New Books in Environmental Studies
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Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
55 mins; October 05, 2021
Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
119 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2021
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
73 hours 49 mins; September 27, 2021
Laura Paskus, "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
58 mins; September 23, 2021
Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)
48 mins; September 22, 2021
Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
23 mins; September 22, 2021
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
45 mins; September 22, 2021
Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects
32 mins; September 17, 2021
Robin Globus Veldman, "The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change" (U California Press, 2019)
68 hours 18 mins; September 17, 2021
Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
72 hours 56 mins; September 17, 2021
Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
50 mins; September 15, 2021
Andy Hoffman, “Saving the World at Business School (Part 2)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
141 hours 21 mins; September 13, 2021
Andy Hoffman “Saving the World at Business School (Part 1)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
85 hours 53 mins; September 10, 2021
Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
46 mins; September 10, 2021
Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)
62 hours 26 mins; September 08, 2021
Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
39 mins; September 08, 2021
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; September 08, 2021
Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
47 mins; September 08, 2021
Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
97 hours 55 mins; September 07, 2021
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
80 hours 16 mins; September 07, 2021
Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
113 hours 29 mins; September 06, 2021
Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
24 mins; September 03, 2021
Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
36 mins; September 03, 2021
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
59 mins; September 03, 2021
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, "Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
46 mins; September 01, 2021
Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 01, 2021
Paul Sabin, "Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" (Norton, 2021)
46 mins; August 31, 2021
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
60 hours 24 mins; August 27, 2021
Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 25, 2021
Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
72 hours 25 mins; August 17, 2021
Jonathan E. Robins, "Oil Palm: A Global History" (UNC Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 17, 2021
Benjamin R. Cohen et al., "Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food" (MIT Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 17, 2021
Alexander Menrisky, "Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
80 hours 11 mins; August 16, 2021
Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
49 mins; August 13, 2021
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
26 mins; August 13, 2021
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
47 mins; August 10, 2021
Hillary Angelo, "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
51 mins; July 29, 2021
Michael G. Hillard, "Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry" (Cornell UP, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; July 27, 2021
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
39 mins; July 26, 2021
Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
67 hours 29 mins; July 23, 2021
From the Archives: Building a Sustainable Future through Urban Governance with Dr Sophie Webber
23 mins; July 22, 2021
Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)
79 hours 42 mins; July 20, 2021
Stacia Ryder et al., "Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures" (Routledge, 2021)
33 mins; July 20, 2021
Nicoletta Batini, "The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet" (Island Press, 2021)
56 mins; July 13, 2021
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
30 mins; July 12, 2021
Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)
62 hours 29 mins; July 09, 2021
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
20 mins; July 08, 2021
Kristin Poling, "Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
59 mins; July 07, 2021
Jenny Price, "Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
56 mins; July 05, 2021
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
56 mins; July 02, 2021
Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
62 hours 12 mins; June 29, 2021
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
18 mins; June 24, 2021
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
25 mins; June 18, 2021
Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer, "Wildness: Relations of People and Place" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
54 mins; June 16, 2021
Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr, "A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
50 mins; June 16, 2021
Ryanne Pilgeram, "Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West" (U Washington Press, 2021)
46 mins; June 09, 2021
Katrinell M. Davis, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery" (UNC Press, 2021)
32 mins; June 09, 2021
Joel Alden Schlosser, "Herodotus in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
53 mins; May 27, 2021
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
28 mins; May 24, 2021
Caterina Scaramelli, "How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2021)
54 mins; May 24, 2021
Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
50 mins; May 21, 2021
David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)
57 mins; May 18, 2021
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
33 mins; May 18, 2021
David Hardin, "Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint" (Belt, 2021)
48 mins; May 17, 2021
Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021)
68 hours 27 mins; May 12, 2021
Bret Gustafson, "Bolivia in the Age of Gas" (Duke UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 03, 2021
Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i" (Duke UP, 2021)
63 hours 41 mins; April 21, 2021
Allison Cobb, "Plastic: An Autobiography" (Nightboat Books, 2021)
60 hours 6 mins; April 19, 2021
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
76 hours 8 mins; April 19, 2021
James Beattie, "Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes" (Routledge, 2019)
31 mins; April 16, 2021
Timothy Beatley, "The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats" (Island Press, 2020)
56 mins; April 05, 2021
Lucas Bessire, "Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" (Princeton UP, 2021)
48 mins; April 01, 2021
Katherine E. Standefer, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life" (Little, Brown Spark, 2020)
40 mins; March 30, 2021
Juno Salazar Parreñas, "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2018)
47 mins; March 15, 2021
Kara M. Schlichting, "New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
49 mins; March 09, 2021
Pey-Yi Chu, "The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
53 mins; March 09, 2021
Tom Philpott, "Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; March 04, 2021
James Skillen, "This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 32 mins; February 22, 2021
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research: Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
25 mins; February 17, 2021
Anthony Warner, "Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
39 mins; February 08, 2021
Wade Davis, "Magdalena, River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia" (Knopf, 2020)
57 mins; February 08, 2021
Ray Ison and Ed Straw, "The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2020)
68 hours 9 mins; February 07, 2021
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
82 hours 15 mins; January 25, 2021
David Sepkoski, "Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
47 mins; January 22, 2021
Ian M. Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2020)
70 hours 27 mins; January 21, 2021
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
36 mins; January 14, 2021
Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making" (UNC Press, 2020)
68 hours 16 mins; January 12, 2021
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
44 mins; January 08, 2021
Daniel A. Barber, "Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning" (Princeton UP, 2020)
62 hours 26 mins; January 06, 2021
Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" (FSG, 2020)
38 mins; December 24, 2020
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, "The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene" (Yale UP, 2018)
45 mins; December 18, 2020
John Soluri and Claudia Leal, "A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America" (Berghahn, 2018)
65 hours 24 mins; December 17, 2020
Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
46 mins; December 16, 2020
Nora Bateson. "Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns" (Triarchy Press, 2016)
61 hours 43 mins; December 16, 2020
Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
54 mins; December 15, 2020
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
31 mins; December 15, 2020
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
58 mins; December 11, 2020
Beating Plastic Pollution in Timor-Leste with Professor Thomas Maschmeyer
16 mins; December 10, 2020
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)
98 hours 6 mins; December 04, 2020
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)
60 hours 14 mins; December 03, 2020