Environments articles from August 2003

Environments archives from August 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... This is the second volume in a two part series on Managerial Ecology. The first volume explored the meaning of managerial ecology; it's political, social, economic and moral importance; and its history, philosophical roots and application. Many...

Theme issue introduction: moving beyond managerial ecology: counterproposals.
August 1, 2003... This is the second of two theme issues of Environments exploring managerial ecology. The previous issue--Managerial Ecology: Contestation and Critique (Bavington and Slocombe 2002)--explored the meaning of managerial ecology, its political,...

Alternatives to conventional management: lessons from small-scale fisheries.
August 1, 2003... Abstract Based on long-term research on community-based resource management, and using small-scale fisheries as an example, alternatives to conventional management may be characterized by: a shift in philosophy to embrace uncertainty and...

Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
August 1, 2003... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to generate a dynamic description of cultural landscapes that moves current thinking beyond cultural landscapes as artifacts that are considered to be final products. In this paper, "cultural...

The flux of trust: caribou co-management in Northern Canada.
August 1, 2003... Abstract There is a presumption that the primary goal of creating alternative resource management systems is to increase the efficiency of the management decisions made. However, changing the rules of resource management leads to...

Aboriginal forestry in New Brunswick: conflicting paradigms (1).
August 1, 2003... Abstract The participation of First Nations in New Brunswick forestry involves complex issues, many of which stem from Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian epistemological constructions of natural resources. Since practice is closely related to...

Post-normal governance: an emerging counter-proposal.
August 1, 2003... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to attempt to bring together three bodies of interrelated thought (complexity, governance and civics) in order to begin to develop the concept of post-normal governance as a counter-proposal to the...

Challenging old models of knowledge and learning: new perspectives for participation in environmental management and planning.
August 1, 2003... Abstract What one 'knows' is relative to and affected by one's values, assumptions and perspectives; in addition, learning and teaching occur in a social and cultural context. These tenets underpin the idea of relational or contextual...

Lessons for an emerging paradigm.(Commentaries)(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... It is an honor to have been invited to comment on this special issue of Environments. Born two years after the first United Nations' Conference on the Human Environment, mine is perhaps the first generation whose lives have been so completely...

Themes, entangled simplicity, confounded.(Commentaries)
August 1, 2003... Challenging the received paradigm of environmental management is the dominant theme weaving through these paired issues of Environments. In the first issue--Managerial Ecology: Contestation and Critique (2002) (1)--the challenge is primarily...

The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Neil Carter. 2002. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0 521 470374 (hc) ISBN 0 521 46994 5 (pb), approx. $105 (Hardcover), $35 (Soft cover) 361 pp. The Politics of the Environment achieves its stated aim of providing an...

Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor with Mabelle and Raj Arole, Abhay and Rani Bang, Zeng DongLu, Patricia Paredes, Robert Parker, Jac Smit, Betsy Taylor, Henry Taylor, and Miriam Were. 2002. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and...