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Waiwai

Water and the Future of Hawai‘i

University of Hawaii Press
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Born with a Copper Spoon

A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980

UBC Press

Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.

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Wild Articulations

Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia

University of Hawaii Press
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Drying Up

The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida

University Press of Florida
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Breaching the Peace

The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro

By Sarah Cox; Foreword by Alex Neve
UBC Press, On Point Press

Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox recounts the prolonged battle, led by farmers and First Nations, to stop the cripplingly expensive and environmentally irresponsible Site C dam.

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Tapping the Source

Inside UF's Water Institute

University of Florida Press, Gatorbytes
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The Man Who Thought He Owned Water

On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food

University Press of Colorado
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Running Dry

Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

Rutgers University Press

In Running Dry, historian Toby Jones explores the various ways that modern society’s unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering water, particularly in the Western United States where there has been a rapid push to extract newfound energy resources alongside the accelerating loss or pollution of critical water resources.

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Border Oasis

Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975

The University of Arizona Press
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The Colorado Plateau VI

Science and Management at the Landscape Scale

The University of Arizona Press

With a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions on the Colorado Plateau, The Colorado Plateau VI is the sixth installment in a series of research on the region. Contributors show how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau.

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Fluid Arguments

Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict

Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
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Forest Economics

UBC Press

This book covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.

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Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests

Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices

UBC Press

This book compares provincial forest policies on public land across Canada, and considers how they may hinder or enhance the pursuit of sustainable forest management objectives.

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Managed Annihilation

An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse

UBC Press

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.

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What Is Water?

The History of a Modern Abstraction

UBC Press

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.

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Home Is the Hunter

The James Bay Cree and Their Land

UBC Press

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows.

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Water in Texas

An Introduction

University of Texas Press

An authoritative overview of water issues in Texas for a general readership.

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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.

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Sustainable Production

Building Canadian Capacity

Edited by Glen Toner
UBC Press
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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.

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