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ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
(with The Institute of British Geographers)
Patron HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Honorary President HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, Gcmc, Gcvo
Honorary Vice-Presidents Dr Colin Bertram
Sir George Bishop, CB, OBE Professor Eric Brown
Lord Chorley Sir Vivian Fuchs, FRS
Lord Hunt, KG, CBE, DSO Sir Laurence Kirwan, KCMG
Professor William Mead Dorothy Middleton
Professor Michael Wise, CBE, MC
THE COUNCIL (Elected 2 June 1997 for the Session 1997-98)
President: The Earl of Selborne, KBE, FRS
Vice-Presidents Professor Robin Butlin
Professor Grenville Lucas Sir David Puttnam
Honorary Treasurer: David Hall, Chair Finance Committee
Honorary Secretanes Dr Iain Black Richard Byrne
Dr Heather Viles
Other Members of Council Professor Robert Bennett, FBA Elspeth Insch Professor Mark Blacksell Dr Derek Law Professor Anne Buttimer Professor Keith Miller Jane Cavanagh Eleanor Rawling Baroness Chalker Professor David Rhind Field Marshall Sir John Chapple Professor John Thornes Sir Neil Cossons Sir Crispin Tickell Dr Brian Hoyle
Director and Secretary: Dr Rita Gardner
Deputy Director: Nigel de N. Winser
Keeper: Dr Andrew Tatham
Bursar: Barry Melbourne Webb
Editor, The Geographical Journal: Professor Vince Gardiner
Bankers: Midland Bank plc, 92 Kensington High Street, London W8 4SH
RGS-IBG Committees (appointed 2 June 1997)
General and Education Division: Vice-President and Chair: Sir David Puttnam. Honorary Secretary: Richard Byrne. Tamsin Clegg; Dr Malcolm Coe; Sir Neil Cossons; Stephen Cox; Helen Holdaway; Gregor Hutcheon; Elspeth Insch; Barnaby Lenon; Peter Smith.
Expeditions and Fieldwork Division: Vice-President and Chair: Professor Grenville Lucas. Honorary Secretary: Dr Heather Viles. Field Marshall Sir John Chapple; Dr Malcolm Coe; Dr Nic Fleming; Professor Keith Miller; Dr Jonathan Raper; Professor Myra Shackley; Dr Tom Spencer; Professor John Thornes; Steohen Walters; Dr Peter Warren.
Research and Higher Education Division: Vice-President and Chair: Professor Robin Butlin. Honorary Secretary: Dr Tain Black. Professor Bruce Atkinson; Professor Robert Bennett; Professor Anne Buttimer; Jane Cavanagh; Dr David Drewry; Dr Brian Hoyle; Dr Miles Ogborn; Dr Tracey Skelton.
Information Resources: Chair: Dr Derek Law. Rex Banks; Dr Chris Board; Professor Robin Butlin; Anthony Campbell; Paul Hancock; Elspeth Insch; Professor Grenville Lucas; Professor David Rhind; Sarah Tyacke.
External Affairs: Chair: Professor Mark Blacksell. Professor Robert Bennett; Sir John Chapple; David Hall; Elspeth Insch; Vanessa Lawrence; Dr Barry Morgan; John Price Williams; Lisa Sykes.
Finance: Chair: David Hall. Professor Mark Blacksell; Professor Robin Butlin; Lord Chorley; Professor Derek Diamond; Lord Mark Fitzalan-Howard; Harold Gould; Martin Lyon; Peter Martin; Richard Playford.
CONTENTS
Volume 163 March 1997
Military Geography: terrain evaluation and the British Western Front 1914-1918 PETER DOYLE and MATTHEW R. BENNETT
Community-Based Planning: Canada’s Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) Guy M. RoBINSON
Comparative regional geography in India and West Africa: Soils, Landforms and Economic Theory in agricultural development strategies YANNI GUNNELL
Small Farmers and Forest loss in Cross River National Park, Nigeria Uwe E. ITE
Development from below in the ‘New’ South Africa: the case of Hertzog, Eastern Cape E. NEL, T. HILL and T. BINNS
Estimating Areas of Land Under Small-Scale Irrigation Using Satellite Imagery and Ground Data for a Study Area in N.E. Nigeria N.D. PRATT, A.C. BirD, J.C. TAYLOR and R.C. CARTER
Farmer Responses to Inefficiencies in the Supply and Distribution of Irrigation Requirements in Delta Egypt L.S. RADWAN
Fifty Years Ago
Reviews
The Society’s News
The Record
Conference Reports
Obituary
Meetings
Volume 163 July 1997
Environmental Transformations in Developing Countries
Editor’s introduction 125
Environmental transformations in developing countries: hybrid research and democratic policy SIMON BATTERBURY, TIMOTHY FORSYTH and Koy THOMSON
The sustainability principle in global agendas: implications for understanding land-use/ cover change B.L. TURNER II
Security and Solidarity: an anti-reductionist framework for thinking about the relationship between us and the rest of nature MICHAEL ‘THOMPSON
Agricultural Intensification and Flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel W.M. ADAMS and M.J. MORTIMORE
The Dynamics of Soil Fertility Change: historical perspectives on environmental transformation from Zimbabwe IAN SCOONES
After the Flood: local initiative in using a new wetland resource in the Sourou Valley, Mali P. WOODHOUSE, P. CHENEVIX-TRENCH and M. 'TESSOUGUE
Rain Forest Extraction and Conservation in Amazonia OLIVER T. COOMES and BRADFORD L. BARHAM
Social capital and rural intensification: local organizations and islands of sustainability in the rural Andes ANTHONY BEBBINGTON
Fewer people, less erosion: the twentieth century in southern Bolivia DAVID PRESTON, MARK MACKLIN and JEFF WARBURTON
Pollution Patterns during the Industrial Transition RICHARD M. AUTY
Environmental Transformations in Cities as they get Larger, Wealthier and Better Managed DaviD SATTERTHWAITE
Fifty Years Ago
Correspondence
Reviews
The Society’s News
Conference Report
Obituary
Meetings
Volume 163 November 1997
An Assessment of where People will witness the First Sunrise of the New Millennium PETER D. LECHNER, PHILIP A. BLAIN, NORRIS D. MCWHIRTER and INGRID S. KRISTAMENT 251
Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: a centre-periphery perspective SUDHIR WANMALI and YASSIR ISLAM
Environmental Responsibility and Business Regulation: the case of sustainable tourism ‘TIMOTHY FORSYTH
The Presidential Address THE EARL JELLICOE
The case for Geography funding at ‘part laboratory’ level
Fifty Years Ago
Reviews
The Society’s News
The Record
Conference Report
Obituaries
Meetings
Annual Index
ISSN 0016-7398 Printed in Great Britain for the Royal Geographical Society
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