Environmental Studies
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From Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsMay 6, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
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 |
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 ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
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 GasPart One: Dispossession at Home |
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 PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
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 BlocksWater and Sewage |
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 3Caring For the Earth From: Human Permaculture |
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 ConflictFrom: Cobalt |
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 InstitutionsFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
From Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
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 FairnessFrom: Building Community |
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 BackwaterFrom: Overrun |
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 DenialismPART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From Saving Ecosystems |
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 SufficiencyFrom: Resilience Imperative |
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 |
- | Maristella Svampa | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |