Manufacturing National Park Nature
Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
Focusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2011
Geography of British Columbia, Third Edition
People and Landscapes in Transition
This fully revised edition of an essential text adopts a mainly thematic approach to explore the development of BC’s physical and human geography.
- Copyright year: 2011
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Following the revival of the gray whale hunt by the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth tribes in the Pacific Northwest, this books looks at the significance of whaling to these societies, exploring environmentalism, animal rights, and what it means to be “Indian.”
- Copyright year: 2010
Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status
Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers
This volume and its predecessor condense the vast amount of literature on the nonpasserines of Ontario into a compact reference manual that will be essential to biologists, environmental planners, and serious birders.
- Copyright year: 2010
Managed Annihilation
An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
By examining one of the largest natural resource management failures of the twentieth century – the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery – this book seeks to understand the history of, and possible alternatives to, managerial responses to environmental issues.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
A comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
What Is Water?
The History of a Modern Abstraction
A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
A revealing history of human impact in the Canadian North, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the industries that replaced the fur trade.
- Copyright year: 2009
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
This book showcases the work of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars who uphold environmental justice as the path to a more just, equitable, and sustainable Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Forestry and Biodiversity
Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests
Sustaining biodiversity in managed forests is a complex problem, but the authors argue that it can be done -- through adaptive management, which they describe as a structured approach to “learning by doing.”
- Copyright year: 2009
Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change.
- Copyright year: 2010
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada encourages critical thought and discussion about energy generation and waste management by exploring not only the technical but also the social and ethical aspects of the problem.
- Copyright year: 2009
Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Sins of the Flesh
A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought
Renowned animal rights author Rod Preece examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.
- Copyright year: 2008
Farming in a Changing Climate
Agricultural Adaptation in Canada
Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.
- Copyright year: 2007
Adaptive Co-Management
Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.
- Copyright year: 2007
Owls of the United States and Canada
A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior
- Copyright year: 2007
Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia
Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia fully discusses how indicator plants are recognized and demonstrates how indicator plants can be used in site diagnosis.
- Copyright year: 1989
Birds of the Yukon Territory
The result of a decade-long project, this lavishly illustrated book presents a wealth of information on bird distribution, migration and breeding chronology, habitat use, and on conservation concerns in the Yukon.
- Copyright year: 2003