Sustainability

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Monitoring, Follow-Up, Adaptive Management, and Compliance in the Post‑Decision Phase
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Monitoring, Follow-Up, Adaptive Management, and Compliance in the Post‑Decision Phase

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter considers the critical and yet often overlooked “post-decision phase” of impact assessment, following planning, assessment, and decision making. In the impact assessment … 26 $2.60 Add
Consuming Sustainability

Consuming Sustainability

Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change

How do our consumption decisions affect ecosystems? Can we rely on governments to maintain environmental wellbeing? Do rural peoples “see” the environment differently from urban residents? Is … ; 296 View
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Corporate Transformation

Corporate Transformation

From: A Finer Future

This chapter explores ways in which the underlying corporate structure upon which our economy is built will need to reorganize and refocus towards long term sustainability. ; ; ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and … ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … 28 $2.80 Add
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Croplands, Forests, and Oceans

Croplands, Forests, and Oceans

How Much Biocapacity Do We Have?

From: Ecological Footprint

This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints. ; 22 $2.20 Add
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CSA

CSA

From: Emergent Agriculture

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model is transformative. It changes the way farmers farm, the way markets function, and the way consumers relate to the production chain. The CSA model … 5 $0.50 Add
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Deep Time - Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations

Deep Time – Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations

From: Coming Back to Life

People of today relate to time in a way that is surely unique in history. The technologies and economic forces unleashed by the Industrial Growth Society radically alter our experience of time, … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Degrowth
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Degrowth

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 8 explores the idea of degrowth, as opposed to the role of perpetual economic growth which had led to the current ecological crisis. 20 $2.00 Add
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Developing Strategies - Revisited

Developing Strategies – Revisited

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

The preceding seven chapters introduced a series of behavior change tools that can be incorporated into a communitybased social marketing strategy. To showcase how to utilize these tools, a … 7 $0.70 Add
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Did You Hang Up Your Towel?

Did You Hang Up Your Towel?

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 10 $1.00 Add
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Dissociation

Dissociation

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add