The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2007

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2007

Seeking red herrings in the wood tending the shared spaces of environmental and feminist geographies.(Author abstract)
March 22, 2007... Introduction: Sowing the Seeds for Joint Endeavours A man in the wilderness asked this of me How many strawberries grow in the sea I answered him as I thought good As many red herrings as swim in the wood ...

Comment expliquer le declin de Montreal comme centre de transports aeriens : une question de geographie economique?(decline in air transport in Montreal, Canada)(Author abstract)
March 22, 2007... Introduction Montreal a joui pendant longtemps du statut de plaque tournante des transports aeriens au Canada. Elle est designee capitale de l'aviation civile au courant des annees 1940 en accueillant le siege social de l'Organisation de...

Urban pattern and land cover variation in the greater Toronto area.
March 22, 2007... Introduction Environmental geography has historically neglected the study of cities in favour of locales where the human-environmental interface is most exposed, in particular, spaces where resources are extracted or harvested from the...

Secondary migration of immigrants to Canada: an analysis of LSIC wave 1 data.
March 22, 2007... Introduction The distribution of Canada's immigrant population largely reflects previous immigration history and channelized migration flows, particularly to the three immigrant magnets of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Despite hopes or...

Income inequality across Canadian provinces in an era of globalization: explaining recent trends.
March 22, 2007... Introduction Though the question of how income is distributed among individuals is one that has long puzzled social scientists, it is only recently that scholars have refocused their attention on the dynamics of inequality in...

The spatial and temporal dimensions of a rural landscape" the Yucatec Maya k'ax.
March 22, 2007... Introduction For most of the past century, academic descriptions of different types of rural landscapes primarily focused on the various material elements that comprised these areas. Such landscapes have mainly been interpreted by...

Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework by Gary J. Brierley and Kirstie A. Fryirs, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2005, xii + 398 pp. cloth US$104.95 (ISBN 1-4051-1516-5) This book is a welcome...

Geographies of Globalization.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Geographies of Globalization by Warwick E. Murray, Routledge, London and New York, 2006, 392 pp. paper US$41.95 (ISBN 0-415-31800-9) Globalization provokes unease within much of academia, Katharine Rankin recently asserts. As she says,...

Place: A Short Introduction.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Place: A Short Introduction by Tim Cresswell, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2004, 153 pp. paper US$24.95 (ISBN 1-4051-06727) There has been a surge of interest by publishers in space and place in the last few years. Several new books...

Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences by Mike Leeder and Marta Perez-Arlucea, Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2006 xi + 321 pp. paper US$49.95 (ISBN 1-4051-0173-3) This book's stated objective is to 'provide a sound introduction to...

Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives (3rd ed.).(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) edited by Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, 2006, xi + 532 pp. paper $61.95 (ISBN 0-19-542219-8) This is a completely revised...