The Canadian Geographer articles from September 2005

The Canadian Geographer archives from September 2005

Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture: feminist geography, the 'everyday', and local-global relations: hidden spaces of place-making *.
September 22, 2005... Dans le domaine de la geographie feministe, la production de connaissances a longtemps ete dependante d'un interet particulier pour l'experience vecue des femmes et de leurs activites routinieres, mondaines et prises pour acquis. Je revisite le...

How green is the valley? Foreign direct investment in two Norwegian industrial towns.
September 22, 2005... Depuis le debut des annees 1900, les investissements directs d l'etranger (IDE) ont grandement marque la societe norvegienne, notamment dans les communautes peripheriques. Cet article presente une analyse de la facon dont les entreprises...

An inventory of abandoned mining exploration sites in Nunavik, Canada.(1)
September 22, 2005... Cet article dresse, pour la premiere fois dans la litterature, un inventaire des sites abandonnes d'exploration miniere au Nunavik, c'est-a-dire des sites qui contiennent des produits qui peuvent representer un danger pour l'environnement et la...

Diversity and employment growth in Canada, 1971-2001: can diversification policies succeed?
September 22, 2005... In this paper, we explore the link between diversity in the local economy, the process of diversification and employment growth. To do so, we first examine diversification trends between 1971 and 2001 across 382 Canadian areas (urban and...

Diagnostic uncertainty and medical geography: what are we mapping?(Commentary)
September 22, 2005... L'administration du systeme de sante canadien necessite l'accumulation d'une grande quantite de donnees. Quelques chercheurs dans le domaine de la sante ont utilise ces donnees pour determiner la distribution geographique de differentes...

Property developers and the robust downtown: the case of four major Canadian downtowns.
September 22, 2005... En general, c'est dans le centre-ville des plus grandes cites canadiennes que se deroule la vie industrielle et economique de la region bien qu'ils aient subi dernierement un certain declin. Ce fait est du a differents facteurs politiques,...

Toronto, No Mean City (3d ed.).(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Toronto, No Mean City (3d ed.) by Eric Arthur, revised by Stephen Otto, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2003, xxxiii + 315 pp., paper Cdn$35.00 (ISBN 0-8020-6587-2) Along the streets of the 'old' Toronto, you encounter thousands...

GIS: a Short Introduction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... GIS: A Short Introduction by Nadine Schuurman, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2004, xiii + 169 pp., alk. paper US$22.95 (ISBN 0-631-23532-9) GIS: A Short Introduction is an accessible, concise overview of GISystems (practices,...

Critical Political Ecology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Critical Political Ecology By Tim Forsyth, Routledge, New York, 2003, xvi + 320 pp., paper US$40.95 (ISBN 0-415-18563-7) In the seemingly ever-expanding field of political ecology, Critical Political Ecology offers an original and...

E-Government Reconsidered: Renewal of Governance for the Knowledge Age.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... E-Government Reconsidered: Renewal of Governance for the Knowledge Age edited by E. Lynn Olive and Larry Sanders, University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center and the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2004, v + 230 pp.,...

Phobic Geographies: The Phenomenology and Spatiality of Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Phobic Geographies: The Phenomenology and Spatiality of Identity by Joyce Davidson, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, viii + 160 pp., hbk US$69.94 (ISBN 0-7546-3244-X) Phobic Geographies is a volume of Joyce Davidson's published work to...

A Companion to Tourism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Companion to Tourism edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall and Allan M. Williams, Blackwell, Malden, 2004, xviii + 622 pp., cloth US$124.95 (ISBN 0-631-23564-7) This is the fifth book in Blackwell's Companion to Geography Series....