The Otonabee Watershed: the Place That Will Inhabit You

Title

The Otonabee Watershed: the Place That Will Inhabit You

Author

Beaton, Drew

Supervising Faculty

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

Reference Number

TPB-525

Date

1993

Location of Document

U-Links Office and online

Area

Haliburton County

Subject

Integrating economic and environmental development

Abstract

Promoting the theory that, in order to attain long-term economic health, a community must work towards developing ecologically sustainable communities, the paper focuses on bioregionalism as offering helpful guidelines on how to achieve this objective.

The present power structure in our society and the problems that ensue are outlined as a backdrop to a look at ecosystems and bioregions as alternative approaches to planning. The general principles of sustainable living as put forward in bioregional theory are explained, followed by a look at the history of the Otonabee Watershed region and its people in pre-Colonial times.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Beaton, Drew, The Otonabee Watershed: the Place That Will Inhabit You, Trent University, 1993