Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Chapter 2The Mining Sequence From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter provides a summary the life of a mine, beginning with initial claims and exploration,continuing through operation and extraction, and ending with the eventual closure and reclamation … | Joan Kuyek | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 2Rouge Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown introduces Rouge National Urban Park, one of Toronto’s largest natural areas, which dominates some 13 per cent of the Rouge River watershed. He describes how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From Croplands, Forests, and OceansHow Much Biocapacity Do We Have? From: Ecological Footprint |
This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
From KeystoneFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In Keystone, the third chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the ecological concept of a keystone species, as well as what happens when keystone species are removed, called ecological … | Philip A. Loring | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From OriginsFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksGreening the City |
Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … | Marc Roseland | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
From ReawakeningFrom: Changing Tides |
In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From Regenerative Design |
Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö … | Andrés R. Edwards | 18 | 2010 | $1.80 Add |
From Religious Fundamentalism vs. the EnvironmentFrom: Canada after Harper |
Joyce Nelson finds a close link between this political inaction and the adherence to religious fundamentalism by the Prime Minister and his closest allies. | Joyce Nelson | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add |
From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris |
The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
From Technology, Exploitation and FairnessFrom: Techno-Fix |
Technology, Exploitation and Fairness advances the thesis that many technologies are regrettably used for control and exploitation of both humans and the environment, leading inevitably to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 27 | 2011 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! The Commons: Dispossession and ReclamationFrom: Civilizing the State |
The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The … | John Restakis | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From Tragedy of the White AmurFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by the United States government to regulate the transport and breeding of non-native species. | Andrew Reeves | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
From NEW! UncoverFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter explores how to Uncover ways to change our behaviour using the Behavioral Drivers Analysis (BDA), an analytic tool for uncovering evidence-based drivers in different people. The … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 65 | 2022 | $6.50 Add |
From Urban Water CrisesFrom: Dry Run |
Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
From Will Canada’s Future Be Dammed? Site C Could Be the Tip of the IcebergFrom: Damming the Peace |
David Schindler, one of the world’s foremost water ecologists, explains the role of major dams, like Site C in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, in Canada’s climate change strategy. He … | David Schindler | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |