Organizing Nature

""Engaging and accessible! Organizing Nature takes aim at a complex relationship - the one between society and environment - and illustrates in clear terms its symbiotic character. From fish to forests, the authors show how Canadians impact their environment. But the reader is also asked to reflect on how Canada's nature and natural resources influence the very fabric of the country's political and social institutions as well as the resulting policy (or policy failure)."" --Andrea Olive, Professor in the Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Environment and the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga ""The idea that our environmental ills began with ideas turning 'nature' into 'natural resources' has been around for many years. But rarely has this idea been developed empirically so fully and explained so clearly. Focusing on the Canadian experience, Cohen and Biro give us a fascinating and richly developed account of the 'channels' through which this transformation has occurred, and at the same time how society has been shaped by these transformations of water, forests, coal and oil, fish, land, and bodies from ecological phenomena into resources. A brilliant way into the study of environmental politics."" --Matthew Paterson, Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester ""Lucid and engaging, this must-read analysis charts a compelling path for the future of environmental and resource management in Canada."" --Karen Bakker, Professor in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia