Environments articles

Recent articles from Environments

Nation-wide decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management: issues and insights from Canada.(Country overview)(Report)
November 1, 2007... Abstract This paper explores existing decentralized governance arrangements and capacities for integrated watershed management in Canada across its thirteen provinces and territories, with particular emphasis on organizations with governing Boards that are principally, but not...

Impact and benefit agreements: a contentious issue for environmental and aboriginal justice.
November 1, 2007... Abstract Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) have become a common part of a standard package of agreements negotiated between an industrial proponent and a representative aboriginal organization. Among other things, IBAs recognize aboriginal peoples' interests with the land and parallel...

Climate change, sea-level rise and the case for salt marsh restoration in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.
November 1, 2007... Abstract Over the next century society will be facing significant increases in temperature and sea-level, which pose a growing threat to low-lying coastal communities. To protect these communities, adaptation strategies are needed that will be sustainable not only in the immediate future,...

Population growth and sustainability: Canadian considerations.(IDEAS)
November 1, 2007... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to briefly chart how Canada's population has grown and will continue to grow well into the 21st century. In so doing, we shall place this demographic increase into a broader international context by also considering U.N. projections at the world...

Governing Canada's Freshwater Resources: Weaknesses, Challenges, Innovations.
November 1, 2007... Bakker, K (ed). 2007. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 440 pages, ISBN 13: 978-0-7748-1339-6. pb $29.95 Bakker, and 27 contributing authors, explore five themes in Eau Canada: water governance; transboundary water management; water privatization; pathways to better water management; and changing...