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Book Achieving Sustainable Development

Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Development written by Ann Dale and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving Sustainable Development explores how well Canada has met the Earth Summit's targets and attempts to find ways in which the public can become involved in such issues. Its authors stress the importance of integration of information from various fields and seek to stimulate the exchange of knowledge among the academic community, government, non-governmental organizations and industry. The contributors look far beyond merely identifying and analyzing selected issues and problems. To facilitate public discussion and to affect policy development, at least one initiative is proposed and detailed for each problem identified.

Book Caring for Eeyou Istchee

Download or read book Caring for Eeyou Istchee written by Monica E. Mulrennan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team to protect a territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. By addressing fundamental questions such as what should be protected and how, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners reveal how protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection.

Book Human Impacts on the Hudson Bay Bioregion

Download or read book Human Impacts on the Hudson Bay Bioregion written by P. G. (Peter Gerent) Sly and published by Hudson Bay Programme = Programme sur la Baie d'Hudson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People of James and Hudson Bay in Partnership with the Land  Sea and Air   a Submission to the Royal Commission on the Northern Environment  Mr  J E J  Fahlgren  Commissioner   by Mr  Fred P  Wesley  Chairman  James Bay Tribal Council

Download or read book People of James and Hudson Bay in Partnership with the Land Sea and Air a Submission to the Royal Commission on the Northern Environment Mr J E J Fahlgren Commissioner by Mr Fred P Wesley Chairman James Bay Tribal Council written by Fred P. Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, the Ontario Government established the Royal Commission on the Northern Environment, chaired initially by Justice Patrick Hartt and then by Edward Fahlgren, to inquire into the environmental effects of major development North of the 50th parallel.

Book Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada

Download or read book Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment. This book provides a modern history of such environmental injustices in the United States and Canada. From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land) to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises. Written for students as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability includes 50 such case studies that range from local to national to international crises.

Book Sacred Ecology

Download or read book Sacred Ecology written by Fikret Berkes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Berkes approaches traditional ecological knowledge as a knowledge-practice-belief complex. This complex considers four interrelated levels: local knowledge (species specific); resource management systems (integrating local knowledge with practice); social institutions (rules and codes of behavior); and world view (religion, ethics, and broadly defined belief systems). Divided into three parts that deal with concepts, practice, and issues, respectively, the book first discusses the emergence of the field, its intellectual roots and global significance. Substantive material is then included on how traditional ecological and management systems actually work. At the same time it explores a diversity of relationships that different groups have developed with their environment, using extensive case studies from research conducted with the Cree Indians of James Bay, in the eastern subarctic of North America. The final section examines traditional knowledge as a challenge to the positivist-reductionist paradigm in Western science, and concludes with a discussion of the potential of traditional ecological knowledge to inject a measure of ethics into the science of ecology and resource management.

Book Canada in Crisis  2

Download or read book Canada in Crisis 2 written by Robert A. Battram and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon his analysis in the first volume of the series, Canada in Crisis: An Agenda to Unify the Nation, longtime federal employee Robert A. Battram goes beyond explaining what will unify the nation to provide a working roadmap that can help ensure its continued success. Battram identifies problems in all areas of governance, from the simple to the complex, and offers a range of solutions to these problems. He examines why law enforcement agencies and immigration policies are failing, and also explores issues of infrastructure, such as how the placement of electrical transmission grids affects different areas of Canada. Take a deep look into how to improve all areas of government, including - economic policies, - transportation systems, - security of communications, - security of energy and power, - measures taken to combat extremism Join the author as he examines the many changes threatening Canada. Discover how the nation can defend itself, find solutions to its problems, and maintain its heritage, so that it can survive and thrive in Canada in Crisis: An Agenda for Survival of the Nation.

Book Resource Exploitation in Native North America

Download or read book Resource Exploitation in Native North America written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging survey of the environmental damage to Native American lands and peoples in North America—in recent times as well as previous decades—documents the continuing impact on the health, wellness, land, and communities of indigenous peoples. Beginning in the early 1950s, Native peoples were recruited to mine "yellow dust"—uranium—and then, over decades, died in large numbers of torturous cancers. Uranium-induced cancers have become the deadliest plague unleashed upon Native peoples of North America—one with grave consequences impacting generations of American Indian families. Today, resource-driven projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline continue to put the health and safety of American Indians at risk. Authored by an expert with 40 years of experience in the subject, this book documents the environmental provocations afflicting Native American peoples in the United States: from the toll of uranium mining on the Navajos to the devastation wrought by dioxin, PCBs, and other pollutants on the agricultural economy of the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation in northernmost New York. The detailed personal stories of human suffering will enable readers to grasp the seriousness of the injustices levied against Native peoples as a result of corporations' and governments' greed for natural resources.

Book Cultural Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Grossberg
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-08-08
  • ISBN : 1134834993
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Cultural Studies written by Lawrence Grossberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference

Download or read book Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada and Marine Environmental Protection Charting a Legal Course Towards Sustainable Development

Download or read book Canada and Marine Environmental Protection Charting a Legal Course Towards Sustainable Development written by David VanderZwaag and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-07-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book analyzes key principles of sustainable development and their implications for ocean law and policy, including: integration precaution pollution prevention polluter pays public participation community-based management and international equity. The author summarizes participation in global and regional agreements and arrangements for protecting the marine environment and suggests future directions for global, regional and national legal systems. For example, national law reforms include: establishing a coastal zone management framework developing a process for designating and managing marine protected areas adopting a precautionary approach in decision-making recasting the public trust doctrine

Book Long Term Threats to Canada s James Bay from Human Development

Download or read book Long Term Threats to Canada s James Bay from Human Development written by Jan Beyea and published by . This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also includes information on alcoholism, animals, toxins and breast feeding, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), George W. Bush, cancer, China, climate change, colonization, cyanide, dams, Declaration of the First International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change, deforestation, disease introduction, Native American concept of ecology, economics, ExxonMobil, fishing, fur trade, genocide, gold mining, health problems, human rights violations, hunting, hydroelectric power, infants and children, International Monetary Fund, Japan, Judeo-Christian worldview, land tenure, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, mining, Movement for the Survival of The Ogoni (MOSOP), Native Americans, natural gas exploitation, nuclear testing, nuclear waste dumps, oil exploitation, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), pollution, protests, rainforests, Rio Tinto, Russia, Shell Oil, submarine tailings disposal (STD), suicide, tourism, United States, water pollution, World Bank, etc.

Book Voices from the Bay

Download or read book Voices from the Bay written by Zacharassie Novalinga and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: