To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....

Sroufe and Melnyk provide a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds...

Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...

Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...

Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?

What can be done, then, by individuals, functions, organizations, value chains, and even whole cities to integrate and align sustainability?

What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?

Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility...

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?

Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed?

Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...

Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...

With the Wilderness Act (1964) unable to protect this area of outstanding beauty, conservationists set out to apply moral rather than legal strategies of resistance...

Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons...

Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...

Old-growth forests captivate and inspire us. Walking through them can transport us to a time before human domination of the natural world....

Your building has the potential to change the world...

During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Almost 90 years ago Wuhan was at the epicentre of a major flood which, while being quite a different kind of disaster from today’s pandemic, similarly laid bare the complexities of the society which sought to deal with it.

The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.