Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a
collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in
natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a
casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications
for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come
from an array of disciplinary backgrounds within the environmental
humanities.
The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial
government policy, food production, industry practices, legal
frameworks, wilderness spaces, hunting, Indigenous perspectives, and
nuclear power. Contributions from an ecocritical perspective provide
insight into environmentally themed poetry, photography, and biography.
Since the actions of Alberta's industries and government are currently
at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is
valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial
forces in play. The editors present an introductory argument that frames
these interests inside a call for a rethinking of our assumptions about
the natural world and our place within it.