Canadian Geography

Christopher M . Gold Geographic Information Systems in Canadian Geography : Opportunities and Problems

Geographic Information Systems, or G.I.S., is currently a popular issue in the discipl ines of Geography and Surveying. In the late 1960s to ear ly 1980s some of the basic concepts of spat ia l data handl ing on a computer were worked out , and in the last few years these have emerged as funct ional tools for environmental, urban and regional studies. These have had immediate commercial applica...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Economic geography

[Medical geography].

Hippocrates already noted that geographical factors such as climate, relief, geology but also settlement patterns had influenced the distribution of diseases. The task of medical geography is to investigate the associations between geographical factors and diseases. Thereby, geographic techniques and concepts are applied on health problems. Of particular importance is the mapping of diseases wh...