Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920
by Andrew Watson
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774867849
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
Making Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.
Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada's Maritime Marshlands
by Ronald Rudin
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774866767
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: UBC Press
Against the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.
Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall
by Daniel Macfarlane
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774864237
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: UBC Press
Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall
by Daniel Macfarlane
Price:
CA$89.95
ISBN: 9780774864220
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: UBC Press
Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.
First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
by David Calverley
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774831345
Pub Date: September 2018
Imprint: UBC Press
Tracing the connections between colonialism and the early conservation movement in Ontario, Who Controls the Hunt? examines the contentious issue of treaty hunting rights and the impact of conservation laws on First Nations.
Montreal, City of Water investigates the development of the city over two centuries, tracing the relationship between the city’s inhabitants and the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks.
A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914
by Jim Clifford
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774834247
Pub Date: March 2018
Imprint: UBC Press
This original account of industrial London’s expansion into West Ham’s suburban marshlands highlights how pollution, poverty, and water shortages fuelled social democracy in Greater London.
Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia
by Jonathan Peyton
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774833059
Pub Date: July 2017
Imprint: UBC Press
This book looks at the long-term social and environmental effects of imagined, abandoned, and failed resource-development schemes in northwest British Columbia.
In Defence of Home Places examines the diversity of environmental activism in Nova Scotia, placing its early social and legislative successes and eventual weakening and division within a national and international framework.
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
by Jessica van Horssen
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774828420
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
In A Town Called Asbestos, a mining town’s proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a small resource community faced in a globalized world.
A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour
by Nancy B. Bouchier, and Ken Cruikshank
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774830423
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
This engaging history brings to life the personalities and power struggles that shaped how Hamiltonians used their harbour and, in the process, invites readers to consider how moral and political choices being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow.
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
by Joy Parr
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774817240
Pub Date: July 2010
Imprint: UBC Press
These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change.
Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
by John Thistle
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774828383
Pub Date: July 2015
Imprint: UBC Press
This unconventional history looks at the resettlement of interior British Columbia from the perspective of campaigns to exterminate grasshoppers and wild horses, creatures considered by some to be pests.
