The Sheep/Swine Ratio as a Guide to a Century's Change in the Livestock Geography of Nova Scotia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4041327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew H Clark (0000-0002-5241-5975, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38 |
| Publication date | 1962-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/142324 |
| OpenAlex | W2314595798 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
T -HIS paper is a by-product of continuing research on the historical geography of agriculture and rural settlement in Canada's Atlantic Provinces.' It examines the changing distribution of the values of a ratio (and the distribution of values of changes in that ratio) that has proved of unusual diagnostic importance in the study of the changing geography of rural life and enterprise, that of numbers of sheep to numbers of swine. For locational description and analysis it is becoming increasingly fashionable to employ statistical-cartographic techniques that are often mathematically rather complicated. Valuable as these are, in terms of correlation of distributions, flows of people and commodities, and the definition of functional regions, some of the analysis (as in much theoretical locational study) has become increasingly abstract and detached from the living realities of the people and lands, the geography of which we are concerned to describe and interpret. Moreover, many of the less mathematically minded among us appear to be driven to the rather absurd position of questioning the value of quantitative data and of patterns of such data as they are distributed through area. The investigation reported here perhaps cannot be called unsophisticated, but it employs only very simple mathematical and cartographic procedures and it is tied to the reality of the relationships between the numbers of two important farm animals. There is no pretense that there is any magic in the method, yet it is believed that it illustrates the effective use of an easily employed tool, if only one of many, to help us understand how (and ask, or answer, some questions as to why) geographies change. It is also felt that it reinforces the writer's belief that the study of geographical change is one of the most useful keys to the understanding of any geography at any point in its continuum of change
Animal science · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Livestock · Nova (rocket) · Nova scotia · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Engineering · Forestry · Rural development and sustainability · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 2017 (51) |
| Highly cited | No |