Sustainability and the Environment
Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World
In the face of growing anxiety about global environmental sustainability, George Francis, a leading authority in the field of sustainability studies, examines initiatives undertaken in Canada over the ...
Empowering Electricity
Since the 1990s, there has been an upsurge in renewable electricity co-operatives across Canada as hundreds of community organizations have turned to the sun, wind, and rivers as sources of local power ...
Linking Industry and Ecology
The contributors to this volume draw on their experience in a variety
of disciplines to explore the origins, promise, and relevance of
the emerging field of industrial ecology. They situate industrial ...
Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System
Civil society organizations are among the most vociferous critics of the modern food system. Yet even after decades of campaigns, governments have largely failed to address health and sustainability issues ...
Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests
Three quarters of Canada’s forests are under provincial control, so provincial forest policies are crucial to long-term sustainability. By offering an up-to-date comparative scrutiny of forest policies, ...
Sustainable Production
The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most
important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the
scholarship in this area has been produced in the United States ...
Life in 2030
Life in 2030 is a ground-breaking, practical, and, above all,
positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada. As we move into
the next century, the development of sustainable and environmentally ...
Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada
What is a sustainable community? The pressing need to answer this
simple question is what prompted John Pierce and Ann Dale to gather the
essays in this volume. Communities, Development, and Sustainability ...
Managing Natural Resources in British Columbia
How must natural resource sectors change to achieve sustainable
development in British Columbia? What reforms can be made to
'institutions' in order to assist these changes? What new
policy instruments ...
Farming in a Changing Climate
In farming systems across Canada, effective risk management is
necessary to deal with drought, flooding, and extreme weather, and to
adapt to altered climate and weather conditions. Unfortunately, climate ...