Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Food Sovereignty in Canada Creating Just and Sustainable Food System Fernwood Publishing	Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with …	Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Hannah Wittman	232	2010	View
Fostering Sustainable Behavior An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) New Society Publishers	We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	184	2011	View
From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You A Primer on Radiation and Health Between The Lines	The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the …	Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck	216	2014	View
NEW! Future on Fire Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change Fernwood Publishing	Climate change is already affecting millions of people. Governments talk about taking action to limit global heating to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but the greenhouse gas …	David Camfield	128	2022	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He …	Tony Clarke	248	2018	View
NEW! Growing and Eating Sustainably Agroecology in Action Fernwood Publishing	Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements …	Dana James	137	2021	View
Heroin An Illustrated History Fernwood Publishing	Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and …	Susan C. Boyd	251	2022	View
NEW! Human Permaculture Life Design For Resilient Living New Society Publishers	As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to …	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	242	2020	View
NEW! I Want a Better Catastrophe Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor New Society Publishers	An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown …	Andrew Boyd	422	2023	View
i-Minds, 2nd edition How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it New Society Publishers	The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also …	Mari K Swingle	528	2019	View
I’m Right and You’re an Idiot The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up New Society Publishers	The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles …	James Hoggan	275	2016	View
Intrinsic Hope Living Courageously In Troubled Times New Society Publishers	Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, …	Kate Davies	203	2018	View
Lost Feast Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food ECW Press	When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. …	Lenore Newman	308	2019	View
NEW! Making Shift Happen Designing for Successful Environmental Behavior Change New Society Publishers	The changemaker’s guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy future. To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	546	2022	View
NEW! Mining Country A History of Canada's Mines and Miners James Lorimer and Company	Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. …	Arn Keeling; John Sandlos	226	2021	View
NEW! More Powerful Together Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders Fernwood Publishing	How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved …	Jen Gobby	250	2020	View