Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada
A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarb...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s037689290002083x 2024-03-03T08:47:32+00:00 Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada Fenge, Terry 1982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s037689290002083x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S037689290002083X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Environmental Conservation volume 9, issue 4, page 305-313 ISSN 0376-8929 1469-4387 Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Pollution Water Science and Technology journal-article 1982 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s037689290002083x 2024-02-08T08:31:47Z A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarbon development and increased harvesting of renewable resources are threats to the integrity of many ESAs. An anticipatory and comprehensive policy to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in advance of industrialization is required, but developing such a policy will be difficult, owing to the complex political and jurisdictional ‘environments’ in northern Canada. Despite these problems, the recently announced Northern Landuse Planning Policy could be a vehicle for the implementation of a comprehensive conservation policy for ESAs, if only the institutional structures and processes that will accompany this policy are adequately designed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Cambridge University Press Canada Northwest Territories Environmental Conservation 9 4 305 313 |
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A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarbon development and increased harvesting of renewable resources are threats to the integrity of many ESAs. An anticipatory and comprehensive policy to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in advance of industrialization is required, but developing such a policy will be difficult, owing to the complex political and jurisdictional ‘environments’ in northern Canada. Despite these problems, the recently announced Northern Landuse Planning Policy could be a vehicle for the implementation of a comprehensive conservation policy for ESAs, if only the institutional structures and processes that will accompany this policy are adequately designed. |
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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada |
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