Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada: Nature | History | Society
Autor Shannon Stunden Boweren Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2024
Transforming the Prairies proposes a new understanding of Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), complicating common views of the agency as a model of effective government environmental management. Between 1935 and 2012, the PFRA promoted agricultural rehabilitation in and beyond the Canadian prairies with mixed and equivocal results. The promotion of strip farming as a soil conservation technique, for example, left crops susceptible to sawfly infestations. The PFRA’s involvement in irrigation development in Ghana increased the local population’s vulnerability to various illnesses. PFRA infrastructure construction intended to serve the public good failed to account for the interests of affected Indigenous peoples. The PFRA is revealed as being a highly modernist state agency that produced varied environmental outcomes and contributed to consolidating colonialism and racism. This investigation affirms the importance of engaging historical perspectives to help ensure that contemporary environmental management efforts support more just and sustainable futures.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780774870399
ISBN-10: 0774870397
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 16 halftones, 11 maps, 2 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
Colecția University of British Columbia Press
Seria Nature | History | Society
ISBN-10: 0774870397
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 16 halftones, 11 maps, 2 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
Colecția University of British Columbia Press
Seria Nature | History | Society
Notă biografică
Shannon Stunden Bower is an associate professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba. She has also published articles in journals such as Environmental History and Agricultural History.