Pragmatism and Poetry: National Parks and the Story of Canada
This article looks at the history of national parks in North America, particularly in relation to the size of the Canadian territory.
This article looks at the history of national parks in North America, particularly in relation to the size of the Canadian territory.
This essay focuses on the intersection between biocultural diversity and markets by examining the application of Geographical Indications (GIs) in East European contexts as methods for protection of local culinary diversity.
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
The challenges for mountain fieldwork today are different than those faced by researchers a century ago. This article looks at differences in funding, surveying practices, and academic networks and debate.
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
This volume addresses our understanding of the Anthropocene and its challenges, and suggests that multidisciplinarity and storytelling play key roles in devising resilient solutions.