Environmental Studies

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Are Dams Really that Bad?

Are Dams Really that Bad?

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … 28 $2.80 Add
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Area as Currency

Area as Currency

How Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need?

From: Ecological Footprint

A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Arenas of Appropriation

Arenas of Appropriation

From: Fair Future

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As Long as It Lasts
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As Long as It Lasts

From: Woman, Watching

Chapter Seventeen tells the story of Louise and Len’s final years. The chapter discusses Louise’s accomplishments into her 90’s, Len’s decline, their move from the woods … 25 $2.50 Add
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Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands

Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 2 Randolph Haluza-DeLay summarizes some of the key methods used to represent the tar sands and build public consent, to the continuing destruction they cause. Topics include public … 9 $0.90 Add
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Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act
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Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter considers the impacts of a proposed project on GHG emissions and carbon sinks at five critical stages of IA: triggering, information gathering, analysis, the project decision, and … 24 $2.40 Add
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At Home in the Great Lakes

At Home in the Great Lakes

From: Overrun

This chapter explores the current state of Asian carp in the Great Lakes and the future of the Great Lakes ecosystem. 29 $2.90 Add
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At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

From: Changing Tides

This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … 10 $1.00 Add
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Author's Note and Foreward
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Author’s Note and Foreward

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Awaiting Justice: The Ceaseless Struggle of the Lubicon Cree

Awaiting Justice: The Ceaseless Struggle of the Lubicon Cree

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 10 Melina Laboucan-Massimo explores the struggles of the Lubicon Cree of Northern Alberta who face challenges from the encroachment of massive oil and gas development without their consent. 5 $0.50 Add
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Back to Biology

Back to Biology

Peigenetics and Vestibular Regulation

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Epigenetics simply means is how our individual genetics mix with all the potential influences in our individual environment. As we are increasingly learning, epigenetics are not only important, … 16 $1.60 Add
Back to the Well

Back to the Well

Rethinking the Future of Water

Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … 378 View
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Banking on Well-Being

Banking on Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* All Roads Lead to London: The Queen’s Banker’s Wife * Freeing Economies of the Burden of Interest from Debt-Based Money * A Public Bank for Well-Being * What is a Public Bank and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government

Part Two: Dispossession Abroad

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 7, author Sakura Saunders presents a historical account of how Canadian civil actors have attempted to compel the Canadian government to hold Canadian mining companies to account for … 28 $2.80 Add
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Beautiful Protest

Beautiful Protest

From: Changing Tides

This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Becoming Indigenous

Becoming Indigenous

From: About Canada: The Environment

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