Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Portents and prophecies From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	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 Postscript From: Overrun View ECW Press	Postscript	Andrew Reeves	5	2019	$0.50 Add
Power Limits and Prospects for Human Survival	Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and …		416		View
From Power and Sustainability From: Consuming Sustainability View Fernwood Publishing		Debra Davidson; Ineke Lock; Kierstin Hatt	12	2005	$1.20 Add
From Power in Nature From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged.	Richard Heinberg	46	2021	$4.60 Add
From Power in the Anthropocene The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the …	Richard Heinberg	46	2021	$4.60 Add
From Power in the Holocene The Rise of Social Inequality From: Power View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state …	Richard Heinberg	67	2021	$6.70 Add
From Power in the Pleistocene On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language.	Richard Heinberg	43	2021	$4.30 Add
From Preface How This Book Came to Be From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Robnies, and Tim Bray, discuss how this book came to be. First of their meeting while resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) in 2018, and the work it …	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	2	2024	$0.20 Add
From Preface: A State of Emergency as an Embodied Event From: Hot Mess View Fernwood Publishing	In this introduction, Wiebe explains how Canada’s climate crisis impacts the nation’s healthcare.	Sarah Marie Wiebe	25	2024	$2.50 Add
From Preface From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the …	Tony Clarke	6	2008	$0.60 Add
From Preface From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Preface: Framing the Shot From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of …	Alex Harris	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From Preface From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing		Robert MacNeil	2	2019	$0.20 Add
From NEW! Preface From: Human Permaculture View New Society Publishers	Preface – The Eagle	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Preface From: The Case for Climate Capitalism View ECW Press	Preface	Tom Rand	8	2020	$0.80 Add