Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Chapter 3Radiation and the Human Body |
This chapter includes the following sections: Internal versus External Radiation – The Radiation Weighting Factor – How Radiation Damages Cells – The Impact of Radiation on Our … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 4New Frontiers and the Post-War Mining Boom From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses shifts in Canada’s mining industry in the past-war era. Topics discussed in this chapter include the history of asbestos mining in Quebec, the growth of mining in the … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 40 | 2021 | $4.00 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 4Mentor and Provider From: Renewal |
This chapter explores in which nature guides and teaches us, whether as a source of creative inspiration or as a wealth of systems to explore and understand | Andres R. Edwards | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 4A New Era From: Saved by Science |
- | Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter ThreePrice and the Need for Speed |
In this chapter, Rand discusses carbon pricing as a way to limit emissions. He discusses the history of carbon pricing policies, and provides case studies of places where these policies have been … | Tom Rand | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
From Climate ChangeA choice for humanity |
This chapter explores how the UN’s concern for environmental issues showcases how the organization has evolved to respond to the evolving needs of humanity | Douglas Roche | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From Climate Justice?Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee! From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … | Monika Firl | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Colonialism: The AccelerationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Colonialism was, and remains, a wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen. Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was incalculable, as … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 36 | 2018 | $3.60 Add |
From NEW! Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
From Curing the Heroin User with Jail: The 1940s and 50sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses drug law enforcement in the 1940s and 1950s, examining statistics on narcotic use and convictions before World War 2 and the years following. The depiction of addicts in … | Susan C. Boyd | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! DesignFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on how to Design your environment for behaviour change. The chapter focuses on how you can design a new product, service, communication strategy, policy, choice architecture, … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
From Earth’s Orbital Variations |
This chapter examines the role of the Earth’s orbital variations in determining the world’s climate. The tilt of the Earth’s axis and our irregular elliptical orbit around the … | Steven Earle | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From EngineersFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In Engineers, the fourth chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the concept of ecological engineers, via a discussion of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest and their creation of … | Philip A. Loring | 31 | 2020 | $3.10 Add |
From Facilitation TechniquesFrom: Changemakers |
Suggestions for facilitation techniques. | Fay Weller; Mary Wilson | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
From Fair WealthFrom: Fair Future |
- | Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 31 | 2005 | $3.10 Add |
From Food Secure CanadaWhere Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect |
- | Cathleen Kneen | 17 | 2010 | $2.38 Add |