Recently added articles from Environments:
Nation-wide decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management: issues and insights from Canada.(Country overview)(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper explores existing decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management in Canada across its thirteen provinces and territories, with particular emphasis on organizations with governing Boards that are principally, but not ...
Impact and benefit agreements: a contentious issue for environmental and aboriginal justice.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) have become a common part of a standard package of agreements negotiated between an industrial proponent and a representative aboriginal organization. Among other things, IBAs recognize aboriginal peoples' interests with the land ...
Climate change, sea-level rise and the case for salt marsh restoration in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract Over the next century society will be facing significant increases in temperature and sea-level, which pose a growing threat to low-lying coastal communities. To protect these communities, adaptation strategies are needed that will be sustainable not only in the ...
Population growth and sustainability: Canadian considerations.(IDEAS)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to briefly chart how Canada's population has grown and will continue to grow well into the 21st century. In so doing, we shall place this demographic increase into a broader international context by also considering U.N. projections at the ...
Governing Canada's Freshwater Resources: Weaknesses, Challenges, Innovations.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Bakker, K (ed). 2007. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 440 pages, ISBN 13: 978-0-7748-1339-6. pb $29.95 Bakker, and 27 contributing authors, explore five themes in Eau Canada: water governance; transboundary water management; water privatization; pathways to better water management; ...
Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland and Savanna Ecosystems.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Herrick, J., J.W. Van Zee, K.M. Kavstad, and W.G. Whitford. 2005. Las Cruces: USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, ISBN 978-0-9755552-0-0 (paper), CDN $24.95 (paper). Ecosystems of the semiarid environment are known to be quite fragile and thus susceptible to degradation if ...
Energy Autonomy: the Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Scheer, Hermann 2007. Sterling, VA: EarthScan Publications, 320 pages, ISBN 978-1-84407-355-9 (hardcover), CDN $39.95 (hardcover). If the frequent mention of wind power, solar energy systems and bio-fuels these days had you believing we had entered a new energy age characterized ...
Towards a Sense of Place: Preparing Heritage Landscape Guides--A Manual for Urban and Rural Communities in Ontario.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Nelson, J.G. and Preston, S.M. 2005. University of Waterloo: An Environments Publication. c/o The Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo What makes for a vibrant, animated, and livable place? What is it about your home-place that resonates deeply within your being? ...
Conservation is our government now: the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea.
Nov 01, 2007; ... West. P. 2006. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 352 pages, ISBN 0-8223-3712-6 (unjacketed library cloth) / 0-8223-3749-5 (paper), CDN $79.95 (unjacketed library cloth), CDN $22.95 (paper). There has been a growing volume of ethnographic literature in the past ...