Culturing Wilderness In Jasper National Park

Author : I.S. MacLaren,Michael Payne,Peter J. Murphy,PearlAnn Reichwein,Lisa McDermott,C. J. Taylor,Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux,Zac Robinson,Eric Higgs
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888645708

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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park by I.S. MacLaren,Michael Payne,Peter J. Murphy,PearlAnn Reichwein,Lisa McDermott,C. J. Taylor,Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux,Zac Robinson,Eric Higgs Pdf

Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection in this long overdue study of Jasper.

Author : J. Keri Cronin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774819091

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Manufacturing National Park Nature by J. Keri Cronin Pdf

National parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, yet we are only beginning to understand how their visual representation has shaped and continues to inform our perceptions of ecological issues and the natural world. J. Keri Cronin draws on historical and modern postcards, advertisements, and other images of Jasper National Park to trace how various groups and the tourism industry have used photography to divorce the park from real environmental threats and instead package it as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals. Manufacturing National Park Nature demonstrates that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image.

Author : Shane P. Mahoney,Valerius Geist
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421432809

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation by Shane P. Mahoney,Valerius Geist Pdf

Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1412918421

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Environment by Jules Pretty Pdf

This four-volume set explores the locations where the environment matters most such as where people are poor, where environments are under threat (such as on frontiers), where there are few natural resources remaining, and where industrialization is rampant. It will also explore these concerns at different system levels, from local-community, to regional, national and global. It will also explore costs of damage to the very resources on which economies rely, and the values of environmental goods and services and the controversies surrounding such valuations. It is organized around environment-people interactions (livelihoods, poverty, income, economic growth); environment-environment interactions (do people matter?); and people-people interactions (collective action challenges, institutions).

Author : Rob Kaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Park rangers
ISBN : 0994051808

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Born to the Wild by Rob Kaye Pdf

Author : A.A. (Andy) den Otter
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888646767

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Civilizing the Wilderness by A.A. (Andy) den Otter Pdf

In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant something quite different than they do today. Through careful readings and researches of a variety of lesser known individuals and events, den Otter teases out the striking dichotomy between "civilizing" and "wilderness," leading readers to a new understanding of the relationship between newcomers and Native peoples, and the very lands they inhabited. Historians and non-specialists with an interest in western Canadian native, settler, and environmental-economic history will be deeply rewarded by reading Civilizing the Wilderness.

Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774821049

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An Environmental History of Canada by Laurel Sefton MacDowell Pdf

Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness, abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada's contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images � deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and a thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from First Peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about � and look at � Canada.

Author : PearlAnn Reichwein
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772120233

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Climber's Paradise by PearlAnn Reichwein Pdf

Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution; the post-Mao transformation of China; Canada's relations with China; the cultural impact of the overseas Chinese community on the Canadian Prairies; development of China studies in Canada and elsewhere; the current impact of China on Canadian higher education; and recent Chinese history seen within a broader context. With this book, Evans seeks to make a contribution to the understanding of the nature and wide range of Canada-China relations, an area in which he himself has played a role.

Author : Allen Thompson,Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262300780

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Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change by Allen Thompson,Jeremy Bendik-Keymer Pdf

An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change. Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one, that it is not simply a matter of adapting our infrastructures and economies to mitigate damage but rather of adapting ourselves to realities of a new global climate. The challenge is to restore our conception of humanity—to understand human flourishing in new ways—in an age in which humanity shapes the basic conditions of the global environment. In the face of what we have unintentionally done to Earth's ecology, who shall we become? The contributors examine ways that new realities will require us to revisit and adjust the practice of ecological restoration; the place of ecology in our conception of justice; the form and substance of traditional virtues and vices; and the organizations, scale, and underlying metaphors of important institutions. Topics discussed include historical fidelity in ecological restoration; the application of capability theory to ecology; the questionable ethics of geoengineering; and the cognitive transformation required if we are to “think like a planet.”

Author : Robert Boschman,Mario Trono
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781554589753

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Found in Alberta by Robert Boschman,Mario Trono Pdf

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come from an array of disciplinary backgrounds within the environmental humanities. The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial government policy, food production, industry practices, legal frameworks, wilderness spaces, hunting, Indigenous perspectives, and nuclear power. Contributions from an ecocritical perspective provide insight into environmentally themed poetry, photography, and biography. Since the actions of Alberta’s industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play. The editors present an introductory argument that frames these interests inside a call for a rethinking of our assumptions about the natural world and our place within it.

Author : Colleen Skidmore
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781772122985

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Searching for Mary Schäffer by Colleen Skidmore Pdf

Mary Sch'ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Sch'ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Sch'ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Sch'ffer.

Author : Jean Barman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Native and Nort
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773556256

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Iroquois in the West by Jean Barman Pdf

Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois ? principally from what is now Kahnawà:ke ? left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montreal, some Iroquois soon returned, while others were enticed ever further west by the rapidly expanding fur trade. Recounting stories of Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency, Iroquois in the West tracks four clusters of travellers across time, place, and generations: a band that settled in Montana, another ranging across the American West, others opting for British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, and a group in Alberta who were evicted when their longtime home became Jasper National Park. Reclaiming slivers of Iroquois knowledge, anecdotes, and memories from the shadows of the past, Jean Barman draws on sources that range from descendants' recollections to fur-trade and government records to travellers' accounts. What becomes clear is that, no matter the places or the circumstances, the Iroquois never abandoned their senses of self. Opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous peoples through time, Iroquois in the West shares the fascinating adventures of a people who have waited over two hundred years to be heard.

Author : Courtney W. Mason
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442626683

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Spirits of the Rockies by Courtney W. Mason Pdf

The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples. While they were displaced from the region by the reserve system and the creation of Canada's first national park, in the twentieth century the Nakoda reasserted their presence in the valley through involvement in regional tourism economies and the Banff Indian Days sporting festivals. Drawing on extensive oral testimony from the Nakoda, supplemented by detailed analysis of archival and visual records, Spirits of the Rockies is a sophisticated account of the situation that these Indigenous communities encountered when they were denied access to the Banff National Park. Courtney W. Mason examines the power relations and racial discourses that dominated the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and shows how the Nakoda strategically used the Banff Indian Days festivals to gain access to sacred lands and respond to colonial policies designed to repress their cultures.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552382301

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The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan Pdf

Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.

Author : Eric Higgs
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262582260

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Nature by Design by Eric Higgs Pdf

Ecological restoration is the process of repairing human damage to ecosystems. It involves reintroducing missing plants and animals, rebuilding soils, eliminating hazardous substances, ripping up roads, and returning natural processes such as fire and flooding to places that thrive on their regular occurrence. Thousands of restoration projects take place in North America every year. In Nature by Design, Eric Higgs argues that profound philosophical and cultural shifts accompany these projects. He explores the ethical and philosophical bases of restoration and the question of what constitutes good ecological restoration. Higgs explains how and why the restoration movement came about, where it fits into the array of approaches to human relationships with the land, and how it might be used to secure a sustainable future. Some environmental philosophers and activists worry that restoration will dilute preservation and conservation efforts and lead to an even deeper technological attitude toward nature. They ask whether even well-conceived restoration projects are in fact just expressions of human will. Higgs prefaces his responses to such concerns by distinguishing among several types of ecological restoration. He also describes a growing gulf between professionals and amateurs. Higgs finds much merit in criticism about technological restoration projects, which can cause more damage than they undo. These projects often ignore the fact that changing one thing in a complex system can change the whole system. For restoration projects to be successful, Higgs argues, people at the community level must be engaged. These focal restorations bring communities together, helping volunteers develop a dedication to place and encouraging democracy.