New Books in Environmental Studies
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David Biggs, "Footprints of War: Militarized La...
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?
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Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Co...
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...
43 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environm...
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
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Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rura...
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...
53 min
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthro...
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aer...
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
36 min
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Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietna...
How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?
80 min
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Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment,...
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...
51 min
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Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Exper...
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore...
51 min
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Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a L...
In this episode of the podcast Don and Alex talk about Papua New Guinea, where they have both done research...
52 min
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Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An E...
Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...
57 min
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Timothy LeCain, "The Matter of History: How Thi...
LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...
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Dolly Kikon, "Living with Oil and Coal: Resourc...
Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst of a landscape defined by multiple overlapping extractive industries and plantation economies...
54 min
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Kenneth Olwig, "The Meanings of Landscape: Essa...
Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective...
62 min
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Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Souther...
McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...
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Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environme...
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
51 min
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Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power ...
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...
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Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power ...
Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....
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Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions an...
Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...
38 min
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Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the ...
Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...
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Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguis...
In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...
50 min
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Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Land...
South Asian architecture and landscapes are not as well known in the western design schools...
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Juan Javier Rivera Andía, "Non-Humans in Amerin...
Eleven researchers bring new ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene.
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Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister, "Projective E...
"Projective Ecologies" is about how landscape architecture can move forward in the design field beyond garden landscapes...
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