Social Policy & Services

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Polycentric Governance and Technologies of Collaboration From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	Oceans form a complex, adaptive socio-technical system requiring a certain kind of sustainable governance regime for its effective stewardship. The "right kind" of regime will be one …	Gilles Paquet	25	2005	$2.25 Add
From Preface/Introduction Let’s Make Canada the Great Country It Could Be / For Canada, the American Model is Unsafe at Any Speed From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Finn describes Canada’s state under Harper and the country’s socioeconomic status. Nader describes how excessive corporate power and influence had transformed the United States into …	Ed Finn; Ralph Nader	30	2015	$3.00 Add
From Proactive Poverty Reduction From: Early Intervention View James Lorimer and Company	It was poverty that brought the state dramatically into the health and social service realm, and over time, its role came to greatly exceed that of charities and the church. Federal and …	James Hughes	30	2015	$3.00 Add
From NEW! Remembering Winter From: Living Disability View Coach House Books	Emily Macrae writes about the difficulties she has as someone who limps getting around in the snow, as well as her twin brother’s experience in a wheelchair in the winter. She discusses different …	Emily Macrae	9	2024	$0.90 Add
From Responding to Unjust Laws From: The Right to Die View James Lorimer and Company	Conclusions and final thoughts which examines the question: What should we do about laws we perceive to be unjust?	Gary Bauslaugh	10	2016	$1.00 Add
From Robert Latimer: Justice Goes Awry — 1993 From: The Right to Die View James Lorimer and Company	The Robert Latimer story was one of the most widely covered news stories in Canadian history. It is a story, unlike some of the previous ones, where the justice system found no way of mitigating …	Gary Bauslaugh	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition View Emond Montgomery	Excerpt of a 1967 Royal Commission Report by A. Davidson Dunton and André Laurendeau stating that the principle of equality between the two founding peoples requires that the linguistic …	Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell	3	2015	$0.30 Add
From Safer Child Protection From: Early Intervention View James Lorimer and Company	social responsibility and child protection	James Hughes	28	2015	$2.80 Add
Scandinavian Common Sense Policies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health Baraka Books	When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought. Cited as models for their …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	192	2015	View
From NEW! Foundations From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter looks at the Foundations for shaping our behaviour towards facing environmental challenges. This chapter explores issues such as the ethics, scarcity, and equity of designing and …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Karina Mudd; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	29	2022	$2.90 Add
From NEW! Initiate From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the Initiate to begin changing our specific behaviours to help address specific issues within the larger fight against climate crisis. This chapter discusses the process and …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Karina Mudd; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	63	2022	$6.30 Add
From NEW! Uncover From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores how to Uncover ways to change our behaviour using the Behavioral Drivers Analysis (BDA), an analytic tool for uncovering evidence-based drivers in different people. The …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nicole Hilaire; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	65	2022	$6.50 Add
From NEW! Design From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on how to Design your environment for behaviour change. The chapter focuses on how you can design a new product, service, communication strategy, policy, choice architecture, …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	32	2022	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Implement From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter discusses how to Implement the preparation, research, design, and testing are all necessary for coming up with a solution to an environmental problem. This chapter discusses how to …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Methods From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nicole Hilaire; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	41	2022	$4.10 Add
From NEW! Highlight norms to leverage BELONGING From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter begins the Section 2 of the book Behavioral Building Blocks with each letter of the word “BEHAVIORAL’’ corresponding to a chapter that explores a collection of related behaviour …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	24	2022	$2.40 Add