Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone close to her. The events seem unrelated...
Natural resources
- Auteur:McGrath, M. J.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Greer, John MichaelSommaire:
Our destructive obsession with money and economic growth has driven us to the brink of disaster. This book exposes the flaws in conventional economic theory and shows how through public policy initiatives and personal choices the...
- Auteur:Dugstad Sanders, Andreas R., Sandvik, Pål R., Storli, EspenSommaire:
Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights." Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and catalysts for war and peace. The...
- Auteur:González, Pablo RafaelSommaire:
The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to become clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be...
- Auteur:Bowles, Paul, Wilson, Gary N.Sommaire:
Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada’s economy, but for many Canadians it has existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads and a ferry system connected small cities,...
- Auteur:Jones, KariSommaire:
There are almost eight billion people alive today. Having that many people in the world puts pressure on both social and natural resources, and we have to ask ourselves difficult questions like, What is our fair share? And how do we...
- Auteur:Benidickson, JamieSommaire:
Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been both harnessed and harmed. Jamie...
- Auteur:Smith, David J.Sommaire:
Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown...
- Auteur:Besada, Hany GamilSommaire:
A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets. Despite natural resource advantages, many African...
- Auteur:Tison, Marc, Fontaines, HugoSommaire:
L'or était là. Des milliards de dollars d'or enfoui, invisible, en pleine taïga, 200 kilomètres à l'est de la baie James. Un complexe minier grand comme un village s'y dresse aujourd'hui, construit au coût de...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
This volume addresses a wide range of topics related to Aboriginal resource use, ranging from the pre-contact period to the present. The papers were originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at the University of Winnipeg. Co-...
- Auteur:Wright, RonaldSommaire:
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth,...