Environmental Studies

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Protect and extract
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Protect and extract

The Trudeau government’s conflicted legacy on nature and conservation

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter addresses the Trudeau government’s legacy on conservation, environmental protection and safeguarding of endangered species and habitats. 13 $1.30 Add
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Protected Areas and Endangered Species

Protected Areas and Endangered Species

From: Environmental Law, 5/e

Discusses legal safeguards for endangered spaces and species, including conservation mechanisms for private lands, the protection of endangered species, the federal Species at Risk Act and animal … 32 $3.20 Add
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Pseudo World

Pseudo World

From: About Face

On Narcotics. 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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Pulling the levers of power

Pulling the levers of power

From Lougheed to Klein

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the transition from Peter Lougheed’s government and Ralph Klein’s arrival as premier with focus paid to the political and economic … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter examines the provisions for cumulative effects and regional assessment under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in light of established standards and suggests actions needed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda
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Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter draw on the available literature and lessons from experience to address four areas: the basics of what “contribution to sustainability” now means and entails and what … 23 $2.30 Add
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Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own Words
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Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own Words

From: Testimonio

Essays in this section: Formal Human Rights Violation Complaint – Testimonio: Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, Taking Claims to Canadian Courts – Mynor Padilla, Hudbay Mineral’s Former … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Quest for Purpose

Quest for Purpose

From: Clean Money Revolution

Clear mind, honest and healthy relationships, emotional integrity, and “clean living” were cures as well as life tenets. Career, money, and health, must be connected. The affluent may … ; 17 $1.70 Add
Radical Transformation

Radical Transformation

Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization

Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, … 264 View
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Radicals and Resource Developers

Radicals and Resource Developers

A REGION ON THE BRINK, 1919–1945

From: North of Superior

New Ontario (as the region was called during this period) was treated as a colony by the imperial government seated in Toronto; however, this vast region, nearly three-quarters of the entire … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

From: Fighting For Space

This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … 18 $0.18 Add
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Rape of the Commons

Rape of the Commons

The Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security

From: Damming the Peace

Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … 24 $2.40 Add
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Ready to Rally

Ready to Rally

Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now

From: A Good War

In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, … 40 $4.00 Add
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Reasons for Hope

Reasons for Hope

From: Intrinsic Hope

Life goes on whether we choose to show up for it or not. Living from a stance of hope is the only positive and constructive course of action. In my own life, I often feel overwhelmed and hopeless … 20 $2.00 Add
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Reawakening

Reawakening

From: Changing Tides

In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … 8 $0.80 Add
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Rebel, rebel
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Rebel, rebel

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

After a year of accompanying V330ancouver’s Extinction Rebellion group, the author asks: is civil disobedience not only a moral choice, but also the most powerful way of shaping world … 41 $4.10 Add