Public Policy
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From  Tragedy of the White AmurFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by the United States government to regulate the transport and breeding of non-native species. | Andrew Reeves | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! UncoverFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter explores how to Uncover ways to change our behaviour using the Behavioral Drivers Analysis (BDA), an analytic tool for uncovering evidence-based drivers in different people. The … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 65 | 2022 | $6.50 Add |
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From  Urban Water CrisesFrom: Dry Run |
Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Violence in Democratic SocietiesTowards an Analytic Framework From: Beyond Criminology |
- | Jamil Salmi | 13 | 2004 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Void Where ProhibitedFrom: No Place To Go |
In this chapter, the author demonstrates the importance of reducing public urination and defecation from a health perspective. She then highlights the complex interplay between access to washroom … | Lezlie Lowe | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Water and Sewage: The Original Urban NetworksThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
The Technology of Cities: Part 3 explores the original urban networks, water and sewage systems. Topics discussed include the London Fire of 1666, water pumps, sewers and urban health. | John Lorinc | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Will Canada’s Future Be Dammed? Site C Could Be the Tip of the IcebergFrom: Damming the Peace |
David Schindler, one of the world’s foremost water ecologists, explains the role of major dams, like Site C in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, in Canada’s climate change strategy. He … | David Schindler | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From  "Free Trade" Limits Cultural Policymaking |
Focuses on how free trade agreements impacted Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the 1984 free trade deal, NAFTA, as well as how World Trade Organization agreements (WTO) have limited … | Garry Neil | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From  "The debate is closing"The carbonizing of American politics From: Oil’s Deep State |
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 |
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From  NEW! “Even a Ravaged Planet Is Worth Fighting For”From: Future on Fire |
Chapter 4 reflects on what a world that suffers the consequences of large-scale climate change would look like and if it is still worth fighting for. Topics discussed include the 2030 deadline to … | David Camfield | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From “That’s How We See It”Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace |
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 |
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From  “They Don’t Listen to Your Body”Minority Women, Nurses and Childbirth under Health Reform From: Care and Consequences |
- | Denise L. Spitzer | 22 | 2000 | $2.42 Add |
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From  NEW! 3. Saying Goodbye to PovertyFrom: Earth for All |
Chapter 3 focuses on the methods and theories for how to eradicate poverty across the globe. Topics discussed include "extreme poverty", challenges to economic growth within low-income … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  A Bed for the NightThe Struggle for Shelter From: Fight to Win |
In 2017/2018 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty witnessed the greatest crisis in homelessness in 3 decades. This chapter describes a successful campaign to increase Toronto shelter beds by 1,000 … | A. J. Withers | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  NEW! A History of StruggleFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo examines the history of social movements pushed forward by tenants in Canada. Ricardo examines how colonialism and the renter vs. landlord dynamic are intertwined. | Ricardo Tranjan | 29 | 2023 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsVertigo From: On Opium |
Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
