Sea Change
Sea Change

Author: Ussif Rashid Sumaila

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0774869062

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As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building resilient, sustainable oceans and supporting the communities that rely on them. Sea Change reports on the OceanCanada Partnership, a multidisciplinary project to take stock of what we know about Canada’s oceans, construct possible scenarios for coastal regions, and create a national dialogue and vision. Three themes emerge from this impressive synthesis of social, cultural, economic, and environmental research: ocean change, access to ocean resources, and ocean governance. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and practitioners focus on finding solutions to rapid environmental and social transformation, outlining the implications for legislation and offering policy recommendations. Increasingly, civil society will have to advocate for oceans, and Sea Change will empower the voices of those who take up that task.

Protecting the Coast and Ocean
Protecting the Coast and Ocean

Author: Stephanie M. Hewson

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0774865520

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Fish were once so abundant in BC waters that Indigenous elders recall dried salmon being stacked like firewood behind the stove. But declines on the BC coast have accelerated over the last century, with marine wildlife cut in half in just four decades. Protecting the Coast and Ocean explores how we can reverse such precipitous declines. This meticulous work catalogues not only Canadian laws and designations – marine protected areas, Indigenous protected and conserved areas, land-use measures, and zoning bylaws – but also international treaties that shape marine conservation and support collaboration. The authors analyze and compare legal tools, rating their strengths and weaknesses. In-depth case studies illustrate how each instrument has been used in practice. Despite the impact of climate change, overfishing, and pollution, Protecting the Coast and Ocean convincingly demonstrates that legal tools are available to reverse species extinction and plan for a resilient ocean.

The World's Largest Wetlands
The World's Largest Wetlands

Author: Lauchlan H. Fraser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-10

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780521834049

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Experts share their understanding of the ecology of large wetlands, their significance and their conservation.

Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09
Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09

Author: Glen Toner

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 077353394X

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Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration is a leading centre for the production of timely and insightful annual assessments of Canadian public policy. This volume provides an innovative approach to assessing key developments in one of the most challenging areas of public policy in the early 21st Century. Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues, force analysts to constantly update their assessments of how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors. Leading experts assess crucial innovation, science and environment issues such as climate change, northern pipeline development, urban sustainability, pesticide management, migratory birds, energy use, sustainable development policy tools, science management, and the international approach to governing intellectual property. This book addresses recent developments within the government of Canada and amongst key private and non-governmental players in this policy area. Governmental institutions and policies should be part of the solution to the complex array of science and technology and environment and development issues facing Canada today. Too often, it appears, they are also part of the problem. This volume explores the role of governments in a number of key areas.

In Our Backyard
In Our Backyard

Author: Aimée Craft

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2022-04-29

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0887552927

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Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network of 15 dams and 13,800 km of transmission lines. In Our Backyard tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, academics, scientists, and regulators. It builds on the rich environmental and economic evaluations documented in the Clean Environment Commission’s public hearings on Keeyask in 2012. It amplifies Indigenous voices that environmental assessment and regulatory processes have often failed to incorporate and provides a basis for ongoing decision-making and scholarship relating to Keeyask and resource development more generally. It considers cumulative, regional, and strategic impact assessments; Indigenous worldviews and laws within the regulatory and decision-making process; the economics of development; models for monitoring and management; consideration of affected species; and cultural and social impacts. With a provincial and federal regulatory regime that is struggling with important questions around the balance between development and sustainability, and in light of the inherent rights of Indigenous people to land, livelihoods, and self-determination, In Our Backyard offers critical reflections that highlight the need for purposeful dialogue, principled decision making, and a better legacy of northern development in the future.

Traditional Knowledge in Food Activism and Governance
Traditional Knowledge in Food Activism and Governance

Author: Andrea Pieroni

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-08-16

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 2832553230

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The current debate on Traditional Knowledge (TK) and food heritage has had momentum in recent years, mainly thanks to the remarkable interest of some local and national institutions, small-scale producers, and emerging chefs. However, in the scientific arena, the process of documenting traditional knowledge and the heritage of local foods is often addressed by itself, and is not well connected to deeper reflections of the actual participatory processes involved in local development or to the manners through which TK informs public discourse regarding local foods and how this may further influence activists, institutions, and governance.

A Numeric Scoring Matrix for Use in the Rapid Assessment of Extinction Vulnerability of Marine Fish Species in the NAFO Regions 4VWX, 5Zc
A Numeric Scoring Matrix for Use in the Rapid Assessment of Extinction Vulnerability of Marine Fish Species in the NAFO Regions 4VWX, 5Zc

Author: Terry L. Johnston

Publisher: St. Andrews, N.B.. : Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13:

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The Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk ( 1996) and the Species at Risk Act (2003) arc initiatives of the Federal government that were established to provide protection and recovery for species at risk in Canada. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is the primary source of information and expertise concerning the assessment of extinction vulnerability of aquatic species. The Mari times Region of DFO is responsible for compiling biological information concerning status and potential extinction risk of marine fish species that support fisheries along the Scotian Shelf, northern Georges Bank, and in the Bay of Fundy. Given the breadth and importance of this task, it is necessary that a method for rapid analysis be developed that allows for the assessment of potential extinction vulnerability of fish species, and uses assessment criteria that are explicitly defined and relevant to marine species in Canada. The approach undertaken by the Maritimes Region was to develop a scoring matrix that (1) quantifies the dynamics of a species' abundance and distribution and allows for rapid determination of whether or not that species may be at risk of extinction, and (2) allows for easy comparison across taxa thrnugh standardization of scoring. The intention behind the matrix was to create a more intuitive ranking scheme than has been used in the past. The potential extinction vulnerability of each species is graded out of 100. A high score represents a relatively high risk of extinction or extirpation from Canadian waters. Species assigned high scores by this rapid process can then be subjected to further, indepth evaluation. The criteria and conditions for the matrix were derived from criteria used by COSEWIC, and DFO's General Status Pilot Project. However, a new set of conditions were developed for some criteria to address several of the deficiencies that existed in the General Status approach, and to accentuate factors that may of greater significance to extinction vulnerability than to the assessment of current abundance. This exercise was intended to test the validity and utility of a matrix approach for rapid assessment of extinction vulnerability and ease of comparison among species. The matrix is not intended to replace the formal assessment process, but to identify species that may need higher priority for a formal COSEWIC assessment. A prioritized candidate species list was created based on the results of the matrix analysis