Engineering linkages with the coal chain

"Industrial restructuring without parallel in recent British industrial history" is how the current Chairman of British Coal, Sir Robert Haslam, has described events in that industry. Since 1960 upwards of three quarters of a million jobs have gone in the deep coal mining industry alone. Numerous studies have analysed the underlying mechanisms behind the rapid decline of the nationalised coal industry, but hitherto little attention has been paid to the national linkage effects of that decline. This thesis is an attempt to analyse the consequences of industrial restructuring in coal mining on its UK engineering suppliers. In so doing, the thesis develops into much more than an empirical case study of industrial linkage and becomes a critical analysis of state capital-private capital relations. In particular, it focusses on the shifting boundaries of state ownership in the energy sector of the 'eighties. It considers what are the main processes involved and some of the consequences for those people and places most dependent on mining related jobs for their livelihoods

A geographical study of the united nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus, 1964 - 1984

The main aim of this study is to examine the role of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in relation to fundamental changes to the human and political geography of the island. The political background to these changes is given some analysis but the major focus of the study is on the spatial aspects of intercommunal conflict, and the problems created for civilian life by artificial ethnic barriers, barbed wire- fences, sentry-posts, roadblocks, and other physical lines symbolizing the separation of the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, After a brief description of the situation prior to Independence, the centrifugal forces dividing the two communities and resulting in the formation of Turkish Cypriot enclaves are discussed. In the light of these major changes U.N.F.I.CYP. had to cope with many complicated practical difficulties on the ground relating to the separate de facto territorial control of certain parts of the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriots. This study stresses the economic and humanitarian duties of what is basically a military peacekeeping force. In carrying out these duties there are many linkages between the non-military tasks of U.N.P.I.CYP. and the human geography of the island. Finally, the period since the forming of the de facto partition line between the two communities is considered in detail, and particular attention is given to U.N.F.I.CYP.'s activities between the two Forward Defence Lines of the National Guard and Turkish Array, i.e. in the U.N.- controlled Buffer Zone. The study then attempts to draw some conclusions regarding the likely future role of U.N.F.I.CYP., and to highlight the problems posed by the political deadlock between the two communities. There is also a short conclusion on the geography of peacekeeping, which is based entirely on this detailed case study

The Asian tsunami, academics and academic research

10.1111/j.0129-7619.2005.00216.xSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography262244-24

Forty Years on: Revisiting Border Studies Reflections on the relevance of Classic Approaches and Contemporary priorities in Boundary Studies

CLASSICS REVISITED: The Study of Borders Victor Prescott: The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries. Chicago: Aldine, 1966 (First edition) Julian Minghi: ‘Boundary studies in political geography’ Annals of the Association of American Geographers 53: 407–428, 1963. Geopolitics will occasionally revisit some of the classic writings of political geographers and scholars of Geopolitics to assess the impact of these writings over time and the extent to which they continue to be relevant to contemporary geopolitical research and thinking. Given that this special issue of the journal is devoted to the topic of borders, it was deemed appropriate to revisit two of the better known studies of borders from the past generation of border scholars: Victor Prescott, Emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne whose book, The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries first appeared in the 1960’s and was re-issued and updated through until the late 1980’s, and Professor Julian Minghi, of the University of South Carolina at Columbus, whose paper in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers in 1963 was equired reading for generations of geography undergraduates as their introduction to, and overview of, the study of borders. The four essayists, all of whom deal with borders in their current research and writings, offer different approaches and understandings of the relevance of these texts for the contemporary understanding of borders and the bordering process

Maritime boundaries: Gulf of entanglements

While we are accustomed to seeing the international boundaries between the respective land territories of different states marked in bold lines on maps, such jurisdictional limits and boundaries are often absent offshore. Thus, the familiar political map of the world appears to stop at the water’s edge. The omission of national maritime claims and boundaries from many maps is a curious and misleading one as coastal states have, over time, exerted ever more expansive claim over maritime space in a process dubbed “creeping coastal state jurisdiction”. Coastal state maritime claims now extend to the 200-nautical-mile (nm) limit from the coast as a general rule and may extend even further where the continental margin exceeds that limit

Are the Chinese dams to be blamed for the lower water levels in the lower mekong?

Modern myths of the Mekong : a critical review of water and development concepts, principles and policies39-5

COVID-19 geopolitics: silence and erasure in Cambodia and Myanmar in times of pandemic

10.1080/15387216.2020.1780928Eurasian Geography and EconomicsUnited Kingdo