Environmental Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency ECW Press	Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a …	Seth Klein	465	2020	View
Back to the Well Rethinking the Future of Water Goose Lane Editions	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 …	Marq de Villiers	378	2018	View
Damming the Peace The hidden costs of the Site C Dam James Lorimer and Company	Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s …	Wendy Holm	272	2018	View
Fostering Sustainable Behavior An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) New Society Publishers	We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	184	2011	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He …	Tony Clarke	248	2018	View
I’m Right and You’re an Idiot The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up New Society Publishers	The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles …	James Hoggan	275	2016	View
NEW! Making Shift Happen Designing for Successful Environmental Behavior Change New Society Publishers	The changemaker’s guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy future. To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	546	2022	View
Oil’s Deep State How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa James Lorimer and Company	Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? …	Kevin Taft	256	2017	View
NEW! On Borrowed Time North America's Next Big Quake Goose Lane Editions	Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a …	Gregor Craigie	248	2021	View
Overrun Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis ECW Press	Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government …	Andrew Reeves	387	2019	View
Peak Everything Waking Up to the Century of Declines New Society Publishers	A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of …	Richard Heinberg	240	2010	View
NEW! Power Limits and Prospects for Human Survival New Society Publishers	Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and …	Richard Heinberg	416	2021	View
Tar Sands Showdown Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change James Lorimer and Company	Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four …	Tony Clarke	312	2008	View
The Big Stall How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada James Lorimer and Company	This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil …	Donald Gutstein	304	2018	View
The Memory We Could Be Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future New Society Publishers	Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	338	2018	View
NEW! The Next Generation of Impact Assessment A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act Irwin Law Inc.	Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and …	A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle	614	2021	View