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CONTENTS Volume 159 March 1993 Urbanization in the Caribbean and trends of global convergence — divergence RosertT B. PoTTeR Sustainable use of wetlands Valuing tropical wetland benefits: economic methodologies and applications Epwarb B. BARBIER Rates of deforestation in the humid tropics: estimates and measurements ALAN GRAINGER New light on Jodocus Hondius’ great world Mercator map of 1598 BriAN HooKER Historical evidence of fluctuations in the level of Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, México over the last 600 years SARAH L. O’HARA The effects of changing cassava management practices on soil loss: a Nigerian example F. O. OpEMERHO and A. AvwuNUDIOGBA The cadastral mapping of Palestine, 1858-1928 Dov GavisH and RutH Kark One Hundred Years Ago Reviews The Society’s News The Record Conference Reports Obituary Meetings: Session 1992-1993 Volume 159 July 1993 Earth surface resources management in a warmer Britain Global warming and geomorphology Davin K. C. Jones Future climate change and land use in the United Kingdom M. Huumeg, J. E. HossEtt anp M. L. Parry Sea-level changes and the threat of coastal inundation IAN SHENNAN Riverine flooding in a warmer Britain KeitH BEVEN Shoreline adjustments and coastal management: physical and biological processes under accelerated sea-level rise Joun PEetTuick The political ecology of coastal planning and management in England and Wales: policy responses to the implications of sea-level rise E. M. LEE Climate change and soil erosion in Britain J. BoarpMaN and D. T. Favis-MortiLock Slope instability in a warmer Britain Daviw K. C.J ones Clay shrinkage induced subsidence Joun C. DoornKAMP Disappearing peat—-regenerating peat? The impact of climate change on British peatlands A. L. HEATHWAITE Indigenous use of wetlands and sustainable development in West Africa W. M. Apams The human species: a suicidal success? Crispin TICKELL Fifty Years Ago Reviews The Society’s News The Record Conference Report Meetings: Session 1992—1993 Volume 159 November 1993 Dartmoor: the pattern of Prehistoric settlement sites D. G. Price 261 Long-distance Commuting: a new Approach to mining in Australia D. S. Houcuton 281 The Effects of Environment and Culture on the Distribution of Prehistoric Dwellings at Chimney Rock Mesa, Colorado Date R. Licutroot and FRANK W. Eppy Post-depositional Modification of the Linear Sand Ridges of the West Kimberley area of north-west Australia A. 8. GounptE, S. Stoxes, I. Lrvincstong, I. K. BAILirF and R. J. ALLISON Sandstorm in a teacup? Understanding desertification Davin S. G. THomas The Presidentia! Address CrisPIN TICKELL Fifty Years Ago Reviews The Society’s News The Record Obituaries Meetings: Sessions 1993-1994 Index ISSN 0016-7398 Made and printed in Great Britain for the Royal Geographical Society by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Entered as second class mail matter (5 January 1898) in the New York Post Office, N.Y.