Author: A. RodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 33
Book Description
Cold
Author: A. RodeCold
Author: A. RodeCold, Special Aspects in the Canadian North
Author: Andris RodePublisher: National Research Council of Canada, NRCC Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Suggestions for further research into the effect of cold, particularly in the Canadian north, as noted from the experiences of the Scientist-in-Charge at the Igloolik Research Laboratory.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Canada's Cold Environments
Author: Hugh M. FrenchPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773563547
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Low temperatures, wind-chill, snow, sea ice, and permafrost have been primary characteristics of Canada's northern and alpine environments during the past two million years. The evolution of Canada's cultural landscapes, the processes of settlement of rural areas, and the present interaction of Canadian industrial society with its biophysical environment are all deeply influenced, directly or indirectly, by the frigidity of the greater part of the country. The phenomenon of global warming, if it occurs, will lessen this coldness, but its impact on temperature extremes, sea ice regimes, vegetation, snow distribution, permafrost, glaciers, lakes, rivers, and mountain hazards are all the subject of intensive research -- the highlights of which are reviewed in Canada's Cold Environments. Eleven of Canada's leading geographers, geologists, and ecologists provide an authoritative yet readable scientific statement about the physical nature of Canada's coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada's cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and the constraints that coldness places on human activity. The book is aimed at environmental scientists at all levels who need informed overviews of the substantive findings on a range of cold-related topics.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Le Nord canadien et ses référents conceptuels
Author: Louis Edmond HamelinPublisher: Canadian Studies Directorate
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
An exploration of how the non-Native population views the Canadian North via four avenues: terminology, perception, circumpolar factors and habitability. First part deals with studies of the north, in the second part a geographic index helps define the north, and in the third part the author establishes links between the perception of the north and economic development by examining artistic production, territoriality, political structures, big business and defence.
Special Report
Author: The Unreliable Nation
Author: Edward Jones-ImhotepPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262036517
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not through the triumph of machines over nature, but through technological failures and the distinctive natural orders that caused them. In The Unreliable Nation, Edward Jones-Imhotep examines one instance in this larger history: the Cold War–era project to extend reliable radio communications to the remote and strategically sensitive Canadian North. He argues that, particularly at moments when countries viewed themselves as marginal or threatened, the identity of the modern nation emerged as a scientifically articulated relationship between distinctive natural phenomena and the problematic behaviors of complex groups of machines. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents and recently declassified materials, Jones-Imhotep shows how Canadian defense scientists elaborated a distinctive “Northern” natural order of violent ionospheric storms and auroral displays, and linked it to a “machinic order” of severe and widespread radio disruptions throughout the country. Tracking their efforts through scientific images, experimental satellites, clandestine maps, and machine architectures, he argues that these scientists naturalized Canada's technological vulnerabilities as part of a program to reimagine the postwar nation. The real and potential failures of machines came to define Canada, its hostile Northern nature, its cultural anxieties, and its geo-political vulnerabilities during the early Cold War. Jones-Imhotep's study illustrates the surprising role of technological failures in shaping contemporary understandings of both nature and nation.