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  • Improving inclusive innovation outcomes

    Lessons from post-industrial and post-conflict cities

    by Michael R. Glass, Louise Kempton, David Marlow, Luke Green, Carlos Cadena-Gaitan, Sabina Deitrick, Diana Morales ...
    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    This book describes the Improving Inclusive Innovation Outcomes (i3o) research programme (2022–25). This work recognises that place-based economic growth in the 21st century is called to deliver more equitable and sustainable outcomes that address social challenges.The i3o programme focuses on inclusive innovation in urban innovation districts: geographical concentrations of assets and amenities ... Read more

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  • When Fracking Comes to Town

    Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom

    Edited by Sabina E. Deitrick, Ilia Murtazashvili ...
    When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges accompanying unconventional gas extraction through fracking. The multidisciplinary perspectives of this ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snake Oil

    How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production... and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the century, with slick promises of American energy independence and benefits to local economies. SNAKE OIL casts a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Overheated

    How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

    by Kate Aronoff ...
    This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable, natural limits. Richard ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cold, Hungry and in the Dark

    Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

    by Bill Powers ...
    An energy industry insider delivers hard truths about the reality of fracking.Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eco-nomics

    What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

    by Richard L. Stroup ...
    It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws are ineffective and others have had unintended consequences. In this updated edition, Richard ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Price of Oil

    by Roberto F. Aguilera, Marian Radetzki ...
    Drawing on their extensive knowledge of the oil industry, Roberto F. Aguilera and Marian Radetzki provide an in-depth examination of the price of the world's most important commodity. They argue that although oil has experienced an extraordinary price increase over the past few decades, we have now reached a turning point where scarcity, uncertain supply and high prices will be replaced by ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Community Planning

    How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems

    by Stephanie B. Kelly ...
    Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States. The book defines the interdisciplinary nature of the field, identifies the forces that shape the planning process, and explains the sub-specialized areas of community planning.Throughout the text, the author draws ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Growing a Sustainable City?

    The Question of Urban Agriculture

    by Hamil Pearsall, Christina D. Rosan ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework.Growing a Sustainable City? ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • State of the World's Forests 2014

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Across the world, forests, trees on farms, and agroforestry systems play a crucial role in the livelihoods of rural people by providing employment, energy, nutritious foods and a wide range of other goods and ecosystem services. They have tremendous potential to contribute to sustainable development and to a greener economy. Yet, clear evidence of this has been lacking. This evidence is critical ... Read more

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