"Rough food is your staples, your Winter's diet. The things you got in the Fall to see you through 'til Spring."

Rough Food details how and why northern Newfoundlanders have lived off the land, as unyielding ...

The rapid destruction of tropical forests is one of the most
pressing environmental problems of our time, but the international
community and national governments are unable to formulate effective
policy ...

As society's awareness of environmental effects on public health
has grown, scientists (especially epidemiologists) have been
increasingly drawn into the public arena. The design of studies, the
manipulation ...

In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have reneged ...

Dangling Lines asks: How should the fishery be managed so that both fish stocks and fishing communities survive? What is worth preserving and what should be changed in traditional practices and values? ...

The current controversy over the future of the forest in Clayoquot
Sound is seen by many as typifying the unsolvable conflict between jobs
and the environment. In The Green Economy, Michael Jacobs
rejects ...

Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. ...

Gomes, a biologist, draws on a study of commercial fish assemblages on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to illustrate how uncertainty about the structure of ecological models confounds attempts to predict ...

Articles explore distance education, focusing on northern and remote communities in Canada, Botswana, and Nigeria. Programs in post-secondary education, including teacher training, credit and non-credit ...

Annotated list of materials related to the development and operation of pulp mills in northern Alberta.