Fish Wars and Trout Travesties: Saving Southern Alberta's Coldwater Streams in the 1920s (Athabasca University Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1927356717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fish Wars and Trout Travesties offers an instructive glimpse into an earlier era, before the state assumed its present degree of regulatory control over the environment. As he demonstrates, the move for conservation described in Fish Wars was largely a grassroots phenomenon, and the rules that the state subsequently formulated were often the result of pressures from below.. Today, efforts at environmental protection commonly take the form of "top-down" measures, in which overarching plans, usually based on scientific reports, are implemented through environmental legislation, which is then enforced at the local level. Such conflicting perspectives--founded, as
Often these opinions reflected a growing division between the traditional, rural understanding of nature as the means to survival and an emerging urban conception of nature as recreational space. Today, efforts at environmental protection commonly take the form of "top-down" measures, in which overarching plans, usually based on scientific reports, are implemented through environmental legislation, which is then enforced at the local level. Such conflicting perspectives – founded, as they were, on differing views about the rela
. George Colpitts is an environmental historian and associate professor of history at the University of Calgary