Environmental Studies
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From ![]() 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 … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Area as CurrencyHow Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Arenas of AppropriationFrom: Fair Future |
Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 36 | 2005 | $3.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! As Long as It LastsFrom: 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 … | Merilyn Simonds | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar SandsPart 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 … | Randolph Haluza-Delay | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act |
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 … | Meinhard Doelle | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() At Home in the Great LakesFrom: Overrun |
This chapter explores the current state of Asian carp in the Great Lakes and the future of the Great Lakes ecosystem. | Andrew Reeves | 29 | 2019 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() At the Edge of Geologic EpochsFrom: 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 … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Author’s Note and Foreward |
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. | Casey Camp-Horinek; Osprey Orielle Lake | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Awaiting Justice: The Ceaseless Struggle of the Lubicon CreePart 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. | Melina Laboucan-Massimo | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Back to BiologyPeigenetics 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, … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
![]() Back to the WellRethinking 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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From ![]() Banking on Well-BeingFrom: 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 … | Mark Anielski | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian GovernmentPart Two: Dispossession Abroad |
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 … | Sakura Saunders | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Beautiful ProtestFrom: 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 … | Alejandro Frid | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Becoming Indigenous |
Linda Pannozzo | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
















