Conservation of the environment Books
University of California Press The Sunflower Forest Ecological Restoration and
Book SynopsisEcological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is one of the most promising approaches to conservation. This book explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Weeding Key Biscayne 2. The Challenge of Reinhabitation 3. Paradigms of Community 4. Awareness: Restoration as a Way of Seeing, and as Work and Play 5. The Exchange: Restoration as Repayment and the Gift of Ecological Immortality 6. Value and Make-Believe: A Primer on Performance 7. Sacrifice and Celebration: Restoration as a Performing Art 8. Conservation and Community: Restoration, the Environment, and Environmentalism Notes Selected Readings Index
£22.50
University of California Press Deep Things out of Darkness
Book SynopsisNatural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. This title chronicles the rise, decline, and ultimate revival of natural history within the realms of science and public discourse.Trade Review"An engaglng writing style... Highly recommended." -- D.A. Lovejoy Choice "Anderson writes with infectious energy; he has a sharp eye for details and a gift for spinning a good story... This book is a great read and should be required in any course on natural history, ?eld biology, or the history of ecology." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Adam's Task, Job's Challenge 1. From Hunter-Gatherers to Kings of Kings 2. A Wonderful Man: Aristotle and Greek Natural History 3. The Spoils of an Empire 4. An Emperor and His Descendants 5. New Worlds 6. Ray, Linnaeus, and the Ordering of the World 7. Journeys Near and Far 8. Before the Origin 9. Forms Most Beautiful: Darwin 10. The Geography of Nature: Humboldt 11. Hearts of Light: Wallace and Bates 12. Spoils of Other Empires 13. Breadfruit and Icebergs 14. Naturalists in New England: Thoreau, Agassiz, and Gray 15. From Muir and Alexander to Leopold and Carson 16. The Slow Death (and Resurrection) of Natural History Notes References Index
£999.99
University of California Press Proactive Strategies for Protecting Species
Book SynopsisProviding a roadmap for designing species conservation programs on the ground so they are effective and take place upstream of regulation, this book is suitable for anyone anywhere interested in designing programs that incentivize environmental stewardship and species conservation.Trade Review"A breath of fresh air... This book represents the first concerted, pragmatic effort to examine how [PLC programs] might actually be accomplished in a market-based framework." -- Robin S. Waples BioScience "I appreciated the diversity of land uses represented in the text, from agriculture and forestry to energy development to military training. The diversity of geographic areas and ecosystems presented in the volume also is high." The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsContributors Foreword - Michael J. Bean Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND PERSPECTIVES 1. An Introduction to Pre-Listing Conservation - C. Josh Donlan and Catherine Rothacker 2. A Primer on Species Avoidance, Minimization, and Compensatory Mitigation under the US Endangered Species Act - Becca Madsen 3. Perspective: Endangered Species, the Desert Tortoise, and Job Creation - Myles Traphagen 4. Perspective: Renewable Energy and Endangered Species - Sean Kiernan 5. Perspective: The Challenges and Benefits of Pre-Listing Conservation Approaches to Military Readiness - Ryan Orndoff 6. Perspective: Stewardship over Regulation and Harnessing the Agricultural Sector for Species Conservation - Terry R. Fankhauser 7. Perspective: Forest Conservation and Private Landowners - Rhett Johnson and Mary Sniekus PART TWO: DESIGNING PRE-LISTING CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 8. Pre-Listing Conservation: Law, Policy, and Pilot Projects - Ya-Wei Li and Timothy Male 9. A Primer on Biodiversity Measurement Systems - Bobby Cochran and Nicole Maness 10. A Landowner-Centered Approach to Incentivizing Participation in Pre-Listing Conservation Programs - Michael G. Sorice and Troy Abel 11. Market Models and Finance for Upstream Species Conservation - C. Josh Donlan, Abhishek Jain, and Barbara Muller 12. Tools to Promote Transparent and Efficient Markets for Species Conservation - Joanna Silver 13. The Role of Electronic Marketplaces in Scaling Environmental Markets - Michael Van Patten and Aaron Martin PART THREE: CASE STUDIES 14. Prospects for Pre-Listing Conservation in Freshwater Ecosystems - Daniel A. Auerbach and Todd K. BenDor 15. The Greater Sage-Grouse, Energy Development, and Pre-Listing Conservation - Shauna Ginger, Sara Vickerman, and Bruce Taylor 16. The Gopher Tortoise, Military Readiness, and Pre-Listing Conservation - Todd Gartner, C. Josh Donlan, Michael G. Sorice, James Mulligan, Mary Snieckus, and Rhett Johnson 17. The Future of Pre-Listing Conservation Programs for Wildlife Conservation - Timothy Male and C. Josh Donlan References Index
£999.99
University of California Press The Paradox of Preservation Wilderness and
Book SynopsisPoint Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore. This title chronicles how national ideals about what a park ought to be have developed over time and what happens when these ideals are implemented by the National Park Service (NPS).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by David Lowenthal Acknowledgments Introduction: A Management Controversy at Point Reyes 1. Landscapes, Preservation, and the National Park Ideal 2. Public Parks from Private Lands 3. Acquisition and Its Alternatives 4. Parks as (Potential) Wilderness 5. Remaking the Landscape 6. Reassertion of the Park Ideal 7. The Politics of Preservation Conclusion: Point Reyes as a Leopoldian Park Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£20.70
University of California Press David Brower
Book SynopsisFeatures David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century. This book explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.Trade Review"An exceptionally good biography... a bold and satisfying portrayal of a complex man. If you thought John Muir was the only wildlife grandaddy in the Bay Area, Turner's book will set you straight, enjoyably... Admirably, Turner gathers the octopus of Brower's interests into a cohesive bundle that offers readers an overview of the environmental movement and insight into one of its most intriguing, controversial characters." -- Lou Fancher East Bay Monthly "David Brower has slipped into semi-obscurity over the years, but he deserves a place in the pantheon of environmental heroes... Turner brings Brower to life as a charismatic, intensely passionate man who could be as frustrating to his allies as to his adversaries... Anyone who has had the honor of seeing the breathtaking stillness of the Grand Canyon can be thankful for Brower's unreasonable evangelism." -- REBECCA TUHUS-DUBROW Pacific Standard "I cannot say enough positive about this book. True, Turner makes Brower the hero, but how could it be otherwise? His hero is not without faults, serious faults, but it is by looking at how the environmental movement overcame them that we learn how to keep the movement going." -- David Brooks Alternatives Journal "The author obtained details of Brower's work, insights, goals, and impatience ... Recommended." CHOICE connect "@@@@@ (5 out of 5) ... Turner's biography artfully gives the man his due without sugar-coating the story." Berkeleyside "@@@@@ (5 out of 5) ... Turner's biography artfully gives the man his due without sugar-coating the story." Mal Warwick's Blog on BooksTable of ContentsForeword by Bill McKibben Prologue: A Tense Meeting in the Mountains PART ONE: CLIMBER 1 * From Berkeley to the Sierra: An Outdoorsman Is Born 2 * Yosemite 3 * Into the Sierra Club 4 * Love and War PART TWO: CAMPAIGNER 5 * A Sierra Club Leader Emerges 6 * The Battle Against Dams in Dinosaur 7 * The Battle for Wilderness PART THREE: VISIONARY 8 * Big Books for a Cause 9 * Growing Pains and Saving the Grand Canyon 10 * Uncivil War 11 * From Archdruid to Friend of the Earth 12 * Friends of the Earth Takes on the World 13 * A Resumption of Hostilities PART FOUR: EVANGELIST 14 * Back to the Sierra Club 15 * The End of the Trail Acknowledgments Appendix: Books Published under the Editorial Direction of David R. Brower Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of
Book SynopsisThe Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California's ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understandiTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 • Introduction to the Sierra Nevada Physical Features Ecological Aspects Cultural History History of Natural Resource Use and Conservation 2 • Introduction to High-Elevation Lakes and Watersheds of the Sierra Nevada Lakes of the Sierra Nevada Descriptions of Specific Lakes and Watersheds 3 • Snow Hydrology Snow as a Source of Water to Lakes and Watersheds Measurements of Snow Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Sierra Nevada Snow Modeling Snowmelt Future Directions 4 • Watershed Hydrology Methods and Uncertainties Precipitation Stream Discharge Evaporation Water Budgets 5 • Watershed Biogeochemistry Solute Concentrations in Snow and Rain Release of Solutes from Snow Outflow Solute Concentrations Solute Balances Geochemical Processes Influencing Solute Concentrations Use of Models to Understand and Predict Hydrochemistry Nitrogen Dynamics and Mass Balances Phosphorus Dynamics and Mass Balances 6 • Limnology Physical Processes Hydrochemistry Catchment Characteristics and Dissolved Organic Matter Ecosystem Metabolism and Rates of Primary Production and Respiration Aquatic Organisms Eutrophication Acidification 7 • Variability, Trends, and Future Scenarios Climate Warming Trends Changes in Precipitation Regional Variations and Trends in SWE Ice Cover Duration Long-Term Patterns in Lake Temperatures Snowmelt Dynamics Hydrochemical and Biological Responses to Variations in SWE and Snowmelt Future Climate Scenarios Climate Change Challenges and Future Directions References Index
£56.80
University of California Press Savage Dreams A Journey into the Landscape Wars
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Solnit's intelligent meditations may awaken us from our self-congratulatory coma. [Her] mid is fertile, wide-ranging, and capable of integrating the bewildering deluge of fact, political delusion, flights of genius, inconceivable danger, and cunning deceit that have characterized the nuclear age." * Los Angeles Times *"“The product of a stunningly original and expansive imagination. Savage Dreams ties together the histories of Yosemite National Park and the Nevada Test Site. . . . to illuminate the political stakes of how we think about, and act upon, the landscape.” " * SF Weekly *"Flinging her net wide, Solnit evokes powerful images of destruction and conquest as she explores governmental abuses in the region." * Publishers Weekly *"Solnit's ability to see these issues from several sides-to see the nuclear blasts as beautiful as well as terrible, James Savage as not just a butcher but as a complex man-make this a complicated, engaging work." * Environmental History Review *"Solnit's book is an important contribution to the growing body of work on 20th-century activism. It is from such portrayals of the problems faced in past episodes of activism that we may broaden our own understanding of the risks––and promise––of our own collective actions." * Science & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments New Preface DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE From Hell to Breakfast Like Moths to a Candle April Fool's Day Trees Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes Golden Hours and Iron County Ruby Valley and the Ranch The War Keeping Pace with the Tortoise WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK The Rainbow Spectators Framing the View Vanishing (Remaining) Fire in the Garden The Name of the Snake Up the River of Mercy Savage's Grave Full Circle Afterword Sources Index
£20.70
University of California Press Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and
Book SynopsisHandbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation is the first practical and comprehensive manual for creating, implementing, or improving natural science research and monitoring projects that involve collaboration between scientists and the general public. As citizen science projects become increasingly common, project leaders are seeking information on concrete best practices for planning and implementing projectspractices that allow them to guide and gauge success while also ensuring the collection of high-quality data and rewarding experiences for volunteers. In this handbook, citizen science practitioners from around the world and with decades of experience provide step-by-step instructions, insights, and advice, and they explore real-world applications through case studies from a variety of citizen science projects. This is the definitive reference guide for anyone interested in starting or improving a citizen science project with ecological or conservation applications, from professors and graduate students to agency staff and nongovernmental organizations. Trade Review"This is not a volume about specific ecological research methods, but rather about the strengths and challenges inherent to launching a project that incorporates data contributions of nonspecialists. It is useful as a guide and handbook, and I highly recommend it for practical use." * Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword Reed F. Noss Preface Introduction Christopher A. Lepczyk, Owen D. Boyle, and Timothy L. V. Vargo PART I Background 1 What Is Citizen Science? Jennifer L. Shirk and Rick Bonney 2 The History of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard B. Primack, Rick Bonney, and Emma Albee 3 Current Approaches to Citizen Science Finn Danielsen, Teis Adrian, Per Moestrup Jensen, Jesus Muñoz, Jennifer L. Shirk, and Neil D. Burgess PART II Planning and Implementation of Citizen Science Projects 4 Project Planning and Design John C. Tweddle, Helen E. Roy, Lucy D. Robinson, and Michael J. O. Pocock 5 Legal, Ethical, and Policy Considerations Anne Bowser, Andrea Wiggins, and Elizabeth Tyson 6 Recruitment and Building the Team Michelle D. Prysby 7 Retaining Citizen Scientists Rachel Goad, Susanne Masi, and Pati Vitt 8 Training 99 Heidi L. Ballard and Emily M. Harris 9 Collecting High-Quality Data Alycia W. Crall, David Mellor, Steven Gray, and Gregory Newman 10 Data Management and Visualization Gregory Newman, Sarah Newman, Russell Scarpino, Nicole Kaplan, Alycia W. Crall, and Stacy Lynn 11 Reporting Citizen Science Findings Eva J. Lewandowski and Karen Oberhauser 12 Program Evaluation Rebecca Jordan, Amanda Sorensen, and Steven Gray 13 How Participation in Citizen Science Projects Impacts Individuals Rebecca Christoffel PART III Citizen Science in Practice 14 From Tiny Acorns Grow Mighty Oaks: What We Have Learned from Nurturing Nature’s Notebook Theresa M. Crimmins, LoriAnne Barnett, Ellen G. Denny, Alyssa H. Rosemartin, Sara N. Schaffer, and Jake F. Weltzin 15 Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center: A Neighborhood Collaboration Jennifer Callaghan, Beth Fetterley Heller, Anne Reis-Boyle, Jessica L. Orlando, and Timothy L. V. Vargo 16 Driven to Discover: A Case Study of Citizen Science as a Springboard to Science Learning Andrea Lorek Strauss, Karen Oberhauser, Nathan J. Meyer, and Pamela Larson Nippolt 17 Challenges of Forest Citizen Involvement in Biodiversity Monitoring in Protected Areas of Brazilian Amazonia Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino 18 Documenting the Changing Louisiana Wetlands through Community-Driven Citizen Science Shannon Dosemagen and Scott Eustis 19 Reef Check California: Scuba-Diving Citizen Scientists Monitor Rocky Reef Ecosystems Jan Freiwald and Andrew Beahrs References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and
Book SynopsisHandbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation is the first practical and comprehensive manual for creating, implementing, or improving natural science research and monitoring projects that involve collaboration between scientists and the general public. As citizen science projects become increasingly common, project leaders are seeking information on concrete best practices for planning and implementing projectspractices that allow them to guide and gauge success while also ensuring the collection of high-quality data and rewarding experiences for volunteers. In this handbook, citizen science practitioners from around the world and with decades of experience provide step-by-step instructions, insights, and advice, and they explore real-world applications through case studies from a variety of citizen science projects. This is the definitive reference guide for anyone interested in starting or improving a citizen science project with ecological or conservation applications, from professors and graduate students to agency staff and nongovernmental organizations. Trade Review"This is not a volume about specific ecological research methods, but rather about the strengths and challenges inherent to launching a project that incorporates data contributions of nonspecialists. It is useful as a guide and handbook, and I highly recommend it for practical use." * Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword Reed F. Noss Preface Introduction Christopher A. Lepczyk, Owen D. Boyle, and Timothy L. V. Vargo PART I Background 1 What Is Citizen Science? Jennifer L. Shirk and Rick Bonney 2 The History of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard B. Primack, Rick Bonney, and Emma Albee 3 Current Approaches to Citizen Science Finn Danielsen, Teis Adrian, Per Moestrup Jensen, Jesus Muñoz, Jennifer L. Shirk, and Neil D. Burgess PART II Planning and Implementation of Citizen Science Projects 4 Project Planning and Design John C. Tweddle, Helen E. Roy, Lucy D. Robinson, and Michael J. O. Pocock 5 Legal, Ethical, and Policy Considerations Anne Bowser, Andrea Wiggins, and Elizabeth Tyson 6 Recruitment and Building the Team Michelle D. Prysby 7 Retaining Citizen Scientists Rachel Goad, Susanne Masi, and Pati Vitt 8 Training 99 Heidi L. Ballard and Emily M. Harris 9 Collecting High-Quality Data Alycia W. Crall, David Mellor, Steven Gray, and Gregory Newman 10 Data Management and Visualization Gregory Newman, Sarah Newman, Russell Scarpino, Nicole Kaplan, Alycia W. Crall, and Stacy Lynn 11 Reporting Citizen Science Findings Eva J. Lewandowski and Karen Oberhauser 12 Program Evaluation Rebecca Jordan, Amanda Sorensen, and Steven Gray 13 How Participation in Citizen Science Projects Impacts Individuals Rebecca Christoffel PART III Citizen Science in Practice 14 From Tiny Acorns Grow Mighty Oaks: What We Have Learned from Nurturing Nature’s Notebook Theresa M. Crimmins, LoriAnne Barnett, Ellen G. Denny, Alyssa H. Rosemartin, Sara N. Schaffer, and Jake F. Weltzin 15 Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center: A Neighborhood Collaboration Jennifer Callaghan, Beth Fetterley Heller, Anne Reis-Boyle, Jessica L. Orlando, and Timothy L. V. Vargo 16 Driven to Discover: A Case Study of Citizen Science as a Springboard to Science Learning Andrea Lorek Strauss, Karen Oberhauser, Nathan J. Meyer, and Pamela Larson Nippolt 17 Challenges of Forest Citizen Involvement in Biodiversity Monitoring in Protected Areas of Brazilian Amazonia Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino 18 Documenting the Changing Louisiana Wetlands through Community-Driven Citizen Science Shannon Dosemagen and Scott Eustis 19 Reef Check California: Scuba-Diving Citizen Scientists Monitor Rocky Reef Ecosystems Jan Freiwald and Andrew Beahrs References Index
£28.90
University of California Press Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Book SynopsisIncludes case studies used to address impacts related to climate change across a broad spectrum of species and habitats from coastal krill and sea urchins to prairie grass and mountain bumblebees. This book shows how scientists and managers in any region can bridge the communication divide to manage biodiversity in a rapidly changing world.Trade Review"This is a well-edited book on the implications of climate change for management and conservation in California. Its value ranges beyond California in part because of the diversity of ecosystems is greater than in any other state, and because the generalities derived and questions raised are applicable beyond the third largest of the 50 states." The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsPREFACE 1. A NEW ERA FOR ECOLOGISTS: INCORPORATING CLIMATE CHANGE INTO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PART I. KEY CHANGES IN CLIMATE AND LIFE 2. CLIMATE CHANGE FROM THE GLOBE TO CALIFORNIA 3. CLIMATIC INFLUENCES ON ECOSYSTEMS PART II. LEARNING FROM CASE STUDIES AND DIALOGUES BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND RESOURCE MANAGERS 4. MODELING KRILL IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT: A 2005 CASE STUDY 5. SHIFTS IN MARINE BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGES 6. INTEGRATING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONSERVATION: A KLAMATH RIVER CASE STUDY 7. POLLINATORS AND MEADOW RESTORATION 8. ELEVATIONAL SHIFTS IN BREEDING BIRDS IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERT REGION 9. CONSERVING CALIFORNIA GRASSLANDS INTO AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE 10. SPECIES INVASIONS: LINKING CHANGES IN PLANT COMPOSITION TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE PART III. PERSPECTIVES FOR FRAMING BIOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE 11. EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE 12. FOSSILS PREDICT BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE 13. HISTORICAL DATA ON SPECIES OCCURRENCE: BRIDGING THE PAST TO THE FUTURE GLOSSARY INDEX
£28.90
University of California Press Tracks and Shadows
Book SynopsisDelves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. This book is about the wonder of snakes, the beauty of studying and understanding natural history, and the importance of sharing the love of nature with humanity.Trade Review"Achingly beautiful... Greene succeeds in illuminating the world as a place of beauty, harmony, and danger, deeply interconnected and worthy of cherishing and preserving." Starred Review. Publishers Weekly "This scientist has a poet's heart... Tracks and Shadows is a sweet surprise; rarely has science been so tender." Booklist "As beautiful and nuanced as the landscapes it evokes." The Scientist "What a pleasure it is to read these meditations on a 'personal quest for wildness.' ... What makes this book so rich is [the author's] gift with language along with his thoughtful appreciation of what it means to study nature and to travel, if ever so briefly, on a living planet." -- Laurence A. Marschall Natural History "As packed with people and drama as a novel." -- Stuart Pimm Nature "Greene engages readers from beginning to end... The book leaves us with questions to ponder but also with inspiration to indulge our curiosity for nature." -- Frances Bonier Science "Fiercely honest and fascinating." -- Jules Pretty Times Higher Education "Greene has created a rare bridge between [artists and scientists] and told us what it feels like to be a deeply sensitive research scientist, working in a world where the ecosystems are falling to bits around us." -- Rick Shine Current Biology "[Reminds] us that appreciation of the natural world is important to us as individuals and collectively." -- Hollis Walker Santa Fe New Mexican "No one reading this paean for a respect of the outdoors and its inhabitants could fail to be enthused." International Journal of Environmental Studies "Harry Greene's exuberance for life infuses this scien- tific autobiography, which overflows with his passion for herpetology, the wild places that his beloved reptiles inhabit, and very human friendships." Conservation Biology "Many will be surprised at some of the events re-lived in these pages...Tracks and Shadows reiterates the impacts of pain and renewal that characterize a life's journey." -- Bill Branch Herpetological Review "It speaks more to the conservation ethic than anything since Aldo Leopold's Sand Country Almanac. In fact, Tracks and Shadows may well be the best conservation love poem ever written." -- Peter Kareiva Science Chronicles "With affable humor and abiding curiosity, Greene takes us on collecting trips, wisely explains the latest theories, and asks how we can not only co-exist with wild animals but appreciate them as neighbors. Part memoir, part classroom, part adventure, Tracks and Shadows takes us from detailed looks at the habits of reptiles to enticing discussions of predator and prey, nature and loss, science and discovery...this is a rousing and satisfying tribute to wild things." -- Bill Broyles Southwest Books of the Year 2013Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION 1. Tracks and Shadows 2. Naturalist 3. Nerd 4. Field Biologist 5. Medic PART TWO: CONVERSING WITH SERPENTS 6. Graduate School 7. Hot Dry Places 8. Hot Wet Places 9. Giant Serpents 10. Venomous Serpents PART THREE: PRETTY IN SUNLIGHT 11. Friends 12. Loose Ends 13. Born-Again Predator 14. Field Biology as Art Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
University of California Press Floodplains
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. This book includes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and how these processes can provide a range of benefits to society under appropriate management.Trade Review"This work is a thorough exploration of floodplains that should interest scientists and managers alike." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAuthors Acknowledgments 1 • INTRODUCTION TO TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS 2 • HYDROLOGY 3 • GEOMORPHOLOGY 4 • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 5 • ECOLOGY: INTRODUCTION 6 • FLOODPLAIN FORESTS 7 • PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PRODUCTION 8 • FISHES AND OTHER VERTEBRATES 9 • ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND FLOODPLAIN RECONCILIATION 10 • FLOODPLAINS AS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 11 • CASE STUDIES OF FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION 12 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY 13 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS TODAY 14 • RECONCILING CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS 15 • CONCLUSIONS: MANAGING TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS FOR MULTIPLE BENEFITS References Geospatial Data Sources Index
£32.30
University of California Press Rivers of the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisPresents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems.Trade Review"This book would be a stimulating choice for a graduate seminar bringing in students and fac- ulty from all across the university to discuss the multiple ways in which we see and value rivers (or other ecosystems, for that matter), and how we might best recognize those multiple viewpoints." * Basic and Applied Ecology *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Anthropocenes: A Fractured Picture Jason M. Kelly PART ONE. METHODS 2. Ecosystem Service-Based Approaches for Status Assessment of Anthropocene Riverscapes Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey 3. Political Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in the Blue Nile Basin Sina Marx 4. Rivers at the End of the End of Nature: Ethical Trajectories of the Anthropocene Grand Narrative Celia Deane-Drummond 5. Rivers, Scholars, and Society: A Situation Analysis Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms PART TWO. HISTORIES 6. An Anthropocene Landscape: Drainage Transformed in the English Fenland Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith 7. A Western European River in the Anthropocene: The Seine, 1870–2010 Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel 8. Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and Agency Philip V. Scarpino PART THREE. EXPERIENCES 9. The Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Community Responses to an Environmental Crisis in the Early Anthropocene Helen Berry 10. Engineering an Island City-State: A 3D Ethnographic Comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road Stephanie C. Kane 11. Decoding the River: Artists and Scientists Reveal the Water System of the White River Mary Miss and Tim Carter 12. What Is a River? The Chicago River as Hyperobject Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin Bibliography Contributors Index
£27.00
University of California Press Life without Lead
Book SynopsisLife without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.Trade Review"Beginning in the early 2000s, large numbers of Montevideo residents learned that their health problems had been caused by widespread lead contamination. This volume looks at social, political and environmental factors that the author believes contributed to the problem and influenced how it was dealt with." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead is an exhaustively researched, imaginatively conceived, and empathetically written ethnographic study of lead poisoning and environmental justice activism in Montevideo, Uruguay. . . . Renfrew has succeeded in producing something much more than spectral social science: he has brought his subject to life." * Somatosphere *"Whether dealing with working-class nostalgia, urban planning, corporate transparency, or biomedical science, Renfrew underscores the crucial role that un-knowing and non-knowledge play in stories of toxic disaster. . . . Life without Lead will be a provocative and informative text for scholars and students at the ever more crowded intersection of medical anthropology, disaster studies, and the ethnography of toxic worlds." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Life Without Lead has enormous value as a guide to the socio-political underpinnings and reactions to Uruguay’s lead poisoning crisis." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Renfrew wryly sets the stage for a multi-faceted environmental justice case study that is imaginatively presented, memorably written, and persuasively argued." * Anthropological Quarterly *"This book remains an engaging, accessible and interesting read and one of the very few book-length studies of Uruguay. Beyond anthropology it will be well suited for regional studies, environmental, human, cultural and economic geography, and of course, popular politics and activism reading lists." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Saturn’s Nightmare 1 • To Live, Not Only Survive 2 • This Is Not a Game 3 • La Teja Shall Sing 4 • The Two Fires of ANCAP 5 • New House, New Life 6 • We Are All Contaminated Conclusion: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Destination Anthropocene
Book SynopsisDestination Anthropocenedocuments the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago.Known to travelers as aparadise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores anexperimentalform oftourism developed in the name of sustainability, one that is slowly changing the way both tourists and Bahamians come to know themselves and relate to island worlds.Trade Review"Moore digs deep into the trenches of ethnographic detail to demonstrate the entangled ways that science and tourism commingle in the 'significant spaces' of small islands as critical spaces." * Current Anthropology *"The book is a stellar effort to denaturalize both the Anthropocene and anthropogenesis and expose instead the global, classed interests that are served by such naturalizations. Researchers, students and policy makers interested in climate justice would particularly benefit from engaging with this work." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Anthropocene Islands 1 Building Biocomplexity 2 The Educational Islands 3 Sea of Green 4 Aquatic Invaders in the Anthropocene 5 Down the Blue Hole Conclusion: Anthropocene Anthropology Notes References Index
£22.50
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
£64.00
University of California Press Endangered Maize Industrial Agriculture and the
Book SynopsisCharting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protectfruits, grains, and vegetables they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional, and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity.Trade Review"Maize diversity is threatened by many factors, as science historian Helen Curry expertly discusses with specialists." * Nature *"What Curry analyzes through deft and accessible writing is not so much the danger maize faces, but the ways we understand it, and the narratives we use to tell its stories, which shape conservation efforts." * Civil Eats *"Curry has written a brilliant history that shows us how the narrative of crop diversity loss is itself jam-packed with troubling worldviews. . . .Endangered Maize is an enormously useful book, and one that will shape conversations about agricultural and human diversity for many years to come." * Metascience *"An excellent, captivating description of the origins, ideas, and motivations behind the narratives of maize as an endangered genetic resource and how these narratives have shaped the methods and tools of conservation adopted by scientists and states. . . . As a historian, Curry skillfully recounts the origins and evolution of narratives of extinction of indigenous landraces and conservation strategies, highlighting the complexity of preservation initiatives and the multiple actors involved and suggesting pathways for the future. A key merit of her account is a sound understanding of underlying aspects of the biology and genetics of maize and its conservation."" * Journal of Agrarian Change *"Curry’s…whole history of seed-seeking overturns its own motivations and puts people first." * Technology and Culture *"A thought-provoking book that combines excellent research with lucid writing." * Isis *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acronyms Introduction 1 • Collect 2 • Classify 3 • Preserve 4 • Copy 5 • Negotiate 6 • Evaluate 7 • Grow Coda Acknowledgments Notes Archives and Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Paradox of Water
Book SynopsisWater is a molecular marvel. Its seemingly simple formulaH2Odictates the properties that make water both essential for life and easily contaminated. Herein lies the paradox of water: we cannot live without it, but it is easily rendered unsafe. The Paradox of Water explores the intersection of the scientific, social, and policy implications around access to safe drinking water. Drinking water is the smallest fraction of water used by a nation. Yet, the quality of this fraction is what dictates whether a community is healthy, educated, and economically sustained. Bhawani Venkataraman argues that a deeper understanding of the chemical nature of water is crucial to appreciating the challenges around access to safe drinking water. Drawing on recent research and case studies from the US and abroad, this book offers students an understanding of: the processes and oversight needed to ensure the safety of drinking water the role of the precautionary principle in managing drinking water potential solutions for expanding sustainable and equitable access to safe drinking waterTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Liquid Water: An Essential Ingredient for Life 3. Water: A Potential Threat to Life 4. Why Drinking Water Quality Matters 5. Making Water Safe 6. Learning from Drinking Water Contamination Events 7. The Precautionary Principle and Safe Drinking Water 8. Protecting Nature: Ecosystem Services for Drinking Water 9. Recycled Potable Water 10. Decentralized, Appropriate Drinking Water Treatments 11. Valuing Safe Drinking Water Acknowledgments Notes Additional Resources Index
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University of California Press Evolution of a Movement
Book SynopsisDespite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent decades fighting for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and safe, healthy communities. Evolution of a Movement tells their storyfrom the often-raucous protests of the 1980s and 1990s to activists' growing presence inside the halls of the state capitol in the 2000s and 2010s. Tracy E. Perkins traces how shifting political contexts combined with activists' own efforts to institutionalize their work within nonprofits and state structures. By revealing these struggles and transformations, Perkins offers a new lens for understanding environmental justice activism in California. Drawing on case studies and 125 interviews with activists from Sacramento to the California-Mexico border, Perkins explores the successes and failures of the environmental justice movement in California. She shows why some activists have moved away from the disrTrade Review"Evolution of a Movement is a well-researched, well-written treatment of the arc of California environmental justice…a fresh addition to the literature." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Activism Then and Now 1. Emergence of the Disruptive Environmental Justice Movement 2. The Institutionalization of the Environmental Justice Movement 3. Explaining the Changes in Environmental Justice Activism 4. Kettleman City: Case Study of Community Activism in Changing Times 5. California Climate Change Bill AB 32: Case Study of Policy Advocacy Conclusion: Dilemmas of Contemporary Environmental Justice Activism Appendix: Arguments for and against the Environmental Justice Lawsuit Brought against the California Air Resources Board Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Introduction to Fire in California Second
Book SynopsisAn up-to-date, essential guide to California's long relationship with fire, for the climate-change generation. What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and topography influence fire? How did Indigenous people use fire on the land we now call California? David Carle's clearly written, dramatically illustrated first edition of Introduction to Fire in California helped Californians, including the millions who live near naturally flammable wildlands, better understand their own place in the state's landscape. In this revised edition, Carle covers the basics of fire ecology; looks at the effects of fire on people, wildlife, soil, water, and air; discusses fire-fighting organizations and land-management agencies; and explains how to prepare for an emergency and what to do when one occurs. This second edition brings the wildfire story up to the year 2020, with information about recent extreme and deadly fire events and the evidence that climate change is swiftly changing the wildfire story in California. This update reflects current debates about California's future as a climate-crisis leader facing massive, annual natural disasters; the future of California development and housing; and the critically necessary alternatives to traditional energy options. Features:A larger, more reader-friendly page formatMore than 110color illustrations and mapsAn overview of major wildfires in California's historyAnupdated and expandeddiscussion of the effect of climate change on fires in natural landscapesTips on what to do before, during, and after firesDiscussion of utility companies and massive power shutoffsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Nature of Fire What Is Fire? The Fire Triangle Oxygen: Fire Breath Fuel: Fire Food 8 Heat: Fire Energy Ignition Sources Fire Behavior Weather Wind Topography: Lay of the Land Fire and Life across California Fire Regimes Seeds, Sprouts, and "All of the Above" Vegetation Types and Fire Chaparral Shrublands Conifer Forests Oak Woodlands and Savannas Sagebrush Shrublands and Pinyon-Juniper Forests Deserts Grasslands Wetlands and Riparian Woodlands Wildlife Soil, Water, and Air The Climate Crisis The Flames of History California's Light-Burning Debate The Big Ones Extremes after 2010 Burning Issues Fighting Back: Tactics and Weaponry Making Peace: Restoring Fire The Chaparral Dilemma Logging versus Thinning Fire Policy and Plans A Fire-Safe Power Grid Public Safety Power Shutoffs: Do They Increase Safety? Getting Ready: Life on the Edge Wildland-Urban Interface Becoming a Fire-Adapted Californian Before the Fire, Be Ember Aware During the Fire After the Fire COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Wildfire Kindling Change Online Fire Resources Glossary References Art Credits Index
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University of California Press Introduction to Fire in California
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Nature of Fire What Is Fire? The Fire Triangle Oxygen: Fire Breath Fuel: Fire Food 8 Heat: Fire Energy Ignition Sources Fire Behavior Weather Wind Topography: Lay of the Land Fire and Life across California Fire Regimes Seeds, Sprouts, and "All of the Above" Vegetation Types and Fire Chaparral Shrublands Conifer Forests Oak Woodlands and Savannas Sagebrush Shrublands and Pinyon-Juniper Forests Deserts Grasslands Wetlands and Riparian Woodlands Wildlife Soil, Water, and Air The Climate Crisis The Flames of History California's Light-Burning Debate The Big Ones Extremes after 2010 Burning Issues Fighting Back: Tactics and Weaponry Making Peace: Restoring Fire The Chaparral Dilemma Logging versus Thinning Fire Policy and Plans A Fire-Safe Power Grid Public Safety Power Shutoffs: Do They Increase Safety? Getting Ready: Life on the Edge Wildland-Urban Interface Becoming a Fire-Adapted Californian Before the Fire, Be Ember Aware During the Fire After the Fire COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Wildfire Kindling Change Online Fire Resources Glossary References Art Credits Index
£18.90
University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Visions of Nature
Book SynopsisVisions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate nature with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial conTrade Review"Visions of Nature… is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed ‘global’ and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow." * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *"Hore has written a series of microhistories that combine to tell a fascinating transnational narrative of late-19th-century colonial environmentalism." * Journal of Australian Studies *"Visions of Nature is a well-researched, unique work in the field of environmental history, geography, settler colonial theory, and the history of photography. The book takes a bold approach to its subject matter and pulls together immense amounts of information and evidence from various intellectual fields of study and geographical regions and is a significant work of interdisciplinary research." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality 1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World 2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste 3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes 4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in Colonial Landscapes 5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage 7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Visions of Nature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Visions of Nature… is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed ‘global’ and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow." * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *"Hore has written a series of microhistories that combine to tell a fascinating transnational narrative of late-19th-century colonial environmentalism." * Journal of Australian Studies *"Visions of Nature is a well-researched, unique work in the field of environmental history, geography, settler colonial theory, and the history of photography. The book takes a bold approach to its subject matter and pulls together immense amounts of information and evidence from various intellectual fields of study and geographical regions and is a significant work of interdisciplinary research." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality 1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World 2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste 3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes 4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in Colonial Landscapes 5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage 7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Economic Poisoning
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Economic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Arsenic and Old Waste 2. Commercializing Chemical Warfare 3. Manufacturing Petrotoxicity 4. Public-Private Partnerships 5. From Oil Well to Farm Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Economic Poisoning
Book SynopsisThe toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior to World War II. Through impeccable archival research, Romero reveals the ways in which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American agriculture, especially in California, functioned less as a market for novel pest-killing chemical products and more as a sink for the accumulating toxic wastes of mining, oil production, and chemical manufacturing. Connecting farming ecosystems to technology and the economy, Romero provides an intriguing reconceptualization of pesticides that forces readers to rethink assumptions about food, industry, and the relationship between human and nonhuman environments.Trade Review"Economic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Arsenic and Old Waste 2. Commercializing Chemical Warfare 3. Manufacturing Petrotoxicity 4. Public-Private Partnerships 5. From Oil Well to Farm Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Carceral Ecology Ushuaia and the History of
Book SynopsisCloser to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world's southernmost prison. Ushuaia's radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Prisons and Patagonia 1 • Constructing an Open-Door Penitentiary 2 • Forestry in Fireland 3 • “I Too Am Ushuaia” 4 • The Martyr in Argentine Siberia 5 • The Lettered Archipelago 6 • Developing an Argentine Prisonscape Epilogue: Curating the End of the World Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Andean Meltdown
Book SynopsisAndean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. Apathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Water, Power, and Offerings 2 • Tapay: The Offering Must Go On 3 • Cabanaconde: The Hole in the Channel 4 • Huaytapallana: The Apu That Is Dying 5 • Quyllurit’i: The Glacier That Shines Like a Star Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Andean Meltdown
Book SynopsisAndean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. Apathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Water, Power, and Offerings 2 • Tapay: The Offering Must Go On 3 • Cabanaconde: The Hole in the Channel 4 • Huaytapallana: The Apu That Is Dying 5 • Quyllurit’i: The Glacier That Shines Like a Star Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Unmaking the Bomb
Book SynopsisA powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation.?One of the Best Indie Books of 2023,Kirkus Reviews What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspillTrade Review"In prose that’s both calm and solidly grounded in cited research, Cram presents. . . .a quietly devastating indictment that calls to mind such environmentalist classics as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring." * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Telling Impossible Stories 1. Tender 2. Anatomy of a Phantom 3. Rational Mutants 4. Body Burden 5. Trespassing Conclusion: Here, in the Plutonium Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Unmaking the Bomb
Book SynopsisA powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation.?One of the Best Indie Books of 2023,Kirkus Reviews What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspillTrade Review"In prose that’s both calm and solidly grounded in cited research, Cram presents. . . .a quietly devastating indictment that calls to mind such environmentalist classics as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring." * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Telling Impossible Stories 1. Tender 2. Anatomy of a Phantom 3. Rational Mutants 4. Body Burden 5. Trespassing Conclusion: Here, in the Plutonium Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£22.50
Harvard University Press Natural Interests
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Harvard University Press Coyote Valley
Book SynopsisThomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.Trade ReviewAndrews has both the broad vision and the penetrating focus that major historians need… Overall a compelling [book]. -- Mark Abley * Times Literary Supplement *Andrews’s Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history… Andrews also makes a strong case for a deep-history approach to landscape history. -- Joseph E. Taylor III * Agricultural History *In this smart and ambitious book, Thomas G. Andrews tries to reconcile large and small by focusing on the Kawuneeche Valley of Colorado (Coyote Valley, as translated from Arapaho), a part of Rocky Mountain National Park… The many successes and occasional shortcomings of Andrews’s efforts underscore the challenges of mastering space and scale. More important, this book is a model for breaking down needless barriers between public history and academic history. -- Matthew Klingle * Journal of American History *Andrews covers much ground—eons of time, too—from the prehistoric era to the present to offer a ‘deep history’ of a small patch of ground in the Rockies… Those with environmental concerns and others with interests in Native history will derive much from Andrews’ fine book. -- P. D. Travis * Choice *Andrews has followed up his Bancroft Prize–winning Killing for Coal with an exquisitely wrought portrait of an out-of-the-way place that must be central to our understanding of the American West’s past, present, and future: the headwaters of the Colorado River in what today is Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Valley is brilliant and beautiful, a must-read for anyone interested in the complex history of the nation’s iconic landscapes. -- Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand CreekIn this gracefully written, insightful, deeply researched history of an under-studied part of North America, Andrews tells a story of the fracturing of an environmental order. The chronological scope and interdisciplinary breadth of the work are impressive. This is environmental history at its best. -- Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante LifeThose interested to learn how historians now write about the ever-changing dynamics among people, nature, and culture need look no further than this book. Coyote Valley defines the cutting edge of environmental history. -- Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire
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Harvard University Press The Boatman
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Boatman offers the first sustained account of what Henry Thoreau was doing on the local rivers before and after he sojourned at Walden Pond. Thoreau’s water world engaged his mind and eye, involved him in a major political dispute, and led him to far-reaching scientific insights. Paddling and sailing on the nearby waterways, Thoreau discerned a natural world transformed by human action, to the loss of the communities of all the living creatures who depended on it for survival. Explicating these insights into the ecology of rivers and into the power of ‘the wild,’ Robert Thorson reminds us why Thoreau is so essential to our environmentally imperiled times. -- Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their WorldThe Boatman presents a whole new Thoreau—the river rat. This is not just groundbreaking, but fun. Thorson pursues not footsteps of the solitary woodsman but the wake left by Thoreau’s skiff. As always with Thoreau, one of the deepest pleasures comes from the idea that we can rediscover and resettle our home places, and what better and more exciting way to do this than on the water? If Thorson had just done this, the book would have been valuable enough, but his story of Thoreau’s self-education in hydrology, of his turning himself into a scientific expert on the local rivers and in rivers in general, and of his involvement in a class-action suit to tear down the Billerica dam, make this an important book. -- David Gessner, author of All the Wild That RemainsA scrupulous account of the environment Thoreau loved most and, important for our day, the ways in which he expressed this passion in the face of ecological degradation…Thorson argues convincingly—sometimes beautifully—that Thoreau’s thinking and writing were integrally connected to paddling and sailing…With the meticulous care of a modern geologist, he excavates Thoreau’s journals, notebooks and correspondence, concentrating on the last years of the naturalist’s life and exposing the way he became what today we would call a fluvial geomorphologist, an environmental scientist devoted to understanding the form and function of rivers. -- John Kaag * Wall Street Journal *Thorson argues that Thoreau ‘properly interpreted most of the key ideas of fluvial geomorphology a half century before the subject was invented.’ He was, in Thorson’s words, ‘a lone genius’ whose contributions to science we’ve too long ignored…Part of what makes Thorson’s work on Thoreau so unusual is that he hardly bothers with literary, political, or intellectual approaches to his subject at all—he’s after data, and when he finds it, he checks it, weighing it against today’s best practices. (Thorson has generously posted all of this research online.) He comes away from his historical data-crunching deeply impressed with Thoreau’s skill…The Boatman is an impressive feat of empirical research, and Thorson’s conclusions are an important contribution to the scholarship on Thoreau as natural scientist. -- Daegan Miller * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Boatman presents the ‘wetter side’ of Thoreau as he surveyed and boated on the ‘three blue highways of navigable water flanked by open bays, lush meadows, and rocky cliffs’ that were part of his native habitat. -- Jay Parini * Times Literary Supplement *Years of meticulous research by geologist Thorson went into the making of this penetrating, revelatory book that delves into Thoreau’s pioneering work in river science. -- Dianne Timblin * American Scientist *Thorson’s book offers the reader an in-depth account of Thoreau’s lifelong love of boats, his skill as a navigator, his intimate knowledge of the waterways around Concord, and his extensive survey of the Concord River. -- Robert Pogue Harrison * New York Review of Books *
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Harvard University Press Animal City
Book SynopsisAmerican urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human–animal relationships changed. The city became a place for pets, not slaughterhouses or working animals. Andrew Robichaud traces the far-reaching consequences of this shift—for urban landscapes, animal- and child-welfare laws, and environmental justice.Trade ReviewDeeply researched and supremely analytical, with a compelling strength of narrative purpose, Animal City is a superb history. Robichaud has written the kind of book that will show even the most skeptical readers that animal history is key to grasping American history. -- Louis Warren, author of God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern AmericaBased on exhaustive research, Animal City provides a rich description of nineteenth-century human and animal lives, including the landscapes, laws, economies, and institutions that shaped them. Robichaud has made a landmark contribution to how we understand this formative period in American urban and animal history. -- Peter Alagona, author of After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in CaliforniaIn this outstanding history, Robichaud powerfully recreates the snarling, barking, and mooing past where milk cows, stray dogs, slaughterhouse cattle, and working horses were part of daily life. Erasing animals from our streets and homes to improve sanitation and diminish cruelty, he argues, made it easier to justify their continued exploitation. Animal City is an eloquent reminder that this older urban menagerie persists even if we cannot always recognize our fellow residents. -- Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of SeattleIn ways that can seem unimaginable today, urban animals played a major role in shaping how nineteenth-century Americans debated laws, considered the boundaries of brutality, transformed economies and environments, and ultimately understood themselves. Through masterful storytelling and deep historical research, Andrew Robichaud paints this ecologically diverse urban world in vivid colors, showing readers that we cannot understand modern cities without acknowledging their controversial and often invisible animal past. -- Catherine McNeur, author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum CityAnimal City contends that animals are central to understanding modern cities, and modern life itself. [Robichaud’s] study demonstrates how nineteenth-century transformations in the spatial, environmental, and ethical management of animal relationships can help explain how we relate with animals today…The thematic organization and rich archival work make it very useful, while the many images and narrative vignettes make it compelling. Robichaud’s writing style is engrossing, and his stories are even reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s in their tragedy and horror…Robichaud’s work offers a rich contribution to the literature of food, as well as to that of environment, urban studies, ethics, and governance. -- Clare Gordon Bettencourt * Agricultural History *Fascinating and thought-provoking…The most striking contributions from Animal City come from Robichaud’s ability to bring together insights from animal studies, environmental history, urban geography, and the history of capitalism to demonstrate how human decisions about domestic animals powerfully molded the relationship between city and hinterland, the nature of urban space, and the dynamics of political power. -- Jessica Wang * American Historical Review *Animal City unites the vibrant fields of urban environmental history and animal history…To this literature, Robichaud brings strong spatial analysis and a sense of how local stories aggregate to a bigger whole. He also reveals that there is a lot to gain from the cross-fertilization of animal history and business history: remaking the animal city was also about remaking American business. -- Joshua Specht * Business History Review *Robichaud tells a series of stories rooted in the gritty, sometimes horrific, daily living conditions of urban animals and the human politics and economic exigencies around them…Contain[s] valuable insights for historians operating in an academic context shaped by pandemic, climate crisis, accelerating human population growth, and our tendency to congregate in densely populated spaces where we ignore our reliance upon the lives and health of nonhumans. -- Susan Nance * Environmental History *Sharply details the coexistence of livestock separation and the humane movement, and while it stops short of demonstrating co-creation, there is great value nevertheless to Robichaud’s effort to understand the two phenomena in relation to one another. Ultimately, Animal City opens up a wide range of questions for future environmental historians, urban historians, and animal studies scholars…Convincingly argues against technological determinism to show that urban animal geography was often shaped by policy choices that preceded the building of railroad infrastructure, and in this argument are lessons for the present day. -- Laura Martin * H-Environment *A valuable contribution to the literature on urbanization that continues to transform the way historians understand nineteenth-century cities. The stories it tells, such as those of urban cattle drives thundering through the streets of San Francisco, will help expand the traditional narratives of urbanization in America. -- Michael Rawson * Journal of American History *A book of impressive scope…It is a superb contribution to animal history, environmental history, urban history, and nineteenth-century history. It is well written and accessible, and it would be a fine book to introduce anyone to animal history. -- Ann Norton Greene * Journal of Arizona History *A welcome historical exploration of the ways in which human–animal relationships have played ongoing, and oftentimes disturbing, roles in urban development…Engaging and unique. -- Julie Urbanik * Journal of Historical Geography *A worthwhile addition to the historical literature of animals in the city. -- Joel A. Tarr * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *A compelling, thoroughly researched, and, at times, lively book that documents and interprets how and why animal life shifted in the late 1800s as American cities were developing. Through archival analysis of turn-of-the-20th-century materials, Robichaud investigates how animal species—cattle, dairy cows, pigs, and sheep—disappeared from American cities, while other species, including horses, companion animals, and zoo animals, flourished. The book offers historical insights to enhance our contemporary reappraisals of how humans and animals live together and co-construct urban ecologies. -- Lisa Jean Moore * Metropolitics *A fascinating look at the ways in which domestic and exotic animals occupied New York and San Francisco during the nineteenth century…this thought-provoking, deeply researched, and well-written study is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on animals in America. -- J. L. Anderson * Pacific Historical Review *Robichaud could scarcely have imagined a year like 2020 when he was writing this insightful study of nineteenth-century urban life…Thoroughly researched, convincingly argued and engagingly written, Animal City offers a great deal to researchers, students, and general readers interested in urban, environmental, or social history. Perhaps most importantly, it encourages us to confront the various forms of human and non-human animal suffering which we continue to force out of sight and mind, with all the unintended consequences that this might entail. -- Thomas Almeroth-Williams * Reviews in History *A vital read for all to understand the development of the modern city and new regulatory systems, as well as the human role in the treatment of animals, domesticated for food or work, or the exhibition of exotic species. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Bee Time Lessons from the Hive
Book SynopsisBeing among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes. Bee Time presents his reflections on three decades spent studying these remarkable creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world, from the boardroom to urban design to agricultural ecosystems.Trade ReviewMark Winston has spent 30 years studying and working with bees. His book is a passionate celebration of bees, apiaries and honey, as well as a calmly reasoned critique of industrialized farming and a plea to halt the dramatic decline in bee numbers… A wonderfully rich insight into the imperiled world of the bee. -- P. D. Smith * The Guardian *In this personal and scientific journey into the history we share with bees, [Winston] ranges over neonicotinoid pesticides and colony collapse, the control of African ‘killer’ bees and more. The charismatic social insects emerge as both icons of societal cohesion and symbols of nature’s paradoxically mingled power and fragility. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *[Winston] writes lovingly of the rhythms and quiddities of the apiary… In a highly personal style, Winston steps between reportage, scientific exactitude and a deep, poetically expressed love of bees, beekeeping and the cultural forms that bees inspire. People and bees have been working together for millennia—synergy that Winston, sensitized by his work as a communications specialist, clearly feels brings out the best and the worst in humanity. His take on the situation makes Bee Time an insightful delight. -- Adrian Barnett * New Scientist *Winston wants to acquaint his readers with the fascinating complexity of the bee world, and he also wants to alert readers to the fact that the bee world is drastically endangered. He brings to this hybrid task a very smooth ability to simplify the complex bee-literature he’s obviously mastered, providing engaging glimpses into the world of the hive—and usually presenting them in parallel context of the human world… Considering the enormous ripple-effects that would happen in the wake of the disappearance of these key pollinators, Winston’s wake-up call takes on an urgency that’s belied by its friendly, approachable tone. That clarion call makes Bee Time an important book, even if you by chance suffer from a touch of apiphobia. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *[Winston] presents a stark picture of how much we expect from, and rely on, bees. -- Kristin Treen * Literary Review *Thoughtful and eloquent… Winston is an inspired cross-pollinator, who uses the ‘full-body experience’ of being with bees to draw lessons for human hives. -- Sarah Murdoch * Toronto Star *Like the beekeeper he is, paying careful attention to what’s going on in his colonies, Winston has done a fine job with this book. Bee Time is beautifully written and rich in the detail, evoking emotions without being overly maudlin. -- Jeff Lee * Vancouver Sun *[Winston’s] lyricism inspires awe of these necessary insects. -- Temma Ehrenfeld * Weekly Standard *A recap of what’s been going on in beekeeping over the past 10 years or so… Winston has left no hive unturned in this work, documenting all the good, and the bad that has occurred… There are indeed lessons to learn from a bee hive. This work will share some of them with you. -- Kim Flottum * Bee Culture *Winston combines beekeeping work/research, philosophical musings, and his personal memories in this enjoyable book. -- J. M. Gonzalez * Choice *Bee Time is a unique book: in turn a touching memoir, a warm paean to the honey bees that have fueled Winston’s impressive scientific career, and an insightful analysis of some of the serious environmental problems facing us today. -- Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignNo other book celebrates the long relationship between humans and honeybees as powerfully, thoughtfully, and enchantingly as this one. Written in lyrical prose, Bee Time is a delightful and inspiring read. -- Thomas D. Seeley, author of Honeybee Democracy
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Harvard University Press Vanishing America Species Extinction Racial
Book SynopsisMiles Powell explores how early conservationists became convinced that the vitality of America’s white races depended on preserving the wilderness. Some conservationists embraced scientific racism, eugenics, and restrictive immigration laws, but these activists also laid the groundwork for the many successes of the modern environmental movement.Trade ReviewPowell’s intention is to illuminate a little-known chapter of American history, a lengthy period when wilderness was a racially charged concept… As the turn of the 20th century approached, many white people (most often identifying as Nordic or Anglo-Saxon) ‘saw themselves as an imperiled race,’ Powell writes, and perceived that their own impending extinction was reflected in the nation’s disappearing wildlife. Their solution for preserving both was to bar the wrong—i.e., non-Nordic or Anglo-Saxon white—people from wild lands… This exclusionary principle ended up forming the backbone of the conservation movement… Powell incorporates several forgotten sidebars to official environmental history in his book, many alarming but often also illuminating… The book deserves to be included in current discussions of class, race, and gender. It indicates how highly intelligent and educated, even often well-intentioned, individuals can band together to promote divisive and discriminatory causes. The book also reminds readers that the conceptualization of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in America history is not strictly placed along color lines, but is strongly tied with ideas of fitness and value—some of which sprang from essentially neutral (‘harmless’) scientific principles. -- Louise Fabiani * Pacific Standard *A carefully researched and captivating book. Vanishing America stands apart from previous works in the way it convincingly weaves together historiographical strands that have often remained distinct, in its success in deploying a broad range of primary sources, and in its ability to demonstrate the many ways that conservation and racial thought have not only been deeply entangled but also persisted across time. No other book manages to be as thorough, convincing, and chronologically expansive in its efforts to show how concerns about the annihilation of wildlife and racial decline profoundly shaped one another. -- Mark V. Barrow Jr., author of Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of EcologyPowell’s Vanishing America is a bracing and innovative revision of early conservation history in the United States. By blending environmental history with intellectual and cultural history, Powell unearths a troubling story of how and why some Americans wanted to save nature as well as their own racial privilege. Eloquent and provocative, Vanishing America is a timely reminder that the shadows of the past continue to haunt environmentalism today. -- Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of SeattlePowell’s history of the inseparability of environmental and racial anxieties tackles an essential question that has always haunted American environmentalism—why so white?—and that requires an insightful history like this one to fully understand. -- Jennifer Price, author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern AmericaEnvironmental historian Miles Powell has provided a new and provocative angle to the history of the American conservation/preservation movement through the lens of its racial logics. -- James H. McDonald * New York Journal of Books *
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Harvard University Press The Wake of the Whale Hunter Societies in the
Book SynopsisDespite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.Trade ReviewThe Wake of the Whale would be fascinating just for its rich ethnographic account of the history and present state of whaling in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands. Yet, gradually, it also turns the mirror back on its readers, urging us to rethink our own attitudes to whaling. -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *Russell Fielding’s multilayered assessment of artisanal whaling traditions unfolds as a riveting narrative. Readers entranced by the oceanic tales of writers such as Melville and Conrad will likewise find in The Wake of the Whale many colorful, firsthand accounts of seagoing experience to stir the imagination. Fielding’s book is not only provocative, discerning, and solidly researched, but a real page-turner. -- John Gatta, literary critic and author of Making Nature SacredA wonderful storyteller, Fielding guides us with sensitivity and insight through the cultural, scientific, and ethical complexities of humanity’s long relationship with whales. In doing so, he illuminates the heart of our relationships with other animal species, both domestic and wild. -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenRussell Fielding compares whaling in two different communities and locations through a historical and sociocultural lens. He both respects the whalers, offering readers insight into the tradition, and honors environmental organizations protecting whales. A well-documented, well-written, and balanced book. -- Jóan Pauli Joensen, University of the Faroe IslandsThe Wake of the Whale is a truly magnificent piece of work, an epic tale of two worlds connected by North Atlantic currents and the creatures that navigate them. Artisanal whaling, an ancient communal practice, faces multiple threats in the Caribbean and North Atlantic territories, the largest of which may be the pollution of the ocean and its deleterious effects on biodiversity and health. -- Priya Kissoon, University of the West IndiesThe Wake of the Whale provides detailed historical, sociocultural, geographic, and political insight on a practice that is considered by many to be taboo. Readers, whether for or against whaling, will be challenged on many of the issues that underpin their positions. Some may even defect to the other side. -- Janice Cumberbatch, University of the West IndiesAn enjoyable read…The Wake of the Whale provokes numerous critical thoughts regarding the morality of different practices in post-domestic societies. -- Benedict Singelton * Conservation and Society *A rare mix of scientific and social insight, The Wake of the Whale raises compelling questions about the place of cultural traditions in the contemporary world and the sacrifices we must make for sustainability. -- Mae Dorricott * Caribbean Compass *A thought-provoking page-turner…Contributes to the literature of contemporary global cultural geography and environmental history by weaving together the landscapes of two geographically distant places and peoples. -- Chie Sakakibara * AAG Review of Books *
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Princeton University Press Respect for Nature
Book SynopsisWhat rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? This title draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value.Trade ReviewFrom the previous edition: "Taylor's environmental ethic is a substantial and significant one which, among other things, requires that there be harmony between human civilisation and living nature. -- Australasian Journal of Philosophy From the previous edition: "This is a useful book that raises important questions. -- Ethics
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Princeton University Press The Battle for Yellowstone Morality and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "The most original political book of early 2015 is not formally about politics at all. Instead The Battle for Yellowstone by Justin Farrell, a young scholar at Yale University, ponders venomous rows that have shaken Yellowstone National Park in recent decades, and why they are so intractable."--Economist "In a refreshingly honest and balanced treatment, Farrell (sociology, Yale Univ.) addresses the spiritual elephant in the environmental room: the most perplexing environmental questions, the answers to which 'are only possible and made meaningful in the context of larger moral orders and spiritual narratives that shared human cultures are built upon.' With great insight and careful analysis, he examines the various reasons deep moral and spiritual meanings are often ignored, muted, and misunderstood. His scholarly diagnosis is well documented and thoroughly researched."--Choice "Written in a highly accessiblemanner and will be of interest to many, including environmental sociologists, sociologists of culture and cognition, and sociologists of religion... This book offers a rich analysis of the irascible conflicts over the human/nature relationship in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the moral and cultural embeddedness of scientific and economic discourse."--Rebecca R. Scott, American Journal of Sociology "The book rests on awe-inspiring research... A deeply informed and balanced discussion emerges... An engaging narrative and insightful, provocative analysis. The book deserves and will reward a wide audience, but those interested in environmental, western, and twentieth-century U.S. topics will find it particularly useful."--Todd M. Kerstetter, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray 1 Introducing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 5 Toward a Theory of Morality and Environment 8 Human Believers, Narrative Structure, and Enacting Moral Orders 12 Theoretical Contributions 17 A Roadmap 29 1.Believing in Yellowstone: The Moralization of Nature and the Creation of America's Eden 34 Early Utilitarian Use and the Formation of Yellowstone National Park 40 A Spiritual Moral Vision 52 A Biocentric Moral Vision 56 Social Change and the "Greater" Yellowstone Ecosystem 60 Conclusion 65 2.The New (Wild) West: Social Upheaval, Moral Devaluation, and the Rise of Conflict 66 The Old West, and Roots of the New 70 The Rise of the New-West 75 The Moral Effects of New-West Change 89 Environmental Conflict 96 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Stakeholder Arena 100 The Rise of Conflict, 1870-2012 108 Conclusion 118 3.Buffalo Crusaders: The Sacred Struggle for America's LastWild and Pure Herd 119 Overview of the Issue 122 The Buffalo Field Campaign 125 The Moral Logic of a Movement: Purity, Wildness, Virtue 132 Successes of Moral-Spiritual Protest 146 Concluding Puzzle: Religious and Moral "Muting" 159 Conclusion 166 4.Between Good and Evil: The Science, Culture, and Polarization of Wolf Conflict 168 Uncovering the Anti-Wolf Moral Order 172 Rugged American Individualism 174 Human Dominionism 180 Simple and Sacred Heritage 188 Uncovering the Pro-Wolf Moral Order 196 Features of the Pro-Wolf Moral Order 198 The Primary Role of Morality and Spirituality 203 Multiple Meanings: Co-Occurrence of Spirituality and Rationality 208 Conclusion 213 5.Drilling Our Soul: Moral Boundary Work in an Unlikely Old-West Fight against Fracking 217 A State of Mining 221 Drilling in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 225 Considering Alternative Explanations 233 "Too Special to Drill": Place Attachment and Drawing Moral Boundaries 238 Three Profiles of Old-West Environmentalists 243 Moral Boundary Work and the Meaning of Activism 252 Conclusion 256 Conclusion 258 Appendix: Methodological Notes 263 Bibliography 271 Index 283
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Princeton University Press Running Out
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Award""Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West""Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History""Kansas Notable Book of the Year""Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West""Winner of the Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology""[Running Out] bursts with passages that linger after reading. . . . haunting."---Christopher Flavelle, New York Times"A moving, melancholy, environment-focused memoir." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"A short beauty of a book."---M.J. Andersen, Boston Globe"Anthropologist Bessire (Behold the Black Caiman) combines ethnography and memoir in this deeply personal look at the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. . . . A devastating portrait of how shortsighted decisions lead to devastating losses." * Publishers Weekly *"Lucas Bessire’s poignant critique of dramatic groundwater decline in southwest Kansas and resistance to addressing it offers perspective on our failure to confront climate change. . . . This tale on the ebbing of the Ogallala Aquifer is a valuable addition to the literature of aquifer depletion, compelling for its insider’s perspective and probing of contradictory human decisions that discount the future for immediate reward."---Dennis Dimick, Cleveland Review of Books"To try to get a grip on the cultural forces behind the [aquifer] depletion, [Bessire] began interviewing stakeholders in the vicinity of his family’s property and wrote this very personal account, which includes both analysis of complicity and elegiac passages about his homeland’s history and our dry future. . . . Stirring."---Flora Taylor, American Scientist"A profound and eloquent meditation on how and why societies behave in seemingly irrational ways in the face of dwindling resources, impoverished environments, and attenuated social relationships."---Paul Sutter, Kansas History"Highly recommended . . . Bessire’s achievement in Running Out lies in his ability to open to the reader the water-consciousness of the people of the region. . . . Reading [Running Out] is time well spent."---Michael J. Smith, Nebraska History"Running Out is a book for our times - it should have an impact on policy, and become a classic."---John Miles, National Parks Traveler"Eminently readable. . . .The sense of loss that necessarily pervades Running Out is balanced by Bessire’s lyrical prose, whose consistently crisp beauty serves as a welcome respite."---Ed Meek, The Arts Fuse"[Running Out] should be required reading for every environmental scientist."---David Dent, International Journal of Environmental Studies
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University Press of Kansas Making Rocky Mountain National Park The
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jerry Frank’s environmental history of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park is an admirable presentation of how two competing visions of the area over the past century worked together to make and remake the park."—Montana The Magazine of Western History"Frank’s writing is lively and engaging, and his arguments are clear. . . . [A]n accessible case study of national park policy that will appeal to thoughtful part visitors and to students of environmental history."—Journal of American History"Help[s] us to understand not only the individual park but also the total park system."—Pacific Historical Review"Succinct, well researched, clearly written, and accessible to anyone interested in learning more about this particular park and the national park idea more generally."—Environmental History"Frank’s book is a valuable addition to our literature on the histories of Colorado, the NPS, and the western environment. Throw a copy in your back seat or backpack the next time you visit the RMNP; Frank’s narrative will help explain the complex history behind much of the seemingly pristine natural world you encounter."—Western Historical Quarterly"This book is as beautiful as its subject. . . . A landscape so many of its visitors love and which, by reading Making Rocky Mountain National Park, they will now better understand."—Journal of Tourism History"Frank has added to our understanding of how Rocky Mountain National Park came to be the place and experience it is today."—New Mexico Historical Review"A highly readable volume that will be of interest to park visitors and scholars interested in environmental history of the United States, national parks and protected areas, wildlife conservation, the American West, tourism, outdoor recreation, and natural resource management policy."—H-Net Reviews"This well-researched, engaging, and visitor-center worthy study traces the first century of Rocky Mountain National Park. Refreshingly, the author proceeds thematically rather than chronologically, devoting a cleverly titled chapter each to cars, trails, trees, elk, fish, and ski slopes."—Kansas History "America’s national parks may be the best idea we ever had, but as this book powerfully argues, the idea of what a park should be has had many different answers. With remarkable research and crystal-clear prose, Frank has tracked those answers through the history of one of our most beloved parks. After reading his story of conflicts and interventions, we will never again be able to say with naÏve assurance that a park is where nature is protected."—Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir"It is tempting to see the preservation of a national park as a singular and heroic act. But as Frank shows us, park landscapes are not simply preserved; they are constantly made, unmade, and remade in a series of novel ecological experiments that tell us as much about our own desires as they do the needs of nature. Making Rocky Mountain National Park is an unflinching account of this complex history and essential reading for anyone interested in the future of national park preservation."—Paul S. Sutter, author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement"Here is Rocky Mountain National Park as a living example of human, animal, cultural, and environmental interaction. An excellent book and one to match the scenery—beautiful and thought-provoking."—Annie Gilbert Coleman, author of Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies"Rocky Mountain National Park deserves this thoughtful environmental history for its centennial. Frank presents an eye-opening look at the extensive human intervention that has created this ‘natural’ wonderland."—Tom Noel, Director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies, University of Colorado Denver
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Dominion of Bears Living with Wildlife in Alaska
Book SynopsisLong ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side. As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between bears and humans is ancient and ongoing and, in Alaska, profoundly and often uncomfortably close.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Pesticides A Love Story Americas Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
Book SynopsisWhy - in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness - do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer.Trade ReviewWhy did pesticide use soar despite warnings of costs? Michelle Mart suggests that the answer lies in the stories Americans have told themselves about progress, modernity, and better living through chemistry. Did love for these ideals blind Americans to flaws in the objects of their affection? Read this book to find out."" - Edmund Russell, author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring""Pesticides, a Love Story offers a rich narrative describing how chemical pesticides became so ubiquitous in American culture and the global environment. Astute and dogged research make for a conceptually strong synthesis, which reveals the roots of the American love affair with chemical pesticides, while chronicling how this affection grew over time."" - David Kinkela, author of DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the WorldTable of Contents Introduction 1. Falling in Love: The Golden Age of Synthetic Pesticides 2. Trouble in Paradise: The USDA and the Rise of Critical Voices 3. Breakup? The Cultural Impact of Rachel Carson’ Silent Spring 4. Foreign Affairs: How Pesticides Could Help Americans Feed the World and Win a War 5. The Twenty-Year Itch: Activists, Experts, and the Regulatory Era 6. Love Is Blind: Chemical Disasters at Home and Abroad 7. Recommitment: Endocrine Disruptors, GMOs, and Organic Food Conclusion Acknowledgment Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas African American Environmental Thought
Book SynopsisIn this first single authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Kimberly Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns.Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and wellinformed, this extraordinarily rich and wellwritten study reveals hitherto neglected aspects of Black American life and thought." - Wilson J. Moses, author of Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent"A terrific book that fills an important gap in political theory and offers fresh interpretations of such figures as Douglass, Du Bois, and Locke." - Lawrie Balfour, author of Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy"An arresting, insightful, and compelling look at environmental thought through the eyes of African Americans." - Carolyn Merchant, author of The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Return of Caribou to Ungava
Book SynopsisHow a caribou population went from the brink of extinction in the 1950s to the largest herd in the world in the late 1980s - and whether it can survive today's environmental changes.Trade Review"Bergerud et al have gifted us with an intimate gaze on a natural wonder of the world ... If you wish to learn about the caribou, read this book. The book is mammoth, an opus magnum, chock full of data and insight into the lives of the iconic wanderer of the north. It is a rare type of work." John McCarthy, The Canadian Field-Naturalist "The Return of Caribou to Ungava should be read by everyone with even a passing interest in northern ecology, caribou management, or predator-prey relationships. It should be read by historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists." Charles E. Kay, Utah State University
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University of British Columbia Press Passing the Buck
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.Trade ReviewWell-structured chapters with concise conclusions … For individuals working with environmental protection policy this book should provide a greater understanding of the process … Kathryn Harrison has proved an interesting look at the workings of federal government policy setting. * Canadian Field Naturalist *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Federalism and Environmental Policy2 Federalism, Policy-Making, and Intergovernmental Politics3 The Constitutional Framework: Constraints and Opportunities4 The Emergence of Federal Involvement, 1969–725 The Federal Retreat, 1972–856 The Second Wave: The Re-emergence of the Federal Role, 1985–957 Conclusions
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