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This article explores the political and vested interests that underlie the debate over the emulat... more This article explores the political and vested interests that underlie the debate over the emulation of natural disturbances (END) as a harvesting approach in the Canadian boreal forest. I examine the END debate in Ontario, with a secondary focus on Alberta, and how this dispute plays out in the development of forest policy and guidelines. While this dialogue encodes conflicting ideas of Nature and Culture, this article calls for a deeper analysis of the entrenched assumptions and material interests that underpin and propagate this concept and the forces that oppose it. These mechanisms include policy and research language, implicit power structures, and existing scholarly and research paradigms. This is set in opposition to what is assumed to be a shift from a productivist to a post-productivist view of the forest in Canadian forestry. END, and the presumed “naturalness” that underlies it, is further complicated by deliberations over climate change, the precarious state of industrial forestry in Canada, and perceptions and justice implications of pre-colonial First Nations’ relationships with the landscape. As a result, I call for a more open discussion between opposing camps in this debate to better address the challenges faced and raised by END, a land-use planning framework that takes multiple values, forest uses, and impacts into account, and a more genuine and common language with which to discuss this concept and how, or whether, we as a society want to continue utilizing it.
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Sustainability, Jul 30, 2010
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This article explores the political and vested interests that underlie the debate over the emulat... more This article explores the political and vested interests that underlie the debate over the emulation of natural disturbances (END) as a harvesting approach in the Canadian boreal forest. I examine the END debate in Ontario, with a secondary focus on Alberta, and how this dispute plays out in the development of forest policy and guidelines. While this dialogue encodes conflicting ideas of Nature and Culture, this article calls for a deeper analysis of the entrenched assumptions and material interests that underpin and propagate this concept and the forces that oppose it. These mechanisms include policy and research language, implicit power structures, and existing scholarly and research paradigms. This is set in opposition to what is assumed to be a shift from a productivist to a post-productivist view of the forest in Canadian forestry. END, and the presumed “naturalness” that underlies it, is further complicated by deliberations over climate change, the precarious state of industri...
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Résumé Les liens entre la qualité de l’eau et l’aménagement du territoire sont évidents en milieu... more Résumé Les liens entre la qualité de l’eau et l’aménagement du territoire sont évidents en milieu urbain ou les surfaces imperméable, les contaminants, l’extraction de la végétation, et les formes conventionnelles de gestion et d’ingénierie conduisent à des e$ ets négatifs en ce qui concerne la qualité de l’eau et les bassins versants. Le nouvel urbanisme est considéré comme une option pour contrôler l’étalement urbain ainsi que ses impacts sociaux et environnementaux. Toutefois, les béné& ces du nouvel urbanisme peuvent-être diminués par les e$ ets négatifs de la qualité de l’eau. Cet article examine comment les risques de la qualité de l’eau peuvent-être adressés en combinat le nouvel urbanisme et le design écologique. Il s’agit d’une approche de d’aménagement du territoire qui incorpore les principes et processus du monde naturel pour l’aménagement des communautés et des infrastructures. L’article analyse tout particulièrement les communautés basées sur le nouvel urbanisme dans l...
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Resource-based regions face a unique set of challenges and vulnerabilities regarding environmenta... more Resource-based regions face a unique set of challenges and vulnerabilities regarding environmental, social, and economic sustainability and stability. Such regions are characterized by complex relationships with the landscape and resource industry, a distinctive Northern identity, multiple spatial and temporal scales of planning, complex power relations, shifting environmental values, and high uncertainty. These challenges and dynamics can preclude the utility of long-range environmental planning and the agency to undertake it. This dissertation exammes three key research questions: ( 1) How can regional environmental planning processes address the cumulative, multi-scale challenges inherent to resource-dependent regions experiencing social, economic, and environmental transitions?; (2) How can uncertainty and long-term futures be planned for by utilizing scenarios, and how can scenario planning be integrated into existing environmental planning and assessment frameworks to manage u...
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