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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths May 6, 2020 From: The World After Covid View House of Anansi Press	Niall Ferguson and Rudyard Griffiths discuss history and possible political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of the pandemic. Topics include historical precedence, public response, …	Rudyard Griffiths	14	2021	$1.40 Add
From Not In My Backyard From: There's Something in the Water View Fernwood Publishing	The Politics of Race, Place, and Waste in Nova Scotia	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	23	2018	$2.30 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Fifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly …	Richard Heinberg	20	2010	$2.00 Add
From NEW! On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas Part One: Dispossession at Home From: Capitalism and Dispossession View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who …	Ingrid Waldron	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From One Planet Ecological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk? Where are …	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	25	2019	$2.50 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Water and Sewage From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to …	Marc Roseland	14	2012	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Part 3 Caring For the Earth From: Human Permaculture View New Society Publishers	Biodiversity, the Key to Balance – Water Is Life – Soil, Too, Is Life – Forest: Bridge between Land and Sky	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	44	2020	$4.40 Add
From NEW! Part III: Class Conflict From: Cobalt View House of Anansi Press	Part III contains Chapter 9: Class War in Cobalt, Chapter 10: A Place Called Hell, Chapter 11: Empire Ontario and Temagami, and Chapter 12: The Birth of an Industry.	Charlie Angus	45	2022	$4.50 Add
From Political Institutions From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing	-	Robert MacNeil	35	2019	$3.50 Add
From Power in the Anthropocene The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the …	Richard Heinberg	46	2021	$4.60 Add
From NEW! Principle C – Protect Resources and Promote Fairness From: Building Community View New Society Publishers	Community-Based Natural Resource Management – Research Corner – Natural Capital and Livelihoods – Case Study: Building a New Future for All Residents, Ixtlán de …	James S. Gruber	35	2020	$3.50 Add
From Research Backwater From: Overrun View ECW Press	In this chapter, the author visits the Louisiana Bayous and meets with researchers studying Asian carp. Topics include the challenges researchers face in collecting usable data to understand the …	Andrew Reeves	31	2019	$3.10 Add
From NEW! Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism.	Aaron Saad	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From Saving Ecosystems From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability View New Society Publishers	Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance …	Andrés R. Edwards	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Seeking Strategic Pathways to Energy Sufficiency From: Resilience Imperative View New Society Publishers	Our energy diet has put us between a rock and a hot place. On one hand, we are hooked on oil and demand is increasing. On the other hand, if we do not radically reduce our fossil-fuel use, we …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	19	2012	$1.90 Add
From Socioenvironmental Conflicts and Valuation Languages From: Development in Latin America View Fernwood Publishing	-	Maristella Svampa	22	2019	$2.20 Add