Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! FoundationsFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter looks at the Foundations for shaping our behaviour towards facing environmental challenges. This chapter explores issues such as the ethics, scarcity, and equity of designing and … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
From Going "Glocal" |
Topics include: Transition Initiatives – Sustainability Street – Salmon Nation – Regional Climate Plans – National Initiatives: Sweden and New Zealand – … | Andrés R. Edwards | 22 | 2010 | $2.20 Add |
From In the BeginningFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author explores the history of the Asian carp in North America beginning with its introduction in the mid 20th century. The chapter explores aquaculture in the Mississippi … | Andrew Reeves | 33 | 2019 | $3.30 Add |
From IntroductionMining and Community Resistance in Canada From: Unearthing Justice |
In this chapter the author gives a brief summary of the objective of the book, then provides an overview of the structure of the book. | Joan Kuyek | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
From NEW! Introduction |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown defines Toronto’s ravines and urban forests as the city’s greatest civic treasure. He asserts that the definition of a "world class city" is … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Damming the Peace |
In the Introduction, author Wendy Holm describes the Site C dam project in B.C. and summarizes the impacts and effects of the project which are analyzed and critiqued in other chapters of the … | Wendy Holm | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable PlanetToward Sustainable Communties |
This chapter examines sustainability at the community level. It begins with a look at communities in developed and developing parts of the world, proceeds to investigate some of the reasons why … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: Peak Everything |
In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
From Reclaiming Economics for HappinessFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Reclaiming the Language of Economics * Happiness: Well-Being of Spirit * A New Index of Well-Being * Measuring Well-Being Objectively * Alberta’s Economic Growth, Disease and Income … | Mark Anielski | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
From Resisting Least ResistanceFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Savoring the Biosphere |
Microbes are at the origins of all life on our planet, silent partners to the evolution of every form of life and long, long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. We are only now learning of … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 22 | 2017 | $2.20 Add |
From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsLike Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich |
Polarization is dangerous because it interrupts lines of communicationand leads to gridlock. It stops us from tackling urgent problems because without consensus we cannot take effective action. … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
From The Constitutional Allocation of Environmental Responsibilities and Interjurisdictional CoordinationFrom: Environmental Law, 5/e |
Discusses the concept of environmental responsibilities, particularly in regards to federal authority and provincial environmental jurisdiction, as well as intergovernmental coordination for … | Jamie Benidickson | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
From The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended ConsequencesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences postulates that there are always positive and negative effects of any technology. It is impossible for humans to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 15 | 2011 | $1.50 Add |
From The Might of MemoryFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |