Tracking the Great Bear ─ How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia Coastal Rainforest

Encompassing more than six million hectares of globally rare coastal rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia was once slated for clear-cut logging. This fate was forestalled, however, by the signing in 2006 of one of the world's most innovative land-use protection agreements. Tracking the Great Bear traces environmentalists' efforts to save the area from status quo industrial forestry, while at the same time respecting First Nations' right to economic development. It adopts an innovative theoretical approach - actor-network theory - to explain environmentalists' (contested) success. This book makes a significant contribution to social scientific analyses of natural resource management.

Justin Page is an environmental social scientist at ERM Rescan, an environmental consulting company based in Vancouver. He has over ten years of environmental social sciences research experience in the academic and private sectors.