Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
The crises we face, noted educator David Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge.
Bioregionalism and Civil Society
Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism
Mike Carr supports bioregional values and community-building tools for a diverse, democratic, socially-just civil society.
Biotechnology Unglued
Science, Society, and Social Cohesion
The two faces of biotechnology are revealed throughout to show the promises and perils associated with a range of innovations.
Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, 2nd ed.
Political Economy and Public Policy
This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues, provding one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.
A Dynamic Balance
Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development
Illustrates the links between two normally disparate literatures—social capital and sustainable development—within the overall context of local community development.
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 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty
Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits
Beginning late in the nineteenth century and culminating in the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty, Canada and the United States carried out long and contentious negotiations to provide a framework for cooperation for conserving and sharing the vitally important Pacific salmon resource. This book traces provides an insider’s perspective on the tumultuous negotiations.
International Ecopolitical Theory
Critical Approaches
Eau Canada
The Future of Canada's Water
The country’s top water experts discusses our most pressing water issues.
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.
Genetically Modified Diplomacy
The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally.
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.
Adaptive Co-Management
Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.
Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.
Floodplain Management
A New Approach for a New Era
Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with societal capabilities.