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- Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
- Calgary Businesses Working to Quickly Recover from June 21 Flooding
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Calgary marketing firm Tenato Strategy is working to help businesses find the silver lining in the June 2013 flood -- through promoting urgently needed products, communicating with customers, and community involvement.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- Flooding
Canada Water Book
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- How climate change gave added urgency to a $1.25B project to prevent flooding in Toronto
New river system being developed amid concerns about flooding, climate change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
For Toronto, preventing the next potentially disastrous flood is increasingly urgent. And it's a reality facing many Canadian communities as they try to brace for the impacts of a changing climate in the years ahead.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
"How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Hurricane Hazel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Keating Channel Flood Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- The Physiography of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
The book begins with a brief account of the bedrock of Southern Ontario, continues with its galcial geology, then treats all its surface features, including river valleys, in some detail. The second half describes the physiography and land use and settlement of each of fifty-two regions. It ends with a brief summary, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
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