Environments articles from August 2001

Environments archives from August 2001

Editorial.
August 1, 2001... Over the years, the readers of Environments have surely come to appreciate the notion of civics as an important theme for the journal and an important approach for coping with the diverse challenges involved in integrating social, cultural,...

Urban living and environmental change: fostering urban environmental management through civic process.
August 1, 2001... Abstract Urban environmental management is increasingly recognized as a challenge that encompasses a range of issues and concerns. Coping with these challenges tends to follow conventional specialized and sectoral approaches; however, such...

The urban environment as hazard source and sink.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Dwight Boyd (1) Abstract Many types of natural, technological and social hazards affect southern Ontario. Examples in or near the Regional Municipality of Waterloo are used in this paper to illustrate linkages between planning and...

Water, water everywhere? Understanding and protecting our nation's most valuable resource.
August 1, 2001... Abstract Water is the source of life: Humans cannot survive for more than 3 to 5 days without sufficient quantities of water. ironically, water also carries many of the diseases, which cause the majority of deaths on a daily basis around...

Urban ecology in Ontario, Canada: moving beyond the limits of city and ideology.
August 1, 2001... Abstract This paper discusses some of the ecological challenges that arise within urban environments due to anthropogenic influences characteristic to the "concrete jungle." Possibilities for mitigating these challenges through appropriate...

Social justice and environmental equity: Distributing environmental quality.
August 1, 2001... Abstract This paper reviews a number of approaches to understanding the sources of social inequalities in environmental risk distributions, including "rational" market forces, taking the "path of least resistance" and finally "classism"...

Urban living and environmental change workshop series Rapporteur summaries.
August 1, 2001... EXICTUCS Three Environmental Studies Graduate students were asked to report on the workshop series, writing short summaries after each session, and a final summary of the workshop series as a whole. The latter were presented as a focus for...

Retrospective on a civic approach: The Kitchener-Waterloo Urban Environmental Management Project.
August 1, 2001... Abstract Growing urban environmental challenges indicate a need for more crossdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and civic approaches to planning, decision-making and research as alternatives to traditional disciplinary, sectoral and rational...

Some reflections on civics and civil society as grounding for urban environmental management.
August 1, 2001... Abstract The diversity, complexity and uncertainty of issues and concerns relevant to urban environmental management require new alternative approaches -- especially for the interconnected processes of planning, decision-making and...

Earth, air, fire water: humanistic studies of the environment. (Book Reviews).(Review)
August 1, 2001... Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx, editors, 1999. University of Massachusetts Press: Amherst. ISBN 1-55849-220-6. Soft cover. US$27.95. 349 pp. Review by Dean Bavington, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography and Environmental Studies,...

Social and environmental impacts of the James Bay hydroelectric project. (Book Reviews).(Review)
August 1, 2001... James F. Horning, editor, 1999. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1836-3 (cloth) Cdn$60.00; 0-7735-1837-1 (paper) Cdn$24.95. 169 pp. Reviewed by Monica E. Mulrennan, Department of Geography, Concordia...

Research techniques in animal ecology: controversies and consequences. (Book Reviews).(Review)
August 1, 2001... Luigi Boitani and Todd K. Fuller, editors, 2000. Columbia University Press, New York. 464 pp. ISBN 0-231-11340-4 (hc) US$75.00 ISBN 0-231-11341-2 (ppr.) US$32.00 Reviewed by Ramona Maraj, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of...