New Books in Environmental Studies
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Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: ...
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
49 min
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Sandra L. Albro, "Vacant to Vibrant: Creating S...
Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization...
42 min
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David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bri...
Once a self-proclaimed dark green eco-pessimist, Dr. Montgomery finds this new hope as he travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health...
54 min
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Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper S...
Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...
36 min
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Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation:...
Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..
74 min
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Chika Watanabe, "Becoming One: Religion, Develo...
"Becoming One" is a rich ethnographic study of the work of a Japanese NGO called the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement...
57 min
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Jakobina Arch, "Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans ...
Arch weaves together a wealth of diverse materials to demonstrate and explore the social, cultural, economic, intellectual, and religious impacts of whales on the world of Tokugawa Japan...
55 min
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Douglas Sheflin, "Legacies of Dust: Land Use an...
Sheflin takes a closer look at the Dust Bowl’s long-term legacy in the often overlooked Colorado plains that border Kansas and Oklahoma...
49 min
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Pankaj Sekhsaria, "Islands in Flux: The Andaman...
Sekhsaria is a compilation of Sekhsaria's writings on key issues in the Islands over this period and provides an important, consolidated account...
56 min
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Envi...
Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...
30 min
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David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phyt...
The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...
31 min
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
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Gökçe Günel, "Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, ...
Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society.
41 min
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Rosalyn LaPier, "Invisible Reality: Storyteller...
Rather than “living in harmony with nature,” as stereotyped by the ecological Indian mythos, the Blackfeet people of the northern plains believed they could marshal supernatural forces to bend the nonhuman world to their will...
56 min
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James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Ma...
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...
66 min
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E. MacDonald et al., "Time and a Place: An Envi...
With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...
109 min
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Kristin L. Hoganson, "The Heartland: An America...
The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...
91 min
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Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdes...
Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...
50 min
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Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Reth...
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..
45 min
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K. Kennen and N. Kirkwood, "Phyto: Principals a...
The authors are both landscape architects who address “how to” contain and mediate through phytotechnologies the pollutants humans have used in the environment...
50 min
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Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Kate Ervine, "Carbon" (Polity, 2018)
Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...
48 min
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Rick Van Noy, "Sudden Spring: Stories of Adapta...
Van Noy decided not to follow the well-trodden path of trying to prove climate change science, nor did he bark about an irreversible tipping point. Instead, he provides us with a much-needed focus on communities...
46 min
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Global Oil and Social Change with Leif Wenar
An interview with Leif Wenar
27 min