Reviews

Books reviewed: Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein (eds), Readings in Planning Theory, 2nd Edition Noel Castree and Bruce Braun (eds), Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics Thomas V. Cech, Principles of Water Resources; History, Development, Management and Policy Jonathan Crush and David McDonald (eds),Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa K. O’Connor, R. Stimson and M. Daly, Australia's Changing Economic Geography. A Society Dividing B. Roberts and D. Wadley (eds), Planning for Sustainable Industry Sima Williamson, David Brunckhorst and Gerard Kelly, Reinventing the Common: Cross‐Boundary Farming for a Sustainable Future     

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.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Geography , by Edward J. Taaffe (ed.).
Statistical Analysis in Geography , by Leslie J. King.
Readings in Mathematical Social Science , by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Neil W. Henry (eds.).
Simulation and Society , by John R. Raser.
Introduction to Mathematical Economics , by Richard H. Puckett.
Modern Mathematical Methods for Economics and Business , by Ronald E. Miller.
Urban Economics: Theory, Development, Planning , by William H. Leahy, David I. McKee, and Robert D. Dean (eds.).
Urban Economics , by Edwin S. Mills.
Studies in the Structure of the Urban Economy , by Edwin S. Mills.
Essays in Regional Economics , by John F. Kain and John R. Meyer (eds.).
Markets, Prices, and Interregional Trade , by Raymond G. Bressler, Jr. and Richard A. King.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Progress in Geography: International Reviews of Current Research , Volume 5, by Christopher Board, Richard J. Chorley, Peter Haggett and David R. Stoddart (eds.).
Regional Development in Britain , by Gerald Manners, David Keeble, Brian Rodgers and Kenneth Warren.
Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy , by Michael Chisholm and Patrick O'Sullivan.
Social Intervention: A Behavioral Science Approach , by Harvey A Hornstein, Barbara Benedict Bunker, W. Warner Burke, Marion Gindes, and Roy J. Lewicke (eds.).
The Effect of Public Policy on Housing Markets , by Hugh O. Nourse.
Geography and Contemporary Issues: Studies of Relevant Problems , by Melvin Albaum (ed.).
Employment Expansion and Metropolitan Trade , by Richard Victor Knight.
Growth Centers in the American Urban System , Vols. I and II, by Brian J. L. Berry.
Income Flows in Urban Poverty Areas , by Richard Lance Schaffer.
Poverty in the Nonmetropolitan South , by George Thomas.
Land Use and the Environment: An Anthology of Readings , by Virginia Curtis (ed.).
Environment: A New Focus for Land-Use Planning , by Donald McAllister (ed.).
Landscape Indicators: New Techniques in Geology and Geography , by A. G. Chikishev (ed.).
The Use of Land: A Citizens' Policy Guide to Urban Growth , by William K. Reilly (ed.).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Geography and the Urban Environment: Progress In Research and Applications , Volume 3, by D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston (eds.).
The Geography of Public Finance: Welfare Under Fiscal Federalism and Local Government Finance , by R. J. Bennett.
Modeling the Multiregional Economic System , by F. Gerard Adams and Norman J. Glickman (eds.).
Improving the Elderly's Housing: A Key to Preserving the Nation's Housing Stock and Neighborhoods , by Raymond J. Struyk and Beth Soldo.
Regional Studies for Planning and Projecting: The Siberian Experience , by A. G. Aganbegyan (ed.).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: Urban and Regional Models in Geography and Planning, by Alan G. Wilson. Planning and Urban Growth: An Anglo-American Comparison, by Marion Clawson and Peter Hall. New Towns: Why-And for Whom?, by H. S. Pcrloff and N. C. Sandberg (eds.). Spatial Autocorrelation, by A. D. Cliff and J. R. Ord.     

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 articles.
Understanding the Cultural Landscape . Wallach, Bret.
City of Flows. Modernity, Nature and the City . Kaika, Maria.
Talking About Sydney: Population, Community, and Culture in Contemporary Sydney . Freestone, Robert; Randolph, Bill; Butler-Bowden, Caroline and Randolph, W. (eds).
Territory. A Short Introduction . Delaney, David .
Worlds of Food: Place, Power and Provenance in the Food Chain . Morgan, Kevin; Marsden, Terry and Murdoch, Jonathan .
Urban Geography: A Global Perspective. Pacione, Michael.
For Space . Massey, Doreen.
Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains . Conte, Christopher A.
After the Three Italies. Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change . Dunford, Michael and Greco ,
Approaches to Human Geography . Aitken, Stuart and Valentine, Gill (eds).
Space Odysseys: Spatiality and Social Relations in the 21st Century. Bcerenholdt, Jörgen Ole and Simonsen, Kirsten (eds).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Spatial Approach for District Planning: A Case Study of Karnal District , by R. N. Sharma.
The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest , by Niles Hansen.
Geographical Economics , by Patrick O'Sullivan.
Regional Policy: Past Experiences and New Directions , by D. MacLennan and J. B. Parr (eds.).
Who Pays State and Local Taxes , by Donald Phares.
Education and Society: The Geographer's View , Volume 1, Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, by Torvald Gerger and Göran Hoppe.
Integration and Unequal Development; the Experience of the E.C. , by D. Seers and C. Vaistos (eds.) with the assistance of M. L. Kiljunen.
National Urbanization Policy in Developing Countries , by Bertrand Renaud.
International Migration and Economic Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Study , by Domenick Salvatore.
Federalism and Regional Development. Case Studies on the Experience in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, by George W. Hoffman (ed.).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Hans Singer, Neelamber Hatti and Ramesbwar Tandon (eds), Technology Transfer by Multinationals. Paul W. Beamish, Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries. Yves Beigbeder, Management Problems in United Nations Organizations: Reform or Decline? Frits van Holthoon and Marcel van der Linden (eds), Internationalism in the Labour Movement 1830–1940. R. Vos (ed.), From Crisis to Equitable Growth. A New Development Agenda for Latin America. PREALC, In Search of Equity. Planning for the Satisfaction of Basic Needs in Latin America. Margaret Garritsen de Vries, Balance of Payments Adjustment, 1945 to 1986. The IMF Experience. Birol A. Yesilada, Charles D. Brockett and Bruce Drury (eds), Agrarian Reform in Reverse: The Food Crisis in the Third World. J. Hinderink and J. J. Slerkenburg, Agricultural Commercialization and Government Policy in Africa. Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield, Land Degradation and Society. Mike Donaldson and Kenneth Good, Articulated Development: Traditional and Capitalist Agriculture in Papua New Guinea. Sun Jingzhi (ed.), The Economic Geography of China. Peter Bowden, National Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Programs in the Third World. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea. William K. A. Agyei, Fertility and Family Planning in the Third World: A Case Study of Papua New Guinea. G. N. Ramu, Family Structure and Fertility: Emerging Patterns in an Indian City. S. Alessandrini and B. Dallago (eds), The Unofficial Economy: Consequences and Perspectives in Different Economic Systems. The Netherlands Review of Development Studies.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. Bondi, H. Avis, R. Bankey, A. Bingley, J. Davidson, R. Duffy, V. Einagel, A. Green, L. Johnston, S. Lilley, C. Listerborn, S. McEwan, M. Marshy, N. O’Connor, G. Rose, B. Vivat and N. Wood, Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geo‐graphies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research L.C. Botterill and M. Fisher (eds), Beyond Drought. People, Policy and Perspectives J.S. Bridge, Rivers and Floodplains. Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China Stephen Dovers and Su Wild River (eds), Managing Australia's Environment Antoinette M. Mannion, Dynamic World: Land‐cover and Land‐use Change P. Moss (ed.), Feminist Geography in Practice E. Pawson and T. Brooking (eds), Environmental Histories of New Zealand Ian Thomas, Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition J.F. Williams and R.J. Stimson (eds), International Urban Planning Settings: Lessons of Success     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article:
Analytical Behavioural Geography by Reginald G. Golledge and Robert J. Stimson.
Managing Land-Use Conflicts: Case Studies in Special Area Management Planning, by David J. Brower and Daniel s. Carol (eds.).
Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Morton Owen Schapiro.
Economic-Ecological Modeling, by L. C. Braat and W. F. J. van Lierop (eds.).
Invisible Factors in Local Economic Development, by Peter B. Doeringer, David G. Terkla, and Gregory C. Topakian.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Peter Isard, Globalization and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can be Done Matthew Odedokun (ed.), External Finance for Private Sector Development: Appraisals and Issues Sunanda Sen, Global Finance at Risk: On Real Stagnation and Instability Susanne Soederberg, The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins, Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren (eds), Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World Michael Carley, Paul Jenkins and Harry Smith (eds), Urban Development & Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities David Potts, Patrick Ryan and Anna Toner (eds), Development Planning and Poverty Reduction Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy and Jan Selby (eds), Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance Pranab Bardhan, Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development Lyuba Zarsky (ed.), Human Rights and the Environment: Conflict and Norms in a Globalizing World Krishna B. Ghimire (ed.), The Native Tourist: Mass Tourism within Developing Countries Donald G. Reid, Tourism, Globalization and Development: Responsible Tourism Planning Rosaleen Duffy A Trip Too Far. Ecotourism, Politics and Exploitation Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema (eds), Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation Ashok Gulati, Ruth M. Dick and K. V. Raju, Institutional Reforms in Indian Irrigation Robin Clarke and Jannet King, The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource Janelle Plummer and John G Taylor (eds), Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building Tunde Zack‐Williams, Diane Frost and Alex Thomson (eds), Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities     

BOOK REVIEWS

Krugman, Paul The Self-Organizing Economy
Krugman, Paul Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
Sasaki, Komei (ed.) Optimum and Equilibrium for Regional Economies: Collected Papers of Noboru Sakashita
Gradus, Yehuda, and Lithwick, Harvey (eds.) Frontiers in Regional Development
Hanson, Susan and Pratt, Geraldine Gender, Work, and Space
Hanson, Susan (ed.) The Geography of Urban Transportation
Peck, Jamie, Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets
Rhodes, Martin (ed.) The Regions and the New Europe: Patterns in Core and Periphery Development
Kopinak, Kathryn, Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
Roseman, Curtis C., Laux, Hans Dieter, and Thieme, Günter (eds.) EthniCity: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Change in Modern Cities
Carroll, Matthew S., Community and the Northwest Logger: Continuities and Changes in the Era of the Spotted Owl
Harrison, Lynn C., and Husbands, Winston (eds.) Practicing Responsible Tourism: International Case Studies in Tourism Planning, Policy, and Development     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons and Muriel Brookfield (eds), Agrodiversity. Learning from Farmers Across the World . Fidelis Kaihura and Michael Stocking (eds), Agricultural Biodiversity in Smallholder Farms of East Africa . Peter Dunbar‐Hall and Chris Gibson, Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia . M.H. Glantz (ed.), La Niña and Its Impacts: Facts and Speculation . D.L. Higgitt and E.M. Lee (eds), Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain in the Last 1000 Years . M.A. Quaddus and M.A.B. Siddique (eds), Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning: Studies in Modelling and Decision Support .     

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

Books reviewed: Klein, N. ‘No Logo Forster, C. Australian Cities: Continuity and Change Hamnett, S. and Freestone, R. (eds) The Australian Metropolis: a Planning History Marcuse, P. and van Kempen, R. (eds) Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Gleeson, B. and Low, N. Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas Meyer, B. and Geschiere, P. (eds) Globalization and Identity. Dialectics of Flow and Closure Hall, C.M. Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships Inglis, A. Beside the Seaside. Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century Stratford, E. (ed.) Australian Cultural Geographies J. Dargavel and B. Libbis (eds) Australia's Ever‐Changing Forests IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Australian Forest History Filer, C. (ed.) Dilemmas of Development: the Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994 Summerfield, M.A. (ed.) Geomorphology and Global Tectonics     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck, Contemporary Latin America Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalene León, Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America Annelies Zoomers and Gemma van der Haar (eds), Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure under Neo‐liberalism Annelies Zoomers (ed.), Land and Sustainable Livelihood in Latin America Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds), Civil Society: History and Possibilities Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty (eds), Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India Ha‐Joon Chang, Globalization, Economic Development and the Role of the State Yilmaz Akyüz (ed.), Developing Countries and World Trade: Performance and Prospects George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order Paul Kennedy, Dirk Messner and Franz Nuscheler (eds), Global Trends and Global Governance Paulette Goudge, The Whiteness of Power: Racism in Third World Development and Aid John Clark (ed.), Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action Julian Le Grand, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz, Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets Sara Oldfield (ed.), The Trade in Wildlife: Regulation for Conservation Patricia L. Howard (ed.), Women & Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Nissanke and Beatrice Weder (eds), Asia and Africa in the Global Economy Jane I. Guyer, Marginal Gains. Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa Amanda Hammar, Brian Raftopoulos and Stig Jensen (eds), Zimbabwe's Unfinished Business: Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis D. John Shaw, Sir Hans Singer: The Life and Work of a Development Economist     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in This Article: Al-Quran Rendered into English. By Syed Abdul Latif. The Message of the Qur'an Presented in Perspective. By Hashim Amir-Ali. Ibn Kammn?a's Examination of the Three Faiths: A Thirteenth-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion. Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Moshe Perlman. Arab Civilization to A.D. 1500. By D. M. Dunlop. The Baha'i Faith: Its History and Teachings. By William McElwee Miller. Jeunesse, Famille et Développement: Essai sur le changement socio-culturel dans un pays du Tiers Monde (Tunisie). By Carmel Camilleri. Jabal al-Akhdar, Cyrenaica: An Historical Geography of Settlement and Livelihood. By Douglas L. Johnson. Is Western Civilization Universal? By Maryam Jameelah. Syria under the Ba'th, 1963-1966: The Army-Party Symbiosis. By Itamar Rabinovich. Politics and Change in Al-Karak, Jordan. By Peter Gubser. Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. Edited by Jacob M. Landau.     

BOOK NOTES

African Survey , by A lan C.G. B est and H arm J. de B lij
Contemporary Africa: Geography and Change , edited by C. G regory K night and J ames L. N ewman
Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology , by K arl W. B utzer
Pastoralism in Crisis: The Dasanetch and Their Ethiopian Lands , by C laudia J. C arr
Periodic Markets, Urbanization and Regional Planning: A Case Study from Western Kenya , by R obert A. O budho and P eter P. W aller
Ways to Move: The Geography of Networks and Accessibility, by R oger R obinson
Social Aspects of Interaction and Transportation , by F rederick P. S tutz
Welland and the Welland Canal: The Canal By-pass Project , by J ohn N. J ackson
Urban Transportation Planning Guide , edited by P.E. Wade et al.
The Evolution of the Unit Train, 1960-1969 , by J ohn T. S tarr Jr.