Conservation of the environment Books
Turner Publishing Company The Father of American Conservation: George Bird
Book SynopsisAward-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as “The Father of American Conservation.” This book chronicles not only Grinnell’s life, but also offers a history of his accomplishments in saving the wildlife and natural resources of this country. A remarkable man, Grinnell was known as a model of intellectual diversity, integrity, and professional dedication. He was a daring adventurer and explorer; crusading magazine publisher and editor (Forest and Stream, now Field and Stream); prolific author; accomplished outdoorsman; notable paleontologist, ethnologist, ornithologist, and anthropologist; presidential advisor; advocate for Native Americans; and this country’s first environmental activist, whose contributions in that arena are unparalleled in American history.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction Chapter One: The Budding Naturalist Chapter Two: A Tenderfoot in the West Chapter Three: Buffalo Hunting With the Pawnee Chapter Four: Custer and Black Hills Gold Chapter Five: Yellowstone Country Chapter Six: Traveling, Collecting, and Writing Chapter Seven: Crusading Editor Chapter Eight: A Presidential Friendship Chapter Nine: Author and Advocate for Native America Chapter Ten: The Harriman Expedition Chapter Eleven: Grinnell’s Glacier Chapter Twelve: Preserving the Legacy Bibliography
£12.79
Msblueheron Productions LLC Sid the Fiddler and the Coastal Critters
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£11.99
NewSouth Publishing Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin – a
Book SynopsisThe Murray–Darling Basin – Australia's food bowl – is in crisis. For more than a century, a series of environmental catastrophes have brought the ecosystem to its knees: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wetlands, along with steadily worsening droughts.Award-winning author Quentin Beresford delves into the history of the river system since European settlement and reveals Australia's destructive relationship with the environment, and the willingness of politicians to ignore expert advice. The dispossession and marginalisation of local Indigenous people denied European settlers the cultural knowledge to manage the Basin sustainably. Instead, we've had waves of nation-building irrigation schemes and agricultural enterprises, all promoted by politicians more concerned with short-term profits than long-term sustainability.We are now at a point of reckoning. Only an end to the centuries-old development-at-all-costs approach, along with a recognition of Indigenous water rights, an acceptance of science and the adoption of sustainable farming practices can save the once mighty Murray–Darling.
£19.76
Penguin Random House South Africa Field Guide to Insects of South Africa
Book SynopsisThis trusted best-seller has been comprehensively updated and expanded to feature accounts of over 1,500 species and insect groups. Included are the most common, most economically and ecologically important, interesting and attractive insects in the region. It features: vivid photographs, easy-to-read text, detailed accounts covering identification, biology, distribution and related species, a helpful introduction detailing the significance, life history, collection and photography of insects, and quick reference guides on the inside covers to facilitate identification. Entomologists both amateur and professional, students, gardeners, farmers, tourists and anyone with an interest in the natural world will appreciate this illuminating and invaluable guide.
£22.99
Penguin Random House South Africa Birds of Serengeti Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Book SynopsisDiscover the diverse birdlife of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area with this visually stunning guide. More than 300 commonly seen bird species are described in concise, engaging prose, highlighting their main characteristics.
£10.44
Vintage Publishing Under a White Sky: Can we save the natural world
Book SynopsisThe author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' GuardianTrade ReviewImportant, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting * Helen Macdonald, New York Times *Smart * Bill Gates *A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age * Guardian *Riveting * Washington Post *A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time * Nature *
£9.49
Archaeopress IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth
Book SynopsisCelebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage’, IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology), was the first such major conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first IKUWA meeting hosted outside Europe since the organisation’s inception in Germany in the 1990s. A primary objective of holding IKUWA6 in Australia was to give greater voice to practitioners and emerging researchers across the Asia and Pacific regions who are often not well represented in northern hemisphere scientific gatherings of this scale; and, to focus on the areas of overlap in our mutual heritage, techniques and technology. Drawing together peer-reviewed presentations by delegates from across the world who converged in Fremantle in 2016 to participate, this volume covers a stimulating diversity of themes and niche topics of value to maritime archaeology practitioners, researchers, students, historians and museum professionals across the world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgment to Country ; Preface ; Conference Organisation and Acknowledgements ; UNESCO Roundtable ; 1. A Brief Update on Australia’s Consideration and Status for Ratification of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage – Andrew Viduka ; 2. The Belitung Shipwreck Collection and Maritime Archaeology in South-East Asia: What is the Way Forward? – Jennifer Rodrigues ; Current and Future Prospects of UCH Studies and Management in East Asia ; 3. An Rov Can Engage Young People in Community Archaeology – Norimitsu Sakagami and Jun Kimura ; 4. Research on the Wreck Sites, Sea Routes and the Ships in the Ryukyu Archipelago – Chiaki Katagiri, Rintaro Ono, Yumiko Nakanishi and Hiroki Miyagi ; Tying the Knot: Western and Eastern Trade Ships in the Pacific and Indian Oceans ; 5. Wreck Check’s Closing in on the Fortuyn Project – Graeme John Henderson, Andrew Viduka, Alex Moss and James Parkinson ; 6. An Account of Stone Anchors Along the Northern Shoreline of the Persian Gulf – Sorna Khakzad and Ali Moosaie ; Boats in Context and the Study of early Watercraft ; 7. The Social Context of Boats and Maritime Trade in Late Medieval Norway: Case Studies from Northern and Southern Peripheries – Stephen Wickler and Tori Falck ; 8. Logboat Ižanska I (SI-81) from Ljubljana: New Evidence of Iron Age Transportation on the Ljubljana Marshes, Slovenia – Pavla Peterle Udovič and Miran Erič ; 9. ’Know the Ropes’—Boat Representation on 17th and 18th-Century Portuguese Tin-Glaze Ware – Mário Varela Gomes and Tania Manuel Casimiro ; 10. Does an Extended Logboat Drevák from the Notranjska Region (Slovenia) Originate from the Celtic-Roman Shipbuilding Tradition? – Miran Erič, Ljoba Jenče and Zala Erič ; Floating Forests, Submerged Forests: an environmental History of Trees ; 11. The Ribadeo Shipwreck (c. 1600): Can We Identify the Ship Through a Multidisciplinary Approach? – Beñat Eguiluz Miranda, Marta Domínguez Delmás, Koldo Trápaga Monchet, Miguel San Claudio Santa Cruz and José Luis Gasch-Tomás ; 12. Reconstructing Trees from Ship Timber Assemblages Using 3d Modelling Technologies: Evidence from the Belinho 1 Shipwreck in Northern Portugal – Adolfo Miguel Martins, Ana Almeida, Ivone Magalhães, Filipe Castro, Jemma Bezant, Marta Domínguez-Delmás, Nigel Nayling and Peter Groenendijk ; 13. From Forests to the Sea, from the Sea to the Laboratory: the Timbers of the Frigate Santa Maria Magdalena (18th Century) – Ana Rita Trindade, Marta Domínguez-Delmás,Mohamed Traoré, Nathan Gallagher, Sara Rich and Adolfo Miguel Martins ; 14. Maritime Archaeological Timber Sampling: Methods and Results from the Silty Solent – Sara Rich, Garry Momber and Nigel Nayling ; Maritime Archaeology, Capacity Building and Training in the Developing World ; 15. The Maritime Archaeological Survey of Oman—Building Capacity for a Sustainable Future – Lucy Blue, Jeremy Green and Tom Vosmer ; 16. From Try Dive to Wreck Documentation: Archaeological Research and Capacity Building in Saudi Arabia – Michaela Reinfeld and Winfried Held ; 17. Maritime Archaeology in Post-War Lebanon: Trade, Challenges, and Future Prospects – Lucy Semaan ; 18. A Value-Based Model for Capability Building in Maritime Archaeology in the Developing World – Mark Staniforth and Paddy O’Toole ; French Scientific and Exploration Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere: the Making of a Shared Cultural Heritage ; 19. ‘Vive la France’—Louis de Saint Aloüarn and the French Claim to the Western Part of New Holland – Myra Stanbury ; 20. Sailors, Savants, Naming: France and the Knowing of Oceania, 1756–1840 – Bronwen Douglas ; Boats, Trade and Exploration ; 21. Hahotrim, Israel: A Late Second-Millennium BC Group of Metal Scrap Artefacts – Shelley Wachsmann ; 22. Waterlogged Ivory Conservation: Elephant Tusks at El Bajo De La Campana, San Javier, Murcia (Spain) – Milagros Buendía Ortuño ; 23. Shipwrecks and Cargoes. Trade Routes of the Mediterranean Sea as Seen Through the Finds of Hellenistic Moldmade Relief Bowls – Antonella Antonazzo ; Presenting Maritime and Underwater Archaeology in Museums in the 21st Century ; 24. It’s Not About a Ship: Presenting the Mary Rose in a New Museum – Christopher Dobbs ; 25. Underwater Cultural Heritage and Maritime Museums—the Past and the Future – Omaima Ahmed Eldeeb ; 26. Making a Lot with Very Little: the Western Australian Museum’s ‘steamship to Suffragettes’ Exhibit – Nicolas Bigourdan, Kevin Edwards and Michael McCarthy ; 27. Aims and Targets of Maritime Museums and Exhibitions in Europe: Six Case Studies from Germany, Greece and Italy – Marina Maria Serena Nuovo ; 28. Apoxyomenos—Underwater Cultural Heritage and Museum in the Service of the Local Community – Zrinka Ettinger Starčić and Hrvoje Potrebica ; 29. Pursuing Sustainable Preservation and Valorisation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Okinawa’s Pilot Project for an Underwater Site Museum – Yumiko Nakanish, Rintaro Ono, Chiaki Katagiri, Norimitsu Sakagami and Takashi Tetsu ; Scientific Techniques, Digital Platforms and new Technological Applications for Maritime Archaeology ; 30. Sensing Tidal Landscapes: Remote Sensing for Identification of Underwater Archaeological Heritage in Shallow Waters – Arianna Traviglia and Anna Bernardoni ; 31. Mapping Submerged Stone Age Sites Using Acoustics: Some Experimental Results – Ole Grøn, Lars Ole Boldreel, Jean-Pierre Hermand, Hugo Rasmussen, Antonio Dell’Anno, Deborah Cvikel, Ehud Galili, Bo Madsen and Egon Nørmark ; 32. Archaeology of a Great War U-boat Attack Off Southern Portugal: Development and Adaptation of Methods and Techniques – Jorge Russo and Augusto Salgado ; 33. Digitising Wrecks on the Foreshore: The Case of a Seventeenth-Century Wreck in Brittany, France – Marine Jaouen, Olivia Hulot, Eric Rieth and Sammy Bertoliatti ; 34. How an Amateur Group Produced a Smartphone App for Shipwrecks ‘We wanted to bring History out of boxes’ —and Direct to the Public – Ian Warne ; 35. A Sub-Bottom Profiler and Multibeam Echo Sounder Integrated Approach as a Preventive Archaeological Diagnosis Prior to Harbour Extensions – Philippe Pelgas and Yann Le Faou ; Three-Dimensional Digitisation Techniques and Technologies in Maritime Archaeology ; 36. Seventeenth-Century ‘Glass Wreck’ Research Using Photogrammetric 3d Documentation—the ‘Virtual Open-Air Museum of Wrecks in the Gulf of Gdańsk’ Project – Tomasz Bednarz ; 37. High-resolution Digital Recording Techniques and Taphonomic Trajectories: Multi-image Photogrammetry Applied to a Drowned Late Pleistocene Site in Central Chile (32°s) – Isabel Cartajena, López Patricio, Carabias Diego, Jennifer Pavez, David Letelier, Renato Simonett and Carla Morales ; 38. The Role of 3D Representations in the Interpretation and in Situ Preservation of Archaeological Heritage: The Case of the Building with Porticoed Courtyard of the Portus Iulius in Submerged Baiae (Pozzuoli, Naples) – Barbara Davidde Petriagg, Massimiliano Secci, Luca Sanna, Gabriele Gomez de Ayala and Pier Giorgio Spanu ; 39. The Influence of the Point Cloud Comparison Methods on the Verification of Point Clouds Using the Batavia Reconstruction as a Case Study – Petra Helmholz, David Belton, Nick Oliver, Joshua Hollick and Andrew Woods ; Revisiting Old Sites And Legacy Data Using New Technologies and Approaches ; 40. 3D Reconstruction of the Batavia (1629) Wreck Site from Historical (1970s) Photography – Andrew Woods, Nick Oliver, Joshua Hollick, Jeremy Green and Patrick Baker ; 41. Integrating Legacy Excavation Survey Data with New Technologies—the James Matthews Experience – Trevor Colin Winton ; 42. Reconstruction of a Water Supply System Using Lidar Surveying – Frida Occelli, Micaela Leonardi ; 43. Art and Documentation Serving Underwater Archaeology in the Interpretation of History – Ramon Orrite and Angel Tobar ; 44. A New Look at Old Cannon: Interim Report on the Gun Rocks Site – Peta Danielle Knott and John Kennington McCarthy ; The Final Frontier: Technological Development and the Deep Shipwreck Resource ; 45. Prospecting and Digging to 1100m with an Rov: The 2016 Nuestra Señora De Las Mercedes Campaign – Iván Negueruela Martínez, Patricia Recio Sánchez, Rocío Castillo Belinchón and Juan Luis Sierra Méndez ; 46. The Six Million Dollar Hand: A Robotic Hand for Remotely Operated Deep Archaeology – Denis Degez, Michel L’Hour and Vincent Creuze ; Effective and Sustained Monitoring, in-situ Preservation and Conservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage ; 47. Erosion and Archaeological Heritage—Protection Measures for Lakes Constance and Zurich (central Europe) – Beat Eberschweiler ; 48. In Situ Preservation and Monitoring of a Wooden Shipwreck Discovered in an Intertidal Zone in Korea – Mi Young Cha ; 49. In Situ Preservation of the James Matthews: Past, Present and Future – Vicki Richards and Peter Veth ; 50. A Review of Waterlogged Wood Treatments in Slovenia and a New Approach to the Treatment of a Large Roman Logboat from the Ljubljanica River – Katja Kavkler and Miran Erič ; Maritime Cultural Heritage Management ; 51. An Underwater Archaeology Lesson from Pioneers Echoed in the UNESCO Convention – Elena Flavia Castagnino Berlinghieri and David John Blackman ; 52. Documentation of a Hermitage Submerged in the Reservoir of Buendia (Spain) as an Example of Collaboration Between Divers and Institutions for the Protection of UCH – Rocío Castillo-Belinchón, Rogelio de la Vega-Panizo, Ángel M. Tobar-Escudero, María Elena Labrandero-Pulgar and David Munuera-Navarro ; 53. Balancing Safety and Significance: The SS Dicky Shipwreck – Danielle Wilkinson ; 54. Impacts and Issues of the Commercial Exploitation of the Åland ‘Champagne Schooner’ – Ville Peltokorpi ; 55. Global Database of Early Watercraft: Beginnings, Development and Future Plans – Bojan Kastelic, Miran Erič, Goran Zlodi and Solina Franc ; 56. Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Institutional Wares of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company: Preliminary Assessment of the Valparaiso Fiscal Mole Ceramic Assemblage, Chile – Angela Maria Rodriguez, Valeria Sepúlveda and Diego Carabias ; Cultural Landscapes and Seascapes ; 57. Sensory Navigation in the Roman Mediterranean: the Levantine and Ionian Seascapes – Carmen Macleroy Obied and E. Steven Lopez ; 58. Shipwrecks and Communities: Responses to Shipping Mishaps in Victoria, Australia – Brad Duncan and Martin Gibbs ; 59. An Interdisciplinary and Layered Approach Towards Reconstruction of the Late Medieval Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Noordoostpolder Region, the Netherlands – Yftinus van Popta ; The Social Archaeology of Ports, Harbours and Watery Places ; 60. Cultural Landscapes at the Urban Waterside: Investigating the Impacts and Effects of the Chelsea Embankment Construction on Working-Class Riverside Residents – Hanna Steyne ; 61. Vado Ligure Bay (Liguria, Italy)—Dredging Through the Long Life of an Ancient Harbour – Frida Occelli and Simon Luca Trigona ; 62. The Adriatic Communication Area: Studies in the Archaeology of Roman Port and Harbour Cities – Julia Daum and Martina Seifert ; 63. Living at the Coast and Working at Sea—Some Aspects of Social Archaeology of a 15th-Century Fishing Settlement Along the Coast of Flanders (Ostend, Belgium) – Marnix Pieters ; 64. Landing Sites—Trading Sites: Maritime Hotspots of the Ancient Mediterranean – Aylin Güngör ; 65. The Limassol Carnayo: Where Maritime and Intangible Cultural Heritage Converge – Maria Ktori ; The Geoarchaeology of Harbours: Current Research and Future Directions ; 66. Forty Years (and More) Since the Colston Symposium: An Archaeologist’s View – David John Blackman ; 67. Tallinn Harbour from the Middle Ages: Studies of the Former and Current Seabed – Maili Roio ; Naval Warfare ; 68. The Maritime Archaeology of Duplex Drive Tanks in the United Kingdom – Thomas Cousins, Thomas Harrison and Dave Parham ; 69. Missing Link—Evidence of the Military Evolution of a Global Empire – Irini Alexandra Malliaros ; 70. The Military Dockyards of the Greek World – Nicol Tollis
£90.25
Octopus Publishing Group Save the World: There is No Planet B: Things You
Book SynopsisTogether, we can change the worldThere is little doubt that our beautiful planet is now under huge threat; our weather is more extreme, plastic litters our oceans, industrial production and farming methods wreak havoc on the environment and mass deforestation has led to the extinction of many species.Carry on this way and it's almost certain that sea levels will continue to rise, there will be extreme heatwaves, loss of the polar ice caps and mass pollution; in short, a very worrying future for us all. We need to take action before it's too late, and we can all do our bit to help.This guide is full of simple tips we can all incorporate into our daily lives, and will demonstrate how small eco-friendly changes can have a huge positive effect on the world around us. They might even save the planet.
£6.99
Octopus Publishing Group How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Simple Ways
Book SynopsisDo you ever feel overwhelmed by the thought of the climate emergency?Do you want an eco-friendly lifestyle but don't know where to start?Then dive into this little book, full of simple, achievable ways to help you reduce your carbon footprint. From tips on creating a more eco-friendly home and ways to reduce your plastic use, to advice on shopping sustainably, within these pages you will discover everything you need to know to help you make planet-friendly choices and live a more sustainable life.
£8.54
5m Books Ltd Wild Cattle of Chillingham
£58.50
CABI Publishing Key Questions in Applied Ecology and
Book SynopsisAn understanding of applied ecology and conservation is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including applied biology, ecology, environmental science and wildlife conservation. This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas: History and foundations of applied ecology and conservation Environmental pollution and perturbations Wildlife and conservation biology Restoration biology and habitat management Agriculture, forestry and fisheries management Pest, weed and disease management Urban ecology and waste management Global environmental change and biodiversity loss Environmental and wildlife law and policy Environmental assessment, monitoring and modelling The book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in applied ecology and conservation, study the effects of pollution on ecosystems, the management, conservation and restoration of wildlife populations and habitats, urban ecology, global environmental change, environment law and much more. The structure of the book allows the study of one topic area at a time, progressing through simple questions to those that are more demanding. Many of the questions require students to use their knowledge to interpret information provided in the form of graphs, data or photographs.Table of Contents1: History and foundations of applied ecology and conservation 2: Environmental pollution and perturbations 3: Wildlife and conservation biology 4: Restoration biology and habitat management 5: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries management 6: Pest, weed and disease management 7: Urban ecology and waste management 8: Global environmental change and biodiversity loss 9: Environmental and wildlife law and policy 10: Environmental assessment, monitoring and modelling 11: Answers
£19.76
CABI Publishing Key Questions in Biodiversity: A Study and
Book SynopsisAn understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, wildlife conservation and environmental science. This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes in which biodiversity is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas: 1. Principles of classification and taxonomy 2. Comparative anatomy and physiology 3. Protoctists, monerans, fungi, lichens and acellular organisms 4. 'Lower' plants and pteridophytes 5. Seed-bearing plants 6. Sponges, cnidarians, nematodes and minor animal phyla 7. Platyhelminths, annelids and molluscs 8. Arthropods and echinoderms 9. Fishes, amphibians and reptiles 10. Birds and mammals The book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in animal and plant classification, the principles of comparative physiology, and the characteristics of, and diversity in, the major animal and plant taxa. The structure of the book allows the study of one topic area or group of taxa at a time, progressing through simple questions to those that are more demanding. Many of the questions require students to use their knowledge to identify organisms and biological structures from drawings or photographs.Table of Contents1: Principles of classification and taxonomy 2: Comparative anatomy and physiology 3: Protoctists, monerans, fungi, lichens and acellular organisms 4: ‘Lower’ plants and pteridophytes 5: Seed-bearing plants 6: Sponges, cnidarians, nematodes and minor animal phyla 7: Platyhelminths, annelids and molluscs 8: Arthropods and echinoderms 9: Fishes, amphibians and reptiles 10: Birds and mammals
£19.76
BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship) Green Reflections: Biblical inspiration for
Book SynopsisHow should we look after the world we inhabit? Martin and Margot Hodson bring together scientific and theological wisdom to offer 62 reflections inspired by passages from the Bible in a thoughtful exploration that encourages both reflection and response. Themes include The Wisdom of Trees, Landscapes of Promise and Sharing Resources.
£8.54
Anthem Press Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and
Book SynopsisIn ‘Reclaiming Nature’, leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between human activities and the natural. This is a bold and comprehensive text of major interest to both students of the environment and professionals involved in policy-making.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Adding Value; Part II. Democratizing Access; Part III. Capturing Benefits; Part IV. Defending the Commons; About the Contributors; Index
£21.02
Taylor & Francis Ltd Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global
Book SynopsisThe field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to the development of indicators as tools to measure, assess, and monitor the state and trends of biocultural diversity, to on-the-ground implementation in field projects. This book is a unique compendium and analysis of projects from all around the world that take an integrated biocultural approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity. The 45 projects reviewed exemplify a new focus in conservation: this is based on the emerging realization that protecting and restoring biodiversity and maintaining and revitalizing cultural diversity and cultural vitality are intimately, indeed inextricably, interrelated. Published with Terralingua and IUCNTrade Review"All of the world's cultures are utterly dependent upon the biodiversity among which they live. Each culture has developed ways of adapting to their biodiversity, drawing on nature for goods, services, inspiration, mythology, and much else besides. Biocultural Diversity Conservation is a treasure trove of the many approaches that have been taken by the world's diverse cultures to maintain the biological systems upon which they depend. This invaluable resource will certainly find great utility in all parts of the world and among many disciplines." Jeffrey A. McNeely, Senior Science Advisor, IUCN "Here is a treasure trove of a book, one that will truly make a difference in the world. It represents a key milestone in our global understanding of the profound and inextricable links between cultural and biological diversity. Written by two of the leading lights in this new and growing field, it is filled with important information, case studies and analyses on a global scale." Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria, Canada "At long last: an authoritative guide to biocultural conservation. This is a splendid illumination of the intermingled diversity of culture and nature ... revealing and revolutionary." Thomas E. Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, USA "Maffi and Woodley ... do a great job of communicating best practices of biocultural diversity conservation." John Mulrow, Worldwatch Institute "Biocultural Diversity Conservation is an eye-operner: it sheds a whole new angle on biodiversity, culture and language in relation to the way the world is changing." William Critchley, WASWAC. "It is fascinating, and we, the scientific community, need to be aware of this extraordinaty and important relationship between plants, animals, culture and language." William Critchley, WASWAC. "The authors call for policies that value cultural diversity and creativity, empowering people, rather than distincing them from the knowledge and practices that have supported survival and adaptation over generations." New Agriculturist. "Biocultural diversity is a concept that had not meant too much to me before I traveled to Tofino. But the more I understood and thought about it the more sense it seemed to make. Biocultural diversity conservation--the preservation and respect of all human diversity within the diversity of the rest of life on Earth may be a good place to find solutions." David Braun, Tofino, Canada, Natgeo Newswatch. "This is truly a 'first resource of its kind'." Farming Matters, December 2010"This is a great interdisciplinary and inspiring sourcebook with a wealth of information about biocultural diversity directly from field experience, with useful information and guidelines for a wide range of readers, biologists, linguists, anthropologists, conservationists and policy-makers alike, but also anyone interested in environmental conservation will find this interesting […] If you were sceptical about the existence of the links between nature and culture, this book will convert you." Marie-Stéphanie Samain, International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2012Table of ContentsForeword by Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN Acknowledgments Introduction: Why a Sourcebook on Biocultural Diversity? Part I: Biocultural Diversity: Conceptual Framework 1. What Is Biocultural Diversity? 2. Why Is a Biocultural Approach Relevant for Sustaining Life in Nature and Culture? Part II: Sustaining Biocultural Diversity: The Projects 3. Surveying Biocultural Diversity Projects Around the World 4. Overview of the Projects 5. Cross-cutting Analysis of the Projects 6. Lessons Learned from the Projects Part III: Sustaining Biocultural Diversity: Future Directions 7. Filling the Gaps and Connecting the Dots: Recommendations and Next Steps 8. Biocultural Diversity and the Future of Sustainability References Appendix 1: Analytical Tables Appendix 2: Survey Details Appendix 3: Survey Contributor Information Appendix 4: Directory of Selected Resources on Biocultural Diversity Appendix 5: About Terralingua Appendix 6: About the Authors
£59.99
Dundee University Press Ltd This Shrinking Land: Climate Change and Britain's Coasts
£28.23
Royal Society of Chemistry Stability of Complex Carbohydrate Structures: Biofuels, Foods, Vaccines and Shipwrecks
Book SynopsisComplex carbohydrates such as high molecular weight polysaccharides like starch and cellulose, are well known for their importance in foodstuffs, paper and wood, but their importance extends far beyond that into the biopharmaceutical, healthcare, oil and printing industries. This book, based on a discussion meeting organised by RSC Biotechnology and Carbohydrate Groups, brings together leading experts from the polysaccharide and glycoconjugate communities to review, discuss and assess in detail one specific topic, namely the importance of the stability and degradation of carbohydrate structures. Coverage includes applications as diverse as food, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, biofuels and preservation of Viking boats. Providing essential reading for anyone interested in these structures and the diversity of their applications, it will appeal to a broad, multidisciplinary group from industry, academia and research institutions.Table of ContentsCarbohydrates: First cousins of Water; Enzymic degradation of cell wall polysaccharides; Dietary Fibre: Functional Components and Mechanisms of Action in the Gastrointestinal Tract; Enzymatic treatment of polysaccharides; Stability of polysaccharide encapsulates; Polysaccharide and glycoconjugate vaccines; Mucin turnover; Some advances in hydrodynamic stability probes; Stability of chitosan and pectin as nasal and intestinal mucoadhesives; Cellulose crystallinity: perspectives from spectroscopy and diffraction; Cellulose; Cellulose de-construction: what can be learned from molecular modeling and dissolution experiments?; Lignin; Observations on bacterial degradation of historical wood timbers found in near anaerobic waterlogged environments; Subject Index
£113.95
Ebury Publishing A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural
Book SynopsisDescribed as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This volume features his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.Peppered throughout with references to the heritage of nature writing, and great writers from Richard Jefferies and John Clare to Roger Deakin and Robert MacFarlane, A Brush With Nature is part memoir, part nature journal, part social history, giving us a unique insight into a nature lover's reflections over a quarter of a century.Trade ReviewA golden evocation of flora and fauna, places, people and perspectives. -- Susan Hill * The Lady *Getting hold of Brush With Nature in early March was like being given an unseasonable spell of warm weather in which everything in the natural world suddenly bursts into life ... Each [essay] feels like an outing, a trip with a supremely knowledgeable yet unpompous guide to somewhere new and fascinating. -- Michael McCarthy * The Independent *Mabey's head is filled with the sights and sounds of exploration but also with the background hum of politics, science, poetry and prose, social history and the experiences of other amateur and professional ramblers. In these essays, Mabey is generous and inclusive, the mark of a rounded writer and man. * The Times *
£15.29
White Horse Press The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of
Book SynopsisThe question of how environmental awareness originated and developed has been subject to sharply contesting points of view. Recently the debate has been expressed epistemologically in constructivist versus materialist approaches. In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical development of space - social, territorial and conceptual - the book examines the forces that drove people to ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and by assiduously advancing the dissolution of social bonds. Thus beneath the question of the surround, and the key to its renewal today, is the quest to re-engage the common. The latter is still a part of the approach to space, its arrangement and disposition, and has a necessary environmental dimension.Concepts of urbanism, place identity, picturesque landscape and nature are part of a larger Western intellectual and cultural context but, by examining the imaging of cities and landscape, Luccarelli links particular American geographic settings - as well as the political ideals and practices of the republic - to the application and aesthetic reading of these ideas. The advocates of these various perspectives shared an aesthetic orientation as a means of redefining or recovering the common. The book looks at various American urban and regional contexts, as well as the work of artists, writers and public figures, including painter and engraver William Birch, Thomas Jefferson, engraver John Hill, Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Law Olmsted. Luccarelli embeds his environmental study in the works of these men and in the course of American history between the planting of the city of Philadelphia and the establishment of Olmsted's major urban parks.Trade Review'Mark Luccarelli has written a trenchant analysis of why environmentalism has suffered a political decline in the United States since the 1960s, even as the problems it confronts have become more urgent. By linking his argument to the ethics of place, he moves beyond simplistic explanations and develops a global and historical understanding of this American paradox.' (David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation and Technology Matters)
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Clairview Books Ethics for a Full World: Or, Can Animal-Lovers
Book SynopsisThe global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet - climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full. Humanity has already exceeded several planetary boundaries. The situation is without precedent and its manifestations are numerous. Ethics for a Full World argues that our dominant culture's anthropocentrism - our human-focused thinking - is an underlying cause of the world's problems, threatening life as we know it. The blights that endanger our planet are experienced by many today, particularly those who care about other species, as deeply personal tragedies. So why are we not acting to save the world? Some say that humans won't do anything until we feel the repercussions ourselves - but by then it would be too late. This book takes an uncompromising view on our culture, our democracy and us as human beings, and examines why it is so difficult to save the world from ourselves.In a globalized world, the most urgent issues are the ones that exhibit tipping points, as they are the ones that it may become too late to fix. Burkey argues that non-anthropocentric ethics and the people who hold them, could be key to turning the tide.In a cry for meaningful and effective engagement, he proposes a concrete first step to connect concerned individuals. This is a book for people who want to be part of the solution, and who aren't fooled by the feeble attempts for change that have been made so far.Trade Review'One of the shortest, sharpest, clearest and most compelling descriptions of the causes and cures of our environmental bankruptcy that I have ever read.' - Lloyd Timberlake, author of Environmental Politics for the 21st Century; 'A cure for narrow-mindedness, this provocative book should be required reading for politicians - and those who vote for them.' - Brian Czech, President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, author of Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads; 'A fine, concise book which should enlarge the discussion on what in my view is the most important need of humanity, an "Ethics for a Full World".' - Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface - Ethics For A Full World - Why Are We Not Acting To Save The World? - We Need A New Ethic - A Different Ethic - OnTheTragic - Afterword: Can We Save The World? - Notes
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Bellevue Literary Press Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life
Book SynopsisFour seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the TreesThe Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown that they begin to swim the tidal estuary daily. Immersing herself, she experiences, with all her senses in all seasons, the vigor of a place where the two ecosystems of fresh and salt water mix, merge, and create new life.In Swimming to the Top of the Tide, Hanlon lyrically charts her explorations, at once intimate and scientific. Noting the disruptions caused by human intervention, she bears witness to the vitality of the watersheds, their essential role in the natural world, and the responsibility of those who love them to contribute to their sustainability.Patricia Hanlon is a visual artist who paints the beautiful ecosystem of New England’s Great Marsh and is involved in the watershed organizations of Greater Boston. Swimming to the Top of the Tide is her first book.Trade Review“Part how-to guide, part nature journal, part ecological call to action, this book inspires the reader to take a closer look at the everyday cycles in their own backyards.” —Tree Abraham, Electric Literature“Delightful. . . . Hanlon offers an alternative vision to environmental preservation that emphasizes communal responsibility over the pervasive doom and gloom of climate activism.” —Cleaver Magazine“In her charming debut . . . [Hanlon] turns the quotidian details of marriage and family life into a lyrical investigation of ‘something bigger and more complex than oneself.’ . . . Merging leisurely seaside adventure with ecological sensibilities, Hanlon delivers a lyrical ode to a changing environment.” —Publishers Weekly“Graceful in its descriptive power. . . . Hanlon understands how our moral imagination exerts a profound influence on our thoughts, attitudes, and actions. . . . [Her] observations are as gently propulsive as the rhythmic stroke of a swim fin.” —Kirkus Reviews“[Hanlon] is as skilled at demystifying complex scientific concepts as she is in portraying gold-spangled waterline sunsets and muted winter compositions of marsh grasses. The whole is enriched with personal reflections on raising a family, aging, and the changing nature of marriage.” —Foreword Reviews“Written with a swimmer’s spirit, a naturalist’s eye, and an ecologist’s heart, this book took me to places I have never been. I loved it!” —Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer and Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart“Hanlon’s narrative—spare and serene—flows to the rhythms of rising and falling water. Her account, rooted in the particular—nose level in a saltwater creek under the cerulean skies of an idyllic summer, or in icy slush on a dark winter night—is a timely call to consider the tragedies and possibilities of our moment.” —Deborah Cramer, author of Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World and The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees“There is nothing quite so wonderful as slipping into a creek and letting it carry you upstream until the tide imperceptibly turns and carries you back out toward the ocean. It is doubly wonderful to discover someone who describes this experience with such love, lyricism, and scientific curiosity. Let Hanlon be your guide to this world.” —William Sargent, author of The House on Ipswich Marsh and Plum Island: 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach“Hanlon, in a year of swimming her way through marshes, across tidal rivers and sculpted granite quarries unique to Cape Ann, observes with a remarkably steady gaze all the world has to offer—the beauty and losses both. In clear, spare prose and fine-tuned observation, she takes you on a journey you won’t soon forget.” —Tim Traver, author of Sippewissett: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh and Fly Fishing and Conservation in Vermont
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Oro Editions Media Matters in Landscape Architecture
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Geoheritage of Hot Springs
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Animals in Traditional Folk Medicine: Implications for Conservation
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MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG Wild Britain Wild Ireland: Unique National
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JAS Arqueologia Patrimonio en Guerra: Entre el daño colateral y
Book SynopsisDesde el inicio de la contienda en 2011, el caos, la violencia y la destruccion se han aduenado de Siria. A los miles de muertos y millones de desplazados, hay que sumar un dato menos divulgado, pero de terribles consecuencias: la aniquilacion de su identidad cultural, perpetrada mediante la sistematica destruccion de su patrimonio cultural. Esta publicacion surge con el objetivo de esclarecer y difundir las cuestiones que lo han motivado, los actores que lo han consumado y los danos materiales producidos hasta mayo de 2016. A traves de su lectura se dilucida que se esta destruyendo en Siria, y por que. Y, en este sentido, si la destruccion de su legado cultural esta respondiendo a danos colaterales de una guerra que esta arrasando el pais o si por el contrario, el patrimonio sirio se ha convertido de facto en un objetivo belico mas.
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Mimesis International From the Moon to Rhinos
Book SynopsisFrom the Moon to Rhinos is the story of Michele Sofisti, a Geologist who became a valued and itinerant manager in Ferrari, Omega, Swatch, Gucci and then actively returned to Nature, engaging in the conservation of animal species, forests, and oceans. It is a collection of life experiences, meetings, and emotions laid bare. It is an ongoing journey that aims to sensitize people to believe that a change towards a better interaction between humans and the natural world, which feeds and sustains us, is possible and must be undertaken instantly. This journey symbolically began with the Apollo missions on the Moon which, for the first time, showed us the uniqueness of our wonderful planet from a new perspective and ends with Rhinos that are slaughtered for their horn and have unfortunately become a symbol of human ignorance and greed, proving and confirming how the stupidity of a few people in interacting with Nature can be extremely destructive for everyone. The story's intent narrated
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HarperCollins India At the Feet of Living Things: Twenty-Five Years
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Springer Insect Conservation: Past, Present and Prospects
Book SynopsisThe history of interest and practice in insect conservation is summarised and traced through contributions from many of the leaders in the discipline, to provide the first broad global account of how insects have become incorporated into considerations of conservation. The essays collectively cover the genesis and development of insect conservation, emphasising its strong foundation within the northern temperate regions and the contrasts with much of the rest of the world. Major present-day scenarios are discussed, together with possible developments and priorities in insect conservation for the future.Trade Review“New's Insect Conservation: Past, Present and Prospects, gives the reader … a sweeping vision of the history, present-day research, and future directions of insect conservation. … the authors explore the pitfalls and challenges of insect conservation and present new directions for the discipline to take. … It succeeds wonderfully in providing an in-depth coverage of the field of insect conservation, and it is certain to be the leading text for college students and conservation researchers for years to come.” (Scott R. Shaw, Conservation Biology, Vol. 29 (5), 2015)Table of ContentsPreface.- List of contributors.- 1. Tim New. Introduction to insect conservation, an emerging discipline.- Section 1. Organisations in the United Kingdom.- 2. Michael G. Morris and Oliver D. Cheesman. Insect conservation in the United Kingdom – the role of the Joint Committee for the Conservation of British insects and Invertebrate Link (JCCBI).- 3. Ian F.G. McLean and Roger S. Key. A history of invertebrate conservation in the British Statutory Conservation Agencies.- 4. Alan Stubbs and Matt Shardlow. The development of Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust.- 5. David Lonsdale. Insect conservation in the United Kingdom – the Amateur Entomologists’ Society.- 6. Martin Warren. Butterfly Conservation: the development of a pioneering charity.- Section 2. North American developments.- 7. Robert Michael Pyle. The origins of insect conservation in the United States.- 8. Scott Hoffman Black. Insect conservation and the Endangered Species Act: a history.- Section 3. The temperate southern regions.- 9. Tim New and Alan Yen. Insect conservation in Australia.- 10. Corinne Watts, Ian Stringer and George Gibbs. Insect conservation in New Zealand: an historical perspective.- 11. Michael Samways, Michelle Hamer and Ruan Veldtman. Development and future of insect conservation in South Africa.- 12. Jonathan Ball. Lepidopterology in southern Africa: past, present and future.- Section 4. Regional themes and developments.- 13. Karel Spitzer. Insect conservation developments in central Europe.- 14. John R. Haslett. Development and future of conservation policy initiatives for insects and other invertebrates in Europe. - 15. Minoru Ishii and Yasuhiro Nakamura. Development and future of insect conservation in Japan.- 16. Francis G. Howarth and Betsy H. Gagné. Development of insect conservation in Hawai’i.- 17. David L. Pearson and Fabio Cassola. Insect conservation biology: What can we learn from ornithology and birding?- Section 5. Looking forward.- 18. Alan Stewart. Where to next? The future of insect conservation.- 19. Tim New. Developing insect conservation: concluding thoughts.- Index.
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Springer Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes
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Independently Published Criação racional de abelhas nativas sem ferrão:
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Conscious (R)Evolution, Humanity, Insanity, and
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Futurecide
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BIS Publishers B.V. This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive and comprehensive guide for what you can do about climate change and to contribute to a better world. It contains lists of go-to shops, beautiful brands, inspiring insights, surprising facts and useful solutions. Through in-depth interviews with leading pioneers, such as Livia Firth, Green Kitchen Stories and Andrew Morgan, you will find exactly what you need to live a more sustainable life. After all, doing good and feeling good at the same time: does it not get any better than that?This revised edition is the newly updated version of the international bestseller This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle (30.000 copies sold worldwide). All stores, brands, addresses and initiatives are up-to-date with new shops and labels. The book has new interviews, revised facts and figures, and an additional eight pages of tips and tricks.
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University of California Press Leopolds Shack and Rickettss Lab The Emergence of
Book SynopsisAldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This book reveals their profound and parallel influence on science and our perception of natural world.Trade Review"Heavily referenced and annotated, this book is highly recommended to all." Chicago Botanic Garden "Charming little book." Ecology "A short and entertaining read, a book that fans of both Leopold and Ricketts will appreciate." -- Thomas D. Sisk Bioscience "Charming little book." -- Philip Cafaro EcologyTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Out of the Midwest Chapter 2: From Forester to Professor Chapter 3: From Businessman to Sage Chapter 4: Game Management Chapter 5: Between Pacific Tides Intercalary I Chapter 6: The Shack Chapter 7: The Lab Intercalary II Chapter 8: A Sand County Almanac Chapter 9: Sea of Cortez Intercalary III Chapter 10: Daily Lives and Professional Expectations Chapter 11: From Natural History to Ecology Chapter 12: Leopold's Approach Chapter 13: Ricketts's Approach Chapter 14: Shared and Complementary Perspectives Intercalary IV Chapter 15: Transcendence Chapter 16: Ethic and Engagement Chapter 17: Where Their Spirit Lives On The Shack and the Lab Notes Index
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University of California Press Unbottled
Book SynopsisAn essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols,The NationAn exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and howdiverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to grouTrade Review"In his new book, Unbottled, author Daniel Jaffee explores how bottled water’s meteoric rise has exacerbated inequality and intensified pollution." * Fast Company *"Jaffee emphasizes the resistance against bottled water’s hegemony, not just its negative effects, leaving the reader astonished but still hopeful. . . . For those wanting to fight for climate and water justice, this book is a must-read." * The Progressive Magazine *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1. A More Perfect Commodity 2. Making a Market, Fearing the Tap, Building a Backlash 3. Flint: Corroding Pipes, Eroding Trust 4. Reclaiming the Tap 5. Cascade Locks: A Decade-Long Struggle 6. Guelph and Elora: Watching Water, Broadening the Movement 7. Empty Bottles: Water Justice and the Right to Drink Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Wild by Design
Book SynopsisLaura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice.Trade ReviewAn outstandingly well-researched and deeply thoughtful account of the way that the United States has attempted to negotiate its relationship to wild plants and animals…an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the implications of our interventions. -- John Dupré * Los Angeles Review of Books *Can we repair the ecological damage that we’ve done? As Laura Martin observes, no question today could be more pressing, or more uncertain. Wild by Design is a fascinating book—far-reaching, deeply researched, and probing. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the FutureReaching back over a century in this intricate, revelatory book, Martin shows that just as we have to reckon with the physical legacy of past ecological degradation, we must also face the social, cultural, and political legacy of past ecological restoration…Wild by Design will be a foundational work for scholars of restoration history or politics. Like ecological restoration as a field, this book is valuable both to its disciplines and to the public—it is timely, engaging, and entertaining. -- Peter Kimball Brewitt * Ecological Restoration *Examines how the practice and philosophy of restoration has evolved since the early twentieth century…[Martin] makes a strong case for restoration’s enduring value. -- Michelle Nijhuis * New York Review of Books *A comprehensive history of the practice of ‘ecological restoration,’ or human assistance in recovering a damaged world. Martin both eschews blanket optimism and refuses to fall victim to doomsday cynicism around climate change. By examining the precedents for restorative ecology, she illuminates how the development of the field influences contemporary practices, and how ghosts from the historical record haunt our ecological future…Its historical contributions alone…mark Wild by Design as a major achievement. -- Celeste Pepitone-Nahas * Ancillary Review of Books *With astute and thought-provoking insights and graceful prose, this book arrives at a timely moment, as the twentieth century’s two dominant modes of environmental management, conservation and preservation, are being supplemented by techniques of ecological restoration…The book stands out as a portrayal of ecological restoration as an active scientific and social pursuit that offers a meaningful and needed sense of hope. -- Jeffrey K. Stine * H-Net Reviews *Wild by Design deserves a wide readership. It not only complements the foundational analyses of influential historians of extinction and ecology, it also contributes in vital ways to the ongoing work that all ecologists and environmentalists need to do—confronting the problematic social assumptions that still pervade many aspects of ecological science and environmental management. -- Christine Keiner * Journal of the History of Biology *Wild by Design’s biggest gift is to ‘denaturalize’ restoration as it is done today, showing that concepts that can seem essential to the practice, such as eradicating invasive species or returning landscapes to some pre-disturbance state, have been insignificant for much of the movement’s history. -- Matthew Ponsford * MIT Technology Review *Explores fundamental questions at the intersection of the sciences and humanities…A century of well-intended environmental management has been sullied by pseudoscience, racism, greed, and shocking blunders. Martin’s erudite perspective on these complexities shines throughout her incisive first book…Aldo Leopold, a pioneering restoration ecologist, wrote in 1938 that ‘the oldest task in human history [is] to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.’ As Laura Martin’s astute book illuminates, that task has never been more urgent. -- Julie Dunlap * Washington Independent Review of Books *This is a superb book. Laura Martin’s research takes us where no restoration literature has gone before, asking, ‘Who gets to decide where and how wildlife management occurs?’ Martin tackles this question with unmatched clarity and insight, illuminating the crucial discussions we must have to secure a future with thriving natural species and spaces. -- Peter Kareiva, President and CEO, Aquarium of the PacificA brilliant intervention in the history of conservation that charts changes in ecological understanding of how landscapes rebound from disaster. In following the roots of restoration ecology, Martin explores how naturalness can be cultivated rather than found, providing us with seeds of hope in an age of climate despair. -- Erika Lorraine Milam, author of Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War AmericaWhat does it mean to care for a wild species? In this provocative and fascinating book, Laura Martin grapples with this question by examining the boundaries of human intervention and wildness. As we face a rapidly changing planet, Martin’s clear-sighted, intelligent analysis offers hope that by recognizing the complex history of restoration, we can make way for its promising future. -- Nancy Langston, author of Climate Ghosts
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Princeton University Press Pursuing Sustainability
Book SynopsisSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particulaTrade Review"A valuable resource for academic learning in higher education settings, as well as an informative tool to guide the practice of sustainability in institutional environments... The framework they have presented in this book is adaptable for numerous social-ecological contexts at multiple scales for people working together to create change in pursuit of sustainable development and promote well-being of people for today and for the future."--Robert B. Richardson, Ecological EconomicsTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1 Pursuing Sustainability: An Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2 A Framework for Sustainability Analysis: Linking Ultimate Goals with Their Underlying Determinants 14 CHAPTER 3 Dynamics of Social-Environmental Systems 52 CHAPTER 4 Governance in Social-Environmental Systems 83 CHAPTER 5 Linking Knowledge with Action 105 CHAPTER 6 Next Steps: Contributing to a Sustainability Transition 129 Appendix A Case Studies in Sustainability 143 Appendix B Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Additional Resources 187 Notes 211 Index 225
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Duke University Press The Extractive Zone
Book SynopsisExtending decolonial theory into greater conversation with race, sexuality, and Indigenous studies, Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices of South American indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital.Trade Review"The Extractive Zone offers a glimpse into what kind of world may be possible through the everyday practices and knowledges of submerged perspectives." -- Megan Spencer * The New Inquiry *"A timely study. . . . The result of substantive situated fieldwork. . . . There may be no greater testament to the value and urgency of decolonial approaches to embodied vernacular knowledge today." -- Kimberly Richards * TDR: The Drama Review *"Gómez-Barris’s compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. . . . This is all provocative and engaging material, particularly when set against political economic critiques of extractivism." -- Joe Bryan * The Americas *"Gómez-Barris’s writing provides an anecdote to technocratic visions of 'green capitalism' by foregrounding questions of justice, identity, and the contingency of politics. Scholars interested in the debates animating anti-extractive social movements in Latin America and beyond should begin here." -- Matthew Shutzer * Enterprise & Society *"The Extractive Zone contributes an important feminist and indigenous hemispheric genealogy and cultural studies lens on current political economic debates circulating in Latin America and beyond regarding alternatives to growth-oriented, capitalist and extractive-based models of development. The book also complicates heroic and romantic readings of the conceptual and legal mechanisms surrounding the state-based rhetoric of buen vivir in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North." -- Kristina Lyons * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. Below the Surface xiii Introduction. Submerged Perspectives 1 1. The Intangibility of the Yasuní 17 2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism 39 3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation 66 4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization 91 5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique 110 Conclusion. The View from Below 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 165 Index 179
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Johns Hopkins University Press Roads and Ecological Infrastructure Concepts and
Book SynopsisConceptual and practical, this book will influence the next decade or more of road design in ecologically sensitive areas and should prevent countless unnecessary wildlife fatalities.Trade ReviewRoad kills seriously affect some animal populations, and this book should be required reading for high school and college students, faculty, and general readers. CHOICE Reviews A primary goal of the editors is to broaden the reader's view of road impacts on small animals by providing the ecological context within which the public infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) functions... The book is a call to action for researchers, engineers, landscape planners, and others involved with road ecology to collaborate... to reach common goals. Herpetological Review University researchers, government agencies involved in transportation issues, land managers, conservation biologists, and anyone concerned with the losses to herpetofauna and small mammals because of roads will find this volume to be an important and insightful resource. Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A History of Small Animal Road EcologyChapter 2. Natural History and Physiological Characteristics of Small Animals in Relation to RoadsChapter 3. Direct Effects of Roads on Small Animal PopulationsChapter 4. Road Effects on Habitat Quality for Small AnimalsChapter 5. Engaging the Public in the Transportation Planning ProcessChapter 6. The Current Planning and Design Process Chapter 7. Sources of FundingPractical Example 1Chapter 8. Planning and Designing Mitigation of Road Effects on Small AnimalsChapter 9. Mitigating Road Effects on Small AnimalsChapter 10. Modifying Structures on Existing Roads to Enhance Wildlife PassageChapter 11. Construction and MaintenanceChapter 12. Monitoring Road Effects and Mitigation Measures and Applying Adaptive ManagementPractical Example 2Chapter 13. The Road AheadIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Restoring the Balance
Book SynopsisWolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. During this time, he has witnessed both the near extinction of the local wolf population, driven largely by climate change, and the intensely debated relocation of other wolves to the island in an effort to stabilize and maintain Isle Royale's ecosystem health. In Restoring the Balance, Vucetich combines environmental philosophy with field notes chronicling his day-to-day experience as a scientist. Examining the fate of wolves in the wild, he shares lessons from these wolves and explains their impact on humanity's fundamental responsibilities to the natural world. Vucetich's engaging narrative and unique, clear-eyed perspective provide an accessible course in wolf biologTrade ReviewThis book is juicy with field notes—the stories of charismatic individual wolves like the Old Gray Guy, and complex science made understandable and seductively enticing to the reader with even the tiniest interest in wolf survival and natural history.—Nancy Jo Tubbs, International WolfThe book is many things in one: a fascinating memoir, a collection of field notes, a chronology of the 63-year study of the wolves and moose of Isle Royale.... It can even be used as a textbook on environmental history and biology and ecology of wolves and moose.—Community EcologyTable of ContentsForward PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Why Wolves?2. Thoughts of a Moose3. Beginnings4. Balance of Nature5. Exogenous Forces6. The Old Gray Guy7. The Unraveling8. Sense of Place9. All Natural10. Restoring the BalanceCoda
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bird Migration
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the most charismatic phenomena of birds is long-distance migration, and John Rappole's latest book on this topic is one of its kind. With his insightful book Rappole, an emeritus researcher at the Smithsonian Institute, turns the centuries-year-long paradigms of bird migration theory upside down, twists them and builds a compelling case to convince the reader that his dispersal theory bears the truth about the origin of bird migration.—Community EcologyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Bird Migration ParadigmChapter 2. The Migrant Annual Cycle According to the Dispersal TheoryChapter 3. Fall MigrationChapter 4. Wintering PeriodChapter 5. Spring MigrationChapter 6. Breeding PeriodChapter 7. Postbreeding Period Chapter 8. Population BiologyChapter 9. Origin and EvolutionChapter 10. BiogeographyChapter 11. ConservationCodaAppendix 1. Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species Mentioned in the TextAppendix 2. A Critical Examination of the Assumptions in "Temperate Origins of Long-Distance Seasonal Migration in New World Songbirds" by Benjamin M. Winger, F. Keith Barker, and Richard H. ReeAppendix 3. Notation Corrections for Alan Pine's Multiple Carrying Capacity Equations from "Age-Structured Periodic Breeders" by Alan S. Pine in The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration by John H. Rappole (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)Annotated BibliographyIndex
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Duke University Press Climate Lyricism
Book SynopsisMin Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change.Trade Review“Coining climate lyricism, Min Hyoung Song recuperates collective agency as a mingling of attention, perception, and responsiveness. He doesn’t skirt the despair of climate catastrophe but, rather, reckons with it to find reasons to continue. The book follows its own lyrical flow as it integrates personal reflections from pandemic lockdown with readings of literary texts informed by ecocriticism and critical race theory. Song shows that questions of racist exclusion and harm are never far from questions of environmental thriving, just as the struggles of climate crisis are never far away even when they are not explicit on the page.” -- Heather Houser, author of * Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data *“Min Hyoung Song presents a thrilling and powerfully argued case for literature and poetry as a means of cultivating sustained attention to climate change in this tumultuous time. Using an innovative framework to draw forth the complex and multifaceted ways climate change becomes apprehensible, Climate Lyricism will undoubtedly make a significant impact on conversations in ecocriticism, contemporary literary studies, and studies of climate change.” -- Margaret Ronda, author of * Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End *"Song poses a fascinating question: how do poems and works of fiction that do not appear to be about climate change—particularly those more explicitly engaged with race—show traces of the ongoing ecological crisis? Song’s sources are contemporary and well chosen. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Song’s engagement with writers of color throughout Climate Lyricism offers an important, compelling, and original intervention into both lyric studies and ecocriticism because historically, both of these fields have tended to center white voices and texts." -- Heather Milne * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"Climate Lyricism provides valuable insights into how climate change affects different communities and cultures, including Asian Americans. It encourages readers to appreciate nature’s beauty and take action against climate change while emphasizing the need for solidarity among different ethnic groups when tackling environmental issues. This book is particularly relevant to Asian Americans as it urges them to play an active role in addressing this global challenge." -- Ang Li * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change 1 Part I. Scope 1. What is Denial? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole’s Open City, and Sally Wen Mao’s “Occidentalism” 19 2. Why Revive the Lyric? Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Craig Santos Perez’s “Love in a Time of Climate Change” 38 3. Why Stay with Bad Feelings? Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Tommy Pico’s IRL 65 4. How Should I Live? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects 80 Part II. Breath 5. What’s Wrong with Narrative? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate Fiction 101 6. Where Are We Now? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie 121 Part III. Urgency 7. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 1: The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer 141 8. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 2: Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif 159 9. The Global Novel Imagines the Afterlife: George Saunders, J.M. Coetzee, and HanKang 180 Conclusion. The Foreign Present—Who Are We to Each Other? 201 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Bibliography 233 Index 243
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New York University Press The Sustainability Myth
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA!Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate developmentFrom state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City's unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costsand contradictionsof the city's ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island's North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local Trade Review"Using the saga of the doomed New York Wheel as a dramatic example of short-sighted, ill-conceived urban development or 'sustainaphrenia,' Melissa Checker’s ethnography cruelly exposes the failings of neoliberal technocracy. From redlining to rezoning, from environmental justice to environmental gentrification, she brilliantly exposes the ruptured logics of pairing sustainability with urban redevelopment." -- Julian Agyeman, co-author of Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities"In this revelatory study, based on assiduous fieldwork, Melissa Checker exposes the false promises of “sustainability.” She coins the word 'sustainaphrenia' to convey the feeding frenzy of politicians, real estate moguls, developers, planners, and upscale homebuyers who are lulled by the siren of Bloomberg’s 'luxury city,' facilitated by the rezoning of vast swaths of New York City. The result is the greening of some neighborhoods and the browning of others. Checker also comes to the epiphany that the environmental justice activists whom she admired are another symptom of sustainaphrenia, as the twin threats of overdevelopment and climate change are cast asunder." -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy"A timely work on the burgeoning literature surrounding environmental gentrification as it relates to New York City’s intent to become the world’s most sustainable metro area … Libraries with reserves focusing on environmental gentrification, urban issues, and political change should have this volume in their collection." * CHOICE *
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University of Toronto Press Carbon Province Hydro Province
Book SynopsisWhy has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan already about half the Canadian total when taken together have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and eastern provinces, overlaid on the confederation fault-line of western alienation. Climate, energy, and national unity form a toxic mix. How can Ottawa possibly get all the provinces moving in the same direction of decreasing emissions? To answer this question, Douglas Macdonald explores the five attempts to date to put in place coordinated national policy in the fields of energy and climate change from Pierre Trudeau’s ill-fated NatTrade Review"Macdonald has written a book of transcendent importance for the development of a genuinely effective climate change plan. His formulation of negotiating scenarios, in particular, offers a constructive path forward, one that moves away from federal-provincial stalemates and the easy agreements that avoid actual solutions. And his masterful grasp of Canada's so far lame efforts in this arena is a major contribution to understanding where we have been and where we must go." -- Geoff White * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsA Parable of West and East 1. Introduction 1.1 Subject 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Methodology 1.4 Theoretical approach 1.5 Format 2. Energy and climate change intergovernmental relations 2.1 Historical evolution of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.2 Mechanisms of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.3 A flawed policy making process 2.4 Intergovernmental policy co-ordination 2.5 Energy and climate change jurisdiction 2.6 Energy and climate-change policy co-ordination 2.7 Federal government energy and climate-change strategy 3. Historical overview: Canadian energy and climate politics 3.1 Energy policy 1867 to 1989 3.2 National climate change policy in the 1990s 3.3 The Martin government 3.4 Public opinion on climate change 3.5 The Harper government 3.6 Provincial climate change policies 3.7 Energy policy 1989 to 2019 3.8 The Justin Trudeau government 3.9 Summary 4. Three underlying challenges 4.1 The West-East divide . Differing fossil fuel energy interests . Differing interests respecting climate change policy . Alberta's planned emission increases undercut reductions elsewhere . Western alienation 4.2 The inherent need to allocate greenhouse gas emission reductions 4.3 The weak intergovernmental process 5. Canadian national energy policy, 1973 - 1981 5.1 Narrative 5.2 Analysis 6. The first national climate change process 1990-1997 6.1 Narrative 6.2 Analysis 7. The second national climate change process 1998 - 2002 7.1 Narrative 7.2 Analysis 8. The Canadian Energy Strategy 2005-2015 8.1 Narrative 8.2 Analysis 9. The Pan-Canadian Framework 2015-2019 9.1 Narrative 9.2 Analysis 10. Drawing lessons 10.1 The three challenges and federal strategy 10.2 Factors affecting case outcomes 11. Putting in place an effective national climate change program
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Cornell University Press In This Together
Book SynopsisIn This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of network climate actionthe idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.Weaving examples of everyday climate-forward initiatives in with insights on behavioral and structural change, Krasny demonstrates how we can scale up the impact of our efforts through leveraging our community connections. Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that can lead to change. With easy-to-follow dos and don''ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful
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University of Minnesota Press Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in
Book SynopsisHow contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also played a vital role in pipeline resistance. Kai Bosworth explores the influence of populism on environmentalist politics, which sought to bring together Indigenous water protectors and environmental activists along with farmers and ranchers in opposition to pipeline construction.Here Bosworth argues that populism is shaped by the “affective infrastructures” emerging from shifts in regional economies, democratic public-review processes, and scientific controversies. With this lens, he investigates how these movements wax and wane, moving toward or away from other forms of environmental and political ideologies in the Upper Midwest. This lens also lets Bosworth place populist social movements in the critical geographical contexts of racial inequality, nationalist sentiments, ongoing settler colonialism, and global empire—crucial topics when grappling with the tensions embedded in our era’s immense environmental struggles.Pipeline Populism reveals the complex role populism has played in shifting interpretations of environmental movements, democratic ideals, scientific expertise, and international geopolitics. Its rich data about these grassroots resistance struggles include intimate portraits of the emotional spaces where opposition is first formed. Probing the very limits of populism, Pipeline Populism presents essential work for an era defined by a wave of people-powered movements around the world.Trade Review "Pipeline Populism is an endlessly insightful, generative study of environmental populism as a response to extractivism and neoliberal environmentalism. Sensitive to multiracial populism’s democratic aspirations and its settler colonial desires, Kai Bosworth offers a vital guide to the limits of populist pipeline resistance and its resources for more revolutionary socialist transformation. This is essential reading for those interested in left-wing populism and climate justice alike."—Laura Grattan, author of Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America "Environmental populism is a genre of white settler politics that may reiterate the worst parts of American hubris and anti-government individualism, but it may also have openings within it for transformation, through solidarity with indigenous people and more radical political action. Kai Bosworth’s wonderful analysis of the ‘affective infrastructures’ of environmental populism helps us see the politics of climate change, and of populism, with a sharper and more nuanced eye. This book is an indispensable guide to many of the problems plaguing left-wing environmental politics, and it also offers us a clearer vision with which to move forward, both as academics and political actors."—Lida Maxwell, author of Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling "Pipeline’s focus on populism is a unique approach to defining and engaging with the climate movement, bringing together geographical and political concerns to approach questions of community organization and activist movements. "—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Affective Infrastructures of Populist Environmentalism1. “This Land Is Our Land”: Private Property and Territorialized Resentment2. “Keystone XL Hearing Nearly Irrelevant”: Participation and Resigned Pragmatism3. Canadian Invasion for Chinese Consumption: Foreign Oil and Heartland Melodrama4. The People Know Best: Counter-Expertise and Jaded ConfidenceConclusion: The Desire to Be PopularNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of
Book SynopsisHow afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plantsIn Plant Life, Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including grasslands, prairies, and drylands. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Using three supracontinental case studies—scientific forestry in the American prairies, colonial control in Africa’s Sahelian grasslands, and Chinese efforts to control and administer territory—Elkin explores the political implications of plant life as a tool of environmentalism. By exposing the human tendency to fix or solve environmental matters by exploiting other organisms, this work exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social. Plant Life ultimately reveals that afforestation cannot offset deforestation, an important distinction that sheds light on current environmental trends that suggest we can plant our way out of climate change. By radicalizing what conservation protects and by framing plants in their total aliveness, Elkin shows that there are many kinds of life—not just our own—to consider when advancing environmental policy. Trade Review "In Plant Life, the misadventures of tree planting campaigns around the world expose a fundamental failure to understand things that are alive. Human cultivation—a blunt apparatus often focused only on an above-ground outcropping—usually manages to kill plants. Rosetta S. Elkin’s lush and stringent narratives travel instead within the roots and ramifying relationships that huge forests and grasslands generate when they are simply allowed to grow—a live rhizosphere in the crust of the earth."—Keller Easterling, Yale University "With climate change comes a recognition that we are part of a global landscape and that we need to think at this scale. However, even as we need to ‘think global, act local,’ what Rosetta S. Elkin shows in her in her deep and multi-faceted reading of afforestation projects is that in doing so we must really ‘think local, act global.’"—Julian Raxworthy, University of Canberra "Tightly argued and rigorously researched, Plant Life draws on history, geography, political ecology, botany, landscape ecology, and climate science to present a powerful critique of afforestation. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Delving into philosophical treatises, colonial archives, and botanical manuals that span such themes as soil science, plant morphology, and taxonomy, Elkin convincingly argues that planting is a social—not ecological—act that radically reshapes landscapes based on models of standardization and replicability."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionArtifact1. The Problem of Parts2. Great Green Wall3. Genus FaidherbiaIndex4. Confronting Treelessness5. Prairie States Forestry Project6. Ulmus pumilaL.Trace7. Contextual Indifference8. Three Norths Shelter System9. Species PopulusEpilogueNotesIndex
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