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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate Leadership From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing		Robert MacNeil	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From The Sword of Reason and the Power of the Law The Legal Right to a Healthy Environment From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	How most other nations have legislation on their books that would have allowed British Columbians to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, using an example …	Silver Donald Cameron	7	2018	$0.70 Add
From The TPP and the Environment From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada View James Lorimer and Company	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 Community From: An Economy of Well-Being View New Society Publishers	* 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 The Well-Being Workplace From: An Economy of Well-Being View New Society Publishers	* Well-Being at Work * Businesses That Operate on Well-Being Principles * The Well-Being Corporation * Doing Well By Doing Good: The Flourishing Well-Being Enterprise * Well-Being: The Best …	Mark Anielski	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate Violence From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	21	2018	$2.10 Add
Thirty Years of Failure Understanding Canadian Climate Policy	Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a …		192		View
Thriving Beyond Sustainability Pathways to a Resilient Society New Society Publishers	Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million …	Andrés R. Edwards	241	2010	View
From Tragedy of the White Amur From: Overrun View ECW Press	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 Transformation From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next …	Alejandro Frid	10	2019	$1.00 Add
From Trouble with Fishing From: Overrun View ECW Press	In this chapter, the author travels to Illinois to meet with commercial fishermen who fish the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Topics discussed include the methods that fishers use to attempt to …	Andrew Reeves	28	2019	$2.80 Add
From Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and How From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	21	2018	$2.10 Add
From UNESCO Downstream Impact on the Athabasca Delta From: Damming the Peace View Collection: Environmental Disasters in Canada: Causes, Impact, and Response James Lorimer and Company	Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the linkages between the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, fracking in the adjacent Moberly Field, and the potential impact on …	Andrew Nikiforuk	8	2018	$0.80 Add
From Urban Water Crises From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	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 Via Chicago From: Overrun View ECW Press	In this chapter, the author travels to Chicago to explore the city’s waterways as another possible vector for Asian carp populations to access the Great Lakes	Andrew Reeves	33	2019	$3.30 Add