Environmental Studies
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksTransportation Planning and Traffic Management |
Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … | Marc Roseland | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Paying for Mobilization, Then and NowFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … | Seth Klein | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Portents and prophecies |
In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle G – Earn TrustFrom: Building Community |
Building Trust is Integral to All Community Work – Research Corner – Essentials for Building Trust in a Community – Case Study: Randolph Community Forest, New Hampshire, USA … | James S. Gruber | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact … | Arlene Kwasniak; Patricia Fitzpatrick | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall? |
In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … | Ann Edminster | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – CommunicationCommunication: Creating Effective Messages |
Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 21 | 2011 | $0.42 Add |
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From  Struggling for Heroin-assisted Treatment: The 2000sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses Canada’s first federally sanctioned supervised injection site that opened in Vancouver in 2003. The efficacy of heroin assisted treatment programs in other countries … | Susan C. Boyd | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Taking ActionFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … | Kate Davies | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Glorious GateFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The New NormalFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit AnalysesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The Rules of ResiliencePART 2 |
This chapter explores rules of resilience, which are: to Cultivate diverse networks of reciprocal relationship, to Cultivate regional self-reliance, and to Cultivate the accumulation of … | Laura Lengnick | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Story of AlphaFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing WorkerUneven Impacts, Instiutions and Response From: Climate@Work |
- | Steven Tufts | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
