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University of Michigan Press The Politics of Beginning
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The University of Michigan Press Rejecting Climate Doomism
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University of California Press Building Green
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India's first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book's focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in Building Green act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future.Trade Review"Will make us think in a different way about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them." * International Institute for Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. City Ascending, City Imploding 2. The Integrated Subject 3. Ecology in Practice: Environmental Architecture as Good Design 4. Rectifying Failure: Imagining the New City and the Power to Create it 5. More than Human Nature and the Open Space Predicament 6. Consciousness and Indian-ness: Making Design “Good” 7. A Vocation in Waiting: Ecology in Practice 8. Soldiering Sustainability Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Truth about Nature Environmentalism in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book for people wanting to understand the interactions between social media and other platforms, truth, and the environment. While the book does not offer easy answers, it will be useful to scholars and practitioners in multiple fields who are working on their diagnosis of the problem." * Journal of Development Studies *"The significance of this book goes far beyond the environmental dimension, as the main argument and the detailed analysis to which it gives rise are of the utmost importance for understanding the social and political tensions that animate the world today." * New Global Studies *"Truth is a prime example of topical, generative, cutting-edge contemporary political ecology. . . .Thanks to Büscher’s versatility and clear language, the book is commendable to students of political ecology, sociology, online cultures, social theory scholars, conservation practitioners, and other interested non-academics." * Human Ecology *"Truth About Nature reads like a remedy thanks to its political-ecological outlook, with its feet on the empirical ground, its heart in the practical world, and its head in the conceptual sky; it stands contradictions and does what others only write about- dialectics." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Truth about Nature? Part One. (Meta)theoretical Bearings 1. Truth Tensions Part Two. The Political Economy of Platforms, Post-truth, and Power 2. Sharing Truths and Natures 3. Between Platforms, Post-truth, and Power Part Three. Environmentalism 2.0 4. Conservation 2.0: The Politics of Cocreation 5. Elephant 2.0: The Politics of Platforms 6. Kruger 2.0: The Politics of Distinction 7. Rhino 2.0: The Politics of Hysteria Conclusion: Speaking Truth to Power Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Continent in Dust
Book SynopsisIn China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand the rise of China literally, as the country itself rises into the air? Trade Review"Continent in Dust is a timely and critical intervention in the roles and relationships of China and Asia in weather-world-systems. . . . It is a welcome contribution to a growing conversation about how material, ecological and meteorological phenomena are mutually implicated with practices, knowledges and experiences of sovereignty, ethics, and sociality." * International Journal of Asian Studies *"Continent in Dust is a literary adventure." * Anthropology and Humanism *"Continent in Dust is an ambitious and intriguing book. A delightful read which should be widely utilized in teaching and discussions on contemporary China and planetary health and change." * The China Quarterly *"More than anything, Continent in Dust is an essential intervention into recent writings about the arts of living amid planetary uncertainty, precarity and ruin. Reading this book is like seeing the blue sky emerge from a dust storm’s haze. Jerry Zee shows us how to reorient our senses and conceptual toolkits to see onto other possible worlds." * Inner Asia *"The book reframes how we think and write about practical action and responses in the face of climate emergency." * Publics Books *"A groundbreaking book on the management of dust storm and air quality in China. . . . Zee’s book is an enduring meditation on the consequences of China’s modernisation." * China Perspectives *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Apparatus A. Nightwind Introduction: Earthly Interphases Part I Wind-Sand Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel 1. Machine Sky Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand 2. Groundwork Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years 3. Holding Patterns Part II Fine Particulate Matter 4. Particulate Exposures Apparatus E. Wildfires 5. City of Chambers Part III Continent in Dust Apparatus F. A Sinocene 6. Downwinds Apparatus G. Monsters Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press The LowCarbon Contradiction
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Table Preface Acronyms Introduction 1. Against the Energy Empire 2. Electrification or Death 3. Blackout 4. Socialist Redistribution and Autonomous Infrastructure 5. The Energy Revolution Conclusion: Energy Transitions and Infrastructural Form Notes Bibliography Index
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Princeton University Press Rethinking Private Authority
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the author shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the years, largely in the area of treaty implementation.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government "In this pioneering work, Green explores how governmental and private actors can work together to institute regulations to address global environmental problems... [I]ts conclusions have implications for the entire field of international relations. The work is carefully argued, clearly written, and supported by an extensive bibliography."--Choice "The author has to be acclaimed for her ability to wade through hundreds if not thousands of documents, verify their authenticity and reach conclusions on the variety of measures taken by the private sector in cooperation with governments, international organisations or independently, to discharge their responsibility toward containing emissions."--Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environmental Studies "[Green] offer[s] novel and insightful empirical descriptions of the operation of private authority in contemporary global governance."--Elizabeth Acorn, Global Law Books "Offer[s] a persuasive framework for identifying and analyzing private authority at the international level. The usefulness of the framework is illustrated here by extended empirical studies."--Kathryn Hochstetler, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Acronyms xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Theory of Private Authority 26 Chapter 2. Agents of the State: A Century of Delegation in International Environmental Law 54 Chapter 3. Governors of the Market: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Authority 78 Chapter 4. Atmospheric Police: Delegated Authority in the Clean Development Mechanism 104 Chapter 5. Atmospheric Accountants: Entrepreneurial Authority and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol 132 Chapter 6. Conclusion 163 Bibliography 183 Index 207
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Princeton University Press Climate Shock
Book SynopsisIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren'Trade Review2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection One of the Globalist's Top Books of 2015 Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 "[Climate Shock] is a witty, far-ranging, and literate set of observations...[I]t is always informed by a deep understanding of the complexities of economics and particularly the difficulties of reaching international environmental agreements."--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-NYRB-Nordhaus] "'Top 10: Business & Economics' for Spring 2015."--Publishers Weekly [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-PublishersWeekly] "Economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman deliver a high-voltage shock in their analysis of the costs of climate change."--Nature [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Nature] "[U]seful for policy workers in helping shape dollars-and-cents arguments about the environment and global climate."--Kirkus [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Kirkus] "[A]n impressive (and concise) book."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-EnlightenedEcon] "This informative, convincing, and easily read book offers general audiences the basic case for global climate mitigation."--Ian Parry, Finance & Development [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FD-Parry] "This book represents a synthesis of research and offers a clear-headed look at what must be done."--Toronto Star [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-TorontoStar] "Climate Shock is refreshing in many ways: it starts with a pop quiz, reveals the script of a (possible) new James Bond film and gives you the solution to climate change on page 23. That should be enough to entice a broad readership. However, the book's true value lies elsewhere, in the authors' ability to present a complex and multifaceted topic in plain, simple terms. They challenge assumptions and don't shy away from a clear call for action."--Swenja Surminski, Times Higher Education "For the intelligent lay reader wanting a lively, lucid assessment of the economic consequences of global warming... [W]ell worth reading."--Pilita Clark, Financial Times [See full review http://www.bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Clark] "[Climate Shock] combines sophisticated analysis with a breezy, informal style."-- Foreign Affairs [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FA-Cooper] "[A] sobering wake-up call ... In my mind, this book should be required reading for any policymaker. The world might actually make some real progress, then."--Tibi Puiu, ZME Science [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-ZMES-Puiu] "In Wagner and Weitzman's new book, they present a well written analysis of the tradeoffs we collectively face as we unintentionally unleash climate change. They argue that a risk averse person or nation should buy insurance to protect itself--especially when the losses from climate change are ambiguous and fat tail risk could be huge. The book is well argued and I highly recommend it. The economic approach to discussing climate change offers a new prospective relative to the issues that climate scientists focus on."--Matthew E. Kahn, Green Economics [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-GE-Kahn] "[A] welcome new addition to the growing library of depressing but important books about climate change."--Tom Watson, Real Change News [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-RCN-Watson] "[Climate Shock] delivers a brief but thorough look at the changing climate from economists' perspective, comparing global warming with other risks and dangers that humanity faces... [T]he book does serve as a call to arms for business owners and leaders, economists, and policymakers who have been searching for a purely rational, finance-focused take on climate change."--Katie Fehrenbacher, Strategy + Business [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Strategy-Fehrenbacher] "[A] punchy new book."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Wolf] "[A] terrific new book."--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Sandbu] "Climate Shock should shift our narrative on climate change... Wagner and Weitzman have some policy recommendations, including electricity-grid reform and higher gas taxes. But the real power of their book is its explanation of the right way to think about climate change. Do we really want to take an 11 percent gamble with the planet?"--Peter Orszag, Bloomberg View [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Bloomberg-Orszag] "Climate Shock is an authoritative call to arms for tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time."--LSE [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-LSE] "[A] lively and thought-provoking book."--Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-summerbooks] "Climate Shock could have reasonably been called But Will the People Notice? It's a layperson's survey of climate economics, a field that includes cost-benefit analysis and other economic research on climate change impacts and climate change policies... Beyond just being mathematically accessible--an accomplishment in itself--Climate Shock is an unconventional book that takes risks in an effort to connect with audiences who might otherwise turn away."Yoram Bauman, Reports of the National Center for Science Education "Overflowing with analytical insights and simple suggestions to transform the way we live and manage ourselves."--Deccan Herald "A brilliant analysis of the fragility of our debt-fuelled economies."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times, a FT Best Book of 2015 "Economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman deliver a stinging slap to the reluctant or somnolent negotiator."--Barbara Kiser, Nature.com's A View from the Bridge blog "A great book on global warming risk and economics."--Andrew Revkin, NYTimes.com's Dot Earth blogTable of ContentsPreface: Pop Quiz ix Chapter 1. 911 1 Chapter 2. 411 30 Chapter 3. Fat Tails 48 Chapter 4. Willful Blindness 80 Chapter 5. Bailing Out the Planet 92 Chapter 6. 007 116 Chapter 7. What You Can Do 128 Epilogue: A Different Kind of Optimism 148 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 155 Bibliography 207 Index 243
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Princeton University Press Climate Shock
Book SynopsisIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren'Trade Review2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection One of the Globalist's Top Books of 2015 Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 "[Climate Shock] is a witty, far-ranging, and literate set of observations...[I]t is always informed by a deep understanding of the complexities of economics and particularly the difficulties of reaching international environmental agreements."--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-NYRB-Nordhaus] "'Top 10: Business & Economics' for Spring 2015."--Publishers Weekly [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-PublishersWeekly] "Economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman deliver a high-voltage shock in their analysis of the costs of climate change."--Nature [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Nature] "[U]seful for policy workers in helping shape dollars-and-cents arguments about the environment and global climate."--Kirkus [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Kirkus] "[A]n impressive (and concise) book."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-EnlightenedEcon] "This informative, convincing, and easily read book offers general audiences the basic case for global climate mitigation."--Ian Parry, Finance & Development [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FD-Parry] "This book represents a synthesis of research and offers a clear-headed look at what must be done."--Toronto Star [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-TorontoStar] "Climate Shock is refreshing in many ways: it starts with a pop quiz, reveals the script of a (possible) new James Bond film and gives you the solution to climate change on page 23. That should be enough to entice a broad readership. However, the book's true value lies elsewhere, in the authors' ability to present a complex and multifaceted topic in plain, simple terms. They challenge assumptions and don't shy away from a clear call for action."--Swenja Surminski, Times Higher Education "For the intelligent lay reader wanting a lively, lucid assessment of the economic consequences of global warming... [W]ell worth reading."--Pilita Clark, Financial Times [See full review http://www.bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Clark] "[Climate Shock] combines sophisticated analysis with a breezy, informal style."-- Foreign Affairs [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FA-Cooper] "[A] sobering wake-up call ... In my mind, this book should be required reading for any policymaker. The world might actually make some real progress, then."--Tibi Puiu, ZME Science [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-ZMES-Puiu] "In Wagner and Weitzman's new book, they present a well written analysis of the tradeoffs we collectively face as we unintentionally unleash climate change. They argue that a risk averse person or nation should buy insurance to protect itself--especially when the losses from climate change are ambiguous and fat tail risk could be huge. The book is well argued and I highly recommend it. The economic approach to discussing climate change offers a new prospective relative to the issues that climate scientists focus on."--Matthew E. Kahn, Green Economics [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-GE-Kahn] "[A] welcome new addition to the growing library of depressing but important books about climate change."--Tom Watson, Real Change News [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-RCN-Watson] "[Climate Shock] delivers a brief but thorough look at the changing climate from economists' perspective, comparing global warming with other risks and dangers that humanity faces... [T]he book does serve as a call to arms for business owners and leaders, economists, and policymakers who have been searching for a purely rational, finance-focused take on climate change."--Katie Fehrenbacher, Strategy + Business [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Strategy-Fehrenbacher] "[A] punchy new book."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Wolf] "[A] terrific new book."--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-Sandbu] "Climate Shock should shift our narrative on climate change... Wagner and Weitzman have some policy recommendations, including electricity-grid reform and higher gas taxes. But the real power of their book is its explanation of the right way to think about climate change. Do we really want to take an 11 percent gamble with the planet?"--Peter Orszag, Bloomberg View [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-Bloomberg-Orszag] "Climate Shock is an authoritative call to arms for tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time."--LSE [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-LSE] "[A] lively and thought-provoking book."--Financial Times [See full review http://bit.do/ClimateShock-FT-summerbooks] "Climate Shock could have reasonably been called But Will the People Notice? It's a layperson's survey of climate economics, a field that includes cost-benefit analysis and other economic research on climate change impacts and climate change policies... Beyond just being mathematically accessible--an accomplishment in itself--Climate Shock is an unconventional book that takes risks in an effort to connect with audiences who might otherwise turn away."Yoram Bauman, Reports of the National Center for Science Education "Overflowing with analytical insights and simple suggestions to transform the way we live and manage ourselves."--Deccan HeraldTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition ix Preface: Pop Quiz xi Chapter 1. 911 1 Chapter 2. 411 30 Chapter 3. Fat Tails 48 Chapter 4. Willful Blindness 80 Chapter 5. Bailing Out the Planet 92 Chapter 6. 007 116 Chapter 7. What You Can Do 128 Epilogue: A Different Kind of Optimism 148 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 155 Bibliography 207 Index 243
£15.19
Princeton University Press The Battle for Yellowstone Morality and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "The most original political book of early 2015 is not formally about politics at all. Instead The Battle for Yellowstone by Justin Farrell, a young scholar at Yale University, ponders venomous rows that have shaken Yellowstone National Park in recent decades, and why they are so intractable."--Economist "In a refreshingly honest and balanced treatment, Farrell (sociology, Yale Univ.) addresses the spiritual elephant in the environmental room: the most perplexing environmental questions, the answers to which 'are only possible and made meaningful in the context of larger moral orders and spiritual narratives that shared human cultures are built upon.' With great insight and careful analysis, he examines the various reasons deep moral and spiritual meanings are often ignored, muted, and misunderstood. His scholarly diagnosis is well documented and thoroughly researched."--Choice "Written in a highly accessiblemanner and will be of interest to many, including environmental sociologists, sociologists of culture and cognition, and sociologists of religion... This book offers a rich analysis of the irascible conflicts over the human/nature relationship in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the moral and cultural embeddedness of scientific and economic discourse."--Rebecca R. Scott, American Journal of Sociology "The book rests on awe-inspiring research... A deeply informed and balanced discussion emerges... An engaging narrative and insightful, provocative analysis. The book deserves and will reward a wide audience, but those interested in environmental, western, and twentieth-century U.S. topics will find it particularly useful."--Todd M. Kerstetter, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray 1 Introducing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 5 Toward a Theory of Morality and Environment 8 Human Believers, Narrative Structure, and Enacting Moral Orders 12 Theoretical Contributions 17 A Roadmap 29 1.Believing in Yellowstone: The Moralization of Nature and the Creation of America's Eden 34 Early Utilitarian Use and the Formation of Yellowstone National Park 40 A Spiritual Moral Vision 52 A Biocentric Moral Vision 56 Social Change and the "Greater" Yellowstone Ecosystem 60 Conclusion 65 2.The New (Wild) West: Social Upheaval, Moral Devaluation, and the Rise of Conflict 66 The Old West, and Roots of the New 70 The Rise of the New-West 75 The Moral Effects of New-West Change 89 Environmental Conflict 96 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Stakeholder Arena 100 The Rise of Conflict, 1870-2012 108 Conclusion 118 3.Buffalo Crusaders: The Sacred Struggle for America's LastWild and Pure Herd 119 Overview of the Issue 122 The Buffalo Field Campaign 125 The Moral Logic of a Movement: Purity, Wildness, Virtue 132 Successes of Moral-Spiritual Protest 146 Concluding Puzzle: Religious and Moral "Muting" 159 Conclusion 166 4.Between Good and Evil: The Science, Culture, and Polarization of Wolf Conflict 168 Uncovering the Anti-Wolf Moral Order 172 Rugged American Individualism 174 Human Dominionism 180 Simple and Sacred Heritage 188 Uncovering the Pro-Wolf Moral Order 196 Features of the Pro-Wolf Moral Order 198 The Primary Role of Morality and Spirituality 203 Multiple Meanings: Co-Occurrence of Spirituality and Rationality 208 Conclusion 213 5.Drilling Our Soul: Moral Boundary Work in an Unlikely Old-West Fight against Fracking 217 A State of Mining 221 Drilling in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 225 Considering Alternative Explanations 233 "Too Special to Drill": Place Attachment and Drawing Moral Boundaries 238 Three Profiles of Old-West Environmentalists 243 Moral Boundary Work and the Meaning of Activism 252 Conclusion 256 Conclusion 258 Appendix: Methodological Notes 263 Bibliography 271 Index 283
£25.20
Princeton University Press Hydropolitics
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipoe Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways energy shapes politics and economics.ics.Trade Review"Hydropolitics is a lively account of the political maneuvering that led to the construction and operation of the planet’s largest generator of hydroelectricity. It speaks to urgent questions in environmental anthropology while advancing conversations in political and legal anthropology around sovereignty and social theories of the state."—Caroline Schuster, Australian National University "This fascinating and original book explores one of the most unusual feats of politics and engineering of the twentieth century. Itaipu Dam’s unique position among megadams as a binational corporation forces us to completely rethink the relationship between energy and sovereignty, and Folch invites us into the story with first-rate research, keen analysis, and narrative verve."—Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University
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Princeton University Press Running Out
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Award""Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West""Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History""Kansas Notable Book of the Year""Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West""Winner of the Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology""[Running Out] bursts with passages that linger after reading. . . . haunting."---Christopher Flavelle, New York Times"A moving, melancholy, environment-focused memoir." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"A short beauty of a book."---M.J. Andersen, Boston Globe"Anthropologist Bessire (Behold the Black Caiman) combines ethnography and memoir in this deeply personal look at the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. . . . A devastating portrait of how shortsighted decisions lead to devastating losses." * Publishers Weekly *"Lucas Bessire’s poignant critique of dramatic groundwater decline in southwest Kansas and resistance to addressing it offers perspective on our failure to confront climate change. . . . This tale on the ebbing of the Ogallala Aquifer is a valuable addition to the literature of aquifer depletion, compelling for its insider’s perspective and probing of contradictory human decisions that discount the future for immediate reward."---Dennis Dimick, Cleveland Review of Books"To try to get a grip on the cultural forces behind the [aquifer] depletion, [Bessire] began interviewing stakeholders in the vicinity of his family’s property and wrote this very personal account, which includes both analysis of complicity and elegiac passages about his homeland’s history and our dry future. . . . Stirring."---Flora Taylor, American Scientist"A profound and eloquent meditation on how and why societies behave in seemingly irrational ways in the face of dwindling resources, impoverished environments, and attenuated social relationships."---Paul Sutter, Kansas History"Highly recommended . . . Bessire’s achievement in Running Out lies in his ability to open to the reader the water-consciousness of the people of the region. . . . Reading [Running Out] is time well spent."---Michael J. Smith, Nebraska History"Running Out is a book for our times - it should have an impact on policy, and become a classic."---John Miles, National Parks Traveler"Eminently readable. . . .The sense of loss that necessarily pervades Running Out is balanced by Bessire’s lyrical prose, whose consistently crisp beauty serves as a welcome respite."---Ed Meek, The Arts Fuse"[Running Out] should be required reading for every environmental scientist."---David Dent, International Journal of Environmental Studies
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Pesticides A Love Story Americas Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
Book SynopsisWhy - in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness - do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer.Trade ReviewWhy did pesticide use soar despite warnings of costs? Michelle Mart suggests that the answer lies in the stories Americans have told themselves about progress, modernity, and better living through chemistry. Did love for these ideals blind Americans to flaws in the objects of their affection? Read this book to find out."" - Edmund Russell, author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring""Pesticides, a Love Story offers a rich narrative describing how chemical pesticides became so ubiquitous in American culture and the global environment. Astute and dogged research make for a conceptually strong synthesis, which reveals the roots of the American love affair with chemical pesticides, while chronicling how this affection grew over time."" - David Kinkela, author of DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the WorldTable of Contents Introduction 1. Falling in Love: The Golden Age of Synthetic Pesticides 2. Trouble in Paradise: The USDA and the Rise of Critical Voices 3. Breakup? The Cultural Impact of Rachel Carson’ Silent Spring 4. Foreign Affairs: How Pesticides Could Help Americans Feed the World and Win a War 5. The Twenty-Year Itch: Activists, Experts, and the Regulatory Era 6. Love Is Blind: Chemical Disasters at Home and Abroad 7. Recommitment: Endocrine Disruptors, GMOs, and Organic Food Conclusion Acknowledgment Notes Bibliography Index
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University of British Columbia Press Passing the Buck
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.Trade ReviewWell-structured chapters with concise conclusions … For individuals working with environmental protection policy this book should provide a greater understanding of the process … Kathryn Harrison has proved an interesting look at the workings of federal government policy setting. * Canadian Field Naturalist *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Federalism and Environmental Policy2 Federalism, Policy-Making, and Intergovernmental Politics3 The Constitutional Framework: Constraints and Opportunities4 The Emergence of Federal Involvement, 1969–725 The Federal Retreat, 1972–856 The Second Wave: The Re-emergence of the Federal Role, 1985–957 Conclusions
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University of British Columbia Press The International Politics of Whaling
Book SynopsisThe International Politics of Whaling examines contemporary whaling issues with an emphasis on three factors: our knowledge of whales and current whale populations and the impact of whaling; the actors and institutions involved in the debate over whaling; and the ethical dimension.Trade ReviewThe book offers a useful corrective to the argument advanced by some environmental non-governmental organizations and countries that commercial whaling poses the greatest threat to the world’s cetacean species. * International Journal, Autumn 1997 *The International Politics of Whaling is a fascinating and timely account of a major collision involving environment, economics, politics, and ethics ... The text is crisp, well organized ... Highly recommended. -- Patrick Colgan * Canadian Book Review Annual *Table of Contents1 Ecopolitics: The International Dimension2 The Whale and the Whaler3 Cetapolitics: The IWC, Foreign Policies, and NGOs4 Whale Ethics: A Normative Discussion5 Conclusion: Whales and World PoliticsAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The International Politics of Whaling
Book SynopsisThe International Politics of Whaling examines contemporary whaling issues with an emphasis on three factors: our knowledge of whales and current whale populations and the impact of whaling; the actors and institutions involved in the debate over whaling; and the ethical dimension.Trade ReviewThe book offers a useful corrective to the argument advanced by some environmental non-governmental organizations and countries that commercial whaling poses the greatest threat to the world’s cetacean species. * International Journal, Autumn 1997 *The International Politics of Whaling is a fascinating and timely account of a major collision involving environment, economics, politics, and ethics ... The text is crisp, well organized ... Highly recommended. -- Patrick Colgan * Canadian Book Review Annual *Table of Contents1 Ecopolitics: The International Dimension2 The Whale and the Whaler3 Cetapolitics: The IWC, Foreign Policies, and NGOs4 Whale Ethics: A Normative Discussion5 Conclusion: Whales and World PoliticsAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Integrity Gap Canadas Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.Trade ReviewA useful matrix in the introductory chapter identifies the institutional constraints that prevent Canadian governments delivering stated environmental goals ... The case studies offer useful support for this hypothesis. -- Tony Jackson, University of Dundee * British Journal of Canadian Studies, 12 November 2005 *Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Institutions and the Integrity Gap in Canadian EnvironmentalPolicy / Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl 2. How Canada's Stumbles with Environmental Risk ManagementReflect an Integrity Gap / William Leiss 3. Canadian Environmental Policy and the Natural Resource Sector:Paradoxical Aspects of the Transition to a Post-Staples PoliticalEconomy / Michael Howlett 4. International Institutions and the Framing of Canada'sClimate Change Policy: Mitigating or Masking the Integrity Gap? /Steven Bernstein 5. Energy Mixes and Future Scenarios: The Nuclear OptionDeconstructed / Michael D. Mehta 6. Participatory Management and Sustainability: Evolving Policy andPractice in a Mountain Environment / Fikret Berkes, Jay Anderson,Colin Duffield, J.S. Gardner, A.J. Sinclair, and Greg Stevens 7. Policy Communities and Environmental Policy Integrity: A Tale ofTwo Canadian Urban Air Quality Initiatives / Anthony Perl 8. Integrity of Land-Use and Transportation Planning in the GreaterToronto Area / Richard Gilbert 9. Toronto's Exhibition Place: Closing the Integrity Gap betweena Nineteenth-Century Fairground and a Sustainable Twenty-First-CenturyCity / David Gurin 10. Conclusion / Anthony Perl and Eugene Lee Notes on Contributors Index
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University of British Columbia Press Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental
Book SynopsisThis innovative book offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues, provding one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.Trade ReviewA useful addition … [There is a] paucity of readable and perceptive political science in this field … [this book] crackle[s] with interesting ideas and testable hypotheses. * Canadian Public Policy *Praise for the 1st editionAn excellent book … accessible, well written and well researched. It provides a first-rate introduction to the dilemmas and controversies surrounding Canadian natural resource and environmental policy and as such it will facilitate discussion in the classroom and encourage students to think about the issues. -- Heather A. Smith * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsFigures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Introduction1 Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Issues and ApproachesPart 2: The Context(s) of Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy2 The Socioeconomic Context: Canadian Resource Industries and the Postwar Canadian Political Economy3 The Institutional Context: The Canadian Constitution, Aboriginal Rights, and International Agreements Affecting Resources and the EnvironmentPart 3: Analyzing Natural Resource and Environmental Policy4 The Resource and Environmental Policy Process: An Analytical FrameworkPart 4: The Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Process5 Agenda Setting: The Role of the Public in Resource and Environmental Policy Formation6 Policy Formulation: Identifying the Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy Subsystem7 Decision Making: The Politics of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy8 Policy Implementation: The Administration of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy9 Policy Evaluation: The Political, Administrative, and Judicial Assessment of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy10 Conclusion: The Future of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy ParadigmNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.Trade ReviewThe Aquaculture Controversy is a valuable contribution to a critical Canadian policy debate—one that is bound to inform future studies on the unfolding blue revolution and its ongoing Canadian impacts. -- Dean Bavington * Literary Review of Canada *Young’s and Matthews’ Aquaculture Controversy in Canada deserves special attention for at least two reasons: Firstly, because it is a book vigorously written to unfold the many layers of the aquaculture debate with Canada as a major player as well as — one is tempted to overstate — a “victim” of the global industry. Secondly, the book is an excellent example of good sociology -- Matthias Gross, University of Halle, Germany * Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 36(1) 2011 *This book offers intriguing insights into the debates about aquaculture and the reasons why the various parties, whether for or against, are so entrenched in their views. It should be of interest to current stakeholders in the industry as well as fisheries scientists and scholars. -- Miriam Wright, University of Windsor * International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XXIV No 1 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: A High-Speed Collision: Aquaculture as Intersection and Metaphor1 Aquaculture in a Global Context2 Aquaculture in a Local ContextPart 2: Knowledge Battlefield3 Knowledge Battlefield: Science, Framing, and “Facts”4 Knowledge Warriors? Experts and the Aquaculture Controversy5 Media and the Knowledge Battlefield / with Mary ListonPart 3: Political Economy6 Aquaculture and Community Development7 Governing AquacultureConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.Trade ReviewThe Aquaculture Controversy is a valuable contribution to a critical Canadian policy debate—one that is bound to inform future studies on the unfolding blue revolution and its ongoing Canadian impacts. -- Dean Bavington * Literary Review of Canada *Young’s and Matthews’ Aquaculture Controversy in Canada deserves special attention for at least two reasons: Firstly, because it is a book vigorously written to unfold the many layers of the aquaculture debate with Canada as a major player as well as — one is tempted to overstate — a “victim” of the global industry. Secondly, the book is an excellent example of good sociology -- Matthias Gross, University of Halle, Germany * Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 36(1) 2011 *This book offers intriguing insights into the debates about aquaculture and the reasons why the various parties, whether for or against, are so entrenched in their views. It should be of interest to current stakeholders in the industry as well as fisheries scientists and scholars. -- Miriam Wright, University of Windsor * International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XXIV No 1 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: A High-Speed Collision: Aquaculture as Intersection and Metaphor1 Aquaculture in a Global Context2 Aquaculture in a Local ContextPart 2: Knowledge Battlefield3 Knowledge Battlefield: Science, Framing, and “Facts”4 Knowledge Warriors? Experts and the Aquaculture Controversy5 Media and the Knowledge Battlefield / with Mary ListonPart 3: Political Economy6 Aquaculture and Community Development7 Governing AquacultureConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press BlueGreen Province
Book SynopsisBlue-Green Province provides the first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario and explores what lessons on the future of environmental and economic policy in Canada might be learned from this province’s experience.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 The Environment and the Dynasty3 The Environment and Ontario’s Quiet Revolution4 Sustainable Development, Restructuring, and Recession5 The Environment and the Common Sense Revolution6 From Walkerton to McGuinty7 The Dynasty Redux?8 ConclusionsEpilogue: The October 2011 Election and Its Implications for Ontario’s Environment and EconomyAppendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£70.20
University of British Columbia Press Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food
Book SynopsisLays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel, and Mustafa KocPart 1 – Paradigms, Scales, and Jurisdictions1 Effecting Paradigm Change in the Canadian Agriculture and Food Sector: Toward a Multifunctionality Paradigm / Grace Skogstad2 Alternative Land Use Services and the Case for Multifunctional Policy in Canada / Alison Blay-Palmer3 The Experience of Canadian Environmental CSOs: Thoughts from the Green Side / Mark WinfieldPart 2 – Lessons from the Canadian Food System4 The Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee: Legitimacy, Participation, and Attempts to Improve GE Regulation in Canada / Elisabeth Abergel5 Lessons from Twenty Years of CSO Advocacy to Advance Sustainable Pest Management in Canada / Rod MacRae, Julia Langer, and Vijay Cuddeford6 Breastfeeding Promotion and Social Change in Canada: A Review of Ninety Years of Breastfeeding Policy and Practices / Aleck Ostry and Tasnim Nathoo7 Canada’s Action Plan on Food Security: The Interactions between Civil Society and the State to Advance Food Security in Canada / Mustafa Koc and Japji Anna Bas8 The Obesogenic Environment and Schools: Have CSOs Played a Role in Shifting the Debate from Individual Responsibility to Structural Factors? / Tony Winson, Rod MacRae, and Aleck Ostry9 From Green Energy to Smart Growth: Practical Lessons from the Renewable Energy Movement for Agricultural Land Protection and Sustainability Activists / José Etcheverry10 Helping Good Things Grow: Creating Nurturing Polices and Programs for New Farmers through Civil Society-Government Collaboration / Sarah RobicheauConclusion / Elisabeth Abergel and Rod MacRaeIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food
Book SynopsisLays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel, and Mustafa KocPart 1 – Paradigms, Scales, and Jurisdictions1 Effecting Paradigm Change in the Canadian Agriculture and Food Sector: Toward a Multifunctionality Paradigm / Grace Skogstad2 Alternative Land Use Services and the Case for Multifunctional Policy in Canada / Alison Blay-Palmer3 The Experience of Canadian Environmental CSOs: Thoughts from the Green Side / Mark WinfieldPart 2 – Lessons from the Canadian Food System4 The Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee: Legitimacy, Participation, and Attempts to Improve GE Regulation in Canada / Elisabeth Abergel5 Lessons from Twenty Years of CSO Advocacy to Advance Sustainable Pest Management in Canada / Rod MacRae, Julia Langer, and Vijay Cuddeford6 Breastfeeding Promotion and Social Change in Canada: A Review of Ninety Years of Breastfeeding Policy and Practices / Aleck Ostry and Tasnim Nathoo7 Canada’s Action Plan on Food Security: The Interactions between Civil Society and the State to Advance Food Security in Canada / Mustafa Koc and Japji Anna Bas8 The Obesogenic Environment and Schools: Have CSOs Played a Role in Shifting the Debate from Individual Responsibility to Structural Factors? / Tony Winson, Rod MacRae, and Aleck Ostry9 From Green Energy to Smart Growth: Practical Lessons from the Renewable Energy Movement for Agricultural Land Protection and Sustainability Activists / José Etcheverry10 Helping Good Things Grow: Creating Nurturing Polices and Programs for New Farmers through Civil Society-Government Collaboration / Sarah RobicheauConclusion / Elisabeth Abergel and Rod MacRaeIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The First Green Wave
Book SynopsisIn The First Green Wave, Ryan O'Connor traces the rise of the environmental movement in Toronto, home to one of Canada's earliest and most dynamic communities of environmental activists, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. At the heart of the story is Pollution Probe, an organization founded in 1969 by students and faculty at the University of Toronto. Living up to its motto (Do it!) in its first year of operation, Pollution Probe confronted Toronto's City Hall over its use of pesticides, Ontario Hydro over air pollution, and the detergent industry over pollution of the Great Lakes. The organization's successes inspired the founding of other environmental organizations across Canada and led to the development of initiatives now taken for granted, such as waste reduction and energy policy. This book describes the heady days of Canada's early environmental movement and examines the forces that reshaped the activist landscape in the 1980s.
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Our Chemical Selves
Book SynopsisThis collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.Trade ReviewThe book... provides a wide variety of scholarship on chemical threats from a feminist political economy perspective. It is particularly effective at arguing for both extended producer responsibility for potentially harmful substances and the precautionary principle as a policy adoption strategy when dealing with uncertainties in the science of chemical pollution. -- Angela Cope * Health Tomorrow *Our Chemical Selves is a fascinating book that raises important questions about the impact of chemicals on women’s health in Canada … This book should be read by environmental historians or anyone concerned with the impact of chemicals in our world. Not only do the contributors highlight important issues regarding women’s health, but they offer useful solutions to change our collective indifference toward the intensification of chemicals in our world. -- David Kinkela, State University of New York at Fredonia * Environmental History 22 *The strength of this work lies in its success at bringing recent developments in science together with legal and policy analysis and recommendations. For anyone interested in women’s environmental health issues, it is a must-read … This book will help to provide researchers, policy-makers and advocates with tools to understand and address links between social inequity, environmental health and gendered differences in chemical exposure and effects -- Kaitlyn Mitchell * Herizons *[U]nique and valuable for its focus on gender and environmental justice. -- M. Gochfeld * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword: Water Is Life / Josephine MandaminIntroduction: The Production of Pollution and Consumption of Chemicals in Canada / Dayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris, and Troy DixonPart 1: “Consuming” Chemicals1 Wonderings on Pollution and Women’s Health / M. Ann Phillips2 Protecting Ourselves from Chemicals: A Study of Gender and Precautionary Consumption / Norah MacKendrick3 Sex and Gender in Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan / Dayna Nadine Scott and Sarah LewisPart 2: Routes of Women’s Exposures4 Trace Chemicals on Tap: The Potential for Gendered Health Effects of Chronic Exposures via Drinking Water / Jyoti Phartiyal5 Consuming “DNA as Chemicals” and Chemicals as Food / Bita Amani6 Consuming Carcinogens: Women and Alcohol / Nancy Ross, Jean Morrison, Samantha Cukier, and Tasha SmithPart 3: Hormones as the “Messengers of Gender”?7 The Impact of Phthalates on Women’s Reproductive Health / Maria P. Velez, Patricia Monnier, Warren G. Foster, and William D. Fraser8 Plastics Recycling and Women’s Reproductive Health / Aimée L. Ward and Annie Sasco9 Xenoestrogens and Breast Cancer: Chemical Risk, Exposure, and Corporate Power / Sarah Young and Dugald SeelyPart 4: Consumption in the Production Process10 Plastics Industry Workers and Breast Cancer Risk: Are We Heeding the Warnings? / Margaret M. Keith, James T. Brophy, Robert DeMatteo, Michael Gilbertson, Andrew E. Watterson, and Matthias Beck11 Power and Control at the Production-Consumption Nexus: Migrant Women Farmworkers and Pesticides / Adrian A. Smith and Alexandra StiverConclusion: Thinking about Thresholds, Literal and Figurative / Dayna Nadine ScottGlossary; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Leaky Governance
Book SynopsisMunicipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery. Both water management and municipal governance must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs.Table of ContentsPreface1 Alternative Service Delivery: Rhetoric and Reform2 Understanding ASD: Antecedents and Relevance3 Driving Forces: Turning to ASD in Ontario4 Leaky Governance: Interdependence and Politics beyond Government5 Challenging ASD: Opening the Local Government Container6 ASD and the Goal of Efficiency7 ConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Everyday Exposure
Book SynopsisEveryday Exposure documents the adverse health effects experienced by Aamjiwnaang citizens in the heart of Canada’s Chemical Valley and argues for a transformative and experiential “sensing policy” approach that takes the voices and experiences of Indigenous citizens seriously.Trade ReviewEveryday Exposure provides a thorough analysis of the lack of health and environmental protections for First Nations peoples at all levels of government and identifies the need for government regulation to redress what have become complex reporting practices, a better understanding of cumulative environmental effects, and improved health services being administered by Health Canada. -- Nadine Hoffman, Natural Resources, Bennett Jones Library, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review (volume 43 No. 3) *Based on extensive time spent in the community learning directly from Aamjiwnaang’s citizens and experiencing the community’s pollution crisis in an embodied and empathetic way, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the legacies of environmental racism in Canada today. -- Warren Cariou is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba * Canadian Literature Volume 235, Concepts of Vancouver Special Issue *Table of ContentsForeword: A Canadian Tragedy / James TullyPrefacePhoto Essay #1: Atmosphere 1 Skeletons in the Closet: Citizen Wounding and the Biopolitics of Injustice2 Sensing Policy: An Affective Framework of Analysis3 State Nerves: The Many Layers of Indigenous Environmental JusticePhoto Essay #2: Life 4 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Lived Experience in Aamjiwnaang5 Digesting Space: The Geopolitics of Everyday Life6 Seeking Reproductive Justice: Situated Bodies of Knowledge7 Shelter-in-Place? Immune No More and Idle No MorePhoto Essay #3: Resurgence AppendicesNotes; References; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Everyday Exposure
Book SynopsisEveryday Exposure documents the adverse health effects experienced by Aamjiwnaang citizens in the heart of Canada’s Chemical Valley and argues for a transformative and experiential “sensing policy” approach that takes the voices and experiences of Indigenous citizens seriously.Trade ReviewEveryday Exposure provides a thorough analysis of the lack of health and environmental protections for First Nations peoples at all levels of government and identifies the need for government regulation to redress what have become complex reporting practices, a better understanding of cumulative environmental effects, and improved health services being administered by Health Canada. -- Nadine Hoffman, Natural Resources, Bennett Jones Library, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review (volume 43 No. 3) *Based on extensive time spent in the community learning directly from Aamjiwnaang’s citizens and experiencing the community’s pollution crisis in an embodied and empathetic way, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the legacies of environmental racism in Canada today. -- Warren Cariou is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba * Canadian Literature Volume 235, Concepts of Vancouver Special Issue *Table of ContentsForeword: A Canadian Tragedy / James TullyPrefacePhoto Essay #1: Atmosphere 1 Skeletons in the Closet: Citizen Wounding and the Biopolitics of Injustice2 Sensing Policy: An Affective Framework of Analysis3 State Nerves: The Many Layers of Indigenous Environmental JusticePhoto Essay #2: Life 4 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Lived Experience in Aamjiwnaang5 Digesting Space: The Geopolitics of Everyday Life6 Seeking Reproductive Justice: Situated Bodies of Knowledge7 Shelter-in-Place? Immune No More and Idle No MorePhoto Essay #3: Resurgence AppendicesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
MN - University of British Columbia Press The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
Book SynopsisThis is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen StorliPart 1: Evolution of the Domestic Regulation of Natural Resources1 The Australian Gold Rushes, 1850–1900: Elites, Mineral Ownership, and Democracy / Zdravka Brunkova and Martin Shanahan2 Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries, 1880–1940 / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen Storli3 Regulating Natural Resources in Canada: A Brief Historical Survey / Robin S. Gendron and Andreas R.D. Sanders4 National Oil Companies and Political Coalitions: Venezuela and Colombia, 1910–76 / Marcelo Bucheli5 Managing Russia’s Resource Wealth: Coalitions and Capacity / Stephen Fortescue6 Regulatory Regimes for Petroleum Production in Brazil / Gail D. TrinerPart 2: Impact of Imperialism on Resource Policy7 Regulating Oil Concessions in British West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and the Gold Coast during the Colonial Period / Jon Olav Hove and John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu 8 Regulating Oil in Iran and India: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Burmah Oil, 1886–1953 / Neveen Abdelrehim and Shraddha Verma9 “In the National Interest”: Regulating New Caledonia’s Mining Industry in the Late Twentieth Century / Robin S. GendronPart 3: Growing Internationalization of Resource Policy10 Regulating the Regulators: The League of Nations and the Problem of Raw Materials / Mats Ingulstad 11 Regulating the Natural Resources in the Antarctic Region: A Historical Review / Bjørn L. Basberg12 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Land and Natural Resources: The Sami in Norway / Hanne Hagtvedt Vik13 “Europe Cannot Engage in Autarchical Policies”: European Raw Materials Strategy from 1945 to the Present / Hans Otto Frøland and Mats Ingulstad14 Mitigating Import Dependency: Japan’s Energy and Mining Policies / Takeo KikkawaConclusion / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen StorliContributors; Index
£67.15
University of British Columbia Press Planning on the Edge
Book SynopsisPlanning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver’s reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vancouver and its region into a place that is both economically sustainable and socially just.Table of ContentsPrologue: Twenty-One Suburbs in Search of a City: A View of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area / John Friedmann Introduction / Tom Hutton and Penny GursteinPart 1: Situating Vancouver in Space and Time1 Planning since Time Immemorial: Musqueam Perspectives / Howard Grant, Leona Sparrow, Larissa Grant, and Jemma Scoble2 City on the Edge: Vancouver and Circuits of Capital, Control, and Culture / Tom HuttonPart 2: Sustainability and Resilience in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Systems3 Vancouver’s Sustainability Gap and Lessons from the Southeast False Creek Model Sustainable Community / Jennie Moore, Cornelia Sussmann, and William E. Rees4 Vancouverism and Sustainable Urban Design: Past Its Prime and Needing to Evolve / Maged Senbel and Mark Stevens5 Transportation: Vancouver the City and Vancouver the Region / Lawrence D. Frank and Alexander Y. Bigazzi6 Dynamics and Governance of Risk in Metro Vancouver / Stephanie E. Chang, Timothy L. McDaniels, Lily Yumagulova, and Mark Stevens7 The Sustainability Gap for Water Management in the Vancouver Region / Jordi Honey-RosésPart 3: A People-Centred Approach to Planning and Development in Vancouver8 Beyond the Downtown Eastside: A Regional Perspective on Affordability, Displacement, and Social Justice / Nathan J. Edelson, Penny Gurstein, Karla Kloepper, and Jeremy T. Stone9 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice? The Past, Present, and Future of Housing in Vancouver’s Planning Legacy / Penny Gurstein and Andy Yan10 Canada’s Cosmopolis on the Coast: How Immigration Has Shaped and Reshaped Vancouver / Lisi Feng and Michael Leaf11 Building Civic Capacity in the Shadow of Neoliberalism: Patterns and Challenges in Metro Vancouver’s Immigrant Social Integration / Leonora C. Angeles and Olga ShcherbynaEpilogue: Beyond Cosmopolis: Dreaming Coexistence as Indigenous Justice / Leonie SandercockIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Fossilized
Book SynopsisThanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Canada's largest oil-producing provinces underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Yet oil's economic miracle obscured its ecological costs. Fossilized traces this development trajectory, assessing how the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador offered extensive support for oil-industry development, and exploring the often downplayed environmental effects of extraction.Angela Carter investigates overarching institutional trends, such as the restructuring of departments that prioritized extraction over environmental protection, and identifies regulatory inadequacies related to environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Her detailed analysis situates these policy dynamics within the historical and global context of late-stage petro-capitalism and deepening neoliberalization of environmental policy.Fossilized reveals a country outTrade Review[Fossilized] cast[s] a new and hopeful light on what political scientists sometimes call a super-wicked problem. -- Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick * Literary Review of Canada *Carter... is optimistic. Instead of offering investments to the oil and gas industry, why not look to support a new, low-carbon economy? -- Mary Shortall, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour * Our Times Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword: Talking about a House on Fire / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Situating Canada’s Petro-Provinces1 Alberta: Provincial Life Blood and Anemic Environmental Regulation2 Saskatchewan: Saskaboom and Environmental Policy Bust3 Newfoundland and Labrador: Economic Miracle and Environmental Debacle4 From Boom to Bust: Doubling Down on OilNotes, Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press The Government of Natural Resources
Book SynopsisThe Government of Natural Resources explores scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role.At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services. These new services drew from recently established university technical programs to amass a corps of skilled employees to support their mission: exploiting resources and occupying territory. Stéphane Castonguay traces the history of mining, logging, hunting, fishing, and agriculture in Quebec to reveal how territorial and environmental transformations thus became a tool of government. By helping to define and shape such interventions, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. The lessons that this thoughtful reconceptualization of resource Trade ReviewThe author provides great detail on the history of technical and scientific advances in the four natural resource areas of Quebec from 1867 to 1939. -- J. Organ, emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Choice Connect *In meticulously detailed chapters devoted to the development of mining, forestry, wildlife conservation, and agriculture, Casonguay shows how Quebec took control of its resources. -- Geoff White * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsForeword: Science in Action / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 The Administrative Capacities of the Quebec State: Specialized Personnel and Technoscientific Interventions2 The Invention of a Mining Space: Geological Exploration and Mineralogical Knowledge3 Soil Classification and Separation of Forest and Colonization Areas: Scientific Forestry and Reforestation4 Surveillance and Improvement of Fish and Game Territories: Conservation of Wildlife Resources5 Regionalization and Specialization of Agricultural Production: Disseminating Agronomic KnowledgeConclusion: Knowledge, Power, and TerritoryAppendix: Identification of Technoscientific Activities in the Public Accounts (1896–1940)Notes; Bibliography; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Against the Tides Reshaping Landscape and
Book SynopsisAgainst the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.Trade ReviewAgainst the Tides is a skillful examination of distinctive landscapes and histories...[it] is also an illustration of the potential of community-involved scholarship and a powerful reminder of how audiovisual materials can enrich research dissemination efforts. -- Shannon Stunden Bower * NiCHE *"Concise, perceptive, concrete yet conceptual, Against the Tides comes ready for use." -- Edward MacDonald * American Review of Canadian Studies *[Against the Tides] is a timely read with climate change and rising sea levels tilting waters back into the marshlands. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * The Canadian Historical Review *"An articulate and readable contribution to the literature on postwar environmental engineering by the Canadian state, the book highlights compelling local stories and perspectives, placing them into national and international context." -- Sara Spike * Journal of New Brunswick Studies *“… accounts such as Rudin’s are important. They highlight how easy it is to lose sight of long-term goals, and how challenging it can be to still make different choices despite knowing past history. And it calls forth the real underlying question: whose knowledge matters?” -- Bryn Robinson * The Miramichi Reader *Table of ContentsPart 1: Second Nature1 Out to Sea2 ReconstructionPart 2: Third Nature3 Dam Projects4 LegaciesEpilogue: Meet the Grand Pre Marsh BodyNotes; Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Against the Tides
Book SynopsisAgainst the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.Trade ReviewAgainst the Tides is a skillful examination of distinctive landscapes and histories...[it] is also an illustration of the potential of community-involved scholarship and a powerful reminder of how audiovisual materials can enrich research dissemination efforts. -- Shannon Stunden Bower * NiCHE *"Concise, perceptive, concrete yet conceptual, Against the Tides comes ready for use." -- Edward MacDonald * American Review of Canadian Studies *[Against the Tides] is a timely read with climate change and rising sea levels tilting waters back into the marshlands. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * The Canadian Historical Review *"An articulate and readable contribution to the literature on postwar environmental engineering by the Canadian state, the book highlights compelling local stories and perspectives, placing them into national and international context." -- Sara Spike * Journal of New Brunswick Studies *“… accounts such as Rudin’s are important. They highlight how easy it is to lose sight of long-term goals, and how challenging it can be to still make different choices despite knowing past history. And it calls forth the real underlying question: whose knowledge matters?” -- Bryn Robinson * The Miramichi Reader *Table of ContentsPart 1: Second Nature1 Out to Sea2 ReconstructionPart 2: Third Nature3 Dam Projects4 LegaciesEpilogue: Meet the Grand Pre Marsh BodyNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Red to Green
Book SynopsisEnvironmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia''s environmental movement was one of the country''s most dynamic and effective forms of social activism, and it appeared well positioned to influence the direction and practice of post-Soviet politics. At present, however, activists scattered across Russia face severe obstacles to promoting green issues that range from wildlife protection and nuclear safety to environmental education.Based on fifteen months of fieldwork in five regions of Russia, from the European west to Siberia and the Far East, Red to Green goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements. In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet lTrade Review"Laura A. Henry has produced a richly detailed book that introduces readers to the history and contemporary evolution of the Russian environmental movement. Through her analysis we learn how environmental organizations navigate Soviet legacies and post-Soviet opportunities as they seek to secure financial resources, engage the public and the state, and achieve their goals. Red to Green is an important book for scholars of Russian environmentalism as well as those interested in environmental activism, transnationalism, and civil society development."—JoAnn Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Red to Green is a very carefully researched and meticulous study of environmental movements in post-Soviet Russia. It is well written and theoretically sophisticated. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on comparative environmental activism."—Jane I. Dawson, Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government, Connecticut College
£81.00
Cornell University Press Site Fights
Book SynopsisSite Fights stresses the importance of developing engaged civil society even in the absence of crisis, thereby making communities both less attractive to planners of controversial projects and more effective at resisting future threats.Trade ReviewSite Fights is an impressive book that pushes the reader to reconsider the role of civil society in state policymaking. It is of great interest to scholars in comparative politics and civil society research, activists, and policymakers alike. * Japanese Journal of Political Science *Although the study is largely a chronicle of failed efforts by civil-society groups to stop public projects in their communities, Aldrich emphasizes that when civil society mobilizes broadly and strongly, it can force the state to use milder tactics and can sometimes even prevail. -- Patricia G. Steinhoff * American Journal of Sociology *Daniel Aldrich's book should be read by anyone interested in Japanese politics in general and those who want to have a deeper understanding of the politics behind the siting of what Aldrich calls 'public bads’: facilities that impose costs directly upon a community. -- Linda Hasunuma * Journal of Asian Studies *The popular slogan NIMBY—Not in My Back Yard—captures a classic dilemma that confronts policymakers: Although society as a whole requires certain basic public goods, such as energy supplies, improved infrastructure, and transportation hubs, individual communities are often unwilling to bear the localized costs and externalities of hosting these installations. In this fresh, insightful, and creative study, Daniel Aldrich explores the ways in which states decide to site controversial facilities and the types of instruments that public agencies employ to respond to societal opposition against these siting decisions. -- Alexander Cooley * Perspectives on Politics *The unique contribution of this book lies in its nature as an exercise in comparative public policy. The case studies, which include Japan and France, are very well done and provide empirical evidence for the universal nature of the human reaction to siting dilemmas. They suggest that the strategic interaction between democratic state policy processes and the organizational structure of the civic society involved—including its conventions, values, and legal background—can indeed predict the success or failure of facility siting. * Political Science Quarterly *Site Fights makes a very important contribution to both the civil society and comparative politics literatures relating to Japan. It will serve as an excellent text in a graduate-level seminar on Japanese domestic politics and should be of interest to scholars and policymakers interested in environmental issues, state-society relations, and the challenges faced by modern states in their quest to secure expanded sources of energy. Finally, citizen activists in advanced democracies would do well to take heed of one of this book's implied lessons: in order to force state compliance with democratic standards of behavior, you must gaman (persevere). -- Patricia L. Maclachlan * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Site Fights and Policy Tools 1 Picking Sites 2 A Logic of Tool Choice 3 Occasional Turbulence: Airport Siting in Japan and France 4 Dam the Rivers: Siting Water Projects in Japan and France 5 Trying to Change Hearts and Minds: Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Siting 6 David versus Goliath: French Nuclear Power Plant Siting Conclusion: Areas for Future Investigation
£18.99
Cornell University Press Red to Green
Book SynopsisRed to Green is an organizational analysis of popular environmental mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case.Trade Review"Laura A. Henry has produced a richly detailed book that introduces readers to the history and contemporary evolution of the Russian environmental movement. Through her analysis we learn how environmental organizations navigate Soviet legacies and post-Soviet opportunities as they seek to secure financial resources, engage the public and the state, and achieve their goals. Red to Green is an important book for scholars of Russian environmentalism as well as those interested in environmental activism, transnationalism, and civil society development."—JoAnn Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Red to Green is a very carefully researched and meticulous study of environmental movements in post-Soviet Russia. It is well written and theoretically sophisticated. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on comparative environmental activism."—Jane I. Dawson, Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government, Connecticut College
£26.59
University of Toronto Press Economic Analysis of Environmental Policies
Book SynopsisA framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and related to Ontario environmental policy. Topics include the theory of externalities as an explanation of environmental problems, policy objectives, costs of information and monitoring, and the impact of these costs on control policy selection. Three case studies of specific pollution problems – sulphur dioxide from a smelter, lead from downtown factories, and urban automobile emissions – are given, and possible solutions explored.The authors' methodology is applicable not only to air and water pollution but also to noise, aesthetic degradation, and solid waste. This study will be welcomed by specialists, civil servants, and students trying to understand the economic aspects of environmental maintenance.
£20.69
University of Nebraska Press Nomads Land Pastoralism and French Environmental
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia. Trade Review"As politically oriented environmental history, Nomad’s Land reconstructs the broad field within which French forestry policy developed and was applied, showing thereby how conservationism both fueled, and was dependent upon, shifting power relationships at the state and local levels."—Patrick Young, Journal of Modern History"Duffy provides a concise and thought-provoking assessment of the decline of Mediterranean pastoralism in the modern era. She ably introduces the generalist to the regional history of French forest administration. For scholars of the modern Mediterranean, Nomad’s Land will serve as a culmination of recent developments in several subfields of environmental history, offering them an important opportunity to take stock, to reflect further on important transnational connections, and to chart new paths forward for national and regional histories."—Jackson R. Perry, Agricultural History"[Nomad's Land] can serve as a textbook for lecturers and as a reference book for researchers of social and environmental history, rural history, Mediterranean history, French colonialism, Ottoman history and history of pastoralism."—Onur Inal, Nomadic Peoples“In this succinct and lucidly written book, Andrea Duffy shows how French ideas about forests provided ammunition for sustained campaigns against herders, sheep, goats, and the pastoralist way of life in Mediterranean France, colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia. An insightful and delightful addition to Mediterranean environmental history.”—J. R. McNeill, professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University and author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: The Nomad and the Sea Part 1: People, Place, and Perceptions 1. Land of the Golden Fleece: Mediterranean Pastoralism in a Wider Society 2. Black Sheep: The Intellectual Roots of Mediterranean Environmental Policy 3. Counting Sheep: Pastoralism and the Construction of French Scientific Forestry Part 2: Growth and Transformation 4. The Forest for the Trees: The Application of French Scientific Forestry around the Mediterranean 5. Against the Grain: The Transformation of Land Use and Property 6. Nature’s Scapegoats: Pastoralists and Natural Disasters 7. Sheep to the Slaughter: Mediterranean Pastoralism and Forestry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Planting Politics Notes Bibliography Index
£40.50
Rutgers University Press Taking Chances The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Book SynopsisHumanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how coastal living and development is managed.Trade Review"O'Neill and Van Abs examine Sandy's impacts through the perspectives of urban planners, ecologists, climatologists, policy makers, and emergency managers to assess the vulnerabilities of the northeastern coast and to help better plan for and mitigate future disasters … The essays argue for a more thoughtful, planned response to coastal rebuilding and development ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners." * Choice *"Taking Chances raises important questions about the long-term viability of coastal communities. It does so without proposing reductive solutions that ignore the attachment residents may feel to their homes. Together, these essays provide nuance to very complex problems that we will continue to face with increasing frequency in the future, making for a timely contribution to the literature. While each essay stands alone, they also work in tandem to explore how different entities (residents, businesses, government agencies, infrastructure, etc.) responded to Hurricane Sandy. Though the book focuses on Sandy, the findings speak to broader societal trends of risk perceptions and disaster response." -- Vanessa Parks, Lousiana State University * Rural Sociology *"Highly accessible and interdisciplinary in its approach, Taking Chances would be a fine contribution to any undergraduate or graduate course with a concentration on disaster studies, or climate change." * City & Community *"Surrendering to Rising Seas" by Jen Schwartz * Scientific American *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Transformational Event, Just Another Storm, or Something in Between?Karen M. O’Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs, and Robert B. GramlingPart One: The StormChapter 1: Hurricane Sandy from Meteorological and Climatological PerspectivesSteven G. Decker and David A. RobinsonChapter 2: A Tough Move to Make: Lessons Learned from Emergency Evacuations in Coastal Connecticut during Hurricane SandyDaniel Baldwin Hess and Brian W. ConleyPart Two: The Days after the StormChapter 3: Overlooked Impacts of Hurricane Sandy in the CaribbeanAdelle ThomasChapter 4: Polling Post-Hurricane Sandy: The Transformative Personal and Political Impact of the Hurricane in New JerseyAshley A. Koning and David P. RedlawskChapter 5: Ecological Injury and Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Physical Damage, Avian and Food Web Responses, and Anthropogenic Attempts to Aid Ecosystem Recovery in New Jersey EstuariesJoanna Burger and Larry NilesChapter 6: Surviving Sandy: Identity and Cultural Resilience in a New Jersey Fishing CommunityAngela Oberg, Julia A. Flagg, Patricia M. Clay, Lisa L. Colburn, and Bonnie McCayPart Three: Planning for Change?Chapter 7: Green Gentrification and Hurricane Sandy: The Resilience of the Green Growth Machine around Brooklyn’s Gowanus CanalKenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. LewisChapter 8: Boardwalks Reborn: Disaster and Renewal on the Jersey ShoreMark Alan HewittChapter 9: A Sure/Shore Thing? Tourism Recovery in New York and New Jersey after Hurricane SandyBriavel HolcombChapter 10: Local Fiscal Impacts of Hurricane SandyClinton J. AndrewsChapter 11: Local Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Heterogeneous Experiences and Mismatches with Federal PolicyMariana Leckner, Melanie McDermott, James K. Mitchell, and Karen M. O’NeillChapter 12: Water Utilities: Storm Preparedness and RestorationDaniel J. Van AbsChapter 13: Impact of Extreme Events on the Electric Power Sector: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, Institutional Responses, and Planning Implications from Hurricane SandyFrank A. Felder and Shankar ChandramowliConclusion: Emerging Responses to Life on the Urbanized Coast after Hurricane SandyDaniel J. Van Abs and Karen M. O’NeillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Taking Chances The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Book SynopsisHumanity is committed to living along the world's shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how coastal living and development is managed.Trade Review"Taking Chances raises important questions about the long-term viability of coastal communities. It does so without proposing reductive solutions that ignore the attachment residents may feel to their homes. Together, these essays provide nuance to very complex problems that we will continue to face with increasing frequency in the future, making for a timely contribution to the literature. While each essay stands alone, they also work in tandem to explore how different entities (residents, businesses, government agencies, infrastructure, etc.) responded to Hurricane Sandy. Though the book focuses on Sandy, the findings speak to broader societal trends of risk perceptions and disaster response." -- Vanessa Parks, Lousiana State University * Rural Sociology *"O'Neill and Van Abs examine Sandy's impacts through the perspectives of urban planners, ecologists, climatologists, policy makers, and emergency managers to assess the vulnerabilities of the northeastern coast and to help better plan for and mitigate future disasters … The essays argue for a more thoughtful, planned response to coastal rebuilding and development ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners." * Choice *"Highly accessible and interdisciplinary in its approach, Taking Chances would be a fine contribution to any undergraduate or graduate course with a concentration on disaster studies, or climate change." * City & Community *"Surrendering to Rising Seas" by Jen Schwartz * Scientific American *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Transformational Event, Just Another Storm, or Something in Between?Karen M. O’Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs, and Robert B. GramlingPart One: The StormChapter 1: Hurricane Sandy from Meteorological and Climatological PerspectivesSteven G. Decker and David A. RobinsonChapter 2: A Tough Move to Make: Lessons Learned from Emergency Evacuations in Coastal Connecticut during Hurricane SandyDaniel Baldwin Hess and Brian W. ConleyPart Two: The Days after the StormChapter 3: Overlooked Impacts of Hurricane Sandy in the CaribbeanAdelle ThomasChapter 4: Polling Post-Hurricane Sandy: The Transformative Personal and Political Impact of the Hurricane in New JerseyAshley A. Koning and David P. RedlawskChapter 5: Ecological Injury and Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Physical Damage, Avian and Food Web Responses, and Anthropogenic Attempts to Aid Ecosystem Recovery in New Jersey EstuariesJoanna Burger and Larry NilesChapter 6: Surviving Sandy: Identity and Cultural Resilience in a New Jersey Fishing CommunityAngela Oberg, Julia A. Flagg, Patricia M. Clay, Lisa L. Colburn, and Bonnie McCayPart Three: Planning for Change?Chapter 7: Green Gentrification and Hurricane Sandy: The Resilience of the Green Growth Machine around Brooklyn’s Gowanus CanalKenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. LewisChapter 8: Boardwalks Reborn: Disaster and Renewal on the Jersey ShoreMark Alan HewittChapter 9: A Sure/Shore Thing? Tourism Recovery in New York and New Jersey after Hurricane SandyBriavel HolcombChapter 10: Local Fiscal Impacts of Hurricane SandyClinton J. AndrewsChapter 11: Local Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Heterogeneous Experiences and Mismatches with Federal PolicyMariana Leckner, Melanie McDermott, James K. Mitchell, and Karen M. O’NeillChapter 12: Water Utilities: Storm Preparedness and RestorationDaniel J. Van AbsChapter 13: Impact of Extreme Events on the Electric Power Sector: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, Institutional Responses, and Planning Implications from Hurricane SandyFrank A. Felder and Shankar ChandramowliConclusion: Emerging Responses to Life on the Urbanized Coast after Hurricane SandyDaniel J. Van Abs and Karen M. O’NeillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Vanishing Bees Science Politics and Honeybee
Book SynopsisTakes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.Trade Review"A rigorous and provocative analysis of how scientists and citizens address a crisis."— Jay Evans, Research Leader, Bee Research Lab, USDA-ARS "Honey bees are dying and humans are responding with a kaleidoscope of views and approaches to explain why. The authors artfully bring multiple perspectives together and offer a welcome glimpse into how we might unify to restore bee health."— Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota "The authors provide impressive and compelling social scientific insights into a major agricultural and environmental issue. Vanishing Bees is a fascinating case study of how knowledge and ignorance are produced."— Elizabeth Popp Berman, University at Albany, SUNY "There’s a lot we don’t know about why bees are vanishing, and this book provides the tools to understand why ignorance prevails. The analysis explains how our struggles with complexity are compounded by biases about who speaks as an expert."— Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge "Using the complex issues surrounding Colony Collapse Disorder, the authors perform an extraordinary feat, informing us about the politics of knowledge and ignorance, while showing how the strengths of modern science limits its ability to address problems of complexity."— Lawrence Busch, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Knowing with Their Eyes? Beekeepers’ Understandings of CCD 2 Keeping the Research Disciplined: Entomological Understandings of the Controversy over Insecticides 3 Bees under the Treadmill of Agriculture: Growers’ Responses to Bee Decline 4 The Bottom-line for Bayer: Agrochemical Companies and ‘Bee Care’ 5 Regulating Knowledge: The EPA and Pesticide Standards CodaNotesReference ListIndex
£26.99
Rutgers University Press Vanishing Bees Science Politics and Honeybee
Book SynopsisTakes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.Trade Review"A rigorous and provocative analysis of how scientists and citizens address a crisis."— Jay Evans, Research Leader, Bee Research Lab, USDA-ARS "Honey bees are dying and humans are responding with a kaleidoscope of views and approaches to explain why. The authors artfully bring multiple perspectives together and offer a welcome glimpse into how we might unify to restore bee health."— Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota "The authors provide impressive and compelling social scientific insights into a major agricultural and environmental issue. Vanishing Bees is a fascinating case study of how knowledge and ignorance are produced."— Elizabeth Popp Berman, University at Albany, SUNY "There’s a lot we don’t know about why bees are vanishing, and this book provides the tools to understand why ignorance prevails. The analysis explains how our struggles with complexity are compounded by biases about who speaks as an expert."— Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge "Using the complex issues surrounding Colony Collapse Disorder, the authors perform an extraordinary feat, informing us about the politics of knowledge and ignorance, while showing how the strengths of modern science limits its ability to address problems of complexity."— Lawrence Busch, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Knowing with Their Eyes? Beekeepers’ Understandings of CCD 2 Keeping the Research Disciplined: Entomological Understandings of the Controversy over Insecticides 3 Bees under the Treadmill of Agriculture: Growers’ Responses to Bee Decline 4 The Bottom-line for Bayer: Agrochemical Companies and ‘Bee Care’ 5 Regulating Knowledge: The EPA and Pesticide Standards CodaNotesReference ListIndex
£105.40
New York University Press From the Ground Up Environmental Racism and the
Book SynopsisExamines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.Trade ReviewFrom the Ground Up presents the history of the environmental justice movement in the best possible way: through the retelling of the individual stories of local communities that have transformed the nation's environmental laws. Both descriptive and reflective, the book is wonderfully evocative of the passions that have maintained the environmental justice movement and that underlie its enormous promise for social change. -- Richard Lazarus,Georgetown University Law SchoolA fresh and lively treatise on the struggles of ordinary people who are making extraordinary contributions to the environmental and economic justice movement. -- Robert D. Bullard,author of Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental QualityA thought-provoking analysis of how grassroots activism from people of color communities is transforming environmental politics. Such activism has brought an important infusion of energy and vision to the pursuit of environmental democracy. -- Charles Lee,principal author of Toxic Waste and Race in the United StatesProvides valuable and comprehensive analyses of the driving forces behind environmental injustices. Anyone wanting to know why an environmental justice movement has emerged in this country and what future direction it may take should read this book. -- Paul Mohai,author of Black Environmentalism and Environmental Racism: Reviewing the EvidenceThey assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful organizing. * New York Law Journal *
£59.50
New York University Press From the Ground Up Environmental Racism and the
Book SynopsisExamines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.Trade ReviewFrom the Ground Up presents the history of the environmental justice movement in the best possible way: through the retelling of the individual stories of local communities that have transformed the nation's environmental laws. Both descriptive and reflective, the book is wonderfully evocative of the passions that have maintained the environmental justice movement and that underlie its enormous promise for social change. -- Richard Lazarus,Georgetown University Law SchoolA fresh and lively treatise on the struggles of ordinary people who are making extraordinary contributions to the environmental and economic justice movement. -- Robert D. Bullard,author of Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental QualityA thought-provoking analysis of how grassroots activism from people of color communities is transforming environmental politics. Such activism has brought an important infusion of energy and vision to the pursuit of environmental democracy. -- Charles Lee,principal author of Toxic Waste and Race in the United StatesProvides valuable and comprehensive analyses of the driving forces behind environmental injustices. Anyone wanting to know why an environmental justice movement has emerged in this country and what future direction it may take should read this book. -- Paul Mohai,author of Black Environmentalism and Environmental Racism: Reviewing the EvidenceThey assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful organizing. * New York Law Journal *
£23.74
University of Minnesota Press Beyond Wolves The Politics Of Wolf Recovery And
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsWolf recovery and management as value-based political conflict -- The wolf as symbol, surrogate, and policy problem -- Wolves and the politics of place -- The use of stakeholders and public participation in world policymaking and management.
£18.04
University of Minnesota Press Fighting for the Future of Food
Book SynopsisHow activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies.Trade Review"Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro take a fresh and carefully balanced look at the social movement spawned by this technology. Anyone who wants to understand why groups across the globe oppose genetically modified foods will find this book revelatory." —Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and Safe Food"Fighting for the Future of Food provides a new and compelling account of the contemporary struggles over agricultural biotechnology. This superb depiction of the cultural and social lifeworlds of both the agro-industries and of the activists, simultaneously reveals the hubris and market ambition of agro-genetic engineering and of the formation of an oppositional ideology. A brave and unflinching account of the world of contemporary agribusiness and its opponents." —Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley"Compelling and eminently readable account." —Global Environmental Politics "This volume provides an excellent account of many of the complex twists and turns of the GMO debates in the United States, Europe, and Africa over the last thirty years." —Contemporary Sociology "With Fighting for the Future of Food, Schurman and Munro deliver an empirically and theoretically revealing, politically dedicated and very readable account of one of the biggest protest movements of today." —Social Movement Studies "All scholars will admire the breathtaking methodology of the book, a fine example of conjunctural analysiswoven together by a coherent argument and clear architecture. . . . It must be read." —Economic GeographyTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Contending Worlds of Biotechnology 1. Precursors to Protest 2. Creating an Industry Actor 3. Forging a Global Movement 4. The Struggle over Biotechnology in Western Europe 5. Creating Controversy in the United States 6. Biotech Battles and Agricultural Development in Africa Conclusion: A Different Future for Biotechnology? Acknowledgments Appendix: Data Sources Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Governing the Wild
Book SynopsisShows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural worldTrade Review"From Disney amusement centers and natural history museums to Al Gore’s global warming spectaculars and American national parks, Stephanie Rutherford traces out the historical contingencies behind ‘green governmentality.’ Using this notion as her analytic of power, she develops an insightful analysis of how contemporary cultural politics and global markets help govern the wild and constitute the self in the U.S. through environmentally-driven consumer experiences." —Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Governing Nature1. Ordering Nature at the American Museum of Natural History2. Disney’s Animal Kingdom: “The Wild Was Never This Wild”™3. Wolves, Bison, and Bears, Oh My! Defining Nature at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks4. Science and Storytelling: Al Gore and the Climate DebateConclusion: Being OtherwiseAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
