David Miller, author of Solved writes for us on the blog and discusses how Canada can recover from the current global health crisis, by making the case for a green and just recovery that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs.
September 18, 2020
In the second of a three-part blog series, Rae André discusses the importance of innovation in tackling the crisis.
September 1, 2020
We reached out to Andrea Olive, author of The Canadian Environment in Political Context and asked her about the changes that have taken place in Canadian environmental politics since the release of the first edition back in 2015.
August 12, 2020
In the first of three blog posts based on her new book Lead for the Planet , Rae André looks at why applying social science will help Team Humanity to tackle the climate crisis.
August 6, 2020
With the recent launch of our Fall/Winter 2020 Catalogue, Breanna Muir, our Product Marketing Specialist who oversees the process, takes us behind the scenes into the catalogue process at UTP.
June 5, 2020
Sadly but not unexpectedly, the Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, originally scheduled for this weekend in Washington, D.C., was cancelled due to the current coronavirus outbreak. However, we reached out to acquisitions editor Jodi Lewchuk and asked her to talk us through some of the books she would have been displaying at UAA. Enjoy this virtual book exhibit!
April 6, 2020
Recently released from UTP, The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice is an edited collection that reminds us of our primordial belonging to and need for water – a relation so essential that it is often taken for granted in policy development and decision making.
March 5, 2020
In today’s contribution to the University Press Week Blog Tour (November 4-8), our Publisher’s Representative, Alex Keys, shares some advice on how to be an environmental steward.
November 6, 2019
The Romantic world was a time of revolution, protest, politics – and climate change. With the release of his fascinating new book, Romantic Revelations author Chris Washington shares how, two-hundred years later, the focus remains anthropocentric.
September 17, 2019
Author Peter Stoett writes about his attendance at the Planetary Security Conference in the Netherlands and why these conferences reflect the political urgency currently attached to climate change.
May 15, 2019