Environmental Policy
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From  An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, Dams and Fracking From: Damming the Peace |
Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Bulk Water TransfersFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers investigates the impact of a series of hydrological mega-projects occurring around the world, and the potential risks and benefits associates with re-engineering … | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Chapter EightThe problem with prediction From: On Borrowed Time |
Exploring the extent to which earthquakes can be predicted using the Haicheng and Tangshan earthquakes in China to expouse the pitfalls of prediction. | Gregor Craigie | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Dream ChangeFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … | Tony Clarke | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
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From  NEW! EcosocialismPART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 9 examines the argument for ecosocialism, its framework, and offers several critiques of existing capitalism, and encourages the reader to raid a critical eye towards the present system … | Aaron Saad | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Federating the Change Agents: Securing the GainsFrom: Resilience Imperative |
We must secure the innovations that are getting results by scaling up and broadening their applications. Many of the cases we have set out show how particular innovations have been scaled up and … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Finding Your People and Your Practice in the Ecosystem of the Climate Justice Movement |
In Chapter 7 Kaufman explores the many ways that the movement for a just transition can be organized, illustrating to the reader how there are many ways to fight for climate action that best … | Cynthia Kaufman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Focus, Goddammit |
In this chapter, Grover focuses on blame, how powerful institutions can shift blame away from themselves and onto the less culpable, and how our attention is a limited resource. | Sami Grover | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Make it EASYFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on how Easy it is to reduce the intention-action gap. The chapter discuss tips for making the desired behaviours as simple, seamless, and convenient as possible. We’ll also … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Oil and the deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes how an economy heavily dependent on oil production sets the stage for a deep state with examples from around the world. | Kevin Taft | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Paying for Mobilization, Then and NowFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … | Seth Klein | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact … | Arlene Kwasniak; Patricia Fitzpatrick | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  The Glorious GateFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and HowFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! 8. From “Winner Take All” Capitalism to Earth4All EconomiesFrom: Earth for All |
Chapter 8 examines what the transition to the Earth4All model would look like, discussing topics including the increase in government intervention (subsidies, incentives, and regulations) to … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
