Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From 5. Privatizing the AtmosphereIntroduction 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) |
- | Andrew Simms; Chris Williams; Kevin Smith; Larry Lohmann | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
From A Question of SpiritFrom: About Face |
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 … | Christopher Wallace K. | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From Affective NeuroscienceFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. | Andreas Weber | 30 | 2016 | $3.00 Add |
From Agreements for Fairness and EcologyFrom: Fair Future |
- | Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 48 | 2005 | $4.80 Add |
From Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege KyotoFrom: The Big Stall |
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 … | Donald Gutstein | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
From NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint |
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 … | Sami Grover | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From Canada’s Carbon Record |
- | Linda Pannozzo | 27 | 2016 | $2.70 Add |
From Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … | Yves Engler | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From CareersFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
The author delves into how her organization, Greening Youth Foundation, has created career opportunities for diverse youth, especially in the US National Park Service and other federal agencies, … | Angelou Ezeilo | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
From Chapter 4Mining and Colonialism on Turtle Island From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter discusses the impact of mining on Indigenous communities in Canada, beginning with the arrival of European settlers. It disucsses how mining has impacted the livelihood of Indegenous … | Joan Kuyek | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 4East Point Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes East Point Park and its Bird Sanctuary, overlooking Lake Ontario from atop Toronto’s Scarborough Bluffs. He outlines the impressive diversity of … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
From Chapter 4Radiation in Medicine |
This chapter includes the following sections: Early Use of Radium – X-Rays – Radiopharmaceuticals – CT Scans – PET Scans – SPECT Scans – Other Scans – … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 5Rough Terrain, 1973-2016 From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses mining in Canada at the end of the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. Topics discussed in this chapter include increasing resistance to new mines from … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 5Nature’s Intelligence From: Renewal |
This chapter explores the concept of intelligence and the ways in which the natural world displays a systemic ability to solve problems and overcome obstacles. | Andres R. Edwards | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 5In Serious Condition From: Saved by Science |
- | Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |