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THE CONVERGING WORLD tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned...
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Piatkus
Parution :
2010-03-04
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The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralism. Includes some...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-15
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"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions."
So writes David Orr in Down to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-09-17
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"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions."
So writes David Orr in Down to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-09-17
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This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstances, do these transnational regimes truly influence industrial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-03
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A lively account of fluoridation and its discontents Since its first implementation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, public drinking water fluoridation and its attendant conflicts, controversies, and conspiracy theories serve as an object lesson in American science,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-04-29
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Since their inception, the United Nations Climate Change Conferences—or Conference of the Parties (COPs)—have shaped the global response to climate change. These high-stakes gatherings bring together world leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers to negotiate...
Editeur :
Duo
Parution :
2025-11-04
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Since their inception, the United Nations Climate Change Conferences—or Conference of the Parties (COPs)—have shaped the global response to climate change. These high-stakes gatherings bring together world leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers to negotiate...
Editeur :
Duo
Parution :
2025-11-04
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What am I doing to address the climate crisis? How far will I go to defend the earth? What price am I willing to pay for climate justice? Since 2014, hundreds of people have been arrested while engaging in non-violent civil disobedience to protest the “TMX” Trans...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2024-10-29
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If everyone—from Emmanuel Macron to Jeff Bezos, and even Coca Cola—is green, why is the environmental crisis growing at an alarmingly rapid rate? The world is already experiencing the impact of climate crisis, but we are not equally responsible for its violent effects....
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2024-03-19
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Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024
Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024
The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis
Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-10-27
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Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2022-04-29
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Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2016-09-30
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When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought.
Cited as models for their egalitarian social and health policies, these countries also have thriving economies...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-05-15
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In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2012-01-28
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Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2011-03-10
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