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    Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict

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    We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer’s interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist’s interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It’s hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each party’s needs?Aaron T. Wolf has spent his career mediating such conflicts, ... Read more

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  • Water in the Middle East

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    Series series Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
    Finding "streams in the desert" has never been more urgent for the peoples of the Middle East. Rapid population growth and a rising standard of living are driving water demand inexorably upward, while the natural supply has not increased since Biblical times. Ensuring a fair and adequate distribution of water in the region is vitally important for building a lasting peace among the nations of the ... Read more

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  • Pollution of the North Sea

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Little Black Lies

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    by Jeff Gailus ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head ... Read more

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  • Clay Materials for Environmental Remediation

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