Jennifer A Kent

The New Atlas of Planet Management

Chocolate River Rescue

Shawn Mahoney and Tony Steeves, both ten, and Shawn's younger brother, Craig, eight, are trapped on an ice floe and speeding down Chocolate River. They are quickly spotted by a passerby, who calls 911 and sets the police and fire departments in motion. What ensues is a complicated and dangerous resc...

Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy

Much of the global economy depends upon large-scale government intervention in the form of subsidies, both direct and indirect, to support specific industries or economic sectors. Distressingly, many of these subsidies can be characterized as "perverse" -- rather than helping society achieve a desir...

The New Consumers: The Influence Of Affluence On The Environment

While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent in this importa...

The New Atlas of Planet Management

The New Atlas of Planet Management was regarded as the most groundbreaking survey of the state of our planet when it was first published in 1984. After over twenty years in print, it has become the bible of the environmental movement and the definitive guide to a planet in critical transition. Regul...

Love Your Hunger, Love Your Body: End the Food Obsession & Find Your Natural Weight

Do you have a love/hate relationship with food, eating, and your body?Are your days ruled by an inner struggle against what to eat and what not to eat? Without crazy restrictions, without constant vigilance and tight self-control, you can reach the weight you've always wanted. Inspired by the writin...

Community Action and Climate Change (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. R...

What Every Speech-Language Pathologist/Audiologist Should Know about Alternative and Augmentative Communication (Allyn & Bacon Communication Sciences and Disorders)

What Every Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Should Know about Alternative and Augmentative Communication is designed as a basic introduction to the study of Alternative and Augmentative Communication. This brief, five chapter text provides readers with a basic overview of what Alternativ...

Gadzooks the Christmas Goose

Corina lives with her grandparents in Shepody Bay. One day close to Christmas, a big storm blows in an injured Canada goose. Corina immediately warms to the bird and wants to nurse it back to health, but her grumpy grandfather wants to cook the goose for Christmas dinner. The bird gets up to all kin...