Environmental Studies
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From  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 Power: From Lougheed to KleinFrom: Oi'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 | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Purpose-Driven Firms and Why They are SuccessfulFrom: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Wali, Ahmed, Rahman, and Ferdous explore how firms like Patagonia, Unilever, and Danone embed social and environmental missions into core operations, moving beyond profit maximisation. | Faisal Wali; Tanvir Ahmed | 25 | 2025 | $2.50 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 |
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From  NEW! Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own WordsFrom: 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 … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Quest for PurposeFrom: 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 … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
 Radical TransformationOligarchy, 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, … | Kevin MacKay | 264 | 2017 | View |
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From  Radicals and Resource DevelopersA 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 … | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 18 | 2010 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: 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 … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
