Environments articles from November 2001

Environments archives from November 2001

Editorial.
November 1, 2001... The papers in this open issue focus on a variety of environments: urban, agricultural, escarpment and forested, but also economic, institutional and political. Each paper, in addressing one of the increasingly familiar "environmental" concerns,...

Groupthink in municipal infrastructure planning: Decision making behind the proposed Red Hill Creek Expressway.
November 1, 2001... Abstract The Red Hill Creek Expressway is a proposed 7.5 kilometre highway that would run through the Red Hill Valley in the east end of Hamilton, Ontario. Recent external influences of provincial downloading and a federal environmental...

Towards increased citizen influence in Canadian Forest Management.
November 1, 2001... Abstract Despite its vast resources, Canada is experiencing a conflict over the use of its forests and facing, some argue, a forest crisis. Growing public concern that traditional forest management is no longer socially acceptable has...

Improving Wildlife Habitat on the Prairies: An evaluation of the Habitat Conservation Partnership Agreement in Southwestern Manitoba.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Southern Manitoba's landscape, vastly altered through a century of agricultural settlement, has become further transformed with the industrialization of agriculture in recent years. One of the impacts of these changes has been the...

Enhancing the urban environment in the Kurdistan region, Northern Iraq.
November 1, 2001... Abstract In the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, the physical structure of cities and their environments have been undergoing drastic changes, including expansion onto fertile agricultural lands. Within urban areas commercial...

Spatio-temporal analysis of floods of the Saint-Francois drainage basin, Quebec, Canada.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract This study aims at recreating the spatial and temporal evolution of flooding in the Saint-Francois drainage basin. This vast drainage basin covers a surface area of 10 221 km2 and is situated in both Canada and the United States....

Tracing the connections among municipal amalgamation, community identity, and planning for the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario. (Ideas).
November 1, 2001... Abstract Forced amalgamations among formerly independent municipalities in Ontario have been the most contested aspects of the Province's restructuring plan initiated in 1995. A major concern of residents has been the threat to community...

Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... David J. Brunckhorst. 2000. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam. ISBN 90-5823-046-5 (hc) US$28.00 162 pp. This is a small book, and one with definite strengths and weaknesses, some probably related to its size, others perhaps not. The...

Politics of the Wild: Canada and Endangered Species. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... Karen Beazley and Robert Boardman, editors, 2001. Oxford University Press, Toronto. 254 pp. ISBN 0-1 9-54 1506X (ppr) $26.95 Several years ago, at a meeting in Washington DC of Berg Fellows of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, a...

Using Statistics to Understand the Environment. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... C. Philip Wheater and Penny A. Cook. 2000. Routledge Introductions to Environment Series, New York, NY. ISBN 0-415-19888-7 paper US$22 .99 245 pp. Well trained students of environmental studies must be proficient in the use of statistical...