The aquaculture controversy in Canada
Subtitle: activism, policy, and contested science
By: Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews
Contributors: Matthews, Ralph, 1943-
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780774818100; 9780774818117
Subjects: Politique gouvernementale; Government policy; Aquaculture; Aspect de l'environnement
Description: "The farming of aquatic organisms is one of the most promising but controversial new industries in Canada. The industry has the potential to solve food supply problems, but critics believe it poses unacceptable threats to human health, local communities, and the environment. This book is not about the methods and techniques of aquaculture but an exploration of the controversy itself. Rather than choosing sides, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews present the controversy as a multi-layered conflict about knowledge, rights, and development. Comprehensive and balanced, this book addresses one of the most contentious public policy and environmental issues facing the world today."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: A high-speed collision : aquaculture as intersection and metaphor. Aquaculture in a global context ; Aquaculture in a local context; title: Knowledge battlefield. Knowledge battlefield : science, framing, and "facts" ; Knowledge warriors : experts and the aquaculture controversy ; Media and the knowledge battlefield / With Mary Liston; title: Political economy. Aquaculture and community development ; Governing aquaculture.