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The role of collaborative planning in environmental management: the North American experience.
Environmental and natural resource planning is in the midst of a fundamental change. The demands of "wicked problems" characterized by complexity and uncertainty--combined with the growing conflict . . .

Preface.(environmental management)
Resource and environmental management are increasingly characterized by conflict among competing stakeholders over the use of scarce resources. Traditional planning models based on . . .

Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures.(Book Review)
Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor with Mabelle and Raj Arole, Abhay and Rani Bang, Zeng DongLu, Patricia Paredes, Robert Parker, Jac Smit, Betsy Taylor, Henry Taylor, and Miriam Were. 2002. . . .

The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy.(Book Review)
Neil Carter. 2002. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0 521 470374 (hc) ISBN 0 521 46994 5 (pb), approx. $105 (Hardcover), $35 (Soft cover) 361 pp. The Politics of the Environment . . .

Themes, entangled simplicity, confounded.(Commentaries)
Challenging the received paradigm of environmental management is the dominant theme weaving through these paired issues of Environments. In the first issue--Managerial Ecology: Contestation and . . .

Lessons for an emerging paradigm.(Commentaries)(Editorial)
It is an honor to have been invited to comment on this special issue of Environments. Born two years after the first United Nations' Conference on the Human Environment, mine is perhaps the first . . .

Challenging old models of knowledge and learning: new perspectives for participation in environmental management and planning.
Abstract What one 'knows' is relative to and affected by one's values, assumptions and perspectives; in addition, learning and teaching occur in a social and cultural context. These . . .

Post-normal governance: an emerging counter-proposal.
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to attempt to bring together three bodies of interrelated thought (complexity, governance and civics) in order to begin to develop the concept of post-normal . . .

Aboriginal forestry in New Brunswick: conflicting paradigms (1).
Abstract The participation of First Nations in New Brunswick forestry involves complex issues, many of which stem from Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian epistemological constructions of natural . . .

The flux of trust: caribou co-management in Northern Canada.
Abstract There is a presumption that the primary goal of creating alternative resource management systems is to increase the efficiency of the management decisions made. However, changing the . . .

Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to generate a dynamic description of cultural landscapes that moves current thinking beyond cultural landscapes as artifacts that are considered to be final . . .

Alternatives to conventional management: lessons from small-scale fisheries.
Abstract Based on long-term research on community-based resource management, and using small-scale fisheries as an example, alternatives to conventional management may be characterized by: a . . .

Theme issue introduction: moving beyond managerial ecology: counterproposals.
This is the second of two theme issues of Environments exploring managerial ecology. The previous issue--Managerial Ecology: Contestation and Critique (Bavington and Slocombe 2002)--explored the . . .

Editorial.(Editorial)
This is the second volume in a two part series on Managerial Ecology. The first volume explored the meaning of managerial ecology; it's political, social, economic and moral importance; and . . .

Contemporary Perspectives on Tourism.(Book Review)
Wall, G. ed. 2001. University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, Waterloo, ON. ISBN 0-921088-63-7 (paper) $25.00. 304 pp. Reviewed by Suzanne Dobson, Dept. of Geography and . . .

Environmental Foresight and Models: A Manifesto. .(Book Review)
Beck M B (Ed). 2002. Oxford: Elsevier Science. US$120.00. ISBN 0-080-44086-X (hardback) 473 pages. Reviewed by: Shivanand Balram, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University . . .

Solidarity in the woods: redwood summer and alliances among radical ecology and timber workers. .
Abstract Relations between radical environmentalists and resource workers have been marked by dramatic, at times violent, conflict. Such conflict has presented a persistent obstacle to attempts . . .

Two classical concepts of nature revisited.(The theoretical and managerial approaches to ecology; Marxism and the philosophical
The articles in this theme issue on managerial ecology were written by graduate students who, in line with the theme, offer critiques of the theoretical and managerial approaches to ecology that . . .

Management and ignorance.(Column)
It is no exaggeration to say that "modernity" has suffered the death of a thousand cuts over the last few decades. Few who spend much time thinking about how history instructs the present have any . . .

Managerial ecology: Zygmunt Bauman and the gardening culture of modernity.
Abstract: Certain lines of inquiry raised by the philosopher-sociologist Zygmunt Bauman are germane to critical perspectives on environmental management. This paper provides an introduction to . . .

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