Canadian Wildlife Species at Risk
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Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Endangered species
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Endangered species
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Author : Laurent Dobuzinskis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442690771
The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy options. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy analysis movement has been conducted, and to what effect, in Canadian governments and, for the first time, in business associations, labour unions, universities, and other non-governmental organizations. Editors Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, and David Laycock have brought together a wide range of contributors to address questions such as: What do policy analysts do? What techniques and approaches do they use? What is their influence on policy-making in Canada? Is there a policy analysis deficit? What norms and values guide the work done by policy analysts working in different institutional settings? Contributors focus on the sociology of policy analysis, demonstrating how analysts working in different organizations tend to have different interests and to utilize different techniques. They compare and analyze the significance of these different styles and approaches, and speculate about their impact on the policy process.
Author : Andrew A. Bryant
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Endangered species
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Author : Max Foran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0773554270
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of Canada’s government and society to protect wildlife from human exploitation, Max Foran’s The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife argues that a root cause of wildlife depletions and habitat loss is the culturally ingrained beliefs that underpin management practices and policies. Tracing the evolution of the highly contestable assumptions that define the human–wildlife relationship, Foran stresses the price wild animals pay for human self-interest. Using several examples of government oversight at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels, from the Species at Risk Act to the Biodiversity Strategy, Protected Areas Network, and provincial management plans, this volume shows that wildlife policies are as much – or more – about human needs, priorities, and profit as they are about preservation. Challenging established concepts including ecological integrity, adaptive management, sport hunting as conservation, and the flawed belief that wildlife is a renewable resource, the author compels us to recognize animals as sentient individuals and as integral components of complex ecological systems. A passionate critique of contemporary wildlife policy, The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife calls for belief-change as the best hope for an ecologically healthy, wildlife-rich Canada.
Author : Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 9781100186948
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This document includes both an assessment and status report on the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Canada. It includes species information, distribution, habitat, and biology information, as well as population sizes and trends, limiting factors and threats, special significance of the species, and existing protection or other status.--Includes text from document.
Author : Jane Catherine Watson
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Endangered species
ISBN :
Provides an update on the status of Enhydra lutris, the sea otter, since previous reports on the Canadian sea otter population in 1985 and 1987. Information is included on the otter's geographic distribution, protection status, population size and trends, habitat, general biology, and factors limiting the otter population. Concludes with discussion of the status of the species and a proposed conservation designation, with the rationale for such a status.
Author : Robert Ronald Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Endangered species
ISBN :
The spotted gar, Lepisosteus oculatus, occurs in fresh and brackish waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River basin, and Great Lakes basin. In Canada, has been found only rarely in lakes Erie and Ontario. This report provides information on the fish's geographic distribution, protection status, and population sizes and trends. It concludes with an evaluation of the future of the species in Canada and a recommended conservation designation.
Author : John D. Ambrose
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : American chestnut
ISBN : 9780662395454
This report evaluates the status of the American chestnut (Castanea dentata). Remnants of once large populations of this tree still survive across most of its historical range in southern Ontario as well as most of the states within its range to the south. The report provides general information on the species (name and classification, description) and describes the following: distribution; habitat; biology; population sizes and trends; limiting factors and threats; special significance of the species; existing protection or other status.
Author : Robert Ronald Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Catostomidae
ISBN :
The spotted sucker, Minytrema melanops, is a medium sized catostomid fish that ranges through much of central and eastern North America but is rare in Canada, known only from the drainages of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. This report summarizes new information on the species in Canada following its assignment as a vulnerable species in 1983. Information is included on the fish's geographic distribution, protection status, and population size and trends. Concludes with an evaluation of the future of the species in Canada. A list of collection localities is appended.
Author : Robert Alvo
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Endangered species
ISBN :
Updates the conservation status of the trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator, in Canada since its classification as vulnerable in 1978. Information is included on swan population size and trends, habitat, and possible factors involved in those trends. Concludes with discussion of the current consensus regarding the status of the species and a proposed designation for the status of the species, with the rationale for such a status.