Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Scientific SalvationFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author travels to Minnesota to interview researchers at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC). Topics discussed include different non-physical … | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
From Sculpted by River and StoryFrom: Changing Tides |
Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … | Alejandro Frid | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From The Big ShiftFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … | Tony Clarke | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
From The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and MindFrom: Coming Back to Life |
perils facing life on Earth are so massive and unprecedented they are hard even to take in. The very danger signals that should rivet our attention, summon up the blood and bond us in collective … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
From Well-Being for First NationsFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Measuring What Matters to Community Well-Being * Why a Community Asset Assessment? * Natural Capital Assessment * The Well-Being Community Planning Process * Benefits of a Well-Being-Based … | Mark Anielski | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
From Beautiful ProtestFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … | Alejandro Frid | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From Catalysts for Change |
Topics include: Greening Campuses – The Food Revolution – The Green Economy – Mainstreaming Green – Open Source – Initiatives, Confluence, Scope and Approach – … | Andrés R. Edwards | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
From Chapter 5Social Impacts From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter explores the social impacts that the operation of a mine can have on communities. These impacts last throughout the operation of the mine and range from the displacement of … | Joan Kuyek | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 5Gates Gully |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown uses Gates Gully (Belamy Ravine), which cleaves through the Scarborough Bluffs, to illustrate how local history, natural heritage, art, and culture intersect … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From End Overshoot!Communication Is Key From: Ecological Footprint |
Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From Human Nature or Human Ignorance?From: The Memory We Could Be |
The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
From Ideas & CultureFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! MethodsFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 41 | 2022 | $4.10 Add |
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
From Rape of the CommonsThe Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security From: Damming the Peace |
Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … | Wendy Holm | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
From SentinelFrom: Finding Our Niche |
The sixth chapter of Finding Our Niche, Sentinel, welcomes in stories of people and communities who have invested in improving and restoring their connection to land and natural communities. … | Philip A. Loring | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |