The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2003

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2003

The ghost in the machine: spatial data, information and knowledge in GIS.
March 22, 2003... It has been a number of years since a paper on geographic information science (GIS) (as opposed to applications) appeared in The Canadian Geographer--a long dry spell or relief from an increasingly technical disciplinary focus, depending on...

A tetradic analysis of GIS and society using McLuhan's law of the media.
March 22, 2003... Introduction With the wide-ranging applications of GIS (1) that now exist in various facets of society, especially their increasing institutionalization in government agencies at all levels (Masser and Onsrud 1993; Campbell and Masser...

Geolibraries: geographers, librarians and spatial collaboration.
March 22, 2003... Introduction--The Map Library and the Geographer There was a time when it was not possible to ask if libraries would or should exist in the not too distant future. The all-consuming preoccupation of society with computing and emerging...

Developing geographic information infrastructures for local government: the role of trust.
March 22, 2003... Trust in Geographic Information Infrastructures A key notion underpinning spatial data infrastructure (SDI) initiatives in a federal model is that the local government agencies of counties and municipalities will share their geographic...

The true cost of spatial data in Canada.
March 22, 2003... Introduction Spatial data have become an intrinsic part of life, and the statement that 'up to 80 percent of data have a spatial component' is now part of our geographical lexicon (e.g., Boulos and Roudsari 2000; Francica 2000; McKee 2001;...

Public participation geographic information systems across borders.
March 22, 2003... Introduction For the past decade, geographic information systems (GISs) have been used by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), grassroots organizations (GROs) and other activist groups for a variety of environmental issues. Applications...

The open black box: the role of the end-user in GIS integration.
March 22, 2003... We would like a hydro layer that doesn't compromise detail for completeness... Being able to cross the federal boundaries with like structure is important for watershed approaches to things (T. Schindler, GIS analyst,...

Focus: 'Making Native Space': a review symposium.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The 'Native land question' in the 21st century: reviewing Cole Harris's Making Native Space EVELYN J. PETERS, GUEST EDITOR Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5A5 (e-mail: evp818@duke.usask.ca)...

Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Alexander B. Murphy and Douglas L. Johnson (with the assistance of Viola Haarmann), edited by Alexander B. Murphy and Douglas L. Johnson (with the assistance of Viola Haarmann), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2000, xii + 337 pp....

Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Jim Freeman, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, viii+296 pp. cloth $55.00 (ISBN 0-8020-4193-0); paper $21.95 (ISBN 0-80208051-0) This book is a veritable 'who's who' of Canadian-based scholars and practitioners in the...

The Ingenuity Gap.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Alfred A. Knopf, New York and Toronto, 2000, 480 pp. paper $22.95 (ISBN 0-676-97296-9) According to Professor Homer-Dixon, global policymakers and citizens face an 'ingenuity gap'. We are experiencing a...

Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, Guilford Press, New York and London, 2001, xxiii + 216 pp. paper US$18.95 (ISBN 1-57230-668-8) Putting Women in Place, by Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, is a textbook that seeks to explore the ways in which...

Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Ian MacLachlan, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001, xiv+378 pp. cloth $70.00 (ISBN 0-8020-0847-X) Ian MacLachlan has written an exhaustive overview of the meat-packing industry. He follows every aspect of the industry, from the...

Obituary/notice necrologique.(Obituary)
March 22, 2003... PAUL SIMPSON-HOUSLEY (1943-2002) The death of Paul Simpson-Housley of heart failure in March 2002 robbed Canadian geography of one of its most colourful and unfailingly compassionate members. Paul was born in the Nottingham-Derby...