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  • Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water

    The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment in a way that transcends ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

    by Robert W. Sandford ...
    Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Columbia River Treaty

    A Primer

    by Robert William Sandford, Deborah Harford, Dr. Jon O'Riordan ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer is a vital work that clearly explains the nature of this complex water agreement between Canada and the United States and how its impending update will impact communities, landscapes, industry and water supplies between the two countries for many years to come.The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Ethical Water

    Learning to Value What Matters Most

    by Robert William Sandford, Merrell-Ann Phare ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems to continually ignore the need for a common-sense approach to—and appreciation of—our freshwater resources and our consumption of this remarkable, life-giving substance that now exceeds its future availability.This ground-breaking and approachable ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature

    Imagining the Source of Our Creativity

    by Robert Sandford ...
    Embracing our creative nature as the heritage of all, this book seeks to foster the creative imagination by nurturing a fertile relationship with its source. Robert Sandford offers an alternative approach, taking up Jungian theory as arising from and embodying this sort of relationship. In the middle ground of imagination, we can engage creativity’s source on its own terms in image, metaphor, ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Storm Warning

    Water and Climate Security in a Changing World

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster and in unprecedented ways. A warmer atmosphere carries more water vapour, which means that as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Signs of Water

    Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope

    Edited by Robert Boschman, Sonya L. Jakubec ...
    Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern.Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Glittering Mountains of Canada

    A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924

    by J. Monroe Thorington ...
    "This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety — no single volume will ever do that — but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps during the Eighteenth Century. Finally, it is a book of mountain history; for here is Geography in the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Weekender Effect

    Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns — Updated Edition

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    A passionate plea for considered development in mountain towns and for the preservation of local values, cultures and landscapes.As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, more and more people are looking for peaceful weekend retreats in mountain or rural communities. More often than not, these retreats are found in and around resorts or places of natural beauty. As a result, what once ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Weekender Effect II

    Fallout

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    A pandemic-inspired sequel to the original The Weekender Effect, looking at the current and future challenges facing mountain communities.The pandemic, and the rapid introduction of technologies in its wake that enabled many to work from home, have put spectacular pressure on mountain and other resort communities that were already under siege by outside and foreign speculators and increasingly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Human Face of Water Security

    Edited by Zafar Adeel, Robert Sandford, David Devlaeminck ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual. Beginning with the big picture, this book aims to illustrate the depth of the water security crisis and its interconnections with other aspects of societal ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Restoring the Flow

    Confronting the World's Water Woes

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    I believe that it is up to people like us to find the language, create the images and imagine the solutions that will allow us to break out of the vicious circle that threatens public health by threatening our landscapes and water sources . . . Together we can work toward this end. And, we can do it with humour. We can do it with style. And we can do it with grace.Try as we might, parts of North ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD