Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in an unsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drastically and move toward a sustainable social system when our society is specifically based on consumption? These two linked questions are at the heart of this important book, the result of a four-year interdisciplinary study of British Columbia's Lower Fraser Basin.
Taking the slogan ?think globally, act locally? to heart, the contributors to Fatal Consumption are theoretical as well as practical. Though specific in focus, the analysis in Fatal Consumption...
Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in an unsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drastically and move toward a s...
As globalization restructures agriculture and rural communities, the impacts of increasingly industrialized farming make interdisciplinary analyses of the linkages among the social, environmental, and economic aspects of farming ever more vital. This collection analyzes the reasons for the public's scrutiny of intensive agriculture and the prospects for sustainable farming now that concerns are mounting about food quality, manure runoff, greenhouse gases, extra-label use of antibiotics, pesticide use, and rural conflict.
Intensive Agriculture and Sustainability outlines the...
As globalization restructures agriculture and rural communities, the impacts of increasingly industrialized farming make interdisciplinary analyses...
A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -- social capital and sustainable development -- within the overall context of local community development. Since the social dimension of sustainable development is the least understood of what are often viewed as its three imperatives (the other two being the ecological and economic), the book illuminates the importance of understanding this dimension and how it can be mobilized at the community level. This is shown by applied research in a number of small, predominantly rural Australian and...
A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -- social capital and sustainable development -- w...
It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such a union is crucial. How else are we to make the industries that are so central to modern societies consistent with our visions of a sustainable future?
Linking Industry and Ecology explores the origins, promise, and relevance of the emerging field of industrial ecology. It situates industrial ecology within the broader range of environmental management strategies and concepts, from the practices of pollution prevention through life...
It might, at first glance, seem to many that industry and ecology make strange bedfellows. For proponents of sustainable development, however, such...
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 and Europe, not much has been written from a Canadian perspective.
Sustainable Production establishes a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward.
Sustainable production focuses on the systems by...
The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the schola...
A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -- social capital and sustainable development -- within the overall context of local community development. Since the social dimension of sustainable development is the least understood of what are often viewed as its three imperatives (the other two being the ecological and economic), the book illuminates the importance of understanding this dimension and how it can be mobilized at the community level. This is shown by applied research in a number of small, predominantly rural Australian and...
A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -- social capital and sustainable development -- w...
Around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping the resource governance landscape. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management.
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools of this emerging field, informed by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners with over two decades of experience. It offers a diverse...
Around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive pro...
Three quarters of Canada's forests are under provincial control, so provincial forest policies are crucial to long-term sustainability. With its up-to-date comparative scrutiny of forest policies, this book provides forest managers, scholars, and students with the information and concepts to critically examine Canada's complex forest tenure systems. Looking at tenure, stumpage fees, and other forest practices, the authors assess how well different provincial schemes achieve the goals of sustainable forest management. They identify essential policy attributes that could be used to guide...
Three quarters of Canada's forests are under provincial control, so provincial forest policies are crucial to long-term sustainability. With its up...
Offers an innovative and far-reaching contribution to the debate over sustainability at a time when many individuals are questioning the future of the environment in British Columbia.
Offers an innovative and far-reaching contribution to the debate over sustainability at a time when many individuals are questioning the future of the...
Examines the struggle for literacy in the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically sensitive coastal province of Guangdong. Peterson examines not only the spread of literacy but also how literacy was conceived at the elite level and used at the popular level.
Examines the struggle for literacy in the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically sensitive coastal province of Guangdong. Peterson ...
