Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From Saving Ecosystems From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability View New Society Publishers	Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance …	Andrés R. Edwards	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Savoring the Biosphere From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome View New Society Publishers	Microbes are at the origins of all life on our planet, silent partners to the evolution of every form of life and long, long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. We are only now learning of …	Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott	22	2017	$2.20 Add
From Scaling Up – How Local Farms Will Feed America From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	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 …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From Scarcity, Yes; Conflicts, Maybe From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers asks whether water shortages lead to war, under what circumstances these conflicts occur, and where in the world they are most likely to spark.	Marq de Villiers	35	2018	$3.50 Add
From NEW! Scene 1 Introduction From: What You Won’t Do For Love View Coach House Books	Scene 1 introduces the authors of the book and the play it is based on. It discusses theatre, having children, personal relationships, the relationship between science and art, and nature.	David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis	10	2022	$1.00 Add