Liza Piper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liza Piper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liza |
| FAMILY NAME | Piper |
| SIGNATURE | PIPER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7931-9529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wishful Thinking: Extractive Ideology and Reclamation in Alberta, 1947–73
Alberta’s coal industry experienced decline and resurgence in the mid-twentieth century, including the expansion of surface mine operations throughout the 1960s after a major energy transition saw the rise of oil and gas alongside the dramatic contraction of underground coal mining. Surface coal mining was seen as the best hope for profitable ongoing coal extraction. However, surface operations came at a cost as the destruction of the land threat…
Freeze-up, Breakup, and Colonial Circulation
Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall . Daniel Macfarlane
Freeze-up, Break-up, and Colonial Circulation
This paper examines the place of ice and snow in the process of Euro-Canadian colonisation of what are today the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Using oral histories and accounts of Indigenous life experiences from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper opens with an examination of the ways in which ice and snow, freeze-up and break-up, were inextricable from wider social and cultural relationships between Indigenous northe…
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Foremost, we wish to thank the participants at the original Edmonton workshop in 2014, including especially the contributors to this volume, who continued
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
A Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late Twentieth-Century Alberta
This article examines the political economy of coal in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the resurgence of coal production beginning in the 1960s after a decline in the immediate post-war period. After 1962, the coal industry in Alberta was transformed compared to its early twentieth-century counterpart as it shifted from producing a transport fuel to producing a fuel for electric power generation and came to …
Chesterfield Inlet, 1949, and the Ecology of Epidemic Polio
Environmental historians have yet to engage with the history of polio. This article uses a 1949 outbreak that occurred during the global height of polio epidemics but in an unexpected place, Chesterfield Inlet in the Canadian Arctic, to examine the influence of Arctic environments on midcentury biomedical research into poliomyelitis. This influence arose in part because of the historical role of such environments and their indigenous inhabitants …
Coming In from the Cold
Knowing Nature Through History
This essay surveys the past 20 years of Canadian environmental historiography in order to understand how scholars in this field have conceptualized and applied nature to the study of the past. The essay argues that Canadian environmental historians, even as they foreground nature as an historical actor, nevertheless continue to focus their attention and orient their investigations around questions of how human social, cultural, economic, and poli…
Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry
After 1900, the Northwest fishing industry expanded substantially from southern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories, with production directed principally to American urban markets. In response to the economic crisis of the 1930s, new international trade regulations prohibited the importation of fish infected with the Triaenophorus parasite and included two of the most important commercial freshwater fish species: tullibee and lake whitefish. In…
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
Introduction: The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology
Introduction: The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Comparative Issues in the History of Circumpolar Science and Technology) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North
Ecological imperialism is one of the most enduring models of past global environmental change. This essay argues that the application of ecological imperialism as an explanation for New World environmental change should not be limited to temperate regions where the process was so spectacularly successful. Using the Canadian North as a broad regional template, our analysis suggests that consideration of both the failures and the limited successes …
Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921-1960
This paper examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of north-west Canada (Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) from 1921 to 1960. It is based on the records of the three largest mining companies, Eldorado Mining and Refining, Cominco, and Giant Mines as well as government documents, oral histories and published geological and technical reports. The paper opens by assessing the historiography of mines in relation to nature and…
Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921-1960
This paper examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of north-west Canada (Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) from 1921 to 1960. It is based on the records of the three largest mining companies, Eldorado Mining and Refining, Cominco, and Giant Mines as well as government documents, oral histories and published geological and technical reports. The paper opens by assessing the historiography of mines in relation to nature and…
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North
Ecological imperialism is one of the most enduring models of past global environmental change. This essay argues that the application of ecological imperialism as an explanation for New World environmental change should not be limited to temperate regions where the process was so spectacularly successful. Using the Canadian North as a broad regional template, our analysis suggests that consideration of both the failures and the limited successes …
Chesterfield Inlet, 1949, and the Ecology of Epidemic Polio
Environmental historians have yet to engage with the history of polio. This article uses a 1949 outbreak that occurred during the global height of polio epidemics but in an unexpected place, Chesterfield Inlet in the Canadian Arctic, to examine the influence of Arctic environments on midcentury biomedical research into poliomyelitis. This influence arose in part because of the historical role of such environments and their indigenous inhabitants …
A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North
Ecological imperialism is one of the most enduring models of past global environmental change. This essay argues that the application of ecological imperialism as an explanation for New World environmental change should not be limited to temperate regions where the process was so spectacularly successful. Using the Canadian North as a broad regional template, our analysis suggests that consideration of both the failures and the limited successes …
Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921-1960
This paper examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of north-west Canada (Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) from 1921 to 1960. It is based on the records of the three largest mining companies, Eldorado Mining and Refining, Cominco, and Giant Mines as well as government documents, oral histories and published geological and technical reports. The paper opens by assessing the historiography of mines in relation to nature and…
Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry
After 1900, the Northwest fishing industry expanded substantially from southern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories, with production directed principally to American urban markets. In response to the economic crisis of the 1930s, new international trade regulations prohibited the importation of fish infected with the Triaenophorus parasite and included two of the most important commercial freshwater fish species: tullibee and lake whitefish. In…
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
Introduction: The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology
Introduction: The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Comparative Issues in the History of Circumpolar Science and Technology) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Knowing Nature Through History
This essay surveys the past 20 years of Canadian environmental historiography in order to understand how scholars in this field have conceptualized and applied nature to the study of the past. The essay argues that Canadian environmental historians, even as they foreground nature as an historical actor, nevertheless continue to focus their attention and orient their investigations around questions of how human social, cultural, economic, and poli…
Coming In from the Cold
Chesterfield Inlet, 1949, and the Ecology of Epidemic Polio
Environmental historians have yet to engage with the history of polio. This article uses a 1949 outbreak that occurred during the global height of polio epidemics but in an unexpected place, Chesterfield Inlet in the Canadian Arctic, to examine the influence of Arctic environments on midcentury biomedical research into poliomyelitis. This influence arose in part because of the historical role of such environments and their indigenous inhabitants …
A Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late Twentieth-Century Alberta
This article examines the political economy of coal in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the resurgence of coal production beginning in the 1960s after a decline in the immediate post-war period. After 1962, the coal industry in Alberta was transformed compared to its early twentieth-century counterpart as it shifted from producing a transport fuel to producing a fuel for electric power generation and came to …
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Foremost, we wish to thank the participants at the original Edmonton workshop in 2014, including especially the contributors to this volume, who continued
Freeze-up, Break-up, and Colonial Circulation
This paper examines the place of ice and snow in the process of Euro-Canadian colonisation of what are today the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Using oral histories and accounts of Indigenous life experiences from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper opens with an examination of the ways in which ice and snow, freeze-up and break-up, were inextricable from wider social and cultural relationships between Indigenous northe…
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall . Daniel Macfarlane
Freeze-up, Breakup, and Colonial Circulation
Wishful Thinking: Extractive Ideology and Reclamation in Alberta, 1947–73
Alberta’s coal industry experienced decline and resurgence in the mid-twentieth century, including the expansion of surface mine operations throughout the 1960s after a major energy transition saw the rise of oil and gas alongside the dramatic contraction of underground coal mining. Surface coal mining was seen as the best hope for profitable ongoing coal extraction. However, surface operations came at a cost as the destruction of the land threat…
Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Canadian Identity and History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)