Coasts Under Stress

by Ommer, Rosemary E.

• ISBN13: 9780773532038
• ISBN10: 077353203X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

While coasts are often places of unsurpassing beauty, many coastal communities suffer from poverty, unemployment, health risks, and the effects of environmental degradation. Coasts Under Stress is a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interplay of economy, culture, environment, and health in the coastal communities of eastern and western Canada. Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.Coasts Under Stress shows that many coastal people are determined to survive in the places they love and stresses the need for investment to encourage the recovery of coastal communities.

Table of Contents

How we got here : historical restructuring and its social-ecological legacy
Introduction - what stress? : what coasts?	p. 3
A social-ecological history of Canada's fisheries	p. 33
Not managing for scarcity : social-ecological issues in contemporary fisheries management and capture practices	p. 68
Social-ecological health and the history of the forest products industry on both coasts	p. 94
Social-ecological health and the history of nonrenewable resources on both coasts	p. 123
Cross-scale, cross-sector, and cross-purpose issues : overlap in the coastal zone	p. 154
The human impact of restructuring and social-ecological health
The restructuring of health care on both coasts since the 1980s	p. 183
The statistical face of restructuring and human health	p. 210
The human voice of social-ecological restructuring : jobs, incomes, livelihoods, ways of life, and human health	p. 241
Restructuring, nutrition, and diet on both coasts	p. 273
The human voice of social-ecological restructuring II : youth, education, and health	p. 296
Towards social-ecological health : coastal problems and potentials
Future options I : aquaculture, hatcheries, tourism, transportation, and local initiatives	p. 323
Future options II : the oil and gas potential of the Queen Charlotte and Tofino basins	p. 351
New options for governance I : marine and coastal waters	p. 379
New options for governance II : the land and sea/land interface	p. 405
Building a more resilient future	p. 431
Interdisciplinary team research - the coasts under stress experience	p. 451
The coasts under stress team	p. 465
Glossary of technical terms	p. 478
Glossary of species mentioned in the text, by scientific name	p. 480
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