British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest
Ecology, Conservation, and Management
This book brings together information from a wide range of sources about the ecology, management, and conservation of British Columbia’s inland rainforest.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the State
International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
This book provides a clear theoretical lens and practical guidance on the prospects and limits of leveraging private corporate social responsibility standards, such as forest certification, alongside government regulatory efforts to achieve more effective and adaptive sustainability solutions.
Wet Prairie
People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba
This in-depth exploration of surface water management in southern Manitoba reveals how coping with environmental realities has altered both residents’ relations with each other and their ideas about the role of the state.
Manufacturing National Park Nature
Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
Focusing on Jasper National Park, this richly illustrated book shows how photography has shaped and continues to inform perceptions of nature and ecological issues in Canada.
Geography of British Columbia, Third Edition
People and Landscapes in Transition
This fully revised edition of an essential text adopts a mainly thematic approach to explore the development of BC’s physical and human geography.
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Following the revival of the gray whale hunt by the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth tribes in the Pacific Northwest, this books looks at the significance of whaling to these societies, exploring environmentalism, animal rights, and what it means to be “Indian.”
Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status
Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers
This volume and its predecessor condense the vast amount of literature on the nonpasserines of Ontario into a compact reference manual that will be essential to biologists, environmental planners, and serious birders.
Managed Annihilation
An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
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.
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
A comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.
What Is Water?
The History of a Modern Abstraction
A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.