Environmental Studies
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From  NEW! Understanding the CrisesFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Uneven Impacts of Pipeline Development, Environmental Destruction and Climate Disruption – Structures and Systems that Drive Climate Injustice … | Jen Gobby | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  WaterA Human Right From: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Michael Gismondi; Stephen Speake | 23 | 2005 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Water, Water, Clean Water — But Not EverywhereFrom: Canada after Harper |
Maude Barlow next focuses on the alarming shrinkage and pollution of Canada’s fresh water supply, a precious resource which lacks the effective laws and regulations needed to protect it | Maude Barlow | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! What We Are Up AgainstScience and Politics |
In Chapter 1, Kaufman provides an overview of the scientific and political challenges climate activists face in the fight for climate justice. The chapter discusses topics including the … | Cynthia Kaufman | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  What We’re Up AgainstThe New Climate Denialism in Canada From: A Good War |
In Chapter 2, Klein examines the present day political, economic, and cultural barriers we face in our efforts to begin to meaningfully fight climate change and climate emergences. The chapter … | Seth Klein | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add |
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From  When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern TechnologyFrom: Techno-Fix |
When Things Bite Back explores, in depth, some of the many unintended environmental and social consequences of modern technologies, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, species … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Will Capitalists Save Us? What about Governments?From: Future on Fire |
Chapter 2 considered who we should look to for guidance in fighting climate change and how we can not leave it in the hands of the market. Topics discussed include the media industries … | David Camfield | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! 2. Exploring Two ScenariosToo Little Too Late or Giant Leap? From: Earth for All |
Chapter 2 explores possible scenarios of our uncertain future. The chapter explores the "Too Little Too Late" and the "Great Leap" models which are examined throughout the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  3. False Explanations, False SolutionsIntroduction Too Many People? (Simon Butler) The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons (Ian Angus) Magic Bullet #1: The Ethanol Scam (Nicole Colson) Magic Bullet #2: Carbon Capture and Storage (Ian Angus) A New War on the Planet? (John Bellamy Foster) |
- | Ian Angus; John Bellamy Foster; Nicole Colson; Simon Butler | 30 | 2010 | $3.00 Add |
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From  A Brief History of Canadian Climate PolicyFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From  A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
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 |
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From  NEW! A Just Fossil Fuel Phase-OutFrom: The End of This World |
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 |
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From  Adaptive CapacityFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. | Laura Lengnick | 32 | 2015 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter provides a high-level overview of the IAA by examining the five key elements of the IAA regime design: triggering the assessment process, scoping, process options and design, … | Meinhard Doelle | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Another World Is Possible |
In Chapter 2, Kaufman provides a glimpse of what a post transition world might look like after we move away from a society built on burning fossil fuels and on exploitative of the third world, to … | Cynthia Kaufman | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 2 Randolph Haluza-DeLay summarizes some of the key methods used to represent the tar sands and build public consent, to the continuing destruction they cause. Topics include public … | Randolph Haluza-Delay | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
