UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.
Against the Grain
Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia
This book argues that forestry is a more diverse and complex activity than has been generally recognized. It also underlines the political character of the profession.
2001, Winner - Clio Award (Atlantic), Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2000
Policy and Practices for Biodiversity in Managed Forests
The Living Dance
This book addresses the major problems facing policy-makers and managers in sustaining biological diversity in managed forests.
1998, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press
2000, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
- Copyright year: 1999
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage
A Global Challenge
An international appraisal of how current legal regimes worldwide fail to protect Indigenous knowledge and what needs to change
2000, Winner - First Peoples' Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2000
Prometheus Wired
The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology
Describing and documenting the actual effects of computer networks on people's experience in the workplace, marketplace, and community, the book argues that the conditions of surveillance and corporate control far outweigh those of information access as key elements in the social and political presence of network computing.
2001, Winner - Communications Politcy Research Award, Donald McGannon Communication Research Center
2001, Winner - Outstanding Book in Political Theory, Choice Magazine
2002, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2000
Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Special Places explores the changing ecosystems of the Toronto area over this century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whole region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can still find in many of its natural spaces.
2000, Shortlisted - Toronto Book Award, City of Toronto
- Copyright year: 1999
Biodiversity and Democracy
Rethinking Nature and Society
In Biodiversity and Democracy, Paul Wood argues that the problem of extinction can be traced to how we think about both biodiversity and democratic societies.
2000, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press
- Copyright year: 2000