The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2005

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2005

The greying of resource communities in northern British Columbia: implications for health care delivery in already-underserviced communities.
March 22, 2005... Ce n'est pas d'hier que la prestation de services de soins de sante en milieu > doit composer avec les problemes geographiques lies aux distances, a la faible densite d'usagers, aux etablissements de bas ordre et a la penurie de personnel...

Winning back more than words? Power, discourse and quarrying on the Niagara Escarpment.
March 22, 2005... Cet article examine la controverse et l'audience publique sur l'aggrandissement projetee de la plus vaste carriere de calcaire au Canada, operee par Dufferin Aggregates d Milton, Ontario. La carriere constitue une source importante de materiaux...

Indicators of community economic development through mural-based tourism.
March 22, 2005... Le Developement Economique communautaire (DEC) est desormais une forme de developpement dconomique reconnue, malgre le debat qui entoure sa definition et ses applications. On admet qu'une approche plus globale, axee sur la participation de la...

Explaining perceptions of a technological environmental hazard using comparative analysis.
March 22, 2005... Cette etude adresse un des problemes principaux de recherches dans le secteur du risque de hasard ecologique--selon expliquer pourquoi la perception de la menace du meme hasard change de groupe en groupe. On soutiens que la theorie culturelle...

Relative changes in consistency of winter surface air temperature during ENSO events across western Canada.
March 22, 2005... Le rapport entre l'oscillation du Sud El Nino (OSEN) et la temperature de l'air exterieur (TAE) d'hiver a ete etabli par des etudes precedentes. Cet expose compare la variation de TAE d'hiver d'annee en annee a travers la region sous condition...

Monitoring the 1997 flood in the Red River Valley using hydrologic regimes and RADARSAT imagery.
March 22, 2005... Dans la presente etude, nous tentons d'etablir un lien entre les regimes hydrologiques de l'inondation de la valise de la riviere Rouge en 1997 et l'etendue areale de l'inondation, determinee par l'imagerie RADARSAT. Du 27 avril au 1er juillet,...

Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights edited by Shahra Razavi, Blackwell, Oxford, 2003, 296 pp., paper $39.95 (ISBN 1-4051-1076-7) In popular and academic debates about globalisation and neoliberalism, gender issues have tended to be...

The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change edited by K.B. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery and L. Harrington, Brandon University (Rural Development Institute) and Saint Mary's University, Brandon and Halifax, 2003, 490 pp.,...

The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada edited by Raymond Blake and Andrew Nurse, Canadian Plains Research Centre, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, University of Regina, 2003, 167 pp., paper Cdn$29.95 (ISBN...

Relations between Traditional Knowledge and Western Science.(Audiovisual Review)
March 22, 2005... Relations between Traditional Knowledge and Western Science an audio CD of a Northern Forum, sponsored in part by the NSERC Northern Chair at Carleton University, Dr. Chris Burn, and published by the Department of Geography and...

Paris, Capital of Modernity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey, Routledge, New York and London, 2003, xi + 372 pp., cloth Cdn$45.00, US$30.00 (ISBN 0-415-94421-X) David Harvey's still massively impressive and important Limits to Capital (1982) has its roots...

Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada by Erin Manning, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London, 2003, xxxi + 187 pp., cloth $52.95 (ISBN 0-8166-3924-8), paper $18.95 (ISBN 0-8166-3925-6) When I...

Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett, The Guilford Press, New York, 2003, viii + 310 pp., paper US$27.00 (ISBN 1-57230-916-4) Although...

The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 by John C. Weaver, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2003, illustrations, maps and tables, x+502 pp., cloth $55.00 (ISBN 0-7735-2527-0) John Weaver is...