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Scale as an explanatory concept: evaluating Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit

Abstract

The concept of ‘scale’ and usage of this term have raised much debate within human geography over the past 25 years. At the same time, these very debates have developed the concept dramatically by offering new considerations of its use. Building on notions that scale is experienced and that scalar concepts offer a vocabulary to articulate complex phenomena, this analysis aims to explore the relevance of scale as an explanatory concept used by …

Authors

Giesbrecht M; Crooks VA; Williams A

Journal

Area, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 457–467

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

December 2010

DOI

10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00941.x

ISSN

0004-0894