Book Reviews

Abstract

Book Reviewed in this article:

EI Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation. Henry F. Diaz and Vera Markgraf, eds.

Reviewed by César N. Caviedes

Danger All Around: Waste Storage Crisis on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. Joel B. Goldsteen.

Reviewed by Robin W. Doughty

Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. F. W. Carter and D. Turnock, eds.

Reviewed by Martin Hugh-Jones

In Default: Peasants, the Debt Crisis, and the Agricultural Challenge in Mexico. Marilyn Gates.

Reviewed by Philip L. Wagner

Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition. I. R. Bowler, C. R. Bryant, and M. D. Nellis, eds.

Reviewed by Ingolf Vogeler

In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment. Jane Bennett and william Chaloupka, eds.

Reviewed by Martin W. Lewis

The Palladian Landscape. Geographical Change and its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Denis Cosgrove.

Reviewed by David Alexander

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation. Terry G. Jordan.

Reviewed by James W. Scott

Ethnicity and the American Cemetery. Richard E. Meyer, ed.

Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia

The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning. John Sewell.

Reviewed by Peter G. Goheen

Minneapolis-St Paul: Place and Public Life. John S. Adams and Barbara J. VanDrasek.

Reviewed by Cynthia A. Miller

City on the Edge: The Transformation of Mami. Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick.

Reviewed by Jan Nijman

Belarus: At a Crossroads in History. Jan Zaprudnik.

Reviewed by Paul E. Lydolph

Estonia: Return to Independence. Rein Taagepera.

Reviewed by Edmunds V. Bunkse

Zaire: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State. Winsome J. Leslie.

Reviewed by James A. Miller

Stuck in the Region? Changing Scales for Regional Identity. Elke Dirven, Joost Groenewegen, and Sjef van Hoof, eds.

Moving Regions. Joost Hauer and Gerard Hoekveld, eds.

Reviewed by James R. McDonald

The International Law of Maritime Boundaries and the Practice of States in the Mediterranean Sea. Faraj Abdullah Ahnish.

Reviewed by Lewis M. Alexander

Applications of Environment-Behavior Research: Case Studies and Analysis. Paul D. Cherulnik.

Reviewed by Thomas F. Saarinen

The Atlas of American Higher Education. James W. Fonseca and Alice C. Andrews.

Reviewed by Saul B. Cohen

Key Words:

• climate variability
• EI Niño
• Southern Oscillation
• surrogate climate records
• Gulf Coast
• land use
• petrochemicals
• planning
• pollution
• toxic wastes
• Eastern Europe
• environmental health
• pollution
• public health
• transboundary pollution twentieth-century history
• Campeche
• Chiapas
• Mexico
• peasants
• agriculture
• environment
• government policies and programs
• industrial capitalist model of agriculture
• restructuring
• rural areas
• deconstruction
• environmentalism
• nature
• postmodernism
• poststructuralism
• cultural geography
• Italy
• Andrea Palladio
• sixteenth century
• Veneto
• Atlantic Fringe
• cattle ranching
• cultural geography
• historical geography
• North America
• cemeteries
• cultural landscapes
• ethnicity
• gravestones
• plannig
• suburbs
• Toronto
• urban renewal
• Minneapolis
• St. Paul
• social geography
• urban studies
• Cuban Americans
• Miami
• urban geography
• Belarus
• crossroads
• culture
• economy
• history
• politics
• genocide
• independence
• language
• multi-ethnicity
• sovietization
• African studies
• democratization
• Mobutu
• political economy
• Zaire
• regional studies
• regional theory
• maritime boundaries
• maritime law
• Mediterranean
• building design
• community planning
• design applications
• environment-behavior research
• chropleth maps
• enrollment
• higher education
• public and private institutions
• states
• statistical measures