The author addresses the crucial environmental issues of our times and considers the impact on the economies of the world.
Environmental policy
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Author:Brown, Lester R.Summary: -
Author:Calverley, DavidSummary:As the nineteenth century ended, the popularity of sport hunting grew and Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg hunting rights set out in the...
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Author:Summary:Thunder at Michigan and Thunder in the Heartland is about a chronicle of changes that took place in a small school in a major Midwestern university. The change that took place had a profound impact upon both the students and faculty...
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Author:Waldron, IngridSummary:In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R.G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance...
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Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we...
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Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges -- climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of...
- Author:Mann, Michael E.Summary:
Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are ways we've been told to slow climate change. But it's a marketing campaign, one that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on individuals,...
- Author:Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein
The Ministry...
- Author:Castonguay, StéphaneSummary:
The Government of Natural Resourcesexplores the development of scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created...
- Author:Kopecky, ArnoSummary:
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity's latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist...
- Author:VanDeVeer, DonaldSummary:
Using a philosophical approach this book explores ethical aspects of the treatment of nonhumans, the planet, and its resources by humans. Questions of what we have done to the planet, what we are doing now, and what should be done...
- Author:Nordhaus, William D.Summary:
The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to...
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There is virtually nowhere on earth that remains untouched by plastics and the situation presents a serious threat to our natural world. Despite the magnitude of the problem, the interventions most often put in place are consumer-led...
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Author:Clapp, JenniferSummary:This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces...
- Author:Klein, NaomiSummary:
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant...
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Author:Summary:Post-Cold War threats to security arise from human degradation of ecosystems as much as terrorist attacks and wars. Page (environmental sensibility, Keele U., UK) and Redclift (international environmental policy, King's College,...
- Author:Gates, BillSummary:
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a... - Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
Bien que le monde soit confronté à d’importants problèmes écologiques, Environnement: les années optimistes rapporte les gains environnementaux les plus significatifs réalisés ces dernières années: des espèces en voie de disparition...
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Author:Summary:The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical re-thinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work...
- Author:Kingsnorth, PaulSummary:
Paul Kingsnorth was once an ardent environmentalist. But over time, he gave up on the hope that humans will ever make the sacrifices needed to avert the consequences of climate change. Instead, he argues for UnCivilization, a renewed...
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