https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress UBC Press is the publishing branch of the University of British Columbia. It was established in 1971 and is among the largest university presses in Canada. We publish fifty to sixty new books annually and have a backlist of over 800 titles.UBC Press is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost publishers of political science, Native studies, and forestry books. Other areas of particular strength are Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, planning, and urban studies. 60 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0450349 A firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry management, investment, policies, and practices. Forest Economics, Revised and Expanded Edition, offers a full revision of the widely used 2011 text. It covers the basic economic concepts, principles, and constructs and shows how these are applied in private and public forestry decision-making. The goal is to lead readers to understand how to use land, labour, and capital to produce goods and services from forests in ways that will best meet the needs of people. This comprehensive edition – which systematically covers modern forest management, timberland investment, and policy issues – contains new data, examples, and applications of economic principles throughout, along with updated references and study questions. Additional content is provided in several significant new areas: Forest finance and forestland investment/ownership, including financial economic models; Simple interest rate and risk measurements; Market distortion; Consumer theory; Priced non-timber values and payment for ecosystem services; Land rent theory; The economics of forest management planning and forest health/wildfire economics; An international comparison of forest taxes and fees; Property rights beyond the private/public ownership binary; The measurement of competitiveness in international trade; A new theory of foreign direct investment. The advanced empirical presentation and ongoing close attention to new developments in the field reflect the authors’ decades of teaching experience and dedication to smart forest management in the United States and Canada. Forest Economics is quite simply indispensable. This is an integral book for undergraduate and graduate students of forest economics and resource management and policy, as well as for practitioners and investors in timberland and forest industry. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0450349 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:30:33 -0800 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0108017 These slides are intended for use by instructors who have adopted Forest Economics for use in their course. About the book: Forestry cannot be isolated from the forces that drive economic activity. While forestry involves using land, labour, and capital to produce goods and services from forests, economics helps in understanding how this can be done in ways that will best meet the needs of society. Therefore, a firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry policies and practices.This book, a major revision and expansion of Peter H. Pearse’s 1990 classic, provides this grounding. Updated and enhanced with advanced empirical presentation of materials, it covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues. Topics range from valuation of forest investments and unpriced forest goods and services to product markets, government intervention, property rights, taxation, and global issues of forests and the environment. Each chapter contains review questions and suggestions for further reading.Forest Economics draws on the strengths of two of the field’s leading practitioners who have more than fifty years of combined experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in forest economics in the United States and Canada. Its comprehensive and systematic analysis of forest issues makes it an indispensable resource for students and practitioners of forest management, natural resource conservation, and environmental studies. For more information on the book, please visit UBC Press. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0108017 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:30:24 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0448239 This document is an appendix to Chapter 5 (“Electoral Coalitions and the Working Class: The Case of the Liberal Party” by Daniel Westlake), which appears in The Working Class and Politics in Canada, edited by Jacob Robbins-Kanter, Royce Koop, and Daniel Troup. About the book: Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politicians, policy-makers, and political scientists. However, the working class accounts for a substantial share of Canada’s population, and class differences have enduring relevance for how people relate to politics. The Working Class and Politics in Canada argues that changing labour-market patterns, shifting electoral alignments, and increased socio-economic inequality make it essential to revisit the political importance of class. The contributors to this essential volume re-examine the experience of workers in Canadian politics and society, considering the relationship between the working class and political science, political parties, voting patterns, and democratic engagement. How do class status and other aspects of identity – such as region, language, and gender – determine voting behaviour? What happens to working-class representation when the country’s political institutions primarily reflect the priorities of affluent constituents?Drawing on new data and original insights, The Working Class and Politics in Canada offers an up-to-date and much-needed assessment of class and its place in contemporary Canadian politics. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0448239 Fri, 02 May 2025 04:31:10 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0448240 This document is an appendix to Chapter 10 ("Participation (In)equalities: A Portrait of Canadians’ Political Participation" by Valerie-Anne Mahéo and Marie Fester), which appears in The Working Class and Politics in Canada, edited by Jacob Robbins-Kanter, Royce Koop, and Daniel Troup.About the book: Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politicians, policy-makers, and political scientists. However, the working class accounts for a substantial share of Canada’s population, and class differences have enduring relevance for how people relate to politics. The Working Class and Politics in Canada argues that changing labour-market patterns, shifting electoral alignments, and increased socio-economic inequality make it essential to revisit the political importance of class. The contributors to this essential volume re-examine the experience of workers in Canadian politics and society, considering the relationship between the working class and political science, political parties, voting patterns, and democratic engagement. How do class status and other aspects of identity – such as region, language, and gender – determine voting behaviour? What happens to working-class representation when the country’s political institutions primarily reflect the priorities of affluent constituents?Drawing on new data and original insights, The Working Class and Politics in Canada offers an up-to-date and much-needed assessment of class and its place in contemporary Canadian politics. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0448240 Fri, 02 May 2025 04:31:01 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0108019 Canada earned a place among other so‐called postcolonial states when the ConstitutionAct, 1982 formally recognized Aboriginal and treaty rights. Nearly thirty years later,however, Indigenous leaders and activists continue to argue that they are subject toongoing colonization.Grace Li Xiu Woo assesses the truth of this claim by using a binary model to distinguishcolonial from postcolonial legality in Anglo‐Canadian history and at the Supreme Court.Part 1 demonstrates how two legal paradigms governed the expansion of the BritishEmpire, one based on popular consent, the other on conquest and the power tocommand. Part 2, which focuses on 65 Supreme Court decisions concerning Aboriginalrights, shows that although twentieth century international law rejected the law ofcommand in favour of democracy, the beliefs and practices of the colonial age continueto haunt judicial decision making, despite the best intentions of legislators and judges.Compelling and innovative, 'Ghost Dancing with Colonialism' not only draws attention tothe underlying paradigms that inform ongoing tensions between Canada andIndigenous peoples. It also offers solutions to complete the decolonization process,bridge the cultural divide, and arrive at a truly postcolonial justice system. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0108019 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:30:27 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0406111 Celebrating 50 years of Thought that Counts. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0406111 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 04:30:34 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0407066 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenousactivism have made many Canadians uncomfortably awareof how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuitpeoples. In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi scholarand educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learningand teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives.Métis leader Louis Riel illuminated the connection betweencreativity and identity in his declaration, “My people willsleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will bethe artists who give them their spirits back.” Using thepower of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful waysto address challenging topics including treaties, the IndianAct, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drivefor self-determination, and government policies thatundermine language, culture, and traditional knowledgesystems.Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge andworld views to explain perspectives that are often missingfrom the national narrative. This generous work is aninvaluable resource for Canadians trying to make sense ofa difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present,and work toward a more equitable future.The documents available here are a video of Susan D. Diongiving her historical timeline lecture (discussed in Chapter3 of the book) and a colour supplement showing theartworks of the Indigenous artists featured in the book(Chapter 4). The artwork is shared by permission of theartists. [An updated version of the colour supplement with minor revisions was uploaded on 2024-05-06.] https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0407066 Thu, 09 May 2024 04:30:31 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0058133 The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law, in the constitutions of democratic states? In The Environmental Rights Revolution, David Boyd, one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, answers this question by moving beyond theoretical debate to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right to a healthy environment in constitutions. His analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations shows how the constitutional right to a healthy environment has been incorporated in legislation and is being judicially enforced in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Nations with constitutional protections have stronger environmental laws, enhanced enforcement, greater government accountability, and better access to justice, information, and public participation in decision making than nations without such provisions. As a result, they also have smaller ecological footprints, rank higher on comprehensive indices of environmental performance, and have reduced pollution faster. This important and timely book not only demonstrates that enshrining environmental protection into national constitutions has the power to make sustainability a priority, it tells inspiring stories about the difference the right to a healthy environment is making in people’s lives. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0058133 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:30:25 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0413652 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0413652 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:14 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0398732 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0398732 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:12 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0395448 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0395448 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:11 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394821 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394821 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:10 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394820 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394820 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:09 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394818 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394818 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:08 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394819 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394819 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:07 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394817 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394817 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:06 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394771 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394771 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:05 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394770 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394770 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:04 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394769 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394769 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:03 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394763 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394763 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:02 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394762 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394762 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:31:01 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394761 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394761 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:55 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394760 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394760 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:54 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394759 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394759 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:53 -0700 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394758 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpress/641/items/1.0394758 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:30:52 -0700