Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From “That’s How We See It”Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace |
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 … | Andrew MacLeod | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
From Chapter 3Key Environmental Impacts From: Unearthing Justice |
In this chapter, the author describes the various environmental impacts that mining operations have. These include the release of toxic chemicals such as mercury and radon into water bodies, as … | Joan Kuyek | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 3Colonel Danforth Park and Lower Highland Creek Parkk |
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 … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
From Colonialism: The AccelerationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
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 … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 36 | 2018 | $3.60 Add |
From NEW! DesignFrom: Making Shift Happen |
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, … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
From EngineersFrom: Finding Our Niche |
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 … | Philip A. Loring | 31 | 2020 | $3.10 Add |
From In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social FixesFrom: Techno-Fix |
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 … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
From One PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
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 … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
From Political InstitutionsFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
From Research BackwaterFrom: Overrun |
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 … | Andrew Reeves | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
From Saving Ecosystems |
Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … | Andrés R. Edwards | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
From The EnvironmentGood Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do From: Canada after Harper |
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 … | Peter Robinson | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
From The Exuberance of HerringFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. | Alejandro Frid | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From The TPP and the Environment |
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. | Jacqueline Wilson | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
From The Well-Being CommunityFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* 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 … | Mark Anielski | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
From To Choose LifeFrom: Coming Back to Life |
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 … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |