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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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- Archives Library
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- Further research
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Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25274
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Kelsey, Elin
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 04 K27h
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- Author
- Kelsey, Elin
- Responsibility
- Elin Kelsey
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 229 pages
- Subjects
- Environment
- Conservation
- Climate change
- Abstract
- We are at an inflection point: today, more people than ever before recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are urgent and existential threats. Yet constant reports of climate doom are fueling an epidemic of eco-anxiety, leaving many of us feeling hopeless and powerless—and hampering our ability to address the very real challenges we face. Hope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom that has overtaken conversations about our future to show why hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for tackling the planetary crisis. Award-winning author, scholar, and educator Elin Kelsey reveals the collateral damage of despair—from young people who honestly believe they have no future to the link between climate anxiety and hyper-consumerism—and argues that the catastrophic environmental news that dominates the media tells only part of the story. She describes effective campaigns to support ocean conservation, species resilience, and rewilding, demonstrating how digital conservation is helping scientists target specific problems with impressive results. And she shows how we can build on these positive trends and harness all our emotions about the changing environment—anger and sadness as well as hope—into effective personal and political action. Timely, evidence-based, and persuasive, Hope Matters is an argument for the place of hope in our lives and a celebration of the turn toward solutions in the face of the environmental crisis. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- The power of expectation and belief -- The collateral damage of doom and gloom -- Hope is contagious -- Stories change -- The age of personalization -- We are not the only ones actively responding -- The strength of empathy, kindness, and compassion -- Trending hopeful.
- Notes
- Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
- ISBN
- 9781771647779
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 04 K27h
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Water, weather and the mountain west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13641
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5wa c.1
- 03.5 Sa5wa c.2
- 03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
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- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 207 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Conservation
- Water
- Watersheds
- Canada
- Climate
- Climate change
- Climatology
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Abstract
- Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks
- One: water, weather and the west
- Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada
- Three: what can we learn from others
- Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate
- Five: future landscapes in the mountain west
- Appendix One
- Appendix Two
- Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index
- ISBN
- 9781894765930
- Accession Number
- 40500 - 2 copies
- P2020-2
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5wa c.1
- 03.5 Sa5wa c.2
- 03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
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