REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: A Continent Transformed: Human Impact on the Nutural Vegetation of Australia Jamie Kirkpatrick The Emergence of Bioregionalism in the Murray-Darling Basin J.M. Powell From Forest to Sea: Australia's Changing Environment: Eric Rolls Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases Stephen Dovers, (ed.) Spirited Cities Urban Planning, Traffic and Environmental Management in the Nineiies Essays for Hans Westerman Robert Freestone (ed.) The Margin Fades: Geographical Itineraries in a World of Islands Eric Waddell and Patrick D. Nunn (eds) Oceanic Islands Patrick D. Nunn Natural Disasters David Alexander REVIEWS IN BRIEF: Geography and National Identity David Hooson (ed.) REVIEWS IN BRIEF: The Challenge for Geography. A Changing World: A Changing Discipline R.J. Johnston (ed.) REVIEWS IN BRIEF: Building Bridges. Geography in Australia Report of the National Committee for Geography Australian Academy of Sciences R.L. Heathcote (ed) REVIEWS IN BRIEF: The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Physical Geography Andrew Goudie, B.W. Atkinson, K.J. Gregory, I.G. Simmons, D.R. Stoddart, David Sugden (eds.) The Dictionary of Human Geography R.J. Johnston, Derek Gregory and David Smith (eds.)     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Urban Policy. Objectives and Opinions , by Max Neutze Ideology, Science and Human Geography by D. Gregory Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems , edited by David Ley and Marwyn Samuels Last of Lands — Antarctica , by J. F. Lovering and J. R. V. Prescott Science for Physical Geographers, by D. A. Davidson, Edward Arnold Heat Budget Atlas of the Tropical Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans , by Stefan Hastenrath and Peter J. Lamb     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: R. L. Heathcote and J. A. Mabbutt, (eds) Land, Water and People. Geographical Essays in Australian Resource Management P. G. Holland and W. B. Johnston (eds.) Southern Approaches: Geography in New Zealand Reginald George Golledge &. Robert J. Stimson Analytical Behavioural Geography Russell Btong and Colin Aislabie The Impact of Volcanic Hazards at Rabaul Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs Discussion Paper No. 33     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Australian Agriculture: Resource Development and Spatial Organization (Geography of World Agriculture, Vol. 9), by P eter S cott
Canadian Agriculture (Geography of World Agriculture, Vol. 10), by M.J. T roughton
Rural Settlement in an Urban World , by M ichael B unce
Kanada einfach. Die Bauern verlassen die Schweiz , by W erner C atrina
Politics, Geography and Behaviour , by R ichard M uir and R onan P addison
Political Studies from Spatial Perspectives: Anglo-American Essays on Political Geography , edited by A lan D. B urnett and P eter J. T aylor
Spatial Analysis, Industry and the Industrial Environment: Volume 2 - International Industrial Systems , edited by F.E.I. H amilton and G.J.R. L inge
Handbook of Snow: Principles, Processes, Management and Use , edited by D.M. G ray and D.H. M ale     

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Book reviewed in this article: Global Restructuring. The Australian Experience: Robert H Fagan and Michael Webber The Coast Dwellers. Australians Living on the Edge Philip Drew Natural Hazards: David Chapman Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment J. Glasson, R. Therivel and A. Chadwick Environmental Impact Assessment; Cutting Edge for the Twenty First Century: A. Gilpin Environmental Change - Contemporary Problems in Geography: Andrew Goudie     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (Eds.) 'Viva'. Women and popular protest in Latin America.
J. Little , Gender, Planning and the Policy Process.
Vivian Kinnaird and Derek Hall (Eds.) Tourism: A Gender Analysis .
Anne Buttimer , Geography and the Human Spirit .
Graham Huggan . Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: On Geography and its History, Basil Blackwell, Oxford Production, work, territory. The geographical anatomy of contemporary capitalism, Allen and Unwin, Winchester Mass Issues in the Management of Australia's Water Resources, Longman Cheshire Water and Coal: industry, environment and institutions in the Hunter Valley, NSW Policies for Environmental Quality Control, CRES Monograph 15, Canberra Landslides: Causes, Consequences & Environment, Croom Helm Perspectives on a Dynamic Earth, Allen and Unwin, London Australian Soils: The Human Impact, University of Queensland Press Economy and People in the North, Australian National University North Australia Research Unit The Mission and Peppimenarti: An Economic Study of Two Daly River Aboriginal Communities Mataranka and the Daly: Two Studies in the History of Settlement in the Northern Territory Yellowcake and Crocodiles, Allen and Unwin, Sydney The Australasian Summer Monsoon, Teleconnections, and Flooding in the Lake Eyre Basin Land, Cane and Coconuts: Papers on the Rural Economy of Fiji. Publication HG/17. Canberra: Department of Human Geography Mobility and Identity in the Island Pacific. (A special issue of Pacific Viewpoint     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacifc, R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon Global Environmental Crises An Australian Perspective, Graeme Aplin, Peter Mitchell, Helen Cleugh, Andrew Pitman and David Rich Environmental Change in Drylands. Biogeographical and Geomorphological Perspectives, A.C. Millington and K. Pye Australian Cities: Continuity and Change, Clive Forster Developing Skill-based Curricula through the Disciplines: Case Studies of Good Practice in Geography, Alan Jenkins and Andrew Ward The Volcanic Earth: Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics, Past, Present and Future, Lin Sutherland Soils; A New Global View, T.R. Paton, G.S. Humphreys and P.B. Mitchell Asian Metropolis, Urbanization and the Southeast Asian City, Dean Forbes     

Geography’s Emerging Cross‐Disciplinary Links: Process,Causes, Outcomes and Challenges

In Australian universities the discipline of Geography has been the pace‐setter in forging cross‐disciplinary links to create multidisciplinary departments and schools, well ahead of other disciplines in humanities, social sciences and sciences, and also to a greater extent than in comparable overseas university systems. Details on all cross‐disciplinary links and on immediate outcomes have been obtained by surveys of all heads of departments/schools with undergraduate Geography programs. These programs have traced their own distinctive trajectories, with ramifying links to cognate fields of enquiry, achieved through mergers, transfers, internal initiatives and, more recently, faculty‐wide restructuring to create supradisciplinary schools. Geography’s ‘exceptionalism’ has proved short‐lived. Disciplinary flux is now extending more widely within Australian universities, driven by a variety of internal and external forces, including: intellectual questioning and new ways of constituting knowledge; technological change and the information revolution; the growth of instrumentalism and credentialism, and managerialism and entre‐preneurial imperatives; reinforced by a powerful budgetary squeeze. Geographers are proving highly adaptive in pursuit of cross‐disciplinary connections, offering analytical tools and selected disciplinary insights useful to non‐geographers. However, this may be at cost to undergraduate programs focussing on Geography’s intellectual core. Whereas formerly Geography had high reproductive capacity but low instrumental value it may now be in a phase of enhanced utility but perilously low reproductive capacity.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Landforms: Structure, Process and Time C.R. Twidale and E.M. Campbell Keeping New Zealand Green, Recent Environmental Reforms: P. A. Memon The Slow Plague. A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic: Peter Gould Ecogeography and Rural Management: a Contribution to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: Jean Tricart, and Conrad KiewietdeJonge Housing Australia: C. Paris Aspects of Environmental Change: T.R.R. Johnston and J.R. Flenley (eds.) Places worth Keeping; Conservationists, Politics and the Law: Tim Bonyhady University of NSW ADFA, Canberra     

W(h)ither Development Geography in Australia?

This paper explores the changing focus and role of development geography in Australian university teaching and research. It is based primarily on interviews with Emeritus Professors Harold Brookfield and David Lea and Professor John Connell, which were conducted as part of the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Millennium Project on Geography and Geographers. Drawing on the collective wisdom of these geographers, the evolution and characteristics of development geography in Australia and the reasons for its past strength are outlined. Additionally, the contributions made by this branch of the discipline to Geography are described, reasons for the parlous state of development geography in Australia today are presented and a number of issues related to its future survival are raised. The paper argues that, for the discipline of Geography in Australia to retain social relevance, a continuing focus on global inequality and its impacts at the local scale is essential.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Urban Transport in ASEAN. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Research Notes and Discussions Paper No. 43 Richmond, W.H. and Sharma, P.C. (eds) Mining and Australia Elkington, J. Suntraps. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984, 400 pp Eyles, J. Senses of Place Taylor, P. and House, J. (eds) Political Geography: Recent Advances and Future Directions Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) Manual For Use in Statistical Work     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Space, Australian Time: Geographical Perspectives in Australia.1788–1914 edited by J.M. Powell and M. Williams Rural Industry in the Port Phillip Region 1835–1880 by Lynette J. Peel Melbourne at the Census: 1971.A Social Atlas prepared by: Cities Commission with Nicholas Clark and Associates and J.R. Davies. A Socio-Economic Atlas of Adelaide by R.J. Stimson and E.A. Cleland A Geomorphic Map of the Riverine Plain of South-Eastern Australia by B.E. Butler, G. Blackburn, J.M. Bowler, C.R. Lawrence, J.W. Newell and S. Pels Settlers and Habitat in Tropical Queensland by Ray Sumner Rates of Denudation in Selected Small Catchments in Eastern Australia by I. Douglas Urban and Regional Australia, Analysis and Policy Issues by M.I. Logan, C.A. Maher, J. McKay and J.S. Humphreys, Sorrett, Malvern, Victoria, 1975. Economic Geography by B.W. Hodder and R. Lee. Methuen     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: White, H. P. Senior, M. L.,: Transport Geography C. C. Kissling Anderson, J. Duncan, S. Hudson, R. (eds.) Redundant Spaces in Cities and Regions? Studies in Industrial Decline and Social Change Michael Taylor Law, P., Antarctic Odyssey Nigel Wace Caine, N., The Mountains of Northeastern Tasmania: a study of alpine geomorphology. A. A. Balkema R. W. Galloway Mosler, M.-A., Geomorphologische Untersuchungen im Lippischen Keuperbergland R. W. Galloway Department of Home Affairs and the Environment, Australian Urban Environmental Indicators David Ingle Smith Douglas, I., The Urban Environment     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: P. Hall,: Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century John R. Short: the Humane City: Cities as if People Matter J., Wolch M. Dear (editors) The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life Benjamin Higgins Krzysztof Zagorski (editors): Australian Regional Developments–Readings in Regional Experiences, Policies and Prospects Ken snort Cutteridge, Haskins Davies Newcastle. A. L. Mabogunje: The Development Process. A Spatial Perspective L.H. Day D.T. Rowland (editors): How many more Australians? The Resource and Environmental Conflicts C.E. Thorn: Introduction to Theoretical Geomorphology W.J. Maunder,: The Human Impact of Climate Uncertainty Andover A. A. Myers P. S. Giller (editors): Analytical Biogeography. An Integrated Approach to the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions     

Australian geography: The next 10 years (and beyond)?

Geography: Shaping Australia's Future (2018) provides a ‘strategic plan’ for geography aligned with the national research priorities, as well other key areas where Australian geographers are addressing environmental and societal challenges. To provide context, we first describe the state of geography in Australian universities. We then articulate ways forward for strengthening Australian geography—both within the discipline and how we interact externally. We describe how geography may better contribute to policy agendas, capitalising on our unique perspectives of space, place and the environment, but also highlight how we might improve these contributions through a more unified approach across human and physical geography. Third, we discuss opportunities for geographers to build the reputation of the discipline and ways to advocate for its importance in the wider academy, school curricula and community. We conclude with some preliminary suggestions on how Australian geographers may better engage and contribute to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.     

Exploring the Transition: Coursework to Research‐Based Study in the Geography Honours Year

The transition from coursework study to independent research is a component of many geography Honours programs in Australian tertiary institutions. Despite being canvassed at the 2003 annual meeting of the Australian Heads of Geography Units, it is a topic that has, to date, received relatively little academic attention. This paper developed from a review of the Geography Honours program at the University of Sydney, conducted by the authors in early 2004. The paper aims to help address the perceived deficiency of research into Honours study. Three topics, related to the Honours year transition, are discussed. These are: the rationale for the Honours year transition from undergraduate coursework to research‐focussed study; the composition and rationale behind coursework programs for geography Honours students, and student‐supervisor relations and their impact on independent Honours research. In the process of examining these issues this paper offers suggestions as to how tertiary geography schools can look to develop their Honours year programs. These recommendations are made with the understanding that all tertiary Honours programs are unique and that issues such as staffing levels and departmental structure will influence what suggestions are appropriate for individual institutions. It is hoped that this paper will encourage more discussion about the nature of the Honours year. It is through such communication that the value of the Honours year in student development can be enhanced     

北京大学的人文地理教学与研究

北京大学的地理部分是1952年由清华大学调入的。当时、北京大学成立了地质地理系。地理方面按苏联经验只建立自然地理学专业。     

Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Industrial location: Principles and Policies
A Geography of Population
China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of the Common House
Landscape Planning
Sounding the Iceberg: An Essay on Canadian Historical Novels
Location, Location, Location: Analysing the Retail Environment