Main entry:

MacDowell, Laurel Sefton, 1947-

Title & Author:

An environmental history of Canada / Laurel Sefton MacDowell.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2012]

Description:

339 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Aboriginal peoples and settlers. Encountering a new land ; Settling the land and transforming the "wilderness" -- Part 2. Industrialism, reform, and infrastructure. Early cities and urban reform ; The conservation movement ; Mining resources ; Cars, consumerism, and suburbs -- Part 3. Harnessing nature, harming nature. Changing energy regimes ; Water ; The contested world of food and agriculture -- Part 4. The environmental era. The environmental movement and public policy ; Parks and wildlife ; Coastal fisheries ; The north and climate change.

Summary:

Traces how Canada's colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change. Explores human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol.

ISBN:

9780774821025 (paperback)
0774821027 (paperback)

Subject:

Human ecology Canada History.
Natural resources Canada History.
Environmental policy Canada.
Écologie humaine Canada Histoire.
Ressources naturelles Canada Histoire.
Environnement Canada Histoire.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale Canada.
Ecology.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology.
Natural resources.
Humanökologie
Natürliche Ressourcen
Umweltnutzung
Umweltpolitik
Canada Environmental conditions History.
Canada.
Kanada

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322124
Call No.: 322124
Copy: 1
Status: Available