Table Of Content

LIST OF CONTENTS Volume 15 Number 1 Special issue: Property and development: building the essential infrastructure Guest editors: John McLaughlin and John McKenna Papers Property and development: building the essential infrastructure John McLaughlin and John McKenna The Thailand land titling project — thirteen years of experience V. Rattanabirabongse, R. A. Eddington, A. F. Burns and K. G. Nettle The benefits of land registration and titling: economic and social perspectives Gershon Feder and Akihiko Nishio Implementing real property registration systems in the former Soviet Union Terry MacNeill, lvan Ford and Gerald McGrath The role of local land administrators: an African perspective Clarissa Fourie The Deeds Registry in Guyana, its legal and institutional framework: recommendations for promoting transaction efficiency Steven Hendrix and Leon O. Rockcliffe Security, risk and registration David Palmer Conference reports Cross-fertilization of ideas on land tenure and administration Grenville Barnes Book reviews Urban Land Tenure and Property Rights in Developing Countries: A Review by Geoffrey Payne (A. J. Christopher); Planning in the USA by Barry Cullingworth (Robert C. Einsweiler); Nationality and Planning in Scotland and Wales Edited by Roderick Macdonald and Huw Thomas (John Mccarthy); A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two by Paul W. Hirt (Rebecca Conard); The Environmental Challenge for Central European Economies in Transition Edited by Jurg Klarer and Bedrich Moldan (A. H. Dawson) Publications Volume 15 Number 2 Greed, need or creed? Farmland ethics in the rural-urban fringe Harry Spaling and John R. Wood Environmental liability for contaminated land—towards a European consensus Margaret Hollins and Susan Percy New wine in an old skin: The reality of tropical moist forest conservation in Nigeria Uwem E. Ite Environmental benchmarks for agriculture? Clarifying the framework in a federal system—Australia Richard Williams and James Walcott Conference report International Geographical Union Conference on Land Use/Cover Change, Brisbane, Australia, 3-4 July 1997 and Armitage, Australia, 5-8 July 1997 Alexander Mather Letter to the Editor Issues for sustaining Chinese agriculture Wei Hu Book reviews Environmental Guide to the Internet—Third Edition by Caro/ Briggs-Erickson and Toni Murphy (lan Miles); Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South by Caro/ Briggs-Erickson, Ramachandra Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier (Michael Redclift); Decentralization and Biodiversity Conservation: A World Bank Symposium by Ernst Lutz and Julian Caldecott (Lera Miles); Children’s Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care by Roger Hart (Eleonara Barbieri Masini); Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective edited by B. libery, Q. Chiotti and T. Rickard (Gary Hill); The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation: Case Studies from Zimbabwe by Emmanuel Manzunga and Pieter van der Zaag (Charles Batchelor) Publications Volume 15 Number 3 Papers Integrating wilderness within broader landscapes: the U.S. public land experience Aaron R. Kelson Land valuation and land rents in Hungary Anna Burger Property rights as policy tools for sustainable development Keith D. Wiebe and Ruth Meinzen-Dick The Agenda 2000 debate and CAP reform in Great Britain. Is the environment being sidelined? Michael Winter and Peter Gaskell Land use pattern and transport in Curitiba Harry Smith and Jeremy Raemaekers Conference reports Interaction of land activities, freshwater and enclosed coastal seas Malin Falkenmark Earth’s Changing Land’ Open Science Conference on Global Change Tom Smucker Electronic conference on land use and land cover change in Europe Josep Ignasi Augé and Xavier Baulies Book reviews Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves and Environmentalism by Rebecca Conard (Michael McCloskey); Ecology & Economics of the Great Plains by Daniel S. Licht (Robert J. Mason); Societies and Nature in the Sahel by C. Raynaut (Nick Middleton); Land Reforms in India (Volume 4) - Karnataka: Promises Kept and Missed by Abdul Aziz and Sudhir Krishna (editors) (C. Ramasamy); Moralizing the Environment: Countryside Change, Farming and Pollution by Philip Lowe, Judy Clark, Susanne Seymour and Neil Ward (Donald Mackay) Publications received Volume 15 Number 4 Viewpoint Agri-environmental indicators: issues and choices Andrew Moxey, Martin Whitby and Philip Lowe Papers Land use in Macau: changes between 1972 and 1994 Richard Louis Edmonds and William John Kyle Mixed farming in Africa: the search for order, the search for sustainability James Sumberg US urban empowerment zones John McCarthy Book reviews Nature Conservation in Europe. Policy and Practice by Peter Bromley (Lera Miles); People, Politics, Policies and Plans by Ted Kitchen (Peter Jones); Sustainable Forestry Challenges for Developing Countries by M. Palo and G. Mery (editors)