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.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Option of Urbanism
Investing in a New American Dream
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
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.
- Copyright year: 2008
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.”
- Copyright year: 2009
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention, intervening only to defend the system's legitimacy.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership
To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner
Dr. Lyse Langlois highlights ethical issues in workplace culture while looking at practices that encourage productive relationships between co-workers.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Case for a Carbon Tax
Getting Past Our Hang-Ups to Effective Climate Policy
A clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate-change policy, Hsu weighs the economic, social, administrative, and political merits of a carbon tax to argue it is the most effective policy.
- Copyright year: 2011
Environmental Land Use Planning and Management, Second Edition
Creating Sustainable Communities, Watersheds, and Ecosystems
- Copyright year: 2011
Forest Economics
This book covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.
- Copyright year: 2011
Corporation 2020
Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World
- Copyright year: 2012
Global Farms Race
Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security
The first book to examine the burgeoning trend of buying up huge swaths of farmland abroad in all its complexity, considering the implications for investors, host countries, and the world as a whole.
- Copyright year: 2012