Planning for the advent of large resorts: current capacities of
interior British Columbian mountain communities.
Abstract
British Columbia mountain communities are increasingly the subject
of attention from developers and political leaders who want to build
downhill ski, snowmobile, and second home resorts. . . .
Canada's Model Forests: public involvement through
partnership.
Abstract
This paper considers the development and implementation of
partnerships through the Canadian Model Forest (MF) program. A typology
of partnerships is used to consider those that have . . .
A critical analysis of communicative rationality as a theoretical
underpinning for collaborative approaches to Integrated Resour
Abstract
Communicative planning theory is increasingly being advocated as
procedural theory to underpin collaborative approaches to Integrated
Resource and Environmental Management. Yet this is . . .
Unpacking participatory natural resource management: a conceptual
framework to distinguish democratic governance from resource
c
Abstract
This paper presents a conceptual framework for distinguishing
whether participatory natural resource management (NRM) leads to
resource capture or the democratic governance of natural . . .
Editorial.(Editorial)
The papers in this issue are diverse, but not unrelated. At a deep
level they address different aspects of participation and capacity in
resource and environmental planning and management, through . . .
Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and
Los Angeles.(Book Review)
Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los
Angeles
Desfor, Gene and Roger Keil. 2004. Tuscon: University of Arizona
Press, 274 pp., ISBN 0-8165-2373-8, $54.00 ($45.00 . . .
The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to our Health.(Book
Review)
The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to our Health
Roy Burdon. 2003. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
ISBN 0-7735-2655-2 (cloth) Cdn $75.00; 0-7735 2656-0 (paper) Cdn $27.95.
227 . . .
Participating in the field: a research experience in northern
Greece.
Abstract
Fieldwork can provide many unexpected challenges for researchers.
These challenges and how they are addressed will vary with specific
situations and individual researchers; however, . . .
Challenges and opportunities of metadisciplinary place-based
research: the case of the Maya forest.
Abstract
This paper explores challenges and opportunities of
metadisciplinary place-based research. A metadisciplinary framework
based on four ecological integrity scientific discourses is . . .
Discipline, internal motivations, and cooperation in a rural
production cooperative.
Abstract
A disciplinary system is an important mechanism to build the trust
and commitment essential for maintaining effective organization for
collective action. A case study in southern Brazil . . .
Sharing the benefits of tourism: a case study in Hainan,
China.
Abstract
Public participation has long been recognized as a tool for
balancing power in decision making and to spread the benefits of
development projects. However, empowerment is a long-term and . . .
Mining, environment, and development in southern Santa Catarina,
Brazil: non-governmental organization, "Terra Verde" and its
id
Abstract:
In Brazil, the coal industry is very important to economic
development. This is particularly the case now as the country is facing
an energy crisis. Initiatives to develop the industry . . .
Towards community- and scientific-based information integration
in marine resource management in Indonesia: Bunaken National Par
Abstract
Community involvement in marine resource management is evolving in
Indonesia. In 1997 a major initiative was undertaken by the Government
of Indonesia to decentralize management efforts . . .
Community-based approaches to resource and environmental
management.
Community-based approaches are advocated widely internationally and
domestically, based on the idea that information, understanding and
capacity for action and change, as well as for monitoring . . .
Editorial.
This theme issue on Community-based Approaches to Resource and
Environmental Management has arisen out of an interest of mine in
promoting the publication of research results by post-graduate . . .
The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental
History.(Reviews)(Book Review)
The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
Char Miller. ed. 2003. Routledge, New York and London. ISBN:
0-415-93781-7. (hc) $225.00. 248 pp.
The historian Char Miller (Trinity . . .
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice
Frontline.(Reviews)(From Love Canal to Environmental Justice: The
Politics of Hazardou
Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline
J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss. 2001. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 0-521-66062-9 (hc) . . .
Cultural landscapes and landscape planning in Yemen.
Abstract
Globally, historic natural and cultural landscapes are facing
challenges that threaten their survival. In many cases, efforts leading
to the conservation of these landscapes could also . . .
Traditional ecological knowledge in parks management: a Canadian
perspective.
Abstract
Parks and protected areas management involves judging the
appropriateness of potential actions according to a particular knowledge
framework. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is . . .
The role of people, place and process in implementing a promising
backcountry monitoring program: Riding Mountain National Park.
Abstract
As technological advances allow visitors to travel faster and
further into the backcountry regions of parks, the pattern of
recreational use is changing. This is likely to result in an . . .
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