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  • - Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
    af Jamie Benidickson
    323,95 - 838,95 kr.

    It's one thing to live in a watershed. We all do. It's another to manage one, as Levelling the Lake compellingly demonstrates.

  • - Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
    af John Sandlos
    343,95 - 978,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
    af Joy Parr
    353,95 - 978,95 kr.

    These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change.

  • - An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
    af Dean Bavington
    343,95 - 353,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
    af J. Keri Cronin
    318,95 - 978,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Environmental History
    af Sean Kheraj
    298,95 - 923,95 kr.

    A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world's most famous urban parks.

  • af Darcy Ingram
    343,95 - 923,95 kr.

    A revealing look at the origins of modern wildlife conservation in Quebec.

  • - How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia's Coastal Rainforest
    af Justin Page
    923,95 kr.

    A detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia.

  • - Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
    af Carly A. Dokis
    488,95 - 923,95 kr.

    An examination of Sahtu Dene participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas pipeline and other resource extraction projects, this book provides an in-depth account of the workings and effects of participatory environmental assessment in the Canadian North and its implications for the legitimization of resource co-management.

  • - Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec
    af Caroline Desbiens
    343,95 - 923,95 kr.

    This book explores how French Canada's aspirations migrated north with natural resource development, creating a culture of hydroelectricity that continues to shape territorial planning and relations with Aboriginal peoples in the province.

  • - Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
    af John Thistle
    298,95 - 923,95 kr.

    This unconventional history looks at the resettlement of interior British Columbia from the perspective of campaigns to exterminate grasshoppers and wild horses, creatures considered by some to be pests.

  • - A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour
    af Ken Cruikshank & Nancy B. Bouchier
    513,95 - 923,95 kr.

    This engaging history brings to life the personalities and power struggles that shaped how Hamiltonians used their harbour and, in the process, invites readers to consider how moral and political choices being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow.

  • - Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
    af Jonathan Peyton
    323,95 - 923,95 kr.

    This book looks at the long-term social and environmental effects of imagined, abandoned, and failed resource-development schemes in northwest British Columbia.

  • - First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
    af David Calverley
    298,95 - 838,95 kr.

    Tracing the connections between colonialism and the early conservation movement in Ontario, Who Controls the Hunt? examines the contentious issue of treaty hunting rights and the impact of conservation laws on First Nations.

  • - Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia
    af Mark R. Leeming
    298,95 - 698,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces
    af Angela V. Carter
    323,95 - 698,95 kr.

    Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador - blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 - undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.

  • - Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867-1939
    af Stephane Castonguay
    298,95 - 698,95 kr.

    The Government of Natural Resources is a revealing look at how science can extend state power through territorial and environmental transformations.

  • - Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall
    af Daniel Macfarlane
    838,95 kr.

    Long considered a natural wonder, the world's most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.

  • - Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario
    af Ryan P. O'Connor
    298,95 - 923,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Social and Legal History of Sewage
    af Jamie Benidickson
    318,95 - 978,95 kr.

    Iinvestigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment - in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.

  • - Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway
    af Daniel Macfarlane
    343,95 kr.

    A revealing look at the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that had a profound impact on North American history.

  • - A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914
    af Jim Clifford
    323,95 - 698,95 kr.

    This original account of industrial London's expansion into West Ham's suburban marshlands highlights how pollution, poverty, and water shortages fuelled social democracy in Greater London.

  • - Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
    af Greg Gillespie
    343,95 - 978,95 kr.

    Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land.

  • - Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
    af Tina Loo
    318,95 - 978,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The History of a Modern Abstraction
    af Jamie Linton
    343,95 kr.

    A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.

  • - Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
    af William J. Turkel
    343,95 - 978,95 kr.

    Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau.

  • - People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba
    af Shannon Stunder Bower
    343,95 - 978,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The James Bay Cree and Their Land
    af Hans M. Carlson
    343,95 - 978,95 kr.

    The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows.

  • - Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
    af Jessica van Horssen
    323,95 - 923,95 kr.

    In A Town Called Asbestos, a mining town's proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a small resource community faced in a globalized world.

  • - An Environmental History
    af Michele Dagenais
    298,95 - 748,95 kr.

    Montreal, City of Water investigates the development of the city over two centuries, tracing the relationship between the city's inhabitants and the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks.