Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene...
Natural resources--Management
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Auteur:Dokis, Carly A.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Sommaire:Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights." Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and catalysts for war and peace. The...
- Auteur:Castonguay, StéphaneSommaire:
The Government of Natural Resourcesexplores the development of scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created...
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Auteur:Jones, KariSommaire:There are almost eight billion people alive today. Having that many people in the world puts pressure on both social and natural resources, and we have to ask ourselves difficult questions like, What is our fair share? And how do we...
- Auteur:Benidickson, JamieSommaire:
Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been both harnessed and harmed. Jamie...
- Auteur:Mousseau, NormandSommaire:
Un ouvrage essentiel pour quiconque s’intéresse au développement du Québec, mais aussi à la gestion de ressources non renouvelables sur une planète de plus en plus petite.
- Auteur:Mosey, RichardSommaire:
The American middle class is disappearing, and an obtuse, short-sighted and self-centered emphasis on growth rather than stability ensures this. Economic collapse is only accelerating the privatization of essential resources like water...
