The Canadian Geographer articles from December 2005

The Canadian Geographer archives from December 2005

Traffic volume and highway permeability for a mammalian community in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
December 22, 2005... Introduction Roads are vital to our economy but impose significant ecological costs including habitat loss and fragmentation, road mortality and avoidance, reduced access to vital resources, population fragmentation and disruption of...

La segregation economique comme un phenomene complexe : une analyse spatio-temporelle du cas montrealais.
December 22, 2005... Les inegalites economiques presentent un defi majeur au principe d'egalite prise par tant de nations. Plusieurs etudes demontrent que ces inegalites sont en croissance depuis quelques decennies (Pond 1989 ; Alderson et Nielsen 2002). Mais comme...

Fantastic topographies: neo-liberal responses to Aboriginal land claims in British Columbia.
December 22, 2005... Introduction In the spring of 2002, the Government of British Columbia (BC) issued a multi-question referendum on First Nations treaty/land claim negotiations. Premier Gordon Campbell had made such a referendum part of his campaign...

Crown corporations and co-operatives as coping mechanisms in regional economic development.
December 22, 2005... Introduction Canada has long been challenged in its efforts to spread wealth and opportunity through its population. Although development consists of many dimensions, including social, cultural and economic variables, one of the most...

Climate change, biodiversity conservation and protected area planning in Canada.
December 22, 2005... Introduction Recent reconstructions of global mean surface temperature from both 'proxy' (e.g., tree rings, ice cores and lake sediments) and modern (i.e., 1850-2000) instrumental temperature records indicate that global twentieth-century...

Just beyond the fringe: Churchill Park garden suburb in St. John's, Newfoundland.
December 22, 2005... In the late nineteenth century, Canada suburbs were home to a wide diversity of residents. By the middle of the twentieth century, this widespread pluralism had largely disappeared. Suburbia became the vanguard of the modern, segregated city....

Tourism and Sustainability: Development and New Tourism in the Third World (2d ed.).(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Tourism and Sustainability: Development and New Tourism in the Third World (2d ed.) by Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, xiii + 338 pp., paper US$38.95 (ISBN 0-415-27169-X) This book is the second edition...

Ecotourism. An Introduction (2d ed.).(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Ecotourism. An Introduction (2d ed.) by David A. Fennell, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, xviii + 256 pp., paper US$38.95 (ISBN 0-415-30365-6) Over the past ten years, a plethora of books and journals dedicated to 'ecotourism' have...

Military Geographies.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Military Geographies by Rachael Woodward, Blackwell, Oxford, 2004, xii + 196 pp., paper US$39.95 (ISBN 1-4051-2777-5) This book is an explicit attempt to fill what the author identifies as a lacuna in the disciplinary literature, one...

Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis by Katharyne Mitchell, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2004, xiii + 280 pp., US$24.95 (ISBN 1-59213-084-4) As a recent US transplant to Vancouver, and one with an...

Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire by Katie Pickles, University of Manchester Press, Manchester, 2002, 209 pp., cloth US$69.95 (ISBN 0-7190-6390-6) This book is a solid contribution to the...

A Companion to Feminist Geography.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... A Companion to Feminist Geography edited by Lise Nelson and Joni Seager, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA; Oxford, UK and Victoria, Australia, 2005, xviii + 617 pp., paper US$124.95 (ISBN 1-4051-0186-5) I like this book. I think it...

Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 by Richard Harris, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004, x + 204 pp., cloth Cdn$45.00 (ISBN 0-8020-3556-6), paper Cdn$19.95 (ISBN 0-8020-8428-1) In the early twentieth...