Environmental versus Natural Heritage Stewardship: Nova Scotia's Annapolis River and the Canadian Heritage River System

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Welchman, Jennifer

• Mindful of the keen public interest in heritage preservation, environmental organizations have routinely characterized nature as a “heritage” asset to be preserved for future generations. But while doing so has often proved effective for winning public support for environmental initiatives, it can lead to a conflation of environmental with “natural heritage” stewardship that is at best misleading and at worst can undermine both endeavors. The chapter uses a failed campaign to nominate the Annapolis River to Canada’s Heritage Rivers program to illustrate the problems that can arise when divergences between these two forms of stewardship are overlooked. Recognizing the differences is essential if we are to maximize our changes of achieving a satisfactory convergence between them.

• Date created

  2015

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Annapolis River
  • Natural Heritage
  • Heritage Preservation
  • Environmental Stewardship

• Type of Item

  Chapter

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3BK1742V

• License

  © 2016 Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press (https://global.oup.com/academic/rights/).