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City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
Price:
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781477330241
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.
Extraction Politics
Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona
Price:
CA$163.95
ISBN: 9780271097060
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Protest and Parternship
Case Studies of Indigenous Peoples, Consultation and Engagement, and Resource Development in Canada
Price:
CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781773852041
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
The development of equitable relationships and outcomes among Indigenous communities, resource development companies, and governments in Canada is slow and uneven. Protest and Partnership brings together...
Global Guyana
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Price:
CA$19.48
CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781479827015
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New York University Press
Exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women?s lives in the overlooked nation of GuyanaPreviously ranked among the hemisphere?s poorest...
Unjust Transition
The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers
Price:
CA$29.00
ISBN: 9781773636726
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
The worker lockout at Regina?s Co-op Refinery Complex shows that, left unchecked, corporations will transfer the costs and burdens of the necessary transition to a fossil fuel?free future to workers.
Extracting Development
Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia
Price:
CA$61.95
ISBN: 9789815011197
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Resource extraction is currently shaping Southeast Asian landscapes and people's lives to an unprecedented degree. This volume explores old and new resource frontiers, their effect on local economies...
Resource Nationalism in Indonesia
Booms, Big Business, and the State
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781501771972
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia, Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in Indonesia back to the preferences of big local business interests. Commodity booms often prompt more nationalist...
Born with a Copper Spoon
A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980
Price:
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780774864862
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.
Carbon Change
Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750517
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Energy commentator Dennis McConaghy takes an in-depth look at the public policies surrounding decarbonization in Canada and the costs and sacrifices it will take to get to net zero. He then lays out a more balanced approach that maximizes global human welfare while still using hydrocarbons optimally.
Creating Worlds Otherwise
Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780826504555
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Art as resistance against extractivism and toward a post-extractivist future
Testimonio
Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771135627
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Between the Lines
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while those responsible act with near-total impunity.
Resisting Extractivism
Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780826501578
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
An archival and ethnographic study into the meanings of "violence" within environmental conflicts in Peru
The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780774860611
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: UBC Press
This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.
Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771134514
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Between the Lines
An essential handbook for anyone trying to protect the places and people they love, Unearthing Justice exposes the ruthless workings and colonial dispossession of the mining industry—and how people are fighting back.
Vanishing Fish
Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781771643986
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: Greystone Books
"Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."-Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana"This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world's greatest living...
Growing Community Forests
Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9780887557934
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Canada is experiencing an unparalleled crisis involving forests and communities across the country. The creation of community forests is one path that promises to build resilience in forest communities and ecosystems.
City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781477330241
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Extraction Politics
Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona
CA$163.95
ISBN: 9780271097060
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Protest and Parternship
Case Studies of Indigenous Peoples, Consultation and Engagement, and Resource Development in Canada
CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781773852041
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Global Guyana
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
CA$19.48 CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781479827015
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: New York University Press
Unjust Transition
The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers
CA$29.00
ISBN: 9781773636726
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
The worker lockout at Regina?s Co-op Refinery Complex shows that, left unchecked, corporations will transfer the costs and burdens of the necessary transition to a fossil fuel?free future to workers.
Extracting Development
Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia
CA$61.95
ISBN: 9789815011197
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Resource Nationalism in Indonesia
Booms, Big Business, and the State
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781501771972
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Born with a Copper Spoon
A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780774864862
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.
Carbon Change
Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459750517
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Creating Worlds Otherwise
Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780826504555
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Testimonio
Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771135627
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Between the Lines
Resisting Extractivism
Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780826501578
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780774860611
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: UBC Press
Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781771134514
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Between the Lines
Vanishing Fish
Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781771643986
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: Greystone Books
Growing Community Forests
Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9780887557934
Pub Date: October 2017
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press