Books in the Sustainability and the Environment series

Lays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.

This revealing analysis of Canada's electrical power co-operatives challenges our understanding of their history and shines a light on their potential within the nation's electricity sector.

This remarkable volume makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.

In the face of growing anxiety about the environmental sustainability of the world, George Francis, a leading authority in the field of sustainability studies, examines initiatives undertaken in Canada over the past twenty-five years to protect some of our unique environments.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.

Lays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.

This book compares provincial forest policies on public land across Canada, and considers how they may hinder or enhance the pursuit of sustainable forest management objectives.

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. This work focuses on the systems by which industrial economies produce goods and services.

This remarkable volume makes a compelling argument for the need to think ecologically to develop innovative and competitive industrial policy.

Achieving Sustainable Development provides an overall introduction to critical subjects in sustainable development -- industrial growth, women, institutional arrangements, industrial practices, and aboriginal people -- and argues for the immediate development of a research and policy agenda for Canada and suggests mechanisms for its implementation.

Mike Carr supports bioregional values and community-building tools for a diverse, democratic, socially-just civil society.

Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

Aims to establish 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. This work is useful for those in business, public policy and engineering.

Illustrates the links between two normally disparate literatures-social capital and sustainable development-within the overall context of local community development.

We all want to reduce the risks of global warming, but how much will this cost? What will it mean on a personal, business, or community level? What policy responses should we expect from our governments?

This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, bringing together concerned parties who have argued for increased local participation in sustainable community development.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.

A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.

Illustrates the links between two normally disparate literatures-social capital and sustainable development-within the overall context of local community development.

This timely book argues for governance based on human responsibility and recognition of the interconnectedness of human and natural systems.