Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From Sacred Geography From: The Wayfinders View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Davis explores how cultures across the globe orient themselves within landscape, contrasting Western materialism with Indigenous relational worldviews.	Wade Davis	46	2009	$4.60 Add
From Sacrificial Lives From: There's Something in the Water View Fernwood Publishing	New Environmental Racism Gets Under the Skin	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	19	2018	$1.90 Add
NEW! Saved by Science The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology ECW Press	How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in …	Dr. Mark J. Poznansky	226	2020	View
From Saved From Drowning in a Video Game Addiction From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this …	Ian Young	5	2019	$0.50 Add