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Roger Suffling,Parks Canada,University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies,Canada. Environment Canada. Adaptation & Impacts Research Group
Author : Roger Suffling,Parks Canada,University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies,Canada. Environment Canada. Adaptation & Impacts Research Group Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations Page : 222 pages File Size : 46,5 Mb Release : 2000 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : UCLA:L0081081655
Climate Change and Canada's National Park System by Roger Suffling,Parks Canada,University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies,Canada. Environment Canada. Adaptation & Impacts Research Group Pdf
Climate change, Atlantic parks, great lakes, prairie parks, Western conrdillera parks, pacific parks, arctic parks, ecodistrict, climat normals, temperature, precipitation, cross cutting, vegetation formations, water level.
In Taking the Air, Paul Kopas takes a comprehensive approach to the policy aspects of the management of parks and protected areas. He scrutinizes the policy-making process for national parks since the mid-1950s and interrogates the rationale and policies that have governed their administration. He argues that national parks and park policy reflect not only environmental concerns but also the political and social attitudes of bureaucrats, citizens, interest groups, Aboriginal peoples, and legal authorities. He explores how the goals of each group have been shaped by the historical context of park policy, influencing the shape and weight of their contributions.
Phantom Parks is a hard-hitting and passionate examination of why our national parks are failing to protect the wild - and what must be done to reverse this trend. Having travelled throughout most of Canada`s national park system, Rick Searle concludes that there is no one single cause to the current ecological crisis, rather it is about a slow death of a thousand cuts. The wild within our parks is being threatened and drained away by a variety of causes: the lobby for growth and development of park facilities to accommodate ever-increasing demands for recreation and tourism; adjacent land use such as farming, logging and mining, which contribute to the parks becoming islands of extinction; global pressures such as acid rain, climate change and the long-range transportation of pollutants. There are solutions to the crisis, however. Maintaining the wildness of the national parks now requires radical changes in the way we perceive and use them. There is hope, but we must act quickly. Phantom Parks is a book we can only ignore at our peril. (2000)
The national parks of North America are great public treasures, visited by 300 million people each year. Set aside to be kept in relatively natural condition, these remarkable places of forests, rivers, mountains, and wildlife still inspire our "capacity for wonder." Today, however, the parks are threatened by increasingly difficult problems from both inside and outside their borders. This book, enriched with personal anecdotes of the author's trips throughout the parks of North America, examines changes in the park services of the United States and Canada over the past fifteen years. William Lowry describes the many challenges facing the parks—such as rising crime, tourism, and overcrowding, pollution, eroding funding for environmental research, and the contentious debate over preservation versus use—and the abilities of the agencies to deal with them. The Capacity for Wonder provides a revealing comparison of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) and the Canadian Parks Service (CPS). The author explains that, while the services are similar in many ways, the priorities of these two agencies have changed dramatically in recent years. Lowry shows how increasing conflicts over agency goals and decreasing institutional support have make the NPS vulnerable to interagency disputes, reluctant to take any risks in its operations, and extremely responsive to political pressures. As a result, U.S. national parks are now managed mainly to serve political purposes. Lowry illustrates how in the 1980s politicians pushed the NPS to expand private uses of national parks through development, timber harvesting, grazing, and mining, while environmental groups push the NPS in the other direction. Over the same period, the CPS enjoyed a clarification of goals and increased institutional supports. As a result, the CPS has been able to decentralize its structure, empower its employees, and renew its commitment to preservation. Lowry considers several proposals to change the institutions governing the parks. His own recommendations are more in line with proposals to revitalize public agencies than with those that suggest replacing them with private enterprise, state agencies, or endowment boards. Lowry concludes that preserving nature should be the primary, explicit goal of the park services, and he calls for a stronger commitment to that goal in the United States.
Author : Canadian Parks Council Publisher : National Parks Directorate Parks Canada Agency Page : 108 pages File Size : 49,7 Mb Release : 2008 Category : Ecosystem management ISBN : UIUC:30112075777109
A Proposed Framework to Assess Cumulative Environmental Effects in Canadian National Parks by Sarah A. Kalff,Parks Canada. Atlantic Region Pdf
This report proposes a framework that promotes cumulative impact assessment (CEA) as a decision-making process where information on the ecological integrity of national parks is integrated into park management planning. Research for the development of the framework includes a literature review, interviews with park managers and cumulative effects specialists, and field work in two Atlantic region parks. Two illustrations using a project from each park helped refine the framework and ensure its utility. The framework links three components: sources of cumulative environmental change, assessment of this change, and the options available to manage cumulative effects. The framework establishes a link between local effects induced by specific projects or activities and overall park ecological integrity by highlighting the relationship between project-specific environmental assessment and park planning. CEA is the bridge between these two management activities. The report focuses mainly on the assessment portion of the framework and provides a series of steps to assist in conducting CEAs. The steps are organized into three tiers of analysis that correlate with regional, park, and project site scales. The framework also directs the assessor to examine broad temporal scales.
James Gordon Nelson,University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies
Author : James Gordon Nelson,University of Waterloo. Faculty of Environmental Studies Publisher : The Faculty Page : 554 pages File Size : 46,9 Mb Release : 1979 Category : National parks and reserves ISBN : WISC:89031296635
National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada,University of Calgary
Author : National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada,University of Calgary Publisher : Unknown Page : 348 pages File Size : 50,7 Mb Release : 1970 Category : Travel ISBN : MINN:31951000004530S
Parks and Protected Areas in Canada by Philip Dearden,Rick Rollins Pdf
Bringing together a list of outstanding scholars and officials from the academic world, Canada's public service, and non-governmental organizations, Parks and Protected Areas in Canada gives students a comprehensive look at Canadian park management and planning. This text's carefully constructed framework - dividing content by theoretical approaches and their applications, case studies, and themes, such as the role of Aboriginal peoples in policy development - crafts an in-depth view of the contemporary issues relating to parks and protected space management in Canada today.
The Impacts of Climate Change on America's National Parks by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- ) Pdf
