Environmental Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Need for a Different Worldview From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Need for A Different Worldview suggests that a shift is needed to a different view of reality, one that is based on the fact of interconnectedness rather than the illusion of separateness, a …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	29	2011	$2.90 Add
From The New Gospel From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	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
NEW! The Next Generation of Impact Assessment A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act Irwin Law Inc.	Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and …	A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle	614	2021	View
From The origins of oil’s deep state in Canada From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft uses Alberta as a case study to document the origins of the fossil feul industry in the province and it’s ties to government.	Kevin Taft	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From NEW! The Path We’re On From: Future on Fire View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 reflects on our current policies toward climate change and what is at risk if we maintain this status quo. Topics discussed include current government policies for reducing carbon …	David Camfield	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Federal Jurisdiction and the Impact Assessment Act Trojan Horse or Rational Ecological Accounting? From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter explores key questions respecting federal jurisdiction with regard to the IAA, beginning with a discussion of the constitutional division of powers in Canada, federalism and …	Anna Johnston	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From The road to Trump From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader analyzes the ties between the fossil fuel industry and the hard right political movement that carried Donald Trump to the White House in 2016.	Kevin Taft	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Assessing the Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Other Identity Factors in the New Canadian Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter draws from feminist and resource management scholarship to identify key trends important to the understanding and realization of good-practice gender and diversity analysis and …	Heidi Walker; Maureen G. Reed	20	2021	$2.00 Add
NEW! The Sea Is Rising and So Are We A Climate Justice Handbook Between The Lines	The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our …	Bill McKibben; Cynthia Kaufman	193	2021	View
From The State of Our Groundwater 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 explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources.	Marq de Villiers	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From The Sword of Reason and the Power of the Law The Legal Right to a Healthy Environment From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	How most other nations have legislation on their books that would have allowed British Columbians to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, using an example …	Silver Donald Cameron	7	2018	$0.70 Add
From The Way of the Engineer From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers explores new technologies and innovative solutions to water shortages, and shows how we can engineer more efficient ways to use our limited water supply.	Marq de Villiers	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate Violence From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	21	2018	$2.10 Add
From NEW! “They Had No Intention of Ever Coming to an Agreement” Voices of Unifor 594 Workers From: Unjust Transition View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Three explores the the complex and contentious relationship between labor, capital, and the environment in the fossil fuel industry, in the wake of the 2019-2020 lockout of Unifor Local …	Andrew Steven; Emily Eaton; Sean Tucker	22	2024	$2.20 Add
Thriving Beyond Sustainability Pathways to a Resilient Society New Society Publishers	Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million …	Andrés R. Edwards	241	2010	View