Environmental Studies
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From  Prismatic Reflections: Cultivating Care and Community through Multifaceted CrisesFrom: Hot Mess |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines the 2014 Chemical Valley spill, the Fairy Creek protests, and the 2021 Pacific Northwest wildfires to argue that emergencies are deeply layered and require … | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From  PristineFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In the second chapter of Finding Our Niche, Pristine, Loring describes how he first landed in Alaska and how his experiences there reshaped his ideas of how humans engage with the natural world, … | Philip A. Loring | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Privatization and Its DiscontentsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which … | Marq de Villiers | 45 | 2018 | $4.50 Add |
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From  Progressive Place and the Double Recovery ProgramFrom: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Kathryn Eve | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 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  Prologue |
This section contains the prologue and a brief introduction. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Prologue |
In the prologue, Andrew Boyd describes his experience at the 2015 climate march in New York and the 2021 climate conference in Glasgow. Boyd discusses the concept of hope in connection to the … | Andrew Boyd | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Prologue |
“Just as we can pollute the natural environment, we can pollute public conversations.” While the experts disagree about why this is happening, they concur when it comes to the damage … | James Hoggan | 6 | 2016 | $0.60 Add |
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From  PrologueThe Parable of the Caterpillar From: A Finer Future |
The prologue uses a brief analogy to compare humanities current situation to that of a caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 1 | 2018 | $0.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Prologue Two: Troubling Facts and Observations about a Perilous AgeFrom: Thinking Systematics |
In this chapter, Smith and Hayslip trace widening wealth inequality, the erosion of liberal democracy, human-caused environmental damage, and escalating tensions in international relations. | Murray E.G. Smith; Tim Hayslip | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Protect and extractThe 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. | Michael F.D. Polanyi | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Protected Areas and Endangered SpeciesFrom: 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 … | Jamie Benidickson | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From Pseudo WorldFrom: 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 … | William Stromich | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Pulling the levers of powerFrom 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 … | Kevin Taft | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional 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 … | Bram Noble; Jill Blakley | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda |
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 … | Robert B. Gibson | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
