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INSTEAD

The Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development (INSTEAD) research program is a knowledge co-creation partnership of Indigenous communities, representative organizations, university ...

Runaway Climate

By (author) Steven Earle
Categories: Climate change

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past

With rising emissions, we are on track to cause rapid global warming with devastating ...

Tuzo

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.

In 1961, ...

Picking Up the Slack

By (author) Andrew Green
Categories: Geography
Series: UTP Insights

Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies. Why, in an era when climate change ...

The Joint Arctic Weather Stations

This is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a collaborative science program between Canada and the United States that created a distinctive state presence in the ...

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

By (author) Steven Earle
Categories: Climate change

A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4. 6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming ...

Quenching the Dragon

Part environmental manifesto, part travelogue, and part diplomatic odyssey, Quenching the Dragon arms readers with vital new perspectives on global hydrology and sustainability in the context of how former ...

Canada Rocks

By (author) Nick Eyles & Andrew Miall
Categories: Science

Canada Rocks is a marvelous portrait of what the authors describe as the incredible 4 billion year 'construction project'. Profusely illustrated throughout with full colour and black and white photographs, ...

What's in a Name?

What’s in a Name? brings together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak ...

Baffin Island

By (author) Jack D. Ives
Categories: Politics and government
Series: Northern Lights

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of ...