Canadian Journal of Regional Science articles from June 2007

Canadian Journal of Regional Science archives from June 2007

Geographies of susceptibility and exposure in the city: environmental inequity of traffic-related air pollution in Toronto/Les geographies de susceptibilite et d'exposition dans la ville : l'injustice de l'environnement de pollution de l'air concernant la circulation a Toronto.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts This paper analyses the association between traffic-generated air pollution and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in Toronto. Based on a special sampling campaign of 95 nitrogen dioxide monitors in 2002, ambient concentrations...

Inter-regional return and onwards migration in Canada: evidence based on a micro-regional analysis */La migration de retour et d'etape au Canada : Des apprentissages bases sur une analyse a l'echelle micro-regionale.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts Using custom tabulated data from the 1996 Canadian Census, this paper examines fixed interval primary, return, and onward migration in Canada at the geographic scale of 40 regions. The disaggregate level of analysis provides...

The components of spatial changes in the southern region of Brazil/Les composantes des changements spatiaux dans la region Sud du Bresil *.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts This article analyzes the components of spatial changes in the Brazilian South in the 20th century. This analysis also aires to contribute to the debate about spatial disparities. Spatial disparities present two components: a...

Internal migration dynamics of a Canadian immigrant gateway: Toronto as an origin, way-station and destination between 1991 and 2001 */La dynamique de la migration interne d'une porte d'entree canadienne : Toronto en tant qu'origine, etape et destination entre 1991 et 2001.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts Immigration in Canada is an increasingly urban trend, with immigrants concentrating in the metropolitan gateway cities of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. While Toronto's role as an immigrant magnet is well known, its...

Towards the pluralist city? Distribution and localization of visible minorities in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in 2001/Vers la ville pluraliste? Distribution et localisation des minorites visibles a Montreal, Toronto et Vancouver en 2001 *.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts The increasing immigration to Canada during the 1990s has generated, if not a threat, at least some public concerns about the formation of ethnic enclaves and ghettos, and about their potential effects on social cohesion. In this...

National homogeneity vs. regional specificity: an examination of the Canadian cultural mosaic and whistle-blowing */L'homogeneite nationale versus la specificite regionale : L'exemple du mosaique culturel canadien et le whistle-blowing.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts Cross-cultural management research often assumes cultural homogeneity when investigating nations which potentially hold important regional distinctions. Examining four provinces in Canada, evidence for unique, regional-cultural...

Regional incidence of the costs of greenhouse policy/L'incidence regionale des couts d'une politique concernant les gaz a effet de serre.(Report)
June 22, 2007... Abstracts A regional CGE model of Canada is developed to estimate the effect on aggregate welfare and the welfare of individual provinces of achieving Canada's Kyoto target using alternative climate policies. We consider a domestic carbon...

Tohu and artist-run centres in Montreal: contributions to the creative city?/Tohu et des centres d'artistes autogeres a Montreal : Contributions a la ville creative.
June 22, 2007... Abstracts The present article focuses on two cases illustrating the role of territory and the creative city. The first case is Tohu, in Montreal, which is an example of culture-driven urban revitalization based on a model similar to the...

How Ontario and Ontario cities are coping with the cost of energy/Comment l'Ontario et les villes de l'Ontario composent avec le cout de l'energie.(DIALOGUE)
June 22, 2007... Abstracts This paper examines two questions: how Ontario and Ontario cities can reduce their energy consumption, and how renewable energy sources can be used to replace fossil fuels. The paper also looks at the policies of the Province of...