Climate and Conservation
Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action
Climate and Conservation offers readers tangible, place-based examples of projects designed to protect large landscapes as a means of conserving biodiversity in the face of the looming threat of global climate change.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Shape of Green
Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design
The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made.
- Copyright year: 2012
Forest Economics
This book covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.
- Copyright year: 2011
Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System
Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society
Lays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.
- Copyright year: 2012
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Resilience Practice
Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function
In this follow-up to Resilience Thinking, Brian Walker and David Salt explore how systems can be managed to promote and sustain resilience.
- Copyright year: 2012
Corporation 2020
Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World
- Copyright year: 2012
Tibet Wild
A Naturalist’s Journey on the Roof of the World
Follows Dr. George Schaller’s expeditions to the Tibetan Plateau from 1984 until the present day, including an inside look at Schaller’s current and possibly most ambitious project: the creation of the Pamir International Peace Park at the junction of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan.
- Copyright year: 2012
Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Community, Cultures, and Collective Action
A series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.
- Copyright year: 2013
State of the World 2013
Is Sustainability Still Possible?
- Copyright year: 2013
Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Stories from an Environmental Mediator
The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods
Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities
The World's Water, Volume 8
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
- Copyright year: 2014
Project Planning and Management for Ecological Restoration
- Copyright year: 2014
Tracking the Great Bear
How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest
A detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2014
Islands' Spirit Rising
Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii
Set within the context of resource conflict and collaborative land-use planning on Haida Gwaii, this book examines how historic relations of domination and oppression can be transformed and more sustainable forms of land governance created.
- Copyright year: 2015
State of the World 2015
Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
- Copyright year: 2015
Scaling Up
The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability
- Copyright year: 2015
Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World
Canadian Experiences
In the face of growing anxiety about the environmental sustainability of the world, George Francis, a leading authority in the field of sustainability studies, examines initiatives undertaken in Canada over the past twenty-five years to protect some of our unique environments.
- Copyright year: 2016