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.

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.

A groundbreaking study of women entrepreneurs in early twentieth-century British Columbia.

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.”

A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.

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.

This book illuminates the major economic and political factors that have led to the development of a particular pattern of trade in forest products, and it examines and compares the legal structures within which this trade takes place.

This remarkable volume makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.

Exploring the new dynamics of China’s regional and international roles, this thoughtfully crafted textbook familiarizes students with the Chinese framework for analyzing the the political, security, economic, and social issues the country faces in the emerging twenty-first century.

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.

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.

A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.

This collection of legal essays explores the theoretical underpinnings of corporate governance and provides concrete illustrations of different models and their outcomes.