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Editor: Derek Weber Art Editor: Ashley Pope Assistant Editor: Rosalynde Cossey Geography Editor: Gillian Morgan
Contents: April 1975
Where have all the saplings gone?
THE POSSIBLE DREAM
The Venetian ideal
Down on the farm . . . in sight of Paris
Burning impact of African savannas
Ancient and modern new towns
Pacific eruptions
Europe from a high level
News and reviews
Cover photograph
GeographicalI magazine
Volume XLVU Number 7
Changing tax laws threaten Britain’s forests
A. S. Mather
410
Tourists on the desert fringe Around
Martin Gostelow Rosalynde Cossey
412 415
Prognosis for a sinking city
N . J. O’Riordan
416
Agriculture in Normandy
Man and the changing wildscape V
Urban development in Israel
Three active New Zealand volcanoes
5,500,000 air-photo prints
Venice. Photograph by A. N. VorontsofF
Yves Guermond
427
R. A. Pullan
R. Harrison Church
432
439
Stephen Self and Basil Booth 446
Alan D. Walton
451
457
Notes on authors, photographs, maps and diagrams
Authors Dr Basil Booth is research volcanologist in the department o f geology. Royal School of Mines. R. J. Harrison Church is professor of geography at the London School of Economics. Martin Gostelow is a photographer and travel writer. Yves Guermond is maftre-assistant, Institu t de g6ographie, University of Rouen. A. S. Mather is lecturer in geography at the University of Aberdeen. N. J. O 'R io rdan is a researcher at the Institute o f Geological Sciences and at Kings College. London. Dr R. A. Pullan is senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool. Dr Stephen Self is a research fe llo w at the V ic toria University of W e llin g ton , New Zealand. Alan D. Walton is lecturer in geography at the University of Keele.
Photographs Tourists on the desert frin ge : all photographs by Martin Gostelow. The Venetian ideal: page 416 bottom le ft and bottom r ight, supplied by A. N. Vorontsoff; 418 and 419, all three photographs, N. J. O 'R io rdan; 424 both photographs, / / Gazzettino. V e n ic e ; 426, Norman D. Smith. Institute of Oceanographic Science; all remaining photographs by A. N. Verontsoff. Down on the farm . . . in s ig h t of Paris: 428 both photographs, 430 top, Alain Percival, Tony Stone Associates; 429 both photographs. Farmer's Weekly; 430 bottom , 431 top. Paris-Normande, Rouen. Burning im pact of A frican savannas: 434 both photographs. A. Young; 438, R. H. Kemp, Commonwealth Forestry Institute, O x fo rd ; 437, R. A. Pullan, courtesy Savanna; all remaining photographs by R. A. Pullan. Ancient and modern new to w n s : 439, 441 both photographs. 445 both photographs. R. J. Harrison Church; 442 both photographs, 444 all three photographs, Fotolink; 443 both photographs, courtesy Embassy o f Israel, London. Pacific e ruptions: 448, courtesy New Zealand High Commission, London: 447 bottom , R. H. Clark, all remaining photographs by Stephen Self. Europe from a high le vel: 451 top. Imperial War Museum; all other photographs. M in is try o f Defence (A ir Force Department) Crown Copyright Reserved.
M aps and d iagram s Page 410. 411 Chris Odell; 412, 440 Catherine Lawrence; 417, 422 (after a diagram in The A rch ite c tu ra l Review, May 1971) N. J. O 'R io rdan; 418, 419, 426 Deidre Y u i l l ; 427, 429, 431 Susan Rowland ; 432, 450 Don Shewan ; 435, 436 Joan Treasure.
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