Sustainability
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From  The Dismal Arithmetic of WaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing … | Marq de Villiers | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! The Evolution of Canadian Environmental Assessment Practice and Literature |
This chapter provides a brief history of the Evolution of Canadian Environmental Assessment Practice and Literature. | Meinhard Doelle | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water |
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 |
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From  The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended ConsequencesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences postulates that there are always positive and negative effects of any technology. It is impossible for humans to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 15 | 2011 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Might of MemoryFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Rediscovery of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
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 |
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From NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act |
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 |
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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! Chapter OneThe Debate – From Popes to Apologists |
In this chapter, Rand explores the variety of conflicting ideologies and approached to tackling climate change. These include techno-optimists, anti-capitalists and ecomodernists. Rand argues … | Tom Rand | 46 | 2020 | $4.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Climate JusticePART 1: Essential Groundwork From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 3 focuses on the concept of climate justice. | Aaron Saad | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Coalescing KnowledgeFrom: Changing Tides |
In Coalescing Knowledge Frid explores the integration of traditional and scientific ways of knowing can merge in many contexts and help us find better ways to manage our relationships to local … | Alejandro Frid | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From  DissociationFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems … | Kevin MacKay | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Ecological HinterlandHow much Biocapacity Does a City Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Getting to Food SovereigntyGrassroots Perspectives from the National Farmers Union Interviews with Terry Boehm and Hilary Moore, conducted by Naomi Beingessner |
- | Hilary Moore; Terry Boehm | 16 | 2010 | $2.24 Add |
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From  Greening Commerce |
Topics include: The New Bottom Lines – The Drivers – Implementing Nature’s Strategies – The Trilogy – Growth, Consumption and Pollution – Creating New … | Andrés R. Edwards | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  ImagineFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the HANDY study, which identifies the factors that precipitate societal collapse, and asks whether we are headed for such a collapse. This chapter also imagines a … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
