Conservation of the environment Books

Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sTrade Review“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a revivingbreath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” - Julian M. Groves, Anthropological Quarterly“While demanding, Choy’s ethnographic method also appears quite inviting. With it, he is able to move easily from theoretical questions regarding the construction of scientific truth and expertise to the shifting scales of mass media and local, even personal, anecdotes. Ultimately, his ethnographic approach with its attention to detail avoids being simply a means to an end; instead it stands in as a positive example of the negotiations and comparisons that we make as we live amidst the shifting terrain of contemporary culture.” - Benjamin K. Hodges, Journal of Anthropological Research “Ecologies of Comparison is a stimulating ethnography…The book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, science studies scholars, and Asian studies scholars alike.” - Peter C. Little, Electronic Green Journal“This beautifully written book urges us to take another look at some of our most important tools for thinking. What do comparisons do? Why do we use examples? When does it matter if components of our world are specific to their times and places? Ecologies of Comparison offers a stimulating tour into both Hong Kong’s environmental politics and the work of political analysis itself.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“Tim Choy’s much-anticipated meditation on the many forms of life to be found in Hong Kong environmentalism is a bracing read. Taking knowledge itself as his object, Choy shows how the deep complicity of ethnography, theory, and politics offers not only profound challenges to scholarly practice but also new opportunities and horizons. Ecologies of Comparison is original, contemporary, and resonant. A true breath of fresh air.”—Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia and In Amazonia: A Natural History“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a reviving breath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” -- Julian M. Groves * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration xi 1. Problems of a Political Nature 1 Passions 19 2. Endangerment 23 Slow 51 3. Specific Life 53 Chess 73 4. Articulated Knowledges 76 Hair 106 5. Earthly Vocations 109 Hiking 137 6. Air's Substantiations 139 Notes 169 Bibliography 185 Index 199

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Book SynopsisChaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.Trade Review"Food, Farms, and Solidarity is an excellent study of one of the most fascinating social movements of the contemporary era and its struggle against GM crops. Academics and activists interested in agrarian, environmental, and food justice issues as well as (trans)national social movements should read this book."—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., coeditor of Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization"Food, Farms, and Solidarity is an excellent study of one of the most fascinating social movements of the contemporary era and its struggle against GM crops. Academics and activists interested in agrarian, environmental, and food justice issues, as well as transnational social movements, should read this book."—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., coeditor of Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization"Chaia Heller makes a compelling argument about a set of very important topics in the food/environment arena. Given the continued relevance of those topics, the prominence of the main protagonists of the story in the international scene, and the engaging writing style, the book should be of interest to a broad audience of students, academics, NGO people, and activists."—Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes“[Heller’s] engaging book contains many insights into the surprisingly divergent fates of French and U.S. agricultural interest groups. . . . [H]er tale of earthy farmers becoming postmodern ideological entrepreneurs makes for fun reading.” -- Andrew Moravcsik * Foreign Affairs *“Heller’s dramatic narrative tells a story filled with intimate anecdotes and colorful characters...making a rather complex history of farmers’ unions and French agricultural policy come alive while sustaining her readers’ interest.” -- A. B. Audant * Choice *“This book presents a fascinating and in-depth case study of a French agricultural union, the Confederation paysanne, surveying its history, ideology, leadership, and political activism...this is a highly original, insightful, and exhaustively researched account that presents in fine detail one of the key battle lines of our time.” -- Sarah Waters * French History *“Heller has written a wonderful ethnography that I find highly engaging in terms of the logic of capitalist food production under the political auspices of neoliberalism. Her book is an important contribution to food studies and anthropological theory.” -- Robert C. Ulin * American Ethnologist *"Ultimately, Heller makes a significant contribution with this study to social movement discourses and union organization in addition to food justice and environmental issues." -- Pamela Tudge * Left History *"Food, Farms, and Solidarity provides a deep and fascinating case study of Confédération Paysanne and contemporary struggles over agricultural biotechnology and food sovereignty.... Heller’s ethnographic approach makes for a compelling and accessible read, and the book would be appropriate for a topical course on food studies or social movements at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level." -- Christopher R. Henke * Contemporary Sociology *"Food, Farms and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops is an engaging ethnographic study…. The work stands as a valuable case study for social movement scholars and political ecology anthropologists." -- Patricia A. Stapleton * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World 1 Part I. Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture 2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan 39 3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency 69 Part II. The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization 4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture 89 5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign 112 6. The Trial of the GMOs: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization 137 Part III. How France Grew Its Own Antiglobalization Movement 7. Caravans, GMOs, and McDo: The Campaign Continues 163 8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, DC 198 9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle 221 10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities 248 11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned 291 Notes 307 Works Cited 311 Index 323

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Book SynopsisPresents a theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.Trade Review“The author presents important material that is new to environmental history, to intellectual history as well as to studies of Japan. He shows that Japan has a long history of environmental disasters and gives some sense of why this has been so. His individual case studies (Tanaka, Ishikawa and Kurosawa) are well selected. And his conclusions about the limitations of liberal democracy and of liberalism in any form are illuminating, thoughtful accurate and sobering. Nature does not care whether politicians or a majority of the population they lead recognize the greater frequency of extreme weather—including global warming—or not. These things are happening and surely require a far stronger response than any counter-measures that have been proffered up to now.”­ -- James Bartholomew * TLS *"A sound achievement in an area of modern Japanese thought too lightly regarded before now." -- Tom Havens * American Historical Review *"Stolz's book gains its special strength from its close intertwining of Marxist theory with the lives of the central protagonists... As this statement suggests, Bad Water successfully stitches together environmental history, a social ecology that predates that of Bookchin, and Marxist theory." -- Paul Waley * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Stolz brings to his study fresh and important perspectives on familiar events, intellectual trends, and individuals as well as introducing heretofore little-known (but significant) thinkers and narratives to the Western scholarship." -- William M. Tsutsui * Pacific Affairs *"Robert Stolz’s Bad Water is an impressive analysis of the history of the interaction between political and ecological thought in modern Japan.... This book is valuable to the study not only of Tanaka and of Japanese environmental problems but also of the history of ideas on the relationships among politics, society, the human body, and nature in a global context." -- Yuuki Tomozawa * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"While Bad Water’s close reading of the Ashio copper mine disaster and the origins of Japan’s environmental movement will appeal to specialists in modern Japan, Stolz’s sophisticated Marxian analysis of the subsumption of nature under capital is a significant contribution to environmental history that deserves a wide audience of environmental scholars." -- Tristan R. Grunow * Environmental History *"Stolz’s study has a relevance that goes far beyond its immediate time and place.... Bad Water is a very valuable contribution, not just to Japanese environmental history, but also to global debates on the present-day environmental impasse." -- Tessa Morris-Suzuki * Japanese Studies *"This is a fascinating book for those who are interested in Environmentalism in other countries, especially Japan." -- Miller, Ryder W. * Electronic Green Journal *"Most helpfully, Stolz provides readers with a deeper understanding of the human nature connection. Nature is not merely understood and manipulated by human actions...rather, humans’ relationship to nature arises from deeply held beliefs, theories and worldviews on a large scale. In other words, collective human theoretical understandings dictate the relationship to and with nature." -- Victoria Machado * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Decade of Leaks 19 2. Pollution and Peasants at the Limits of Liberalism 51 3. Nature over Nation: Tanaka Shozo's Environmental Turn 85 4. Natural Democracy 117 5. The Original Green Company: Snow Brand Dairy 159 Conclusion. Bad Water, a Theoretical Consideration 191 Appendix. Tanaka and Kotoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.Trade Review“The author presents important material that is new to environmental history, to intellectual history as well as to studies of Japan. He shows that Japan has a long history of environmental disasters and gives some sense of why this has been so. His individual case studies (Tanaka, Ishikawa and Kurosawa) are well selected. And his conclusions about the limitations of liberal democracy and of liberalism in any form are illuminating, thoughtful accurate and sobering. Nature does not care whether politicians or a majority of the population they lead recognize the greater frequency of extreme weather—including global warming—or not. These things are happening and surely require a far stronger response than any counter-measures that have been proffered up to now.”­ -- James Bartholomew * TLS *"A sound achievement in an area of modern Japanese thought too lightly regarded before now." -- Tom Havens * American Historical Review *"Stolz's book gains its special strength from its close intertwining of Marxist theory with the lives of the central protagonists... As this statement suggests, Bad Water successfully stitches together environmental history, a social ecology that predates that of Bookchin, and Marxist theory." -- Paul Waley * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Stolz brings to his study fresh and important perspectives on familiar events, intellectual trends, and individuals as well as introducing heretofore little-known (but significant) thinkers and narratives to the Western scholarship." -- William M. Tsutsui * Pacific Affairs *"Robert Stolz’s Bad Water is an impressive analysis of the history of the interaction between political and ecological thought in modern Japan.... This book is valuable to the study not only of Tanaka and of Japanese environmental problems but also of the history of ideas on the relationships among politics, society, the human body, and nature in a global context." -- Yuuki Tomozawa * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"While Bad Water’s close reading of the Ashio copper mine disaster and the origins of Japan’s environmental movement will appeal to specialists in modern Japan, Stolz’s sophisticated Marxian analysis of the subsumption of nature under capital is a significant contribution to environmental history that deserves a wide audience of environmental scholars." -- Tristan R. Grunow * Environmental History *"Stolz’s study has a relevance that goes far beyond its immediate time and place.... Bad Water is a very valuable contribution, not just to Japanese environmental history, but also to global debates on the present-day environmental impasse." -- Tessa Morris-Suzuki * Japanese Studies *"This is a fascinating book for those who are interested in Environmentalism in other countries, especially Japan." -- Miller, Ryder W. * Electronic Green Journal *"Most helpfully, Stolz provides readers with a deeper understanding of the human nature connection. Nature is not merely understood and manipulated by human actions...rather, humans’ relationship to nature arises from deeply held beliefs, theories and worldviews on a large scale. In other words, collective human theoretical understandings dictate the relationship to and with nature." -- Victoria Machado * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Decade of Leaks 19 2. Pollution and Peasants at the Limits of Liberalism 51 3. Nature over Nation: Tanaka Shozo's Environmental Turn 85 4. Natural Democracy 117 5. The Original Green Company: Snow Brand Dairy 159 Conclusion. Bad Water, a Theoretical Consideration 191 Appendix. Tanaka and Kotoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index

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Book SynopsisIn this environmental history of twentieth-century Mexico, Christopher R. Boyer conceptualizes the forests of Chihuahua and Michoacán as political landscapes. Conflicts among local landowners, the federal government and timber companies politicized these geographies, demonstrating the crucial role that social forces play in the construction of environments.Trade Review"Christopher R. Boyer’s superb history of forests, forestry, and conservation in Mexico makes innovative contributions to the historiography of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation, as well as to Mexico’s environmental history." -- Thomas Klubock * American Historical Review *"Boyer’s book is a significant accomplishment because it points a practical way forward in ongoing policy debates over the use of Mexico’s temperate forests—which will always represent contested, political landscapes—as well as reinforcing the nation’s overwhelming drive toward modernity over the long arc of the twentieth century." -- Evan R. Ward * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This volume offers a much-needed, detailed historiography of Mexican forestry.... [T]he analysis of community forestry, especially, contains offerings that make the read worthwhile." -- Nora Haenn * Agricultural History *"Documenting one hundred years of forest history is not easy, but Boyer has accomplished it in a book that has much to recommend it for classroom use.... [A]n excellent book that includes something not typical in history texts: a dose of humor. If you have never heard of 'pyromaniac campesinos' (p. 97), pick up this book." -- Myma Santiago * The History Teacher *"Political Landscapes is an incredible work of scholarship and an energetic example of environmental history’s potential.... You need not be interested in Mexico or even in forests to appreciate how this book excavates the repeating patterns of environmental history as a more complete rendering of the past." -- Emily Wakild * Environmental History *"[A]n impressive and important contribution to a number of fields. It will be necessary reading for scholars of Latin American environmental history, and deserves an audience among broad-minded policy-makers concerned with contemporary ecological problems. It will also be of great interest to historians of rural transformations and state formation in modern Mexico. The book’s clear prose and able blend of national trends with compelling local detail will benefit students in upper-level undergraduate courses and above." -- Thomas Rath * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Boyer’s book represents a signal achievement by persuasively documenting the ways forests in Mexico were shaped less by market forces, management policies, or population pressures than by the effects of political negotiation among the people and institutions that vied to determine how and for whose benefit they would be used. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in postrevolutionary Mexico and is ideal for use in upper-division undergraduate classes." -- Steven J. Bachelor * The Latin Americanist *"Christopher R. Boyer has written an empirically rich, conceptually sophisticated, and analytically sharp history of Mexico’s forests from the era of Porfirian development to the neoliberal present." -- Matthew Vitz * EIAL *"A pioneering history of environmental politics, the timber industry, and community activism in twentieth-century Mexico. . . . Impressive in its scope. Few histories of modern Mexico explore such a broad period." -- Michael Snodgrass * Labor *Table of ContentsIllustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Revolutionary Forestry 1. The Commodification of Nature, 1880–1910 25 2. Revolution and Regulation, 1910–1928 60 3. Revolutionary Forestry, 1928–1942 93 Part II. The Development Imperative 4. Industrial Forests, 1942–1958 129 5. The Ecology of Development, 1952–1972 167 6. The Romance of State Forestry, 1972–1992 203 Conclusion. Slivers of Hope in the Neoliberal Forest 239 Appendix 1. Federal Forestry Codes, 1926–2008 259 Appendix 2. UIEFs, 1945–1986 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 309 Index 327

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Book SynopsisFabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge. Trade Review"This is a timely ethnography of contemporary mining conflict... She offers an attractive understanding of “conflict.” No theory of resistance along the lines of already assumed, immutable material interests (such as mass protests or road blockades) can capture the nuances with which Li meticulously “unearths conflict.”... It is a must-read for veterans and newcomers to research in the anthropology of mining." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"This book does a lot and it does it well. It will be helpful not only in providing a rich foundation for studies of mining conflict in Peru, but also for students and scholars really looking for a way to illuminate the complexities of the common reality of community/government/corporate conflict over resource extraction in the name of 'development' throughout Latin America and beyond." -- Kristina Baines * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Li's] analysis is based on an extensive and exhaustive ethnographic research and informed by an analytical framework that is well suited for deconstructing, exploring, and unveiling. Unearthing Conflict is in this regard an obliged resource for those interested in understanding not only mining conflicts and activism or the complexities of human agency but also the broader interactions between humans and nature(s), especially in these critical times." -- Cristina Espinosa Ch. * American Anthropologist *"Fabiana Li’s innovative ethnography breaks new ground in conceptualizing the political ecology of mining controversies....The book makes a significant contribution to the field of political ecology by rethinking the ways in which landscapes take on political significance. It is highly recommended reading for students and scholars interested in environmental politics, corporate social responsibility, and social movements." -- Teresa A. Velásquez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Li’s extensive fieldwork in Peru adds authenticity and authority to each of her compelling case studies. The book is accessible to upper-division undergraduate courses as well as graduate seminars on modern Latin America. Anyone interested in conflicts over extractive resources, Andean mining communities, and social anthropology in Peru should add Unearthing Conflict to their reading lists." -- Stephen Cote * Environmental History *"Based on extensive local research, Li offers both a rich inside story of the different actors and interactions in Cajamarca and a valuable contribution to theory building." -- Barbara Hogenboom * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Unearthing Conflict is an excellent ethnographic treatment of mining corporations, their local and state supporters, and the activists who contest them. By complicating standard narratives of community opposition to mining with the perspective of contestations about equivalences, the book would enrich senior undergraduate and graduate courses about Latin America, resource extraction, expert knowledge, and human and non-human actors." -- Daniel Tubb * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. A Mining Country 1 Part I. Mining Past and Present 1. Toxic Legacies, Nascent Activism 35 2. Mega-Mining and Emergent Conflicts 71 Part II. Water and Life 3. The Hydrology of a Sacred Mountain 107 4. Inrrigation and Contested Equivalences 143 Part III. Activism and Expertise 5. Stepping outside the Document 185 Conclusion. Expanding Frontiers of Extraction 215 Notes 235 References 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisFabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge. Trade Review"This is a timely ethnography of contemporary mining conflict... She offers an attractive understanding of “conflict.” No theory of resistance along the lines of already assumed, immutable material interests (such as mass protests or road blockades) can capture the nuances with which Li meticulously “unearths conflict.”... It is a must-read for veterans and newcomers to research in the anthropology of mining." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"This book does a lot and it does it well. It will be helpful not only in providing a rich foundation for studies of mining conflict in Peru, but also for students and scholars really looking for a way to illuminate the complexities of the common reality of community/government/corporate conflict over resource extraction in the name of 'development' throughout Latin America and beyond." -- Kristina Baines * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Li's] analysis is based on an extensive and exhaustive ethnographic research and informed by an analytical framework that is well suited for deconstructing, exploring, and unveiling. Unearthing Conflict is in this regard an obliged resource for those interested in understanding not only mining conflicts and activism or the complexities of human agency but also the broader interactions between humans and nature(s), especially in these critical times." -- Cristina Espinosa Ch. * American Anthropologist *"Fabiana Li’s innovative ethnography breaks new ground in conceptualizing the political ecology of mining controversies....The book makes a significant contribution to the field of political ecology by rethinking the ways in which landscapes take on political significance. It is highly recommended reading for students and scholars interested in environmental politics, corporate social responsibility, and social movements." -- Teresa A. Velásquez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Li’s extensive fieldwork in Peru adds authenticity and authority to each of her compelling case studies. The book is accessible to upper-division undergraduate courses as well as graduate seminars on modern Latin America. Anyone interested in conflicts over extractive resources, Andean mining communities, and social anthropology in Peru should add Unearthing Conflict to their reading lists." -- Stephen Cote * Environmental History *"Based on extensive local research, Li offers both a rich inside story of the different actors and interactions in Cajamarca and a valuable contribution to theory building." -- Barbara Hogenboom * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Unearthing Conflict is an excellent ethnographic treatment of mining corporations, their local and state supporters, and the activists who contest them. By complicating standard narratives of community opposition to mining with the perspective of contestations about equivalences, the book would enrich senior undergraduate and graduate courses about Latin America, resource extraction, expert knowledge, and human and non-human actors." -- Daniel Tubb * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. A Mining Country 1 Part I. Mining Past and Present 1. Toxic Legacies, Nascent Activism 35 2. Mega-Mining and Emergent Conflicts 71 Part II. Water and Life 3. The Hydrology of a Sacred Mountain 107 4. Inrrigation and Contested Equivalences 143 Part III. Activism and Expertise 5. Stepping outside the Document 185 Conclusion. Expanding Frontiers of Extraction 215 Notes 235 References 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIn this environmental history of twentieth-century Mexico, Christopher R. Boyer conceptualizes the forests of Chihuahua and Michoacán as political landscapes. Conflicts among local landowners, the federal government and timber companies politicized these geographies, demonstrating the crucial role that social forces play in the construction of environments.Trade Review"Christopher R. Boyer’s superb history of forests, forestry, and conservation in Mexico makes innovative contributions to the historiography of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation, as well as to Mexico’s environmental history." -- Thomas Klubock * American Historical Review *"Boyer’s book is a significant accomplishment because it points a practical way forward in ongoing policy debates over the use of Mexico’s temperate forests—which will always represent contested, political landscapes—as well as reinforcing the nation’s overwhelming drive toward modernity over the long arc of the twentieth century." -- Evan R. Ward * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This volume offers a much-needed, detailed historiography of Mexican forestry.... [T]he analysis of community forestry, especially, contains offerings that make the read worthwhile." -- Nora Haenn * Agricultural History *"Documenting one hundred years of forest history is not easy, but Boyer has accomplished it in a book that has much to recommend it for classroom use.... [A]n excellent book that includes something not typical in history texts: a dose of humor. If you have never heard of 'pyromaniac campesinos' (p. 97), pick up this book." -- Myma Santiago * The History Teacher *"Political Landscapes is an incredible work of scholarship and an energetic example of environmental history’s potential.... You need not be interested in Mexico or even in forests to appreciate how this book excavates the repeating patterns of environmental history as a more complete rendering of the past." -- Emily Wakild * Environmental History *"[A]n impressive and important contribution to a number of fields. It will be necessary reading for scholars of Latin American environmental history, and deserves an audience among broad-minded policy-makers concerned with contemporary ecological problems. It will also be of great interest to historians of rural transformations and state formation in modern Mexico. The book’s clear prose and able blend of national trends with compelling local detail will benefit students in upper-level undergraduate courses and above." -- Thomas Rath * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Boyer’s book represents a signal achievement by persuasively documenting the ways forests in Mexico were shaped less by market forces, management policies, or population pressures than by the effects of political negotiation among the people and institutions that vied to determine how and for whose benefit they would be used. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in postrevolutionary Mexico and is ideal for use in upper-division undergraduate classes." -- Steven J. Bachelor * The Latin Americanist *"Christopher R. Boyer has written an empirically rich, conceptually sophisticated, and analytically sharp history of Mexico’s forests from the era of Porfirian development to the neoliberal present." -- Matthew Vitz * EIAL *"A pioneering history of environmental politics, the timber industry, and community activism in twentieth-century Mexico. . . . Impressive in its scope. Few histories of modern Mexico explore such a broad period." -- Michael Snodgrass * Labor *Table of ContentsIllustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Revolutionary Forestry 1. The Commodification of Nature, 1880–1910 25 2. Revolution and Regulation, 1910–1928 60 3. Revolutionary Forestry, 1928–1942 93 Part II. The Development Imperative 4. Industrial Forests, 1942–1958 129 5. The Ecology of Development, 1952–1972 167 6. The Romance of State Forestry, 1972–1992 203 Conclusion. Slivers of Hope in the Neoliberal Forest 239 Appendix 1. Federal Forestry Codes, 1926–2008 259 Appendix 2. UIEFs, 1945–1986 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 309 Index 327

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Book SynopsisIn Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Canadian Rockies. By presenting nature in ways attuned to Japanese culture, these guides translate nature, a process that makes visible the cultural construction of nature and subjectivities.Trade Review"Nature in Translation is an excellent ethnographic monograph that is both theoretically innovative and eminently readable.... Her work is pioneering in bringing both the Japanese studies and STS into one volume.... Nature in Translation is an excellent read for scholars and students who are interested in contemporary Japan as well as science studies of nature. Satsuka’s discussion of translation should provide fertile theoretical ground for upcoming studies on STS, and it has also opened up exciting new ways to study contemporary Japan." -- Satsuki Takahashi * Journal of Anthropological Research *"I... recommend this book to serious scholars of the cross-cultural dimensions of tourism. It is not a light read but it is an insightful read for tourism scholars with an interest in nature, translation and cross-cultural interactions." -- Tom Hinch * Tourism Geographies *"...an extraordinary achievement; a work at once ethnographically sensitive and theoretically innovative—not to mention operating as a marvelous travel guide to the travels of other guides. I hope this beautiful ethnography will be read widely by those who are interested in postcolonial science studies, in ecology, Japan studies, in the ontological turn(s) in STS and anthropology, and, of course, in multispecies anthropology." -- Moe Nakazora * Science as Culture *"Nature in Translation will interest many who wish to know more about how perceptions of nature and environment, as well as the explanatory framework, vary in different cultures and intellectual traditions, between Japan and Canada in particular. It will also benefit those in tourism studies in that it directs our attention to more complicated touristic encounters than a simple and straightforward encounter between hosts and guests." -- Okpyo Moon * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be Understood in Translation 1 Introduction 9 1. Narratives of Freedom 39 2. Populist Cosmopolitanism 67 3. The Co-Modification of Self 95 4. Gender in Nature Neverland 122 5. The Interpretation of Nature 147 6. The Allure of Ecology 183 Epilogue. Found in Translation 213 Notes 223 Reference List 241 Index 255

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Book SynopsisOver the course of several personal essays, genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home, all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.Trade Review"Eli Clare's Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements." -- Rachel Rosenbloom * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsForeword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later xxi A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian? xxvii The Mountain 1 Part I: Place Clearcut: Explaining the Distance 17 Losing Home 31 Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers 51 Clear Cut: End of the Line 61 Casino: An Epilogue 71 Part II. Bodies Freaks and Queers 81 Reading Across the Grain 119 Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143 Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161 Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165 Notes 173 Index 179

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Book SynopsisSean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.Trade Review"This insightful book is replete with illuminating examples and case studies, with subtle arguments that will likely prove prescient in years to come." -- Niall Flynn * LSE Review of Books *"Filled with cases of environment changes of contemporary age, Cubitt approaches the topic with journalistic clarity and deep comparative activist source-data, uncovering various types of criminal activities that he grounds with many background theories. . . . Similar to previous books, Finite Media is a rather short (and concentrated) reading, with an even lighter style that makes reading a very pleasurable experience." -- Ana Peraica * Leonardo Reviews *"Sean Cubitt’s Finite Media is so much more than the title suggests: it is a meticulously researched and thoughtful intervention into the linkages between digital media and environmental degradation." -- Sandra Robinson * Theory, Culture & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Eco-mediation 1 1. Energy 13 2. Matter 63 3. Eco-political Aesthetics 151 4. Ecological Communication as Politics 169 Coda on Saturn 193 References 201 Index 237

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Book SynopsisDavid McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.Trade Review“Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.” -- Sandra Moore * Anthropology Book Forum *"Energy without Conscience is a thoughtful take on how climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide collective conscience of wrongdoing." -- Trey Murphy * Geographical Review *"Hughes offers us a rich and important ethnographic account of Trinidad that marks the Caribbean nation not only as the site of Christopher Columbus’ third exploration to the Americas, but also as the world’s first petro- extractive geography. . . . Energy Without Conscience is a powerful and urgent book, one that furthers an understanding of global interconnectedness, not as a neoliberal project of unity, but through a web of danger, unequal outcomes, and a matrix of complicity." -- Macarena Gomez-Barris * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Overall, Hughes’s Energy Without Conscience gives us a deeply historicized description of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil economy. Most importantly, he describes the potentiality of the past to have led to different presents and inspires us to consider different futures…. [The book] raises important questions about the ethical considerations and responsibilities of doing research in a world facing climate catastrophe. Owing to the methodical issues it covers, it will be of particular interest to anyone planning and conducting research in the broad fields of energy humanities, the anthropology of climate change, and extractive industries.” -- Kari Dahlgren * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Energy with Conscience 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel 29 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment 41 Part II. Ordinary Oil 3. The Myth of Inevitability 65 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility 95 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot 120 Conclusion 141 Notes 153 References 165 Index 183

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Book SynopsisDavid McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.Trade Review“Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.” -- Sandra Moore * Anthropology Book Forum *"Energy without Conscience is a thoughtful take on how climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide collective conscience of wrongdoing." -- Trey Murphy * Geographical Review *"Hughes offers us a rich and important ethnographic account of Trinidad that marks the Caribbean nation not only as the site of Christopher Columbus’ third exploration to the Americas, but also as the world’s first petro- extractive geography. . . . Energy Without Conscience is a powerful and urgent book, one that furthers an understanding of global interconnectedness, not as a neoliberal project of unity, but through a web of danger, unequal outcomes, and a matrix of complicity." -- Macarena Gomez-Barris * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Overall, Hughes’s Energy Without Conscience gives us a deeply historicized description of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil economy. Most importantly, he describes the potentiality of the past to have led to different presents and inspires us to consider different futures…. [The book] raises important questions about the ethical considerations and responsibilities of doing research in a world facing climate catastrophe. Owing to the methodical issues it covers, it will be of particular interest to anyone planning and conducting research in the broad fields of energy humanities, the anthropology of climate change, and extractive industries.” -- Kari Dahlgren * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Energy with Conscience 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel 29 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment 41 Part II. Ordinary Oil 3. The Myth of Inevitability 65 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility 95 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot 120 Conclusion 141 Notes 153 References 165 Index 183

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Book SynopsisMikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of the Mexican revolution and agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region, showing how the contested modernization of the region's irrigation network unintentionally contaminated the water supply, deepened social inequality, and undermined reform efforts.Trade Review"[Watering the Revolution] will alter how scholars understand Mexico’s emblematic agrarian reform in La Laguna and, one would hope, how teachers teach it. . . . Without a doubt a major contribution to the field." -- Matthew Vitz * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"This book provides an almost entirely new disciplinary focus in Latin America by addressing the complex relationship between the environment and development: envirotech history. . . . Pioneering." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"Mikael Wolfe has delivered a pivotally important contribution to the ongoing transformation of our understanding of Mexico during its long, often conflictive, always contested twentieth century." -- John Tutino * Journal of Social History *"Wolfe . . . meticulously unpack[s] the history of social conflict and revolutionary water management in northern Mexico’s La Laguna cotton heartland during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries." -- Patrick Cosby * H-Water, H-Net Reviews *"This book provides important insights into the tensions between the need to develop water resources sustainably and the need for socio-economic development. . . . A definite ‘must’ for scholars of Mexican agrarian history and scholars interested in understanding how politics, technology and the environment intertwine to shape the dynamics of water resources development and its impacts on society." -- Jaime Hoogesteger * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"A revealing portrait of the difficulties that undergird the rapprochement of economic development and environmental conservation, Watering the Revolution is necessary reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate environmental history courses across geographical boundaries." -- Ela Miljkovic * Environment and History *"A landmark study. . . . This fresh vision of Mexican history over the long twentieth century should be considered as required reading for historians of technology, the environment, agrarian politics, and society in Latin America and beyond." -- Christopher Boyer * Environmental History *“A smart, well-crafted book.” -- Casey Walsh * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“The publication of this book by Mikael D. Wolfe is very good news for all scholars concerned with the twentieth-century history of Mexico and Latin America. Highly commended.” -- Luis Aboites Aguilar * Hispanic American Historical Review *“An impressive work of scholarship. Mikael D. Wolfe masterfully rewrites the history of Mexico’s arid north-central Laguna region.” -- Helga Baitenmann * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Though Wolfe’s research must fit into a broad spectrum of studies of the Laguna, the book’s focus on environmental history and its relationship to the history of technology differentiate this work from a long list of other publications. Indeed, it takes its rightful place in a current of Mexicanist historiography that chooses not to separate hydraulic and agrarian issues when studying diverse social spaces." -- Antonio Escobar Ohmstede * American Historical Review *"Wolfe’s book is interesting, convincing, and challenging. It is thorough, focused, and appropriately backed by statistical data." -- Eitan Ginzberg * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part I. El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution) 1. River of Revolution 23 2. The Debate over Damming and Pumping El Agua de la Revolución 59 3. Distributing El Agua de la Revolución 95 Part II. The Second Agrarian Reform 4. Life and Work on the Revolutionary Dam Site and Ejidos 131 5. (Counter)Revolutionary Dam, Pumps, and Pesticides 163 6. Rehabilitating El Agua de la Revolución 191 Epilogue. The Legacies of Water Use and Abuse in Neoliberal Mexico 219 Appendixes 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 287 Index 305

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Book SynopsisMikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of the Mexican revolution and agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region, showing how the contested modernization of the region's irrigation network unintentionally contaminated the water supply, deepened social inequality, and undermined reform efforts.Trade Review"[Watering the Revolution] will alter how scholars understand Mexico’s emblematic agrarian reform in La Laguna and, one would hope, how teachers teach it. . . . Without a doubt a major contribution to the field." -- Matthew Vitz * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"This book provides an almost entirely new disciplinary focus in Latin America by addressing the complex relationship between the environment and development: envirotech history. . . . Pioneering." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"Mikael Wolfe has delivered a pivotally important contribution to the ongoing transformation of our understanding of Mexico during its long, often conflictive, always contested twentieth century." -- John Tutino * Journal of Social History *"Wolfe . . . meticulously unpack[s] the history of social conflict and revolutionary water management in northern Mexico’s La Laguna cotton heartland during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries." -- Patrick Cosby * H-Water, H-Net Reviews *"This book provides important insights into the tensions between the need to develop water resources sustainably and the need for socio-economic development. . . . A definite ‘must’ for scholars of Mexican agrarian history and scholars interested in understanding how politics, technology and the environment intertwine to shape the dynamics of water resources development and its impacts on society." -- Jaime Hoogesteger * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"A revealing portrait of the difficulties that undergird the rapprochement of economic development and environmental conservation, Watering the Revolution is necessary reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate environmental history courses across geographical boundaries." -- Ela Miljkovic * Environment and History *"A landmark study. . . . This fresh vision of Mexican history over the long twentieth century should be considered as required reading for historians of technology, the environment, agrarian politics, and society in Latin America and beyond." -- Christopher Boyer * Environmental History *“A smart, well-crafted book.” -- Casey Walsh * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“The publication of this book by Mikael D. Wolfe is very good news for all scholars concerned with the twentieth-century history of Mexico and Latin America. Highly commended.” -- Luis Aboites Aguilar * Hispanic American Historical Review *“An impressive work of scholarship. Mikael D. Wolfe masterfully rewrites the history of Mexico’s arid north-central Laguna region.” -- Helga Baitenmann * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Though Wolfe’s research must fit into a broad spectrum of studies of the Laguna, the book’s focus on environmental history and its relationship to the history of technology differentiate this work from a long list of other publications. Indeed, it takes its rightful place in a current of Mexicanist historiography that chooses not to separate hydraulic and agrarian issues when studying diverse social spaces." -- Antonio Escobar Ohmstede * American Historical Review *"Wolfe’s book is interesting, convincing, and challenging. It is thorough, focused, and appropriately backed by statistical data." -- Eitan Ginzberg * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part I. El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution) 1. River of Revolution 23 2. The Debate over Damming and Pumping El Agua de la Revolución 59 3. Distributing El Agua de la Revolución 95 Part II. The Second Agrarian Reform 4. Life and Work on the Revolutionary Dam Site and Ejidos 131 5. (Counter)Revolutionary Dam, Pumps, and Pesticides 163 6. Rehabilitating El Agua de la Revolución 191 Epilogue. The Legacies of Water Use and Abuse in Neoliberal Mexico 219 Appendixes 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 287 Index 305

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Book SynopsisSara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking in the United States and how scientists, nonprofits, landowners, and everyday people are coming together to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through the creation of digital platforms and databases that document fracking's devastating environmental and human health impacts.Trade Review"Wylie makes an exciting and timely scholarly contribution that is relevant well beyond the scope of those concerned with the anthropology of energy. This book is useful to social scientists to inform research and teaching on topics spanning science and technology studies, energy policy, sustainability,environmental health, digital humanities, and applied and design anthropology. The relevance of this work also extends beyond academia, and would be of great value not only to gas patch communities that are still struggling to demonstrate the links between chemical exposure and illness, but to community leaders and activists that are engaged in a growing array of citizen science initiatives." -- Amanda Poole * Conservation and Society *"Fractivism is an incredibly well-sourced book that presents and represents a kind of historical account of the newer applications of fracking technology (fracking reservoirs isn’t actually new) and various approaches scientists and communities are using to hold exploration companies accountable for the environmental problems resulting from fracking operations. . . . Well worth reading. Highly recommended. All readers." -- M. S. Field * Choice *"Written with a strong sense of conviction and urgency. . . . An important and timely book that offers essential reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in civic science and the David-and-Goliath struggle of the popular epidemiology movement to help grassroots groups document the toxic burden posed by petrochemical and fossil fuel facilities." -- Anthony E. Ladd * Mobilization *"It is a credit to the book that every chapter has its share of galling information about corporate malfeasance. . . . As forests burn and famine grows, the need for Wylie’s radical science and activism is ever more necessary." -- Miles Taylor * Synoptique *"Fracktivism is a meticulously researched and supported text. . . . For academics, lawmakers, and activists, Fracktivism may give either the insight, data, or motivation for a new platform in piercing the 'regimes of imperceptibility.'" -- Victor Hall * Natural Resources Journal *"Fractivism truly is an interdisciplinary work, combining insights and methodologies from anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, environmental science, and physiology. Wylie does a good job of integrating these perspectives to produce a compelling and detailed guide for collaborative environmental justice work." -- Kristen M. Schorpp * Nature and Culture *"Positioning matters of science and technology at the heart of environmental justice and the study of extractive industries, Wylie contributes to important debates in anthropology, applied social sciences and STS which concern the methodological and conceptual ability of these disciplines to challenge dominant paradigms." -- Anna Szolucha * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *"Fractivism is especially useful for the classroom and for interdisciplinary researchers and students alike to understand how 'STS in practice' can be a model for material projects that unite those who want to try and find solutions with others—not in isolation. This book is a tool for those looking to utilize research, data, or analytical methods for social and environmental justice movements broadly." -- Leslie Quintanilla * Catalyst *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. An STS Analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States 1 1. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oilfield Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions 19 2. Methods for Following Chemicals: Seeing a Disruptive System and Forming a Disruptive Science 41 3. HEIRship: TEDX and Collective Inheritance 64 4. Stimulating Debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's Generative Database 86 5. Industrial Relations and an Introduction to STS in Practice 115 6. ExtrAct: A Case Study in Methods for STS in Practice 137 7. Landman Report Card: Developing Web Tools for Socially Contentious Issues 165 8. From LRC to WellWatch: Designing Infrastructure for Participatory and Recursive Publics 191 9. WellWatch: Reflections on Designing Digital Media for Multisited Para-ethnography of Industrial Systems 219 10. The Fossil-Fuel Connection (with coauthor Len Albright) 247 Conclusion. Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds: A Call for Industrial Embodiment 279 Notes 305 References 333 Index 383

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Book SynopsisIn The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, Gómez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics. She also examines the decolonizing politics of a Bolivian anarcho-feminist collective and a coalition in eastern EcuadTrade Review"The Extractive Zone offers a glimpse into what kind of world may be possible through the everyday practices and knowledges of submerged perspectives." -- Megan Spencer * The New Inquiry *"A timely study. . . . The result of substantive situated fieldwork. . . . There may be no greater testament to the value and urgency of decolonial approaches to embodied vernacular knowledge today." -- Kimberly Richards * TDR: The Drama Review *"Gómez-Barris’s compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. . . . This is all provocative and engaging material, particularly when set against political economic critiques of extractivism." -- Joe Bryan * The Americas *"Gómez-Barris’s writing provides an anecdote to technocratic visions of 'green capitalism' by foregrounding questions of justice, identity, and the contingency of politics. Scholars interested in the debates animating anti-extractive social movements in Latin America and beyond should begin here." -- Matthew Shutzer * Enterprise & Society *"The Extractive Zone contributes an important feminist and indigenous hemispheric genealogy and cultural studies lens on current political economic debates circulating in Latin America and beyond regarding alternatives to growth-oriented, capitalist and extractive-based models of development. The book also complicates heroic and romantic readings of the conceptual and legal mechanisms surrounding the state-based rhetoric of buen vivir in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North." -- Kristina Lyons * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. Below the Surface xiii Introduction. Submerged Perspectives 1 1. The Intangibility of the Yasuní 17 2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism 39 3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation 66 4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization 91 5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique 110 Conclusion. The View from Below 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 165 Index 179

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Book SynopsisSara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking in the United States and how scientists, nonprofits, landowners, and everyday people are coming together to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through the creation of digital platforms and databases that document fracking's devastating environmental and human health impacts.Trade Review"Wylie makes an exciting and timely scholarly contribution that is relevant well beyond the scope of those concerned with the anthropology of energy. This book is useful to social scientists to inform research and teaching on topics spanning science and technology studies, energy policy, sustainability,environmental health, digital humanities, and applied and design anthropology. The relevance of this work also extends beyond academia, and would be of great value not only to gas patch communities that are still struggling to demonstrate the links between chemical exposure and illness, but to community leaders and activists that are engaged in a growing array of citizen science initiatives." -- Amanda Poole * Conservation and Society *"Fractivism is an incredibly well-sourced book that presents and represents a kind of historical account of the newer applications of fracking technology (fracking reservoirs isn’t actually new) and various approaches scientists and communities are using to hold exploration companies accountable for the environmental problems resulting from fracking operations. . . . Well worth reading. Highly recommended. All readers." -- M. S. Field * Choice *"Written with a strong sense of conviction and urgency. . . . An important and timely book that offers essential reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in civic science and the David-and-Goliath struggle of the popular epidemiology movement to help grassroots groups document the toxic burden posed by petrochemical and fossil fuel facilities." -- Anthony E. Ladd * Mobilization *"It is a credit to the book that every chapter has its share of galling information about corporate malfeasance. . . . As forests burn and famine grows, the need for Wylie’s radical science and activism is ever more necessary." -- Miles Taylor * Synoptique *"Fracktivism is a meticulously researched and supported text. . . . For academics, lawmakers, and activists, Fracktivism may give either the insight, data, or motivation for a new platform in piercing the 'regimes of imperceptibility.'" -- Victor Hall * Natural Resources Journal *"Fractivism truly is an interdisciplinary work, combining insights and methodologies from anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, environmental science, and physiology. Wylie does a good job of integrating these perspectives to produce a compelling and detailed guide for collaborative environmental justice work." -- Kristen M. Schorpp * Nature and Culture *"Positioning matters of science and technology at the heart of environmental justice and the study of extractive industries, Wylie contributes to important debates in anthropology, applied social sciences and STS which concern the methodological and conceptual ability of these disciplines to challenge dominant paradigms." -- Anna Szolucha * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *"Fractivism is especially useful for the classroom and for interdisciplinary researchers and students alike to understand how 'STS in practice' can be a model for material projects that unite those who want to try and find solutions with others—not in isolation. This book is a tool for those looking to utilize research, data, or analytical methods for social and environmental justice movements broadly." -- Leslie Quintanilla * Catalyst *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. An STS Analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States 1 1. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oilfield Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions 19 2. Methods for Following Chemicals: Seeing a Disruptive System and Forming a Disruptive Science 41 3. HEIRship: TEDX and Collective Inheritance 64 4. Stimulating Debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's Generative Database 86 5. Industrial Relations and an Introduction to STS in Practice 115 6. ExtrAct: A Case Study in Methods for STS in Practice 137 7. Landman Report Card: Developing Web Tools for Socially Contentious Issues 165 8. From LRC to WellWatch: Designing Infrastructure for Participatory and Recursive Publics 191 9. WellWatch: Reflections on Designing Digital Media for Multisited Para-ethnography of Industrial Systems 219 10. The Fossil-Fuel Connection (with coauthor Len Albright) 247 Conclusion. Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds: A Call for Industrial Embodiment 279 Notes 305 References 333 Index 383

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"More about possibilities than prescription, A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is one of the most compelling texts on course design I’ve encountered—which is why I will keep it nearby as I revise my own environmental and U.S. history courses." -- Amy Kohout * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wakild and Berry have accomplished a first. They have published a usable, innovative, and relevant guide to teaching environmental history that should be on every historian’s bookshelf at a time when enrollment trends jeopardize the stability and future of the humanities. From this perspective,Wakild and Berry provide a compelling defense of the profession. Instructors must continue to adapt to the shifting landscape of academia in the twenty-first century. It is only fitting that environmental historians be at the forefront of that effort." -- Brittany B. Fremion * Environmental History *"The richness of content and context provided by Wakild and Berry makes it hard to not want to teach a course on environmental history, or at the very least attempt one of the assignments outlined in the book. Still, the book deserves a wider audience than just those who might readily see its appeal and educators from a variety of fields and levels of experience could find ways to adapt the approaches to their lesson plans and goals. It is an excellent starting point for designing a new course or even refreshing the content of an existing one." -- Abbey Lewis * Electronic Green Journal *"Every environmental historian, or those wishing to inject a little environmental history into their curriculum, should read [this book]. It is a rich and engaging resource for all aspects of environmental history pedagogy. The authors have a wealth of teaching experience and their enthusiasm for their subject is infectious." -- Frank Zelko * Journal of World History *“This very timely and important book has ideas for almost every kind of educator, and a little environmental history can go a long way. I have recommended it to friends and colleagues who teach in both high schools and colleges, and I recommend it to you now.” -- Raechel Lutz * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *"This book has the immense merit of inviting all historians to consider the need to integrate a material and ecological dimension into their teaching." -- Renaud Becot * Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: How to Make Use of This Book ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Approaches 1. The Fruit: Into Their Lunch Bags to Teach Relevance and Globalization with Food 13 2. The Seed: Using Learning Objectives to Build a Course 27 3. The Hatchet: Wielding Critique to Reconsider Periodization and Place 39 4. The Llama: Recruiting Animals to Blend Nature and Culture 53 Part II. Pathways 5. The Fields: Science and Going Outside 71 6. The Land: Sense of Place, Recognition of Spirit 85 7. The Power: Energy and Water Regimes 99 Part III. Applications 8. The People: Environmental Justice, Slow Violence, and Project-Based Learning 115 9. The Tools: Using Technology to Enhance Environmental History 131 10. The Test: Assessment Methods, Rubrics, and Writing 141 Epilogue 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 163 Index 177

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"More about possibilities than prescription, A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is one of the most compelling texts on course design I’ve encountered—which is why I will keep it nearby as I revise my own environmental and U.S. history courses." -- Amy Kohout * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wakild and Berry have accomplished a first. They have published a usable, innovative, and relevant guide to teaching environmental history that should be on every historian’s bookshelf at a time when enrollment trends jeopardize the stability and future of the humanities. From this perspective,Wakild and Berry provide a compelling defense of the profession. Instructors must continue to adapt to the shifting landscape of academia in the twenty-first century. It is only fitting that environmental historians be at the forefront of that effort." -- Brittany B. Fremion * Environmental History *"The richness of content and context provided by Wakild and Berry makes it hard to not want to teach a course on environmental history, or at the very least attempt one of the assignments outlined in the book. Still, the book deserves a wider audience than just those who might readily see its appeal and educators from a variety of fields and levels of experience could find ways to adapt the approaches to their lesson plans and goals. It is an excellent starting point for designing a new course or even refreshing the content of an existing one." -- Abbey Lewis * Electronic Green Journal *"Every environmental historian, or those wishing to inject a little environmental history into their curriculum, should read [this book]. It is a rich and engaging resource for all aspects of environmental history pedagogy. The authors have a wealth of teaching experience and their enthusiasm for their subject is infectious." -- Frank Zelko * Journal of World History *“This very timely and important book has ideas for almost every kind of educator, and a little environmental history can go a long way. I have recommended it to friends and colleagues who teach in both high schools and colleges, and I recommend it to you now.” -- Raechel Lutz * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *"This book has the immense merit of inviting all historians to consider the need to integrate a material and ecological dimension into their teaching." -- Renaud Becot * Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: How to Make Use of This Book ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Approaches 1. The Fruit: Into Their Lunch Bags to Teach Relevance and Globalization with Food 13 2. The Seed: Using Learning Objectives to Build a Course 27 3. The Hatchet: Wielding Critique to Reconsider Periodization and Place 39 4. The Llama: Recruiting Animals to Blend Nature and Culture 53 Part II. Pathways 5. The Fields: Science and Going Outside 71 6. The Land: Sense of Place, Recognition of Spirit 85 7. The Power: Energy and Water Regimes 99 Part III. Applications 8. The People: Environmental Justice, Slow Violence, and Project-Based Learning 115 9. The Tools: Using Technology to Enhance Environmental History 131 10. The Test: Assessment Methods, Rubrics, and Writing 141 Epilogue 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 163 Index 177

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Book SynopsisWritten in the 1950s, Hays' work provides a history of the conservation movement's origins and provides a context for contemporary environmental problems and possible solutions. It shows how conservation came about as a an attempt by scientists to apply their skills to the use of natural resources.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.

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Book SynopsisThis volume assembles leading experts in policy, history, and activism to address Israel's continuing environmental transformation from the biblical era through its future aspirations, with a particular focus on the past one hundred and fifty years.

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Book SynopsisFeatures the essays that reconceive the place of religion for critical thought following the 'turn to religion' in Continental philosophy, framing issues for exploration, and including questions of justice, anxiety, and evil; the sublime, and of the soul haunting genetics; and, how reason may be reshaped.Trade Review"... is a quite scholarly, informed and informative collection of erudite essays ..." -Wisconsin Bookwatch

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Book SynopsisSydney Iaukeaâs impeccably researched account of the origins and subsequent development of North Beach West Maui is more that just a scholarly monograph. It is a story that chronicles both the Hawaiian history of the aina as well as the waves of grass roots movements that sought to preserve precious spaces for future public use.

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Book SynopsisOffers a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies.

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Book SynopsisCeates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. The book effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history.

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Book SynopsisThe Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their long-distance migrations, and their influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific.Trade ReviewEncompassing the expansive ocean, Migrant Ecologies finds coherence in Matt Masuda’s conception of the Pacific as a place of “multiple translocalisms,” marvelously varied culturally and ecologically, but tied together by movement. Here a splendid cast of characters-sooty shearwaters, chickens, dogs, rats, whales, tuna, sweet potatoes, breadfruit, and people-cross latitude, longitude, and coast lines, shaping lands and lives as they go, but all the while subject to the effects of human impacts, cultural mores, climatic circumstances, and other influences. So we see Maori hunting affecting the diet of Indigenous North Americans, traditional patterns of island land-holding working against the introduction of commercial farming, and tourists altering the nearshore ecology of Hawai‘i. In this intriguing environmental history, exceptionalism and cosmopolitanism go hand in hand to complicate the ramifications of development and extractivism." - Graeme Wynn. The University of British Columbia"From bird migration to nuclear radiation, Migrant Ecologies brilliantly demonstrates how migration and mobility underpinned environmental histories of the Pacific World from the deep past to the present. This illuminating book invigorates debates about indigenous histories and agency by showing how human and non-human migration have fundamentally shaped the Pacific in every historical period. Migrant Ecologies not only offers a new way to understand the Pacific but also provides a model for other environmental histories struggling to reconcile global and indigenous paradigms in a conceptual framework." - Brett Bennett, University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University

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Book SynopsisExploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy. The author examines how governmental bodies and public institutions have suppressed the expression of ideas that conflict with the financial interests of those who profit from fossil fuels.

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Book SynopsisExplains how climate change is already impacting the vegetation, wildlife, and the natural conditions in Olympic, Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks. A poignant and thought-provoking work, this book investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.Table of Contents List of Maps Foreword William R. Lowry Introduction Chapter One. Olympic National Park Chapter Two. Grand Canyon National Park Chapter Three. Glacier National Park Chapter Four. Yellowstone National Park Chapter Five. Yosemite National Park Conclusion Acknowledgments William R. Lowry Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever.

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Book SynopsisCurates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler- itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector - whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’ during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away.Trade ReviewNo one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life's work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands. Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years--and we are lucky to have it."—Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild: EssaysTable of Contents Prologue. Rambling Reflections of the Reservoir of Memory 1. Our Window: An Editorial--1972 2. The Practice of Aural History 3. Native Windows into the Natural World 4. Aldo Leopold in the Southwest 5. Averting Dystopia 6. LUCA's Dream 7. Conflicting Ideologies 8. Counterculture in the Land of Clear Light 9. In Praise of Restoration Ecology 10. Nature Abhors a Maximum 11. A Sonoran Illumination 12. Thinking Like a Watershed 13. The Colorado River Compact Is 100 Years Old 14. On Direct Action 15. A Case for Naturist Anarchism 16. Naturizing Consciousness 17. Seeking Coherence 18. Lingering Speculations Conclusion. Invigorating Metamorphosis Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisGlobal interest in forest conservation, biodiversity preservation, and non-timber values has risen while pressures on the forest as a source of income and employment have also increased. These demands are often conflicting, making forest planning, allocation and policy formation very complex. This volume explores theoretical and applied issues surrounding forest resource allocation. The book is divided into three main subject areas: tropical forests - environment, economics and trade; non-timber valuation - theory and application; and ecosystem management. The first of these focuses on tropical forests, reflecting the fact that global environmental concerns surrounding these regions are often in conflict with local economic objectives. The second section examines non-timber values, which are important in planning and policy decisions, but are also very controversial. The third group of chapters consider ecosystem management, a concept that promotes the use of forest harvesting practiceTable of Contents1: Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development, E N Castle 2: Global Environmental Value and the Tropical Forests: Demonstration and Capture, D Pearce 3: Local Timber Production and Global Trade: The Environmental Implications of Forestry Trade, R A Sedjo 4: Can Tropical Forests be Saved by Harvesting Non-Timber Products? A Case Study for Ecuador, D Southgate, M Coles-Ritchie and P Salazar-Canelos 5: Conflicts between trade and sustainable forestry policies in the Philippines, H W Wisdom 6: Measuring general public preservation values for forest resources: evidence from contingent valuation surveys, J B Loomis 7: Citizens, consumers and contingent valuation: clarification and the expression of citizen values and issue-opinions, R K Blamey 8: Moral responsibility effects in valuation of WTA for public and private goods by the method of paired comparison, G L Peterson, T C Brown, D W McCollum, P A Bell, A A Birjulin and A Clarke 9: Integrating cognitive psychology into the contingent valuation method to explore the trade-offs between non-market costs and benefits of alternative afforestation programs in Ireland, W G Hutchinson and S M Chilton 10: Valuing tropical rainforest protection using the contingent valuation method, R A Kramer, E Mercer and N Sharme 11: The safe minimum standard approach: an alternative to measuring non-use values for environmental assets? R P Berrens 12: An economic-ecological model for ecosystem management, R Mendelsohn 13: Application of a bioeconomic strategic planning model to an industrial forest in Saskatchewan, B Stewart and M Martel 14: Incentives for managing landscapes to meet non-timber goals: lessons from the Washington landscape management project, B Lippke 15: Perspectives on educating forestry professionals in an environmentally conscious age, J C Nautiyal

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Book SynopsisPublished on behalf of The Task Force on Tourism and Protected Areas of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), this book serves as a comprehensive record of the tourism issues discussed at the World Parks Congress held in Durban, South Africa in 2003. The issues discussed reflect the past 10 years of global challenges and lessons learnt in protected area management, the place of tourism in this and the projected issues for the next decade.Table of ContentsI: Foreword, D Sheppard, WCPA II: Preface, Eugenio Yunis, WTO Section 1: Tourism and Conservation in the 21st Century 1: Tourism and Protected Areas: Benefits Beyond Boundaries, R Bushell, R Staiff, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and P Eagles 2: Tourism as a Tool for Conservation and Support of Protected Areas: Setting the Agenda, R Bushell, and S F McCool, The University of Montana, USA 3: Global Trends Affecting Tourism in Protected Areas, P F Eagles 4: Key Principles and Directions for Tourism in Protected Areas: A Review of Existing Charters, Guidelines and 5: Declarations, J Foxlee, Darwin, AustraliaSection 2: Management Issues and Case Studies 6: Tourism, Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas in Developing Nations, L M Scherl, Arcadia, Australia and S Edwards, Recreation and Conservation International, Ecuador 7: Joint Management: Aboriginal involvement in tourism in the Kakadu World Heritage Area, P Wellings, Darwin, Australia 8: Tourism as a tool for community-based conservation and development, P Figgis, World Commission on Protected Areas, Australia, T Berno and R Bushell 9: The World Heritage Tourism Programme: Lessons Learned, A Pederse, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, France 10: Transfrontier Conservation Areas and Sustainable Nature-based Tourism, A Spenceley, Durban, South AfricaSustainable Nature Tourism in Europe: An Overview of NGOs, M Schelhaas, Plantage Middenlaan 2K, The Netherlands 11: Capacity-Building for Ecotourism: Training Programmes for Managers of Protected Areas, W Strasdas, University of Applied Sciences, Eberswalde, Germany, B Corcoran, Howick, South Africa and T Petermann, InWEnt, Germany 12: The Role of Certification and Accreditation in EnsuringTourism Contributes to Conservation, M Honey, The International Ecotourism Society, USASection 3: Economic Issues and Case Studies 13: Tourism-based Revenue Generation for Conservation, A Drumm, The Nature Conservancy, USA 14: Economic Impacts of Parks on Surrounding Communities: Findings from New South Wales, N Conner, NSW 15: Department of Environment & Conservation, AustraliaManagement Information Tools for Setting Visitor Fees, K Lindberg, Oregon State University, USA 16: Conservation and Community Development:The Conservation Corporation Africa Model, L Carlisle, CC Africa, South Africa 17: Sabi Sabi: A Model for Effective Ecotourism, Conservation and Community Involvement, R Loon, Hoedspruit, South Africa, I Harper, and P Shorten 18: Financial Parks through Marketing: A Case Study of Ontario Parks, E Halpenny, Waterloo, Canada 19: Concessions and Commercial Development: Experience in South African National Parks, P Fearnhead, Sunninghill, South Africa 20: Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef: A Partnership Approach, A Skeat and H Skeat, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia Section 4: Conclusion 21: Tourism, Protected Areas and the World Parks Congress: Fundamental Lessons, New Horizons and Promising Directions, S F McCool, P F J Eagles, R Bushell and J McNeely, Gland, Switzerland

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Book SynopsisBiodiversity has been identified as a key issue in the general debate about the sustainable use of the world's natural resources. Major international efforts are now underway to assess and maintain biodiversity. However, there is an urgent need to collect, manage and disseminate information related to biodiversity in an efficient and effective way. The purpose of this book is to review the needs and opportunities for information and efficient information flows in support of world priorities in biodiversity. It is based on papers presented at a workshop held in London in July 1996, organized by CAB International with the support of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), IUCN The World Conservation Union and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Contributors include leading players from organizations concerned with conserving and managing biodiversity, based in Europe and the USA as well as develoTable of Contents1: Keynote Address 2: The importance of biodiversity information Sir Crispin Tickell, Green College, The Radcliffe Observatory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 3: Defining and Meeting Needs for Information 4: Information Needs in Biodiversity Assessments - From Genes to Ecosystems V H Heywood, University of Reading, UK 5: Assessing Information Needs for Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biodiversity Dan H Janzen, University of Pennsylvania, USA and R Gámez, INBio, Santa Domingo de Herdia, Costa Rica 6: Defining and Meeting Needs for Information: Agriculture and Forestry Perspective T J B Boyle, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia and J M Lenné, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India 7: Collecting and Managing the Information 8: Information Needs of Inventory Programmes D L Hawksworth and R K Mibey, University of Nairobi, Kenya 9: Wider Use and Application of Indigenous Knowledge, Innovations and Practices: Information Systems and Ethical Concerns D D Posey, The Oxford Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 10: Management of Information to Support Conservation Decision Making J R Busby, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK 11: Overview of the UNEP/GEF Biodiversity Data Management Project (BDM) F Duff, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya 12: Distributing the Information 13: The Role of Information in the Operation of the Convention on Biological Diversity C Juma, UNEP, World Trade Centre, Montreal, Canada 14: Designing Information Systems to Support Biodiversity Conservation B A Stein, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, USA 15: Networks for Distributing Information V P Canhos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil, G P Manfio, Tropical Culture Collection, Fundação de Pesquisas e Tecnologia, Brasil, D A L Canhos, Tropical Database, Fundacao de Pesquisas e Tecnologia, Brasil 16: Biodiversity: The Role of Information Technology in Distributing Information J R Burley, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, P R Scott, CAB INTERNATIONAL, Wallingford, UK and A W Speedy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 17: Overall Conclusions 18: Final Report Recommendations

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Book SynopsisBiological control has been central to many recent successful integrated pest management programmes. It is also the natural choice where protection of the environment is particularly important. This book reviews current knowledge of biocontrol programmes in the tropics, particularly in developing countries. It is based on papers presented at a symposium held in Malaysia in March 1999. Contributors include authorities from Europe, North America and Australia, as well as from South-East Asia.Table of Contents1: Plenary papers 2: Biological control of arthropod pests: current trends and emerging issues 3: Advances in biological control of arthropod pests in tropical countries 4: Biological control of weeds – a viable alternative? 5: Managing plant pathogens – delivery systems and ecological considerations 6: Prospects and challenges of biological control of vertebrates 7: Biological control of molluscs: prospects and progress 8: Biologically-based technologies in support of classical biological control 9: Poster papers

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Book SynopsisThe global tourism industry continues a trend of sustained growth, moving more people and generating domestic and foreign revenues, often at the expense of the social and ecological integrity of destination regions. As a result, tourism policy makers have been forced to consider a variety of new approaches to ensure that the environment, local people, tourists, and business remain unaffected by the negative impacts of the industry.Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: UNDERSTANDING ECOTOURISM POLICIES Chapter 1: Institutional arrangements for ecotourism policy,Michael Hall, University of Otago, New Zealand Chapter 2: Linking biodiversity and sustainable tourism policy,Chrostopher Holtz and Steve Edwards, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA Chapter 3: Culture, consumption and ecotourism policies,David Crouch and Scott McCabe, University of Derby, UK Chapter 4: Economic instruments of environmental tourism derived from environmental theories,Tanja Mihalic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia SECTION TWO: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES Chapter 5: Local government, world heritage and ecotourism: policy and strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests, D Dredge, University of Newcastle, Australia and J Humphreys, Humphreys Reynolds Perkins, Planning and Environment Consultants, Australia Chapter 6: Processes in formulating an ecotourism policy for nature reserves in Yunnan Province, China,Trevor Sofield & Li, Fung Mei Sarah (Australia) SECTION THREE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES Chapter 7: Ecotourism development and government policy in Kyrgyzstan,Karen Thompson, University of Salford, UK and Nicola Foster, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Chapter 8: Ecotourism development in Fiji: policy, practice, and political instability,Kelly Bricker, West Virginia University, USA Chapter 9: Ecotourism and protected areas in Australia,John Jenkins, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and Stephen Wearing, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia Chapter 10: The scope and scale of ecotourism in New Zealand: a review and consideration of current policy initiatives,James Higham and Anna Carr, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Chapter 11: Ecotourism policy and practice in New Zealand's national estate,Ken Simpson, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand SECTION FOUR: CONTINENTAL CASE STUDIES Chapter 12: Ecotourism management in Europe: lessons from the biosphere reserves in central and eastern Europe,Dimitrios Diamantis, Les Roches Management School, Valais, Switzerland and Colin Johnson, Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Chapter 13: A regional look at ecotourism policy in the Americas,Stephen Edwards, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA, and William MacLaughlin & Sam Ham, Department of Resource Recreation & Tourism, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA Chapter 14: Ecotourism policy and issues in Antarctica,Thomas Bauer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China and Ross Dowling 15: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisAs a result of the ongoing growth in the tourism industry, many destinations around the world are undergoing transformations. New destinations are being 'discovered' in regions previously ignored, as people search for regions that are yet unspoiled by the ravages of mass tourism. At the same time, traditional destinations are experiencing rapid environmental, socio-cultural and economic modifications. These changes have the most effect on the destination community - the location where tourists spend their time and money, and influence development or degradation of the local environment.Tourism in Destination Communities describes both the positive and negative effects of tourism on the destination community. The chapters are divided into three sections which address the relationship between tourism and the destination community, the various impacts of tourism on the destination community and the challenges and opportunities for destination communities. Each chapter contains brieTable of ContentsPart 1: Community-Tourism Perspectives 1: Tourism and Destination CommunitiesS Singh, D J Timothy and R K Dowling 2: Destination Communities: Structures, Resources and TypesS Singh and S W Boyd, Otago University, New Zealand Part II: Community-Tourism Dynamics 3: The Economics of Tourism in Host CommunitiesD Ioannides, Southwest Missouri State University, USA 4: Tourism and Local Society and CultureM Fagence, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 5: Heritage, Identity and Places: For Tourists and Host CommunitiesG J Ashworth, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 6: Politics and Place: An Analysis of Power in Tourism CommunitiesC M Hall, Otago University, New Zealand 7: Self Determination: Exercising Indigenous Rights in TourismA.M. Johnston, International Support Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Vancouver, Canada 8: Generating Goodwill in Tourism through Ethical Stakeholder InteractionsD A Fennell, Brock University, Ontario, Canada and K Przeclawski, University of Warsaw, Poland Part III: Challenges and Opportunities for Destination Communities 9: Development Issues in Destination CommunitiesD J Telfer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada 10: Appropriate Planning for Tourism in Destination Communities: Participation, Incremental Growth and CollaborationC Tosun, Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Turkey and D J Timothy 11: Community Attitudes: Tourism Development in Natural EnvironmentsR K Dowling 12: Local Involvement in Managing TourismR Scheyvens, Massey University, New Zealand 13: Presenting Destinations: Marketing Host CommunitiesG Moscardo and P Pearce, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia 14: Understanding Tourism and Destination CommunitiesD J Timothy, S Singh and R K Dowling I: Index

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Book SynopsisThis important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently facing conservation at international level.Trade ReviewA major work: this book provides a comprehensive picture of the international legal challenges of natural heritage conservation. Truly an indispensable tool for policy-makers, experts and students. The book offers a complete guide to the complex world of treaties that regulate conservation at the global scale. --Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for CultureThis book is written by a prominent and influential scholar who also has the benefit of first hand knowledge of practical working of environmental regimes, having participated in several important negotiations. Gillespie's monograph therefore stands out among other publications on the subject of conservation, combining thoughtful and scholarly approach to issues raised with un-parallel insights into the working of environmental law and the conservation of biodiversity. The book is very original in its presentation of this subject, especially in the selection of topics and the approach which is not only legal but also scientific, philosophical and political. This book is evidence of the great erudition of the author not only in the field of conservation but also in international environmental law and general international law, an example of which can be his analysis of the precautionary principle, trade and a very complex issue of the exception for indigenous peoples and science. Mention also must be made of his detailed approach to various multilateral treaty regimes such as Ramsar Convention and the World Heritage Convention. Gillespie wrote an exceptional book which is a must for international layers, both practitioners and scholars. It is a thought-provoking, very well researched and original monograph, which due to its all- encompassing approach will retain its importance for a very long period of time. --Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary, University of London, UKThe book is an important contribution to environmental literature and specifically to environmental law internationally. International lawyers, both practitioners and academic lawyers alike - as well as policymakers - will welcome this thorough, scholarly and readable monograph as a must-have addition to their libraries. --Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Species and Areas 3. Extinct and Endangered 4. Classifications 5. Tangible Benefits 6. Intangible Considerations 7. Habitat 8. Trade 9. Exceptions for Indigenous Peoples, Science and the Military 10. Aliens, Disease, Pests, and Genetically Modified Species 11. Incidental Capture 12. Development 13. Overlaps and Gaps 14. Compliance 15. Compliance on the High Seas 16. Management 17. Access and Benefit Sharing 18. Local Peoples, Education and Finance 19. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis series of readings from "Conservation Biology" gives access to papers published in a range of important fields. This book about perspectives on landscape can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of representative papers available in a format students can use.Table of ContentsBiological consequences of ecosystem fragmentation: a review; Conservation of fragmented populations; Extinctions in subdivided habitats (Quinn/Hastings); A comment on Quinn and Hastings: extinction in subdivided habitats (Gilpin); Extinction in subdivided areas: a reply to Gilpin; Consequences and costs of conservation corridors (Simberloff/Cox); Corridors in real landscapes: a reply to Simberloff and Cox; Movement corridors: conservation bargains or poor investments?; Desert-dwelling mountain sheep: conservation implications of a naturally fragmented distribution; Ecological principles for the design of wildlife corridors; The principle of nested subsets and its implications for biological conservation; Nested subsets and the distribution of birds on isolated woodlots; The effect of edge on avian nest success: how strong is the evidence; The effects of fencelines on the reproductive success of Loggerhead Shrikes; Forests too deer: edge effects in northern Wisconsin; Eastern hemlock regeneration and deer browsing in the northern Great Lakes region: a re-examnination and model simulation; Avian survival rates and the extinction process on Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Forest fragmentation and bird extinctions: San Antonio eighty years later; Geographic range fragmentation and abundance in neotropical migratory birds; Area requirements for the conservation of rain forest raptors and game birds in French Guiana; Spatial models and Spotted Owls: exploring some biological issues behind recent events; Land forms and winter habitat refugia in the conservation of montane grasshoppers in southern Africa; Response of early successional vertebrates to historic changes in land use; Pollination in Dianthus deltoides (Caryophyllaceae); Forest fragmentation and alien plant invasion of central Indiana old-growth forests; Trends in landscape heterogeneity along the borders of Great Smoky Mountains National Park; An ecological evaluation of proposed new conservation areas in Idaho: evaluating proposed Idaho national parks; A comparison of direct and environmental domain approaches to planning reservation of forest higher plant communities and species in Tasmania; Modeling effects of land management in the Brazilian Amazonian settlement of Rondonia

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Book SynopsisPresents the searing eyewitness testimony and ground-breaking legal arguments that persuaded the court that fracking and resulting climate warming breach both substantive and procedural rights guaranteed by international law, that governments are complicit in these rights-violations, and that the practice of fracking should be banned.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the author's experience as a paddler and as the leader of an environmental nonprofit working to protect the Willamette River, this book illustrates what it is like to travel the Willamette River Greenway. It also provides an account of how the State of Oregon and other entities fail to protect the river's water quality and habitat.

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Book SynopsisA biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen Blair tells the story of the activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conservation battles of the 1980s, interweaving it with the natural and political history of the landscape that inspired her.

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