Full Description
Bringing together contributions from over two dozen specialists in the field, this new fourth edition explains how the management process works; the variety of strategies used; the various technical and non-technical considerations that influence decisions; and the tradeoffs that must be made to accommodate a broad range of legitimate societal interests. As with previous editions, the text is structured in three parts: 'Emerging Concerns', 'Enduring Concerns', and 'Responses'. With updated coverage and seven new chapters on topics such as sustainability assessment, governance for the environment, and globalization, Resource and Environmental Management, fourth edition, offers a fresh, in-depth approach to resource management reflective of today's environmental concerns.
Contents
* indicates new chapter ; Preface ; IntroductionIssues, Challenges and Opportunities ; A. EMERGING AND CURRENT CONCERNS ; 1. Canada in the World: Globalization, Development and Environment * ; Guest Statement: Challenges for Today's Public Policy-Makers ; 2. Governance for Environment and Resources: The World Remains Oceans Apart * ; 3. How Healthy are our Ecosystems? ; Guest Statement: Genuine Wealth and Measuring Ecological Health ; 4. First Nations' Access and Rights to Resources ; 5. Climate Change, Adaptation and Mitigation * ; Guest Statement: Communicating About Human-caused Climate Change - The Evolving Challenge ; 6. Integrated Energy Resource Management * ; 7. Water Security: Current and Emerging Challenges ; Guest Statement: Integrated Watershed Planning Approaches for Addressing Uncertainty in Urbanizing Areas ; B. ENDURING CONCERNS ; 8. Marine and Freshwater Fisheries ; Guest Statement: 'Slow Fish' for Sustainability ; 9. Agriculture and Rural Resources ; Guest Statement: Climate Change and Regional Development: Challenges for Resolving Conflicts and Managing Uncertainty for Agricultural and Rural Communities in Canada ; 10. Transition and the Need for Innovation in Canada's Forest Sector * ; Guest Statement: Forest Resources ; 11. Managing for Wildlife in Canada ; 12. Parks and Protected Areas ; 13. Canadian Mineral Resource Development: A Sustainable Enterprise? ; 14. Waste Management: Moving up the Hierarchy ; C. RESPONSES ; 15. Ecosystem Approach to Resource and Environmental Management ; Guest Statement: Theory and Practice in the Ecosystem Approach ; 16. Applying Adaptive Environmental Management ; 17. Environmental Assessment in Canada: Encouraging Decisions for Sustainability * ; Guest Statement: Learning from the Victor Diamond Mine Comprehensive Environmental Assessment, Ontario ; 18. Incorporating Participatory Approaches and Social Learning ; Guest Statement: Community Self-Organization: The Seeds of Change for Sustainability ; 19. Environmental Governance in Canadian Resource Industries and Communities * ; Guest Statement: Gender, Resource Management and NeoLiberal Policies: Examples from British Columbia ; 20. Sustainable Governance: Surfing the Waves of Transformation ; Index
