Environmental History During the Anthropocene: Critical reflections on the pursuit of policy-oriented history in the man-age. This paper was commissioned by Environmental History in Canada. You can read the HTML version at NICHE…
Dean Bavington: Publications
Managed Annihilation:An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
Dr. Bavington’s book discusses the once extremely successful commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador. After the cod industry collapsed in 1992- causing the largest single day lay-off in Canadian history and detrimental ecological damage- many pointed to errors in fish stock management and careless harvesting by fishermen as the culprits. The aim of Bavington’s [...]
Bavington’s new book to be released at the end of May
Managed Annihilation:An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. Dr. Bavington’s book, which will be available near the end of May 2010, discusses the once extremely successful commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador. After the cod industry collapsed in 1992- causing the largest single day lay-off in Canadian history and detrimental ecological damage- many [...]
Environments 2001
Earth, air, fire water: humanistic studies of the environment. (Book Review) Source: Environments Publication Date: 01-AUG-01 Author: Bavington, Dean Review Earth, Air, Fire Water is a collection of essays that explores humanistic perspectives on the environmental crisis while reaching across the two cultures of science and the humanities (Snow, 1964). Readers will find a detailed explanation [...]
The Dilemma of Conservation Biology: Domination vs. Respect For Nature.
Bavington, D., Bondrup, S., 1996. In: Ambio Vol.25. No. 8. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, pp. 532-533. Download this paper here [pdf].
Local Ecological Knowledge, Science, Participation and…
Chapter 16 – Local Ecological Knowledge, Science, Participation and Fisheries Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador: a Complex, Contested And Changing Relationship Grant Murray, Dean Bavington And Barbara Neis Coasts Under Stress Research Project, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 202 Elizabeth Avenue, St. John’s, NL A1E 1L4, Canada Abstract Amidst the failures of fisheries across the globe [...]
Science and society in place-based communities
Chapter 15 of Interfaces Between Science and Society Greenleaf Publishing: Sheffield. Pp 265-281. Co-authored by Waltner-Toews, D., Noronha, L. and Bavington, D. ISBN 978-1-874719-97-7 Download this chapter here [pdf]. Conclusions …the new post-normal science has come to rely more on guiding questions than on prescriptive plans. The eco-social dynamics in participatory research are too complex to [...]
Homo Administrator: Managing a Needy Nature?
Chapter Seven of Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature Get the flyer for the book here [pdf]. Download a copy of Chapter Seven here [pdf]. Excerpt from the conclusion of Chapter Seven …A trick is played on those of us who care for nature when management interventions are presented as liberating solutions for the highly complex [...]
Publications Summary
Dean Bavington’s Publications include: Bavington, D. and Kay, J. 2007. Ecosystem-Based Insights on Northwest Atlantic Fisheries in an Age of Globalization. IN. Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. EDS. M. Schechter, W. Taylor and L. Wolfson. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Catherine M. Roach, Tim I. Hollis, Brian E. McLaren, Dean L.Y. Bavington. Ducks, Bogs, and [...]
South coast cod stocks in danger
South coast cod stocks in danger: Action committee calls for gear restrictions Published in The Telegram, February 29, 2004: A7 co-authored with Fred Winsor Download a copy of the article here [pdf]: telegram-windsor-and-bavington-2004 …we see the ongoing and consistent loss of older large cod from this fishery as an alarming indicator. It is well recognized, [...]
