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
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada encourages critical thought and discussion about energy generation and waste management by exploring not only the technical but also the social and ethical aspects of the problem.
- Copyright year: 2009
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
- Copyright year: 2008
Setting the Standard
Certification, Governance, and the Forest Stewardship Council
This important work undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of Forest Stewradship Council environmental standards, and their implications for global governance and regulatory theory.
- Copyright year: 2008
Farming in a Changing Climate
Agricultural Adaptation in Canada
Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.
- Copyright year: 2007
Captain Alex MacLean
Jack London's Sea Wolf
Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
- Copyright year: 2008
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
Taking the Air
Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks
- Copyright year: 2007
Co-operative Management of Local Fisheries
New Directions for Improved Management and Community Development
This book is the first to consolidate information on the different routes by which co-operative management arrangements of fisheries have evolved.
- Copyright year: 1989
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.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Culture of Flushing
A Social and Legal History of Sewage
Iinvestigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment – in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.
- Copyright year: 2007
Sustainable Production
Building Canadian Capacity
- Copyright year: 2006
Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-74
- Copyright year: 2007
Eau Canada
The Future of Canada's Water
The country’s top water experts discusses our most pressing water issues.
- Copyright year: 2006
States of Nature
Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
This multi-award-winning book is one of the first to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots.
- Copyright year: 2006
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.
- Copyright year: 2005
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
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.
- Copyright year: 2005
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.
- Copyright year: 2004