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Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue


The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg Jan 2025

The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg

The Geographical Bulletin

Edward P. Hogan has done a considerable service for the people of South Dakota by researching and writing The Geography of South Dakota, the first such volume in 78 years. It is a book that was long overdue, but such a project also needs the right person at the rig


Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell Jan 2025

Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell

The Geographical Bulletin

Here is a book that will delight all who love the Great Lakes and wish to know more about them. Among the numerous books available on the Great Lakes, Charting the Inland Seas is the first exhaustive history of the U. S. Lake Survey. This was the governmental agency in charge of overseeing the Great Lakes from 1841 to its demise in 1976 when it became a part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).


Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The coast is the meeting place of continents and oceans and a zone of interest and concern to a diverse group of social and physical scientist. The notion thatthe earth's climate is changing due to the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is widespread. Increase of fossil fuel consumption is anticipated to result in higher temperatures, weather alterations, dramatic changes in the present-day global agricultural zones, and higher eustatic sea levels due to melting glacial ice.


News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1996-1997


Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Population and the environment are intertwined in a complex web that demands the analysis of numerous theoretical and practical issues. These issues have been neglected in the past, and the topics of population and the environment artificially separated in both thought and action. This book attempts to fill these voids using an inductive and interdisciplinary approach. A series of authors contribute fifteen chapters organized into five sections. Section I explores global per - spectives relating to population and the environment, Section II analyzes the im - portance of the state as an actor, Section III focuses on population-environment dynamics in …


Transformation Of Japan's Rural Landscape And Economy: The Case Of A Rice Growing Village In Central Japan, Akira Tabayashi Jan 2025

Transformation Of Japan's Rural Landscape And Economy: The Case Of A Rice Growing Village In Central Japan, Akira Tabayashi

The Geographical Bulletin

Rural regions and communities in Japan have changed drastically following the rapid economic development that occurred in the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Important outcomes of rural changes were the rapid outflow of labor from rural areas and the increase in the number of part-time farmers. This paper mainly focuses its attention on the evolutionary processes of rural regions over three decades from 1960 to the present, through a case study of a typical Japanese village named Urayamashin. The traditional rice growing village transformed itself into a non-farming village in the early 1970s partly because of a reduction …


Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi Jan 2025

Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi

The Geographical Bulletin

The indigenous traditions of Moroccan geography, pioneered by such figures as AI Idrisi and Ibn Khaldun during the classical period of Arab intellectual history (1000-1400), came to be ignored and then replaced with the establishment of a French protectorate in 1912. The era of independence in Moroccan geography was supplanted by an era of dependence on European scholarship, which emphasized resource exploitation and which was to last until political independence in 1956. Following that watershed year, intellectual inquiry became more independent and focused on the development needs of the nation. Following a period of Moroccanization in the 1970s, which included …


The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly Jan 2025

The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly

The Geographical Bulletin

On November 8, 1994 Oregon became the first state in the nation to pass legislation allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the assistance of a physician. Ballot Measure 16, the Death with Dignity Act, removes criminal penalties for assisting a terminally ill suicide, but does not allow lethal injection. In August 1995, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan ruled the Death with Dignity Act violates the equal protection clause ofthe 14th Amendment. The ruling is being appealed. This paper investigates electoral voting patterns regarding Measure 16 in the 36 Oregon counties. It explores the relationships between votes …


Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman Jan 2025

Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman

The Geographical Bulletin

The Hatchie River in western Tennessee is one of the few remaining free-flowing streams in the Gulf Coastal Plain. Although there have been no major modifications of the main channel, many of its tributaries have been channelized during the past few decades. Channelization has significantly reduced flooding in the upper sections of the watershed. The straightened and hydrologically more efficient channels, however, speed the flow of water that scours the channel bed. Sediment derived from these unstable channels is transported downstream and into the main channel. An examination of changes in bed elevation indicate that the depth and therefore cross-sectional …


Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comment: The Human Factor In Recent Climate Change Remains Unproven, Carl F. Ojala Jan 2025

Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comment: The Human Factor In Recent Climate Change Remains Unproven, Carl F. Ojala

The Geographical Bulletin

Global warming, the theory and controversy involving artificial enhancement of the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere, has emerged as one of the prime environmental issues of recent years. Proponents conclude it may produce serious worldwide problems in the near future, such as rising sea levels, geographic shifts in farming and forest regions, and changes in agricultural yields, water resources, and wetlands. Conversely, skeptics imply that any warming due to proposed increases in greenhouse gases is undetectable and unpredictable among the natural variations in long-term atmospheric temperatures.


Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 39-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 39-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 39-1 Complete Issue


The Hispano Homeland By Richard L. Nostrand, Douglas Heffington Jan 2025

The Hispano Homeland By Richard L. Nostrand, Douglas Heffington

The Geographical Bulletin

Nostrand has done much to explain the Hispano culture and the Hispano Homeland of the American Southwest. Using census and economic data, geographic survey information, and oral histories and interviews, the author details the evolution, morphology and cultural characteristics of the Hispano Homeland from aerial growth to relative decline during the years of 1680 to 1980.


Illinois: A Geographical Survey, Illinois Geographical Society By Ronald E. Nelson, Editor, Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Illinois: A Geographical Survey, Illinois Geographical Society By Ronald E. Nelson, Editor, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Ill inois, the 'Prairie State' has a rich and varied landscape, which is a product not only of the forces of nature, but also of the geographic patterns of human act ivity. The interaction of the physical environment of Illinois with the inhabitants of the state, and the resulting geographic milieu, are the subjects of this book. The book is a compilation of chapters by a series of authors who have expertise in some aspect of the geography of Illinois. The result is a detailed regional geography, ofthe classic vintage, which contains a wealth of information.


Variability And Frequency Of Daily Rainfall In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Abdullah Ai-Saleh Jan 2025

Variability And Frequency Of Daily Rainfall In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Abdullah Ai-Saleh

The Geographical Bulletin

This study examines the temporal and spatial distribution of rainfall in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. The city has experienced significant urbanization in the past two decades. Therefore, the impervious surfaces and the restriction of original surface flow routes increase runoff in Riyadh city. Thus, stormwater frequently accumulates in streets because it exceeds the storm sewer capacity, storm sewers are blocked or partially blocked by sediment, or due to the lack of storm sewers. Data from three climatic stations in Riyadh and north of the city are used to characterize the temporal and spatial variations of rainfall amounts …


Frost Protection From Small Protective Coverings, Kathleen M. Baker, Robert H. Aron Jan 2025

Frost Protection From Small Protective Coverings, Kathleen M. Baker, Robert H. Aron

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The purpose of this study was to determine the frost protection value of covering your plants in spring with polyethylene terephthalate (plastic) milk jugs or polyurethane rose cones. These coverings were placed in a field southeast of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Nocturnal temperatures were measured from May 7- 24, 1995 on clear and cloudy nights. Spring nocturnal temperatures inside one U.S. gallon milk jugs were slightly lower and those inside rose cones slightly higher than ambient air temperatures. Placing holes near the bases of these covers to provide additional circulation resulted in slightly lower nocturnal temperatures under the rose cones but no …


Appalachian Kentucky: Some Comments Concerning Poverty And The Nature Of The Banking Network In The Region, Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Appalachian Kentucky: Some Comments Concerning Poverty And The Nature Of The Banking Network In The Region, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

The Appalachian region has been a core of poverty for many decades. In this research, some changes in the extent and nature Qf poverty in the region are presented that suggest despite extensive programs designed to combat poverty, a core of intense poverty still persists. While significant improvements have been made in such areas as transportation, it seems clear that some roots of poverty in the region have not been addressed. It is argued that one neglected area involves the banking network in eastern Kentucky. This contention is supported by analyzing banking data concerning the internal banking network within the …


Comments On Canadian Regionalism And The Media, Jay D. Gatrell, Jonathan D. Gatreli Jan 2025

Comments On Canadian Regionalism And The Media, Jay D. Gatrell, Jonathan D. Gatreli

The Geographical Bulletin

This research explores the impact of regionalism in Canada on the program design ofthe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) Prime Time News. An analysis was performed on the content of this program to determine whether or not such regional considerations exist. The content analysis extracted two key variables, Total Segments and Segment Length, to determine if the CBC employed a decision making process imilar to the federal government's de jure and de facto regional allocation process for governmental appointments. The paper concludes that such a decision-making process was not clearly endorsed by the analysis; however, additional statistical analysis illustrates the potential …


Tourism In The United Arab Emirates, Saif S. Al-Qaidi Jan 2025

Tourism In The United Arab Emirates, Saif S. Al-Qaidi

The Geographical Bulletin

In recent years, tourism development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been promoted to diversify the economy of the country. It is estimated that in 1991 , about 1.2 million tourists visited the country. Most visitors came from the Gulf states, Western Europe and the former USSR. The question raised in this investigation is whether the UAE is in a position to serve tourists from all over the world, and what facilities and attractions are available to promote the industry. The paper also highlights places of interest to visitors to the UAE. Attractions include natural landscapes for ecotourism as …


Gamma Theta Upsilon Announces Awards, James Snaden Jan 2025

Gamma Theta Upsilon Announces Awards, James Snaden

The Geographical Bulletin

Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international geography honor society, has just awarded five scholarships for 1996, each worth $500. Four of the scholarships are for undergraduate geography majors and one is for a graduate student in geography. The winners were as follows: Christopher Bertram, who was awarded the O. Orland Maxfield Scholarship. Christopher is a geography major at South Dakota State University, where he is President of the Delta Zeta Chapter. The Chapter sponsor, Darrell Napton, remarked that few geography majors have had as great an impact upon the department in as short a time as Chris. He is interested in …


Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 40-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 40-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 40-1 Complete Issue


Regions Of Risk: A Geographical Introduction To Disasters By Kenneth Hewitt, Taly D. Drezner Jan 2025

Regions Of Risk: A Geographical Introduction To Disasters By Kenneth Hewitt, Taly D. Drezner

The Geographical Bulletin

Regions of Risk is a comprehensive text that painstakingly describes how disasters and the threat of disasters shape and geographically alter communities and regions all over the world. In his introduction, Hewitt writes, "Any given risk or disaster event is distinguished by its geographic location and setting. These are important keys to the origins of danger, the forms of damage and whom they most affect."


Exploring Geographic Information Systems By Nicholas Chrisman, Eric Matranga Jan 2025

Exploring Geographic Information Systems By Nicholas Chrisman, Eric Matranga

The Geographical Bulletin

Rather than attempting to define the bounds and scope of geographic information, Chrisman provides an organizational framework that" . .. challenges the reader to participate in the exploration". Exploring Geographic Information Systems uses a nested set of interrelated issues to emphasize the need for users to think critically about the appropriate use of methods, tools, and data in GIS.


Physical Hydrology By S. Lawrence Ding-Man, Patricia J. Beyer Jan 2025

Physical Hydrology By S. Lawrence Ding-Man, Patricia J. Beyer

The Geographical Bulletin

As the public eye increasingly focuses on issues related to the use and quality of water, the science of hydrology expands from its position as an academic and engineering endeavor to one of prominance in people's everyday lives. With this expansion comes the need for education, not only for hydrologists and geomorphologists, but for biologists, botanists, earth scientists, climatologists, land managers, developers and policy makers. Water is a fascinating and complex substance: not only is water itself a resource, but it is also a main pathway for energy and chemical transfer in the Earth-atmosphere system.


Environmental Geography: Science, Land Use, And Earth Systems By William M.Marsh And John M. Grossa, Eric Matranga Jan 2025

Environmental Geography: Science, Land Use, And Earth Systems By William M.Marsh And John M. Grossa, Eric Matranga

The Geographical Bulletin

Environmental Geography is an introductory text for undergraduate instruction. Marsh and Grossa recognize a lack of geographic perspectives in such texts. They set as their task, building "on the traditional themes of geography". Concepts covered include environmental systems, principles of space, scale and distributions, and landscape as the result of human-environment interaction.


People, Politics, And Economic Life. An Interactive Exploration Of The Appalachian Region By Thomas Plaut, Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

People, Politics, And Economic Life. An Interactive Exploration Of The Appalachian Region By Thomas Plaut, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Appalachia, although often suffering from negative stereotypes, is in fact a region of great multidimensional diversity. In this diversity Appalachia is typical of much of America.


The Geography Of South Dakota. Edward By P. Hogan, Donald J. Berg Jan 2025

The Geography Of South Dakota. Edward By P. Hogan, Donald J. Berg

The Geographical Bulletin

Edward P. Hogan has done a considerable service for the people of South Dakota through writing The Geography of South Dakota, the first such volume in 78 years. It is a book that was long overdue, but such a project also needs the right person at the right place and the right time to author it.


The Heat/Humidity Quandary: A Case Study Of New England, Carl F. Ojala, William Babcock Jan 2025

The Heat/Humidity Quandary: A Case Study Of New England, Carl F. Ojala, William Babcock

The Geographical Bulletin

When the occasional heat wave occurs during summer, people often bemoan the unbearable temperature and humidity conditions. Most of us have heard, and maybe even used, the statement " 90°F. temperature and 90% relative humidity." This exceptional weather condition, based on popular confusion of the temperature/relative humidity concept, generally seems to be perceived as possible by most people. In this research, a 30- year archive approaching one million data sets for seven New England cities was examined to determine the validity of such an expression. Hourly summer temperature, dew point, and relative humidity data were analyzed. From 1961 to 1990 …