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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

This thoughtful collection of essays examines forest policy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.

A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.

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.

This book addresses the major problems facing policy-makers and managers in sustaining biological diversity in managed forests.

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.

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.

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.

This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of BC, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965.

This book is a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.

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.

This book is intended to provide information to those who wish to interact with the landbase in an ecologically sustainable manner.

An up-to-date checklist of the current valid taxonomy for all vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in British Columbia.

This book is the most recent major work on the ecology and management of Sitka spruce.

A comprehensive study of the Whitehorse Mining Initiative, which aimed to revitalize the mining industry.

This book is a clarion call for a balanced, objective approach to forestry issues, including clearcutting, slashburning, old growth, and management chemicals.

A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.

Geographic variation within tree species is one of the basic issues facing foresters, biologists, and others who work with trees.

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.

The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System provides a systematic method of assessing fire behavior, and this publication provides diagrams, examples, and exercises that explain the FBP System in a user-oriented manner.

An introduction to issues of land use and the economic tools that are used to resolve land-use conflicts.

Pacific Salmon Life Histories gives detailed descriptions of the different life phases through which each of the seven species pass.