Managerialsm and the Nature of Canada ...

• Main Author: Bavington, Dean
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0076651; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0076651

Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by Green College. Dean Bavington is a Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nippising University in North Bay Ontario. His research focuses on the history, politics and ethics of managerial relationships with nature. Along with an impressive number of papers from this research, Dean published his first monograph earlier this year with UBC press. A paperback edition of Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse, is due out in November 2010. His publication demonstrates the relevancy of his work to understanding current issues in global fisheries particularly the deleterious consequences of managerial relationships between fish and people. Looking forward, the new focus of Dean’s work is on recent attempts to reform natural resource management through participatory techniques and the integration of traditional and local ecological knowledge. He explains that “Participatory management, while using ...