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  • Doctoral Studies as Educational Industrial Complex

    Untangling the PhD/EdD Octopus

    Edited by Jessica A. Heybach, Peter Renn ...
    More than a century after William James published his provocative critique The PhD Octopus in 1903, his warnings about the corrupting entanglements between institutions and graduate students remain strikingly relevant.Doctoral Studies as Educational Industrial Complex revisits James’ concerns through a contemporary lens, offering a critical examination of doctoral education in the field of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Risk Management

    Edited by Peter A. Wilderer, Ortwin Renn, Martin Grambow, Michael Molls, Klaus Mainzer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence. Four exemplary focus areas were chosen for in-depth review, namely:- The scientific basis of risk management- Risk management in the area of environmental and ecological policy- Risk ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Nurture, Care, Respect, and Trust

    Transformative Pedagogy Inspired by Janusz Korczak

    Edited by Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady, Peter Renn ...
    Series series Early Years and Youth Studies
    Nurture, Care, Respect, and Trust is the first collection of interdisciplinary and logically interconnected papers from nationally and internationally acclaimed researchers in philosophy, psychology, history of education, teacher training, educational leaders and practitioners, child advocates, and educators who have been motivated by the philosophy and pedagogy of Dr. Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

    Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse

    Edited by Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Peter Wiedemann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    by Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Read more

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  • How to Read Water

    Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    by Tristan Gooley ...
    Series series Natural Navigation
    **A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

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  • Almaguin

    A Highland History

    by Astrid Taim ...
    The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers and a lively history. Once considered as a possibility for a government Indian Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

    by Andrew Burbidge, Peter Harrison, John Woinarski ...
    The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These ... Read more

    $130.79 CAD

  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    by Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Waste to Wealth

    The Circular Economy Advantage

    by Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Mirage

    Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

    by Cynthia Barnett ...
    “Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America’s dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the most watered lawns, and the thorough research that makes her conclusions inescapable. ... Read more

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  • The Economic Value of Landscapes

    Edited by C. Martijn van der Heide, Wim Heijman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD