(Išleidimo metai: 18-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228009160)
Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487550592)
Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobilit...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Sep-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487551858)
This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities. Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Apr-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Sourcebooks Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9781728257235)
The team that created the best-selling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal! tell the story of two young people, Sami and Yuki, who live on different continents and whose lives are impacted by the effects of climate change. Simultaneous. Illustrations....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Between the Lines, ISBN-13: 9781771136129)
In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the climate crisis go hand in hand. The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world--a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genoci...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228009160)
Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jul-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487547516)
Picking Up the Slack examines how Canadian law has failed to address climate change and offers an accessible basis for a new approach. Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jul-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487550110)
Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies. Why, in an era when climate change is front of mind for so many people, have...Daugiau...
The team that created the best-selling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal! tell the story of two young people, Sami and Yuki, who live on different continents and whose lives are impacted by the effects of climate change. Simultaneous. Illustrations....Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Into the Arctic: Painting Canada’s Changing North features perhaps the most ambitious body of artwork ever devoted to the Far North of Canada. Cory Trépanier journeyed to the Arctic five times between 2006 and 2018, travelling more than 60,000 k...Daugiau...
This book documents how the Arctic region has been represented in the media; exploring how the media has framed the Arctic and whether this has an impact on governmental decision-making and public preferences. ...Daugiau...
This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for. Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrineOne of C...Daugiau...
In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of North Americas new oil country on just two wheels-- In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Mar-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487507213)
Why has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, already about half the Canadian total when taken together, have been steadily increasing as a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Mar-2020, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487524906)
Why has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, already about half the Canadian total when taken together, have been steadily increasing as a...Daugiau...
Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate...Daugiau...
This book documents how the Arctic region has been represented in the media; exploring how the media has framed the Arctic and whether this has an impact on governmental decision-making and public preferences. The Arctic region faces profou...Daugiau...
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Mar-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ISBN-13: 9789264312470)
There is an urgent need to ensure that coastal areas are adapting to the impacts of climate change. Risks in these areas are projected to increase because of rising sea levels and development pressures. This report reviews how OECD countries can use...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517904975)
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier tra...Daugiau...
Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced i...Daugiau...
As in Ibsens Enemy of the People, two brothers struggle for power and ideals each believes are right. A timely play in terms of environmental issues, full of lots of great political dirty tricks. Cast of three men and one woman....Daugiau...
Looking at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit. The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingl...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773547612)
Looking at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit. The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingl...Daugiau...
In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society...Daugiau...
Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributo...Daugiau...
In this edition of Canada: State of the Federation, contributors consider whether and to what degree the relationship between the central government and the provincial and territorial governments has changed in the past decade. The authors addre...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773544079)
A systematic and thorough comparison between Canadas and Britains actions on climate change. Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the wor...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773544628)
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives. The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and t...Daugiau...
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for N...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Hydro-climatic change is no longer an abstract or theoretical concept if you have been directly affected by the increase in the duration and intensity of extreme weather. In this new RMB manifesto, two of Canadas most res...Daugiau...
The Labour in Canada series looks at how significant political and economic changes affect the labor force and movement as a whole. This third volume in the series delves into the so far sparsely covered relations between climate change and work in C...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The Open Passage Expedition successfully sailed through the Northwest Passage during the summer of 2009. The crew not only succeeded in a sailing some of the most dangerous waters in the world, but also learned more about the people and their land...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for ...Daugiau...
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for ...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Dec-2012, Hardback, Leidėjas: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780307400628)
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a Third Solitude since entering Confederatio...Daugiau...
Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technological vulnerabilities. While science provides valuable indications of risk, it does not yield certainty, yet leaders must make sense of threats. Raymond Murphys case study of the manag...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Lightning, hail, floods, drought, tornadoes, blizzards, and ice storms: Canadas climate can be extreme. Many Canadians concern themselves with the weather out of interest, necessity, and concern. Given the inevitable changes in our global climate, t...Daugiau...
A significant number of Canadians believe that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world today. Climate change is now more than a scientific debate; it is a matter urgently discussed in the realms of politics, geography, and economics....Daugiau...
Resources Climate and Conflict. Until now, Canadas claim to the frozen expanses of the Arctic has gone largely unchallenged. No longer. Suddenly our great white North is on everyones radar, and five other countries are all interested in red...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Mar-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Lone Pine Publishing,Canada, ISBN-13: 9781926736037)
Resources Climate and Conflict. Until now, Canadas claim to the frozen expanses of the Arctic has gone largely unchallenged. No longer. Suddenly our great white North is on everyones radar, and five other countries are all interested in red...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2009, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9780889772175)
Scientists have been issuing increasingly direct warnings about the impact that climate change is having on the planet. These interdisciplinary studies break new ground in terms of our understanding of the climate experience in the Great Plains befor...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773535244)
A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, Leadership in Disaster is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn mo...Daugiau...
Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner...Daugiau...
Delving into the origins of the current twin crises of peak oil and climate change, this book brings together some of Canadas and the worlds leading authorities to evaluate the various solutions being advanced. What emerges is an eng...Daugiau...
