The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2002

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2002

Spatial analysis of the coincidence of rare vascular plants and landforms in the Carolinian zone of Canada: implications for protection.
September 22, 2002... L'evaluation de biodiversite dans les paysages naturels continue d'etre un point de mire. Pendant que certains chercheurs estiment la valeur des caracteristiques predictives, telles que des formes de relief, d'autres examinent les...

Residential segregation of visible minorities in Canada's gateway cities.
September 22, 2002... Bien que l'afflux d'immigrants appartenant a des minorites visibles ait cree un climat de diversite et de multiculturalisme dans trois des principales portes d'entree au Canada, a savoir Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, il n'en reste pas moins...

The geographies of crisis: exploring accessibility to health care in Canada.
September 22, 2002... De plus en plus de Canadiens s'inquietent que leur systeme de soins de sante soit en etat de crise. On defend l'idee selon laquelle la reduction des paiements de transfert aux provinces par le gouvernement federal serait responsable de l'etat...

Focus: equity for women in geography.
September 22, 2002... The 1984 Royal Commission Report on Equality in Employment, or the Abella Report, set out the principles and practice of equity in employment (Abella 1984). In the Report, Commissioner Rosalie Abella identified four groups of persons in Canada...

Attracting and keeping women and visible minorities in Canadian geography departments. (Focus: equity for women in geography).
September 22, 2002... My remarks in this piece are based on two studies on equity issues. First, a study of Canadian geography departments published in 1996 (Rose et al. 1996) and, second, a survey of recruitment and retention of faculty and senior-level...

A generation later, and still two percent: changing the culture of Canadian geography. (Focus: equity for women in geography).
September 22, 2002... When I was a PhD student more than two decades ago, more than half of about 50 doctoral students in my programme were women, and I was one of but two non-white students. At the time, I did not think that I would face issues of equity in my...

Gender equity as `boundary object': ... or the same old sex and power in geography all over again? (Focus: equity for women in geography).
September 22, 2002... In her 1990 analysis of the gendered character of United Kingdom Geography departments, Linda McDowell argued that Geography was a bastion of male power in academia (McDowell 1990). More than a decade later, much the same can be said of...

Integrating gender into mainstream teaching. (Focus: equity for women in geography).
September 22, 2002... Equity for women in Canadian geography can begin by introducing gender awareness into undergraduate course content. This paper proposes that of the two approaches available, the introduction of gender geography courses and the integration of...

Women and technology in geography: a cyborg manifesto for GIS. (Focus: equity for women in geography).
September 22, 2002... Geography is dividing into ever increasing niches (Sui 2000). Evidence of this trend is manifest in the recent appointment of four separate editors for the flagship journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers. From this...

Reviving central Brandon in the early twenty-first century. (Canadian Urban Landscape Examples--23).
September 22, 2002... "The plight of the central sectors of North American cities has, within recent years, been publicly recognized as a major social, physical, and economic problem... Brandon has recognized the deteriorating quality of the downtown core but has...

Manufacturing Montreal: the Making of an Industrial Landscape.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Robert Lewis, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, 2000, xvii + 336 pp. cloth US$45.00 (ISBN 0-8018-6349-X) Robert Lewis has written an important book. Manufacturing Montreal will serve as a benchmark for any subsequent...

Thailand's Crisis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2000, viii + 275 pp., paper US$18.95 (ISBN 974-7551-38-9) If you are not a Thai scholar and do not read the Thai language, but you have read a book on Thailand...

Territoire et Vieillissement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... par Jean-Pierre Thouez, Paris, PUF, 2001, 124 pp. Euro 8.55 (ISBN 2-130-52363-3) L'importance du vieillissement de la population comme phenomene social n'a plus a etre demontree. Toutefois, jusqu'a maintenant, on a eu l'habitude de le...

The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Wilber Zelinsky, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2001,315 pp. paper US$19.95 (ISBN 0-87745-750-6) Much has been published on ethnicity, ethnic identity and the growing popularity of multiculturalism. In a time when these terms are...

Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Enquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Bent Flyvbjerg, Transl. Steven Sampson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, x + 201 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] cloth (ISBN 0-521-77268-0); 13.95 [pounds sterling] paper (ISBN 0-521-77568-x) Sometime in the last twenty years,...

Land Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by John Clarke, McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal and Kingston, 2001, xxxvii + 747pp. cloth $75.00 (ISBN 0-7735-2062-7) A dozen years or so ago, the English historian Patricia Crone outlined what she described as "the bluffer's...

International Tourism Attractions in Central and Southeastern Europe (Multicolour map print; 1:3,000,000; 50.5 x 56.6 cm).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Peter Jordan and Karl Schnappelwein, Oesterreichisches Ost und Sudostdeuropa-Institut, Wien, 1999, including 52 page accompanying text in German and English, and 91 page index, translated by David P. Gogarty, DM40 (ISBN 0-280-3139-3) ...