Ubc Press: 266 books
Adaptive Co-Management
Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In Canada and around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning...
Media Divides
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This book is mandatory reading for students and scholars of communications policy and law, as well as for policy-makers and citizens who want to understand or influence the course of public policy in the area of media and communication.
Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii
Life beyond Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Colonialism in settler societies such as Canada depends on a certain understanding of the relationship between time and Indigenous peoples. Too often, these peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite...
State of Exchange
Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Non-governmental organizations have increased dramatically in China since the 1970s, despite operating in a restrictive authoritarian environment. With labour migrants moving to the cities en masse in search of higher wages and better standards of living, the central and local states now permit migrant...
Sex and the Revitalized City
Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly...
A Frontier Made Lawless
Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless...
Empowering Electricity
Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation....
Public Interest, Private Property
Law and Planning Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations, this book lays the groundwork for a more informed debate between those trying to preserve private property rights and those trying to assert public interests.
Rather...
Doing Politics Differently?
Women Premiers in Canada’s Provinces and Territories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada’s provinces and territories, but what difference – if any – has their rise to the top made? Have they changed the content, tone, or style of political debate? What role has gender played in their triumph and defeat?
In...
Do Glaciers Listen?
Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in...
Governing Irregular Migration
Bordering Culture, Labour, and Security in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain’s processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants.
Differential...
Canada's Voice
The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation...
From Pride to Influence
Towards a New Canadian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Recent Canadian foreign policy has fixated upon Canada's former status as a middle power within a small club of western, democratic states. The emergence of a US-dominated world and of an integrated North American economy and the decline of multilateral rules and institutions as prime instruments...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This volume introduces the concept of “grey zones” of global governance, where state policy and market behaviour interact with respect to trade, the environment, food security, and investment....