Nature’s Past – Episode 2: Natural Resource Development in British Columbia

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This month’s episode focuses on resource development in British Columbia. Last November, theNature/History/Society group hosted a roundtable on hydro in BC, featuring Jeremy Mouat (University of Alberta), Tina Loo (University of British Columbia), and Paul Hirt (Arizona State). In this episode we highlight a selection from Tina Loo’s talk on hydro-electric development and high modernism called ‘Towards an Environmental History of ‘Progress’.

You can listen to the full roundtable on hydro in BC in the NiCHE audio archive.

Also, this month we feature an interview with Jonathan Peyton, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at UBC who is studying the history of resource conflict in the Stikine Plateau region of northern British Columbia.

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  • Jeremy Mouat
  • Tina Loo
  • Paul Hirt
  • Jonathan Peyton
Citation: 

Kheraj, Sean. “Episode 2: Natural Resource Development in British Columbia.” Nature’s Past. 19 January 2009.

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Sean Kheraj

Associate Professor at York University, Department of History
Sean Kheraj is the director of the Network in Canadian History and Environment. He's an associate professor in the Department of History and associate dean of programs in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. His research and teaching focuses on environmental and Canadian history. He is also the host and producer of Nature's Past, NiCHE's audio podcast series and he blogs at http://seankheraj.com.

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