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enVironmental history<br />

managed Annihilation<br />

an unnatural History of the newfoundland Cod Collapse<br />

Dean Bavington<br />

The Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery<br />

was once the most successful commercial ground<br />

fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992,<br />

many pointed to failures in management such<br />

as uncontrolled harvesting as likely culprits.<br />

Managed Annihilation makes the case that the<br />

idea of natural resource management itself<br />

was the problem. The collapse occurred when<br />

the fisheries were state-managed and still, two<br />

decades later, there is no recovery in sight.<br />

Although the collapse raised doubts among<br />

policy-makers about their ability to understand<br />

and control nature, their ultimate goal of control<br />

through management has not wavered and has<br />

been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and<br />

farmed cod.<br />

DEAN bAViNGToN is an assistant professor and<br />

Canada Research Chair in Environmental History<br />

at Nipissing University.<br />

neW in PaPerBacK<br />

November 2010 , 224 pages, 6 x 9 "<br />

6 b&w figures, 2 maps, 6 tables<br />

978-0-7748-1747-9 hC $85.00<br />

978-0-7748-1748-6 pb $32.95<br />

978-0-7748-1749-3 librAry E-book<br />

Environmental History , Resource Management ,<br />

Atlantic History , Resource Policy & Politics ,<br />

Environmental Advocacy & Activism,<br />

Environmental Business & Economics,<br />

Environmental Politics , Sustainability<br />

nature | HiStorY | SoCietY SerieS<br />

ornitholoGy<br />

birds of ontario: habitat requirements, limiting Factors, and status<br />

Volume 2: nonpasserines, Shorebirds through Woodpeckers<br />

Al Sandilands, Illustrations by Ross James<br />

The volumes in the Birds of Ontario series<br />

summarize life history requirements of bird<br />

species that are normally part of the ecology of<br />

Ontario. The first volume dealt with waterfowl<br />

through cranes while this volume deals with<br />

shorebirds through woodpeckers and completes<br />

the treatment of the nonpasserines. Information<br />

on habitat, limiting factors, and status are<br />

dealt with for the three main bird seasons:<br />

breeding, migration, and winter. It will be an<br />

essential reference for biologists, planners,<br />

environmental consultants, and other resource<br />

professionals involved in environmental issues<br />

and management pertaining to birds. It will also<br />

be a valuable reference for serious birders.<br />

Al sANDilANDs is an environmental<br />

consultant employed by his own firm, Gray Owl<br />

Environmental Inc. His formal learning focused<br />

on fisheries and aquatic entomology but, through<br />

his long-time interest in birds, he evolved into a<br />

wildlife biologist. ross JAmEs, an ornithologist<br />

by profession, has pursued bird illustration for<br />

more than forty years.<br />

recently released<br />

June 2010 , 392 pages, 8 x 10 "<br />

80 maps, 84 drawings of birds<br />

978-0-7748-1762-2 hC $95.00<br />

978-0-7748-1764-6 librAry E-book<br />

Ornithology , Natural History<br />

urBan studies & PlanninG<br />

rediscovering Thomas Adams<br />

rural Planning and development in Canada<br />

Edited by Wayne Caldwell<br />

Suburbanization, affordable housing, mass<br />

transportation, loss of fertile lands – these are<br />

modern problems, yet they are not new. Thomas<br />

Adams grappled with these same issues nearly<br />

a century ago, when he wrote Rural Planning<br />

and Development, a book that quickly became<br />

Canada’s planning bible. Reprinted for the first<br />

time and updated with commentaries by leading<br />

Canadian planners, this book highlights Adams’<br />

influence on the planning profession and the<br />

continued relevance of his comprehensive vision<br />

for planning – to move beyond the demands of<br />

the moment to embrace long-term strategies<br />

for building stronger rural communities.<br />

WAyNE CAlDWEll is an associate professor in<br />

the School of Environmental Design and Rural<br />

Development at the University of Guelph.<br />

neW release<br />

June 2011 , 445 pages, 6 x 9 "<br />

978-0-7748-1923-7 hC $95.00<br />

978-0-7748-1925-1 librAry E-book<br />

Urban Studies & Planning , Historical Geography ,<br />

Canadian Urban & Regional Politics<br />

24 SPRING 2011 | order online @ www.ubcpress.ca

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