Environmental Policy

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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 3: Social Sustainability (People)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 3 includes the following chapters: Cultural Capital (Self-Efficacy, Heritage, Creative Arts) – Human Capital (Agency, Potential, Well-Being) – Relational Capital … ; ; 55 $5.50 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Governing Sustainable Communities

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role … 17 $1.70 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Tools for Community Sustainability

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Lessons and Challenges

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … 6 $0.60 Add
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Part 3: Moving the Needle
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Part 3: Moving the Needle

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 3 includes the following chapters: Navigating Community Challenge – A Call to Action ; ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

From: 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 … 22 $2.20 Add
Peak Everything

Peak Everything

Waking Up to the Century of Declines

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 … 240 View
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Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … 11 $1.10 Add
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Postscript

Postscript

From: Overrun

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Power

Power

Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

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 … 416 View
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Power in Nature

Power in Nature

From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception

From: Power

In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. 46 $4.60 Add
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Power in the Anthropocene

Power in the Anthropocene

The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels

From: Power

This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … 46 $4.60 Add
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Power in the Holocene

Power in the Holocene

The Rise of Social Inequality

From: Power

In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … 67 $6.70 Add
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Power in the Pleistocene

Power in the Pleistocene

On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs

From: Power

This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. 43 $4.30 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Tar Sands Showdown

Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … 6 $0.60 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Peak Everything

In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … 12 $1.20 Add