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Canadian Counterculture and the Environment
Contemporary environmental debate owes a lot to the counterculture movements of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This is one of the main contentions of Canadian Countercultures and the Environment, the fourth book published under the...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 159-161
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Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History
When the Kicking Horse Trail opened in 1927, connecting Banff to Golden by route of Lake Louise, parks visitors were presented with a scenic highway system unsurpassed elsewhere in the nation. For a nation that...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 173-174
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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century
The field of Canadian environmental history has blossomed over the past two decades. Consequently, instructors of Canadian environmental history courses are becoming increasingly spoiled with good options to choose from for course readers. In all...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 122-124
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Cleaner Greener Smarter: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
The World Health Organization released an update to the Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database on 12 May 2016, finding that more than 80 percent of people who live in major cities around the world...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 201-203
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Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment
It is sometimes forgotten that rural Canada is on the front lines of some of the most important changes and challenges facing this country. By now, we are accustomed to hearing about looming crises in...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 146-7
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Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of the Loon to the Time of the Iron People
This edited volume, which consists of sixteen chapters plus two fore words, a preface, and a conclusion, has twenty-nine contributors. Its focus is the Parks Canada Gwaii Haanas Archaeology and Paleoecology project, which reports primarily...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 120-2
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The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
THE NATURE OF GOLD is in several ways a path-breaking work since, although there is a large literature on Yukon environment, there has been very little written on the environmental history of the Territory, and...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 126-8
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Environmental Law: A Study of Legislation Affecting the Environment of British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 33, Spring 1977
BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 51-4
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Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 88, Winter 1990/91
BC Studies no. 88 Winter 1990-1991 | Page(s) 109-14
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Victoria: Physical Environment and Development
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 35, Autumn 1977
BC Studies no. 35 Autumn 1977 | Page(s) 73-5
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Community, Environment and Health: Geographic Perspectives
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 101, Spring 1994
BC Studies no. 101 Spring 1994 | Page(s) 126-8
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Managing the Water Environment
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 33, Spring 1977
BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 50-1
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The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
This ambitious book takes up the daunting challenge of surveying Canada’s evolution from the 1500s to the 1870s. Cole Harris’ long and distinguished career as a historical geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests provide him with...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 125- 7
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Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
FOR SEVERAL DECADES now, Canada has presented itself to the world as a country in the forefront of environmental stewardship and responsibility. The sheer size of our country, its relatively low population density, and the...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 313-5
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Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments is a fascinating set of essays edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones. Its overall argument is that threats to the environment pose not simply technical or...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 204-205
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Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
In 1921 the Prince George Citizen reminded its readership that “central B.C. is not a new country” (Prince George Citizen 1921). Defining “central B.C.” as those parts of the province situated between the 52nd and...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences
The title suggests a broad discussion of sustainability, with Canadian examples. The core of this book, however, is about “Canadian experiences” with Man and Biosphere Reserves (sic) or MAB, and Model Forests. Francis was an...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
In Mnemonic: A Book of Trees Teresa Kishkan explores how our concept of self is intimately connected to the places we have experienced. Kishkan describes how places are sensed and experienced, and how these place-specific...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 246-247
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A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
This collection explores many of the controversial issues surrounding fish farming practices in British Columbia. In five separate essays, the authors illustrate the importance of the precautionary principle in experimenting with new chemicals and processes...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 121-3
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Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73
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An Environmental History of Canada
On the growing list of books on Canadian environmental history, University of Toronto historian Laurel MacDowell’s new textbook An Environmental History of Canada should take a prominent place. The evolution of this field of study...
