Environmental Studies

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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 Sustainability is a set of principles that focus on three fundamental elements of durable societies. They are: environmental stewardship, economic viability, and ethical behavior. These elements, … 6 $0.60 Add
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Understanding Adaptive Capacity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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 This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … 14 $1.40 Add
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Urban Water Management

From: Dry Run

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 What are the opportunities for urban water management in the coming decade, the second of this century? Where should cities be looking for means and methods to meet their water supply … 22 $2.20 Add
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Vegetables

From: Resilient Agriculture

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 This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. … 38 $3.80 Add
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Who Owns Water?

From: Back to the Well

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 In this chapter, de Villiers discusses international law surrounding water use as well as legislation passed on a national level. 15 $1.50 Add
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Why Impermanence Matters

From: Common Threads

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 Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … 14 $1.40 Add
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Wild Kin

Part Three

From: Earthkeeping

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 Part Three contains the sections: The Lovely Duckling, Turtle Tale, So Excellent a Fish: Capelin, Gift from the Sky, God’s Dead Dog & Other Roadkills, Caribou Caper, COVID-19 Moment, and … 43 $4.30 Add
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World Inscape

From: The Biology of Wonder

 This chapter discusses how emotions are embodied, and how the inward feelings of organisms are accessible through their bodily presence. 20 $2.00 Add
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4. The Inequality Turnaround

“Sharing the Dividends”

From: Earth for All

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 Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization,  the creation of progressive taxation for … ; ; ; ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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5. Privatizing the Atmosphere

Introduction Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading (Durban Group) Cap and Trade Schemes (Chris Williams) The Obscenity of Carbon Trading (Kevin Smith) Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World (Andrew Simms) Six Agruments Against Carbon Trading (Larry Lohmann)

From: The Global Fight for Climate Justice

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A Question of Spirit

From: About Face

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 On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … 8 $0.80 Add
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Affective Neuroscience

From: The Biology of Wonder

 This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. 30 $3.00 Add
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Agreements for Fairness and Ecology

From: Fair Future

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Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege Kyoto

From: The Big Stall

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 Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto … 20 $2.00 Add
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Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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 This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … 17 $1.70 Add