Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome View New Society Publishers	Humans often need to see threats to the environment, and, by extension to their health and survival. Progressive losses over time can dilute urgency and awareness. So can progressive gains. One …	Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott	24	2017	$2.40 Add
From Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	This reading takes a country by country look at water activism in Europe. The beginnings of the Blue Community movement in Switzerland is discussed, followed by a discussion of the spread of …	Maude Barlow	22	2019	$2.20 Add
From Burger 2.0 From: Lost Feast View ECW Press	In this chapter Newman explores the possible future of alternative meat, through examining the history of veggie burgers, Beyond Meat products, and the next generation of agricultural innovation …	Lenore Newman	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From Canada’s Changing Environment From: About Canada: The Environment View Fernwood Publishing	-	Linda Pannozzo	24	2016	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Changes in the Oceans During the PETM From: Runaway Climate New Society Publishers	Changes in the Oceans During the PETM: A pulse of 13 C, depleted carbon, warming, acidification, sea level rise, ocean currents and changes to ocean life during the PETM (high temperature, …	Steven Earle	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From Chapter 3 Key Environmental Impacts From: Unearthing Justice View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author describes the various environmental impacts that mining operations have. These include the release of toxic chemicals such as mercury and radon into water bodies, as …	Joan Kuyek	21	2019	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Chapter 3 Colonel Danforth Park and Lower Highland Creek Parkk From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View James Lorimer and Company	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Colonel Danforth and Lower Highland Creek Parks, located in Toronto’s Highland Creek watershed. He uses these parks to introduce local native fungi …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From Chapter 3 Radiation and the Human Body From: From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You View Between The Lines	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 4 New Frontiers and the Post-War Mining Boom From: Mining Country View James Lorimer and Company	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 4 Mentor and Provider From: Renewal View New Society Publishers	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 4 A New Era From: Saved by Science View ECW Press	-	Dr. Mark J. Poznansky	14	2020	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter Three Price and the Need for Speed From: The Case for Climate Capitalism View ECW Press	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 Change A choice for humanity From: The United Nations in the 21st Century View James Lorimer and Company	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 View Fernwood Publishing	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 Acceleration From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	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 From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	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