Department of Geography, University College London

Editorial: Th i s y ear h as b een a t ime o f

ch al l en g e an d ch an g e i n t h eDep artmen t , wi th a ran g e o f n ewapp oi ntments being made followingthe departure of three academic co l-leagues to sen ior po sitions in otheruniversi t ies. Peter Wood spells outthe detai ls below. This issue againfocuses on peopl e, research acti viti es,travel and publ ications.

The Department welcomed alumniat the annual drinks recep tion in theReading Room on the eveni ng of 17Sep t emb er, p ri o r t o t h e Co l l eg eAl umn us Day . Ot h er g ro up s o fGeography alumni met on variousoccasi ons and were welcomed to theDepartment by Professor Wood. In20 00 the College Alumnus Dayhas been schedul ed for Satur day16 Sept ember so the Geog raphyR e c e p t i o n w i l l b e o n t h ee v e n i n g o f Fri day 1 5S ep te mb er. Please put the date inyour diary. We look forward to wel-coming you. A further no tificat i onwill be sent in August 2000.

Hugh Clout .

Change andChallenge

Pet er Wood wri tes :We have had an unusual number of

s t aff ch an g es i n t h e l as t y ear,although fortunately the gai ns seemsto have outweighted the losses. Withmix ed feel in gs , we con g rat ul at edCl iv e Ag n ew on o b tai n in g aProfessorsh ip at t he Universi ty o fMan ch es t er l as t No v emb er, an d,shor tly after, Tim Allot t, a Readershipin the same department. Cl ive hadbeen with us si nce the early 198 0s,and a stalwart in both research andteach ing. Onl y last year he ob tainedthe Facul ty Dis t ingui shed TeacherAward.

Tim arrived at UCL as a first yearundergraduate fourteen years ago. TheManchester job is fitt ing recognit ionof hi s achievements in the depart mentsince then. Like Clive, he is returningto his nati ve North (even though, forh i m, o n th e wro n g s ide o f t h ePennines ). Mart in Parry, who wasat t ach ed t o t h e dep art men t i nassociat ion with the UCL GraduateSchool and the Jackson Envi ronm entInst itute, moved to the Univ ersi ty ofEas t An g l i a l as t summer.Prospec tively, we shall also miss PhilCran g ’s l i v el y p res en ce wh en h emo v es t o a Readers h i p at Ro yalHolloway Coll ege in the summer.

New appoi ntments have been madeto repl ace these los ses, as well as toful f i l t h e dep art men t ’s p l an s fo rdevelopment. We have augmented ours treng ths in the ‘env i ronment ands o ci et y ’ area wi t h Gai l Dav i es ’sappo intment to a permanent posi tion.Gail is already maki ng a great successof convening the revi ved MSc in ‘ThePub l i c Un ders t an di n g o f t h eEn v i ro n men t al Ch an g e’. Remo teSens ing has been strengthen ed by theappo intment of Paul Saich, from GEC-Marco n i an d, mo re recen t l y , t h eEuro p ean Sp ace Ag en cy . Hi slecturesh ip is partly financed by theNat ural En v i ro n men t Res earchCounci l - a major ach ievement fo rbo th him and the department. AfterTim Al lo t t ’s departure, J onath anHolmes wil l be joining the depart-men t i n t h e s ummer fro m th eUniversi ty of Kingston as a Readeran d Research Di rect o r o f t h eEn v i ro n men t al Ch an g e Res earchCen t re. We are al s o del i g h t ed t owelcome to the teachi ng staf f a well-es t ab l i s h ed memb er o f t h e ECRC

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research st aff, Anson Mackay, as thenewly- spons ored ‘ENSIS Lecturer’.

A flurry of announcements early int h e Mi l l en n i um Year s aw t h edepartment recruit Linda McDowell,fo rmerly o f t he Open Uni vers i t y ,Cambridge and LSE, as Professo r ofEco n o mi c Geo g rap h y , an d PaulLo n g l ey , as Pro fes s o r o fGeographical In formation Science,from Bristo l . Paul wil l be workingclo sely wi th Mik e Bat ty an d PaulDensham, building on the developingrep utat i o n o f t h e UCL Cen t re fo rAdvanced Spatial Analys is. In lateMarch, Martin Todd, repl acing CliveAg n ew, an d Rich ard Tay lo r wereapp oi n t ed to two Lecturesh ip s i nphysi cal geogr aphy. Martin, current -ly at Oxford, is a specialist in rainfallprediction from satel lite data and itsh y dro lo g i cal ap p l i cat i o n s , an dRichard is a geomorphologist withres earch in t eres t s i n Eas t Afri ca.J ames Kn eale fro m Ex eter wasappo inted to the Lectureship in humangeog raphy vacated by Phi l Crang. Heis a cultural geog rapher with interestsin pop ular culture, literature and themedia. Finally, we have enjoyed theen erg et i c p res en ce o f Geo rg i n aGowans, who joi ned us for a year lastSept ember, st anding in for Phil andClaire Dwyer who have been on st udyleave suppor ted by the Economi c andSocial Research Council .

AnnualReunion DayHugh Prince wri tes :“On Saturday 18 Sep tember, 28

former geo grapher s reachi ng back tograduates from 1946 met at a recep-tion in the South Cloist ers fol lowedby lunch, an afternoon spent chat-t ing, gett ing together, drinking teaand for the stalwarts of 1989, moret alk over wine and dinner. Groupsfrom 1951 and 1989 mingled in theaft ernoon and exchanged no tes ontheir lives and acti vit ies. Some of theo lder alumni cl imbed on to the t op

floor of Foster Court and rediscoveredthe sites of lecture rooms , map lab anddrawing off ice.

So me p aid v i s i t s t o t h e Pet r i eCollection and an exhibit ion in theSlade School and so me heard Phi lCran g l ect ure o n th e n ew humangeography . It was a very fri endly ,t h oro ug h ly en jo yable and deep lymemorab le day . It is a p l easure torenew friendships after a long intervaland int eres t i ng to meet again yearafter year. Next year’s reuni on will beheld during the same weekend in mid-Sept ember 2000 , so we look forwardto see ing you then .”

PeopleMany co ngr atulations!

Dr. Ala n Baker (B.A., Ph.D. UCL),Lecturer at UCL in the mid-1960s andsubsequently Universi ty Lecturer atCambridge, has been awarded a D.Litt .o f t h e Un iv ers i t y o f Lo n do n fo rpubl ications on the histor ical geogra-phy of France. Alan has just takenearly retirement from Cambridge, andis now a Li fe Fellow of EmmanuelColl ege.

Dr. Jo hn Catt has been app oi nt edan Honorary Professo r of UCL. This isa formal recognit ion of John’s dis-t i n ct i o n , warml y s up p o rt ed b ycol leagues in ot her UCL departments,and an express ion of the Geog raphydep artmen t ’s ap p reci at i on of h i steachi ng, research and editor ial work.

Pro fesso r Terry Co ppo ck (Ph. D.UCL), Lecturer and then Reader at UCLin the 1950s and early 1960s, andsubsequent ly Professor at Edinburgh ,h as b een awarded a D. Sc. o f t h eUniversit y of London for publi cationson land-use studies. Terry has recentlybeen awarded h onorary doctorat esfrom the Universi t ies of Edinburghand Glasgow.

Dr. Roger Flowe r has been promot -ed to Principal Research Fellow in the

Department .

Prof es s o r Dav id Harris (Lecturerand Reader in UCL Geography 19 64-79, Professor of Human Envi ronment1979- and Director of the Insti tute ofArchaeology 1989-96) has been elect-ed to an Hon orary Fellowsh ip of theCol lege.P ro f e s s o r P at s y He a l e y (n éeIngo ld) (B.A., UCL), Director of theCen t re fo r Res earch in Euro p eanUrban Environment s at the Universit yof Newcastle-upon-Tyne , and has beenawarded an OBE in the recent Queen'sBirthday Honours List for "servi ces topl anning".

Dr. Al an Jenki ns of the Insti tute ofHy dro lo g y h as b een ap p o i n t edVisi t ing Profess or. Alan’s researchinter ests link with various aspec ts ofacquatic research in the Department.

Mr. B ri an Law (BSc Eco n . UCL1949, MSc Econ . , Lecturer in UCLGeograph y 1951-55) has been electedto a Fellowsh ip of the Coll ege. Brianh ad a di s t i n g ui s h ed career at t h eEconomist Intell igenc e Unit and thenas Man ag i n g Di recto r o f Mars .Latterly he has written book s aboutthe economic hi story/hi stori cal geog-rap h y o f f i rms i n Yo rks h i re an dOxfordshi re.

Pro fes s o r Dav i d Lo wenthal hasbeen awarded the prest igi ous CullumGeog raphi cal Medal for 1999 by the

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Dr. Anso n Mac kay was promotedt o Sen io r Research Fel lo w i n t h eDepartment and subsequently has beenappo inted to a Lectureship.Mrs. Joy Manners (née Turner, BA196 4) has been app oi nted a Memberof the Council of the Universi ty ofLondon.Miss An ne Oxe nha m was awarded

an MBE in the Millennium New Year’sHonours List . As the Department’sMap Librarian and Curator, she wasformally recog nised for “services toarchi vism ,”, but the real reason s - aswe all appreciate - were selfless andloyal devoti on to st udents and staf f inthe department , in bot h professi onaland past oral roles , for almost fortyyears. Thank you Anne!Mr. Mike Sm art has been appointedSenior Research Fellow. Mike was aclose coll abor ator with, and friend of,t h e l at e Ted Ho l l i s . He h as wideexperience of internat ional wetlandcons ervati on over a quarter of a cent u-ry and has continued to support theDepartment, especial ly through thevery long asso ciations with the pro-mot ion of the Ted Holl is Schol arship.

Dr. Ann Varl ey has been promotedto a Readership.

Pro f e s s o r Paul Wh e at l e y . The

Department received a messa ge fromJulian Wheatley, Paul Wheatl ey' s son,to tell us that Paul died peacefully athis home on October 30th. Paul was alect urer in the Department from 1949to 1952 before movi ng to Sin gapor ean d th en t o Berkel ey . He wasProfesso r of Geography at UCL from1965 to 1971. He was a disti nguishedhistor ical and cultural geog rapher, anda sp ecialist on China, who producedground-breaki ng work while he was atUCL o n t he o rig in s o r urb an i s m.Those of us fo rtunat e to be i n th edepart ment at that time remember himas a scholar of awesome, but lightl y-carri ed erudi t i o n . He was anen gag i n g ly un con v en t io n al co l -l eag ue, and a g reat en courag er o fyoung st aff and graduate st udent s. Heleft to go to Chi cago, and to become amember of that univers ity 's high lyp res t i g i o us In t erdi sci p l i n aryCommittee on Social Thought. Themanuscript of hi s long- awaited bookon the Is l amic Ci ty i s es sen ti al lycompl ete and will be publ ishe d by theUniversit y of Chicago Press.

News from ourEmeriti

Tony FrenchSi n ce my ret i remen t , Rus s i an

int erest s have been kept up by goi ngas guest lecturer on the inland cruisesbet ween Moscow and St. Petersburg.The rate and the nature of change hasbeen s o v as t , t h at at t h e mo men tret irement has seemed the easy wayout. The disapp earance of the oppres-sive to tal i tarian regime has been ahuge plus, with freedom of movement ,of contacts, of access to informat ion,b ut t he eco n omic reces s io n h asreduced the bulk of the popul ation toan even worse st ate. Manezh Squarebeside the Kremlin is symbolic. InSovi et times tanks assembled here forthe Red Square parades. Now there is ath ree-l evel underground shopp ingmall, with a garden on top. Next andMo t h ercare o p en ed s h o ps t h ere;

Russ ians came in their tho usands tolook, but had no money to buy, so theshops have now closed. Maybe Putinwill pull the count ry together.

Meanwhile much of my t ime hasn o w b een ab s o rb ed b y s p en di n gEn g l i s h wi n t ers i n New Zealan dsummers, where my Kiwi wife Vivianand I have a house outside Wellingtonon the shore of the Tasman Sea. Yearsof l i st en ing to Denys Brunsden atKCL expa tiating on “Godzon e” - andit all turns out to be true! A most beau-t i ful an d fascin at i ng l an d, wh ichwo ul d h av e made me ageomorpho logi st if I had gon e therein my s tudent days . Denys ’ o thersuperb lecture on risk has also beenexempl ified for me, in experiencingmy fi rs t earth quake; at 5 . 7 o n theRicht er scale it was quite enough to bescary, even though only one ch inacup was broken . More surprising forme is the standard of living; on a jobfor job comparison at all levels, NZ iscloser t o the USA than to t he UK,even thoug h welding two main ethnicgroups in to one natio n is havi ng itsown problems. But for a moment thisyear, all problems receded as we (yousee, half Kiwi already) retained theAmerica’s Cup. Oh yes , a new millen-nium was said to st art; not even therain could drown Dame Kiri te Kanawasingi ng it in.

David Lowentha lIn 1 9 9 9 , b et ween rai s i n g

raspberri es and pureeing app les inHarrow, David Lowent hal conferencej un k et ed i n Aus t ral i a, Bel g ium,France, Italy and North America ontopi cs rangi ng from archives and arttheft to archaeologi cal site interpret a-t ions and managing environmentalrisks . In April he gave the thi rd annu-al A W Franks Brit ish Museum Lecture(“Whit e Elephant s and Ivor y Towers:Embatt led Museums?”). In October heh el p ed cel eb rat e t h e Berk el eyGeo g rap hy dep artmen t ’s 1 0 0 t hAn n i v ers ary an d i n Nov emberreceived the American GeographicalSoci ety’s Cul lum Medal . Pl ans for2 00 0 in cl ude g at herin gs i n Turin

Anne Oxenham

(“The Cent ury of Memory: Memory ofthe Century”), Jerusalem (on archit ec-tural heritage), at Rutgers Universi ty(“Beg in n i n g s an d En din g s ”), atWel l es l ey Col l eg e (“The St at e o fHi s to ry ”), an d th e Un i v ers i t y o fMich i g an (“Un cov erin g an dRecovering the Past”). His new bi og-raphy George Perkins Marsh: Prophe tof Cons ervati on will be publi shed bythe Universi ty of Washi ng ton Pressin April, in an envir onmental hist oryseri es edited by Wil liam Cronon.

Geral d Manner s

No w i n t o t h e t h i rd y ear o f h i s“reti rement ”, Gerald Manners conti n-ues t o di v ide h i s t i me b etweenIslingt on and Sussex, part icularly theformer. He maintains his l inks witht he Depart men t by co n t in ui ng t oteach his thi rd year course on the UKenergy market and by g iving somefirst year lectures on resource issues.He enj oys the challeng e of keepi ng upto date with the changi ng structure ofthe energy industries and the shi ftingregulatory envi ronment withi n whichutili ti es in part icular have to operat e.

He keeps hi s fing ers on the pulseof energy pol it ics partly through hi sro l e as a speci al i s t adv i ser t o t heHouse of Commons EnvironmentalAudi t Co mmi t t ee. Th i s al l -p art ycommi ttee recent ly complet ed a criti-cal report on government po liciestowards the improvemen t of the coun-t ry ’s En ergy Effi ci en cy (Seven thRepo rt , Sess ion 1998 -99, HC 15 9),

and is currently taking evidence onthe Government ’s revi sed str ategy forsust ainable development, A BetterQuality of Life (Cm 4345).

Gerald also continues to advi se theAsso ciat ion for the Con servat ion ofEn erg y an d i s Ch ai rman o f anElectrici ty Associat i on panel thatp ro duces an d up dates a s eri es o fbriefings on questions related to ener-gy and the envir onment .

His energy interests also overlapwith hi s work as a trustee of the EagaChari tabl e Trust which funds researchint o concerns about fuel pove rty. Hismain vol untary sect or acti vity, how-ever, i s as Ch ai rman o f t h e Ci tyParochi al Foundation and the Trust forLondon, major charit ies endowed withasse ts appr oaching £200 mil lion thatseek to ameliorate the probl ems asso-ci at ed wi t h p o v erty i n Great erLondo n . Wi th Sadler’s Well s nowrebuil t , hi s ro le there as HonoraryVice-President is simply to enjoy themuch en l arged s tag e, exceeding lygood sight lines and a much improvedprog ramme - as well as chai ring thepension commi ttee!

Bil l M eadBil l Mead has recently finishe d two

contributions on Fin land for o therpeopl e’s books and is now ‘pl ayi ng’with a book of reminiscences aboutNorway. There have been the usualautumn v is i ts to t he GeographicalIns t i tute at Lund and to Stockholm(where materials were col lected fromKrigsarki vet). In mid-Novem ber, the

annual Finni sh visit included a lectureto the Porthan (hist orical) Society, ofwhich he i s an h ono rary member,at tendance at the annual meeting ofthe Finnish geogr aphers and a ‘toast’at the dinner to celebrat e the 75thAn n iv ersary o f t he Geo grap h icalIns titute of the University of Turku,held in the medieva l castle.

Hugh PrinceRet i remen t i s a l i b erat i n g

ex p eri en ce. I t rel eas es on e fro madmini strative chores and frees one tojourney to London at off-peak t imesand travel abroad out of season . Onemay spend time in the garden whenp l an t s n eed at t en t io n an d dev ot ewhole days to reading and writ ing.During th is year, Roger Kain and Ihave completed a new illust rated bookon Tithe Surveys and the HistoricalStudies to be publi shed by Phi ll imore.I have also writ ten a chapter in a bookjoi ntly edited by Michael Williams,Terry Co p p o ck , Hug h Clo ut an dmyself on H.C.Darby’s Methods ofHist orical Geogr aphy. Fol lowing thestudy of Darby’s work, I have com-piled lists of hist orical geographersin Brit ish highe r education from 1931to 1991 . This t h rows l i gh t on thechangi ng age and sex composit ion oft h e p ro fes s i o n an d th e ch an g i n gacademic origins of it s members. I amn ow wri t i n g a new acco un t o f t hecontribution of leading eighteen th-cen tury l an ds cap e g arden ers t och an g in g t h e ap p earan ce o f t h eEngli sh countr yside. At the moment Iam enjoying reading Stephe n Daniel s’new boo k on Humphr y Rept on. I amal so wo rk in g wi th Hert fo rds h i reGardens Trust in recording h istoricgardens in my home dist rict in westHerts.

Karl Sinnhu ber at 80The Austr ian Council for Economic

Research held a Festcolloquium on1 5 t h Oct o b er at t h e Eco n o mi cUniversi ty in Vienna to celebrate theei g h t i eth b i r t h day o f Emeri tusProfessor Karl A. Sinnhuber (who wasa member of the UCL department 1951

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- 1965 who moved to a readershi p atthe Universit y of Surrey, and then to aCh ai r i n Vienn a). Over a hun dredfriends, st udents and col leagues camefrom places as far apart as Okinawaand Canada to recons ider the changingconcept of Mit teleuropa in the 1990sand share in a festi ve occasion.

Keynote lectures were g iven byFran k Carter on the g eography offo rei gn di rect i n ves tmen t o n th eborderl ands of the European Union inPoland, Czech Republic, Slova ki a andHun g ary an d b y Lut z Ho l zn er,Uni versi ty of Wisconsi n-Milwaukee,on the question of whether American-ization of cent ral European citi es is anoutcome of free en terprise o r s tatep l anni ng . A Fest schrift , t o whichmany of Karl’s fo rmer co ll eagues,i n cludin g twel v e fro m Lo n do n ,subscri bed, was presented to him . Karlrepl ied to congratul atory speeches bythanking all thos e present and payinga spe cial tribute to hi s wife, Audrey,former Secret ary of t he Library atUCL, for her long -suffering forbear-an ce an d sup p o rt . The fo rmalproceedings ended with a st andingovati on. Thi s was foll owed by a buf-fet o f cheese, s ausages , rye b read,cakes, and white and red wine producedin Karl’s hom e vi llage of Gschwandtbei Gmunden. Conversat ion flowedfreely l a t e i n to t h e even in g . Karlh imself i s i n top form, l eading anactiv e life, building, sai ling , skii ng,flyi ng , gl ob e trott ing to the Arct ic,Ant arctic and up the Amazon, enj oy-ing the company of the people hemeets. He sends greetings and go odwishes to al l hi s friends in the UCLdepartment.

Hugh Prince.

What is CASA?CASA st ands fo r The Centre fo r

Advanced Spati al Analysis.It is comparat ively new research

centre in UCL which is dedicated todevelopi ng computer techno logies forgeographical , env i ronmental , andurban problems. It was set up in 1995

and began its research programme ayear later in 1996 after having suc-cess fully at tract ed various researchgrants, mainly in the field of urbanand regional st udies. CASA's focus isboth on theory emphasi s being on thedevelopment of s imulat ion model susi ng new techniques of mathematicalmodelling and new techniques of com-puter v isual izat i on such as v irtualreality (VR) sys tems. During the last10 years, there have been rapi d devel-opments in th is field and CASA i sbuilding on them, par ticularly thos einvolving geographic informat ionsystems and computer -aided design.

CASA draws its researchers froms taff i n s ev eral dep artmen t s , i npart icular from the Departments o fGeo g rap h y , an d Geo mat i cEngi neering, from the Bartlett Schoolof Archi tecture and Planning, from theInsti tute of Archaeology, and from theCentre for Transport Studies. CASAhost s the new VR Cent re for the BuiltEnvi ronment which also invo lves theDepartment of Computer Science . TheVR Cen t re i s co n cern ed wi t h t h edevelopmen t of new soft ware develop-ments in vi rtual reali ty syst ems fortack l ing prob lems of arch it ecture,urban p l ann in g , cons t ruct ion an d

transpor t, and is suppor ted by a widerange of industrial partners such asESRI, Sil icon Graphics, Division, andthe Ordnance Survey.

CASA's research p rog ramme i scurrent ly divided into five areas whichh av e i mp o rt an t l i n k s wi t hGeography. First , there is a g roupwhich is concerned wi th exp loringan d map p in g cy b ersp ace. Mart i nDodge is the Curator of the Atlas ofCyberspa ce which is the bi ggest atlasyet avai lab l e and is avail ab l e as awo rl d wi de web s i t e atht tp: //www.cybergeography. org/ orat the CASA sit e (see below). Second,there is a group concerned with defin-ing a new urban geogr aph y based onnew kinds of empl oyment , land use,and income dat a using geographicinformation sy st ems. This group ledby Mark Thurs t ain -Goodwin has anumber of projects invo lving the defi-n i t i on of town cen tres using thesenew data sets for the Department ofthe Env ironment , Transp ort and theRegions.

Third, we have group dealing withvery fine-scale simulation models ofurban change , such as t raffic and urbangrowth. These models are based ondevelop ments in complexi ty theory

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and draw on many kinds of new dataand sof tware and ideas abo ut how wecan rep resen t human and phy si calsystems . Fourth, we have a p rojectwith the School of Public Policy atUCL dealing with making environ-mental information about poll ution inLondon available to the public on theworld wide web. Final ly, there is ourvi rtual reali ty group who are also con-cerned with making digit al images anddesigns of cit ies avail able to the pub-l i c fo r purpo ses o f part i cipat io n .Current ly we have a proj ect from theEngineering and Physical SciencesResearch Council dealing with scienceunder it s 'publi c understanding of sci-ence programme' where we are makingvari ous soft ware and data available tothe publi c in Hackney.

The current director of the Centr e isMichael Batty, who is Professor ofSpatial Analysis and Planning, andh o l ds a j o i n t ap p o in t men t wi t hGeograph y and the Bartlett School ofPlanning. He teaches geographicalmet h o ds an d GIS an d adv i s esundergraduates. Dr. Paul Densham,who is Reader in Geography, is also amemb er o f CASA, and b o th aremembers of the Remote Sensi ng andGIS res earch g ro up wi t h i n t h eDepartment . Others members of CASAwho take an active part in its researchare Dave Chapman and Jeremy Morley(Geo mat i c En g i n eeri n g ), Ro g erMackett (Transport Studies ), DavidBani st er, Bill Hilli er, Alan Penn andPh i l St eadman (Bart l et t Sch o ol ),Steve Shennan, Jamie McGlade andMark Lake (Institute of Archaeology),and John Murl is (School o f Publ icPoli cy). Many others in UCL are par-t i cip at ing in various research andteachi ng proj ects. CASA also makesimportant teaching inputs in to theMas t ers co urs es i n Geo g rap h i cInformation Syst ems, in Advanced

Architectural Studies, and in VirtualEnvi ronments.

There are current ly 5 PhD studentsworking on proj ects in CASA and wehave 9 ful l t ime research assistantsand fellows.

To find out more about CASA, callor email our administ rator or director ,or look at our web si te.

Sarah Sheppard (admin is trato r):s. sheppar d@ucl.ac.uk, tel 020- 7679 -1782.

Mi ch ael Bat ty (di recto r):m.batty@ucl . ac. uk, t el 020-7679-178 1, fax: 020 -781 3-2843; generalemail: casa@ucl.ac.uk.

We are locat ed at 1-19 Torringt onPlace, London WC1E 6BT.

Consult our web s i t e fo r det ai l shtt p://www.casa.ucl. ac.uk/

Michae l B atty.

UCLGeographers in

HawaiiDarren Bhatt achar y wri tes :“Once a year, it is customar y for a

few members o f the Department toattend the Associat ion of AmericanGeographers annual conf erence. Eachyear it is held in a different State. Bysome strange chance, this year that

State was Hawaii. Five lucky membersfrom the Department ’s Env iron mentand Society Research Unit (ESRU)donned their sombrer os and headed offint o the sunset. This is their exo ticand nobl e tale.

Hono lulu is a brash pl ace, tho ughst rangely seductive. A weird bl end ofmany cultures; it is a true test ament tothe American dream. Here we were inthe middle of the Paci fic Ocean, themo s t i so l at ed arch ip el ag o in t h eworld. Yet armed only with a creditcard, you could want for not hing.

With th is as sert ion in mind, werented an elegant apartment on thewindward no rth shore of the island.Adjacen t was a smal l beach cal l edKailua. After a 20 hour flight, froli ck-ing in the large surf and warm tradewinds was a fine thi ng.

The conference was held i n l at eMarch at t h e Hi l t o n Co mp l exHonol ulu. This was a spr awling massof landscape ki tsch , bordering an arti-fici al beach . Qui te fan tas t i c. Suchdigni taries as Elvi s and John Waynehave graced i ts bars. Now i t was theturn of some 3, 500 geographe rs fromthe four corners of the globe . A headymix indeed.

We had organ ised two sessi ons att he AAG ent i t led ‘Making cul turalgeography work - insigh ts fo r andfro m en v i ro n men t al deci s i o n

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Waikiki Beach, Honolulu

makin g’. The sessi on aimed to gl eanan international persp ective upon anumber of themes that we had foundprovoking doing our own work . Assuch, as well as the ESRU conti ngent,the sess ions included speakers fromthe USA, Australia and indeed the stateof Hawaii it self.

The sessions were held at anun g o dly h o ur o f t h e mo rn in g .Fortunately the jet lag allowed us tocop e with the 5am rise with relativegood humour. Despi te the early star t,the sess ions were well attended. Allfive members from ERSU presented,as well as the four guest speakers. Thesessions were well received, not leastbecause on the whole the papers com-p l emen ted o n e an o t h er (a rareexperience during the week).

Aft er much smi l in g , ch at t i n g ,addres s s wap p i n g an d g en eral

backs lapp ing, we rallied to a nearbyrest aurant . A sumpt uous feast of Thaifood and glorious dancing g i rls t oboot. And as the sun came through thepalm blosso ms, and I si pped my mar-g ari t a, I h ad a t h o ug h t , I h ad aninkling. .. This indeed was a fine con-ference.”

Darren Bhatt ach ary (on behal fof Richard Munton, Jacquie Burgess,Dan Bloomfield and Simon Maxwell).

MigrationResearch Unit

Th e Mig rat i o n Res earch Un i t(MRU) was est ablished in 1988 byJohn Salt to carry forward and expandwork that was then being develope d inthe UCL Department of Geography oncontemporary populat ion migrationissues.

Starting with a focus on the UK andon l abour migrat ion , i t has seizedo p p o rt un i t i es t o mo v e in t o n ewfields. It has built up a reputation forresearch on international migrat iontrends, pat terns and policies in thewider Europe an cont ext , ext ended itsresearch inter ests beyond labour mar-ket issues and developed exper tise inmigration information sys tems. It hasbeen called upon by ext ernal bodies tocarry out pol icy-related research andto provide expert adv ice on po licyi s s ues . At t h e s ame t ime, i t h asretained its int erest in the theoret icalaspec ts of migration and conti nues tostudy and publ ish on t hese matters.

Ext ensi ve l inks have been devel-oped at nat ional and int ernationallevel with governmental organ iza-tions, academic insti tutions and otherag en ci es . Th o s e commi ss i o n in gresearch from the MRU have includedEurostat (the European Commission’ sStat i s t i cal Offi ce), the Secret ari atGeneral of the European Commission,the OECD, the Council of Europe, theUK Departmen t fo r Educat io n an dEmploymen t and the Home Office.

The wide-ranging role of the MRUhas enabled an exceptional body ofknowledge about contemporary UKand European internat ional migrationto be developed, backed up by thelarge number of stat is tical datasetsand extensi ve documentary materialnow held with in the Unit . Most o fthi s information has been organisedand managed elect ron ical ly over thel as t few y ears t o meet co n s t an tresearch and teachi ng requirements.

The purpos e of the MRU is to carryo ut h ig h qual i t y res earch ,independent ly o r i n co ll aborat ionwi th o th ers , des ig ned t o i ncreas ek no wledg e an d un der-s t an din g o fmigration issues. The foll owing have

been defined as the Unit ’s overarchingresearch aims:

• To co n t rib ut e t o k n o wledg e o npatterns and trends in migration atb o th t he nat ional , European andgl obal level;

• To increase unders tanding of theinterrelat ionships between publicpoli cy and pat terns of migration ateach level;

• To devel o p n ew co n cep t ualap p ro ach es t o t h e s tudy o fmigrat ion.

The MRU is currentl y carrying outprojects on the following topics:

• In t ern at i o n al Mi g rat io n an dEuropean Union Enlargemen t;

• Pup i l Mo b i l i t y i n Sch o o l s i nEngland;

• The Mobi li sat ion and Participat ionof Transna tional Exile Communit iesin Pos t-Conf lict Reconstr uction;

• The construction of the EuropeanMigration I nformation Networ k.

The Di rect o r o f t h e MRU i sProfess or Joh n Sal t. Other membersof the Uni t , work ing on a range ofproj ect s in the field o f migrat i on ,i n clude: Dr. Nadje Al -Al i , J amesClarke, Dr. Jane t Dobson, Dr. Khali dKoser, Kirst y Henthorne and SandraSch mi dt , alo n g wi th Pro f. PaulCompt on, Hono rary Seni or ResearchFellow, and Dr. Paul Densham, associ-ate of the MRU.

John Salt and James Clar ke.

Pupil Mobilityin Schools

Many readers of the Newslett er willh av e a di rect p erso nal i n t eres t i nschools, whether as parent s, teachersor others ass ociated with education.Some may have direct personal expe-riences of schools with high levels ofpupil turnov er. If you have any viewso n t h e s ub ject , s en d th em to t h eMigrat ion Res earch Unit .

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The Pup i l Mob i l i t y i n Scho ol sproject bei ng carried out by the Uniti s st udying the nature o f causes o fpupil mobil i ty in state scho ols andthe impl icati ons of hi gh mobil ity fors trat eg ies to raise ach ievement . Itst arted in Jan uary 19 99 with fundingfro m th e Nuffi eld Foundat ion . Anint erim report commissi oned by theDep artmen t fo r Educat i o n an dEmployment has just been publi shed.

Pol icy-make rs have tended to thinkof scho ol s as s t ab l e co mmuni t i eswhich ch i ldren jo in at t he normalstarting age and leave at the normalleaving age. Some schools are l ikethat. However, there are many others -particularly in London, other ci tiesand conurbat ions, coastal resor ts andthe vi cini ty of armed forces’ bases -where chil dren regularly come and go.

The causes? Firstly, int ernation almigrat ion . Flows of ch i ldren agedunder 15 int o and out of th e UK overthe last 20 years have totall ed arounda mil lion and a half, with a relati velysmall net inflow. Labour migrat ion,refugees, peop le moving for perma-nen t set t l ement and s tuden t s wi thchil dren are all part of this.

Seco n dly , i n t ern al mi g rat i o n .Labour movem ent, peopl e movi ng atdifferent stages in their lives (incl ud-ing family break-up and escape fromv i o l en ce), mo v es fo r h o us in g ,env iron mental or scho ol ing reaso nsand movement of Travellers are al lcontr ibutors.

Thirdly, inst itutional movement.Children permanent ly excluded froms ch o o l , ch an g i ng s cho o l s fro mchoi ce or transferring between stateand privat e sectors are included inthis.

Fourthly, indiv idual movement.This catego ry covers chil dren movinghome without thei r parents, such aschil dren in care.

It is clear t hat not al l moves ofhome result in a chang e of schoo l andnot all chang e of schools result from amov e o f h ome. The res earchprogramme, which is being carried outb y Dr. J an et Do bs o n an d Ki rs t yHenthorne, is seeki ng to il luminate

the complex picture of pupil move-ment between schools at a nationaland local level, with a particular focuson hi gh mobi lity schoo ls. It is alsolo o k i n g at wh at can b e do n e b yschool s and local author it ies to min-imi se t he di s rup t ion to ch i ldren’seducation when changes o f schooltake place.

Jane t Dobson.

UCL and ChinaAn ex ci t i n g n ew l i n k i s b een

forged with col leagues in the ChineseUniversity of Lanzhou in no rth westCh in a t h ro ug h a Bri t i s h Co un ci lHigh er Educat ion Link gran t . Th eBritish Council grant is helping tofund a proj ect on ‘the sustainabl e useof g ro un dwater fo r i rr i g at i on an ddrink ing water in the Minquin Basi n

of Gansu Province . Three members of the department -

Rick Batt erbee and Laurence Carvalho(ECRC), and Jacquie Burgess (ESRU) -are wo rk i n g wi th Mi k e Edmun d(Bri t i s h Geo lo g i cal Surv ey ) an dJ on at h an Ho l mes (Ki n g s to nUniversity and UCL) on the project.Our co ll eagues i n China are led byProfessor Fa-Hu Chen , head of t heInsti tute of Environment and Disasterin Lanzhou Universi ty, and includehuman geographers as wel l as envi-

ronment al scientist s.The project combi nes research on

l o n g -t erm cl imat e ch an g e, t h ehydrogeology of groundwater in theMinquin Basin, and current patt erns ofwater use for farming and domesticuse.

The problems facing water man-agers in the Minquin Basin are st ark.Altho ugh the area is semi-arid, withabout 100mm of rainfall a year, it hasa th riving agriculture with peasantfarmers growing crops of water mel-ons, co tton, maize and sunflowers.They are able to do so because under-neath the san dy soi ls are reserves offossi l water which are bro ught to thesurface through drilling wells. As thedemands for water hav e increased, sodeeper and deeper wells have needed tobe drilled. At present , these are tap-ping water at some 300m below thesurface.

The research aims to discover howold the water is , what is i ts quality,where it has come from, and whether iti s ren ewab l e o r no t . If , as Mi k eEdmunds suspect s, thi s water is fromthe last glacial period when the cl i-mate was s ignifi can tly wet ter thannow and that there are geographi calbarriers t o i ts rep l en i shment fromnearby Qil ian Mountains, then thelocal populat i on faces a cri s is . Ineffect , t hey are min ing th e water.Once the reserves are exhausted, com-

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Rick and friends, discussing tactics?

munit ies will be forced to abandon theland.

Duri n g a v i s i t t o Ch in a i nSeptember, we co l laborat ed in thedes ign of a research pro ject whichassesses long term climate changest h ro ug h di at o m an aly s i s i n l ak esediment s in the Baddam desert; andTi b et an p l at eau; rain fal l an dgroundwater chemis try at differen tsites across the Minquin Basi n; andsocial research with local people tofind out how much water they are cur-ren t l y us in g fo r ag ri cul t ure an ddomes t i c purpo ses . Of part i cul arinterest here is the extent to whichpeop le unders t and that th ei r well -water is finit e, and to explore ways ofusing what they hav e more efficient -ly.

The Briti sh Council grant provi desfor the exchange of researchers and amajor aim is to train yo ung Chi neseacademics i n en v i ro n men tal an dsocial scienti fic research methods . Toprogress the Minqin Basin project ,Mr. J i awu Zh an g i s wi t h us fo r 6mo nt h s t o g ai n ex p eri en ce i npalaeo liminological research; Dr. Ma,a hy drog eol ogi st in Lanzho u will bearrivi ng in January to work with Mikeat Wallingford; and Mr. Yong -Chun,who is an econom ic geogr apher , willspend two months in London to learnmo re ab o ut et h n og rap h ic s o ci alresearch methods.

Jac qui e B urg e s s a n d R i c kBatt arbee .

News From

MoscowMark Bassi n wri tes :“I spent six weeks in Moscow thi s

s ummer, research i n g t h erepresent ation of nature and landscapein t h e So ci al i s t -Real i s t art o f t h eStali n peri od (1930- 1953). This was atruly exhil arating experience, as I wasab le t o work in several arch ives -mos t importan tly t he manuscrip t sdivision of the Tretiako v Gallery - andalso to con sult the enor mous varietyof published albums and other workwhich are not avail abl e in t he West.

I discovered that ques t ion of the' co rrect ' dep i ct i on o f n ature an dlandscape were very cen t ral t o t heconcer ns of not onl y artist s but crit-ics, the poli tical arbiters of artisticpolicy, and the Party itself. The expe-ri en ce o f l i v i n g in Mo s co w wasfasci nating as well. The citysca pe ismuch better cared-for in pos t-Sov ietRussi a, and the beauty of the numer-o us ch urch es an d o t h erpre-revo lutionary archi tecture whichremain is now much more apparent . Itis however a rather more dangerousplace, as my having had items stol enon two occasions would seem to indi-cate!"

The illustration abov e is part of apainti ng from the early 1950’s whichshows a Russian mechanic instructinga coll eague on how to operat e harves t-ing machinery. The open, bi g fieldl an dscape o f v as t Soci al i s t farmsstretches in the background, wheremore harves t machines are at work.

UCLGeographers at

SussexThe An n ual Co n feren ce o f t h e

Royal Geographi cal Soci ety with theInst i tute of British Geogr aph ers washeld at the Universit y of Sussex 4 - 7January 2000.

Themed sess ions encompass ings co res o f p res en t at i o n s b o re t h eadject ives , econ omic, h i s to ri cal ,s o ci al , p o p ul at i o n an d cul t ural(among st others) and explored 'con-s t ruct i n g n ature' , ' p o s t -so ci al i s tgeog raphi es', 'surfaces in geography','rural development in Europe' , 'pl aceand sp ace in real estate', 'process esand l andscap e ch an ge' , ' rural i t y ' ,'touri sm and representation' , 'transna -tionali sm' and countl ess others.

Curren t memb ers o f t h e UCLDepartment del ivered the fol lowingpapers or chair ed sessions:

Jacquie Burg es s an d DarrenBhatt achary spoke on 'Habi t s andhabit ats: European policy in a marinecontext'.

Tams i n Co op er s p o k e o n 'Th ev i t i cul t ural p o l i cy n etwo rk i nLanguedoc, France'.

Phi l Cran g , Clai re Dwy er an dSuman Pri n jh a s p o k e o n'Transnational communities and thespaces of commodit y culture'.

Georg ina Gowans convened theforum on post-graduate research inhi stori cal geography.

Alun Jone s spo ke on 'Insti tutionalthick ness and dev elopment di ff icul -ties in rural Europe'.

Kh al i d Kos er sp o k e o n'Transnational exi le com munit ies andthe role of soci al net work s: the caseof Eritrea'.

John Salt sp ok e on 'Internationalmigration and enlargem ent: the nextwav e' an d ch ai red a s es s io n o nmigrati on in Europe.

Ann Varley chaired a session onsoci al impl icat io ns o f deb t i n t hedevelopi ng world.

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Vladimir Petrov, Teaching a Friend, 1954

Former st udents or staff membersof the Department contr ibuti ng papersincluded:

Ifan Sheph erd (Middlesex), CliveAg n ew (Man ch es t er), Tas s i l oHerrschel (Westminster ), Tim Forsyth(Sussex), Ian Dowman (UCL Geomat icEnginee ring) , Mary Cawley (Galway),Luke Desforges (Aberys tyth), NickPhel ps (Cardiff), Rita Gardner (RGS-IBG), Rob Inkpe n (Port smouth) , JohnCo n n el l (Sy dn ey ), Adam St ran g e(Not t i n g h am Tren t ), J an e Jacob s(Melbourne), Lily Kong (Singapor e),Deb o rah Ph i l l i p s (Leeds ), Pet erJackson (Sheffield).

Good to see so many old friends!

Deanʼs WorldHugh Cl out writ es: “ I am now in my fifth year as Dean

of the Faculty of Social and Histori calSci en ces , wh i ch co mp ri s es s i x' es t ab l i s h ed' UCL dep artmen t s(An t h ro p o l o g y , Arch aeo lo g y ,Econom ics, Geography, Hist ory, andHis tory of Art ) t og ether wi th twodepartments (East European Hist ory,and Social Sciences) of the Schoo l ofSlavo nic and East Europ ean Studies,whi ch merged with UCL on 1 August1 9 9 9 . Th e UCL Sch o o l o f Pub l i cPol icy 'si ts along si de' our Faculty. Ialso have many links with ot her aca-demi c un i t s i n Co l l eg e. Th e SHSFaculty is approx imately hal f of the

ol d unwieldy Faculty of Arts at UCL.The divi sion occurred in 1994 to cre-ate two more manageable blocks ofdepart ment s. The total number of full-time academic st aff in the SHS Facultyis over 20 0, with 1,850 undergradu-ates and 830 graduate students. TheFacul ty t each es al mo s t 4 0 p ro -grammes of study at bachelors level(B.A., B.Sc. and B.Sc. Econ) and 35masters programmes, in addit ion totraining doc toral candidates.

The Dean ' s ro l e (i n each mul t i -department faculty) is not that of ahead of department so, for example, Ihave no direct invol vement in finan-cial management or in the day to dayrunning of individual departments .My main funct ion i s t o serv e as achann el between the cent ral authori-t i es o f UCL an d th e co mp o n en tdepart ment s of the Faculty. I chair theFaculty Board, the Faculty Teachi ngCo mmi t t ee, t h e Facul ty Board o fExaminers, and the Faculty LibraryCommit tee, each of which acts as anint ermediary to ensure that local con-cerns are known at 'the centr e' and thatCollege regulat ions and proceduresoper ate correctly in the department s.The Dean' s role, and indeed that of theFacul ty Offi ce s taff as a whole, i smuch concerned with quali ty assur-ance, which has become an importantand time-cons uming 'craft industry' inU.K. higher education.

Each Faculty meeting involves mein p rep arin g an d act i n g up o nformidable quanti ties of paperwork.Speed reading and sp eed writ ing areessent ial in a Dean's job! In additionto the four main meetings (each ofwhich occurs at least once a term), Ichair a mont hly heads of departmentmeeting and various small workinggroups (for exampl e, on programmespeci fi cat i on , g raduat e s t an dards ,exami nati on managem ent, dean' s listfor academic excell ence, etc.) As DeanI have the very enjoya bl e respons ibil -i ty of p resent ing every graduatings tudent from our faculty at ann ualgraduation ceremoni es. I also contr ola small travel fund which is avail abl eon a competit ive basis to members of

s t aff in SHS to as si s t undertak ingresearch or att ending confer ences. Togi ve out cash is a pl easant job too.

Dean s s i t o n al l t h e majo rcommittees in Col lege (for exampl e,Planning and Resources , AcademicCo mmi t t ee - co n cern ed wi t h al laspects o f l earn ing and t each ing).They al so s i t on t he Col lege-wideSeni or Promot io ns Committee whichdeals with all cases of promotion tosen ior lecturer, reader or p rofessorfrom each of the eight faculties. So Isee, and have to cast a judgement on,every case across College. Between100 and 130 candidates come up forcon s iderat i on for p ro mot ion eachyear. The quanti ty of paperwor k scru-t i n i sed b y each Dean i s v as t : t h epromotions operation alone invol vesreading a 20 inch-thick set of doubl e-sided pr inted papers which containsst atement s from the candidates, thei rheads of department , and from a totalof almost one thousan d external aca-demi c referees ! I s i t o n al lap p o i n t men t p an el s fo r n ewly -appointed profess ors in the Facultyand I chair al l inaugural lectures inSHS. I am also a member of AcademicBoard along with all ot her professorsand som e ot her academic st aff in theCol lege. Together with one or twocoll eagues, each year I conduct anInternal Quality Audit in a depart mentoutside my f aculty.

If this is not enough, I am Chair ofthe Col lege Board of Examiners whichover sees the whol e exami nat ion pro-cess o f al l dep artment s and at al llevels in College. My signature onresults shee ts and classi fication li st srenders them 'offici al ' and I appr ove,on behalf of the Board, al l internaland ext ernal examiners after scrutini s-ing their academic suitabil i ty . Fewpropose d examiners ‘fail ’ thi s test! Ideal with examination prob lems and'irregularit ies' of vari ous kinds and amsomet imes called upon to make somevery hard decisions indeed. In suchcircumst ances, I worry about my legall iab ili ty since mine is the name orsi gn ature on crit ical pi eces of paper .In all thes e matters, I rely heav ily on

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Hugh and the Faculty Medal winner

members of staf f in the ExaminationsSecti on of the Regi strar's Divi sion. Ialso bel ong to the Modern Europe anStudies examinat ion board (but nolonger chair it) and conven e the MESSteering Group.

The SHS Faculty Office comprises2. 5 clerical staff (dealing with under-graduate admissi ons, st udent liaison,and the Facul ty Admini s t rato r/myPA), the Faculty Tutor and myself. Wealso have a Deputy Faculty Tutor and aFaculty Graduate Tutor (current ly ourown Professor Alan Gilber t). All thisDean 's work keeps me enormous lybusy, since I have a minimum of twoadministrative meetings every day,without list ing any of the other for-mal Faculty meetings or act iv i ti esmentioned above. Contrary to whatyou may imagine, I find the job veryenjoyab le, si nce it opens up the verylarge world of UCL, not to mentionthe wider world of nat ional qual i tyass urance. Perhaps I was destined tob e an en d-of-cen t ury ' co l o n ialadmini strator '.

But, of course, being Dean is onlya half-time appoi ntment . The rest ofthe time I am a universit y teacher andresearcher just like everyo ne else inthe Geography Department. I have todel iv er h igh qual i t y p ubl i cat i o ns(currently on pos t-1945 reconstruc-t i on i n Fran ce) fo r res earchass ess ment , make research vi si ts toFrance (at weeken ds and in weekss nat ch ed from th e run o f Co l l eg emeetings which cont inue relentl ess lyoutside term time) and instruct my st u-den t s . At p resen t I t each t wothird-year courses on France and onhi stor ical geography, co-ordinate thel arg e Wri t i n g an d An aly s i s i nGeo g raph y co urs e fo r fi rs t -y earstudent s, and contribute to the Londoncourse. If you see me runni ng betweenbuildings holding a large and heavybriefcase - and someti mes with a smi leo n my face - y o u wi l l un ders t an dwhy!”

Recently

CompletedDoctorates

Issue 10 li sted doctorates compl et-ed i n recen t years . The fol lowingst udent s have obt ained their doctor-ates since February 1999 .

Cat h eri n e Dal to n : A p al aeo -limnological study of the relati onshipbetween diatoms and surface waterqual i t y i n Co n n emara, Wes t ernIreland.

Rachel Gurevi tz: The transi tio nals p aces o f mi ddle ch i l dh o od: anenquiry int o chi ldren’s everyday livesas a co n t ri b ut i o n t o n ewenvi ronmen tal educati on stategies .

Tatjana Haque: Lived expe riencesof empowerment: a case study of avocational t raining programme forwomen in Banglad esh.

Y ih-Ren Lin: The env ironment albel iefs and pract i ces o f TaiwaneseBuddhists.

Gen Veda: Devo lution and anat o-my: Dynamics of micro en terprisereproduction i n Nyeri Town, Kenya.

Among NewBooks

As well as p roducing the booksl i s t ed b el o w, memb ers o f t h eDepartment published over one hun-dred art icles / book chapters during1999.

R i c h ard B l ac k an d Kh al e dKo s e r (edi to rs ) Th e En d of t h eRefugee Cycle? Refugee Repat riat ionand Reconstr uction ( Berghan, 1999).

The changing const ructions andreal ities of refugee repatriat ion pro-vide the backdrop for this book whichpresents new empirical research onexampl es of refugee repat riation andreconst ruction. Apart from provi dingup-to-date material , it also fill s a gapin the li terature which has tended to bebased on pedagogica l reasoni ng ratherthan field research. Adopting a global

perspe ctive, this book draws togetherco n clus i o n s fro m h ig h l y v ari edexperiences of refugee repatriat i onand defines repatriat i on and recon-s t ruct io n as p art o f a wi der an dinter- relat ed refugee cycle of displace -ment, exil e and return.

Paul Cl o ke , Ph i l Cran g andMark Goodwi n (editors) IntroducingHuman Geographi es (Arnold, 1999).

Thi s major new text book provi desa comprehensi ve first -year introduc-tion to human geograph y. It conve yssome of the flavour and excit ement ofhuman geogr aphy today, pl ayi ng noton ly to recognizable sub-fields butalso making access ible some of themore con t emp orary development swhich form the cutting edge of the dis-ci p l i n e. I t con t ain s 3 4 s h o rt ,digesti ble chapter s.

Hug h Cl o ut (editor) The TimesHi s to ry o f Lo n do n , n ew edi t i o n(Harper Collins, 1999).

This is a revi sed and reti tled ver-s io n o f our earl i er ' h i s to ry at l as 'which includes new spreads on theMil lenn ium and the Future of London,as well as many small modifications.Major sect ions have been written byHugh Prince, Richard Dennis, PeterWood, and Hugh Clout , with smallercontributions by half a dozen otherUCL geograph ers.

Mi k e Cran g , Ph i l Cran g &J o n May (edi t o rs ) Vi rt ualGeograph ies (Routledge, 1999).

This book expl ores th e po ssib ili -ties and dangers brought about by therev o lut io n in co mmun icat i o ntechnolog ies. Outl ining how thesetechnologies are being used to pro-duce new geographi es and new spaces,i t s de-my s t i fi es t h e h y p e o ver'cyberspa ce' and it s conse quences .

Ni n a Lauri e , Cl ai re Dwy er,S arah Ho l l o way , Fi o n a S mi t hGeo g rap hi es o f New Femin i t i es(Longman, 1999).

Th i s bo ok examines t he emer-gence of cont empor ary const ructions

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of femininit y in a global context. It

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Produced in the Drawing Office, Department of Geography, Universit y Coll ege London. Staff photographs by Chris

Lannacombe

Some Photos from the First Year Fieldtrip,Slapton, February 2000

Little DartmouthHard at work!

Scrubbing rock

Stream Gate Work

London telephone codes havechanged. 020 7679 is the newprefix for Geography with theindividual extension making upthe last four numbers.