Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Ditching our Climate-Wrecking StoriesFrom: Changing Tides |
We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From Footprint ScenariosWays Out of Global Overshoot From: Ecological Footprint |
In the end, it is about choice – what are the options? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From Guiding the Work that ReconnectsFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Never before in history have our destinies been so intertwined. The crises facing us are too vast and complex for any one of us alone to comprehend, much less adequately respond. The fact that … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
From NEW! Make it EASYFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on how Easy it is to reduce the intention-action gap. The chapter discuss tips for making the desired behaviours as simple, seamless, and convenient as possible. We’ll also … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
From The Glorious GateFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
From The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit AnalysesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
From Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and HowFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From Well-Being Impact InvestingFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Virtuous Financial Leadership * Lintel Capital LLC: Investment for Good * Well-Being Impact Investment Funds * And the Times, They are a-Changin’ | Mark Anielski | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
From Working with Invasive Plant SpeciesFrom: Common Threads |
Embracing invasive plants as a material resource for hand-based technologies makes so much sense; we bring land stewardship practices to the heart of our making. It is not about choosing a plant … | Sharon Kallis | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
From Broken SpiritThe Impact of Site C on Human Health From: Damming the Peace |
Physician Warren Bell of Salmon Arm, B.C., traces the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the human values of trust, then explores the connection … | Warren Bell | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
From Chapter 8The Structure and Financing of the Mining Industry in Canada From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter examines the structure of the mining industry in Canada, the rules that mining companies play by, and the way in which companies can take advantage of these rules. | Joan Kuyek | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 8Glen Stewart Ravine |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Glen Stewart Ravine in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood and the genetically-valuable population of red oak (quercus rubra) it supports. He illustrates … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
From Coming from GratitudeFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Cultivate powerful HABITSFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter highlights how we can cultivate environmentally friendly Habits. This chapter provides a variety of tools to support our target audiences in building durable positive habits by … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
From eDNA RisingFrom: Overrun |
This chapter explores the various ways in which genetic testing is now being used to track the spread of Asian carp. Topics discussed include the various potential applications of environmental … | Andrew Reeves | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |