Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change PART 2 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	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
From Resistance Movement From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various …	Tony Clarke	35	2008	$3.50 Add
From Resisting Least Resistance From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In …	Alejandro Frid	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar Sands Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 8 Harjap Grewal focuses on the Canadian responses to Chinese investments in the tar sands, exploring topics including international trade agreements, xenophobia and the history of …	Harjap Grewal	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation …	Jerry Yudelson	21	2010	$2.10 Add
From Rethinking Waste From: There's Something in the Water View Collection: Environmental Disasters in Canada: Causes, Impact, and Response Fernwood Publishing	Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From Rewiring the Brain for Addiction From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice …	Travis Lupick	19	2017	$0.19 Add
From NEW! Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism.	Aaron Saad	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the Tsilhqot’in court case of 2014 to outline Canada’s policy on Aboriginal vs. Crown title and how the government responded to Supreme …	Arthur Manuel	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Rights of Nature A Systemic Solution From: The Story is in Our Bones View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Lake describes the Rights of Nature movement, presenting it as the most effective way to address dysfunctional environmental, legal, colonial, and economic frameworks.	Osprey Orielle Lake	36	2024	$3.60 Add
Ring of Fire High-Stakes Mining in Lowlands Wilderness ECW Press	In this colorful tale, Virginia Heffernan draws on her bush and newsroom experiences to illustrate the complexities of resource development at a time when Indigenous rights are becoming enshrined …	Virginia Haffernan	220	2023	View
From Rio to Kyoto The Road Not Taken From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the …	Donald Gutstein	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From Rivers and Lakes in Trouble From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action.	Marq de Villiers	27	2018	$2.70 Add
NEW! Runaway Climate What the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe	56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway …		256		View
From Running in Place From: The Great Greenwashing View House of Anansi Press	From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You	John Pabon	4	2024	$0.40 Add
From Running on empty Climate and environment From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of …	James Wilt	20	2020	$2.00 Add