Nature-First Cities
Restoring Relationships with Ecosystems and with Each Other
Nature-First Cities recognizes nature as the lead architect in the most essential of restoration projects – our cities.
Breaching the Peace
The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro
Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox recounts the prolonged battle, led by farmers and First Nations, to stop the cripplingly expensive and environmentally irresponsible Site C dam.
In Defence of Home Places
Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia
In Defence of Home Places examines the diversity of environmental activism in Nova Scotia, placing its early social and legislative successes and eventual weakening and division within a national and international framework.
The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism
Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound
In its careful account of eco/feminist activism in Clayoquot Sound in the early 1990s, The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism confounds prevailing stories about eco/feminism, feminism, and Clayoquot itself.
The First Green Wave
Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario
The First Green Wave examines the origins and development of first wave environmental activism (1967-86) in Toronto, home to one of Canada’s earliest and most dynamic communities of environmentalists.
Tracking the Great Bear
How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest
A detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia.
Welcome to Resisterville
American Dissidents in British Columbia
A compelling, highly readable study of American migration to the West Kootenays and of the counterculture values that created a vibrant society in the Canadian wilderness.
Resistance Is Fertile
Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons
A critical look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada.
Human Rights
The Commons and the Collective
Laura Westra argues that international and environmental law must place the rights of the collective before those of the individual if we are to protect our common heritage -- the environment, its air, water, and biodiversity -- and ensure humanity’s survival.
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
A comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
This book showcases the work of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars who uphold environmental justice as the path to a more just, equitable, and sustainable Canada.
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.
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.
Beyond Mothering Earth
Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
Provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism.
Eau Canada
The Future of Canada's Water
The country’s top water experts discusses our most pressing water issues.
International Ecopolitical Theory
Critical Approaches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Search of Sustainability
British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s
A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.
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.
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.