Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Moving ForwardFrom: Getting to Zero |
Identifies how grassroots movements and organizations can move forward to develop sector profiles, targets, and plans of action to create sustained climate action. | Tony Clarke | 43 | 2018 | $4.30 Add |
From Moving Money From Harm to HealingFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which the global economy can move to support the planet instead of a small minority of shareholders. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
From My Heart Never Gave UpFrom: 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 … | Rebecca Dawe | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
From New Times, New ToolsManaging For Resilience From: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter summarizes the key innovations and practices that the farmers featured in the book have implemented to deal with climate change and describes the main attributes of a sustainable … | Laura Lengnick | 42 | 2015 | $4.20 Add |
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |