Environmental Management

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“That’s How We See It”

Trauma and Indigenous Resistance

From: Damming the Peace

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Journalist Andrew MacLeod interviews respected First Nations leader Helen Knott about the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on her community, and in … 17 $1.70 Add
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Colonel Danforth Park and Lower Highland Creek Parkk

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

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Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Colonel Danforth and Lower Highland Creek Parks, located in Toronto’s Highland Creek watershed. He uses these parks to introduce local native fungi … 5 $0.50 Add
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Colonialism: The Acceleration

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Colonialism was, and remains, a wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen. Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was incalculable, as … 36 $3.60 Add
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Design

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter focuses on how to Design your environment for behaviour change. The chapter focuses on how you can design a new product, service, communication strategy, policy, choice architecture, … ; ; ; 32 $3.20 Add
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Engineers

From: Finding Our Niche

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In Engineers, the fourth chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the concept of ecological engineers, via a discussion of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest and their creation of … 31 $3.10 Add
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In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes

From: Techno-Fix

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In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes discusses the limitations of technologies that attempt to counter the negative effects of previous technologies and also shows why … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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One Planet

Ecological Limits and Then What?

From: Ecological Footprint

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Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk?  Where are … ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Political Institutions

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Research Backwater

From: Overrun

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In this chapter, the author visits the Louisiana Bayous and meets with researchers studying Asian carp. Topics include the challenges researchers face in collecting usable data to understand the … 31 $3.10 Add
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Saving Ecosystems

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … 16 $1.60 Add
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The Environment

Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do

From: Canada after Harper

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Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Exuberance of Herring

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. 19 $1.90 Add
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The TPP and the Environment

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

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Argues that the TPP’s Environmental Protection Standards are not what they claim to be and are not effectively enforceable as exemplified by opposition fron Environmental Organizations. 17 $1.70 Add
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The Well-Being Community

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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* The Edmonton Social Health Index * Measuring the Well-Being of Valleyview, Alberta * Edmonton’s Well-Being Index and Measuring the Well-Being Return on Taxes * Community Asset and … 23 $2.30 Add
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To Choose Life

From: Coming Back to Life

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Our political economy requires ever-increasing extraction and consumption of resources. To the Industrial Growth Society, the Earthi s supply house and sewer. The planet’s body is not only … ; 19 $1.90 Add