{"id":491,"date":"2010-03-15T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:29","slug":"wallace-ian","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/wallace-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace, Iain"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;am comfortable with the label of &#8220;economic geographer&#8221;, but by temperament and outlook I value most the eclecticism and search for connectedness that geography as a discipline allows one to pursue. Doctoral research on freight transportation led me to work on the mineral sector in Canada and to broader interests in the economy of resource-based regions. Interest in the society\/natural environment interface lies behind research on the conceptualisation of economy\/environment relations and on the agri-food system. Exploration of geography\u2019s relations to social theory has been shaped by perspectives derived from Christian theology. I think the literature (and especially the textbooks!) of economic geography have still not realised their potential for linking the economic system with the earth system and in retirement I would like to improve on things, though probably not in conventional published formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Economic globalization in the Anthropocene Era<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Human dimensions of global environmental change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theology, epistemology and the nature of geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgriculture and Rural Resources\u201d, in Bruce Mitchell, ed., <em>Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty<\/em> (4<sup>th<\/sup> edition),&nbsp; Oxford University Press, Toronto, 2010, 274-297. (with M. Brklacich).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Space, Place and the Gospel: Theological Exploration in the Anthropocene Era\u201d, in J.K.A. Smith, ed., <em>After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization and the Re-Enchantment of the World<\/em>, Waco TX, Baylor University Press, 2008, 123-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Territory, Typology, Theology: Geopolitics and the Christian Scriptures&#8217; Geopolitics 11 (2), 2006, 209-230.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Commentary 2: Classics in human geography revisited Corbridge, S. 1986: Capitalist world development: a critique of radical development geography&#8217; Progress in Human Geography 29 (5), 2005, 603-606.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflections from Canada: a &#8216;nearest neighbour&#8217; analysis&#8217; GeoJournal 59 (1) 2004, 43-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Geography of the Canadian Economy, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 2002, xiii + 265 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sustaining Geography; sustainable geographies: the linked challenge,&#8221; Canadian Geographer 46, 2002, 98-107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Globalization: discourse of destiny or denial?&#8221; Christian Scholar&#8217;s Review 31 , 2002, 377-391.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Manufacturing in North America&#8221;, in F.W. Boal and S.A. Royle, eds., North America: A Geographical Mosaic, Arnold, London, 1999, 141-154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Christian reading of the global economy &#8220;, in H. Aay and S. Griffioen, eds., Geography and Worldview: A Christian Reconnaissance , University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1998, 37-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Canadian Shield: the development of a resource frontier&#8221;, in L.D. McCann and A. Gunn, eds., Heartland and Hinterland: A Geography of Canada , Prentice-Hall of Canada, Toronto, 1998 (3rd Edition, revised), 227-267.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Contested terrains: social space and the Canadian environment&#8221;, in W. Clement, ed., Understanding Canada: Building on the New Canadian Political Economy , McGill-Queen&#8217;s University Press, Montreal, 1997, 386-408 (with R. Shields).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Societies in space and place&#8221;, in F.O. Hampson and J. Reppy, eds., Earthly Goods : Global Environmental Change and Social Justice , Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1996, 75-95 (with D.B. Knight).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Restructuring in the Canadian mining and mineral processing industries&#8221;, in J. 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