topic:"Conservation" found 38 records - Research Collections

Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Author: Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 04 B53o

Author: Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Environment; Environmental conservation; Environmentalism; Ecology; Mining; Oil; Fishing

Abstract: Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?

ISBN: 9781487594848

Accession Number: P2023.22

Call Number: 04 B53o

Collection: Archives Library

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Plight of the Whitebark Pine

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: May 2019

Author: Los, Fraser

Publisher: Crowfoot Media

Call Number: P

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Author: Los, Fraser

Publisher: Crowfoot Media

Published Date: May 2019

Physical Description: p.22-23

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Conservation; Revelstoke; Glacier National Park; Trees; Parks Canada

Abstract: Pertains to a collaborative project with Parks Canada as part of a country-wide Conservation and and Restoration program to create white pine blister rust resistant Whitebark Pines to replant in their natural ranges in Glacier National Park and Mount Revelstoke National Park.

Notes: In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual

Websites

https://crowfootmedia.com/canadian-rockies-annual/

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Some stories : lessons from the edge of business and sport

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Chouinard, Yvon

Publisher: Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books

Call Number: SK S66 C46

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Author: Chouinard, Yvon

Publisher: Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Autobiography; Essays; Environment; Environmental conservation; Equipment; Businesses; Rock climbing

Abstract: This collection of stories, articles, reflections and more offers insight into the life of an iconoclastic business leader and itinerant adventurer. Like sitting around the campfire, sharing a bottle of wine while telling stories, Some Stories is an eclectic portrait of a unique life well lived. (from Patagonia website)

Contents: North America Wall, Yosemite Valley -- Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley -- Yosemite Valley, California -- Patagonia -- Doug Tompkins -- Flamingos, Patagonia -- Sandhill cranes, Nebraska -- Fiordo de las Montan~as, Chile -- Headwaters of Lago Inexplorado, Chile -- Bonefishing in the Bahamas -- Hatchery fish being released into San Francisco Bay -- Coastal wolves, British Columbia -- 12,000 young voters, Washington, DC.

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 9781938340826

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: SK S66 C46

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Patagonia website

Websites

https://www.patagonia.com/product/some-stories-lessons-from-the-edge-of-business-and-sport-by-yvon-chouinard-hardcover-book-published-by-patagonia/BK805.html

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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Author: Wohlleeben, Peter; Billinghurst, Jane

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd

Call Number: 04.1 W81t

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Author: Wohlleeben, Peter; Billinghurst, Jane

Responsibility: Peter Wohlleeben (author); Jane Billinghurst (translator)

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: xv, 272 pages : illustrations

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Environment; Environmental conservation; Trees; Conservation; Conservation areas

Abstract: Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist, by Dr.Suzanne Simard (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a commodity -- Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.

ISBN: 9781771642484

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 04.1 W81t

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-hidden-life-of-trees

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Protecting the wild : parks and wilderness, the foundation for conservation

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2015

Publisher: Washington : Island Press

Call Number: 04 P94w; 04 P94w Copy 2

Responsibility: George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler

Publisher: Washington : Island Press

Published Date: 2015

Physical Description: xxvii, 362 pages, maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Animals; Conservation; Parks Canada; Wilderness

Notes: "Nature Needs (at least) Half : A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas" by Harvey Locke; "Bolder Thinking for Conservation" Reed F. Noss et al.; "What is the Future of Conservation?" Daniel F. Doak et al.; "Protected Areas are Necessary for Conservation" Anthony R.E. Sinclair; "Yellowstone to Yukon : Global Conservation Innovations Through the Years" Harvey Locke and Karsten Heuer; "Rewilding Our Hearts : Making a Personal Commitment to Animals and their Homes" Marc Bekoff; "The Humbling Power of Wilderness" Spencer R. Phillips

ISBN: 9781610915489

Accession Number: 2016.8620

Call Number: 04 P94w; 04 P94w Copy 2

Collection: Archives Library

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On fracking

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2013

Author: Lane, C. Alexia

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 03.6 L24o

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Author: Lane, C. Alexia

Responsibility: C. Alexia Lane

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: 127 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Environment; Environmental conservation; Pollution; Politics; Industry

Abstract: Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater risks in order to fuel our consumption and over-use of this planet’s natural resources. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, has emerged as a lightning rod of controversy as engaged citizens grow more and more concerned with the threats facing fresh water resources, local geology and sensitive landscapes. C. Alexia Lane’s first RMB Manifesto introduces readers to the practice of “fracking” and makes it clear that there is an urgent need for current policies to be reformed in order to alleviate ever-growing community, ecological and environmental concerns. (from publisher's website)

Contents: That was then ... -- This is now ... -- The wild wests : governance of water and energy in North America -- Environmental and health concerns -- Groundwater -- Future focus.

ISBN: 9781927330807

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.6 L24o

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/on-fracking/

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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2012

Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 04 F74c

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Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Responsibility: Neil S. Forkey

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 157 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Ecology; Politics; History; Canada; Environment; Environmental conservation

Abstract: Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history (from publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.