Michael Troughton
Adjunct Professor
Michael J. Troughton, B.A.(Hons), B.Litt., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Geography at The University of Western Ontario from 1964 to 2005,
died quietly in hospital on Saturday March 10th, 2007, after a fierce battle with cancer. A celebration of Mike's life took place at Museum
London, 421 Ridout Street on Saturday, March 17.
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Publications (2000 - present)
Michael Troughton & Norah Mitchell (2000), Problems, issues and experiences of rural women in Southern Ontario, in J. Ogilvie, J. Smithers & H. Wall (Eds.) Sustaining Agriculture in the 21st Century, University of Guelph, Guelph ON, pp 291-300
Michael Troughton (2000), Failure, abandonment, obsolescence, and loss of rural heritage elements vs. the heritage needs of sustainable rural systems, in J. Pierce, S. Prager & R. Smith (Eds.) Reshaping of Rural Ecologies, Economies and Communities, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC pp 201-209
Michael Troughton (2001), Enterprises and commodity chains, in I. Bowler, C. Bryant & C. Cocklin (Eds.) The Sustainability of Rural Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands pp 123-145
Douglas Ramsey, Carol Stewart, Michael Troughton & Barry Smit (2003), Agricultural restructuring of Ontario tobacco production, The Great Lakes Geographer 9 (2) 71-93
Michael Troughton (2003), The countryside as the new frontier: threats
and opportunities, in K. Beesley, H. Millward, B. Ilbery & L. Harrington (Eds.) The New
Countryside: Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change, Brandon University &
St. Mary’s
University, Brandon Man, & Halifax NS pp 26-35
Michael Troughton (2004), Agricultural and rural resources, in B. Mitchell (ed.) Resource and Environmental Management in Canada, 3rd Edit. Oxford University Press, Toronto pp 233-264
Denise Grafton, Michael Troughton & James Rourke (2004), Rural community and health care interdependence: an historical geographical study, Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine 9 (3) pp 156-163
Michael Troughton (2004), The rural built heritage dilemma in Southern Ontario, then and now, in D. Ramsey & C. Bryant (Eds.) The Structure and Dynamics of Rural Territories: Geographical Perspectives, Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, Brandon Man. pp 16-29
Michael Troughton & Cathy Quinlan (2004), Designation of the Thames as a Canadian Heritage River, in C. Lemieux, G.Nelson, T.Beechey, M. Troughton & R. Davidson (Eds) Protected Areas and Watershed Management: Proceedings, 4th Annual Meeting, Parks Research Forum of Ontario, Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON pp111-117
Michael Troughton and William DeYoung (2004), Reconstructing the rural built heritage in southwestern Ontario in C. Lemieux, G. Nelson, T.Beechey, M. Troughton & R. Davidson (Eds.) Protected Areas and Watershed Management: Proceedings, 4th Annual Meeting, Parks Research Forum of Ontario, Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON pp 475-482
Michael Troughton (2005), Fordism rampant: the model and reality, as applied to production, processing and distribution in the North American agro-food system, in S. Essex, A. Gilg & R. Yarwood (Eds.) Rural Change and Sustainability: Agriculture, the Environment and Communities, CAB International, Wallingford UK pp 13-27
Michael Troughton (2005), Rural system sustainability in an era of reductionist agriculture, in A. Mather (Ed.) Land Use and Rural Sustainability, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland pp 33-38
Michael Troughton (in press), Commentary on "Rural Population and Production" in W. Caldwell (Ed.) Rediscovering Thomas Adams: Rural Planning and Development in Canada, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver BC
Michael Troughton (in press), Canadian farmland, a fluctuating commodity, in W. Caldwell, S. Hilts & B. Wilton (Eds.) Land Preservation: Challenges and Opportunities.
William DeYoung and Michael Troughton (in press), Sharp pencils, fat crayons and fuzzy boundaries: how to depict the Carolinian in Canada, in G. Nelson et al. (Eds.) Proceedings, 5th Annual Meeting, Parks Research Forum of Ontario, Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
Michael Troughton and William DeYoung (in press), Natural-Human interaction: Carolinian Canada as a Cultural Artifact, in L. Johnson (Ed.) Carolinian Canada, Canada’s Deep South, James Lorimer, Toronto.
Work in progress
(being completed by collaborators)
Michael Troughton and Cathy Quinlan, A Landscape Guide to the Thames River Watershed Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON.
Michael Troughton, The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Settlement Within the Canadian Shield.
