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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914

by (author) Darcy Ingram

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2013
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Wildlife
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774821407
    Publish Date
    May 2013
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774821421
    Publish Date
    May 2013
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774821414
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $34.95

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Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of wildlife conservation in North America. Inspired by a long-standing belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as well as North American models, this system effectively privatized Quebec’s fish and game resources, often to the detriment of commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.

About the author

Darcy Ingram teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, where he works on social movements, environmentalism, and environmental governance.

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