I am currently researching the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins after 1860 and the role of climate change in shaping the modern...
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My work focuses on the environmental history of water. I am particularly interested in how different social groups use, understand and contest rivers and their resources over time. Current...
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In the last few years, my "research profile" has become rather eclectic; for example, editing one collection about the first century of Parks Canada for the NiCHE series in Energy, Ecology and...
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Peter Fortna is a historian and traditional land use consultant based out of Fort McMurray, Alberta. He received a BA in History from the University of Calgary and a MA in History from Memorial...
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environmental history, historical geography, unbuilt environments, megaprojects, the North, political ecology, critical development studies, the politics of mining, hydroelectricity, infrastructure.
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* Historical Geography of Canada (emphasis on British Columbia)
* History of the Canadian Environmental Sciences (emphasis on botany,
ecology, silviculture)
* Environmental History of...
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To date, my research has focused upon the politics of nature and space as evidenced in conflicts over industrial logging and aboriginal land claims in British Columbia. Currently, I am embarking upon...
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Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Québec. His work focuses on land use and natural resource exploitation in Québec. He and Matthew Evenden are leading the Canadian Water History...
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Environmental and natural resource policy, law, management, history
Attitudes and values toward the environment, culture-environment relations
Transboundary relations between U. S. and Canada...
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The connection between bodies of land, human bodies, and the body politic.
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Recent work includes:
- management of the academic contribution of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in (a Yukon First Nation Government) community-based IPY climate change research project, a series of four...
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I am interested in Canadian natural history museums in the 19th and 20th centuries. My doctoral research is currently underway and concerns natural history expeditions, collections, and displays in...
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