Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
NEW! The End of This World Climate Justice in So-Called Canada Between The Lines	The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a …	Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest	228	2023	View
From The Environment Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with …	Peter Robinson	7	2015	$0.70 Add
From The Environmental NGO Industry and Frontline Communities Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 5 Dave Vasey reflects on the deep historical narrative of activism, examining the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and tar sands campaigns, and …	Dave Vasey	12	2014	$1.20 Add
NEW! The Environmentalist’s Dilemma Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis ECW Press	For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity. In the …	Arno Kopecky	266	2021	View
From NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter outlines a next-generation assessment framework that incorporates international learning as well as key themes in the Canadian deliberations surrounding the assessment law and policy …	Meinhard Doelle; Robert B. Gibson	21	2021	$2.10 Add
From The Exuberance of Herring From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring.	Alejandro Frid	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From NEW! The Eyes of the Heart From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Eleven focuses on the experiences of women in the field of ornithology and the larger naturalist movement. The chapter provides a brief history of the ornithology, the gender barrier …	Merilyn Simonds	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author provides the background on how she became involved in water activism. She goes on to discuss how government deregulation has allowed corporations to exploit water as a …	Maude Barlow	30	2019	$3.00 Add