Pragmatism and Poetry: National Parks and the Story of Canada
This article looks at the history of national parks in North America, particularly in relation to the size of the Canadian territory.
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How Birds Became Europeans: Bird Protection Activists Cooperating across Borders for Supranational Protection
“I Prefer to Die on the Mountain”: Local Resistance to National Park Development on Mount Merapi
Northern Bison Sanctuary or Big Ranch? Wood Buffalo National Park
Arcadia, 2013, no. 19
Removing the People: The Creation of Canada’s Kouchibouguac National Park
Nadkarni, Nalini, "Conserving the Canopy"
Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees and communicates what she finds to non-scientists.
Jackson, Jeremy, “How We Wrecked the Ocean”
A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time.
"Individual or Community? Two Approaches to Ecophilosophy in Practice"
Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History
About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives combines a number of essays in Canadian environmental history and related disciplines. The essays are united by a focus on cultural perceptions of Canadian environments, by an analysis of the interrelationship between nature and culture over time, and by a discussion of the human impact on natural environments.
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Revisiting Risk Society: A Conversation with Ulrich Beck
About this issue
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, a group of scholars reflect on Ulrich Beck’s influential Risk Society (1986). They seek to critically historicize the concept of risk society, considering how it might be a product of its particular time and place as well as what it means for public debate and scholarship in the early twenty-first century.
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