New Books in Environmental Studies
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Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
52 mins; March 24, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis
36 mins; March 23, 2023
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)
30 mins; March 20, 2023
Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 16, 2023
Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
53 mins; March 09, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Lab
36 mins; March 09, 2023
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
55 mins; March 08, 2023
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
80 hours 23 mins; March 05, 2023
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
44 mins; March 02, 2023
Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
49 mins; March 01, 2023
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
68 hours 0 mins; February 21, 2023
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; February 20, 2023
Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)
74 hours 3 mins; February 18, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
91 hours 3 mins; February 16, 2023
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
55 mins; February 15, 2023
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
42 mins; February 15, 2023
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
62 hours 8 mins; February 14, 2023
Getting to Net Zero: A Conversation with Christian Arno
65 hours 12 mins; February 13, 2023
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; February 10, 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
65 hours 36 mins; February 08, 2023
John F. Ahern, "Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
35 mins; February 08, 2023
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
68 hours 6 mins; February 07, 2023
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 41 mins; February 07, 2023
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
59 mins; February 05, 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
48 mins; February 05, 2023
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
84 hours 50 mins; February 04, 2023
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 03, 2023
J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
75 hours 0 mins; January 31, 2023
Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)
83 hours 40 mins; January 28, 2023
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
44 mins; January 25, 2023
Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
33 mins; January 23, 2023
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 21, 2023
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
40 mins; January 19, 2023
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
61 hours 15 mins; January 12, 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
60 hours 49 mins; January 10, 2023
Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)
60 hours 55 mins; January 07, 2023
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
55 mins; January 06, 2023
Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
32 mins; December 30, 2022
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; December 26, 2022
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
75 hours 23 mins; December 22, 2022
The ‘Domino Effect’: Global and Regional Climate Change Impacts on Food Supply Chains
22 mins; December 22, 2022
Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
59 mins; December 21, 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 31 mins; December 18, 2022
Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
83 hours 59 mins; December 17, 2022
Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 16, 2022
Off-Shore Aesthetics
20 mins; December 16, 2022
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
40 mins; December 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
39 mins; December 13, 2022
Sarah Milne, "Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 12, 2022
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
44 mins; December 12, 2022
Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 44 mins; December 10, 2022
Prakash Kashwan, "Climate Justice in India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 09, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 08, 2022
Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
82 hours 22 mins; December 02, 2022
Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
47 mins; November 30, 2022
Sally Weintrobe et al., "Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
54 mins; November 29, 2022
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 29, 2022
Public Participation and Contested Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin
23 mins; November 24, 2022
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 15 mins; November 24, 2022
Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
67 hours 6 mins; November 22, 2022
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
38 mins; November 22, 2022
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
57 mins; November 22, 2022
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
69 hours 15 mins; November 22, 2022
Jennifer Eaglin, "Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
77 hours 37 mins; November 18, 2022
Towards a Green China
38 mins; November 18, 2022
Towards a Green China
38 mins; November 18, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
55 mins; November 16, 2022
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
42 mins; November 14, 2022
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 10 mins; November 11, 2022
Sustainable Peatland Management and Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia
25 mins; November 10, 2022
Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 10, 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
61 hours 7 mins; November 07, 2022
Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 34 mins; November 07, 2022
Sarah T. Hines, "Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia" (U California Press, 2021)
52 mins; November 02, 2022
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Andreas Malm, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Verso, 2021)
34 mins; October 27, 2022
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; October 20, 2022
John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; October 19, 2022
Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U California Press, 2020)
64 hours 50 mins; October 14, 2022
Rafico Ruiz, "Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier" (Duke UP, 2021)
60 hours 0 mins; October 13, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 13, 2022
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
87 hours 11 mins; October 12, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
53 mins; October 10, 2022
Robyn D'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 7 mins; October 10, 2022
Saheed Aderinto, "Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria" (Ohio UP, 2022)
60 hours 26 mins; October 10, 2022
Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
51 mins; October 07, 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
64 hours 40 mins; September 29, 2022
Abigail Perkiss, "Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore" (Cornell UP, 2022)
34 mins; September 28, 2022
NBN Classic: Kate Brown, "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
47 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
48 mins; September 24, 2022
Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" (U California Press, 2017)
47 mins; September 23, 2022
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
82 hours 9 mins; September 22, 2022
Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
77 hours 27 mins; September 22, 2022
Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
54 mins; September 21, 2022
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
59 mins; September 20, 2022
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
39 mins; September 20, 2022
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
68 hours 29 mins; September 19, 2022
Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
38 mins; September 19, 2022
Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
24 mins; September 19, 2022
Mrill Ingram, "Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth" (Temple UP, 2022)
46 mins; September 16, 2022