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Professor Graham Chapman

Professor Emeritus

Selected Publications

2011 (in press) with Larson, L. “Borderlines, chains and networks: describing Saami language variation”, in Damm, C. and Jordan, P. (eds.) Networking in Early Fenno-Scandia.

2010 (in press) “Water and the British take-over of India”, in Tvedt, Terje and Coopey, Richard (eds), History of Water Series II, Volume 2, Rivers and Society: From the Birth of Agriculture to Modern Times, IB Tauris, New York/London.

2010 (in press) “Space, Identity and Water:South Asia's Northeast and the Brahmaputra”, in Tvedt, T., Chapman, G. and Hagen, R. (eds), History of Water Series II, Volume 3: Water and Geopolitics in the New World Order, IB Tauris, New York/London 2010.

2010 with Tvedt, T. and Hagen, R. “Geopolitics, collective power and economic man: Water and the new world order”, in Tvedt, T., Chapman, G. and Hagen, R. (eds), History of Water Series II, Volume 3: Water and Geopolitics in the New World Order, IB Tauris, New York/London 2010.

2010 "Popular perception and climate change: mapping the varying experience of precipitation" in Willy Østreng (ed): Transference. Interdisciplinary Communications 2008/2009, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, January 2010. (Internet publication). http://www.cas.uio.no/Publications/Seminar/0809Chapman.pdf

2010 Risebro, N. and Chapman, G. "The Structural Evolution of Alliances" in Willy Østreng (ed): Transference. Interdisciplinary Communications 2008/2009, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, January 2010. (Internet publication). http://www.cas.uio.no/Publications/Seminar/0809Risebro_Chapman.pdf

2010 Chapman, G. and Risebro, N. (2010) "The partitioning of networks under simultaneous cooperation and competition" in Willy Østreng (ed): Transference. Interdisciplinary Communications 2008/2009, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, January 2010. (Internet publication). http://www.cas.uio.no/Publications/Seminar/0809Chapman_Risebro.pdf

2009 "South Asia" 4,000 word entry in the Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 241–247 ed. R.Kitchin and N.Thrift Oxford: Elsevier ISBN: 978-0-08-044911-1

2009 “Systems” 4,000 word entry in the Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 11, pp. 146–150. ed. R.Kitchin and N.Thrift, Oxford: Elsevier ISBN: 978-0-08-044911-1

2009 “Chaos and Complexity” 4,000 word entry in the Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 31–39. ed. R.Kitchin and N.Thrift Oxford: Elsevier ISBN: 978-0-08-044911-1

2009 The Geopolitics of South Asia:from Early Empires to the Nuclear Age 3rd edition, Ashgate , London

2007 “-graphy: the remains of a British Discipline” Journal of Geography in Higher Education Vol. 31, No. 3, 353–379 (on air, 2007) Radio documentaries: 6 programs for NPR (USA) on the river Ganga, senior consultant to Julian Crandall Hollick, www.ibaradio.org (NSF Grant)

2007 Chapman, G.P. and Rudra, K. “Water as Foe, Water as Friend: Lessons from Bengal’s Millennium Flood” Journal of South Asian Development, Vol 2. No 1 pp 19 - 49

2007 “Evolutionary Psychology, Complexity Theory, and Quantitative Social Epistemology” Futures, October Vol 39 , 1067–1083

2006 Saunders, P. and Chapman, G.P. “Human Intervention and Dynamic Environmental Change in Bengal: A Draft Guide to Maps and Related Geographical Resources Since 1752” pp 179, Mimeo, departent of Geography, Lancaster University

2005 “The Natural and Human Environment of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin” Chapter 6, pp 119 – 147 in Subedi, S.P. (Ed.) International Watercourses Law for the 21st century: the case of the River Ganges Basin, Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 0-7546-4527-4

2005 “Capturing Complexity: the case of the Kat River Catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa” seminar for the Department of Geography, Lancaster.

2004 entries Media and development - pp 437-439 and Irrigation pp 382-383 In “Forsyth, T. (Ed.) 2004 Encyclopaedia of International Development (London and New York: Routledge) ISBN 0 415 25342 X

2002 "The Green Revolution" pp. 155 - 159 in The Development Handbook, Edited by R.Potter and V. Desai, Arnold

2002 "Changing Places: the Roles of Science and Social Science in the Development of Large Scale Irrigation in South Asia" Chapter 4 pp 52-78 in R.Bradnock and G. Williams (Eds) South Asia in a Globalising World: A Reconstructed Regional Geography Prentice Hall,

2001 Guest Plenary Lecture title 'Water and Hierarchies of Control' at Nordic Association South Asian studies, Voss (University of Bergen) , Norway, published on http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/nasa/news.htm

2001 Guest Lecture title: "The Theoretical and Empirical Properties of Communities of Communicators " at Swedish South Asian Network, University of Lund published at http://www.sasnet.lu.se/chapman.pdf

2000 “ ‘Other’ cultures, ‘other’ environments, and the mass media” Ch.10 pp 127 - 150 in J.Smith (Ed) The Daily Globe: Environmental Change, the Public and the Media Earthscan

1999 with A.K.Dutt, R.W. Bradnock (Eds) Urban Growth and Development in Asia: Vol I : Making the Cities pp 500 Ashgate Publishing

1999 with A.K.Dutt, R.W. Bradnock (Eds) Urban Growth and Development in Asia: Vol II : Living in the Cities pp 500 Ashgate Publishing

1998 “A Short Walk in the Jungle” Geography No 359 Vol 83 Pt 2 pp 123-138

1998 “The Environment and the Mass Media” Science and Public Affairs Spring pp 12 –15

1997 with Pushpa Pathak ‘Indian Urbanization and the Characteristics of Large Indian Cities revealed in the 1991 Census’ Espace, Populations, Sociétés, 2/3, pp 193-210

1997 with Keval Kumar, Caroline Fraser and Ivor Gaber: Environmentalism and the Mass Media: the North-South Divide Routledge, London ISBN 0-415-15504-5 / 15505-3 (pb) pp 308,

1997 'On Wholeness, Reflexive Complexity, Hierarchies, Structures and Systems Dynamics' Chapter 15 p 396-425 in S. van der Leeuw and J.McGlade (eds) Time, Space and and Structured Transformation in Archaeology, Routledge ISBN: 0-415-11788-7

1997 with E.A Dowler The Green Revolution Game Mk II The Green Revolution Partnership

1997 'Global information structures and environmental messages"Ch 2, pp 26-49 in Nag, P.; Kumra, V.K.; Singh, Jagdish (Eds) Geography and the Environment: National Issues, Concept Publishing, New Delhi, ISBN 81-7022-606-6

1996 “India, Development and Environmental Change “ Ch. 11 in T.Driver and G.Chapman (Eds) pp 218 - 255

1996 (co-ed.) T.Driver and Chapman, G.P. Timescales and Environmental Change 1996 Routledge, London ISBN 0-415-13252-5 / 13253 - 3 (pb)

1996 with T.Driver “Time, mankind and the Earth” Chapter 1 in T.Driver and G.Chapman, Eds, pp 1 - 24

1996 “Conclusion” Ch 12 in T.Driver and G.Chapman (Eds) , pp 256 - 267

1995 (Edited with M.Thompson) Water: and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley Mansell Publishing, London

1995 Water: and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley Mansell Publishing, London (Edited with M.Thompson)

1995 with M. Thompson "Conclusions" Chapter 11 pp 199-203 in Chapman and Thompson (Ed) (1995)

1995 "The Middle Ganges Plains: Agricultural and Urban Water Demand" Chapter 6 pp 113-129 in Chapman and Thompson (Ed) (1995)

1995 "Introduction: the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin" Chapter 1 pp3-24 in Chapman and Thompson (Ed) (1995)

1995 "Environmental Myth as International Politics: the Problems of the Bengal Delta" Chapter 9 pp163-186 in Chapman and Thompson (Ed) (1995)

1994 Irrigation in South Asia: two-page spread in Atlas of Development Ed T Unwin for DARG of IBG.

1994 "The IIC Flows Project: the Geography of Television Trade" pp 183-188 in Vision and Hindsight: the first 25 years of the International Institute of Communications Eds Winsbury, R and Fazal, S. John Libby, London.

1993 "What do communication flows actually mean?" (presented to IIC Conference, Mexico 1993) Pacific Telecommunications Review Vol 15 No 2 pp.27-31

1993 with H de Zeeuw and J Jiggins Africulture. IIED,London and ETC ,Leusden, Holland. Gaming Simulation. Four handbooks,pp 45,10,10,10 . 8 styles of worksheetes. Complex components. 10 kg altogether (and $400).

1993 Editors Driver T. and Chapman G. South-North Centre Series, Volume 1 No 1 "Policies, Institutions, and the Environment" SOAS, London

1993 Editors Driver T. and Chapman G. South-North Centre Series, Volume 1 No 2 "Law and the Environment" SOAS, London

1993 "Unitary Ecosystem and Divided Polity: Environmental and Politicval Dynamics in Bengal" pp 276-293 in P.R.Sharma(Ed) Perspectives on Third World Development" Rishi Publications, India

1993 "Environmental Myth as International Politics: The Problems of the Bengal Delta" pp 223-255 in Environment and Development: Views from the East and from the West Eds Amitava Mukherjee and V.K.Agnihotri, Concept, New Delhi

1992. "TV: the World Next Door?" InterMedia, special issue "The Global News Agenda", Vol. 20 No 1, pp30-33.(Reprinted in Geographical Magazine, October 1992, The Media Education Journal, No 15 winter 1993, and summarised in The Economist)

1992 with K.Baker 'Independence: Promise at the New Dawning' Chapter 1 in The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East Chapman and Baker (Eds)pp 1 11

1992 with K Baker 'Conclusions: a Growing Sense of urgency' Chapter 10 in The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East Chapman and Baker (Eds)pp236-242

1992 Editor with K.Baker The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East Routledge London, pp xvii and 252

1992 'Doing is learning: teaching development studies by the next best experience.' Simulation Games for Learning Vol 22 No 3 pp 137-152

1992 ' Change in the South Asian Core: Patterns of Growth and Stagnation in India' Chapter 2 in The Changing Geography of Asia,Chapman and Baker (Eds)pp10-43

1992 "The Indian Subcontinent: Coal, crafts and caste" pp206-211 Resources and Industry ed Ian Hamilton, Andromeda, Oxford.(4,000 words on Indian Industry.)

1992 Editor with K.Baker The Changing Geography of Asia Routledge, London.ppxvii and 265

1992 ' Conclusions: Two-speed Asia - Dramatic Change and Stagnation' Chapter 9 in The Changing Geography of Asia,Chapman and Baker (Eds)pp249-257

1992 'Asia's Future as seen in the mid 1960's' Chapter 1 in The Changing Geography of Asia,Chapman and Baker (Eds)pp1-9

1992 "Asia: One Day on Television", InterMedia, Vol.20 No 2, pp 4-5.

1991 South Asian agriculture:Entries in Equinox Encyclopeadia of Farming.

1991 "Whose knowledge counts" Guest Editorial: Journal of Biogeography.18,243-245

1991 "India and Bangladesh's shared resource: Environmental problems in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta' in N Beschorner, St J. Gould, and ,K McLachlan. Ed. Contemporary Boundary Disputes. SOAS, London.

1991 with H.N.Misra 'The Growth of Large Cities in India 1971-1981" Geoforum Vol 22 No 3 271-286

1990 'Regional vs Religious Determinism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as Inheritors of Empire'.pp 106-134 in Chisholm M and Smith D. (Ed), Shared Space: Divided Space. Unwin Hyman,London.

1989 Developing Real Imagninary Countries' Irrigation and Drainage Systems 3 pp309-313 (Carruthers)

1987 'Towards a Geography of the Tube' Intermedia Vol. 15 No 1 pp10-21

1987 Guide to the Places of the World The Reader's Digest Assn. London. Original draft (30,000 words) of all South Asian entries.

1987 'Gaming Simulations and Systems Analysis: Two Factions of the Truth'Journal of Applied Systems Analysis Vol 14

1986 'The Simulation of National Economies: Real Imaginary Case Studies' with Isabelle Tsakok (World Bank paper presented to the Development Studies Ass. Conference, Norwich.) Mimeo

1986 International Television Flow in West Europe Volume 1. Introduction and Examples. pp 110 Volume 2. British Television Statistics. pp 254 Volume 3. Scandinavian Television Statistics. pp479 Volume 4. Italian and Irish Television Statistics. pp 272 Volume 5. Coutries and Channels ¢ompared in Maps and Diagrams, pp54 all volumes: Development Policy Ltd.,Cambridge.

1986 'A Modern Theory of Classification: and the Question, Who is a Migrant?' and ' An analysis of the Density Differentiation of the Population of India' in Proceedings of Workshop on Migration and Urbanization Ed. B. K. Roy. Office of the Registrar General, New Delhi,

1985 'The Epistemology of Complexity' pp357-374 in The Science and Praxis of Complexity S. Aida, et al. The United Nations University, Tokyo.

1985 'A combinatorial Study of Complexity of Farming Systems in the Deccan: India' With B Harris in Geography and Planning Ed. K. V. Sundaram Concept, New Delhi

1984 'The Structure of Two Farms in Bangladesh'. In Understanding Green Revolutions Ed T. P. Bayliss-Smith and S. V. Wanmali, C.U.P.

1984 The Structure of Television P. R. Gould, J.H. Johnson, and G. P. Chapman, Pion Ltd, London pp 440

1984 'The Structure of Teaching of Geography in Cambridge'. (proceedings of SSRC conference on Q-analysis Sept. 1983), Dept. of Geography, Leeds, Mimeo.

1983 'Underperformance in Indian Irrigation Systems: Problems of Diagnosis and Prescription' Geoforum, pp 267-275 (Special Issue on Geography and Development)

1983 'The Growth of Large Cities in India 1961-1971' Geoforum Vol 14 No 2 pp 149-159

1983 'The Evolution and Impact of the Green Revolution Game and Exaction' Consultant Report to the World Bank, Mimeo, Dept. Geog. Cambridge.

1983 'Gaming Simulations of Irrigation Systems: Prospects for Management Training' Working Papers Ford Foundation, New Delhi

1983 Combinatorial Routines for Q-analysis.Development Policy Ltd, Cambridge

1983 'The Folklore of the Perceived Environment in Bihar' Environment and Planning A Vol 15 No 7 pp 945-968

1983 Exaction: Gaming Simulation of National Development, Development Policy Ltd., for the World Bank

1982'The Green Revolution Game: A Training Experience' with E. A. Dowler, "Training for Agriculture and Rural Development' FAO Economic and Social Development Series No 24, pp 9-14

1982 The Green Revolution Game With E. A. Dowler..The Green Revolution Partnership, Cambridge (Handbooks kit components, working sheets,

1982 'Experiencing the Green Revolution: Simulation bring new perspectives'Development Communication Report. No 38 pp Washington DC

1981 'Urban-rural relationships in India: a Macro-scale approach using Population Potentials'. With S. Wanmali. Geoforum Vol. 12 No 1 pp 19-44

1981 'Q-analysis' Chapter 23, pp 235-247, in R. J. Bennet and N.Wrigley (Eds). British Quantitative Geography, Retrospect and Prospect Routledge, Kegan and Paul

1979 'The International Television Flows Project: Aims, Methods, and Early Results" ITFP D.P. 45pp Mimeo Cambridge. Presented to the IIC Conference, London

1979 'Television Coding Manual' (with J.H. Johnson) ITFP D.P.6 120 pp Mimeo Cambridge

1977 Human and Environmental Systems : a geographer's appraisal Academic Press, London and New York. pp 421

1974 'Perception and Regulation: A Case Study of Farmers in Bihar' Transactions. Institute of British Geographers, Vol.62 pp.71-93

1973 'The Spatial Organization of the Population of the United States and England and Wales' Economic Geography Vol.49 No.4 pp325-343

1973 'The Green Revolution: A Gaming Simulation' Area Vol.5 No.2 pp.129-140

1970 'The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Population Distributions in Space' Economic Geography Vol. 46 No.2 pp317-331