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The Historical And Philosophical Emergence Of Radical Geography, Johnathan Bascom Mar 2025

The Historical And Philosophical Emergence Of Radical Geography, Johnathan Bascom

The Geographical Bulletin

Throughout the modern history of geography Pattison's four traditions-area studies, land-man relations, spatial theory, and physical geography have basically encompassed the philosophical stances toward the discipline. Within the last decade, however, American geographers have seen the reemergence of a fundamentally different approach to the discipline-radical geography. Despite earlier European radical geographers such as Peter Kropotkin (1890's) and Karl Wittofogel (1920's), American radical geography's historical roots are found in the late 1960's for two primary reasons. First, the politically intense sixties bred a disenchanted society open to change. The two key political events of the decade, the Civil Rights Movement and …


Editor's Comments: Geography And Self- Analysis, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Editor's Comments: Geography And Self- Analysis, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

What is the future of geography as a discipline taught in American schools? Will it be recognized by those who decide curricula for elementary and high schools as a necessary component of a young person's training? If not, should we be surprised to find declining interest in the subject at many of our colleges and universities? If you answered "no" to these questions, then you can anticipate further erosion of support for the subject by administrators at institutions of higher education.


Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


News From The Chapters 1982-83, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

News From The Chapters 1982-83, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1983


Volume 24 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Volume 24 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 24 Complete Issue


The Migration Of U. S. Retirees To Guadalajara, Mexico: A Case For Environmental Preference Migration, Virgil Holder Mar 2025

The Migration Of U. S. Retirees To Guadalajara, Mexico: A Case For Environmental Preference Migration, Virgil Holder

The Geographical Bulletin

There is an increasing amount of literature on environmental preference migration.2 Edward Ullman, probably the first geographer to publish a comprehensive review on the subject of environmental preference migration, suggested that migration models must be revised to account for the effect of amenities, specifically physical attractions such as climate and landforms, in producing migration streams.3 Articles in Time4 and U.S. News and World ReportS indicate that the reasons for the dramatic shift of the American population is due largely to a preference for areas with environmental amenities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the migration of retirees from …


Automated Photo Interpretation Research And Geo-Based Information Usage In The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, David Stern Mar 2025

Automated Photo Interpretation Research And Geo-Based Information Usage In The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, David Stern

The Geographical Bulletin

Most of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Computer Assisted Photo Interpretation Research (CAPIR) program is centered around the use of the APPS-IV analytical stereo-plotter.' This computer supported photogrammetric instrument performs stereomodel set-up, threedimensional digitizing in a continuous stereo environment, data bank creation, mapping, and superposition.2 The initial Corps of Engineers demonstration of CAPIR technology, using the APPS-IV plotter, involved compilation of a digital data base (land cover fuse, topography, and structure inventory) to project economic flood damages in a reach of the Clinton River basin of Michigan. Two other demonstrations slated by the Corps involve: (1) mapping historical …


Airline Deregulationgood, Bad Or Difficult?, Michael Zibell Mar 2025

Airline Deregulationgood, Bad Or Difficult?, Michael Zibell

The Geographical Bulletin

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following people have greatly contributed to the research of this paper. I wish to thank each of them for sharing their time and expertise. Ms. Lynn Roska, travel consultant with Capitol Court Travel Service and personal friend. Mr. Richard Robison, Manager of Passenger and Cargo Sales for Eastern Air Lines, Wisconsin region, a 35 year member of the Great Silver Fleet. Capt. W. R. "Uncle Dick" Bomar, (Ret) Former Chief Pilot for Eastern Air Lines, personal friend and respected pilot.


Electricity Transmission In Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula: Problems And Prospects, Elwood J. C. Kureth, Carl F. Ojala Mar 2025

Electricity Transmission In Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula: Problems And Prospects, Elwood J. C. Kureth, Carl F. Ojala

The Geographical Bulletin

Historically, overall economic development in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been slow relative to the remainder of the state. Many factors have contributed to such a lag: most may be grouped under the general geographic concept of accessibility. A variety of barriers to accessibility have had a negative impact on the expansion of the region. For example, distance from major markets in southeastern Michigan and Wisconsin and a harsh winter environment in the Upper Peninsula are two barriers commonly noted. However, another significant barrier exists which affects the development of the Upper Peninsula. It is the relative unavailability of …


Geography: Academic Cross Stitching, Alice T. M. Rechlin Mar 2025

Geography: Academic Cross Stitching, Alice T. M. Rechlin

The Geographical Bulletin

Yet another variation on the theme of geography in a liberal arts education is offered here for your examination. These words have been inspired in part by the guest editorial of Charles F. Gritzner entitled, "Applied Geography: Retrospect and Prospect" that appeared in the May, 1983 issue of The Geographical Bulletin, and in part by the necessity some of us perceive for strengthening geography's position in liberal arts curricula.


Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 25 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Volume 25 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 25 Complete Issue


Career Titles Of Gtu Alumni Members, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Career Titles Of Gtu Alumni Members, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Career Titles of GTU Alumni Members


News From The Chapters 1983, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

News From The Chapters 1983, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1983


Monitoring Population Pressure In The Semiarid Zone Of Kenya, Isaac Sindiga Mar 2025

Monitoring Population Pressure In The Semiarid Zone Of Kenya, Isaac Sindiga

The Geographical Bulletin

Population pressure is a maladjustment between resources of a community and its population. This maladjustment worsens when the population increases at a faster rate than the development of the economy. The pressure leads to the deterioration of land resources and low, risky income opportunities and widespread poverty. Kenya's population growth rate of 4 percent per year is one of the highest in the world. Its populationresource relations are deteriorating and foreshadow the country's future. In the semi-arid and arid parts of the country, especially those occupied by traditional pastoral people, population pressures are particularly serious. Here, the pressures of people …


A History Of Urban Development In The U.S.S.R., Ernest T. Hendrix Mar 2025

A History Of Urban Development In The U.S.S.R., Ernest T. Hendrix

The Geographical Bulletin

It need hardly be emphasized that a nation the size of the Soviet Union consolidation under a central government was not a simple task, but the culmination of an ongoing historical process. In order to consider the present stage of development, it should be viewed in its historical context. This will aid in understanding the reasons for the communist revolution and the central planning scheme which resulted. EARLY RUSSIAN HISTORY Early Russian history began in approximately 400 AD. when eastern Slavonic tribes (Russians) called Antae migrated to what became Russian territory from the vicinity of the Prepit marshes and neighboring …


Guiding Principles And Use Of Government Subsidies In The Development Of The High Mountain Regions Of Switzerland And Bavaria, Elsa T. Schmidt Mar 2025

Guiding Principles And Use Of Government Subsidies In The Development Of The High Mountain Regions Of Switzerland And Bavaria, Elsa T. Schmidt

The Geographical Bulletin

The major contention of this paper is that the development incentive programs of German and Swiss national governments are justified if they bring about an increase in productivity and national income. However, they must also preserve the ecological environment, cultural landscape, and nature areas of the Alpine setting. A comparative study of regional development policies of Switzerland and the German State of Bavaria is used to determine how each national government allocates its regional development subsidies and the results they hope to obtain.


The Diffusion Of Volksmarching In The United States, Anita Joan Wepfer Mar 2025

The Diffusion Of Volksmarching In The United States, Anita Joan Wepfer

The Geographical Bulletin

I am indebted to the following persons for their invaluable assistance in collecting data for this paper: 1) Mr. James P. Buchanan, president of the Duluth (MN) Volkssport Association, without whose aid this project never would have begun; 2) Dr. David Toth, past president of the American Volkssport Association; 3) Mr. Carol Coffee, current president of the AVA; 4) Lt. C. Leon Childers, Executive Director of the AVA; 5) Mr. James Busbee of the Double Eagle Wanderers of Albuquerque, NM; Mr. Allison John Stafford, president of the Virginia Volkssport Association; and Mr. John M. Gaustad of The Jim Bowie Wanderers …


A Numeric Classification Of Climate, Mark R. Cox Mar 2025

A Numeric Classification Of Climate, Mark R. Cox

The Geographical Bulletin

As one endeavors to create a system of categorizing different climatic types, he soon discovers that it is not an easy process. There are many factors and elements of climate which must be considered. The world also has an infinite number of unique climates that change through time. There are no abrupt changes from one climatic province to another as one might think by looking at a climate map. Each zone gradually meshes into the next adjoining zone, and the real difficulty lies in trying to determine an appropriate point to plot a division line. There are several important methods …


A Student's Assessment Of The Employment Future For Geographers, Joseph A. Stevens Mar 2025

A Student's Assessment Of The Employment Future For Geographers, Joseph A. Stevens

The Geographical Bulletin

A young undergraduate returns home for Thanksgiving dinner during the Fall of his senior year. The house is full of relatives. Aunts, uncles, and cousins are gathered around the table. A voice from the other end of the table towers over the dull roar of the small crowd. "SO John, tell me, what are you studying to be in school?" John slowly looks up from his plate and replies, "I'm studying geography." "Geography," his uncle exclaimed. "What do you plan on doing with that, teach the names of all the capitals?" "I'm not sure just now. I might keep going …


Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 26 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Volume 26 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 26 Complete Issue


Just Scratching The Surface-Geographers And The Mining West, Rand E. Rohe Mar 2025

Just Scratching The Surface-Geographers And The Mining West, Rand E. Rohe

The Geographical Bulletin

Research for a doctoral dissertation on Western mining disclosed an enormous body of literature on the subject, a paucity of works by geographers, and an almost unlimited potential for such studies.' Most existing studies present and examine facts in their historical context with little or no attention to geographical interpretation.2 Yet, such analysis is essential to a full understanding of the significance of mining. Without geographic studies of mining, its perspective in the development of the West remains vague and its enduring significance to the present uncertain. While hundreds of works exist on the various gold and silver rushes, few …


News From The Chapters 1983-1984, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

News From The Chapters 1983-1984, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1983-1984


The Syrian Tabqa Dam: Its Development And Impact, Monib Ei-Khatib Mar 2025

The Syrian Tabqa Dam: Its Development And Impact, Monib Ei-Khatib

The Geographical Bulletin

The Euphrates River has its sources in eastern Turkey's Anatolian Plateau and extends 3,000 kilometers through Syria and Iraq before it discharges into the river's delta at Shat AI-Arab in the Arabian Gulf. It is an exotic river, a center of past civilization and population, and a managed river with an extensive delta. It floods in early summer but its flooded area dries-out very quickly in the semiarid climate. The Euphrates River can maintain an annual flow throughout its course because of relatively high rainfall and snow-melt at higher elevations. Utilization of its drainage basin has been intensified from its …


A Primer In Scientific Geographic Research Terminology: Implications For Teaching Geography Majors, Sharafat Khan Mar 2025

A Primer In Scientific Geographic Research Terminology: Implications For Teaching Geography Majors, Sharafat Khan

The Geographical Bulletin

The major purpose of this paper is to (1) focus on the meaning of geographic research and (2) identify and elaborate upon the basic terms utilized within geographic research literature. Geographic research is the critical objective study, investigation and explanation of specific cultural and physical phenomenon. Transportation planners, economic planners, military personnel and others are heavily dependent upon geographic research to provide pertinent data they need to make tactical and strategic decisions. Specifically, geographic research is utilized in many diverse academic and non-academic organizations and agencies. As more data become available about the world, there will be more demand for …


Land Use Related Adjustments To Aquifer Depletion In Southwestern Kansas, M. Duane Nellis Mar 2025

Land Use Related Adjustments To Aquifer Depletion In Southwestern Kansas, M. Duane Nellis

The Geographical Bulletin

From prairie to wheat field, the historical transformation of the Kansas landscape has been dramatic. The contributions to this transformation have been based on many factors including new grain varieties, irrigation technology, and other resource converting-space adjusting techniques. In Western Kansas in particular, with inadequate precipitation (14 to 16 inches average from AprilSeptember) for high yield intensive cropland agriculture, the structure of land transformation has been strongly influenced by the availability of water for irrigation. Since surface sources are negligible, groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer is the critical source for irrigation water. With the dramatic increase in land area irrigated …


New Opportunities In Historical Geography: Guest Editorial, Marshall Mclennan Mar 2025

New Opportunities In Historical Geography: Guest Editorial, Marshall Mclennan

The Geographical Bulletin

Traditionally universities and colleges have served as the employer of opportunity for aspiring geographers. The "baby boom generation" has graduated from the nation's universities, however, and its offspring won't make a significant numerical impact upon the hallowed halls of higher academia until late in the next decade. Demographics have dictated a contraction of the traditional employment market, and it behooves today's geography students to seek other outlets for useful application of the geographer's set of expertises. Alternative employment opportunities have proven particularly hard to come by for aspiring cultural and historical geographers. Consequently, the Department of Geography & Geology at …


Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


News From The Chapters 1983-84, Robert M. Ward Mar 2025

News From The Chapters 1983-84, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1983-84