My research focuses on the possibilities of doing archival work in the field, rather than in archives. In doing this research, I draw on, integrate and try to extend a number of different disciplines...
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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 research is on the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee. More generally, I'm interested in themes of science, agriculture, and the environment in the (very) long...
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My research and publications on the environmental history of Canada focus on Western and Northern Canada, and include studies of domestic and industrial pollution, pollution control and environmental...
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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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Historical urban/social/cultural/political/economic geographies
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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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My dissertation looks at the Dominion Fisheries Museum -- a short-lived museum that existed in Ottawa between 1884 and 1918. My thesis looks at how the museum modeled Canada's aquatic nature,...
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I am studying the history of the Margaree river system and its people.
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