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  • A succinct report on the Department of Geography Map Library 
    Jakunis, Frank J. (Arts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1986)
    A brief summary describing the development and operation of the map library managed by the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge.
  • Economic development and industrial employment: A thousand points of light? 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of PlannersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1991)
    This paper disputes some of the empirical analysis on small firm job creation and argues that small enterprises are responsible for a relatively modest share of employment and employment growth at the national, provincial, ...
  • Regional diversification policy in Alberta 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of PlannersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1992)
    On August 4, 1992 Western Diversification Canada (WD) celebrated its 5th birthday. This anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to examine WD's mandate and programs and to assess the allocation of funding under its ...
  • Subcontracting in Hokkaido's resource processing sectors 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Center for Development Policy Studies, Hokkai-Gakuen University (Sapporo, Japan)Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1992-02)
    The Japanese economic miracle has inspired considerable interest in the organization of the Japanese industrial system. One of the unique aspects of industrial capitalism in Japan is the vast array of contractual linkages ...
  • Spatial patterns of income and income inequality in Mexico City 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Geografía y Desarrollo, MéxicoArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1998)
    To explain trends in inequality in Mexico, three theoretical approaches to income inequality are outlined: Kuznets' inverted "U", Mexican crisis theory, and the informal-formal duality. Empirical data are used to construct ...
  • Lethbridge and the Trans-Canada Airway 
    MacLachlan, Ian; MacKay, Bruce (Historical Society of AlbertaArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2000)
    For the first nine years of transcontinental airline service, 1939-1948, Lethbridge was western Canada's principal airline hub. The city was ideally situated to fulfill this function due to its location on the southerly ...
  • Glacier surge propagation by thermal evolution at the bed 
    Murray, Tavi; Stuart, Graham W.; Miller, Paul J.; Woodward, John; Smith, Andrew M.; Porter, Philip R.; Jiskoot, Hester (American Geophysical UnionArts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyUniversity of LeedsNatural Environmental Research Council (U.K.)University of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900066, 2000)
    Bakaninbreen, southern Svalbard, began a prolonged surge during 1985. In 1986, an internal reflecting horizon on radio echo sounding data was interpreted to show that the position of the surge front coincided with a ...
  • Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada’s Beef Commodity Chain 
    MacLachlan, Ian (University of Toronto PressArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2001)
    Comprehensive in its treatment of the whole system surrounding the Canadian beef industry, Kill and Chill offers a history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production ...
  • Late Cenozoic geology, Ancient Pacific Margin Natmap Project, report 4: paleomagnetic and geomorphic evidence for Brunhes-age volcanism, Fort Selkirk and Rosebud Creek area, Yukon Territory 
    Huscroft, Crystal A.; Barendregt, René W.; Jackson, Lionel E. (Geological Survey of CanadaArts and ScienceDepartment of Geography and EnvironmentSimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of LethbridgeGeological Survey of Canada, 2001)
    Normally magnetized, valley-filling basalt flows extend more than 10 km down the Yukon River valley from the Fort Selkirk area. These flows are locally overlain by gravel and terminate at the level of the contemporary Yukon ...
  • Late surge glacial conditions on Bakaninbreen, Svalbard, and implications for surge termination 
    Smith, A. M.; Murray, Tavi; Davison, B. M.; Clough, A. F.; Woodward, J.; Jiskoot, Hester (American Geophysical UnionArts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyNatural Environmental Research Council (U.K.)University of LeedsLancaster UniversityBrunel UniversityUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000475, 2002)
    Bakaninbreen is a polythermal glacier in southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard, that last surged between 1985 and 1995. Seismic reflection data were acquired during early quiescence in spring 1998, just upstream of the surge ...
  • Situational Factors and Urban Growth: The Case of Lethbridge and Alberta’s Metropolitan Centres 
    MacLachlan, Ian (International Geographical Union, Commission on Monitoring Cities of TomorrowArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2002-12)
    The concept of situation, or the relative location of a place, includes two subsidiary components: intermediacy and centrality. Urban boosterism, the promotion of growth in a local centre in competition with other places ...
  • Is there a single surge mechanism? Contrasts in dynamics between glacier surges in Svalbard and other regions 
    Murray, Tavi; Strozzi, Tazio; Luckman, Adrian; Jiskoot, Hester; Christakos, Panos (American Geophysical UnionArts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyUniversity of LeedsUniversity of WalesUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002JB001906, 2003)
    During the 1990s, Monacobreen, a 40-km-long tidewater glacier in Svalbard, underwent a major surge. We mapped the surge dynamics using ERS synthetic aperture radar images, differential dual-azimuth interferometry and ...
  • Integrated Dis-Integration: Employment Structure of First Nations Communities on the Prairies Relative to their Local Regions 
    Townshend, Ivan; MacLachlan, Ian; O'Donoghue, Dan (Canadian Indian/Native Studies AssociationArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
    An exploratory study of the employment specialization/diversity of Prairie First Nations Communities (FNCs) in relation to the employment structure of five comparative settlement system base profiles that are found within ...
  • Stockyards Districts as Industrial Clusters in Two Western Canadian Cities 
    MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan (Western Division, Canadian Association of GeographersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
    The stockyard was the nucleus of the livestock and meat processing agroindustry, one of the key propulsive forces in the rapid growth of western Canada at the turn of the century. In metropolitan centres such as Calgary ...
  • Betting the Farm: Food Safety, Risk Society, and the Canadian Cattle and Beef Commodity Chain 
    MacLachlan, Ian (House of Anansi PressArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
  • Industrial Development of Lethbridge: A Geographer's Interpretation 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004-01)
    This unpublished manuscript provides an account of industrial development in the City of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada from a geographical and historical perspective.
  • Feedlot Growth in Southern Alberta: A Neo-Fordist Interpretation 
    MacLachlan, Ian (CABI PublishingArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)
    Following a discussion of fundamentally neo-Fordist character of cattle feedlots, this chapter describes the factors accounting for the recent surge in feedlot production in southern Alberta.
  • ‘The greatest and most offensive nuisance that ever disgraced the capital of a kingdom’: The slaughterhouses and shambles of modern Edinburgh 
    MacLachlan, Ian (University of EdinburghArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)
    The slaughter of domesticated animals and their butchering for food has been an important component of urban economic activity since the Neolithic revolution. But since the dawn of the modern period, butchery has been cast ...
  • Cultivating a New Cattle Culture: Beef Production and Grassland Management in Alberta 
    MacLachlan, Ian; Bateman, Nancy G.; Johnston, Thomas R. R. (SpringerArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)
    This chapter illustrates how views about pasture land management have developed in Canada.
  • The Historical Development of Cattle Production in Canada 
    MacLachlan, Ian (Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006)
    This unpublished manuscript details the history of cattle production in Canada.