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Cuban Landscapes: Heritage, Memory, and Place, by Joseph L. Scarpaci and Armando H. Portela, New York: The Guildford Press, 2009. vii + 216 pp. US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-60623-323-8 Cuban Landscapes.' [...]

Agricultural intensification is a common outcome of increased population densities in areas of land scarcity. Here, a comparative analysis of households relocated from Celaque National Park, Honduras, serves as a case study of intensification resulting from decreased access to land. However, in contrast to a single trajectory of intensifying agriculture, nearly half of the households used wage labor to acquire additional land in an attempt at post-relocation agricultural extensification. This paper contributes to the agricultural change literature through the application of household strategies of communal action and increased use of familial labor to promote more-extensive forms of agriculture in a situation of land scarcity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of the 67th Annual California Geographical Society (CGS) Conference held in San Luis Obispo from April 26 to 28, 2013. Attended by more than 340 geographers, the event included four field trips and a series of presentations. An awards dinner was also attended at the Ludwick Community Center. Dan Walsh of Saddleback College and Eugen Turner of CSU Northridge were among the award recipients.

The article compares slow travel and slow tourism, pointing out their common conceptual roots, their similarities and points of departure, and their decidedly different contextual spaces. It describes the ecological and developmental conundrums the two genres pose or do not address sufficiently. It also addresses the objectives of sustainable tourism and sustainable development goals.