Applied ecology Books

Book SynopsisChad Montrie isProfessor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His most recent book is Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (2008)Trade ReviewChad Montrie puts people back into nature in this compelling and powerfully argued portrait of the class dimensions of U.S. environmental history. Essential reading for all those interested in a bottom-up view of the environmental movement -- Karl Jacoby, Brown UniversityAn engaging, critical synthesis of 20 years of new scholarship in environmental and labor history, A People's History of Environmentalism tells a new story of the emergence and power of environmentalism as a movement forged by common people in defense of their lives and livelihoods. Countering previous arguments that environmentalism began in post-World War II middle-class suburbs, Montrie redefines environmentalism as a grass-roots, working class response to industrialization and urbanization dating from the early 19th century. From the start, this movement included workers' resistance to elite attempts to control nature both for profit and for upper-class leisure. Montrie narrates the growth of working-class environmentalism and its successes and failures from the textile mills of New England, to the Chicago streets around Hull House, to automobile plants of Michigan, to the coal mines of Appalachia, and to the agricultural fields of California, with other stops along the way. This detailed but accessible book offers a forceful new interpretation of American environmentalism and rewrites the narrative of the modern environmental movement to include the crucial role of working class men and women in the fight for a healthy environment -- Kathryn Morse, Middlebury CollegeChad Montrie's masterful book rightfully returns working peoples to the center of the story of American environmentalism. Deftly moving between time and place, Montrie's social and environmental history balances fascinating narratives with a broad overview of how the stories of millworkers, hunters, New Deal laborers, union activists, and farmworkers are intimately connected. A must-read for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary environmentalism -- Julie Sze, University of California at DavisTable of ContentsIntroduction - Shaking up what, when and why; 1. Puritan to Yankee redux: farming, fishing and our very own dark, satanic mills; 2. Why game wardens carry guns and interpretive rangers dress like soldiers: class conflict in forests and parks; 3. Missionaries find the urban jungle: sanitation and worker health and safety; 4. Green relief and recovery: by which working people and nature get a New Deal; 5. A popular crusade: organized labor takes the lead against pollution; 6. From 'no uvas' to 'no pcbs': inventing environmental justice; Conclusion - Rethinking environmentalism, past and present.

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Book SynopsisBased on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

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Book SynopsisStep Out of Your Car and Right into Nature!New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England. Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include turn-by-turn directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and fungi you are likely to encounter along the way. New England’s Roadside Ecology is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Evolutionäre Zeiträume.- Aufmerksamkeit und Wertschätzung.- Lebensqualität und Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung von Zukunft.- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

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