中国经济发展阶段及其时空格局演变特征

地级行政单元在中国经济发展中扮演着越来越重要的角色,是落实区域发展战略和相关政策的重要空间依托。现有研究中缺乏针对中国地级行政单元经济发展阶段及其时空格局演变的实证研究。本文在对经济发展阶段划分标准进行辨析的基础上,从全国和地级两个层面对中国经济发展的阶段性及其时空特征进行系统分析,并通过Global Moran’s I指数和Getis-Ord Gi*指数探讨了中国经济发展的空间演变规律。研究发现:①总体而言,中国经济发展一直处于相对的集聚状态,自1990年到2010年由初级产品生产阶段进入工业化的中期阶段,经济发展格局呈现出"均衡—不均衡—逐步均衡"的演变特征。②中国经济发展呈现出明显的由沿海向内陆地区推进的总体趋势,中西部发展水平较高的城市主要是区域性中心城市和资源富集型城市两种类型。③中国经济发展的热点区域呈现出"北移西进"的态势,东部沿海地区空间联动发展的效应有所减弱,呈现出"南上北下"的趋势,中西部地区城市仍以单体式发展为主,区域带动效应较弱,联动发展态势不明显。④从时间趋势来看,虽然全国经济发展出现了放缓的趋势,但中西部地区的经济增速却快速提高,已经明显高于沿海地区。⑤资源富集地区是中西部经济增长的热点地区,采用人均GDP单一指标测算的部分资源富集地区的经济发展阶段存在"虚高化"的特征,资源大规模集中开发带动经济总量迅速膨胀的同时,却掩盖了背后的经济结构失调和社会发展滞后等诸多问题,应引起决策者和学术界的持续关注。     

中国基础医疗卫生资源供给水平的区域差异

基于差异系数、泰尔指数、基尼系数和空间自相关模型,分析1997-2012年中国342个地级单元基础医疗卫生资源供给水平的总体差异与空间格局,结合相关研究文献比较基础医疗卫生资源供给水平空间格局与区域经济空间格局的差异,分析基础医疗卫生资源供给水平区域差异的原因,并提出未来政策应对的方向性建议。研究表明：① 中国基础医疗卫生资源供给水平区域总体差异较大,但近年来呈现波动缩小的趋势;② 中国基础医疗卫生资源供给水平空间关联格局变化较大,主要原因是高值集聚的HH类型和低值集聚的LL类型在空间的分布发生较大变化;③ 区域基础医疗卫生资源供给水平较高地区在中西部地区和东北地区集聚明显,东部地区主要分布在山东半岛与京津地区。相对于区域经济发展差距的扩大,中国基础医疗卫生资源供给水平的差距已经开始缩小,发展水平空间格局也存在显著差别。基础医疗卫生资源供给的区域差异形成的主要原因包括医疗卫生体制改革、国家区域政策热点分布的变化、人口的大规模流动、资源供给管理体制改革的滞后以及医疗卫生服务需求的收入弹性刺激等。     

扬州市经济空间极化探讨

2002年以来扬州进入快速发展时期.以乡镇为研究单元,利用空间自相关方法和坎贝尔-张指数,研究了扬州市域在快速发展过程中的经济空间极化现象.研究表明:2002年以来扬州市经济空间极化迅速增强,南北差距显著增大,经济发展的地域集聚特征明显,经济格局的空间重塑特征显著;空间溢出效应、交通格局的改变是扬州经济空间极化的主要影响因素;邗江撤县改区后其所属乡镇经济发展速度放缓.     

2000年以来广东省经济极化时空演变

选择崔-王指数、变异系数和空间自相关等3种方法,以地级市为基本评价单元,对2000年以来广东省的经济极化的时空演变进行了分析。研究表明：（1）广东省经济极化程度呈上升趋势;（2）2000以来,广东省极化现象明显,但是经济总量的极化现象大于人均经济总量;（3）广东省人均GDP和GDP的Moran＇s I均为正值且呈现增大趋势,经济空间集聚程度呈增大趋势,但是人均GDP的空间集聚程度大于GDP;（4）从局部空间自相关关系来看,广东省经济极化格局2000年以来处于稳定状态。     

中国上市公司总部空间格局演变及其驱动因素研究

借助空间计量模型,考察2005~2015年中国上市公司空间格局演化特征及其驱动因素,研究发现：① 中国上市公司主要集中分布在长三角、珠三角及京津冀地区,向高等级城市集聚明显。②空间重心迁移表明中国上市公司呈现“迅速-平稳”发展的阶段性特征;空间关联格局由沿海向内陆呈现出热点区-过渡区-冷点区的梯度推移态势。③三大密集型上市公司专业化空间演变形态各异,劳动密集型呈现“单核”向“双核”模式演化;资本密集型呈“破碎化点状”极化分布态势;技术密集型呈“多核心串珠状”扩散态势。④OLS回归模型显示城市区位及规模、全球化水平、投资状况、科教水平、信息化水平等因素共同驱动中国上市公司空间格局演变。     

2000—2017年中国城市绿化水平的时空演变及其影响因素研究

城市绿化是城市建设的重要内容，是实现城市生态文明、生态宜居的重要途径。选取中国292个地级及以上城市，基于变异系数、泰尔指数、空间自相关和地理探测器等方法，刻画了2000—2017年中国城市绿化水平的时空演变和影响因素。结果表明：（1）2000—2017年中国城市绿化水平呈阶段性波动增长态势，全国城市绿化水平增幅为6.73%，其中西部地区绿化水平增加最为显著，改变了2000—2014年保持的“东—中—西”逐渐递减的绿化格局，形成了由沿海向内陆跃升的绿化格局。（2）2000—2017年中国城市绿化水平的总体差异与东、中、西三大区域的差异均呈降低趋势。从泰尔指数变化趋势来看，总体差异主要由区域内差异引起，且区域内差异与区域间差异在逐渐缩小。（3）东部形成一定规模的稳定性热点区，西部形成局部性热点区与一定规模的稳定性冷点，从而使得我国由“东—中—西”逐渐递减的绿化格局转变为由沿海向内陆跃升的绿化格局更为显著。（4）自然因素是城市绿化水平的基础性影响因素，经济发展水平和政府管理为阶段性关键因子，是促使各时段城市绿化格局演变的动力因子。     

吉林省新型城镇化格局的空间演变分析

运用空间自相关指数、平均增长指数和空间变差函数,分析吉林省新型城镇化格局的空间演变特征。结果表明：吉林省新型城镇化发展的离散特征明显,热点区相对稳定,中部长吉地区是热点,东西两端始终是冷点或次冷点的低值簇;新型城镇化增长的空间自相关性突出,热点区跃迁幅度不大,1995-2003年呈团块状聚集于吉林省西部地区,2003-2012年呈现“双组团”结构;新型城镇化格局演化存在一定的规律性和延续性,空间自组织性增强,均质度有所提高,“中高周低”的极化现象愈发显著,大城市的辐射涓滴作用减弱。最后,从新型城镇化的内在要求、区域战略政策和经济产业基础探讨新型城镇化格局演化的驱动机制。     

中国工业发展的资源环境压力空间分异演化及影响因素

基于探知中国经济进入新常态前后工业发展的资源环境压力格局演化的初衷,以全国285个城市为研究对象,通过构建工业资源压力和工业环境压力评价指标体系,刻画两种压力的空间格局,比较归纳演化特征;基于空间计量模型识别工业资源环境压力的影响因素,比对作用方向和作用强度变化。结果显示：① 全国工业资源压力东高西低的格局进一步显著,沿海产业集聚地区是热点区域;工业环境压力西高东低、北高南低的空间格局弱化,北方产业集聚区是热点区域。② 工业资产规模、工业生产效益、工业劳动生产水平是影响工业资源压力格局的主要因素,其中工业资产规模的正向驱动作用减小,工业生产效益的正向驱动作用增大,工业劳动生产水平的负向驱动作用减小。③ 工业资产规模、环境规制、工业开放水平、工业生产效益、工业化水平是影响工业环境压力格局的主要因素,其中工业资产规模的正向驱动作用减弱,环境规制的驱动方向由正向转为负向,工业开放水平和工业生产效益的作用分别由正向显著和负向显著弱化为不显著,而工业化水平的作用由不显著演化为显著的正向驱动。④ 比较影响两种压力格局的主要因素,工业环境压力格局形成的动力机制比较复杂,在中国经济进入新常态背景下,工业环境压力影响因素的作用强度和作用方向变化更为剧烈。     

长江经济带区域经济空间结构演变

以长江经济带127个市域为研究单元,结合地统计分析及空间变差函数,以1988、2001及2012年为研究截面,对长江经济带经济空间结构演变进行深入探讨,结果表明:(1)区域内经济发展水平总体呈现出两极分化现象、东西差异显著,高水平区于东部地带呈片状及散点状分布,而低水平区于西部地带形成环状集聚格局;(2)冷热点格局呈现明显的梯度推移性,泛长三角地区形成片状热点集聚区,中部地带形成以武汉城市圈及长株潭城市群为核心的次热点区,而西部边缘地带冷点区集聚;(3)空间变差函数显示长江经济带区域经济发展空间格局具有较好的连续性和较强的空间自组织性,并在全方位呈现出波动变化格局,高值区域具有明显的迁移现象。且文章尝试从成因层、效应层、结果层探讨区域经济格局演变机理。     

新疆区域经济差异时空演变特征分析

区域经济差异是经济发展过程中不容忽视的问题。通过基尼系数、人均收入差异系数、“崔王指数”、锡尔系数4种区域差异演化指数的计算,结合GIS空间分异和空间自相关分析,探讨了新疆区域经济差异的时空演变特征。结果表明:①新疆区域经济差异不断扩大,极化水平不断增强;南北疆内部区域经济差异与总体变化趋势一致,北疆内部、城市内部的经济差异对总体差异的作用显著。②区域经济发展的重心不断北移,极化中心基本显现;空间自相关高值区集中分布在天山北坡,低值区域不断扩大至整个南疆地区;北疆极化中心克拉玛依市“高-高”极化作用显著,乌鲁木齐市、鄯善县的“高-高”作用不显著,有待提升;南疆极化中心库尔勒市仅在改革开放初期“高-低”作用显著,近年来阿克苏市“高-低”作用显著,有望发展成为新的极化中心。     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia . S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh, Thomas R. Leinbach, Michael R. Moss. The Rural-Urban Fringe: Canadian Perspectives . Ken B. Beesley and Lorne H. Russwurm, eds. Women and Development . Lourdes Benería, ed. The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and U.S. Responsibility . Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development . Stanley D. Brunn and Jack L. Williams, eds. Time Resources, Society, and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time (Vol. I, Preindustrial Societies). Tommy Carlstein. Urban Geography . David Clark. Spanish City Planning in North America . Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Not On Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care . M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor Unequal growth: Urban and Regional Employment Change in the U.K. Stephen Fothergill and Graham Gudgin. Agricultural Land in an Urban Society . Owen J. Furuseth and John T. Pierce. The Petroleum Industry in Oil-Importing Developing Countries . Fariborz Ghadar. Historical Understanding in Geography, An Idealist Approach . Leonard Guelke. Regional Planning in Europe . R. Hudson and J. R. Lewis, eds. Remote Sensing for Resource Management . Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders, eds. Geography and The State . R. J. Johnston. Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy . Tlrry G. Jordan. The Politics of Location: An Introduction . Andrew Kirby. A Social Geography of the City . David Ley. Energy and the Future . Douglas MacLean and Peter Brown, eds. The Natural Environment of Newfoundland Past and Present . A. G. Macpherson and J. B. Macpherson, eds. Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts . Alister Mathieson and Geoffrey Wall. Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention . Lloyd J. Mercer. Progress in Rural Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Urban Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Patterns in Historical Archaeology . Robert Paynter. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy, Anticipating the Unexpected . William J. Petak and Arthur A. Atkisson. The Nature of Geomorphology . Alistair F. Pitty. Regional Conflict and National Policy . Kent A. Price Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses . Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds. Urban and Regional Analysis for Development Planning . Richard Rhoda. Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels . Keith Richards. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture . John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, gen. eds. The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture . Trevor Rowley, ed. Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population . Gundars Rudzitis. Borderland Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest . Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West, eds. Arctic and Antarctic . David Sugden. Tall Timbers Ecology and Management Conference, February 22–24, 1979, Proceedings No. 16 . Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography (Progress in Contemporary Cartography , Vol. II). D. R. Fraser Taylor, ed. Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities . Jon Van Til. The United States: Habitation of Hope . J. Wreford Watson. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists . D. R. Wilson. Urban and Rural Change in West Germany . Trevor Wild, ed. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN PH.D.-GRANTING DEPARTMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY

Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

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GAUSS.

CEMODEL S. Damus

LIMDEP. William H. Greene

MICROSTAT 4.1

OTIS

PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System). H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein.

REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS)

SPSS/PC+

URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

Journal of Resources and Ecology Total Contents of Volume 5, 2014

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BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .     

Deserts and Aeolian Desertification in China: Book review and some thoughts

Desertification is a global phenomenon that affects about two billion people. It occurs in arid zones where the annual precipitation is below 400 mm, partic- ularly in the marginal areas of the world＇s largest deserts. It is a result of water and wind erosion, over- grazing, global warm-ing, improper soil cultivation, and increased pressure ot population growth, and it causes degradation of soil and natural and agricultural vegetation. The direct result is less food for people and livestock, which influences pop- ulation and animal husbandry fluctuations. Despite ef- forts to combat and reduce desertification, the affected areas are annually increasing.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: USA, Eine Geographische Landeskunde , Vol. I, Der Grossraum in Strukturellem, Wandel, 3rd Ed. Helmut Blume . Introduction to Remote Sensing . James B. Campbell . The Sounds of People and Places: Readings in the Geography of American Folk and Popular Music . George O. Carney , ED. Development and Underdevelopment . John Cole . Mobility and Employment in Urban Southeast Asia: Example from Indonesia and the Philippines . Michael A. Costello , Thomas R. Leinbach , AND Richard Ulack . Soviet Asia: Economic Development and National Policy Choices . Leslie Dienes . The Third World City . David Drakakis -Smith . Scholars' Guide to Washington, DC for Cartography and Remote Sensing Imagery (maps, charts, aerial photographs, satellite images, cartographic literature and geographic information systems). Ralph E. Ehrenberg . Population and Development in the Third World . Allan AND Anne Findlay . The Early Mapping of Hawaii . Gary L. Fitzpatrick . Energetics of Physical Environment: Energetic Approaches to Physical Geography . K. J. Gregory , ED. Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management . William E. Hammitt and David N. Cole . Agricultural Commercialization and Government Policy in Africa . J. Hinderink AND J. J. Sterkenburg . The Dynamics of American Housing . James W. Hughes AND George Sternlieb . Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation State . Charles F. Keyes . Resolving Locational Conflict . Robert W. Lake , ED. Lands at Risk in the Third World: Local-level Perspectives . Peter D. Little and Michael M. Horowitz , EDS. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science . David N. Livingstone . Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory . Ann R. Markusen . Wetlands . William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink . Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect . Michael Pacione , ED. Loess and Periglacial Phenomena . Marton P$eacsi and Hugh M. French , EDS. Regional Management of Metropolitan Floodplains, Experience in the United States and Abroad . Rutherford H. Platt , ED. Human Cartography: Mapping the World of Man . Janos Szegö . Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History . Helen H. Tanner , ED. The Botany of Mangroves . P. B. Tomlinson . Urban Spatial Traffic Patterns . Rodney Vaughan . The Night After … Climatic and Biological Consequences of a Nuclear War . Yevgeni Velikhov , ED. Industrial Geography . H. D. Watts . Dictionary of Quotations in Geography . James O. Wheeler and Francis M. Sibley . Vermont Townscape . Norman Wiliams , Jr. , Edmund K. Kellogg and Peter M. Lavigne .     

THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE OF AN ALIEN ECOLOGY EVER CONSTRUCTED

Much science-fiction literature is based upon the creation and exploration of alternative environments. Stanley G. Weinbaum's short story, “Parasite Planet,”introduces an unusual environment that may be wrong in the light of recent evidence on Venus but still stimulates the geographical imagination.