Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Terrorism Entrepreneurs |
- | John Sorenson | 27 | 2016 | $2.43 Add |
From The Creation of a Global Water Justice Movement |
In this reading, the author provides a history of the Global Water Justice movement. She introduces the reader to a variety of individuals from around the world who have shaped this movement. The … | Maude Barlow | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! The Five Stages of Climate Grief |
In this chapter, Boyd discusses climate grief and the six stages that accompany this process; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and gallows humour. This chapter includes an … | Andrew Boyd | 43 | 2023 | $4.30 Add |
From NEW! The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises |
This chapter looks at the industrial food system — its origins and the problems it generates — which casts yet more doubt on the conventional wisdom that industrial agriculture is the … | Dana James | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! The Life RuralPart One From: Earthkeeping |
Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … | Gary Saunders | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
From The Machine That Can DieFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author explores "holistic biology," which considers both bodily and inner experiences as biological phenomena. | Andreas Weber | 34 | 2016 | $3.40 Add |
From The Paradox of AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
From The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of "good" vs "bad" drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this impacts … | Susan C. Boyd | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
From The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate LeadershipFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! The Rising of the WomenFrom: Still Hopeful |
In Chapter Two Barlow reflects on the three interrelated but distinct stages of her own social justice journey from first working within the women’s movement with Canada, the international … | Maude Barlow | 33 | 2022 | $3.30 Add |
From The State of Our GroundwaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
From The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” MythFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several … | David Bollier | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! The Velocity of Perception |
Through the intersectionality of multiple crises such as the near-civil war following the 2007 Kenya election, the Covid-19 pandemic, global economic collaspe, the Black Lives Matter movement, … | Arno Kopecky | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Understanding ExposurePART 1 |
This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate … | Laura Lengnick | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
From Understanding SensitivityFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … | Laura Lengnick | 30 | 2015 | $3.00 Add |