Environments articles from January 2000

Environments archives from January 2000

Challenges of being an international city.
January 1, 2000... Abstract Every great city must have some distinctive economic reason for being. The great city must also have culture, diversity and pluralism. All great cities have liveability as well as major cultural centres and institutions. Great...

Achievement and opportunities in promoting the Ontario Environmental Farm Plan.
January 1, 2000... Abstract The Ontario Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) has been effective in encouraging farmers to implement good stewardship practices. While uptake of the program has been good-with approximately 20% participation from the farming...

Regional management program at Yellowstone National Park.
January 1, 2000... Abstract Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the U.S., was established on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone has been a leader in the National Park System's protection and management programs, programs which sometimes require...

City of Winnipeg 1997 flood experience.
January 1, 2000... Abstract The 1997 City of Winnipeg flood was among the largest on record for the Red River Valley in Manitoba, Canada. This paper is a description of this flood, the engineering, human resources, communication, co-ordination and technical...

Reducing downstream storm water impacts using design stage modeling in urban development.
January 1, 2000... Abstract Prototype evaluations of alternative land development approaches indicate that storm water flow rates can be reduced by as much as 50%. Volumes can also be reduced, peak flows delayed and storm water quality improved. This paper...

Floods in Canada: an Emergency Prepardness Canada (EPC) perspective.
January 1, 2000... Abstract A scientific consensus exists that the world will most likely experience a changing climate in the near future, with more frequent extremes of some weather hazards. At the same time, we are seeing world-wide, rapidly escalating...

Managing the environmental crisis: incorporating competing values in natural resource administration, 2nd edition.
January 1, 2000... Managing the Environmental Crisis: Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration, 2nd edition William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 1999. ISBN 0-8223-23-2413-X ppr. US$21.95...

Human survivability in the 21st century.
January 1, 2000... Human Survivability in the 21st Century David H. Mayne (ed.) 1999. University of Toronto Press, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada VI(IX), Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-8343-9 (ppr.) $15.00 Reviewed by Bruce Arai, Department of...

Evaluation des impacts sur l'environnement: processus, acteurs et pratique.
January 1, 2000... L'evaluation des impacts sur l'environnement: Processus, acteurs et pratique Pierre Andre, Claude E. Delisle, Jean-Pierre Reveret & Abdoulaye Sene, with the collaboration of Dieudonne Bitondo & Levy Rakotoarison. Montreal, Canada: Presses...