The Canadian Geographer articles from June 2003

The Canadian Geographer archives from June 2003

Disability activism and the politics of scale.
June 22, 2003... Introduction Disabled people remain one of the most margin alized groups in many developed societies Despite this marginalization--and, in part because of it--the last three decades have seen the emergence of a political presence for...

The changing geography of the Canadian manufacturing sector in metropolitan and rural regions, 1976-1997.
June 22, 2003... Introduction It is often argued that new technologies and improvements in transportation are making it easier to decentralize manufacturing away from the centres of large metropolitan centres to their fringes (Coffey 1994) or away from...

Innovations in resource and environmental management.
June 22, 2003... Innovation currently is an obsession in business and government circles. For instance, the term 'innovation gap' has become a popular way of referring to the purported failure of some countries or sectors to 'keep up' with others in terms of...

Questioning the credibility and capacity of community-based resource management.
June 22, 2003... Introduction Land-use planning--and, more specifically, the process by which scarce natural resources are allocated--has always been a controversial and difficult task for governments in Canada, as else where. This has become especially...

Innovation in environmental assessment of community-based projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
June 22, 2003... On the semiarid Central Plateau in Tanzania, a multimillion-dollar irrigation project, financed by the Canadian and Italian governments, was recently constructed to irrigate some 200 hectares of land The water source is an impounded reservoir...

Innovations to reduce residential energy use and carbon emissions: an integrated approach.
June 22, 2003... Introduction In the near term, the greatest opportunities for cleaner energy lie in energy efficiency on the demand side and switching to less polluting fuels and energy conversions on the supply side. Although this...

There's more to landscape than meets the eye: towards inclusive landscape assessment in resource and environmental management.
June 22, 2003... Introduction The consideration of aesthetic values in North American resource and environmental management is generally cited as having emerged in the 1960s (Priestly 1983; Dearden and Sadler 1989). With growing attention to environmental...

Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Peter W. French, Routledge, New York, 2001, xvii+366 pp. paper $72.47 (US$49.95) (ISBN 0-415-19845-3) In his preface, the author states that this book 'aims to present the broad spectrum of methods that engineers use to protect the...

Le Quebec par des mots: l'hiver et le Nord.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... par Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Helene Cajolet-Laganiere et Pierre Marte, les editeurs, Sherbrooke, 2002, vi+723 pp. $34.95 (ISBN 2-7622-0135-7) Cet ouvrage lexicologique et geoculturel est le deuxieme d'une trilogie intitulee 'Le Quebec par des...

L'elevation du niveau de la mer et les espaces cotiers.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... par Roland Paskoff, Institut oceanographique, Paris, 2001, 191 pp. 28 euros (ISBN 2-903581-27-4) Roland Paskoff est un geographe physique qui a enseigne sur trois continents : Amerique du Sud, Afrique du Nord et Europe. Il est maintenant...

The European Culture Area: a Systematic Geography (4th ed.).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Terry Jordan-Bychkov and Beila Bychkova Jordan, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2002, xviii+437 pp. cloth Can$94.50 (US$59.00) (ISBN 0-7425-1628-8) As Europe turns its attention eastward, so does this fourth edition of The European...

Le Quebec: geneses et mutations du territoire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... par Serge Courville, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2000, xvii+508 pp. paper $35.00 (ISBN 2-7637-7710-4) Sur une trajectoire de chercheur vient le temps des syntheses, point d'orgue ou pause. Apres vingt ans d'investigations...

The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada's West Coast.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... by Bruce Braun, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2002, xiii+347 pp. paper $36.20 (US$24.95) (ISBN 0816634009) In this postcolonial critique of the politics of environmentalism on British Columbia's west coast, Bruce Braun conveys...