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Birds of the World

UBC Press

Comprehensive, authoritative, and beautifully illustrated, this stunning collection of art and text captures the grace, beauty, and flamboyance of the world’s bird features 1,600 original paintings of 1,307 species.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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International Ecopolitical Theory

Critical Approaches

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2006
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Eau Canada

The Future of Canada's Water

Edited by Karen Bakker
UBC Press

The country’s top water experts discusses our most pressing water issues.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Culture of Hunting in Canada

UBC Press

From hunting ethics to animal rights to tensions between hunting sub-groups, this towering collection of essays address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Beyond Mothering Earth

Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care

UBC Press

Provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Sustainable Production

Building Canadian Capacity

Edited by Glen Toner
UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Culture of Flushing

A Social and Legal History of Sewage

UBC Press

Iinvestigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment – in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Hunters at the Margin

Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories

UBC Press

Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Genetically Modified Diplomacy

The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

UBC Press

This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Archive of Place

Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau

UBC Press

Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Co-operative Management of Local Fisheries

New Directions for Improved Management and Community Development

UBC Press

This book is the first to consolidate information on the different routes by which co-operative management arrangements of fisheries have evolved.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Taking the Air

Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Birds of the Yukon Territory

UBC Press

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
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Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia

UBC Press

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
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The Option of Urbanism

Investing in a New American Dream

Island Press

Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Owls of the United States and Canada

A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

Principles and Practices

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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A Zapotec Natural History

The University of Arizona Press

A Zapotec Natural History is an extraordinary book and accompanying CD (also avialble on the web here!) that describe the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live. San Juan Gbëë is a Zapotec Indian ...

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Adaptive Co-Management

Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance

UBC Press

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
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