian Islands and the barriers to ecotourism there. He concludes that sustainable terrestrial ecotourism
. He found western Kansas to have rebounded with an intense agricultural economy supported by groundwater-based irrigation, southeastern Colorado to have stagnated since the 1930s, and northern New Mexico to have prospered from tourism and recreation
. Throughout the trip he encountered increased tree cover. - (SLD)
and early 19th centuries. This case study is presented in the context of the ongoing ethnic homeland debate-that certain places dominated by an ethnic group have qualities that set them apart from other culture areas. He thinks that central Ohio
is an example of a culture complex region, which he puts as between an ethnic homeland and an ethnic island in scale and has distinct characteristics from them. - (SLD)
He poses three general and related questions. To whom are we addressing our work ? Historical geographers have not in a critical conversation with each other about their own product. What are we to write about ? Historical geographers should share
A. attempts to examine the associations between participation and representation within oral-history projects. He especially distinguishes between those who agree to participate, the ins, and those who do not. Main example is his studies of the gaps
In the paper, the A. wishes to question the methodological power of critical realism for social geographical thought. By recourse to Hegel, Marx and Lefebvre, he wants to show that critical realist and critical realist geographers in fact pursue
Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, the A. suggests that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. He illustrates the key issues
in the landscape. Because he was well informed about the science of his time and about Humboldt and Guyot in particular, and because his texts are rich literary contrivances, geographers may fruitful examine his work.
The article considers the German idea of the cultural region between the wars, with particular reference to the work of Franz Petri. Drawing on a self-consciously modern integration of archaeological, historical and geographical research, he
development of geographical curriculum. As general secretary of the hungarian Geeographical Society and founder and first director of the Geographical Research Group (later Institute) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences he played decisive role
at the same time building methodologies and carrying out research on it. He finally points to the benefits which the didactics of this discipline in Italy could derive from the cultural innovations called for in Seul, at the 29th International Congress. - (NF)
and pride in an historic downtown district were instrumental in preventing the boat from locating there. He calls for more study of the sense of place and the role it plays in the formation of interest groups. - (SLD)
or instrumentation are needed) of the water in each category and a photograph from Montana to illustrate each. He ends by broefly discussing the uses of the classification scheme. - (SLD)
of histories and cultures rather than recolonization. He draws on his reserach on Tamil migrant laborers in Ceylon to illustrate the ways in which their actions and indigenous perspectives can be restructured and British colonial myths can be deconstructed
The A. examines regional trends in the linearity of landforms that mostly have direct glacial origins and use those data to infer ice-flow direction. He also uses till color and till-fabric data to suggest a general outer margin for the Greatlakean