Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Narrowing of Minds From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. …	Mari K Swingle	26	2019	$2.60 Add
The New Carbon Architecture Buiding to Cool the Climate New Society Publishers	"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when …	Bruce King	186	2017	View
From The New Gospel From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business …	Donald Gutstein	14	2018	$1.40 Add
From The New Normal From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The New Paradigm for Environmental Consciousness From: Engage, Connect, Protect View New Society Publishers	The author details personal and work experiences leading to her understanding of the gaps between people of colour and the mainstream environmental and conservation communities.	Angelou Ezeilo	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Newest Normal From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	Things have never been so good for humanity, yet so dire for the planet. On one side of the ledger: practically any quantifiable aspect of human well-being, on the other: All the life that …	Arno Kopecky	13	2021	$1.30 Add
NEW! The Next Generation of Impact Assessment A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act Irwin Law Inc.	Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and …	A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle	614	2021	View
From NEW! The Next Steps to Take From: Still Hopeful View ECW Press	In Chapter Five Barlow examines alternative approaches to the current framing of global commerce and business, which is dominated by the narratives of neoliberalism and corporate interests. She …	Maude Barlow	54	2022	$5.40 Add
From The Paradox of Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely …	Gary S. Kleppel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From NEW! The Path We’re On From: Future on Fire View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 reflects on our current policies toward climate change and what is at risk if we maintain this status quo. Topics discussed include current government policies for reducing carbon …	David Camfield	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From The Petroleum Game: New Realities From: Oil and World Politics View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the patterns of Western military and economic interventions during the twenty-first century, and petroleum’s largely hidden role in world politics. US pressures have influenced …	John Foster	26	2018	$2.60 Add
From The Physics of Creation From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Weber examines how complex natural patterns reveal the interrelated nature of life and the anorganic environment.	Andreas Weber	18	2016	$1.80 Add
From The Plight of Three Families From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter tells the story of the Shelleys, the Sutcliffes, and the Cranstons, and their struggles due to the landfill’s effects on their farms.	Poh-Gek Forkert	10	2017	$1.00 Add
From The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	38	2011	$3.80 Add
From The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From The Power of sound History and Biology From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The …	Mari K Swingle	19	2019	$1.90 Add