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Justin Page - Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest - 9780774826716 - V9780774826716
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Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest

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Description for Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest Hardback. A detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia. Series: Nature | History | Society. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSL9; RNF; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.

Encompassing millions of hectares of globally rare coastal rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia is home to ancient trees, rich runs of salmon, and abundant species, including the elusive white “spirit bear.” The area also supports small human communities, particularly First Nations. Once slated for clear-cut logging, large areas were protected in 2006 by the signing of one of the world’s most significant and innovative conservation agreements.

Tracking the Great Bear traces environmentalists’ efforts to save the area from status quo industrial forestry, while at the same time respecting First Nations’ right to economic development. Adopting a novel ... Read more

This book makes a significant contribution to social scientific analyses of natural resource management. Bridging the gap between interpretivist and social structural analyses, it demonstrates how the Great Bear Rainforest was made – or, rather, recreated – out of uncertain and contested links among an improbable assemblage of actors and elements.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Series
Nature | History | Society
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774826716
SKU
V9780774826716
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Justin Page
Justin Page is an environmental social scientist at ERM Rescan, an environmental consulting company based in Vancouver. He has over ten years of environmental social sciences research experience in the academic and private sectors.

Reviews for Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforest
This is an extremely important book, not only for explaining how collaboration has been achieved at a regional scale in mid- and north BC, but also as a symbol and example of what is possible in seemingly intractable conservation “stand-offs.” It will repay study by students of environmental history and by all involved in that wide-reaching, all-encompassing field of environmental ... Read more

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