Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development
Economic Policies and the Common Good
An introduction to issues of land use and the economic tools that are used to resolve land-use conflicts.
The Green Economy
Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future
In The Green Economy, Michael Jacobs rejects both the traditional Green demand for 'zero growth' and the new economic orthodoxy which seeks to give the environment a monetary value.
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests
Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment
Field Guide to Ecosites of Northern Alberta
Achieving Sustainable Development
Achieving Sustainable Development provides an overall introduction to critical subjects in sustainable development -- industrial growth, women, institutional arrangements, industrial practices, and aboriginal people -- and argues for the immediate development of a research and policy agenda for Canada and suggests mechanisms for its implementation.
Managing Natural Resources in British Columbia
Markets, Regulations, and Sustainable Development
Offers an innovative and far-reaching contribution to the debate over sustainability at a time when many individuals are questioning the future of the environment in British Columbia.
Life in 2030
Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada
A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.
Passing the Buck
Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy
The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Balancing Act
Environmental Issues in Forestry
This book is a clarion call for a balanced, objective approach to forestry issues, including clearcutting, slashburning, old growth, and management chemicals.
A Stake in the Future
Redefining the Canadian Mineral Industry
A comprehensive study of the Whitehorse Mining Initiative, which aimed to revitalize the mining industry.
The International Politics of Whaling
The International Politics of Whaling examines contemporary whaling issues with an emphasis on three factors: our knowledge of whales and current whale populations and the impact of whaling; the actors and institutions involved in the debate over whaling; and the ethical dimension.
Ecology and Management of Sitka Spruce
Emphasizing Its Natural Range in British Columbia
This book is the most recent major work on the ecology and management of Sitka spruce.
Conservation Biology Principles for Forested Landscapes
This book is intended to provide information to those who wish to interact with the landbase in an ecologically sustainable manner.
Talk and Log
Wilderness Politics in British Columbia
A comprehensive account of the rise of the wilderness movement in British Columbia examines the forest industry's political strategies, and analyzes the inner workings of the policy process.
The Wealth of Forests
Markets, Regulation, and Sustainable Forestry
This book is a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.
Animals and Nature
Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities
“No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations.”
Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada
This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, bringing together concerned parties who have argued for increased local participation in sustainable community development.
Once Upon an Oldman
Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.
White Gold
Hydroelectric Power in Canada
White Gold looks at what went wrong with hydro development, with the predicted industrial transformation, with the timing and magnitude of projects, and with national and regional initiatives to link these major projects to a trans-Canada power grid.
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.
Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape
Patterns and Processes of Forest Landscapes in Ontario
Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape responds to the increasing need of forest policy developers, planners, and managers for an integrated, comprehensive perspective on ecological landscapes.
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.
Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest
This is a handbook of more than 200 traditional plants and their usage among First Nations people in Canada's northwest boreal forest (northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta).
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.
Flexible Crossroads
The Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest Economy
Columbia's forest economy is at a crucial crossroads, and Flexible Crossroads looks at the contemporary restructuring of British Columbia's forest economy, demonstrating how both resource dynamics and industrial dynamics have shaped this transformation.
In Search of Sustainability
British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s
A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.
Fatal Consumption
Rethinking Sustainable Development
Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future.
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Forging Truces in the War in the Woods
This thoughtful collection of essays examines forest policy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
At the Edge
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
This timely book argues for governance based on human responsibility and recognition of the interconnectedness of human and natural systems.
The Cost of Climate Policy
We all want to reduce the risks of global warming, but how much will this cost? What will it mean on a personal, business, or community level? What policy responses should we expect from our governments?
Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb
A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
This impressive compedium of writings, speaches, and other expression shows that respect for animals has always been part of human thought.
Anatomy of a Conflict
Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests
Explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon’s temperate rain forest.
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
A Framework For Assessment
Forestry and the Forest Industry in Japan
Representing the work of distinguished Japanese scholars, this is the first comprehensive English-language overview of forestry, forest management, and the forest products industry in Japan.
Restoration of the Great Lakes
Promises, Practices, and Performances
Using original findings from surveys, interviews, and other documents, this volume looks at how various levels of government are attempting to restore the environment in the Great Lakes.
A Passion for Wildlife
The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service
A chronicle of the Canadian Wildlife Service and the evolution of wildlife policy over the first 50 years of this venerable Canadian institution's history.
The Integrity Gap
Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions
This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.
Future Nature, revised edition
A Vision for Conservation
This revised edition of Bill Adams's classic work tackles the new challenges in the countryside and wildlife conservation, exploring the scientific, cultural and economic significance of conservation.
Game in the Garden
A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
Unnatural Law
Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
This award-winning book comprehensively assesses of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law.
Environmental Land Use Planning and Management
Environmental Land Use Planning and Management is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and management and their impacts on the environment.
Misplaced Distrust
Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada
A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.
Taking Stands
Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
Goes beyond the dichotomies of “pro” and “anti” environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.
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.
Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability
A Farming Systems Analysis
An analysis of intensive agriculture and sustainable farming examining food quality, manure runoff, greenhouse gases, extra-label use of antibiotics, pesticide use, and rural conflict.
The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout
Describes the lives of offspring during the months they spend incubating in gravel, growing in fresh water, and migrating out to sea to mature.