BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Carl Widstrand (ed), Multinational Firms in Africa, with an Introduction by Samir Amin. African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, and Scandinavian Institute of African Studies Industry, Employment and the Developing World (The contribution of private business to the employment objectives of developing countries). Overseas Development Institute R.M. Bird, Taxing Agricultural Land in Developing Countries K.J. Davey, Taxing a Peasant Society: The Example of Graduated Taxes in East Africa V.A. Pai Panandiker and N.C. Mehta (eds), Rural Banking. National Institute of Bank Management Antoni Kuklinski (ed), Regional Disaggregation of National Policies and Plans     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael Fleet, The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy. Richard E. Feinberg and Contributors, Between Two Worlds, The World Bank's Next Decade. US-Third World Policy Perspectives No. 7. World Bank, Recovery in the Developing World. The London Symposium on the World Bank's Role. OECD, Financing and External Debt of Developing Countries Stanley Please, The Hobbled Giant. Essays on the World Bank. Robert Cassen and Associates, Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force. W. Arthur Lewis, Racial Conflict and Economic Development. Gunnar M. Serbe, Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan. A Study of Economic Adaptations in the New Haifa Scheme. Victor S. D'Souza, Economic Development, Social Structure and Population Growth. Mark Hnlmström, Industry and Inequality. The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. S. M. Ghanem, OPEC. The Rise and Fall of an Exclusive Club. Shelagh Weir, Qat in Yemen: Consumption and Social Change. Ray Bromley (ed.), Planning for Small Scale Enterprises in Third World Cities. Ian Smillie, No Condition Permanent: Pump-Priming Ghana's Industrial Revolution. The ‘Geneva Group’, How to Run Small Development Projects. Val Curtis, Women and the Transport of Water. Marcia M. Gowen, with the assistance of Herbert A. Wade, Renewable Energy Assessments: An Energy Planner's Manual. Deepak Lai and Martin Wolf (eds), Stagnation, Savings and the State. T. G. Weiss, Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD. Rune Skarstein and Samuel W. Wangwe, Industrial Development in Tanzania: Some Critical Issues. Ian Livingstone, Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. Franceses Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies. Saadet Deger, Military Expenditure in Third World Countries: The Economic Effects. K. J. Davey, Financing Regional Government: International Practices and their Relevance to the Third World. Stella Lowder, Inside Third World Cities. H. A. Reitsma and J. M. G. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Property Taxes and House Values: The Theory and Estimation of Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization , by John Yinger, Howard S. Bloom, Axel Borsch-Supan, and Helen F. Ladd.
Spatial Price Theory of Imperfect Competition , by Hiroshi Ohta.
Advanced Spatial Statistics , by Daniel A. Griffith.
Regional Economic Development: Essays in Honour of François Perroux , edited by Benjamin Higgins and Donald J. Savoie.
Recent Advances in Regional Economic Modelling , edited by Frank Harrigan and Peter McGregor.
State Policy Choices: The Wisconsin Experience , edited by Sheldon Danziger and John F. Witte.
Resource Development and Environmental Issues: Opportunities and Constraints in the Hunter Region, New South Wales , edited by A. J. Jakeman, P. K. Parker, J. Formby, and D. G. Day.
The Urbanization of the Third World , edited by Josef Gugler.
Indonesia: The Transmigration Program in Perspective , by the World Bank.
The Economic Geography of China , edited by Sun Jingzhi.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Krishna Bharadwaj, Classical Political Economy and the Rise to Dominance of Supply and Demand Theories. Isaac Arnon, Modernization of Agriculture in Developing Countries. Resources, Potentials and Problems. Second Edition R.G. Lowe, Agricultural Revolution in Africa? Impediments to Change and Implications for Farming, for Education and for Society. C.K. Brown (ed.), Rural Development in Ghana. C.E. Barker, M.R. Bhagavan, P.V. Mitschke-Collande and D.V. Wield, African Industrialization: Technology and Change in Tanzania. Annika Rabo, Change on the Euphrates. Villagers, Townsmen and Employees in Northeast Syria. Studies in Social Anthropology, 15 M. Harper and M.F. de Jong (eds), Financing Small Enterprise. Proceedings of a Seminar organized by The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) Norman E. Philp, The Cash Incentive. The Economic Response of Semi-subsistent Craftworkers in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Research Monographs 13 Michael Stevenson, Wokmani: Work, Money and Discontent in Melanesia. H.D. Kopardekar, Social Aspects of Urban Development — A Case Study of the Pattern of Urban Development in the Developing Countries. David B.H. Denoon, Devaluation under Pressure: India, Indonesia and Ghana. Ann Seidman, Money, Banking and Public Finance in Africa. Ugo Fasano-Filho, Currency Substitution and Liberalization. The Case of Argentina. Michael Posner (ed.), Problems of International Money, 1972–85. Washington DC: International Monetary Fund S.J. Tambiah, Sri Lanka. Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy. Fen Hampson, Forming Economic Policy: the Case of Energy in Canada and Mexico. Studies in International Political Economy Zuhayr Mikdashi, Transnational Oil: Issues, Policies and Perspectives. Studies in International Political Economy Poul Engberg-Pedersen, World Bank Management of Structural Crisis in Africa: The Energy Sector, CDR Research Report 9 Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. Women in the International Division of Labour. Swasti Mitter, Common Fate, Common Bond:     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: T.L. Maliyamkono and M.S.D. Bagachwa, The Second Economy in Tanzania. Paul van Gelder and Joep Bijlmer (eds). About Fringes, Margins and Lucky Dips. The Informal Sector in Third World Countries; Recent Developments in Research and Policy. Wil Pansters and Arij Ouweneel (eds), Region, State and Capitalism in Mexico, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins (eds), The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade. Suh Jang-Won (ed.), Strategies for Industrial Development: Concept and Policy Issues. Bruce McKern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), The Minerals of ASEAN and Australia: Problems and Prospects. Deborah Lynn Bleviss and Vanessa Lide (eds), Energy Efficiency Strategies for Thailand. The Needs and the Benefits. Report of a conference 4–6 March 1988, Pattaya, Thailand. Maureen Mackintosh, Gender, Class and Rural Transition. Agribusiness and the Food Crisis in Senegal. Anders Hjort af Ornäs and M.A. Mohamed Salih (eds), Ecology and Politics: Environment Stress and Security in Africa. Alvin Y. So, Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World System Theories. Terry Boswell (ed.). Revolution in the World System. Thierry G. Verhelsl (trans. Bob Cumming), No Life Without Roots: Culture and Development. Howard Johnson (ed.). After the Crossing. Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society. Frank Furedi, The Mau Mau War in Perspective. Robert B. Edgerton, Mau Mau: An African Crucible. Edmond J. Keller, Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Dawit Wolde Giorgis, Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia. Andrew Finkel and Nukhet Sirman (eds), Turkish State, Turkish Society. David Dewar and Vanessa Watson, Urban Markets. Developing Informal Retailing. Josephine Smart, The Political Economy of Street Hawkers in Hong Kong. Charles Cooper and Raphael Kaplinsky (eds), Technology and Development In the Third Industrial Revolution. Patrice J.H. Riemens, On the Foreign Operations of Third World Firms. M. Dutta, Chan Pei-Kang and Lin Shao-Kung (eds). Research in Asian Economic Studies, Vol. 2, 1990: China's Modernization and Open Economic Policy. C. Gwin and R. Keinberg et al., Pulling Together: The International Monetary Fund in a Multipolar World. Overseas Development Council US-Third World Policy Perspectives, No. 13. Malcolm Wallis, Bureaucracy. Its Role in Third World Development. Peter H. Koehn, Public Policy and Administration in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria. John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman, The Economics of Dryland Management. John A. Dixon, David E. James and Paul B. Sherman (eds), Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Teresa Hayter, Aid as Imperialism Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam Britain, the EEC and the Third World Overseas Development Institute, London Alan B. Mountjoy (ed), Developing the Underdeveloped Countries Alain Birou, Fuerzas Campesinas y Politicas Agrarias en America Latina IEPAL, Madrid M. L. O. Faber and J. G. Potter, Towards Economic Independence. Papers on the Nationalization of the Copper Industry in Zambia Lewis Brownstein, Education and Development in Rural Kenya: A Study of Primary School Graduates Philip and Hadassah Gillon (eds), Science and Education in Developing States; Proceedings of the Fifth Rehovot Conference Louis Lefeber and Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Regional Development Experiences and Prospects in South and Southeast Asia John H. Cumberland, Regional Development Experiences and Prospects in the United States of America La Ville et Vorganisation de l'espace, Revue Tiers-Monde Tome XII, No. 45, January-March     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Cedric Pugh. Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India Gil Shidlo, Social Policy in a Non-Democratic Regime: The Case of Public Housing in Brazil Lars Marcussen, Third World Housing In Social and Spatial Development Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd (eds), Housing Africa's Urban Poor Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley, Landlord and Tenant. Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico Patrkia Adams, Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption and the Third World's Environmental Legacy Elmar Altvater, Kurt Hiibner, Jocben Lorentzen and Rall Rojas (eds), The Poverty of Nations: A Guide to the Debt Crisis from Argentina to Zaire Cheryl Payer, Lent and Lost: Foreign Credit and Third World Development James Pickett and Hans Singer (eds), Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Suharan Africa: Essays in Honour of Robert Cardiner. Roger C. Riddell, Manufacturing Africa. Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Robert Klitgmrd. Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa. Oda van Cranenburgh, The Widening Gyre: The TanrruriOn One-Party State and Policy towards Rural Cooperatives William Ascher and Robcrt Healy, Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries. Environment, Economic Growth and Income Distribution. Asit K. Bisweo, T.N. Khoshoo and Ashok Khosla (eds), Environmental Modelling for Developing Countr & s. Barbara J. Cummings, Dam the Rivers, Damn the People: Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil. David Barkin, Rosemary L. BIatt and Bilk R. DeWalt, Food Crops vs. Feed Crops. GlobalSubstitution of Grains in Production. Boulder, CO and London: Chris Milaer (ed.), Exporl Promotion Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Developing Counlrlcs Jairus Bannji and Rohini Hensman, 6eyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Rehtionships in International Companies. (Indo-Dutch Studies in Development Alternatives No. 2) Santosb Mehrotra, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer John Child and Martin Lockett (eds), Reform Poky and the Chinese Enterprise Micbael C. Howard, FQi: Ruceund PoUricsin un IslundStute Stephanie Lawson, The Fuilure of Democrutic PoUtics in FQi Mark Turner, Pepuo New Guinea: The Challenge of Independence SePn Dorney, Papua New Guinea. People, Polfries and History since 1975 Peter Knapp and Alan J. Spector, Chis and Change: Basic Questions of Morxist Sociology. Adrian P. Wood, Stuart A. Keaa, John T. Mllimo and Dennis Michael Warren (eds), The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy and Reform in Zambia lsmael P. Cetublg, Jr, V.L. Choprn and M.S. Swaminathan (eds), Biotcchnologyfor Asian Agriculture: Public Policy Implicotions.     

Thinking about the World Bank’s “accordion” geography of financial globalization

Two “flagship” World Bank reports, entitled The Long March—A Reform Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean In The Next Decade (1997) and the World Development Report, 1999–2000 (2000), are the subject of this paper. Both publications attempt to come to terms with the policy and practice of structural adjustment in the context of a new geography of global finance. This paper argues that the geographical imagination employed in both World Bank reports is the product of a dominant statist geographical imagination that struggles to explain contemporary developments in the geography of money. The paper starts with a brief discussion of the Mexican peso and debt crisis, and the World Bank’s practice of structural adjustment. Through an interrogation of both World Bank papers, thought is then given to the purchase of territorialized state-based mappings of the global economy. The paper wraps up with a brief conclusion concerning the explanatory salience of scale.

Internationally mobile capital is here to stay. Growing trade links, new communication technologies, and increasingly sophisticated financial products are making national borders more porous to financial flows. The challenge facing policymakers in developing countries is how to navigate through this financially integrating world (World Development Report 1999-2000, 2000: 85).

[W]hereas the horizons of the world of money and finance are global and deterritorialized, the political imagination seems wedded to territorialism and the borders of the nation state (Leyshon &Thrift, 1997: 290).

     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Thomas J. Biersteker, Multinationals, the State, and Control of the Nigerian Economy. Olusola Akinrinade and J. Kurt Barling (eds), Economic Development in Africa: International Efforts, Issues and Prospects. Kamran Mofid, Development Planning in Iran from Monarchy to Islamic Republic. George Kopils, Structural Reform, Stabilization and Growth in Turkey. Rizwanul Islam (ed.), Rural Industrialization and Employment in Asia. Javier Gonzalo Alcade, The Idea of Third World Development: Emerging Perspectives in the United States and Britain Christopher Layton, Europe and the Global Crisis: a First Exploration of Europe's Potential Contribution to World Order. Roger C. Riddell, Foreign Aid Reconsidered Stephen Britton and William C. Clarke (eds), Ambiguous Alternative: Tourism in Small Developing Countries. Rosemary B. Jommo, Indigenous Enterprise in Kenya's Tourism Industry. Clare Wells, The UN, UNESCO and the Politics of Knowledge. Caroline Thomas, In Search of Security: The Third World in International Relations. Nzongola-Ntalaja, Bade Onimode, Bernard Magubane, Harold Wolpe, Kempton Makamure, Fatima Babikar Mahmoud, Abdoulaye Bathily, Africa's Crisis. Alan Berg, Malnutrition. What can be done? Lessons from World Bank Experience. Charles L. Choguill, New Communities for Urban Squatters; Lessons from the Plan that Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie (eds), Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. James A. Beckford (ed.), New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Kirsten Hoist Petersen (ed.), Religion, Development and African Identity. Jean-Paul Sajhau and Jiirgen Von Muralt, Plantations and Plantation Workers. Colin Kirk, People in Plantations: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography. Victor Buhner-Thomas, The Political Economy of Central America since 1920. Judith Gentleman (ed. h Mexican Politics in Transition. Chris Prouty, Empress Taytu and Menilek II. Ethiopia 1883–1910. Stewart MacPherson and James Midgley, Comparative Social Policy and the Third World. Mansour Khalid (ed.), John Garang Speaks. Robert E. Hudec, Developing Countries in the GA TT Legal System.     

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
The Third World in Perspective by H.A. REITSMA and J.M.G. KLEINPENNING,
Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective by CAROLYN HALL, Westview Press, London
Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organization of the Nonfarm Sector by DONALD B. FREEMAN and GLEN B. NORCLIFFE
Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions by DONALD J. SAVOIE,
Gentrification OF the City edited by NEIL SMITH and PETER WILLIAMS, Allen and Un-win Inc.
Satellites et capteurs par JEAN CASSANET, Paradigme, Caen, France
Les données-images par GÉRARD JOLY, Paradigme, Caen, France
GAETAN L. LESSARD et JEAN-MARIE M. DUBOIS niversité de Sherbrooke
The Good Life by YI-FU TUAN
Technological Transitions in Cartography by MARK S, MONMONIER,     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Solon L. Barraclough, An End to Hunger? The Social Origins of Food Strategies. Fernando H. Cnrdoso et al., Eight Essays on the Crisis of Deuelopment in Latin America. Peter Utting, Economic Adjustment under the Sanrlinistas; Policy Reform, Food Security and Livelihood in Nicaragua. Geneva: Mats Lundahl, Politics or Markets? Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment. David Shapiro and Eric Tollens, The Agricultural Development of Zaire. Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Afiica. Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan™s Development: Tibor Vagko (ed.), Problems of Economic Transition: Regional Development in Central and R. Adhikari, C. Kirkpatrick and J. Weiss (eds), Industrial and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Dilip K. Dm, Import Candisarion David Simon, Cities, Capital and Development: African Cities in the World Economy. Robert-Jan Baken and Jan van der Linden, Land Delivery for Low Zncorne Groups in Third World Cifies. Usha Jumani, Dealing with Poverty. Self-employment for Poor Rural Women. David Wright-Neville, The Evolution of Japanese Foreign Aid 1955-1956. Monash Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 2. Monash Oliver Morrissey, Brian Smith and Edward Horesh, British Aid and International Trade. David Keen, Refugees: Rationing the Right to Life. The Crisis in emergency relief; M. B. K. Darkoh (ed.), African River Basins and Dryland Crises. Doug Porter, Bryant Allen and Gaye Thompson Navigating between Scylla und Charybdis. Eastern Europe. Countries     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Juliet Clifford and Gavin Osmond, World Development Handbook Charles Knight & Co. John White, Regional Development Banks. A Study of Institutional Style Overseas Development Institute Keith Griffin (ed), Financing Development in Latin America Milton C. Taylor (ed), Taxation for African Economic Development Hutchinson Educational Ramgopal Agarwala, An Econometric Model of India 1948–1961 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd Earl M. Kulp, Rural Development Planning - Systems Analysis and Working Method Alessandro Pizzorno (ed), Political Sociology Penguin Modern Sociology Readings     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this article:
Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form, by Allen J. Scott.
Services and Uneven Development. J. Neill Marshall in collaboration with P. Wood, P. W. Daniels et al.
New Industrial Spaces. Allen J. Scott.
Space-Structure Economy: A Tribute to August Lösch, edited by Rolf H. Funck and Antoni Kuklinski.
The Changing Downtown: A Comparative Study of Baltimore and Hamburg, by Jurgen Friedrichs, Allen C. Goodman, et al.
Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis, edited by Neil Wrigley.
An Analysis of Cross-Border Shopping, by J. D. Fitzgerald, T. P. Quinn, B. J. Whelan, and J. A. Williams.
Essay on the Economy of the Old Northwest. edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder.
China: Growth and Development in Gansu Province, by the World Bank.
Urban Development and Regional Policy in India: An Econometric Analysis. by Vibhooti Shukla.
The Economics of Urbanisation and Urban Policies in Developing Countries, edited by George S. Tolley and Vinod Thomas.
The New Economic Role of American States: Strategies in a Competitive World Economy, edited by R. Scott Fosler.
Plant Closings and Worker Displacement, by Marie Howland.
Industrial Location, by Keith Chapman and David Walker.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: James Raymond Vreeland , The IMF and Economic Development Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa , Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations Richard Peet , Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and the WTO William I. Robinson , A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World Mary Ann Haley , Freedom and Finance: Democratisation and Institutional Investors in Developing Countries Ganeshan Wignaraja (ed.) , Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries: A Manual for Policy Analysis Kaushik Basu (ed.) , India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond Alvin Y. So (ed.) , China's Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformations and Challenges Shahra Razavi (ed.) , Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights Haleh Afshar and Deborah Eade (eds) , Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives Emmanuel Nnadozie , African Economic Development Fantu Cheru , African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenges of Globalization Fumihiko Saito , Decentralization and Development Partnerships: Lessons from Uganda Lise Rakner , Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991–2001 Jim Igoe , Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota Hugh Schwartz , Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, Brazil Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater (eds) , Food Policy Old and New     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Cristovam Buarque, The End of Economics? Ethics and the Disorder of Progress. Gautam Mathur, Economic Justice in a Free Society. Gerry Rodgers, Charles Gore and José B. Figueiredo (eds), Social Exclusion: Rhetoric, Reality, Responses. G. P. Chapman and M. Thompson (eds), Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley. Krishna Bharadwaj, Accumulation, Exchange and Development: Essays on the Indian Economy. Willem van Schendel, Reviving a Rural Industry. Silk Producers and Officials in India and Bangladesh 1880s to 1980s. Jennifer A. Widner (ed.), Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Adebayo Adedeji (ed.), Africa Within the World: Beyond Dispossession and Dependence. Jomo K. S. (ed.), Industrialising Malaysia: Policy, Performance, Prospects. K. Saradamoni (ed.), Finding the Household: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Md Anisur Rahman, People's Self-Development: Perspectives on Participatory Action Research. A Journey through Experience. Michael Painter and William H. Durham (eds), The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America. Ilja A. Luciak, The Sandinista Legacy: Lessons from a Political Economy in Transition. Overseas Development Administration, A Guide to Social Analysis for Projects in Developing Countries. Heng-Kang Sang, Project Evaluation. Techniques and Practices for Developing Countries. Charles Stewart Goodwin, The Third World Century.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Migration and Residential Mobility: Macro and Micro Approaches , by Martin Cadwallader
Integrated Urban Models 2: New Research and Applications of Optimization and Dynamics , by Stephen H. Putman.
Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries , by Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn.
The Randstad A Research and Policy Laboratory , edited by Frans M. Dieleman and Sako Musterd.
Jumpstart: The Economic Unification of Germany , by Gerlinde Sinn and Hans-Werner Sinn. 1993. (Translation, by Juli Irving-Lessmann
Problems of Economic Transition: Regional Development in Central Europe , edited by Tibor Vasko.
Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialized Countries , edited by Edward Bergman, Gunther Maier, and Franz Tödtling.
The Changing Role of Rural Communities in an Urbanizing World Saskatchewan 1961–90 , by Jack C. Stabler, Margaret R. Olfert, and Murray Fulton.
Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge of the 1990's , by Jack C. Stabler and Margaret R. Olfert.
Housing Markets and Residential Mobility , edited by G. Thomas Kingsley and Margery Austin Turner.
Spreadsheet Models for Urban and Regional Analysis , edited by Richard E. Klosterman, Richard K. Brail, and Earl G. Bossard.
Microcomputer-Based Input-Output Modeling: Applications to Economic Development , edited by Daniel M. Otto and Thomas G. Johnson.
Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective , by Elinor Ostrom, Larry Schroeder, and Susan Wynne.
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century , by Paul Kennedy.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Urban Futures for Central Canada , by Larry S. Bourne, Ross D. McKinnon, Jay Siegel and James W. Simmons (eds.).
Locational Analysis , by C. C. Harris and F. E. Hopkins.
Interindustry Relations: Some Attraction Models , by A. C. van Wickeren.
Recreational Geography , by Patrick Lavery (ed.).
Rural Recreation in the Industrial World , by Ian Gordon Simmons.
Development Regions in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Canada , by Andrew F. Burghardt (ed.).
Housing in America: Problems and Prospects , by Daniel R. Mandelker and Robert Montgomery (eds.).     

The environment becomes a political issue. Highlights of the Brundtland Commission Report

The Report of the Brundtland Commission (World Commission on Environment and Development) has been released by the UN. The Report points out that environmental survival requires development and development is only possible if the resources of the global environment are conserved. Although the UN and the World Bank must make commitments to development, each nation must devise its own strategy because development is inextricably linked to political, economic, and social factors such as poverty, overpopulation and the status of women. The Report makes 3 specific recommendations: 1) An independent body should be set up to assess global risks; 2) A universal declaration on environment and development should be made and followed by a convention; and 3) The UN General Assembly should set up a UN Program on Sustainable Development. The highest priority should be given to finding alternatives to nuclear energy as well as making the use of nuclear energy safer. Other major environmental problems include desertification, acid rain, the "greenhouse effect" and its impact on global climate and sea levels, and the destruction of the ozone layer with concomitant increase in cancer.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Adam Szirmai, The Dynamics of Socio‐Economic Development, an Introduction Damien Kingsbury, Joe Remenyi, John McKay and Janet Hunt, Key Issues in Development Robbie Robertson, The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness Natalia Dinello and Lyn Squire (ed.)Globalization and Equity: Perspectives from the Developing World William K. Tabb, Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization Elisabeth Mudimbe‐Boyi (ed.), Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities, Cultures and the Challenge of Globalization Jozef Ritzen, A Chance for the World Bank Ha‐Joon Chang (ed.), Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within June Nash (ed.), Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader Märta C. Johanson, Self‐Determination and Borders: The Obligation to Show Consideration for the Interests of Others Deepa Narayan (ed.), Measuring Empowerment: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives Katherine Homewood (ed.), Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa John Weiss (ed.), Poverty Targeting in Asia Ivo Imparto and Jeff Ruster, Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lessons from Latin America Nicholas P. Higgins, Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion: Modernist Visions & the Invisible Indian     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Masahisa Fujita and Jacques‐François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth Timothy J. Bartik, Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Policies Help? Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism Nicole Pohl, Mobility in Space and Time: Challenges to the Theory of International Economics Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, and Charles van Marrewijk, An Introduction to Geographical Economics: Trade, Location and Growth Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener (eds.), Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform Wallace E. Oates (ed.), Property Taxation and Local Government Finance: Essays in Honor of C. Lowell Harris Maryann P. Feldman and Nadine Massard (eds.), Institutions and Systems in the Geography of Innovation Dengjian Jim, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan Harvey J. Miller and Jiawei Han (eds.), Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Anna Nagurney and June Dong, Supernetworks: Decision‐Making for the Information Age Stuart McCook, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760‐1940 Philip Scranton (ed.), The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940's to the 1970's Stephen Haycox, Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska Kathleen Ann Pickering, Lakota Culture, World Economy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Hungary Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Italy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Bergamo, Italy Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: Teruel, Spain Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), OECD Territorial Reviews: The Valencian Central Districts, Spain Jaakko Suvantola, Tourist's Experience of Place