Linking Industry and Ecology
A Question of Design
This remarkable volume makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.
The OECD and Transnational Governance
A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.
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.”
The Business of Women
Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-51
A groundbreaking study of women entrepreneurs in early twentieth-century British Columbia.
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.
Globalization and Local Adaptation in International Trade Law
Drawing on case studies from the Pacific Rim, this book traces the selective adaptation of international trade law to local conditions.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the State
International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
This book provides a clear theoretical lens and practical guidance on the prospects and limits of leveraging private corporate social responsibility standards, such as forest certification, alongside government regulatory efforts to achieve more effective and adaptive sustainability solutions.
Offshore Petroleum Politics
Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin
This comprehensive study of petroleum politics in the Scotian Basin reveals the complex interplay of regulation and risk as industry, federal, and provincial authorities struggle to develop Canada's Atlantic offshore oil and gas resources.
Forest Economics
This book covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.
Consuming Modernity
Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom
Placing Canada in an international context, this book explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and consumerism from 1919 to 1945.