Research Catalog

Title

Seeking sustainability in the Lower Fraser Basin : issues and choices / edited by Michael Healey.

Publication

Vancouver : Institute for Resources and the Environment, Westwater Research, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Healey, Michael, 1942-
• Westwater Research Centre.

Description

ix, 348 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"The lower Fraser basin region of British Columbia is being rapidly transformed from one of predominantly agricultural landscapes to one that is mostly urban. The population, economy and society of the region are all changing in ways that degrade the resource base, destroy environmental amenities and foster social unrest. In Seeking Sustainability in the Lower Fraser Basin, 33 authors from the natural, social and medical sciences analyze the prospects for sustainable development in the lower Fraser basin."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sustainable development > Fraser River Watershed
• Environmental protection > Fraser River Watershed
• Développement durable > Fraser, Bassin du
• Environnement > Protection > Fraser, Bassin du
• Fraser River Watershed (B.C.)
• Lower Mainland (B.C.)
• Fraser, Bassin du (C.-B.)
• Lower Mainland (C.-B.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sustainability issues and choices in the Lower Fraser Basin / Michael Healey ... [et al.] -- The interplay of business, government and geography in environmental transitions / Ron Shearer and John Sproul -- Locating aboriginal governments in the political landscape / J.E. Michael Kew and Bruce G. Miller -- Organizations and the Lower Fraser Basin's water management system : an institutional approach / P. Devereaux Jennings, Paul Zandbergen and Vivien Clark -- Individual judgement, social choices and sustainability / Lawrence J. Axelrod and Timothy McDaniels -- On the edge : socio-demographic transformation in the Lower Fraser Basin / Brian Elliott ... [et al.] -- Land and water interactions : present and future / Les M. Lavkulich, Kenneth J. Hall and Hans Schreier -- Our ecological footprint : where on earth is the Lower Fraser Basin? / William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel -- Tools for linking choices with consequences / Dave Biggs ... [et al.] -- The community as crucible : blending health and sustainability / Robert Wollard ... [et al.] -- Looking beyond political will to find sustainable choices / Michael Healey ... [et al.]

ISBN

0888656904 (pbk.) :

OCLC

43277584

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Harvard Library