Environmental Policy
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From  Making Common CauseInequality, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … | Seth Klein | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Messaging That Encourages Action |
In Chapter 3 Kaufman focuses how we talk about action in content to combating the climate crisis and explores how messaging effects the actions and willingness for others to join the fight. The … | Cynthia Kaufman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Net-Zero ChallengeFrom: Getting to Zero |
Indentifies how Canada, in contrast to several other countries, has failed to develop a credible plan of action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Proposes that an … | Tony Clarke | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Power in the AnthropoceneThe 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 … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From  Research BackwaterFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author visits the Louisiana Bayous and meets with researchers studying Asian carp. Topics include the challenges researchers face in collecting usable data to understand the … | Andrew Reeves | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change DenialismPART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Saving Ecosystems |
Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … | Andrés R. Edwards | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! The Process of ReformReal Change? |
This chapter describe the processes leading to the enactment of the IAA, and also also traces the fate of three substantive areas of possible reform through the legislative process. The chapter … | Hugh J. Benevides | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Who Owns Water?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses international law surrounding water use as well as legislation passed on a national level. | Marq de Villiers | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! 4. The Inequality Turnaround“Sharing the Dividends” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization, the creation of progressive taxation for … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint |
This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … | Sami Grover | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Chapter FiveCalifornia dreaming From: On Borrowed Time |
California’s devastating history of earthquakes is examined. The state’s exceptional response to these tragedies is also outlined. | Gregor Craigie | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From Confederation QuagmireRegional Differences, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 5, Klein examines the challenges the federal government faces while trying to secure sufficient collaboration across the various levels of government to confront the climate crisis. … | Seth Klein | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Ecological NightmareFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter discusses the multiple forms of environmental damage caused by the massive development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) global warming: the emergence of the tar … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From  NEW! EcosocialismFrom: Future on Fire |
Chapter 5 examines a future guided by ecosocialism. Topics discussed include the transition away from corporate, consumer, and crony capitalism, what makes ecosocialism a good alternative to … | David Camfield | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
