Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From The Principle of Beauty From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author provides a critique of the Darwinian notion of "nature as a survival machine."	Andreas Weber	32	2016	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Federal Jurisdiction and the Impact Assessment Act Trojan Horse or Rational Ecological Accounting? From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter explores key questions respecting federal jurisdiction with regard to the IAA, beginning with a discussion of the constitutional division of powers in Canada, federalism and …	Anna Johnston	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From The Pull From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in …	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90 Add
From NEW! The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient Systems PART 2 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as …	Laura Lengnick	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From The Question in the Eyes of the Wolf From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author describes his journey to study the Ethiopian wolf; this story is the basis for Weber’s meditation on the connections between living beings.	Andreas Weber	21	2016	$2.10 Add
From The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900s From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of “good” vs “bad” drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this …	Susan C. Boyd	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From The Rediscovery of the Commons From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It …	David Bollier	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The Return of Mass Flight From: The Return of History View House of Anansi Press	From The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century	Jennifer Welsh	61	2016	$6.10 Add
From The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate Leadership From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing		Robert MacNeil	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From The Rise of New Ontario, 1889–1918 From: North of Superior View James Lorimer and Company	Through wheat, wood, and transportation improvements this became a region in transformation. Looks at the natural resources of the area and gold fever, pulp paper and electrical power, the cost …	Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu	22	2010	$2.20 Add
From The Rise of Reactionary Environmentalism in the Tar Sands Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 3 Ryan Katz-Rosene examines how federal and provincial governments alongside industry and high-profile apologists have constructed narratives by reframing environmental concerns. …	Ryan Katz-Rosene	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From The Rise of the Native Rights–Based Strategic Framework: Our Last Best Hope to Save Our Water, Air, and Earth Part III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 22 Clayton Thomas-Muller examines how the present environmental framework is being developed from native rights, discussing the cost of loss of ecosystems, the global climate crisis, …	Clayton Thomas-Muller	13	2014	$1.30 Add
From NEW! The Rising of the Women From: Still Hopeful View ECW Press	In Chapter Two Barlow reflects on the three interrelated but distinct stages of her own social justice journey from first working within the women’s movement with Canada, the international …	Maude Barlow	33	2022	$3.30 Add