Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914

Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914
Author: Darcy Ingram
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0774821426

Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of wildlife conservation in North America. Inspired by a longstanding belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as well as North American models, this system effectively privatized Quebec’s fish and game resources, often to the detriment of commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.

In Search of Sustainability

In Search of Sustainability
Author: Benjamin Cashore
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 077484146X

In recent years, the forests of British Columbia have become a battleground for sustainable resource development. The conflicts are ever present, usually pitting environmentalists against the forest industry and forestry workers and communities. In an effort to broker peace in the woods, British Columbia's NDP government launched a number of promising new forest policy initiatives in the 1990s. In Search of Sustainability brings together a group of political scientists to examine this extraordinary burst of policy activism. Focusing on how much change has occurred and why, the authors examine seven components of BC forest policy: land use, forest practices, tenure, Aboriginal issues, timber supply, pricing, and jobs.