Environmental Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Tar Sands Showdown Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change	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 …		312		View
From “That’s How We See It” Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	Journalist Andrew MacLeod interviews respected First Nations leader Helen Knott about the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on her community, and in …	Andrew MacLeod	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From The Big Lie Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The Big Shift From: Getting to Zero View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal …	Tony Clarke	37	2018	$3.70 Add
The Big Stall How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada	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 …		304		View
From The civil service falls in line From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the period of 2009-2014 in Alberta and the way in which civil servants were brought to identify the public interest with the oil …	Kevin Taft	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From NEW! The Climate Movement PART 4: To Shape a Coming World From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 10 focuses on the current state of the climate movement, providing a survey of its most prominent leaders, their tactics, and action they are bringing about.	Aaron Saad	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From The Corporation vs. Nature From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses an alternative approach to dealing with climate change: abandon neo-liberal measures and shift to a zero growth economy with redistribution of existing wealth. Action requires …	Donald Gutstein	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From "The debate is closing" The carbonizing of American politics From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft links the Canadian experience of the oil industry’s influence on politics to the United States to industry ties to the George W. Bush government …	Kevin Taft	23	2017	$2.30 Add
From The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies suggests specific environmental and social design criteria for new technologies, the importance of the …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	21	2011	$2.10 Add
From The Dismal Arithmetic of Water From: Back to the Well View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing …	Marq de Villiers	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From The dynamics of democracy From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft offers a brief analysis of how a modern democracy functions through its institutions which go far beyond elected legislative bodies.	Kevin Taft	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every …	Richard Heinberg	15	2010	$1.50 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on …	Richard Heinberg	19	2010	$1.90 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another A Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter outlines a next-generation assessment framework that incorporates international learning as well as key themes in the Canadian deliberations surrounding the assessment law and policy …	Meinhard Doelle; Robert B. Gibson	21	2021	$2.10 Add