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The Costs of the Car: A Preliminary Study of the Environmental and Social Costs Associated with Private Car Use in Ontario
ISBN: 9781470018184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This 1991 study was a preliminary interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of the car on Ontario's economy and environment. The report notes that manufacturing cars and supporting activities accounted for 9 per cent of Canada's GDP in 1990, and 47 per cent of car-related jobs in Canada are in Ontario. The price for Ontario's dependence on cars is, however, very high. Massive costs stem from the harmful impacts of auto dependence on land use planning, the environment and human health. Moreover, drivers pay only part of the costs that arise from the use of their cars; essentially, drivers are...
This 1991 study was a preliminary interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of the car on Ontario's economy and environment. The report notes that manu...
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There is No Place Called "Away": Why Exporting Garbage is Not Sustainable or Sensible
ISBN: 9781470197254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a selection of documents from the lengthy fight about the infamous proposal to convert the Adams Mine - an open pit iron ore mine near Kirkland lake - into a mega dump for Toronto's garbage. The idea first was seriously proposed in 1989. In 1992, the Ontario government enacted the Waste Management Act, 1992 which was intended to ban waste export and promote local waste disposal in the Greater Toronto Area. By the late 1990s, the project had also been rejected by most of the municipal governments in Toronto, but was kept "alive" by a private sector promoter, Gord McGuinty...
This book provides a selection of documents from the lengthy fight about the infamous proposal to convert the Adams Mine - an open pit iron ore mine n...
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My Municipal Recycling Program made me fat and sick: How well intentioned environmentalists teamed up with the soft drink industry to promote obesity
ISBN: 9781470127466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explains the rapid evolution of the Blue Box municipal recycling program in Ontario between 1982 and 1994 and its social and environmental costs. The origins of the Blue Box municipal recycling program in Ontario can partly be traced back to the early 1970s when concerns about litter problems were attracting the public's attention. In 1976, a law under the Environmental Protection Act was passed allowing the Ontario government to enact regulations banning non-refillable soft drink containers. However, the regulations banning non-refillables cans and new plastic PET bottles were...
This book explains the rapid evolution of the Blue Box municipal recycling program in Ontario between 1982 and 1994 and its social and environmental c...
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Doing More for Less on Container Recycling: The Role of An Expanded Deposit-Refund System for Ontario's Used Beverage Containers
ISBN: 9781478130840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,56 |
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We Don't Want to Start That Tire Fire: Cases and Materials on Lafarge v. the (Ontario) Environmental Review Tribunal (2008)
ISBN: 9781470197216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume provides the background and more recent updates related to one of the most controversial environmental court decisions in Ontario history, Lafarge v. Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal (2008). In 2004, Lafarge, a multi-national cement producer, applied to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) for air and waste approvals under the Ontario Environmental Protection Act (EPA) in order to burn "alternative fuels"(i.e. scrap tires, plastics, etc.) at its cement plant near Bath, Ontario. In late December 2006, two MOE Directors delivered their Christmas presents to the company...
This volume provides the background and more recent updates related to one of the most controversial environmental court decisions in Ontario history,...
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Bureaucratic Speed Bumps and Ecological Tread Marks: Environmental Policy Making in the Ontario Government, 1988-1993
ISBN: 9781470019259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging essay prepared for a February 1994 presentation to the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, the author shares some insights he gained about environmental policy-making while working in the Ontario government between 1988 and late 1993 he left the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy for the Workplace Health and Safety Agency.
In this wide-ranging essay prepared for a February 1994 presentation to the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, the author shares som...
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Deference to the Marketplace: A Case Study of the Role of the Ontario Municipal Board in Agricultural Land Conservation, 1975-1985
ISBN: 9781470168490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a case study of the role of the Ontario Municipal Board, the key planning tribunal in the province, in protecting agricultural land between 1975 and 1986. The study highlights the need for provincial and municipal governments to increase density in land use planning so that fewer people live on less land. As well, the concluding sections discuss the economic challenges facing farmers operating on the rural-urban fringe.
This book is a case study of the role of the Ontario Municipal Board, the key planning tribunal in the province, in protecting agricultural land betwe...
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Intervenor Funding for Public Participation in Federal Environmental Decision-Making: A Short History
ISBN: 9781470168445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the past fifteen years, it has become evident that citizens and non-government organizations (NGOs) are facing increased financial and technical barriers to participating in environmental decision-making processes on approvals, planning, and assessments and hearing processes. In part this is due to the various effects of "downsizing," streamlining, and harmonization policies being implemented by all levels of government in Canada, the United States and other nations. In addition, there are greater demands on funding sources for all non-profit and volunteer-based organizations. Moreover,...
In the past fifteen years, it has become evident that citizens and non-government organizations (NGOs) are facing increased financial and technical ba...
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Northern Science: Fact or Fiction?: A Despairing Optimist Looks Northward
ISBN: 9781470028930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. IN THE 1970S THE MACKENZIE VALLEY PIPELINE INQUIRY HEADED BY JUSTICE TOM BERGER AND THE LAND CLAIM CASES LAUNCHED BY THE QUEBEC CREE INDIANS (AGAINST THE MASSIVE JAMES BAY HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAM PROJECTS ON THE LA GRANDE RIVER) HIGHLIGHTED THE SHOCKINGLY THIN DATA BASE AVAILABLE TO PREDICT THE ECOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS IN NORTHERN CANADA. MANY CANADIANS BECAME AWARE OF THE FACT THAT CANADIANS HAD A VERY TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ARCTIC REGION. IN PART, THIS LED TO THE COMMISSIONING OF A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT...
IN THE 1970S THE MACKENZIE VALLEY PIPELINE INQUIRY HEADED BY JUSTICE TOM BERGER AND THE LAND CLAIM CASES LAUNCHED BY THE QUEBEC CREE INDIANS (AGAINST ...
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Risky Business: The Use, Management, Transport and Disposal of Asbestos in Ontario
ISBN: 9781469939643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This guide reviews the federal and provincial laws, regulations and policies that govern the proper use, management, containment/removal, transport and disposal of asbestos and asbestos waste in Ontario. It also outlines the public's right to have input on these activities through the avenues provided by various laws including the Environmental Protection Act, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) and other laws. This guide also responds to ongoing public concern about the potential human health risks...
This guide reviews the federal and provincial laws, regulations and policies that govern the proper use, management, containment/removal, transport an...
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Arctic Sovereignty Initiatives in the Canadian North: A Historical Review, 1700 - 1980
ISBN: 9781468193176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Each generation of Canadians has "discovered" the Arctic and in a way, redefined itself in relation to it. Traditionally this re-discovery is accompanied by an expression of concern over sovereignty claim to the islands and waters of the north. The importance of sovereignty has once again become a major concern because of climate change and pressure to explore the Arctic by Russia, Denmark, Canada, and the United States and others for oil, gas and mineral resources.
Each generation of Canadians has "discovered" the Arctic and in a way, redefined itself in relation to it. Traditionally this re-discovery is accompan...
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Mischievous Spurtle
ISBN: 9781782229896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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