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Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in
Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how
particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural
resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life
in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to
"resource," this book weaves together the roles that
commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false
nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and
material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro
present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one
that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of
making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies
focused on specific resources – fish, forests, carbon, water,
land, and life – the book explores six channels through which
this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments,
culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities.
Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think
critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths
about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their
environments.
Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in
Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how
particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural
resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life
in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to
"resource," this book weaves together the roles that
commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false
nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and
material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro
present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one
that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of
making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies
focused on specific resources – fish, forests, carbon, water,
land, and life – the book explores six channels through which
this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments,
culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities.
Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think
critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths
about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their
environments.
Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been
governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has
changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together
experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing
relationship between Canada and the US with respect to shared
waters, as well as the implications of these changes for
geopolitics and the environment. Water without Borders? is a timely
publication given the increased attention to shared water issues,
and particularly because 2013 is the United Nations International
Year of Water Cooperation. Water without Borders? is designed to
help readers develop a balanced understanding of the most pressing
shared water issues between Canada and the United States. The
contributors explore possible frictions between governance
institutions and contemporary management issues, illustrated
through analyses of five specific transboundary water
"flashpoints." The volume offers both a historical survey of
transboundary governance mechanisms and a forward-looking
assessment of new models of governance that will allow us to manage
water wisely in the future.
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