Making Meaning Out of Mountains
The Political Ecology of Skiing
Brings to the light the conflicting meanings attached to skiing by diverse groups in British Columbia.
The Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
This transnational view provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and reorients borderlands studies towards the Canada-US border while providing a new view of how Native Borders worked.
Forest Economics
This book covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues.
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.
An Environmental History of Canada
This text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.
Investing in Place
Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia
A compelling exploration of place-based development as a timely, pragmatic approach to renewing rural and small-town economies in northern British Columbia.
The Right to a Healthy Environment
Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
Renowned environmental lawyer David R. Boyd argues that Canada must constitutionalize environmental rights and responsibilities if it hopes to improve its environmental record.
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.
Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada
Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada explores the historical, political, cultural, legal, and ethical issues surrounding forest resource use and discusses opportunities for collaboration between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals.
Resistance Is Fertile
Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons
A critical look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada.
Inventing Stanley Park
An Environmental History
A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world’s most famous urban parks.
Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism
Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico
A cross-comparison of gender and indigeneity in the neoliberal contexts of Canada and Mexico.
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914
A revealing look at the origins of modern wildlife conservation in Quebec.
Canoe Nation
Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon
An exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.
A Timeless Place
The Ontario Cottage
An exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.
Aluminum Ore
The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry
An exploration of one little-known mineral, and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped both its history and the twentieth century.
Northscapes
History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.
Power from the North
Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec
This book explores how French Canada’s aspirations migrated north with natural resource development, creating a culture of hydroelectricity that continues to shape territorial planning and relations with Aboriginal peoples in the province.
Negotiating a River
Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway
A revealing look at the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that had a profound impact on North American history.
Coping with Calamity
Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949
The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the Jianghan plain in central China, focusing on the peasants’ relationship with a volatile environment.