A Century of Parks Canada 1911-2011

When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Cana…

Addressing the Climate Crisis : Local action in theory and practice

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Green Economy in the Transport Sector : A Case Study of Limpopo Province, Sou…

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978-3-030-86178-0

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Introduction to Development Engineering : A Framework with Applications from …

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Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior : Measurements, Obstacles, and Implications

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Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…

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Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles = Towards a New Development Paradigm

This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across five facets namely ethics and value system; sustainable consumption and production; modalities of systemic transformation; financing for resilient infrastructure, cities and s…

Weirding Landscapes = Arctic Glacier Extinction and Monsters of the Anthropocene

This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstro…

Transnational Southeast Asia = Communities, Contestations and Cultures

This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might be. Instead of vie…

The Ocean Incubator Network Learning Toolkit

This open access book is designed to enhance ocean literacy through diverse research, educational and interdisciplinary approaches. It focuses on a number of critical themes, including: an exploration of positionality, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging one’s own perspective in ocean-related research and advocacy; the nuances of trans-cross and interdisciplinarity in ocean studies, a…