Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Why do Americans eat so much beef?

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Rossi tells the real life story of his effort to get to the bottom of confidence men in the modern American West...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...

"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...

Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers..

Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...

How do states use cultural policy?

Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...

How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not?

Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...

Past studies a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in Italy and the way their production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation?

With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...

Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...