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"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Canada manages over forty parks and reserves totalling over 200,000 square kilometres and featuring a dazzling variety of landscapes, and is recognized as a global leader in the environmental challenges of protected places. Its history is a rich repository of experience, of lessons learned - critical for making informed decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health of our national parks. A Century of Parks Canada is published in partnership with NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment; http://niche-canada.org/).

As the rising sea levels of climate change reshape hemispheric space, we are confronting the historical legacies of building cities by the sea. This is especially so on small Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This essay explores the transformation of the waterfront in the Island's capital city, Charlottetown, according to the prerogatives of the railway era in the latter nineteenth century. Covering fresh water and filling in salt were fundamental to city-building in nineteenth-century North America, but this essay seeks to highlight the importance of considering the intersection of fresh water and salt in our coastal cities, and the prevalence of the ethos of development in even smaller cities along the shore. This is the story of how a colonial capital initially praised for and defined by its aqueous features gradually lost one particular wetland in its downtown core, in building out the fabric required for the railway era. Human intervention had profound environmental consequences in shaping the city, especially its waterfront, and tied this Island city to larger narratives of urbanization, the politics of transportation and technology, and the regime of fossil fuels. Charlottetown demonstrates why coastal cities must rediscover their water lines, as tidewater, newly animated by climate change, forces us to address the origin, extent, and adaptability of urban infrastructure inherited from the nineteenth century. This essay draws heavily on manuscript and commercial maps.

AbstractPrevious research has established that intergroup threat is pivotal to intergroup relations in divided societies. We used the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections in 2022 as a unique chance to investigate how elections can affect feelings of threat and intergroup relations between communities with a history of violent intergroup conflict. We argued that because of their conflicting goals, if Sinn Féin (i.e., a Republican party that promotes a united Ireland) gains more votes than the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP, i.e., a party promoting Northern Ireland's union with the United Kingdom), it would threaten DUP supporters and vice versa. We assessed whether participants supported Sinn Féin or DUP relatively to each other, intergroup threat, and intergroup bias before and after the elections (N = 285). Following an election outcome where Sinn Féin gained more votes than DUP, Sinn Féin supporters showed decreased feelings of threat which in turn decreased their intergroup bias. DUP supporters, the party that received fewer votes, showed no changes in their feelings of threat or intergroup bias. This research highlights how electoral results affect intergroup relations in postconflict societies.

This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use