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Sustainability

Sustainability

From: Land-Use Planning

Review of the legal powers of municipalities to advance the cause of environmental sustainability. 45 $4.50 Add
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Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act
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Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter examines the provisions for meaningful participation in the IAA and provides a more critical analysis of the limitations of public participation and discusses action needed to … 20 $2.00 Add
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Sustainability in the Arctic Borderlands
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Sustainability in the Arctic Borderlands

From: North America's Arctic Borders

This chapter focuses on environmental change, which has quickly become the most important project of border security in the North. Water governance is a key. The focus remains on how cross-border … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Sustainability or Collapse?

Sustainability or Collapse?

From: Techno-Fix

Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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Sustainable Development at the Local Level

Sustainable Development at the Local Level

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, … ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Sustainable Meat - A Contradiction in Terms?

Sustainable Meat – A Contradiction in Terms?

From: Emergent Agriculture

Among the most complex and contentious issues surrounding the debate about what is sustainable and what is not, is the question of meat. Can it be produced sustainably? Should we eat it? As an … 3 $0.30 Add
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Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing Climate

Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing Climate

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter provides a brief history of agricultural practices and outlines the different crops and livestock that are cultivated in different environments. The chapter goes on to discuss how … 40 $4.00 Add
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Sweet!

Sweet!

How Fair Trade Powers the Sugar Revolution

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter explores fair trade in the sugar industry; how sugar farmers are often deprived of market access; and how a Paraguayan co-operative is positively disrupting the status quo. 8 $0.80 Add
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Sweetheart Heroines

Sweetheart Heroines

From: Immodest and Sensational

1940-1955. Examines the effect of the war on women’s sports and how the immidiate post-war period was characterized by a remarkable emphasis on beauty, grace, femininity and, for some … 10 $1.00 Add
Sweethearts

Sweethearts

The Builders, the Mob and the Men

Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … 272 View
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“Swept Away through Injustice”
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“Swept Away through Injustice”

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period … 8 $0.80 Add
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Swimming Upstream
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Swimming Upstream

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … 16 $1.60 Add
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Swinging for the Fences

Swinging for the Fences

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt touches on the Unviersity of Waterloo and how it has developed into one of the most respected technology and business schools in Canada, in large part thanks to BlackBerry’s … 17 $1.70 Add
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Swinish Multitudes
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Swinish Multitudes

From: Being and Swine

In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir provides a brief overview of the history of pigs in agriculture in Europe. The chapter also includes a discussion of the ways in which pigs have acted as a … ; ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Sycophants, Citizens and the Majesty of Nature: Some Thoughts on the History of Australian Civic Debate

Sycophants, Citizens and the Majesty of Nature: Some Thoughts on the History of Australian Civic Debate

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Throughout the last 150 years of at times active, at times utterly uninspired civic debate, Australia has produced its fair share of sycophants determined to possess the baubles of Empire. … 12 $1.20 Add