The Canadian Geographer articles from June 2006

The Canadian Geographer archives from June 2006

Transition again.(The Canadian Geographer editorial team)(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... The present issue marks the transition to a new editorial team, represented on Atlantic and Pacific coasts, not to mention places in between. We are collectively flattered and delighted to sustain and is develop the traditions of The Canadian...

Cartographic ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present.
June 22, 2006... Introduction For more than a century, cartographers have dreamed of constructing a single, internationally recognized map of the world, based on a common scale and universally agreed conventions. This essay charts the chequered history of...

Frontier engineering: from the globe to the body in the Cold War Arctic.
June 22, 2006... Introduction The route they would take would bring them first to the Great Whale River, to visit one of the Mid-Canada stations. From there, they would hop to the great Thule air base in Greenland manned by the USAF, to ...

Requiem or rebirth? Internal labour markets and labour market restructuring in the Kitchener and Sault Ste. Marie regions.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Since the 1980s, social scientists and economic geographers have examined how 'standard' forms of employment have been displaced by non-standard arrangements such as part-time and temporary employees (e.g., Atkinson 1987;...

Vulnerability to climate change hazards and risks: crop and flood insurance.
June 22, 2006... Introduction It is increasingly accepted that accumulations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, in large part, are a result of human activity and are causing significant changes to the Earth's climate, notably increases in...

The risk society at work in the Sydney 'Tar Ponds'.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Environmental contamination events, infamously evidenced in the global catastrophies that occurred at Chernobyl and Bhopal, continue to raise public concerns about health (Slovic 2002). Concomitantly, the public has become...

Effects of residential exposure to steel mills and coking works on birth weight and preterm births among residents of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
June 22, 2006... Introduction The Muggah Creek Watershed in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, (Figure 1) is one of the largest contaminated industrial sites in North America [Canadian British Consultants Limited (CBCL) and Conestoga-Rovers and Associates (CRA)...

Canadian human landscape examples: naturally cultural: the zoo as cultural landscape.
June 22, 2006... Introduction: Seeing the Zoo as a 'Naturally' Cultural Landscape In this paper, we initiate a discussion of zoos as cultural landscapes, using the example of the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada's oldest remaining zoo....

A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth by Wilfred Beckerman, The Independent Institute, Oakland (CA), 2002, xiii + 94 pp., paper US$17.95 (ISBN 0-945999-85-2) This short book (76 pages of text) can best be...

Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North America: Integrating Nature, Conservation, and Sustainable Development.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North America: Integrating Nature, Conservation, and Sustainable Development edited by Gordon Nelson, J.C. Day, Lucy M. Sportza, James Loucky and Carlos Vasquez, University of Calgary...

Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology by Randy Schaetzl and Sharon Anderson, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005, xii + 817 pp., casebound US$85.00 (ISBN 0-521-81201-1) With this textbook, the authors have produced a remarkably...

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe edited by Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2002, xi + 294 pp., paper US$39.95 (ISBN 1-40510-105-9) This is the first volume of...

Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond by Andrew Biro, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2005, xiii + 230 pp., cloth $60.00 (ISBN 08020-8022-7), paper $24.95 (ISBN 08020-3794-1)...

Writing Off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Writing Off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities edited by Roger Epp and Dave Whitson, The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2001, 330 pp., paper $34.95 (ISBN 0-88864-378-0) The...