Environments articles from December 2002

Environments archives from December 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... As the first of two interconnected theme issues, this volume represents the aims of Environments in many ways. The theme -- managerial ecology -- covers a range of concerns relevant to our human interactions with the natural environment as well...

Theme issue introduction: moving beyond managerial ecology: Contestation and Critique.
December 1, 2002... In May 2002 at the annual meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) seventeen researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and professional positions gathered to discuss resource and environmental...

Managerial ecology and its discontents: exploring the complexities of control, careful use and coping in resource and environmental management.
December 1, 2002... Abstract Managerial ecology is embedded within a complex set of historical relationships. The institutions and processes of resource and environmental management have traditionally been the means by which a select few (managers) have side...

Branches for roots: recalling the context of environmental management.(Column)
December 1, 2002... Abstract: There is a strong tendency in critiques of environmental or ecological management to disregard social relations of production and the political-economic context of capitalism. Management itself, uprooted from history, is...

The obscured potential of environmental politics.(Column)
December 1, 2002... Abstract There are at least two ways in which environmentalism can influence democratic politics. The first and most prominent way is to take the strong sense of purpose that guides the environmental movement and attempt to participate in...

Managerial ecology: Zygmunt Bauman and the gardening culture of modernity.
December 1, 2002... Abstract: Certain lines of inquiry raised by the philosopher-sociologist Zygmunt Bauman are germane to critical perspectives on environmental management. This paper provides an introduction to these potential crossovers, in particular,...

Management and ignorance.(Column)
December 1, 2002... It is no exaggeration to say that "modernity" has suffered the death of a thousand cuts over the last few decades. Few who spend much time thinking about how history instructs the present have any stake in defending "modernity" as the sign of...

Two classical concepts of nature revisited.(The theoretical and managerial approaches to ecology; Marxism and the philosophical thought of Hannah Arendt..)(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... The articles in this theme issue on managerial ecology were written by graduate students who, in line with the theme, offer critiques of the theoretical and managerial approaches to ecology that have enjoyed prominence over the last few...

Solidarity in the woods: redwood summer and alliances among radical ecology and timber workers. .
December 1, 2002... Abstract Relations between radical environmentalists and resource workers have been marked by dramatic, at times violent, conflict. Such conflict has presented a persistent obstacle to attempts to build sustainable social relations. This...

Environmental Foresight and Models: A Manifesto. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Beck M B (Ed). 2002. Oxford: Elsevier Science. US$120.00. ISBN 0-080-44086-X (hardback) 473 pages. Reviewed by: Shivanand Balram, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Bumaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Tourism.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Wall, G. ed. 2001. University of Waterloo, Department of Geography Publication Series, Waterloo, ON. ISBN 0-921088-63-7 (paper) $25.00. 304 pp. Reviewed by Suzanne Dobson, Dept. of Geography and Center for Coastal Studies, Simon Fraser...