Special Sessions

Below are the proposed special sessions for the 2013 meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. To be included in a special session, you must contact session organizer(s) prior to the abstract submission deadline so that they may review your submission.

Abstracts must be uploaded via the abstract submission module by March 15, 2013, to be included in a special session. You must indicate which session(s) you would have been accepted to by including the text "Accepted for Session XX" at the top of your abstract. Otherwise, your abstract will be placed in a general session.

Note that the numbers here do not reflect position in the programme.

Session no.	Title	Lead organizer
01	A special panel session on Career Development	Rich Quodomine
02	Alternative food geographies: the Canadian experience	Chuck Levkoe
03	Beyond Fish Stocks: Towards Socially Sustainable Fisheries	Annie Lalancette
04	Bio-cultural approaches to conservation and resource management in aboriginal settings	Véronique Bussières
05	Canadian Regional Development: A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Potentials	Heather Hall
06	Climatology : Local climate and vegetation	Guillaume Fortin
07	Climatology : Time-series analysis, variability and trends	Guillaume Fortin
08	Coastal Erosion under Climate Change: Increasing Threats and Vulnerabilities	Adam French
09	Community-Based Water Monitoring and Management	Cathy Conrad
10	Critical Geographies of the Canadian North	Julia Christensen
11	Critical Perspectives on Resource Extraction	Emily Eaton
12	Dendrochronology in Canada	Bryan Mood
13	Environment and Human Migration	Reiko Obokata
14	Exploring Biogeographic and Ecogeographic questions using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems	Vincent Lecours
15	Exploring the Creative Class in Canada and Abroad	Taylor Brydges
16	Feminist Approaches to Health and Health Care	Caitlyn Henry
17	Geographies of Asia	David Edgington
18	Geographies of Human Development in the Arctic: AHDR-II	Gail Fondahl
19	Geography of Health and Health Care	Jeff Masuda
20	Historical Geography at the Edge	Arn Keeling
21	Labour Geographies and Landscapes of Austerity	Suzanne Mills
22	Living with the Legacies of 20th Century Urbanisms	Douglas Young
23	Migration, Mobilities, and Health	Nathaniel Lewis
24	Place, power and politics: Critical historical geographies and the creation of Canada	Vanessa Sloan Morgan
25	Political Ecology of Sovereignty	Tyler McCreary
26	Post-Cod Fisheries in Newfoundland & Labrador: 20 Years On from Collapse	Dean Bavington
27	Public involvement in natural resource management: International case studies	Alistair Bath
28	Rethinking rural resilience: Tourism’s future in rural and peripheral development?	Patrick Brouder
29	Social dimensions of coastal governance and marine planning	Andrew Song
30	Teaching the Food System	Nathan McClintock
31	The History of Geographical Thought	Lucian Ashworth
32	The politics of "home"	Patricia Wood
33	The Role of Heritage in Rapidly Urbanizing and Expanding Cityscapes	Amanda Hooykaas
34	Transport Geography	Darren Scott
35	Understanding mobility in Geographic Information System	Arnaud Vandecasteele
36	Urban Sustainability	Mary Thornbush
37	Waste and indeterminacy	Josh Lepawsky
38	Weather and Society	Amanda Silver
39	What might big data mean for the geography of mobilities?	Monica Wachowicz
40	Wildlife Management Approaches from a Geographical Perspective	Chris Malcolm
41	Workers 'On the Move' in Canada: Employment-Related Geographical Mobility	Kathleen Fitzpatrick
42	The dynamic coast: coast - addressing knowledge needs for sustainable development and adaptation planning on Canada’s coastlines; A special session in honour of Don Forbes’s retirement	Trevor Bell

CAG 2013 Links

Canadian Association of Geographers

Department of Geography