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Title Time and a place : an environmental history of Prince Edward Island / edited by Edward MacDonald, Joshua MacFadyen and Irené Novaczek
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 5
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 5.
Contents Muddying the waters of environmental history : islands as ecotones / John R. Gillis -- Museums, laboratories, showcases : Prince Edward and other islands in environmental history / Graeme Wynn -- The palaeo-environment and the peopling of Prince Edward Island : an archaeological perspective / David Keenlyside and Helen Kristmanson -- The forests of Prince Edward Island, 1720-1900 / Douglas Sobey -- Wildlife matters : a historical overview of public consciousness of habitat and wildlife loss on Prince Edward Island / Rosemary Curley -- The Mermaid's tresses : seaplants in the culture and economy of Prince Edward Island / Irené Novaczek -- The fertile crescent : agricultural land use on Prince Edward Island, 1861-1971 / Joshua MacFadyen -- Agriculture and the environment on Prince Edward Island, 1969-2014 : an uneasy relationship / Jean-Paul Arsenault -- Lines in the water : time and place in a fishery / Edward MacDonald and Boyde Beck -- The landscapes of tourism : scenic images in Prince Edward Island tourism literature / Alana MacEachern -- Two centuries of energy on Prince Edward Island / Kathleen Stuart
Summary Canada's first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age
Notes Co-published by: Island Studies Press at UPEI Charlottetown
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed May 29, 2018)
Subject Human ecology -- Prince Edward Island -- History
Ecology -- Prince Edward Island -- History
Natural history -- Prince Edward Island
Island ecology -- Prince Edward Island
Environmental management -- Prince Edward Island -- History
Conservation of natural resources -- Prince Edward Island -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SCIENCE -- Life Science -- Ecology.
Island ecology
Environmental management
Conservation of natural resources
Ecology
Human ecology
Natural history
Historische Umweltforschung
Ökologie
Ressourcenökonomie
Sozialökologie
SUBJECT Prince Edward Island -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author MacDonald, Edward, author, editor
Novaczek, Irené, author, editor.
MacFadyen, Joshua, 1979- author, editor.
ISBN 9780773598720
0773598723
9780773598737
0773598731