In this new book celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Diane Srivastava, Jennifer McCune and Heike Lotze contributed a chapter on “Canada’s environment: why planning for the future requires looking at the past”. Using cases studies from Canada’s land and sea, we illustrate how just looking at current or the last few decades of monitoring data can greatly mislead conservation and management efforts because huge changes have occurred over the course of history, particularly since European colonization.
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