Coasts under stress : restructuring and social-ecological health /

Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on nat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ommer, Rosemary (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Coasts Under Stress (Project)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007
Temas:
Social ecology > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Social ecology > British Columbia > Pacific Coast.
Human ecology > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Human ecology > British Columbia > Pacific Coast.
Coasts > Canada.
Écologie sociale > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Canada)
Écologie sociale > Colombie-Britannique > Pacifique, Côte du.
Écologie humaine > Atlantique, Côte de l' (Canada)
Écologie humaine > Colombie-Britannique > Pacifique, Côte du.
Littoral > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Coasts
Human ecology
Social ecology
Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Pacific Coast (B.C.)
Atlantique, Côte de l' (Canada)
Pacifique, Côte du (C.-B.)
British Columbia > Pacific Coast
Canada
Canada > Atlantic Coast
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. How we got here : historical restructuring and its social-ecological legacy. Introduction : what stress? What coasts? ; A social-ecological history of Canada's fisheries ; Not managing for scarcity : social-ecological issues in contemporary fisheries management and capture practices ; Social-ecological health and the history of the forest products industry on both coasts ; Social-ecological health and the history of nonrenewable resources on both coasts ; Cross-scale, cross-sector, and cross-purpose issues : overlap in the coastal zone.

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