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Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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 This chapter considers the impacts of a proposed project on GHG emissions and carbon sinks at five critical stages of IA: triggering, information gathering, analysis, the project decision, and … 24 $2.40 Add
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Learning, Play, and Parenting

Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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 With a little walk through history, and a little more developmental theory, I will explore larger cultural shifts in parenting and family systems, expand on the blurred lines of learning and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Meet Basic Needs for All

From: A Finer Future

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 This chapter looks at the variety of policies that must be implemented to ensure equal access to resources for everyone in the future. ; ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
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New Water

From: Dry Run

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 In this chapter, we’ll learn more about two sources of "new water" from technologies not typically in widespread use today throughout the US, desalination of seawater and expanded … 13 $1.30 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Tools for Community Sustainability

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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 Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some … 12 $1.20 Add
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Postscript

From: Overrun

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Protected Areas and Endangered Species

From: Environmental Law, 5/e

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 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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Reframing the Debate

From: Back to the Well

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 In this chapter, de Villiers begins approaching solutions for water crises by asking us to reframe the issue, by thinking and acting on a local level. 6 $0.60 Add
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Scaling Up – How Local Farms Will Feed America

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 The shifting agricultural paradigm requires that every region of the country produce the diversity of products that it is capable of producing — that monoculture and exclusive production … 15 $1.50 Add
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Seeking Social Licence for the Site C Dam

A Planner’s Perspective from the Peace River Waterfront

From: Damming the Peace

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 A Peace River Valley planner on the concept of social license, why it’s important for major projects, and how, in the case of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River … 12 $1.20 Add
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Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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 When a pilot project has demonstrated that a behavioral change can be brought about cost-effectively, it is time to broadly implement the strategy. Prior to broad-scale implementation, collect … 3 $0.30 Add
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The Anthropocene and Us

Grounds for the Augmented Left

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

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 Untenable Futures: From Ecomodernism to Green Social Democracy – Embracing a Contingent Future 12 $1.20 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking Ourselves to Extinction

From: Peak Everything

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 Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Future is an Unlocked Door

From: About Face

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 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 … 9 $0.90 Add