Environmental Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now From: A Good War View ECW Press	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
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
From Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Kevin Taft	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Postscript From: Overrun View ECW Press	Postscript	Andrew Reeves	5	2019	$0.50 Add
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
From Power in Nature From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged.	Richard Heinberg	46	2021	$4.60 Add
From Power in the Anthropocene The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power View New Society Publishers	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 …	Richard Heinberg	46	2021	$4.60 Add
From Power in the Holocene The Rise of Social Inequality From: Power View New Society Publishers	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 …	Richard Heinberg	67	2021	$6.70 Add
From Power in the Pleistocene On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language.	Richard Heinberg	43	2021	$4.30 Add
From Preface From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Tony Clarke	6	2008	$0.60 Add
From Preface From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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 …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Preface Framing the Shot From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of …	Alex Harris	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From Preface From: A Good War View ECW Press		Seth Klein	14	2020	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Preface and Foreword From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers		Margaret Stout; Maria Spiliotopoulou; Mark Roseland	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From Preface & Introduction An unwitting experiment From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an unique and personal view on the hold oil companies have on our democratic institutions. He goes on to provide a brief history of …	Kevin Taft	14	2017	$1.40 Add
From Privatization and Its Discontents From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which …	Marq de Villiers	45	2018	$4.50 Add