Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
![]() Changing TidesAn Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene |
Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and … | Alejandro Frid | 220 | 2019 | View |
![]() Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | Wendy Holm | 272 | 2018 | View |
![]() Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Making Shift HappenDesigning for Successful Environmental Behavior Change |
The changemaker’s guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy future. To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 546 | 2022 | View |
![]() OverrunDispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis |
Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government … | Andrew Reeves | 387 | 2019 | View |
![]() Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
![]() Techno-FixWhy Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment |
Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 464 | 2011 | View |
![]() The Memory We Could BeOvercoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future |
Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 338 | 2018 | View |
![]() Thirty Years of FailureUnderstanding Canadian Climate Policy |
Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a … | Robert MacNeil | 192 | 2019 | View |
![]() Thriving Beyond SustainabilityPathways to a Resilient Society |
Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million … | Andrés R. Edwards | 241 | 2010 | View |
![]() NEW! Toronto’s Ravines and Urban ForestsTheir natural heritage and local history |
No matter where you are in Toronto, you are close to a ravine. In these often-hidden places you can find an astonishing diversity of birds, flowers, and trees. Jason Ramsay-Brown has spent twenty … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 200 | 2020 | View |
![]() Unearthing JusticeHow to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry |
The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its … | Joan Kuyek | 408 | 2019 | View |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() ForewardFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Looking ahead, one thing is clear: the path we are on is coming to an end. Projections of the coming decades — whether they focus on food supplies, conflicts or weather patterns — … | Raoul Martinez | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Foreword |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes how changes in government policy and community use over the last five years are influencing the health and welfare of Toronto’s natural heritage … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |