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Lessons From The Abyss: Reflections On Recent Fisheries Crises In Atlantic Canada And North Norway, Richard Apostle, Knut H. Mikalsen Apr 1995

Lessons From The Abyss: Reflections On Recent Fisheries Crises In Atlantic Canada And North Norway, Richard Apostle, Knut H. Mikalsen

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This paper examines some of the basic economic, political and scientific assumptions we have utilized to organize fisheries activities in the North Atlantic. In particular, we discuss and criticize our commitments to corporate economic organization, centralized administrative structures, and conventional science. In addition, we raise questions about the obligation of our respective nation-states to the coastal communities which have most directly been affected by the social policies emanating from our institutional commitments.


Fairness In The Allocation Of Housing: Legal And Economic Perspectives, A. Wayne Mackay, Margaret Holgate Oct 1983

Fairness In The Allocation Of Housing: Legal And Economic Perspectives, A. Wayne Mackay, Margaret Holgate

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Housing is an emotional, almost religious, topic. Indeed, even church groups have been active in promoting public housing in Canada and elsewhere.' The housing market has also become a battleground for a struggle between vested property interests and citizens' groups which insist upon a redefinition of the right to shelter. Organizations, such as the Toronto-based People's Housing Coalition, Halifax's Access Housing Services Association, and a host of tenants' unions, ensure that housing problems are not hidden from public scrutiny. Developers and landlord associations have risen to the challenge and, under the banner of free enterprise, they steadfastly resist any charges …