Environmental Policy
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From  Chapter SevenShaking down the Mississippi From: On Borrowed Time |
Earthquake readiness in the Mississippi River Valley and the New Madrid Seismic Zone is examined, as well as how this risk is persistently overshadowed by more pressing natural disaster concerns. | Gregor Craigie | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Choosing the Best Policy Tools |
In Chapter 6 Kaufman discusses the main policy tools that are currently working to help people introduce and implement climate action and policy. The chapter discusses regulations, elections, … | Cynthia Kaufman | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! DegrowthPART 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. | Aaron Saad | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  From Environmental Crisis to Business TransitionFrom: The Big Stall |
Discusses how corporations came to recognize climate change as a profitable opportunity, and how public policy shifted from regulation of carbon emissions to measures that corporate leaders … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Highlight norms to leverage BELONGINGFrom: Making Shift Happen |
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 |
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From  NEW! Inside job |
Kopecki profiles NDP MLA Heather McPherson, whose party held the balance of power in the 2020 Canadian Liberal minority government, and describes Alberta’s relationship to its oil … | Arno Kopecky | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Mobilizing LabourJust Transition, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 7, Klein examines the role of labour in the fight for climate action. Klein argues that through examining the mobilization of the labor and work force during and after the Second World … | Seth Klein | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksAtmospheric Change and Air Quality |
Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter … | Marc Roseland | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Project Impact AssessmentsTriggering and Coverage |
This chapter focuses on two questions. First: how effectively are the purposes of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) likely to be met given the triggering process and coverage of projects under the … | Stephen Hazell | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Resistance MovementFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … | Tony Clarke | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Swimming Upstream |
This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … | Sami Grover | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The Big LieWhy and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace |
Former B.C. Environment Minister Joan Sawicki sets out her analysis that BC Hydro “overlooked” the importance of microclimate in its agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam … | Joan Sawicki | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  What We Don’t Know About FrackingFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores the risks and unknowns surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. He explores whether the economic potential is real and whether it is … | Marq de Villiers | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! 7. The Energy Turnaround“Electrifying Everything” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 7 focuses on energy consumption and a clean energy future, discussing clean power technologies, fairness of pushing expensive clean energy, fossil fuel industry’s power, the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
