Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Winners and LosersStrategies for Countries to Consider From: Ecological Footprint |
If we take resource security seriously, how does it shift development strategies? How will our ability to succeed shift in a world of climate change and resource constraints? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
From An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, Dams and Fracking From: Damming the Peace |
Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From Appendix Carbon Tax Vs. Cap-And-TradeFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
From Chapter 7After The Mine Closure and Long Term Care From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter examines the long term maintenance and care that must continue to be carried out after the closure of a mine, and the potential environmental impact that mining sites can have for … | Joan Kuyek | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 7Taylor Creek Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Taylor Creek Park, a historically-important and high-use recreational park located in Toronto’s Taylor-Massey Creek sub-watershed. He illustrates how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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 |