The Canadian Geographer articles from June 2005

The Canadian Geographer archives from June 2005

Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year-round playground.
June 22, 2005... Landscapes can be deceptive, Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place. For those who, with the inhabitants, are behind...

Les horizons geographiques, entre continu et discontinu (1).
June 22, 2005... Introduction [...] la comprehension du fait que nous sommes dans la caverne presuppose que ron en soit sorti. (Lyotard 1995) La metaphore de la caverne du livre VII de la Republique de Platon (Leroux, 2002), allegorie ou mythe selon...

Assessing efforts to mitigate the impacts of drainage on wetlands in Ontario, Canada.
June 22, 2005... Introduction Land drainage is an essential component of agricultural activity throughout the world. The intent is to increase the production and/or productivity of the land. However, many drainage schemes in Ontario (Snell 1987) and...

A framework for statistical inferential decisions in spatial pattern analysis.
June 22, 2005... Introduction The continuing success and proliferation of geographical information science (GIS) is, in part, a recognition that pattern matters. Three of the recently posed ten 'big questions of geography' address spatial pattern in some...

Rural population change in Nova Scotia, 1991-2001: bivariate and multivariate analysis of key drivers.
June 22, 2005... Introduction Both population increase and population decline can be problematic in rural areas. There is much discussion in the literature on their negative social and economic consequences, and appropriate mitigative policies. For...

Le classement des villes dans l'economie du savoir : une analyse integeree des regions urbaines canadiennes et americaines.
June 22, 2005... Introduction Aux Etats-Unis comme au Canada, les medias, les instituts de recherche et les universites aiment bien proposer des classements (rankings) de la performance economique des villes. Cependant, des classements integres a l'echelle...

Two visions of Suburbia: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community.(Canadian Human Landscape Examples)
June 22, 2005... During the past several decades, many observers have attempted to define and classify the dynamic form of commercial functions across suburban areas. Exploring dimensions like size, function, density and accessibility, scholars generated...

Transportation: A Geographical Analysis.
June 22, 2005... Transportation: A Geographical Analysis by William R. Black, The Guilford Press, New York, 2003, vii + 375 pp., cloth US$65 (ISBN 1-57230-848-6) Black's Transportation: A Geographical Analysis has much to commend it. It has breadth, is...

Five Billion Years of Global Change.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Five Billion Years of Global Change by Denis Wood, The Guilford Press, New York, 2004, xv + 336 pp., paper US$19.95 (ISBN 1-57230-958-X) This is a book with ambitious objectives. It is a book that 'wants to be a history of the land' (p....

Fundamentals of Hydrology.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Fundamentals of Hydrology by Tim Davie, Routledge, London, 2003, xii + 169 pp., paper US$31.95 (ISBN 0-415-22029-7) Hydrology is an important component of physical geography and environmental science curricula in Canadian universities;...

Beaches and Coasts.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Beaches and Coasts by Richard A. Davis, Jr. and Duncan M. FitzGerald, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2004, xi + 419 pp., cloth US$79.95 (ISBN 0-632-034308-3) Beaches and Coasts is one of several recently published books on coastal environments and...

Historical Atlas of the Arctic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Historical Atlas of the Arctic by Derek Hayes, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/ University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003, 224 pp., 200 maps, cloth US$60.00 (ISBN 0-295-98358-2) Author of three atlases including the Historical Atlas of...

Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870 by Walter Goffart, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003, xxiii + 603 pp., cloth US$ 65.00 (ISBN 0-226-30071-4) Judging a scholarly book by its cover--or its title--has been,...

The Ethics of Tourism Development.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Ethics of Tourism Development by Mick Smith and Rosaleen Duffy, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, x + 195 pp., paper US$36.95 (ISBN 0-203-63432-2) Tourism researchers acknowledge that while tourism is beneficial to local and...