Download or read book COSEWIC Assessment Results written by COSEWIC Secretariat (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COSEWIC Assessment Results written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COSEWIC Assessment Results November 2003 written by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Wildlife Species at Risk written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Change written by Ussif Rashid Sumaila and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building resilient, sustainable oceans and supporting the communities that rely on them. Sea Change reports on the OceanCanada Partnership, a multidisciplinary project to take stock of what we know about Canada’s oceans, construct possible scenarios for coastal regions, and create a national dialogue and vision. Three themes emerge from this impressive synthesis of social, cultural, economic, and environmental research: ocean change, access to ocean resources, and ocean governance. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and practitioners focus on finding solutions to rapid environmental and social transformation, outlining the implications for legislation and offering policy recommendations. Increasingly, civil society will have to advocate for oceans, and Sea Change will empower the voices of those who take up that task.
Download or read book The World s Largest Wetlands written by Lauchlan H. Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts share their understanding of the ecology of large wetlands, their significance and their conservation.
Download or read book Protecting the Coast and Ocean written by Stephanie M. Hewson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish were once so abundant in BC waters that Indigenous elders recall dried salmon being stacked like firewood behind the stove. But declines on the BC coast have accelerated over the last century, with marine wildlife cut in half in just four decades. Protecting the Coast and Ocean explores how we can reverse such precipitous declines. This meticulous work catalogues not only Canadian laws and designations – marine protected areas, Indigenous protected and conserved areas, land-use measures, and zoning bylaws – but also international treaties that shape marine conservation and support collaboration. The authors analyze and compare legal tools, rating their strengths and weaknesses. In-depth case studies illustrate how each instrument has been used in practice. Despite the impact of climate change, overfishing, and pollution, Protecting the Coast and Ocean convincingly demonstrates that legal tools are available to reverse species extinction and plan for a resilient ocean.
Download or read book Innovation Science Environment 08 09 written by Glen Toner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration is a leading centre for the production of timely and insightful annual assessments of Canadian public policy. This volume provides an innovative approach to assessing key developments in one of the most challenging areas of public policy in the early 21st Century. Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues, force analysts to constantly update their assessments of how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors. Leading experts assess crucial innovation, science and environment issues such as climate change, northern pipeline development, urban sustainability, pesticide management, migratory birds, energy use, sustainable development policy tools, science management, and the international approach to governing intellectual property. This book addresses recent developments within the government of Canada and amongst key private and non-governmental players in this policy area. Governmental institutions and policies should be part of the solution to the complex array of science and technology and environment and development issues facing Canada today. Too often, it appears, they are also part of the problem. This volume explores the role of governments in a number of key areas.
Download or read book Acts of the Parliament of Canada written by Canada and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Our Backyard written by Aimée Craft and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network of 15 dams and 13,800 km of transmission lines. In Our Backyard tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, academics, scientists, and regulators. It builds on the rich environmental and economic evaluations documented in the Clean Environment Commission’s public hearings on Keeyask in 2012. It amplifies Indigenous voices that environmental assessment and regulatory processes have often failed to incorporate and provides a basis for ongoing decision-making and scholarship relating to Keeyask and resource development more generally. It considers cumulative, regional, and strategic impact assessments; Indigenous worldviews and laws within the regulatory and decision-making process; the economics of development; models for monitoring and management; consideration of affected species; and cultural and social impacts. With a provincial and federal regulatory regime that is struggling with important questions around the balance between development and sustainability, and in light of the inherent rights of Indigenous people to land, livelihoods, and self-determination, In Our Backyard offers critical reflections that highlight the need for purposeful dialogue, principled decision making, and a better legacy of northern development in the future.
Download or read book Amendment 3 to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional Knowledge in Food Activism and Governance written by Andrea Pieroni and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current debate on Traditional Knowledge (TK) and food heritage has had momentum in recent years, mainly thanks to the remarkable interest of some local and national institutions, small-scale producers, and emerging chefs. However, in the scientific arena, the process of documenting traditional knowledge and the heritage of local foods is often addressed by itself, and is not well connected to deeper reflections of the actual participatory processes involved in local development or to the manners through which TK informs public discourse regarding local foods and how this may further influence activists, institutions, and governance.
Download or read book A Numeric Scoring Matrix for Use in the Rapid Assessment of Extinction Vulnerability of Marine Fish Species in the NAFO Regions 4VWX 5Zc written by Terry L. Johnston and published by St. Andrews, N.B.. : Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk ( 1996) and the Species at Risk Act (2003) arc initiatives of the Federal government that were established to provide protection and recovery for species at risk in Canada. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is the primary source of information and expertise concerning the assessment of extinction vulnerability of aquatic species. The Mari times Region of DFO is responsible for compiling biological information concerning status and potential extinction risk of marine fish species that support fisheries along the Scotian Shelf, northern Georges Bank, and in the Bay of Fundy. Given the breadth and importance of this task, it is necessary that a method for rapid analysis be developed that allows for the assessment of potential extinction vulnerability of fish species, and uses assessment criteria that are explicitly defined and relevant to marine species in Canada. The approach undertaken by the Maritimes Region was to develop a scoring matrix that (1) quantifies the dynamics of a species' abundance and distribution and allows for rapid determination of whether or not that species may be at risk of extinction, and (2) allows for easy comparison across taxa thrnugh standardization of scoring. The intention behind the matrix was to create a more intuitive ranking scheme than has been used in the past. The potential extinction vulnerability of each species is graded out of 100. A high score represents a relatively high risk of extinction or extirpation from Canadian waters. Species assigned high scores by this rapid process can then be subjected to further, indepth evaluation. The criteria and conditions for the matrix were derived from criteria used by COSEWIC, and DFO's General Status Pilot Project. However, a new set of conditions were developed for some criteria to address several of the deficiencies that existed in the General Status approach, and to accentuate factors that may of greater significance to extinction vulnerability than to the assessment of current abundance. This exercise was intended to test the validity and utility of a matrix approach for rapid assessment of extinction vulnerability and ease of comparison among species. The matrix is not intended to replace the formal assessment process, but to identify species that may need higher priority for a formal COSEWIC assessment. A prioritized candidate species list was created based on the results of the matrix analysis
Download or read book Amendment 2 to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Prairie Skink Plestiodon Septentrionalis in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Canadian distribution of this species is restricted to a small area of mixed-grass prairie on sandy soils in Manitoba and is isolated from the rest of the species' range in the USA by over 100 km. Its prairie habitat has been historically lost and fragmented mainly due to agricultural activities. Aspen succession and invasion by exotic plants continue to degrade remaining habitats. Several new localities have been discovered within the known range since the last assessment as a result of increased survey efforts, and habitat management is ongoing within portions of the skink's range on federal and provincial lands. Change in status from the previous assessment results from a different interpretation of status assessment criteria by COSEWIC. While the species is deemed to no longer be at risk of imminent extinction, it could become Threatened if factors affecting it are unmitigated"--Assessment Summary - November 2017, p. iii.
Download or read book Arctic Report Card 2010 written by Jacqueline A. Richter-Menge and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks recent environ. changes throughout the Arctic. In 2010, it is clear that the Arctic is experiencing the impacts of a prolonged and amplified warming trend, highlighted with many record-setting events. The impact of this warming is most evident in the dramatic losses that have been observed in the ice covers that define the region. Since the loss of these ice covers serves to further feed the warming trend, the expectation is that warming will continue. This makes it increasingly unlikely that the Arctic will return to conditions that were considered normal in the later part of the 20th cent. Instead, it is very likely that Arctic climate warming will continue and records will continue to be set in years to come. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Status Report on the Cryptic Paw Lichen Nephroma Occultum in Canada written by Trevor Goward and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nephroma occultum (Cryptic Modest Lichen) is a member of the Nephromataceae (or Peltigeraceae) known to occur in Canada only in the humid, primarily old growth forests of British Columbia. It is a rounded, loosely appressed, foliose (leaf) lichen. This report provides species information such as description, biological and economic significance, distribution, environment and habitat characteristics, population biology, population ecology, land ownership and management responsibility, management practices and experience, evidence of threats to survival, and legal or other formal status. It goes on to offer an assessment of the status for the species and information sources.
