The Canadian Geographer articles

Recent articles from The Canadian Geographer

The 'greening' of global project financing: the case of the Sakhalin-II offshore oil and gas project.(Author abstract)(Case study)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Recently, Hayter et al. (2003) urged economic geographers to pay greater attention to the world's 'resource peripheries'. The logic for such a reorientation is two-fold. First, the resource sector is a crucial component of the global economy, worthy of study in its own...

Rivers as resources, rivers as borders: community and transboundary management of fisheries in the Upper Zambezi River floodplains.(Report)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Discussions concerning natural resources in Africa often question the role of the state and nation as suitable institutional and spatial scales for management (e.g., Hulme and Murphree 2001; Adams and Mulligan 2003). Proposed alternatives include community-based natural...

Spatial dynamics of local labour markets in the Quebec City Metropolitan Field, 1981-2001/La dynamique spatiale des marches locaux de l'emploi au sein du champ metropolitain de Quebec, 1981-2001.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Au Canada, nombreuses sont les etudes portant sur les deplacements residence-travail en milieu metropolitain (Thomas 1995; Lemelin et Gatignol 1999; Thomas et Villeneuve 1998; Vandersmissen, Villeneuve et Theriault 2001a, 2001b, 2003), mais plus rares sont celles qui etendent...

Fixed links and the engagement of islandness: reviewing the impact of the Confederation Bridge.(Author abstract)
September 22, 2007... Introduction: A Contentious Affair Valentia is a small island off County Kerry, on the southwest coast of Ireland. A recent count for the island's permanent population is around 650. A ferry operates daily from 1 April to 30 September. However, should you visit outside this period, there...

Historical geographies of colonialism: introduction.
September 22, 2007... Positioned as it is at the intersection between two disciplines, historical geography is a field whose boundaries have expanded and been reshaped over the years. If meticulous reconstruction of past geographies has long been a unifying approach, the question of 'what' geographies should or...