Public Policy
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From ![]() Governance of CultureWords of Caution From: Accounting for Culture |
Culture, cultural value, and heritage are all weasel words and connote multidimensional, shifting, and elusive realities. The deconstruction of these concepts and of these realities with the … | Gilles Paquet | 14 | 2005 | $1.68 Add |
From ![]() Is Site C Really Past “The Point of No Return”?From: Damming the Peace |
What was meant by former B.C. premier Christy Clark’s promise to bring the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley to the “point of no return,” … | Zoë Ducklow | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Judiciously use REWARDSFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on the risk Reward issue. By focusing on how to create rewards for certain behaviours or by increasing the size or visibility of existing rewards, you can boost your … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() Learning Into the FuturePower and Love with Adam Kahane |
Adam Kahane’s work has shown him it is increasingly vital for people to work together, not just with friends and colleagues, but also with strangers and opponents, even enemies, in order to … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() Not in My BackyardFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s management of community relations and social acceptability for its projects. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() Other Voices in a Neo-Conservative Age |
Since 1980. Looks at the successes and setbacks experienced by the groups that composed the majority of members of society but who were increasingly called "special interest groups" by … | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add | |
From ![]() Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their GovernmentsLessons and Challenges |
There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … | Marc Roseland | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() Poverty, Death and DiseaseFrom: Beyond Criminology |
- | Dave Gordon | 18 | 2004 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Recipe for a Renewed EconomyFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter details Jackson’s policy proposals for a green economy that is capable of sustaining future generations. | Andrew Jackson | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() ReferencesFrom: When Poverty Mattered |
- | Paul Weinberg | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Sustainability-Based Decision Making |
This chapter looks more closely at the role of sustainability considerations in decision making under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA). | Robert B. Gibson | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() The Independent UnionFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s Zanini and his independent Canadian Union in Concrete Forming, acqusations of it being a front for the mob | Catherine Wismer | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() The NDP in a world made for oilFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP party in Alberta with focus on the change in policy towards the oil industry that occurred during the … | Kevin Taft | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! The Utopianism of Smart City MegaprojectsThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 9 explores megaprojects. Topics discussed include profits, the rise of entrepreneurial urbanization,’ the quasi-privatized new cities, and the examples of … | John Lorinc | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() The Way of the EngineerFrom: Back to the Well |
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 |