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A..."climate"...ising to Alberta in the dawn of the Anthropocene
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20009
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- Library - Periodical
- Author
- Skrajny, Joanna
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- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
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- P
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- Author
- Skrajny, Joanna
- Responsibility
- Joanna Skrajny
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Physical Description
- p. 22 - 25
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- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to climate change during Anthropocene including increased wildfires, ticks, and tick-borne diseases, floods, increase in insurance rates, and negative effects on health and mental health, wildlife extinction, decrease in fresh water.
- Notes
- In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 27, No.2, June 2019, p. 22 - 25
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- Archives Library
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- Digital version of publication available online
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
1 website
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Responsibility
- D.W. Schindler
- W.F. Donahue
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 6 pages ; illustrations , maps
- Abstract
- Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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Brushes with climate change - Rockies Repeat project explores the intersection between conservation, art, history, and culture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25227
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Campbell, Brooke
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- Author
- Campbell, Brooke
- Responsibility
- Brooke Campbell
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- p. 12 - 13
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule
- Notes
- In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)
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The carbon cycle : crossing the Great Divide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26209
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 336 pages ; 15 cm
- Abstract
- In 2006 “outdoor philosopher” Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska, following the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible. Cycling across unforgiving but starkly beautiful landscapes in both the United States and Canada – deserts, high mountain passes, glaciers and eventually down to the sea – she encountered bears, wolves, moose, cliff-swallows, aspens and a single, astonishing lynx. Along the way, she talked to North Americans about climate change – from truck drivers to politicians – to find out what they knew about it, whether they cared, and if they did, what they thought they could do. Kate tells the story of a trip in which she has to deal with the rigours of cycling for ten hours a day in temperatures often in excess of 100° F, fighting punctures, endless repairs and inescapable, grinding fatigue … . But in recounting the physical struggle of such a journey, she also does constant battle with her own ideas and assumptions, helping us to cross the great divide between where we are on climate change and where we need to be. Can we tackle climate change while still keeping our modern Western lifestyles intact? Should we put biofuel in our camper vans and RVs? Or do we need much deeper shifts in lifestyles, values and worldviews? -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781927330777
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
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- Archives Library
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Dark days at noon : the future of fire
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26239
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
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- 04 St8d
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780228012092
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
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- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Humans as components of ecosystems : the ecology of subtle human effects and populated areas
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26357
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Publisher
- New York : Springer-Verlag
- Call Number
- 04 M14h
- Responsibility
- edited by McDonnell, Mark J. and Pickett, Steward T.A., preface by Likens, Gene E., foreword by Cronon, William J.
- Publisher
- New York : Springer-Verlag
- Published Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- xxi, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Ecology
- Population
- Climate
- Climate change
- Climatology
- Abstract
- This book, a product of the fourth Cary Conference, amply demonstrates the achievement of a major goal of all Cary Conferences. That is, Cary Conferences were conceived to provide a forum for comprehensive discus sion of major ecological issues from more philosophical and comprehensive perspectives. The Institute of Ecosystem Studies is proud to make its staff and facilities available on a biennial basis for the purpose of initiating and fostering these important discussions. On the one hand, the influence of humans on ecosystems may be quite obvious, such as when a forest is cut. On the other, humans live within and among ecosystems, but ecologists largely have avoided making detailed and rigorous analyses of the more subtle effects that human activities generate. Indeed, most ecologists have sought out rather pristine or remote areas for study, rather than those which include humans. This book brings together a stimulating mix of disciplines to highlight and evaluate these problems, as well as the opportunities of including humans as integral components in studies of "natural- ecosystems. An exciting dialogue has ensued. Hopefully this book will convey some of the excitement and challenges that were generated at this Cary Conference. - Aurora
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- 1 Introduction: Scope and Need for an Ecology of Subtle Human Effects and Populated Areas -- Section I The Human Factor: Perception and Processes -- 2 The History and Present Entanglements of Some General Ecological Perspectives -- 3 An Exceptionally Powerful Biotic Factor -- 4 Environmental Change: The Human Factor -- 5 The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models -- 6 Ecosystems and Human Actions -- 7 The Human Component of Ecosystems -- Section II Approaches to the Study of Humans as Components of Ecosystems -- 8 Discovery of the Subtle -- 9 Land-use History and Forest Transformations in Central New England -- 10 Variability in Lake Ecosystems: Complex Responses by the Apical Predator -- 11 Humans as a Component of the Lake Titicaca Ecosystem: A Model System for the Study of Environmental Deterioration -- 12 Nitrogen Loading of Rivers as a Human-Driven Process -- 13 Humans: Capstone Strong Actors in the Past and Present Coastal Ecological Play -- 14 Modification of Nitrogen Cycling at the Regional Scale: The Subtle Effects of Atmospheric Deposition -- 15 The Application of the Ecological Gradient Paradigm to the Study of Urban Effects -- 16 The Process of Plant Colonization in Small Settlements and Large Cities -- 17 Ecological Implications of Landscape Fragmentation -- Section III Implications for Ecosystem Management and Construction -- 18 Integration of Social and Ecological Factors: Dynamic Area Models of Subtle Human Influences on Ecosystems -- 19 Human Influences on Ecosystems: Dealing With Biodiversity -- 20 "Natural" or "Healthy" Ecosystems: Are U.S. National Parks Providing Them? -- 21 Restoration as a Technique for Identifying and Characterizing Human Influences on Ecosystems -- 22 Biosphere 2 and the Study of Human/Ecosystem Dynamics -- Section IV Overview -- 23 Part I: A Social Scientist's Perspective -- II: A Human Ecologist's Perspective -- III: A Marine Ecologist's Perspective -- Humans as Capstone-Species -- IV: A Theoretical Ecologist's Perspective: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Subtle Human Effects and an Ecology of Populated Areas -- 24 Humans as Components of Ecosystems: A Synthesis.
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- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0387940626
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 M14h
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- Archives Library
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Innovate : the Mountain Legacy Project
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25006
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2019/2020
- Author
- Anthony, Leslie
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- P
1 website
- Author
- Anthony, Leslie
- Published Date
- 2019/2020
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Photography
- Climate
- Climate change
- Glaciers
- Abstract
- Pertains the the Mountain Legacy project and their use of repeat photography and historic photographs to chart changes in climate in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
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- In Mountain Life Annual, 2019/2020, pg. 42 - 43
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- Mountain Life Annual website
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On the rocks : the local impacts of glacial melt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20030
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Payne, Colin
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- P
1 website
- Author
- Payne, Colin
- Responsibility
- Colin Payne
- Published Date
- 2015
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the de-glaciation of Western Canada during the 21st century with the Athabasca Glacier as the example
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- In Highline Magazine, Iss. 16, Fall 2015, p. 40 - 45
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- Highline website
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Peyto : a hotbed of glacier science
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19950
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
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- P
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- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Responsibility
- Lynn Martel
- Published Date
- 2012
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to Peyto Glacier and glacier monitoring programs through Natural Resources Canada
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- In Highline Magazine, Vol.4, Iss.1, Winter 2012, p.36-41
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- Highline website
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Sustainable communities for a healthy planet
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26562
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Zywert, Katharine
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 Z9s
- Author
- Zywert, Katharine
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xviii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Ecology
- Plants
- Plants, Medicinal
- Plants, Edible
- Environmentalism
- Environement
- Climate
- Climate change
- Abstract
- "Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert's book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses. The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exploitative markets for medications, medical technologies, and professionalized care; attend not only to the health of individual human bodies, but to the health of internal ecologies, human populations, nonhuman species, and the planet as a whole; and embody alternative, more inclusive ways of practicing medicine within communities and ecosystems. The stories assembled in this book illustrate how human beings might live healthy lives, supported by health systems that are not dependent on perpetual economic growth. Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet challenges conventional ways of thinking about the future of health systems and asks hard questions about what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change."-- Provided by publisher.
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- 1487548036
- Accession Number
- P2024.06
- Call Number
- 04 Z9s
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- Archives Library
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