Environmental policy and protocols Books
University of British Columbia Press International Ecopolitical Theory Critical
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the critical approaches to global environmental politics. Guided by questions of how to understand the ecological predicaments and the global dimensions of the environmental policy questions they raise, this book is a contribution to fostering an approach to IR and ecological theory.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Exploring International Ecopolitical Theory / EricLaferrière and Peter J. Stoett 1 Environmental Security: Ecology or International Relations? /Simon Dalby 2 The Place of History in International Relations and Ecology:Discourses of Environmentalism in the Colonial Era / RosalindWarner 3 From Economics to Ecology: Toward New Theory for InternationalEnvironmental Politics / Neil E. Harrison 4 Nietzsche’s Conception of Life as Overcoming: Implicationsfor Managing Ecosystems / Denis Madore 5 Ecology and Critical Theories: A Problematic Synthesis /Eivind Hovden 6 IR Theory, Green Political Theory, and Critical Approaches: WhatProspects? / Martin Weber 7 Social Constructivism, International Relations Theory, and Ecology/ Paul Williams Conclusion: Following the Critical Path / Eric Laferrière andPeter J. Stoett Notes References Contributors Index
£25.19
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
Ohio University Press Highland Sanctuary Environmental History in
Book SynopsisHighland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Conte’s study illuminates the debate over conservation, arguing that contingency and chance, the stuff of human history, have shaped forests in ways that rival the power of nature.Trade Review“This fascinating study deserves the attention of a wide variety of scholars and development experts. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“This is a notable addition to the environmental history of Tanzania. It is a work that neatly blends archival and field research, and the approach of the author is both sensitive and humane.” * American Historical Review *“Conte’s history is a solid one…His volume is a useful addition to the corpus of environmental case studies in East Africa.” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *
£56.10
Ohio University Press The World beyond the Windshield
Book SynopsisFor better or worse, the view through a car’s windshield has redefined how we see the world around us.Trade Review“Although the contributors’ particular interests vary widely, these questions lend The World beyond the Windshield a cohesion that is rare and admirable among scholarly anthologies.... The World beyond the Windshield is a valuable and sometimes surprising contribution to the comparative social history of technology, the environment, and automotive transportation.” * Technology and Culture *“We accept that the coming of the automobile was a technological revolution, but we have not fully appreciated how it was a perceptual revolution as well. The essays in this wonderful volume not only provide a clear and graceful journey through various North American and European landscapes of automobility. They also reveal a fascinating and formative set of relations between designers and consumers. The World Beyond the Windshield is comparative history at its best.” * author of Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement *“Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller‘s anthology, The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe, marks the beginning of a new and much needed discourse on the subject (historical studies of the automotive landscape).…The essays in The World Beyond the Windshield are accessible and well researched.” * The Journal of Transport History *“Through analyses of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Needles Highway, and the Washington Beltway, as well as roads in Italy, Nazi Germany, the former East Germany, and postwar U.K., the authors document the transatlantic exchange of ideas about technology and environment. In the process, they also demonstrate how these ideas have been appropriated for national and transnationalistic ends.” * APADE, Indiana University *“(The World beyond the Windshield’s) contributions significantly extend our understanding of the processes through which 20th century highways were envisaged, designed, build, and used.” * Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Global Geschichte... *“A remarkably interesting account of how the various interests, priorities, and perceptions among both highway builders and users interacted in different historical contexts to produce the particular kinds of roads that we see today and so often take for granted.” * H-German *
£21.59
Ohio University Press The Game of Conservation
Book SynopsisThe Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat.Trade Review“The book’s expository prose style is in tune with its overall design: clarity and utility are foremost.… The Game of Conservation will be a valuable resource for any scholar of conservation, colonialism or international treaty making.” * Environment and History *“The Game of Conservation is a concise, well-researched, and nicely presented study of pioneering wildlife protection treaties from the first half of the twentieth century.… This study offers a valuable model for environmental historians seeking to provide accessible and insightful scholarship that transcends national boundaries.” * Environmental History *“An impressive and fresh approach to studying the environment in the twenty–first century.”“In an engaging style reminiscent of a mystery novel, Cioc relates the historical, political, sociological, and ecological stories behind the treaties.…Knowing the origins of animal protection efforts does much to explain the conservation problems these species still face.” * Choice *
£23.39
Ohio University Press Standing Our Ground
Book SynopsisStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.Trade Review“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *“Standing Our Ground will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *“(Standing Our Ground) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *“Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *
£17.99
Duke University Press Environmentality
Book SynopsisAn investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conserve forests.Trade Review“Arun Agrawal achieves, in Environmentality, something of a breakthrough to new analytical territory where the binaries of state and society, structure and agency, public and private are transcended. He parlays the humble subject of community-based forestry and Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ into the makings of an original and subtle analysis of modernity and nature.”—James C. Scott, Yale University“Arun Agrawal has written an amazing book that draws on a very-long-term case study to make general lessons. He analyzes the development of the mentality of citizens and officials related to the environment in a particular setting undergoing major shifts from centralization to a form of decentralization. All of us can take some important lessons from this book about how people’s mentalities change when they have power and knowledge to cope with a problem. That shift in knowledge and power took time and effort, but is one of the rare success stories of recent history.”—Elinor Ostrom, coeditor of Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems“Environmentality offers readers in the fields of anthropology, environmental studies, and history a useful and interesting case study. . . . Environmentality is an excellent piece of scholarship, and a valuable addition to the fields of environmental anthropology and history, as well as to the general literature on colonial and postcolonial India.” -- Sarah Strauss * American Anthropologist *"[A] particularly useful and timely piece of scholarship as it attempts to transgress what are often distant and diverse literatures. This book helps to shed light on the connections between environmental regulation, practice and subjectivity. And in that way, this book illustrates the complexity and connectivity of environmental conflicts and struggles that are often overlooked by more limited or constrained analytical approaches. The book is very clearly organized and well written. . . ." -- Michael Mascarenhas * Rural Sociology *"Interesting. . . . The strength of the book lies in its exploration of agency among the local populations and the serious treatment of the culture that environmental regulation affects. . . . This book offers an insightful critique of the assumptions that both the state and peasant resistance are monolithic . . . and provides a useful starting point to understand the phenomena of community forestry that governments are implementing around the world." -- Gregory Barton * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects 1 Part I: Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests 25 2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges 32 3. Struggles over Kumaon's Forests, 1815–1916 65 Part II: A New Technology of Environmental Government: Politics, Institutions, and Subjectivities 87 4. Governmentalized Localities: The Dispersal of Regulation 101 5. Inside the Regulatory Community 127 6. Making Environmental Subjects: Intimate Government 164 7. Conclusion: The Analytics of Environmentality 201 Notes 231 Bibliography 279 Index 309
£98.60
Duke University Press Environmentality
Book SynopsisAn investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conserve forests.Trade Review“Arun Agrawal achieves, in Environmentality, something of a breakthrough to new analytical territory where the binaries of state and society, structure and agency, public and private are transcended. He parlays the humble subject of community-based forestry and Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ into the makings of an original and subtle analysis of modernity and nature.”—James C. Scott, Yale University“Arun Agrawal has written an amazing book that draws on a very-long-term case study to make general lessons. He analyzes the development of the mentality of citizens and officials related to the environment in a particular setting undergoing major shifts from centralization to a form of decentralization. All of us can take some important lessons from this book about how people’s mentalities change when they have power and knowledge to cope with a problem. That shift in knowledge and power took time and effort, but is one of the rare success stories of recent history.”—Elinor Ostrom, coeditor of Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems“Environmentality offers readers in the fields of anthropology, environmental studies, and history a useful and interesting case study. . . . Environmentality is an excellent piece of scholarship, and a valuable addition to the fields of environmental anthropology and history, as well as to the general literature on colonial and postcolonial India.” -- Sarah Strauss * American Anthropologist *"[A] particularly useful and timely piece of scholarship as it attempts to transgress what are often distant and diverse literatures. This book helps to shed light on the connections between environmental regulation, practice and subjectivity. And in that way, this book illustrates the complexity and connectivity of environmental conflicts and struggles that are often overlooked by more limited or constrained analytical approaches. The book is very clearly organized and well written. . . ." -- Michael Mascarenhas * Rural Sociology *"Interesting. . . . The strength of the book lies in its exploration of agency among the local populations and the serious treatment of the culture that environmental regulation affects. . . . This book offers an insightful critique of the assumptions that both the state and peasant resistance are monolithic . . . and provides a useful starting point to understand the phenomena of community forestry that governments are implementing around the world." -- Gregory Barton * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects 1 Part I: Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests 25 2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges 32 3. Struggles over Kumaon's Forests, 1815–1916 65 Part II: A New Technology of Environmental Government: Politics, Institutions, and Subjectivities 87 4. Governmentalized Localities: The Dispersal of Regulation 101 5. Inside the Regulatory Community 127 6. Making Environmental Subjects: Intimate Government 164 7. Conclusion: The Analytics of Environmentality 201 Notes 231 Bibliography 279 Index 309
£999.99
Duke University Press Rivers by Design
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence of the mammoth US flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. This book shows how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and business elite in outlying territories.Trade Review“Bold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study.”—Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935“Karen M. O’Neill has produced a tour de force—a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood-control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation’s rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of—rather than with a sensitivity to—environmental values.”—Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water–A History“Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O’Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government’s role in ‘controlling’ the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests.”—Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community DevelopmentTable of ContentsTables and Maps ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi I. Rivers and State Authority 1 1. Infrastructure Builds the State 3 2. The Founding Principles of River Development 13 II. Regional Competition and the Rise of the Flood Control Campaign 27 3. The Mississippi River: Becoming the Nation’s River 31 4. The Mississippi River: Resentment Leading to Civil War 43 5. The Mississippi River: Postwar Reunification, Postwar Aid 56 6. The Sacramento River: Miners versus Farmers 68 7. The Sacramento River: Capitalists Unify for Development 80 III. Redesigning Rivers in the National Interest 97 8. Federal Aid for the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers 99 9. The Fully Designed River 128 10. A Nationwide Program for Flood Control 150 11. Rivers by Design 179 Appendix 1. Mississippi Valley River Improvement Conventions 187 Appendix 2. Mississippi River Levee Association, Executive Committee 197 Notes 199 Bibliography 243 Index 265
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Duke University Press Greening Brazil
Book SynopsisTraces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously.Trade Review“Greening Brazil is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders’ understanding of Brazil’s internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often misunderstood country whose environmental performance has truly global implications.”—J. Timmons Roberts, coauthor of Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America“Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck have vast and complementary direct experiences with environmental reform in Brazil, and their long-term commitment to following these issues has clearly paid off in their analysis of the country’s long, rich, and distinctive reform history.”—Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz“Greening Brazil is a superb analysis of the growth of the Brazilian environmental movement since the 1950s. The authors bring to the task a sophisticated understanding of Brazilian politics and a deep knowledge of international trends in environmental politics. Greening Brazil is the most satisfying account yet written of any environmental movement outside of Europe and the United States.” -- Angus Wright * Latin American Politics and Society *“Greening Brazil is a vital contribution for readers interested in the development of social environmentalism in Brazil, as well as the recent rise in environmental politics in Brazil and Latin America. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck . . . produce a persuasive view of the social, institutional, and governmental interactions that have shaped governance of the environmental movement and politics in Brazil. . . . It should be seen as a pioneering book in the field, hopefully encouraging more research on the subject.” -- Isabel DiVanna * Canadian Journal of History *“Greening Brazil, a breakthrough book, makes an outstanding contribution to this puzzle. It demonstrates how small agencies in low salience issue areas confronting powerful detractors survive, expand and make a difference. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck persuasively argue that extensive interpersonal and professional networks carefully cultivated by key leaders, along with their finely honed discernment over which battles to fight and how to fight them, are the key explanatory factors. . . . Moreover, the book is a vivid example of how to advance knowledge, informed by theory, on the real workings of Latin American institutions beyond deductive analyses of pathologies in institutional design followed by prescriptions on how to fix them.” -- Eduardo Silva * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables viii Preface ix List of Acronyms and Organizations xv Introduction 1 1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23 2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63 3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97 4. Amazonia 140 5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186 Conclusion 223 Appendix: List of Interviews 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 249 Index 273
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Duke University Press In the Shadows of the State
Book SynopsisAn argument that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they seek to help, based on extensive ethnographic research in eastern India.Trade Review“In the Shadows of the State is a fine and unusual study of indigenous politics, culture, and activism, which will be of interest to students of India as well as of the cultural politics of indigeneity elsewhere in the world. Alpa Shah provides a robust and non-sentimental ethnography of the realities and contradictions of tribal life, and a powerful critique of the practices of the state, NGOs, and the highly vocal middle-class activists who promote preservation of both natural resources and pristine tribal life.”—Thomas Blom Hansen, co-editor of States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State“In the Shadows of the State is an important, original, thoughtful, and beautifully written book. I have no doubt that it will be considered the single most important account we have of state-society relations in Jharkhand. It is also a remarkably erudite and properly critical account of the production and use of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘development’ as social constructions that can contribute to the domination of poor rural Jharkhandis. Its significance ranges far beyond India.”—Stuart Corbridge, co-author of Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity“Alpa Shah’s book is an engaged and exceptionally lively account of the intersection between the ‘everyday state’ and the people of one of India’s most marginalized ‘Tribal’ areas. A major contribution to the regional literature, her sometimes counterintuitive, often sobering, but always compelling analysis richly deserves the attention of anyone interested in the politics of indigeneity and its uneasy relationship with class politics and with left-wing activism.”—Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics“Alpa Shah’s In the shadows of the state is both… thought provoking and… highly accessible…. Shah’s work presents a valuable contribution to discussions surrounding the relationship between rural adivasi communities and the deep sources of inequality and misrepresentation which continue to affect their lives…. [A]n important work.” -- Ketan Alder * Contemporary South Asia *“This work is a powerful critique of those who speak in the name of the poor Adivasis in Jharkhand but use them only as a means for advancing their own interests; whether it is the ‘developmental state’ or the indigenous rights activists or political parties. In its meticulous research, the book explores the dangers of ’culture-making’ in the name of the indigenous population. The study provides much insight for those who are interested in questions regarding the nature and functioning of the Indian state, caste system and indigenous rights activism as well for the Left movement in India.” -- M. Muneer * Journal of Contemporary Asia *“In the Shadows of the State is a simple, engaging, and beautifully written book that makes a significant and original contribution to the global literature on the politics and practice of indigeneity, and to the rich body of critical geographical and anthropological research on tribal life and politics in Jharkhand and eastern India. It should be required reading for all scholars and activists committed to resolving the awkward relationship between indigeneity and indigence.” -- Haripriya Rangan * Journal of Asian Studies *“A brilliant ethnography…. Shah has succeeded in bringing a place, its people and their social and political relations to life. It is a pleasure to read, and an example of the possibility of skillful and expressive writing immersed in the texture of everyday life to enhance academic analysis.” -- Colin McFarlane * Environment and Planning D *“Shah uses eight years of field experience among the Munda in the recently independent (2000) state of Jharkhand to demonstrate the limitations of identity politics in the liberation of the rural poor and marginalized in India. . . . Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.” -- B. Tavakolian * Choice *“Throughout the book aspirations, desires, and frustrations are all expressed by respondents in ways that do not fit the ways tribal communities are viewed by many of their external supporters. This is uncomfortable territory for many scholars and activists, yet the author forces readers to rethink their own positions and the choices we all make in our work. This is an outstanding book of importance for its content and the challenges it sets out to its readers.” -- Duncan McDuie-Ra * Asian Studies Review * "A must-read for those interested in the politics of indigenous rights activism and its intersection with issues of governance and the environment." -- Brian Dudley * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue 1 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity 9 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity 36 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption 66 4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacrifice, and Alcohol 99 5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex 130 6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State? 162 Epilogue: Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State 184 Glossary of Terms 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 237 Index 265
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University of Pittsburgh Press Nature and the Iron Curtain
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Danube Empire
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Fordham University Press Gasoline Dreams
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Imre Szeman | vii Introduction | 1 1 Petroculture | 13 2 Big, Oily Dreams | 49 3 Attachment | 77 4 Quilting Point | 107 5 Petrotemporality | 139 6 Scenarios | 169 7 Excess | 185 8 The Beach | 211 Afterword by Mark Simpson | 239 Acknowledgments | 243 Notes | 247 Bibliography | 253
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Fordham University Press Our Shared Storm A Novel of Five Climate Futures
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: One Story, Five Worlds | vii SSP2: Politics Is Personal | 1 SSP5: Too Fast to Fail | 45 SSP4: A Storm for Some | 85 SSP3: Hot Planet, Dirty Peace | 129 SSP1: If We Can Do This, We Can Do Asteroids! | 169 Afterword: Speculative Fiction, Climate Fiction, and Post-Normal Fiction | 207 Acknowledgments | 227 Works Cited | 229
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ethics and Global Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThis collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the worldâs failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance.Trade ReviewWe've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are. --- Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Climate Change Policy Paul G. Harris 2. Climate Justice as Globalized Responsibility: Mitigation, Adaptation and Avoiding Harm to Others Steve Vanderheiden 3. Climate Change and the Cosmopolitan Responsibility of Individuals: Policy Vanguards Nigel Dower 4. Individual Responsibility and Voluntary Action on Climate Change: Activating Agency Jennifer Kent 5. Cosmopolitan Solutions ‘From Below’: Climate Change, International Law and the Capitalist Challenge Romain Felli 6. Sharing the Burdens of Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Qualified Cosmopolitanism Michael W. Howard 7. Cosmopolitanism and Hegemony: The United States and Climate Change Robert Paehlke 8. Overcoming the Planetary Prisoners’ Dilemma: Cosmopolitan Ethos and Pluralist Cooperation Philip S. Golub and Jean-Paul Maréchal 9. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and the Climate Change Regime: Moving Beyond International Doctrine Paul G. Harris Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Making Fishery Agreements Work PostAgreement
Book SynopsisNorway and Russia manage these fish resources together, in what appears to be a successful exception to the rule of failed fisheries management: stocks are in good shape, institutional cooperation is expanding and takes place in a constructive atmosphere.Trade ReviewEnvironmental governance is not just a matter of laying down clear rules and regulations and then finding ways to enforce them. Developing the idea of ''post-agreement bargaining'' and drawing on his exceptional knowledge of the world-class fisheries of the Barents Sea, Geir Honneland illuminates the ongoing processes of interpretation, mutual accommodation, and adjustment to changing circumstances that play an essential role in making environmental regimes work. --Oran Young, University of California, Santa BarbaraFishing vessels plying the cold waters of the Barents Sea provide the empirical basis for this extraordinary effort to answer the question of what it takes for people and their governments to make and stick to agreements and follow the rules. Based on years of study of arrangements between Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia and interviews with the captains of the fishing ships that seek cod and other species in the far north, Honneland brings findings and theory from many disciplines to the question. In so doing he offers a powerful argument about how post-agreement bargaining at both state and individual levels contributes to compliance and hence sustainable fisheries. --Bonnie McCay, Rutgers UniversityIn Making Fishery Agreements Work, Geir Honneland extends his reputation as a leading scholar on Norwegian/Russian fisheries relationships. His new contribution focuses on the complicated and hard to track post-bargaining processes that can be used to improve compliance over time in situations with large power differentials. Well grounded in compliance theory and common property resource management, Honneland's interviews and personal observations capture the empirical motivations that underlie compliance in joint Barent's Sea fisheries. --David Fluharty, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Common-pool Resource Management and Compliance with International Commitments 3. Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea 4. Post-agreement Bargaining at State Level 5. Post-agreement Bargaining at Individual Level 6. Conclusions References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics of Climate Change and Environmental
Book SynopsisRobert N. Stavins has been one of the most influential voices inenvironmental economics and policy over the past two decades. The26 essays in this book, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authorsover the period 2000â2011, originally appeared in a diverse set ofleading, scholarly periodicals, and are collected here for the first time.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Robert N. Stavins PART I OVERVIEW 1. Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years’ 2. Robert W. Hahn, Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Environmental Regulation in the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis’ 3. Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins and Richard H.K. Vietor (2008), ‘Corporate Social Responsibility through an Economic Lens’ PART II METHODS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSIS 4. Robert N. Stavins, Alexander F. Wagner and Gernot Wagner (2003), ‘Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity’ 5. Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins (2002), ‘An Eye on the Future: How Economists’ Controversial Practice of Discounting Really Affects the Evaluation of Environmental Policies’ 6. Lori S. Bennear, Robert N. Stavins and Alexander F. Wagner (2005), ‘Using Revealed Preferences to Infer Environmental Benefits: Evidence from Recreational Fishing Licenses’ 7. Judson Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘On the Value of Formal Assessment of Uncertainty in Regulatory Analysis’ PART III ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS 8. Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation’ 9. Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies’ 10. Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance’ 11. Lori Snyder Bennear and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘Second-Best Theory and the Use of Multiple Policy Instruments’ PART IV ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 12. Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2002), ‘Environmental Policy and Technological Change’ 13. Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2005), ‘A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy’ 14. Lori D. Snyder, Nolan H. Miller and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing’ 15. Richard G. Newell, Adam B. Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘The Effects of Economic and Policy Incentives on Carbon Mitigation Technologies’ PART V NATURAL RESOURCE AND ECONOMICS: LAND AND WATER 16. Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2008), ‘What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions’ 17. Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘What is the Value of Terroir?’ 18. Sheila M. Olmstead, W. Michael Hanemann and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘Water Demand under Alternative Price Structures’ PART VI DOMESTIC CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY 19. Robert N. Stavins (2008), ‘Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive US Cap-and-Trade System’ 20. Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘Challenges from State-Federal Interactions in US Climate Change Policy’ 21. Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function’ 22. Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2000), ‘Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration’ PART VII INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY 23. Joseph E. Aldy, Scott Barrett and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures’ 24. Robert N. Stavins (2005), ‘Beyond Kyoto: Getting Serious about Climate Change’ 25. Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era’ 26. Judson Jaffe, Matthew Ranson and Robert N. Stavins (2009), ‘Linking Tradable Permit Systems: A Key Element of Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book will be of enormous interest to scholars, researchers and students focusing on comparative environmental policy and politics, contemporary public policy in Russia, and international politics.Trade Review‘A fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia’s manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is presently available and, given Russia’s enormous territorial extent, it is a study that has important implications for everyone who has any concern for the future of Planet Earth.’ -- Stephen White, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Civil Society, Environment and Russian Politics Post-1991 2. Russia’s Environmental Challenges and their Management 3. Environmental Civil Society through Russian Eyes: Stakeholder Views 4. Case Studies and their Insights into Civil Society Growth: Lake Baikal, Chelyabinsk and Genetically Modified Food 5. Interpreting Civil Society: Challenges, Change and Environmental Significance 6. Conclusions: The Bad, the Good and the Uncertain Appendix A: Summary of Survey Findings Appendix B: Questionnaire – Decision Making on Environmental and Natural Resource Issues References Index
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