I study the history and historical geography of Canada. I am particularly interested in environmental history and the Canadian west, as well as in relations between people and the state.
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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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I am interested in the intersections between environment and public memory in historical studies: how people have responded to ecological change over time, the kinds of meanings they have attached to...
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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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Recently finished PhD Dissertation:
Fashioning A Freshwater Eden: Elite Anglers, Fish Culture, And State Development Of Quebec’s ‘Sport’ Fishery,†thèse de doctorat, Université du Québec Ã...
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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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environmental change along the Canada/US border in recent times.
the Detroit River International Crossing IDRC) and the bio-geography of the Essex-Kent Oak Savanna
the aging process in Candu reactors...
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I study the relationship between the Lower River Lea Valley and West Ham, a suburb on the edge of London, England, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using GIS, I to track the changing...
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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 studying the history of the Margaree river system and its people.
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