2012

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Atmospheric Change and Air Quality From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter …	Marc Roseland	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Transportation Planning and Traffic Management From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to …	Marc Roseland	19	2012	$1.90 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Land Use and Urban Form From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can …	Marc Roseland	21	2012	$2.10 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Housing and Community Development From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, …	Marc Roseland	14	2012	$1.40 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Community Economic Development From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on …	Marc Roseland	20	2012	$2.00 Add
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Governing Sustainable Communities From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role …	Marc Roseland	17	2012	$1.70 Add
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Tools for Community Sustainability From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some …	Marc Roseland	12	2012	$1.20 Add
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Lessons and Challenges From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	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 Part One: Overview From: Mediator's Handbook View New Society Publishers	What is mediation? What makes mediation work? What is the mediator’s role? The anatomy of the mediation process. The anatomy of a session. Process-centered mediation. Guilding principles …	Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From Part Two: The Process Getting to the Table From: Mediator's Handbook View New Society Publishers	Can mediation help this situation? How people find a mediator. Voluntary or mandatory? Initial conversations. Do they want to participate? Defining the scope. Approaching the other parties. …	Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer	14	2012	$1.40 Add
From Part Two: The Process The Mediation Session Part 1: Exploring the Situation From: Mediator's Handbook View New Society Publishers	Preparing yourself, co-mediators. Setting up the room. Opening -> Welcome & warm-up, logistics, orientation, participants’ roles and willingness. Listening to each perspective. The …	Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer	28	2012	$2.80 Add
From Part Two: The Process The Mediation Session Part 2: Reaching Resolution From: Mediator's Handbook View New Society Publishers	Reaching Resolution. Topic List -> why is it crucial, drafting, wording. Midpoint check-in Options -> together come up with ideas, workability, reality testing. Desisions -> workability, …	Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer	24	2012	$2.40 Add
From People and Policies in Search of Disability Rights From: About Canada: Disability Rights View Fernwood Publishing		Deborah Stienstra	18	2012	$2.34 Add
From Perfection From: Personal Property Security Law, 2/e View Irwin Law Inc.	Discussion of the concept of perfection as a description of a priority status acquired by a security interest, and the means by which that status is acquired or lost.	Catherine Walsh; Roderick Wood; Ronald C. C. Cuming	22	2012	$2.20 Add
From Permissions From: The Universe Within View House of Anansi Press	This "chapter" is a list of permissions.	Neil Turkok	2	2012	$0.20 Add
Personal Property Security Law, 2/e Irwin Law Inc.	This book examines the legal framework for secured credit set out in the Personal Property Security Act. First proclaimed by Ontario in 1976, the PPSA is in force today in all nine common law …	Catherine Walsh; Roderick Wood; Ronald C. C. Cuming	865	2012	View