Environmental Studies
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From  NEW! Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping ChangePART 2 |
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 | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Scene 6The Kiss |
Scene 6 revisits David and Tara’s early years together. It discusses the ‘Outies’ and ‘Innies’, university, lectures, marriage, and a kiss. | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – BarriersConvenience: Making it Easy to Act |
If the behavior is unpleasant or time-consuming, for example, no matter how well you address internal barriers your community-based social marketing strategy will be unsuccessful. The first step … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Sustainable Development at the Local Level |
This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
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From  The Body of the SeaFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter explores why we must focus on a multiplicity of species to understand the enigma of life. | Andreas Weber | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The Commons as a Different Way of Seeing and BeingFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
Our tacit metaphysical commitments are the very basis for our “free market” economic and political structures. What’s so intriguing is that many scientists are starting to see … | David Bollier | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The Consumer in a Changing Food SystemFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … | Richard Heinberg | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Eyes of the HeartFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Eleven focuses on the experiences of women in the field of ornithology and the larger naturalist movement. The chapter provides a brief history of the ornithology, the gender barrier … | Merilyn Simonds | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate ViolenceFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From  TransformationFrom: Changing Tides |
In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  UNESCODownstream Impact on the Athabasca Delta From: Damming the Peace |
Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the linkages between the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, fracking in the adjacent Moberly Field, and the potential impact on … | Andrew Nikiforuk | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Via ChicagoFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author travels to Chicago to explore the city’s waterways as another possible vector for Asian carp populations to access the Great Lakes | Andrew Reeves | 33 | 2019 | $3.30 Add |
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From  What Now? |
The final chapter suggests potential courses of action on both individual and governmental levels. | Steven Earle | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! A Limitless Capacity to ReboundFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Twelve explores the hardships faced by Louise in her later life and how these affected both her work and her own strength. The chapter discusses the decline in the bird populations … | Merilyn Simonds | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From A Plausable Future: Approaching ApocalypseFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate change represents the extinction of predictability, a demolition of certainties. By the end of the 21st century, the environmental conditions on up to a third of the Earth’s surface … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
