Alexander Walker

Biographic Data

ID3948718
NAMEAlexander Walker
GIVEN NAMESAlexander
FAMILY NAMEWalker
SIGNATUREWALKER A
AFFILIATIONSSouth African Institute for Medical Research
ORCID0000-0001-8857-812X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1877
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Metropolitan Eco-Regimes and Differing State Policy Environments: Comparing Environmental Governance in the Portland–Vancouver Metropolitan Area

    Open AccessPaul Thiers, Mark Stephan et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2018Cited by: 5References: 26

    The Portland Metropolitan region, a single economic and ecological region with a bifurcated state and local governance structure, provides an opportunity to compare governance models and state policy environments in a single region. Using stakeholder interviews and secondary sources, we examine the role of state government policy in shaping and supporting different regimes. We find that Portland exhibits a stable, “smart-growth” regime that we ch…

  • Breast-feeding in sub-Saharan Africa: Outlook for 2000

    Open AccessAlexander Walker, Alexander RP Walker et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2000

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that 1.5 million infants die annually, unnecessarily, from deprival or from insufficiency of breast milk. Hence, the need for its maximal use, very particularly in impoverished populations, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. In many developed populations, a generation ago the practice was very low, but now it has risen considerably. In contrast, in Africa and in most developing populations, despi…

  • Epidemiology and health implications of obesity, with special reference to African populations

    Alexander Walker, ALEXANDER R P WALKERARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1998

    In all populations, developed and developing, in young and old, rural and urban, obesity is increasing. Costs of treatments are enormous, and level of success dishearteningly low; moreover, long‐term benefits from weight reduction are limited. In Africa, when rural populations lived traditionally there was very little gain in weight with age. However, with transitional changes occurring, as in South Africa, especially in urban dwellers, obesity h…

  • Nutritional risk factors for coronary heart disease in South African medical students

    Una E MacIntyre, Una E Maclntyre et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1998

    The African population in South Africa is undergoing relatively rapid transition in lifestyle, with increasing proneness to western diseases. At the Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA), the majority of the African students come from homes where mainly cereal‐based diets are eaten. They are now exposed to ‘western’ foods. To throw light on the subsequent changes, between 1989 and 1993, 383 third year students underwent a practical cour…

  • An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786

    Kan, Sergei Kan et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1985Cited by: 3

  • An attempt to measure the availability of calcium in edible leaves commonly consumed by South African negroes

    Alexander Walker, ALEXANDER R P WALKER et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1975

    Most primitive and emerging populations obtain their calcium, largely or almost wholly, from vegetable sources. Of these, edible leaves (wild and cultivated), in certain contexts, are very important. To throw light on the availability of the calcium content, five common types of cooked edible leaves or “spinaches”, all having low concentrations of oxalic acid, were fed in amounts containing about 200 mg calcium, to groups of South African Negro c…

  • Stardom: The Hollywood Phenomenon

    Kent R Brown, Alexander Walker et al.ARTICLECinema Journal1971Cited by: 5

  • Notes on a Sculptured Stone Found in the Wall of the South Transept of St Nicholas Church, Aberdeen

    Alexander Walker, Alexander C WalkerARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1877