Public Policy
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From  The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate TechnologiesFrom: Techno-Fix |
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 |
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From  The Dismal Arithmetic of WaterFrom: Back to the Well |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Divided House of LabourFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson examines the Canadian Labour Congress, which appointed him senior economist on May Day 1989. He suggests that the CLC is a fragile body compared with central labour … | Andrew Jackson | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Douglas Legacy and the Future of MedicareFrom: Medicare |
Discusses Tommy Douglas’s lasting legacy as a political leader through his introduction of universal health care | Greg; Marchildon | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The dynamics of democracyFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
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 |
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From  The Economic Cost of Border Security: The Case of the Texas-Mexico Border and the US VISIT ProgramFrom: Borderlands |
The purpose of this chapter is to estimate the potential economic cost of the implementation of one component of the “smart borders” policy, the US VISIT program, to Texas border … | J.Michael Patrick | 34 | 2007 | $2.72 Add |
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From  The Effects of the Welfare Control System on People of Colour |
Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan | 14 | 2005 | $1.40 Add | |
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From  The Electric RevolutionFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter situates Hydro-Quebec and its impressive system and evolution in the context of the global electricity industry. It delves more into the history of H-Q and Quebec politics. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From The Electronic Health Record:The Neglected Key to Saving Medicare From: Medicare |
Examines the Electronic Health Record and its role to play in the realization of first-rate, safe, efficient, and just health care | Steven Lewis | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Elusiveness of Full CitizenshipAccounting for Cultural Capital, Cultural Competencies, and Cultural Pluralism From: Accounting for Culture |
Most discussions about cultural capital seem to revolve around the consumption or use of cultural goods and services. This chapter attempts to address some aspects of a more fundamental role that … | Karim H. Karim | 13 | 2005 | $1.56 Add |
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From  NEW! The End of EasternFrom: Rebound |
In this chapter, King examines the legacy of Eastern Commerce High School in Toronto. | Perry King | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherThe Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBoomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything |
In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherA Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From  The EnvironmentGood Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do From: Canada after Harper |
Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with … | Peter Robinson | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
