bout de papier, Volume 14, Issue No. 2, 1997
Geoffrey Bruce
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from the tribute by Paul Heinbecker at the Memorial Service held to celebrate Geoffrey Bruce’s life (St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church on September 23, 2014).
Stockholm Remembered
In the past two decades the word “environment” has acquired many meanings and all of the human, political, economic, financial, social and scientific attributes of a challenging public issue. It comprises, for example, the preservation of the biosphere, the conservation of the…
The Arctic: Choices for Peace & Security, A Public Inquiry
On occasion, books written on current topics are redundant by the time they arrive on the shelf. Sadly, this is one case where the subject continues to be of major importance in the long term, but the arguments seem quite dated because…
On a Hinge of History
From prehistory until about 1000 AD, the world’s population did not increase by much. In earliest times, life was so precarious, and food supplies so unreliable, that a rough balance obtained between births and deaths notwithstanding an undoubtedly high fertility rate. The…
Northern Development: The Canadian Dilemma
Robert Page, professor of History/ Environmental Studies at Trent University, explores in his book one of the key characteristics that makes Canada what it is: its northernness, or ‘nordicity. The dilemma Page sees is in the dual attitude of Canadians toward the…
Our Common Heritage
Gro Harlem Brundtland, chairperson of the Commission, captures the matter well in her forward. She and her 21 fellow commissioners were mandated by the U.N. General Assembly in 1983 to propose environmental strategies to achieve sustainable world development by the year 2000.…
