New Books in Environmental Studies
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Precariously Positioned: How Africa Must Balanc...
An interview with Robin Attfield
26 min
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?
64 min
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Kristina M. Lyons, "Vital Decomposition: Soil P...
Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations...
39 min
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Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline N...
52 min
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Daniel Macfarlane, "Fixing Niagara Falls: Envir...
The first people to record their reactions to the falls in North America were fascinated by its beauty and power...
59 min
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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bis...
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...
37 min
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and...
van Dooren offers an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows...
66 min
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Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, "La Batea" (...
A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of small-scale miners in Colombia in a unique and powerful way...
60 min
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Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis...
Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....
50 min
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Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in t...
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?
61 min
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Brian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (...
Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...
50 min
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Sue Stuart-Smith, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The ...
Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....
65 min
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Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Culture...
Safina looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual within a particular community...
62 min
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Karen Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" ...
Holl offers a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems...
48 min
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Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The C...
What would actually make America great? More people.
58 min
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Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...
49 min
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Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nati...
Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...
48 min
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Brad Walters, "The Greening of Saint Lucia: Eco...
Walter's book based on the results of a long-term, field-based research project that began in 2006...
66 min
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Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservati...
Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...
76 min
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Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change...
Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?
51 min
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David Moon, "The American Steppes: The Unexpect...
Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...
54 min
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Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Scienc...
Moore offers a stellar example of the significance and role of humanistic – and specifically ethnographic – inquiry regarding how climate change has, is, and will change human and human-nonhuman relations....
43 min
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Kerri Arsenault, "Mill Town: Reckoning with Wha...
The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe...
57 min
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Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agricu...
Pawley examines a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality—antebellum New York State—and follows thousands of “improving agriculturists,..
61 min
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Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fra...
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?
75 min