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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter examines the provisions for cumulative effects and regional assessment under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in light of established standards and suggests actions needed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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The Shipping Industry

Regulatory Capture in the Shipping Industry

From: Corporate Rules

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In this chapter John Dalziel, Floris Goerlandt, Roland Pelot, and Aldo Chircop examine regulatory capture in the shipping industry. The authors reflect on the relationship between governments as … ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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The Transplant Region

Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions

From: Cities Matter

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Chapter 11 describes how transplant regions are brought to life by the transfer of work from a congested city to a lower-cost production area. The chapter explores their relationship with supply … 5 $0.50 Add
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The Triumph of the Right, 1993–2013:

Provincial Consolidation

From: The Rise of the New West

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Analyzes the four western provinces support of the reconstruction of the right and the consolidation of neo-liberal ideological hegemony among all political parties 66 $6.60 Add
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The United States, Champion of Democracy?

From: Myths of Modern History

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This chapter explores how in theory US foreign policy and ceaseless military ventures promote democracy, but in reality they seek to achieve corporate desiderata such as worldwide open doors for … 25 $2.50 Add
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Them’s the Brakes

Out “Smarting” Traffic Safety Efforts in Edmonton

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 11 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies 15 $1.50 Add
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Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought

From: Restless Ideas

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Colonization and Knowledge … 418 Indigenous Knowledge … 421 The Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge … 423 Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Beyond Contestation to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Toward a Baroque Governance in 21st Century Canada

From: The New Geo-Governance

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The new information and communication technologies, and the greater connectedness they have generated, are only one of the families offerees, albeit an important one, that have increased the … 19 $1.71 Add

Towards Democratic Courts

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Towards Democratic Courts

From: Canada's Courts

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Volunteers

Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign

From: Women Winning Office

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In Volunteers Nash explores why people volunteer and the role they play in elections. The chapter explores the motives for volunteering, where to find volunteers, who can be a volunteer, … 9 $0.90 Add
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Voter Turnout

From: Election

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Examination of the current pattern of the decline in voter turnout and the demographic processes driving it. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific

From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires

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Chapter eleven, Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific focuses on the shift in shift in politics in South Korea by 1993. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the German Democratic … 10 $1.00 Add
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What should we stand for?

From: SOS

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Chapter 10 explores what we should stand for in the coming decades, discussing the 2011 Occupy movement, programs for change, degrowth, achieving wider finance control for the masses, improving … 23 $2.30 Add
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What We Could Build, and How We Can Address Inequality

From: Share the Wealth!

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Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. This reading explores what Canada … ; 22 $2.20 Add