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Stress on land in Canada / produced and co-ordinated by Wendy Simpson-Lewis, Ruth McKechnie, V. Neimanis.: En73-2/6E-PDF

"The objective of this publication is to focus on what Canadians are doing to their land resource. It examines several of our activities which produce pressures on the land, contributing to land degradation, or reducing the utility of the land. Previous publications of the Lands Directorate have examined how the land resource of the nation is allocated, and whether its use suits the inherent capability of that resource. Other works have focused on the means of allocation of the resource and on control measures such as planning or zoning which ensure that the land is in socially productive uses. This work constitutes one of the first ventures into the next phase of the analysis of land use in Canada — the analysis of how people use the land once its use has been allocated, and what the results of their management practices mean for the resource as a whole. As a first step, it identifies several of the more visible pressures which are brought on the land resource and examines how important these are in terms of the maintenance of the capability of the resource base itself"--Preface.

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Publication information
Department/Agency
  • Canada. Environment Canada.
  • Canada. Lands Directorate. Policy Research and Development Branch.
TitleStress on land in Canada / produced and co-ordinated by Wendy Simpson-Lewis, Ruth McKechnie, V. Neimanis.
Variant title
  • Stress on land
Series title
  • Folio ; no. 6
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Les terres du Canada : stress et impacts.
  • Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
  • Some pages rotated in this copy.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Introduction to the concept of stress on land / V. Neimanis, Ruth McKechnie and Wendy Simpson-Lewis -- The land impact associated with the disposal of radioactive wastes / Ian G. Redmond in consultation with C. Barraud, W.B. Blakeman and E.F. Muller -- Sanitary landfills and their impact on land / Ruth McKechnie, Wendy Simpson-Lewis and V. Neimanis -- Land stresses associated with federal airport facilities / Kathleen G. Beattie -- Coastal oil spills and their impact on land / Edward H. Owens -- The Kurdistan incident : the onshore impacts of an offshore oil spill / Esther Kienholz -- Inland oil spills and their impact on land / WB. McGill and D. Bergstrom -- Pits and quarries – their land impacts and rehabilitation / A.G. McLellan -- Stresses on land under intense agricultural use / D.R. Coote -- Forestry practices and stress on Canadian forest land / G.F. Weetman – Land as the subject of environmental law / James A. Girling.
  • Issued also in print format.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : Policy Research and Development Branch, Lands Directorate, Environment Canada, 1983.
  • ©1983
Author / Contributor
  • Simpson-Lewis, Wendy‏, author.
Description1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Catalogue number
  • En73-2/6E-PDF
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