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Clayoquot Mass Trials

Author : Ronald MacIsaac
Publisher : Philadelphia ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865713215
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Clayoquot Mass Trials written by Ronald MacIsaac and published by Philadelphia ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayoquot Mass Trials is about defending the rainforest - one of the last temperate rainforests remaining in the world, located at the westernmost extreme of Canada. It's about the summer of 1993 when an overwhelming number of people from all walks of life, and from all parts of the world, joined together in the biggest nonviolent protest in Canada's history. The mass arrests of these people were headline news and, some months later, the biggest mass trial in Canadian history was embroiled in confusion and controversy as arrestees received stiff fines and jail sentences. Clayoquot Mass Trials tells the story of Clayoquot Sound, the protests over many years, and the personal and political reasons why so many people risked their liberty by putting themselves on the line in front of the logging trucks. And it tells this story through the eloquence of the protesters themselves as they spoke before the court, and through the almost-daily commentaries found in the news media.

Clayoquot & Dissent

Author : Tzeporah Berman
Publisher : Ronsdale Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clayoquot & Dissent written by Tzeporah Berman and published by Ronsdale Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Clayoquot Sound and the protest movement: rainforest ecosystems; the April 1993 land-use decision; co-opted forestry science; the Peace Camp and the Blockades; civil disobedience; the police, the courts and the corporations; environmental rights; ongoing logging violations in 1994 (with photos).

Possessing Meares Island

Author : Barry Gough
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550179586
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Possessing Meares Island written by Barry Gough and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough. Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous-colonial trade relations to more recent historical upheavals. Gough invites readers to enter a dramatic epoch of BC’s coastal history and watch the Nuu-Chah-nulth nations spearhead the maritime sea otter trade, led by powerful chiefs like Wicaninnish and Maquinna. Eventually, Meares Island declines into an economic backwater due to overhunting the sea otter, the bloody Clayoquot War of 1855, and most importantly, the proxy of empire—the Hudson’s Bay Company—establishing colonial roots in nearby Victoria. Caught up in the tides of change, the Treaty of 1846 ushers in a new era as the island is officially declared property of the British crown. Gough bridges the gap between centuries as he describes how the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council draw on this complicated history of ownership to invoke their legal claim to the land and defend the majestic wilderness from the indiscriminate clear-cut saw. Possessing Meares Island will not only appeal to history buffs, but to anyone interested in a momentous triumph for Indigenous rights and environmental protection that echoes across the nation today.

Tracking the Great Bear

Author : Justin Page
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774826746
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Tracking the Great Bear written by Justin Page and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing millions of hectares of globally rare coastal rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia is home to ancient trees, rich runs of salmon, and abundant species, including the elusive white “spirit bear.” The area also supports small human communities, particularly First Nations. Once slated for clear-cut logging, large areas were protected in 2006 by the signing of one of the world’s most significant and innovative conservation agreements. Tracking the Great Bear traces environmentalists’ efforts to save the area from status quo industrial forestry, while at the same time respecting First Nations’ right to economic development. Adopting a novel theoretical approach from science and technology studies, the book explains environmentalists' success as a result of their deployment of a powerful actor-network within British Columbia’s land-use decision-making process. This book makes a significant contribution to social scientific analyses of natural resource management. Bridging the gap between interpretivist and social structural analyses, it demonstrates how the Great Bear Rainforest was made – or, rather, recreated – out of uncertain and contested links among an improbable assemblage of actors and elements.

Tofino and Clayoquot Sound

Author : Margaret Horsfield
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155017682X
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Tofino and Clayoquot Sound written by Margaret Horsfield and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayoquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is not only a place of extraordinary raw beauty, but also a region with a rich heritage and fascinating past. Tofino and Clayoquot Sound delves into all facets of the region's history, bringing to life the chronicle that started with the dramatic upheavals of geological formation and continues to the present day. The book tours through the history of the Hesquiaht, Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht as well as other nations that inhabited the area in earlier times. It documents the arrival of Spanish, British and American traders on the coast and their avid greed for sea otter pelts. It follows the development of the huge fur seal industry and its profound impact on the coast. It tracks the establishment of reserve lands and two residential schools. The coming of World War II is discussed, as is the installation of a large Air Force base near Tofino, which changed the town and area dramatically. From here the story spirals into the post-road period. With gravel and asphalt came tourism, newcomers, the counter-culture of the 1960s, the establishment of Pacific Rim National Park and, of course, surfing. The book also addresses logging—which became the main industry in the area—and its questionable practices, going into detail about the "War in the Woods"—the world-famous conflict and largest mass arrest in Canadian history. A place is shaped by its people, and Horsfield and Kennedy highlight notable figures of past and present: the merchants, the missionaries, the sealers and the settlers; the eternally optimistic prospectors; the Japanese fishermen and their families; the hippies; the storm- and whale-watchers; the First Nations elders and leaders. Offering an overall survey of the history of the area, Tofino and Clayoquot Sound is extensively researched and illustrated with historic photos and maps; it evokes the spirit and culture of the area and illuminates how the past has shaped the present.

The Intemperate Rainforest

Author : Bruce Braun
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452904375
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Intemperate Rainforest written by Bruce Braun and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in the forest policies of British Columbia. Employing poststructuralist theory and using the 1993 protests over logging in Clayoquot Sound as his starting point, Braun assesses the colonial thinking behind 19th- century forest policies, the struggles of native peoples to regain their spaces, the assertion of so-called rational forest management as a new version of colonialism, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee's use of nature photography to promote their notion of pristine wilderness, ecotourism, and the continued impact of the vision of early 20th-century painter Emily Carr. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Environmental Ethics and Forestry

Author : Peter C. List
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566397858
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics and Forestry written by Peter C. List and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1970s, American forestry has come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny. This reader brings together a variety of thinking in environmental ethics and philosophy as it applies to forestry.

A Political Space

Author : Warren Magnusson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905938
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Political Space written by Warren Magnusson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Branching Out, Digging In

Author : Sarah B. Pralle
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589012806
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Branching Out, Digging In written by Sarah B. Pralle and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. Branching Out, Digging In examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United States and Canada. Late in 1993 citizens from around the world mobilized on behalf of saving old-growth forests in Clayoquot Sound. Yet, at the same time only a very few took note of an even larger reserve of public land at risk in northern California. Both cases, the Clayoquot Sound controversy in British Columbia and the Quincy Library Group case in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, centered around conflicts between environmentalists seeking to preserve old-growth forests and timber companies fighting to preserve their logging privileges. Both marked important episodes in the history of forest politics in their respective countries but with dramatically different results. The Clayoquot Sound controversy spawned the largest civil disobedience in Canadian history; international demonstrations in Japan, England, Germany, Austria, and the United States; and the most significant changes in British Columbia's forest policy in decades. On the other hand, the California case, with four times as many acres at stake, became the poster child for the "collaborative conservation" approach, using stakeholder collaboration and negotiation to achieve a compromise that ultimately broke down and ended up in the courts. Pralle analyzes how the various political actors—local and national environmental organizations, local residents, timber companies, and different levels of government—defined the issues in both words and images, created and reconfigured alliances, and drew in different governmental institutions to attempt to achieve their goals. She develops a dynamic new model of conflict management by advocacy groups that puts a premium on nimble timing, flexibility, targeting, and tactics to gain the advantage and shows that how political actors go about exploiting these opportunities and overcoming constraints is a critical part of the policy process.

Unnatural Law

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840633
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Law written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada's record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect water, air, land, and biodiversity. Three decades of environmental laws have produced progress in a number of important areas, such as ozone depletion, protected areas, and some kinds of air and water pollution. However, Canada's overall record remains poor. In this vital and timely study, David Boyd explores the reasons why some laws and policies foster progress while others fail. He ultimately concludes that the root cause of environmental degradation in industrialized nations is excessive consumption of resources. Unnatural Law outlines the innovative changes in laws and policies that Canada must implement in order to respond to the ecological imperative of living within the Earth's limits. The struggle for a sustainable future is one of the most daunting challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Everyone - academics, lawyers, students, policy-makers, and concerned citizens - interested in the health of the Canadian and global environments will find Unnatural Law an invaluable source of information and insight. For more information on Unnatural Law visit David Boyd's site, www.unnaturallaw.com.

Living with Nature

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522422
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Living with Nature written by Frank Fischer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the optimism of the `Earth Summit' held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the politics of environmental sustainable development has reached an impasse. Why do issues of environmental protection continue to take a back seat to economic competition, particularly in the international realm? Once the environmental problem was widely recognised, it was held that consensus could be reached. In practice, however, the development of sustainability had often continued to merely extend earlier technocratic practices and solutions, which fail to take into consideration the specific cultural questions. Living With Nature seeks to place the question of the dynamics of environmental crisis within a socio-cultural dimension of the existing economic and political institutions. The book argues for a need to find a new balance between a theoretical analysis of the debate and an appreciation of local circumstances, norms and knowledge. Politically, it implies an implicit understanding of the way in which we live together with nature.

The Politics of Resentment

Author : Philip Resnick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774808057
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Resentment written by Philip Resnick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Resnick examines the role of British Columbia in the Canadian unity debate and explores what makes it stand apart as a region. He looks at the views of politicians, opinion-makers, and ordinary British Columbians on the challenges posed by Quebec nationalism, their sense of estrangement from central Canada, and what they see as the future of Canadian unity. He provides a provocative new way of thinking about British Columbia's place within the federation, and his wide range of sources - government documents, media, and academic literature on regionalism and nationalism - capture what underlies the often fractured relationship between Canada's westemmost province and the rest of the country.

Cecconi's Whirlwind

Author : Clive Levinson
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665710365
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Cecconi's Whirlwind written by Clive Levinson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a drug deal goes wrong, Felix Cecconi is accused of two brutal murders. At the same time his only son is killed. Desperate to find answers and struggling with his own demons, he is blackmailed into assassinating a leading environmentalist. Pursued by a ruthless cop, he gets caught up in a logging blockade – a virtual war zone. There, he finds himself drawn to its passionate and defiant leader, his target, Sarah Medwood. When he meets Sarah, he knows her death is the only thing that can set him free, but he falls in love with her with fatal consequences.

Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism

Author : Tindall, David
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100222
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism written by Tindall, David and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues.

Environmental Democracy

Author : Michael Mason
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773831
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Democracy written by Michael Mason and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a wide range of case studies, Mason reveals just how sensitive we all must be to styles of power, vulnerability and resilience in any democratic transition to sustainability. This is a fine book.' Timothy O'Riordan, Professor of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, and Associate Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Civic self-determination and ecological sustainability are widely accepted as two of the most important public goals. This book explains how they can be combined. Using vivid and telling case studies from around the world, it shows how liberal rights can include both ecological and social conditions for collective decision-making - environmentalist goals and social justice can be achieved together. Integrating theory and original case studies, the book makes a very significant contribution to the fundamentals of how environmental democracy can be advanced at all levels. Cogently argued and engaged, Environmental Democracy provides a superb teaching text and a source of ideas and persuasive arguments for the politically and environmentally engaged. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in politics, policy studies, environmental studies, geography and social science.

New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment

Author : John-Henry Harter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830143
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment written by John-Henry Harter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment explores the history of Greenpeace Canada from 1971 to 2010 and its relationship to the working class. In order to understand the ideology behind Greenpeace, the author investigates its structure, personnel, and actions. The case study illustrates important contradictions between new social movement theory and practice and how those contradictions affect the working class. In particular, Greenpeace’s actions against the seal hunt, against forestry in British Columbia, and against its own workers in Toronto, demonstrate some of the historic obstacles to working out a common labour and environmental agenda. The 1970s saw an explosion of new social movement activism. From the break up of the New Left into single issue groups at the end of the 1960s came a multitude of groups representing the peace movement, environmental movement, student movement, women’s movement, and gay liberation movement. This explosion of new social movement activism has been heralded as the age of new radical politics. Many theorists and activists saw, and still see, new social movements, and the issues, or identities they represent, as replacing the working class as an agent for progressive social change. This paper examines these claims through a case study of the quintessential new social movement, Greenpeace.

An Environmental History of Canada

Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821035
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book An Environmental History of Canada written by Laurel Sefton MacDowell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.