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How “visible” is urban agriculture in Cameroon? Mapping urban agriculture practices by satellite imagery and field surveys 喀麦隆的都市农业有多“可见”？通过卫星图像和实地调查绘制城市农业实践图

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70088

Paul Emile Tchinda, Thi-Thanh-Hiên Pham

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Gestion participative des forêts au Burkina Faso: analyse de la mise en œuvre selon les perceptions locales 布基纳法索的参与性森林管理：当地看法的执行分析

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70089

Mohamed Awalo Traoré, Jean-François Bissonnette

{"title":"Gestion participative des forêts au Burkina Faso: analyse de la mise en œuvre selon les perceptions locales","authors":"Mohamed Awalo Traoré, Jean-François Bissonnette","doi":"10.1111/cag.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70089","url":null,"abstract":"Participatory management is a fundamental pillar of Burkina Faso's national forest policy. However, in the Bontioli Forest, its implementation reveals a persistent gap between institutional ambitions and actual practices, in a context characterized by heavy pressure on resources, limited institutional capacity, and asymmetrical power relations. This study analyzes the implementation of participatory management based on the perceptions and experiences of local actors, using a qualitative approach grounded in semi-structured interviews and focus groups with various stakeholders. The results show that, despite the existence of formal mechanisms, forest governance remains fraught with tensions and different forms of conflict. Significant limitations emerge regarding inclusion, transparency, and effectiveness, resulting in uneven participation, perceptions of opacity in resource management, and persistent structural constraints. These dynamics highlight a hybrid governance model, based on the interplay between official norms, local practices, and informal arrangements. More broadly, the case of Bontioli illustrates that participation does not guarantee the redistribution of power or sustainable management but constitutes a situated and continually renegotiated process.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social media communication and disaster recovery: Posts on X and local news headlines in the aftermath of the 2024 Jasper Wildfire Complex 社交媒体传播和灾难恢复：2024年贾斯珀野火综合体后X和当地新闻头条的帖子

IF 1.1 4区社会学

Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70087

Emmerson Jull, Jennifer J. Silver

{"title":"Social media communication and disaster recovery: Posts on X and local news headlines in the aftermath of the 2024 Jasper Wildfire Complex","authors":"Emmerson Jull, Jennifer J. Silver","doi":"10.1111/cag.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70087","url":null,"abstract":"Research on social media use during and in the days immediately after disaster events is well-established, while social media communications and related dynamics during the recovery phase are less studied. This paper examines posts to social media and local journalism headlines after the 2024 Wildfire Complex in Jasper, Canada. A sample of posts from Canadian agencies on X (formerly Twitter) and headlines from a local news outlet, the Jasper Fitzhugh, were collected and analyzed following content analysis methodology. Social media activity fluctuated as the recovery phase unfolded; the analysis draws out themes discussed on X and in the journalistic headlines. Agencies and the local news outlet continued to give attention to the disaster over time, however thematic differences between posts to X and headlines emerged and activity declined. This paper contributes new insight into social media communications, local journalism, and dynamics between the two in the context of disaster communications. We argue that communication strategies must account for changing platform regulations, like Canada's Online News Act, 2023, and responses by platform companies that alter or limit where and how people can access news and information. Local news outlets should be considered for their role in fostering resilience to climate change.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Geographies of studentification in mid-sized Canadian metropolitan areas 加拿大中等大都市区学生资格的地理分布

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70086

David L. A. Gordon, Nick Revington, Maxwell Hartt, Matthew Lauzon, Oleksandr Panchoshnyy, Caley Savage

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Perceived challenges and determinants of farmers' intentions to adopt digital tools and services: Insights from Ghana 农民采用数字工具和服务意愿的感知挑战和决定因素：来自加纳的见解

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-30 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70085

Desmond Ofori Oklikah, Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Isaac Abban

{"title":"Perceived challenges and determinants of farmers' intentions to adopt digital tools and services: Insights from Ghana","authors":"Desmond Ofori Oklikah, Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Isaac Abban","doi":"10.1111/cag.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70085","url":null,"abstract":"Digitalization is increasingly promoted as a pathway for transforming smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa; however, the adoption of digital farming tools and advisory services remains uneven. Drawing on cross-sectional survey data from 1,565 smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana, this study examined the factors influencing farmers' intentions to adopt digital farming. The results from the multivariable binary logistic regressions show that gender, education, years of farming, household size, and awareness of services significantly influenced adoption intentions. In particular, female farmers exhibited a greater intention to adopt digital tools and services, whereas larger households and longer farming years reduced adoption intentions. Beyond demographic factors, perceived barriers, including high cost, inaccessibility, inadequate expertise, and insufficient knowledge of digital tools, substantially lowered the likelihood of adopting digital farming tools. Farmers who are aware of or have participated in digital agriculture initiatives, however, are more likely to express adoption intentions. Considering these findings, we recommend that stakeholders (such as policymakers, extension officers, NGOs, and agri-tech developers) prioritize strategies that reduce the challenges facing smallholder digitalization in sub-Saharan Africa and develop digital solutions that are locally suitable, gender-responsive, affordable, and farmer-centered to enhance and ensure the meaningful diffusion of digital agriculture innovations in the region.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cag.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Metropolitan areas, environmental quality, and talent: Inter-urban migration of higher education students in Canada, 2019–2020 都市圈、环境质量与人才：2019-2020年加拿大高等教育学生的城市间迁移

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-21 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70084

Ebenezer D. Narh, Michael Buzzelli

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Introducing the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) 加拿大无障碍和偏远指数（CARI+）

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70082

Tomoko McGaughey, Paul A. Peters

{"title":"Introducing the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+)","authors":"Tomoko McGaughey, Paul A. Peters","doi":"10.1111/cag.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70082","url":null,"abstract":"Rurality and remoteness are policy-relevant concepts for planning and evaluating equitable access to services across Canada, yet existing measures rely on categorical, urban-centric, and coarse spatial definitions that obscure variation in accessibility across the rural-urban continuum. The Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index Plus (CARI+) is a small-area accessibility index at the dissemination-area level. It is based on road-network travel to stratified service centres, including population centres and 24-hour emergency departments stratified by settlement size. Category-specific scores are capped at 3, summed to produce an overall score, then normalized. We examined the CARI+ values against socio-demographic indicators and compared them with the Index of Remoteness (IOR). CARI+ yields a more even population distribution than the IOR (39% vs 77% in the most accessible category) and reveals socio-demographic gradients: material deprivation and Indigenous identity increase with remoteness, while educational attainment and immigrant representation decline. In very remote areas, CARI+ identifies 25% of Indigenous residents and 27% of the population with less than high school education, versus 78% and over 50% respectively under the IOR. The CARI+ provides a transparent, service-specific, high-resolution measure of accessibility that addresses key limitations of existing Canadian indices and supports nuanced analysis for health and social service planning.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70083

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Upzoning the YIMBY rent gap: A transit-oriented spatial fix YIMBY租金差距的升级：以交通为导向的空间修复

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Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70081

Anna Kramer

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La marchabilité des environnements urbains pour les aînés: analyse de l'expérience sensible 城市环境对老年人的可达性：敏感经验分析

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien Pub Date : 2026-06-08 DOI: 10.1111/cag.70080

Joël Wheeler-Noiseux, Marie-Soleil Cloutier

{"title":"La marchabilité des environnements urbains pour les aînés: analyse de l'expérience sensible","authors":"Joël Wheeler-Noiseux, Marie-Soleil Cloutier","doi":"10.1111/cag.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70080","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how sensory experience influences the perceived walkability of urban environments for older adults and shapes their walking habits. Walking, an essential activity for active aging, is often studied from the perspective of objective walkability. However, this perspective neglects the subjective dimension of walking, as experienced through the senses. The paper is based on 37 guided walks conducted with older adults in four Quebec cities (Laval, Quebec City, Longueuil, and Saguenay). The thematic analysis focused on sensory experiences (sight, hearing, smell, and touch) and their influence on the timing, location, and manner of walking. The results show that perceived walkability is based on four dimensions: vegetation as a sensory catalyst, visual aesthetics, the combined effect of the senses, and sensory well-being. These dimensions reveal that the perception of walking goes beyond indicators derived from the physical characteristics of walking environments and is constructed as a sensory and multisensory experience. In conclusion, this research contributes to a broader understanding of walkability by demonstrating that sensory experience is a central determinant of older adults’ pedestrian mobility. It opens avenues for the design of inclusive urban environments that support active aging.","PeriodicalId":47619,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien","volume":"70 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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