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Newfoundland & Labrador Relevant Research 



Land Tenure and Forest Management

Cadigan, Sean. 2006. Recognizing the commons in coastal forests: The three-mile limit in Newfoundland, 1875-1939.
Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21(2): 209-233.

Hiller, James. 1982. The origins of the pulp and paper industry in Newfoundland. Acadiensis 11(2): 42-68.

Hiller, James. 1982.  The politics of newsprint: The Newfoundland pulp and paper industry, 1915-1939. Acadiensis 9 (Spring): 3-39.

Munro, John A. 1978. Public timber allocation policy in Newfoundland. PhD thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
 Available at the Canadian Forest Service Library, Corner Brook, NL.

Pollard, Jason. 2003. The influence of logging technology on employment and on the Boreal forest landscape of Newfoundland, Canada.
 Master’s thesis, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Environmental Science Programme.

Reeves, W.G. 1989. Alexander’s conundrum reconsidered: The American dimension in Newfoundland resource development, 1898-1910.
  Newfoundland Studies 5(1): 1-37.


Labor and Communities

Curran, J. 1972. The process of mechanization in the forest industry of Newfoundland: An analysis of technological change and worker resistance to change.
 Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Sociology.

Norcliffe, G. 2005. Global Game, Local Arena: Restructuring in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. St. John’s, NL: ISER Books.

Ommer, Rosemary E. 2007. Social-ecological health and the history of the forest products industry on both coasts.
Chapter 4 in Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Sinclair, P.R., M. MacDonald, and B. Neis. 2009. The changing world of Andy Gibson: Restructuring forestry on Newfoundland’s great northern peninsula.
  Studies in Political Economy 78: 177-199.

White, Neil. 2004. Creating community: Industrial paternalism and town planning in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1923-1955.
Urban History Review 32(2): 45-59.


Native Forest Use

Higgins, Jenny. 2009. Pre-contact Beothuk land use. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, available at http://www.heritage.nf.ca/aboriginal/beo_land_use.html .

Marshall, Ingeborg. 1996. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk . Montreal: McGill-Queen’s university Press.

Renouf, M.A.P. 1999. Prehistory of Newfoundland hunter-gatherers: Extinctions or adaptations? World Archaeology 30(3): 403-420.


Climate Change and Forestry

Catto, Norm. 2010. A Review of Academic Literature Related to Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Memorial University, Department of Geography.
Available at http://www.exec.gov.nl.ca/exec/cceeet/publications/Review_Literature
_ClimateChangeImpactsAdaptation_inNL.pdf

Catto, N.R. 2006. Impacts of Climate Change and Variation on the Natural Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador .
Report, Ministry of the Environment, Newfoundland and Labrador, 160 pp.

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