Environmental Policy
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From The civil service falls in lineFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
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 The State of Our GroundwaterFrom: Back to the Well |
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 NEW! What We Are Up AgainstScience and Politics |
In Chapter 1, Kaufman provides an overview of the scientific and political challenges climate activists face in the fight for climate justice. The chapter discusses topics including the … | Cynthia Kaufman | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
From What We’re Up AgainstThe New Climate Denialism in Canada From: A Good War |
In Chapter 2, Klein examines the present day political, economic, and cultural barriers we face in our efforts to begin to meaningfully fight climate change and climate emergences. The chapter … | Seth Klein | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add |
From NEW! Will Capitalists Save Us? What about Governments?From: Future on Fire |
Chapter 2 considered who we should look to for guidance in fighting climate change and how we can not leave it in the hands of the market. Topics discussed include the media industries … | David Camfield | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! 2. Exploring Two ScenariosToo Little Too Late or Giant Leap? From: Earth for All |
Chapter 2 explores possible scenarios of our uncertain future. The chapter explores the "Too Little Too Late" and the "Great Leap" models which are examined throughout the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
From NEW! An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter provides a high-level overview of the IAA by examining the five key elements of the IAA regime design: triggering the assessment process, scoping, process options and design, … | Meinhard Doelle | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From NEW! Another World Is Possible |
In Chapter 2, Kaufman provides a glimpse of what a post transition world might look like after we move away from a society built on burning fossil fuels and on exploitative of the third world, to … | Cynthia Kaufman | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From Chapter ThreeThe Pacific's deadly echo From: On Borrowed Time |
Looks at the inextricable connection between earthquakes and tsunamis. Studies the devestation of historical tsunamis and the challenge to low-lying communities. | Gregor Craigie | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From Energy SuperpowerFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter concerns the promotion of Canada as “the world’s next energy superpower,” largely because of the development of the tar sands, with these themes: (a) corporate … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
From NEW! Enough Already |
This chapter explores the disconnect between the reality of the environmental crisis, and the rhetoric of events such as Earth Day, which typically focuses on individual actions rather than … | Sami Grover | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Global warmingWhat industry knew and when they knew it From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes the history of the science around global warming paying particular attention to the organizations and people involved with studying the … | Kevin Taft | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
From NEW! Mass Movements: Our Only HopeFrom: Future on Fire |
Chapter 3 examines how mass movements, the actions of millions of everyday people have played a role in changing our society for the better and can become the method to bring real change and … | David Camfield | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Neoliberalism and the World-Saving MarketPART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 4 reflects on the current neoliberal system and its primarily market-oriented solutions to tackle climate change. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From OriginsFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksGreening the City |
Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … | Marc Roseland | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |