New Books in Environmental Studies
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Daniel A. Barber, "Modern Architecture and Clim...
An interview with Daniel A. Barber
59 min
827
Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A...
An interview with C. Slaght
35 min
828
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, "The Human Planet...
An interview with Mark Maslin
42 min
829
John Soluri and Claudia Leal, "A Living Past: E...
This book seeks to provide a general overview of environmental history within Latin American history...
62 min
830
Nora Bateson. "Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Fr...
“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.”
58 min
831
Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
Pryke celebrates the slow and unassuming manner of this doughty creature...
43 min
832
Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change,...
Alvarez looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity...
52 min
833
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...
28 min
834
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...
56 min
835
Beating Plastic Pollution in Timor-Leste with P...
Maschmeyer speaks to Dr Thushara Dibley about his ground-breaking work developing catalytic technology that can recycle any kind of plastic and turn it into a valuable resource...
16 min
836
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Intern...
Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...
95 min
837
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (L...
Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet...
59 min
838
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Livel...
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....
82 min
839
Ray Ison, "Systems Practice: How to Act In Situ...
While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice can be somewhat harder to come by...
63 min
840
Jim Mason, "An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Ou...
Jim Mason writes: “My own view is that the primal worldview, updated by a scientific understanding of the living world, offers the best hope for a human spirituality...
85 min
841
Amalia Leguizamón, "Seeds of Power: Environment...
Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...
58 min
842
Michael Mascarenhas, "Lessons in Environmental ...
39 min
843
Graciela Chichilnisky, "Reversing Climate Chang...
Chichilnisky lays out the history of how we came to be in the emergency we are in now, what we have tried before, and how we can get out....
49 min
844
Douglas Kelbaugh, "The Urban Fix: Resilient Cit...
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change...
39 min
845
James Staples, "Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchur...
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication...
62 min
846
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
56 min
847
S. Myers and H. Frumkin, "Planetary Health: Pro...
Myers and Frumkin illustrate the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet...
41 min
848
Micha Rahder, "An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, ...
Rahder offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Central America...
55 min
849
Michael Stamm, "Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing ...
Stamm begins with the simple but thought-provoking premise that, not too long ago, newspapers were almost exclusively physical objects made out of paper...
64 min
850
Peter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religi...
Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....
48 min