Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Corporation vs. Nature From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses an alternative approach to dealing with climate change: abandon neo-liberal measures and shift to a zero growth economy with redistribution of existing wealth. Action requires …	Donald Gutstein	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From The Creation of a Global Water Justice Movement From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author provides a history of the Global Water Justice movement. She introduces the reader to a variety of individuals from around the world who have shaped this movement. The …	Maude Barlow	27	2019	$2.70 Add
From The Cult of Consumerism From: About Canada: The Environment View Fernwood Publishing		Linda Pannozzo	19	2016	$1.90 Add
The Culture of Nature North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Second Edition Between The Lines	Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson’s innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work …	Alexander Wilson	352	2019	View
From The Death System From: Radical Transformation View Between The Lines	Readings in Part 2 of this title entitled "Radical Transformation" outline the dramatic changes necessary to reform our civilization into one that is sustainable, and quitable.	Kevin MacKay	42	2017	$4.20 Add
From The Desire for Life From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	The author discusses his scientific education, and how he felt that something was lacking in the overly mechanistic conception of life in biology.	Andreas Weber	19	2016	$1.90 Add
From The Dismal Arithmetic of Water From: Back to the Well View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing …	Marq de Villiers	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From The Emergent Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Food production becomes exceptionally sustainable when profitability ceases to be the singular mission of the farm, and becomes instead a part of a “triple bottom line.” As important …	Gary S. Kleppel	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From The Emergent Market From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out …	Gary S. Kleppel	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From The Enbridge Pipeline Disaster and Accidental Activism along the Kalamazoo River Part II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 18 Sonia Grant focuses on the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River and the controversies that surrounded cleanup efforts. It discusses topics such the health impacts and gaps in …	Sonia Grant	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every …	Richard Heinberg	15	2010	$1.50 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on …	Richard Heinberg	19	2010	$1.90 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Boomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another A Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Talking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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 …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies From: Development in Latin America View Fernwood Publishing		Maristella Svampa	12	2019	$1.20 Add