Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Brief History of Canadian Climate Policy From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing		Robert MacNeil	31	2019	$3.10 Add
From NEW! A brief history of population control From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	This chapter begins with the discussion that our insatiable “Western” appetites for consumption are more urgent problems than overpopulation. The chapter ends reporting that 2020 …	Arno Kopecky	10	2021	$1.00 Add
A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change New Society Publishers	A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global …	Steven Earle	210	2021	View
From A Chance Encounter From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community …	Travis Lupick	22	2017	$0.44 Add
From A Choice From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Opioids. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Stephen Miller	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From A Drug Dealer Finds Activism From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter throws light on the life of Dean Wilson who was dubbed “Canada’s most famous junkie”. Wilson joined the burgeoning team at PHS and worked alongside Livingston and …	Travis Lupick	22	2017	$0.44 Add
From A Failure to Communicate Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because …	James Hoggan	7	2016	$0.70 Add
From A Failure to Communicate Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres …	James Hoggan	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From NEW! A Fine and Baffling Interplay From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Fifteen explores more of Louise’s challenges later in life. This chapter discusses the move away from amateur ornithology and its professionalization, her continuation of publishing …	Merilyn Simonds	21	2022	$2.10 Add
A Finer Future Creating an Economy in Service to Life New Society Publishers	Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered …	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	450	2018	View
From A Finer Future is Possible From: A Finer Future View New Society Publishers	Conclusion	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	15	2018	$1.50 Add
A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency ECW Press	Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a …	Seth Klein	465	2020	View
From A History of Violence From: There's Something in the Water View Fernwood Publishing	Indigenous and Black Conquest, Dispossession, and Genocide in Settler-Colonial Nations	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From NEW! A Just Fossil Fuel Phase-Out From: The End of This World View Between The Lines	Chapter 3 focuses on the oil and gas industry, as it represents a much larger share of fossil fuel production by emissions than coal and has a stronger political influence, and because the …	Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest	21	2023	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Entering the Next Generation of Impact Assessment in Canada From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter considers each component in relation to the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) evaluations and developed an assessment of what the IAA achieves and where further reform is needed.	Meinhard Doelle	14	2021	$1.40 Add
From NEW! A Limitless Capacity to Rebound From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Twelve explores the hardships faced by Louise in her later life and how these affected both her work and her own strength. The chapter discusses the decline in the bird populations …	Merilyn Simonds	22	2022	$2.20 Add