Environmental policy and protocols Books
Oxford University Press Inc Rebalancing Our Climate
Book SynopsisIn Rebalancing Our Climate, Eelco J. Rohling documents a wealth of ways to adjust the trajectory of climate change. The book evaluates both advantages and disadvantages of changing our behavior for a sustainable future.Trade Reviewthe blueprint for a sustainable world is provided in this excellent and passionate book * Peter Main, Physics Education *Reversing human-caused global climate change is the most important task of this century, if humanity is to survive. Rebalancing Our Climate is the most essential reading for all policy makers and those needing to understand how our Earth really functions. Eelco J. Rohling presents a balanced, clear, concise, complete, holistic evaluation of all global climate problems and options to correct them, without excessive detail. This brilliant book shows that if we use all that we know simultaneously, the problems can be solved... if all of our politicians act with immediate urgency! * Thomas J. F. Goreau, President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance *Rebalancing Our Climate is an authoritative and cogent analysis of climate science and what must be done to build a decent and durable global civilization. It is essential reading! * David W. Orr, author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: The Introduction: Outline of the Challenge Chapter 2: The Problem: The Human-Caused Climate Crisis Chapter 3: The No-Brainer: Emissions Reduction Chapter 4: The New Kid on the Block: Negative Emission Through Greenhouse Gas Removal Chapter 5: The Controversial One: Solar Radiation Management Chapter 6: The Inevitable One: Impacts and Adaption Chapter 7: The Behavioral Renaissance: Re-forming Society Chapter 8: The Future: Toward Rebalancing Climate Chapter 9: Conclusions Appendix 1: Climate Feedbacks Appendix 2: Indicative Future Projection for Carbon Removal by Nets
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Oxford University Press Inc The Four Horsemen Riding to Liberty in
Book SynopsisThe Four Horsemen narrates the history of revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, and Russia in the 1820s, connecting the social movements and activities on the ground, in the inimitable voice of a renowned historian.Trade ReviewBeautifully written, dramatic, and filled with life, The Four Horsemen is a tribute to the peoples and ideas that it champions....The Four Horsemen provides an original narrative of four particular upheavals that presaged the transition of governments from monarchies to constitutional regimes and nations-states....The Four Horsemen is transnational history at its finest. * Lucien J. Frary, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook *Based on primary sources from all four countries, this deeply researched narrative blossoms into a true transnational history, illustrating the interconnection of these revolts....A tour de force that deftly tells an important story in engrossing detail. * CHOICE *Published posthumously, Stites's final work is both a career-defining accomplishment and something of a departure. The preeminent European historian broadens his focus from Russia and popular culture to encompass the entire continent and the spread of democracy, revolution, and self-determination. * Publishers Weekly *The Four Horsemen is a highly original and important study of revolutionary movements in early nineteenth century Europe. With a strong cast of extraordinary characters, it is also a tremendous read. * Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge *This is a beautiful book, covering a period that is chronically understudied, and doing so with great richness and subtlety, in a way that no one to my knowledge has ever done. Stites was a historian primarily of Russia, and yet his knowledge of developments across Europe was impressive. In his deft handling, a line of continuity running from Spain to Italy to Greece to Russia is exposed with incredible clarity, revealing the close connections between the disparate liberal revolutions of the 1820s, and their broader resonance throughout Europe. Stites wrote like the historian of my mind's eye: learned, wise, kindly, and humane, sensitive to life's great openings as well as to its tragic closures. * Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University *Richard Stites's astute and engagingly written book helps to recover the importance of these men [four remarkable, if unlikely, rebels] and their lost causes, both for their time as well as ours. They formed a subterranean liberal international, creating far-flung networks to resist tyranny. They believed that toppling a despot in a single country would reverberate across Europe. For them, the fate of Spain was entwined with the fate of Russia. It was not accidental that many refugees from failed revolutions in Spain, Naples, and Russia later converged on Greece and died there in the cause of independence. Together they forged a primordial European identity that survived their own anclimactic ends in exile, in dungeons, or on the scaffold. * Gabriel Paquette, Times Literary Supplement *Single-handedly, this study revisits one of the most neglected episodes of European history: namely the failed liberal and constitutional revolutions of the 1820s. With the enviable nimbleness of someone who has mastered the art of story-telling, and no fewer than a dozen European languages, Stites interweaves seamlessly the story of three very different Southern European Revolutions (together with the Decembrist Revolt) into a highly original and exquisitely written study...Each chapter is written in a gripping and page-turning fashion, with oddly apposite moments of dry humour, which will undoubtedly make this book both a classic and an essential item on any undergraduate reading list exploring the age of revolutions...Hopefully more scholars will follow the path opened by Stites's accessible and elegantly written study. The four horsemen remain vanquished but, thanks to this book, they will not be forgotten. * Ambrogio A. Caiani, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsEditors' Preface Preface I. Before the Barricades Went Up II. Rafael Del Riego: The Ride through Andalusia III. Guglielmo Pepe: Marching into Naples IV. Alexandros Yspilanti: Across the River Pruth V. Sergei Muraviev-Apostol: Into the Steppe VI. The Torn Cloth of Memory Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Valuing Clean Air
Book SynopsisThe passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics. In a few short years, the environmental movement pushed Republican and Democratic elected officials to articulate a right to clean air as part of a bevy of new federal guarantees. Charged with delivering on those promises, the EPA represented a bold assertion that the federal government had a responsibility to protect the environment, the authority to command private business to reduce their pollution, and the capacity to dictate how they did so.In Valuing Clean Air, Charles Halvorson examines how the environmental concern that propelled the Clean Air Act and the EPA coincided with economic convulsions that shook the liberal state to its core. Business groups, public interest organizations, think tanks, and a host of other actors, including Ralph Nader, wasted little time after the EPA''s creation in identifying and trying to pullTrade ReviewManagement consultant Halvorson traces the history of the Clean Air Act and the 'regulation of air pollution' in his comprehensive debut....As the author covers shifts in the face of political bickering and attempts to balance economic concerns with environmental ones, he convincingly makes a case that the politicization of science in policymaking finds its roots in the early days of the EPA....Readers willing to stay the course will find a solid introduction on how a single, little-known agency became the epicenter of a fight over regulation and the state's role in protecting the planet. Climate-minded readers with an interest in policy will find this a valuable resource. * Publishers Weekly *The Clean Air Act and its progeny were intended to remedy tractable environmental concerns. However, from its inception, the Environmental Protection Agency (as the enforcer) has been challenged by the business community and others over the means of achieving environmental compliance in light of other priorities, including economic productivity. These challenges are rooted in growing opposition to environmental protection by Republican voters and elected officials, the politicization of science, entrenched belief among some in the efficiency of markets over regulations, and the growing monetization of environmental benefits. Halvorson explicitly discusses his argument's relevance for current debates over climate change. Moreover, he offers cogent overviews of the dominant themes of environmental protection policy...since the 1970s by zeroing in on divergent regulatory styles of presidential administrations spanning Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. * Choice *Protecting the environment has become an essential but thankless responsibility of government, and Charles Halvorson's Valuing Clean Air astutely shows why the Environmental Protection Agency is no one's hero despite considerable success in controlling pollution. * Adam Rome, author of The Genius of Earth Day *In the face of intense opposition to regulation during the Reagan Administration and beyond, dedicated EPA staff employed economic theory—especially market-based solutions and monetary approach to environmental value—to salvage their agency's mission and improve environmental quality. Charles Halvorson takes us inside the EPA, providing the finest analysis yet of its administrative policymaking and the politics of the possible. Valuing Clean Air is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand how the United States created environmental regulation in the neoliberal era. * David Stradling, author of Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland *Valuing Clean Air sets aside the usual focus on partisan politics to provide a lucid and compelling explanation for how the rising tide of market-based environmental policy transformed the work of the Environmental Protection Agency, contributing to the successful fight against acid rain, but also undercutting the agency's ability to tackle the largest challenge of all—climate change. * James Morton Turner, Wellesley College *As the United States is poised to reengage with the imperative of tackling climate change, Charles Halvorson brings forward a vital history of American efforts to curb air pollution since the 1960s. Halvorson brilliantly shows how an initial bipartisan coalition to improve air quality splintered amid the economic stagnation of the 1970s and waxing critiques of technocratic regulation from both the right and the left. The resulting experimentation with market-based regulatory approaches has continued to divide environmental activists and business interests alike, and Halvorson's analysis of those evolving conflicts is a must-read for historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and policy-makers. * Edward J. Balleisen, co-editor of Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises *Valuing Clean Air offers much of interest to readers of this journal. * Jennifer Thomson, Technology and Culture Volume 64, number 4 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Save EPA Chapter 1: The Costs of Pollution Chapter 2: The Doer: Power in Implementation Chapter 3: A Balancing Act: Regulatory Review Chapter 4: Putting the Profit Motive to Work: Regulatory Reform Chapter 5: Are You Tough Enough? Deregulation Chapter 6: Markets for Bads: Cap-and-Trade and the New Environmentalism Epilogue: The EPA and a Changing Climate Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Partial Hegemony Oil Politics and International
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPartial Hegemony is a major and original contribution to international relations theory. Jeff Colgan uses his new conceptualizations of subsystems and partial hegemony in an enlightening analysis of oil politics since the 1970s and a cogent argument for climate clubs to enforce emissions limitations in this decade. * Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs (Emeritus), Princeton University *Employing a wide-angle lens, Colgan reconceptualizes international order, unabashedly paving a novel framework for power dynamics and systems change. Colgan's analysis provides important insights not only for understanding oil politics, but also for interpreting how efforts to address emerging developments like climate change and the escalating US-China rivalry could influence international affairs. * Alice C. Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction ------ Part I: Oil Politics ------ Chapter 2 - Rethinking International Order Chapter 3 - The Rise of OPEC Chapter 4 - The Stagnation of OPEC Chapter 5 - Oil and Security ------ Part II: Beyond Oil ------ Chapter 6 - Using Subsystems Beyond Oil Chapter 7 - Climate Change Chapter 8 - Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc The Fight for Climate after COVID19 A Council on
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe strength and subtlety of Hill's observations shine throughout as her personal experiences are interwoven with cutting-edge research ... For now, this book is the policy roadmap we have been waiting for. The book gives us the lessons we need to overcome institutional inertia and respond to climate change. Hill's framework of 'no more' moments allows her to address controversial issues while avoiding partisan pitfalls or alarmism. Undoubtedly, Hill is at the vanguard of a wave of thinkers proposing clearly articulated solutions to a well-defined problem. * Rebecca Peters, International Affairs *It is easy to say that the time to act on climate is now. What Alice Hill has done in this thoughtful and informed volume is clearly assess where we can best make decisions to help our governments, our businesses, and our most vulnerable populations adapt to a warmer and higher risk planet. * Sylvia M. Burwell, President of American University and former Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services *As Alice Hill explains, there is no shortage of actions that governments, communities, and individuals can take to reduce climate risk. The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 is a must-read for citizens and policy makers interested in building a future resilient to the next disaster. * Carlos Curbelo, former US Representative, Florida *This visionary page-turner offers a policy roadmap for nations and communities to save lives and improve well-being by adapting to our climate change future, even as we work to control it. * Linda Fried, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health and Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center *In The Fight for Climate after COVID-19, Alice Hill builds the case for climate adaptation in a clear and engaging way, including useful parallels and lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. This insightful book provides a compelling global look at the climate crisis for decision makers at all levels. * Patricia Fuller, Ambassador for Climate Change, Canada *Alice Hill brings a long lens of scholarly and federal leadership experience to encompass the full landscape of our concurrent disasters, COVID-19 and climate change, and the cascading smaller disasters that have accelerated in frequency and severity over the last several years. The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 distills her incredible experience and knowledge into insights that shine a light on the way forward to assure the health and welfare of humankind in the context of an ailing global system. * Lynn R. Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *Alice Hill's new book reads like an informal briefing in the White House Situation Room on how to handle the climate crisis: Hill knows all the players, all the science, and all the politics. This is an excellent guidebook for any policy maker or citizen of planet Earth who wants to turn this crisis into opportunity and help build a better world. * Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come *Coronavirus and climate change have more in common than you might imagine. Experts have warned us of their risks for years, yet as Alice Hill explains, both largely took us by surprise—and that lack of preparation is costing us, dearly. Hill makes an unarguable case for climate action with clear, lucid arguments and riveting real-life examples that will stick in your head long after you've put the book down. Anyone concerned about the future must plan for a warming world, and this book shows us how. Essential reading! * Katharine Hayhoe, Chair of Public Policy and Public Law, Texas Tech University and United National Champion of the Earth *While we race to cut emissions to stabilize our climate, we must also prepare for the climate impacts we can't avoid. This book is a must-read for policy makers, businesses, and community leaders looking to secure a prosperous future in a changing climate. * Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund *While we must do everything in our power to reduce greenhouse gas accumulation, Alice Hill reminds us that there is no vaccine for the disastrous impacts of climate change. Her book is an invaluable guide to how governments and societies can and must adapt to our rapidly changing climate. * David Michaels, member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration *Alice Hill provides a fascinating perspective from the frontlines of societal and governmental responses to two huge crises—climate change and a global pandemic. The parallels she offers in this book are highly practical lessons which we should all take to heart. * Andrew Rosenberg, Director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists *This essential volume illustrates the urgency of the present and the importance of climate education to build a new and better future. Climate crisis requires action on all fronts; it's time we should be able to enjoy the benefits of nature, not just its threats. * Izabella Teixeira, former Environment Minister of Brazil *Even if the world does all it can to reduce emissions, the need for much greater resilience in response to the impacts of climate change grows more urgent every day. In this timely and important book, Alice Hill has written a straight-forward, readable guide to help governments, businesses, and communities take action. * Todd Stern, former US Special Envoy for Climate Change *Alice Hill offers a new path in a debate currently dominated by false choices. We must mitigate and adapt to address climate change. Blending personal stories with policy discussions, she offers insights and ideas that are forward-looking, creative, and practical. Anyone interested in the future of our climate, our cities, and our country should read this book. * Francis X. Suarez, Mayor of Miami *The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 offers a deeply researched glimpse of future disasters and a pragmatic assessment of how to prepare for them. * Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senator, Rhode Island *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Account for the future, not just the past 2. Prepare for concurrent, consecutive, and compounding disasters 3. Plan across borders 4. Weave tighter safety nets 5. Jumpstart resilience 6. Marry mitigation and adaptation Conclusion: Adaptation can no longer wait References
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Oxford University Press Inc Genomic Politics
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come. The emergence of genomic science in the last quarter century has revolutionized medicine, the justice system, and our understanding of who we are. We use genomics to determine guilt and exonerate the falsely convicted; devise new medicines; test embryos; and discover our ethnic and national roots. One might think that, given these advances, most would favor the availability of genomic tools. Yet as Jennifer Hochschild explains in Genomic Politics, the uses of genomic science are both politically charged and hotly contested. After all, genomics might result in bioterrorism, a demand for designer babies, or a revival of racial biology.Political divisions around genomics do not follow the usual left-right ideological divides that dominate most of American politics. ThroughTrade ReviewThe Genomics Revolution is all around us, and it is wise to watch carefully for both positives and negatives, both personal and global. This book is a superbly balanced and comprehensive guide to enable all of us to understand and engage with that watching, working together to prevent mishaps and ensure equitable access to benefits. * George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School *'The issues that genomics poses are too important, new, and complex to afford the luxury of one-sided or partial viewpoints,' Jennifer Hochschild writes is this pathbreaking book about a new scientific revolution that inspires hope, awe and wonder as well as anxiety, uneasiness and even alarm. She lives up to her own standard by painstakingly, empathetically and engagingly explaining the arguments we are likely to have with each other while being upfront about her own nuanced views. Genomic Politics is an important achievement, a model of careful research, honest reflection and political savvy. * E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Code Red and Our Divided Political Heart *Nobody is talking about the science-fictionesque reality of gene editing and genetic prediction that has arrived. Nobody, that is, except Jennifer Hochschild in her wonderful book, Genomic Politics. Unlike most issues, currently genetic policy is not highly polarized—though that's sure to change soon enough as charges of eugenics or 'playing god' start flying. Hochschild offers advice on how we might have a fruitful public dialogue as we approach this transformative technology. A must read for anyone concerned with science and society. * Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *In this brilliant multi-method exploration, Hochschild shows how citizens and experts form beliefs about genomics and determine whether to oppose or support it. The answer lies not in political ideology or partisanship—the fallback explanation that many may presume—but rather in attitudes about genetics and risk. The book provides a remarkable portrait of what people think of genomics. Even more important is that Hochschild reveals how people form their impressions on new issues with huge public policy consequences. A must read for those interested in genomics and for anyone who cares about the public, preferences, and democratic governance. * James N. Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: Political puzzles: BiDil, ancestry testing, forensic biobanks, and prenatal gene editing 2: The basic framework: nature and nurture, risks and gains 3. Disputes over genomic science are not partisan 4. Enthusiasm and skepticism 5. Hope and rejection 6. Experts 7. Locating the public in the basic framework 8. Why are Americans enthusiastic, skeptical, hopeful, or rejecting? 9. Who should govern? 10. Governing genomics Appendix Endnotes
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Oxford University Press Inc Ecology of a Changed World
Book SynopsisEcology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. Paired wiwth a useful companion website with engaging practical applications, the book breaks down ecological principles and explains six threats to biodiversity in terms anyone studying ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, or environmental justice will understand.Trade ReviewThis book offers a treatise on ecology, focusing particularly on biodiversity...Recommended. All readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Changed World Chapter 2: Population Growth Chapter 3: Population Regulation Chapter 4: Interactions between Species: Competition Chapter 5: Predation and Food Webs Chapter 6: Parasites and Pathogens Chapter 7: Evolution and Disease Chapter 8: The Human Food Supply: Competition, Predation, and Parasitism Chapter 9: Food Security Chapter 10: Prediction Chapter 11: Human Population Growth Chapter 12: Growth of Wealth and Urbanization Chapter 13: Habitat Conversion Chapter 14: Economics of Habitat Conversion Chapter 15: Climate Crisis: History Chapter 16: Predictions of Future Climate and Its Effects Chapter 17: Pollution Chapter 18: Invasive Species Chapter 19: Introduced Disease Chapter 20: Harvesting on Land Chapter 21: Harvesting in the Ocean Chapter 22: Harvesting: Prospects Chapter 23: Species Chapter 24: Population Declines Chapter 25: Extinction Chapter 26: Species across Space Chapter 27: Island Biogeography and Reserve Design Chapter 28: Value of Species Appendix A: Estimation and Uncertainty Appendix B: Derivations References Index
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Oxford University Press All Is Well
Book SynopsisDisasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people have looked to political authorities for protection from disasters and for relief in the aftermath. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and an endless torrent of storms, floods, and forest fires have shown that modern states and intergovernmental institutions frequently fail this burden. Worse, world leaders routinely ignore evidence that accelerated climate change is an already-rolling planetary catastrophe. So, what is a disaster? Who determines when and why a disaster has occurred or ceased? And what is the relationship between such occurrences and modern states who promise to manage them? In All Is Well, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that there is no such thing as a disaster outside of rituals of legal, administrative, and scientific contestation through which such occurrences are morally distinguished from the rhytTrade ReviewBandopadhyay (York Univ., Canada) compellingly argues that nation-states use natural disasters as a means of legitimizing authority. He contends that disasters do not exist outside a government structure, and that causes and solutions to catastrophic events are inexorably intertwined. * C. A. Sproles, CHOICE *An ambitious and timely intervention into a pressing set of concerns, questions, and issues. By combining a longue durée approach with a focus on writing a 'history of the present', Bandopadhyay produces original insights of cross-cultural significance. Those insights will have application to the numerous projects which will surely emerge to rebuild states, societies, economies, and systems in the wake of the current pandemic. * Sundhya Pahuja, Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School *A thought-provoking and somewhat audacious book that challenges our notions about the very foundations of state power and its historic role in disaster management. Far from saving people from nature's fury, Bandopadhyay argues that disasters provide a way for state power to renew itself. Masterfully drawing on eighteenth century examples from France, Portugal, and India to support his case, the author admonishes us to look more closely at how the world around us is governed. A compelling read. * Greg Bankoff, Professor Emeritus of Environmental History, University of Hull *Ironically titled, All Is Well provides a wide-ranging, timely critique of the world of disasters. Bandopadhyay acknowledges earthquakes, floods, and plagues are real and horrific enough. However, he shows 'disasters' to be socially constructed, mainly through official discourses that serve state power. He also finds such awareness largely absent from mainstream disaster work, where the primacy of 'the government' and 'the international community' is rarely questioned. In our own time, these hegemonic strategies are shown to support liberal, international, and ecological initiatives. In the face of existential insecurity and frightful losses, they are seen to 'normalize' gross economic and social disparities, and ecological destruction. * Kenneth Hewitt, , Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University *Table of ContentsPreface 1. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen 2. Corner Pieces 3. Marseille 1720: Administrative Catharsis as Disaster Management 4. Portugal 1755: Empire of Accident 5. Bengal 1770: Famine, Corruption, and the Climate of Legal Despotism 6. Risk Thinking and the Enduring Structure of Vicissitudes 7. The Past-Imperfect Future Notes Acknowledgements Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Icy Planet
Book SynopsisThis book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice, snow and permafrost. Ice and snow reflect solar energy back to space, keeping the planet cool. As global overheating melts them away, we are losing this refrigeration factor, which adds to global overheating. The author begins by laying out the evidence for carbon dioxide as the control knob of climate, and hence of sea level, for the past 1000 million years, before exploring the effects of climate change in the three main icy regions. He shows us how climate change will likely affect us and the planet as we approach the end of this century and beyond. His story ends by analysing how politics and economics are determining our response to global overheating, reminding readers of the enormous global challenges inherent in changing from a fossil fuel to a renewable energy infrastructure. There is no overnight solution. Can we save Earth''s refrigerator? Will Net Zero work? Addressing these key questions Summerhayes is cautiously optimistic about our chances provided we have the collective will to act on what we know.Trade ReviewIn The Icy Planet, apart from offering the reader all they need to know about the world's coldest places, Colin Summerhayes addresses in well-researched and readable detail the role of ice as the bellwether of global warming. Fascinating and sometimes frightening, it examines the speed with which the frozen environment is being depleted, and the signals that sends out for the future of us all. This is a book both arresting and alarming. * Sir Michael Palin, Writer and Presenter of Travel Documentaries including Pole-to-Pole and Erebus: The Story of a Ship *'Out of sight, out of mind' is the view that most people have of Earth's vast expanses of ice. This book takes us on a fascinating tour of our icy realms, the critical role they play in the functioning of the Earth System, and the startling human-driven changes that are afflicting them—essential reading for anyone interested in the future of our planet. * Will Steffen, Professor, Australian National University, Canberra *Colin Summerhayes introduces readers to the significance of the changing character of ice within the regions of the 'three poles.' His unique perspective comes from a career in science leadership roles, where he was a keen observer of and synthesizer of emerging research. Along with a narrative related to his travels, the book provides a holistic understanding of ice and climate in a world which has only recently begun to realize the power of both. * Paul Andrew Mayewski, Professor and Director, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA *Colin Summerhayes condenses the wisdom of a long career in polar and climate research to reveal the fundamental importance of Earth's refrigerator. The huge blocks of frozen water that cap the polar regions and high mountains may be remote from where most of us live, but have profound implications for all of us, in shaping our planet's climate, weather, water supply, and even food security, while also sustaining fascinating and unique wildlife. His first-hand account takes readers on a unique journey of appreciation for our world's coldest places. * Tony Juniper CBE, Environmentalist *Due to global climate change the large ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland influence the height of sea levels, while mountain glaciers influence the water supplies for surrounding populations. Melting permafrost changes ecosystems and creates significant natural hazards. Using his vast field experience, Colin Summerhayes draws attention to these dynamics and their effects on nature and society in an important book with a popular orientation. * Heinz Wanner, Professor, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern *The increasing loss of the Earth's cryosphere is one of the most significant problem's facing humanity today. Dr Summerhayes has written a comprehensive book introducing the reader to the world of ice on our planet, how it responds and impacts climate, how it is the home to unique ecosystems, and most importantly, how ice and permafrost loss will lead to dramatic changes to our world. * W. Berry Lyons, Professor, Ohio State University *The book provides an excellent, well-referenced overview of Earth's cryosphere, including valid concerns about its near-term evolution. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Icehouse Climates Chapter 3: East Antarctica - the World's Biggest Ice Cube Chapter 4: West Antarctica and Dry Valleys Chapter 5: The Antarctica Peninsula, the Falklands and South Georgia Chapter 6: The Arctic Chapter 7: The Third Pole - Mountain Ice Chapter 8: Rising Seas Chapter 9: Our Future Epilogue End Notes (references) List of Figure Permissions Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Racial Climates Ecological Indifference An
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeveloping an ecointersectional analysis, Tuana (philosophy, women's studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.) has produced an elegant, meticulously crafted, deep, and yet accessible text on how racism is entangled in the environmental justice movement. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference Chapter 2 - Racial Climates Chapter 3 - Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race Chapter 4 - Through the Eye of a Hurricane Chapter 5 - Weathering the Climate Conclusion - Cultivating Anthropocenean Sensibilities Acknowledgements References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Triumph of Doubt Dark Money and the Science
Book SynopsisWell-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it''s happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change.America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the country''s health. And for every case of government inaction on one of these issues, there is a set of familiar, doubtful refrains: The science is unclear. The data are inconclusive. Regulation is unjustified. It''s a slippery slope.Is it?The Triumph of Doubt traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s to its current manifestations across government, public policy, and even professional sports. Amid fraught conversations of alternative facts and truth decay, The Triumph of Doubt wields its unprecedented access to shine a light on the machinations and scope of manipulated science in American society. It is an urgent, revelatory work, one that promises to reorient conversations around science and the public good for the foreseeable future.Trade Review[Michaels] documents not only a shocking disregard for human welfare on the part of big business, but also a co-ordinated effort to compromise the culture of knowledge itself. * Times Literary Supplement *...chock full of good examples that were clearly researched (averaging over 30 references per chapter) and supplemented with Michaels' personal experiences. I think any scientist who wants to bridge the realm of research, policy, politics and ethics would benefit from reading this book. * JULIE POLLOCK, Chemistry World *It is so refreshing to read David Michaels' The Triumph of Doubt. He has the facts researched, vetted and thoroughly cited, and is not afraid to lay blame, call people liars and companies frauds. * San Francisco Review of Books *David Michaels opens our eyes to the methods corporations employ that bend the facts of science in order to make a profit. * Chemistry World *David Michaels is that rare combination: the fearless expert. He not only knows where the bodies are buried, he knows who buried them. The Triumph of Doubt and its predecessor, Doubt Is Their Product, are timely, readable, and essential guides for anyone seeking to understand how the corruption of science is damaging the health of everyone from football players and factory workers to soda drinkers and truck drivers-in short, anyone with a pulse. * Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Toms River *David Michaels lays bare the dark money and the corporate science racket that kept the lethalities of tobacco, asbestos, lead, silica, pesticides, and scores of other life- and health-destroying products on the market and in the workplace, escaping the reach of the law. He names names of people and companies fronted by their so-called 'product defense' business and its corporate attorney enablers; delays, obfuscation, falsehood, and retaliation against ethical whistleblowers are the coins of their insidious realms. This book is written to get you angry enough to want to learn how to defend yourselves, your communities, and our vulnerable planet. Let it grip you toward detection and defiance." * Ralph Nader *As a society, it's vital we properly debate issues using data and research. The Triumph of Doubt, David Michaels's wonderfully deep dive into the well-funded war on scientific consensus and certainty, makes the stakes clear: our planet. Read this." * Adam Savage, Mythbusters *No one has done more to expose the deep corruption in American safety regulation that harms us all-and especially our kids. After spending seven years as America's chief safety regulator, David Michaels offers a beautifully crafted argument for how much more we need to do. Required-if frightening-reading for anyone who cares about a clean and safe environment for America and the world." * Lawrence Lessig, author of Fidelity and Constraint *A page-turner-one you'll wish was fiction. From hired guns to dark money, The Triumph of Doubt unravels corporations' playbook for deceiving the public through misinformation.^ * Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of What the Eyes Don't See *The Triumph of Doubt is an industry-by-industry account of how corporations manipulate science and scientists to promote profits, not public health. Nothing less than democracy is at stake here, and we all should be responding right away to David Michaels' call for action. * Marion Nestle, author of Unsavory Truth *It takes real courage to speak out against entrenched corporate interests and big industry. I saw that courage firsthand when I worked alongside Dr. Michaels in the Obama administration to protect workers at construction sites from cancer-causing silica dust. The Triumph of Doubt doesn't just tell the story of how we overcame the falsehoods of industry-funded studies, it shines a disinfecting light on the ways corporations obscure the truth and downplay risk to pump up their bottom line. This is a must-read." * Tom Perez, former U.S. Labor Secretary *A compelling and necessary work for anyone interested in the truth and those who seek to bury it. Michaels details the methods used by those in power to hide the truth-and the moral bankruptcy at work when they do so." * Demaurice Smith, National Football League Players Association Executive Director *As a third-generation coal miner from a family who has suffered the deadly consequences of Black Lung, I know firsthand that worker safety should never be politicized. David Michaels's book is a must-read for business, labor and the scientific community." * Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President *David Michaels provides well-written evidence in his book about how corporations that produce dangerous products-tobacco, big oil, chemicals, pharmaceuticals-use 'product defense' science to sow doubt about the hazards hidden in their products to consumers. His evidence highlights the important role unbiased government scientists play in protecting the public health of Americans and our environment from exposure to toxic materials and from corporate deceit. * Senator Tom Udall *From the pharmaceutical industry's role in the opioid crisis to the Koch brothers' climate denial apparatus, Michaels examines big industry's jarring history of manufacturing false scientific doubt in the name of profit. This is an important book that will serve as a tool in exposing corporate deceit. * Senator Sheldon Whitehouse *Whether it's the tobacco industry, the pharmaceutical industry, or the fossil fuel industry, vested interests have repeatedly sought to attack and discredit scientific findings that have revealed the public endangerment by their products. David Michaels should know-he's been fighting the good fight for more than a decade to expose the bad actors and bring them to justice. Read this book to learn what we're up against and how to fight back. * Michael E. Mann, author of The Madhouse Effect *Poisoning the well of public debate is the ultimate act of cynicism. As David Michaels makes breathtakingly clear, one industry after another has lied and manipulated in order to make more money, and the rest of us have borne the terrible costs." * Bill McKibben, author of Falter *While the truth can be inconvenient, corporations and government leaders cannot continue to manufacture alternative narratives that place their interests and profits above our humanity; this culture, if left unchallenged, will result in our doom. The Triumph of Doubt reminds us that there can only be one truth." * Bennet Omalu, author of Truth Doesn't Have a Side *Few people have done more to document disinformation about science than David Michaels. His new book is an important addition to the growing literature on doubt, disinformation, and deception. * Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt *In the NFL, team doctors answer to the organization; players joke that it's like Dracula running the blood bank. It's a microcosm of what David Michaels brilliantly illuminates in The Triumph of Doubt: When corporations manipulate science and launch marketing campaigns to sow doubt, they ensure human suffering. Michaels's work is vital reading for everyone to understand these industry tactics. * Chris Borland, former NFL player *Scientist, public servant, and passionate advocate for health and safety, Michaels has written an absorbing sequel to his path-breaking work on manufactured doubt. He documents how powerful corporations have turned 'product defense' into a new political strategy, using dark money to pummel good science and keep dangerous products on the market. A must-read in the fight to restore public trust in regulatory science." * Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School *Driven by scientific interest, The Triumph of Doubt is a measured but passionate argument for protecting the public from harmful substances via federal oversight." * Foreword Reviews *[An] excoriating account of the corporate denial industry... It is a brave and important book, raising the alarm about the systemic corruption of science. * Felicity Lawrence, Nature *A tour de force that examines how frequently, and easily, science has been manipulated to discredit expertise and accountability on issues ranging from obesity and concussions to opioids and climate change. * Science *David Michaels shows that Big Tobacco's well-known denial tactics have not faded into history, but instead have become an integral part of corporate America's standard business practices. * Undark Magazine *A no-holds barred page-turner. In a series of case studies, it names names and describes how powerful players prioritize a requirement of absolute proof over precaution when it comes to exposures' impacts on human health. * Union of Concerned Scientists *[Michaels'] book is a timely, must read indictment of product defense 'science.'" * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *David Michaels opens our eyes to the methods corporations employ that bend the facts of science in order to make a profit. * Chemistry World *[A] close look at how powerful corporations fund junk science and misinformation campaigns in order to obscure evidence and undercut regulatory efforts." * Vox *The Triumph of Doubt is a carefully researched review of corporate-funded strategies and practices that undermine public health policies of all kinds. And while it sometimes makes one's blood boil, it is still a gripping read. * New Solutions *[An] excoriating account of the corporate denial industry.... It is a brave and important book, raising the alarm about the systemic corruption of science. * Nature *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Science of Deception 3. The Forever Chemical 4. The NFL's Head Doctors 5. A Spirited Denial 6. The Deal with Diesel 7. On Opioids 8. Deadly Dust 9. Working the Refs 10. Volkswagen's Other Bug 11. The Climate Denial Machine 12. Sickeningly Sweet 13. The Party Line 14. Science for Sale 15. Future in Doubt
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Oxford University Press Politics of Nuclear Energy in Western Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades. The comparative analytical perspective draws on the interplay between voters'' attitudes, challenging movements, party competition, and coalition formation. Spanning more than 60 years and 16 countries, the researchers examine the underlying causal processes leading to the observed varieties of Western European nuclear energy policies. Based on a mixed methods approach using both structured case studies as well as quantitative analyses, the study shows that the nature of party competition under given institutional contexts is a key-driver for, as a rule, tactically motivated governmental policy changes and stability, respectively. Part I introduces the practical and theoretical relevance of the topic. It outlines the reasoning of the major scientific contributions with regard to nuclear energy policies, and offers a theoretical alternative to the previous literatures that has been predominantly movements-oriented. Additionally, it provides core economic and political indicators of the changing role of nuclear energy in the countries. Part II consists of seven in-depth case studies where the outlined theoretical perspective is applied. Part III consists of a general summary, short narratives of the countries not covered in case studies, qualitative comparison and an assessment of the factors for policy change from multivariate analysis.Trade ReviewThanks to its analytical rigour and the richness of the empirical material collected, this book will surely become a reference for the increasing number of political scientists working on energy politics and policy. One may also hope that it will help foster the use of comparative politics methods in the field of energy, since they have great potential for deepening our understanding of one of the defining issues of our times: low carbon energy transitions in Europe and beyond * Pierre Bocquillon, JMCS *Table of Contents1: Wolfgang C. Müller and Paul W. Thurner: Nuclear Energy in Western Europe: Revival or Rejection? An Introduction 2: Wolfgang C. Müller and Paul W. Thurner: Understanding Policy Reversals and Policy Stability in Individual Countries 3: Paul W. Thurner and Wolfgang C. Müller: Comparative Policy Indicators on Nuclear Energy 4: Paul W. Thurner, Sylvain Brouard, Isabel Guineaudau, Martin Dolezal, Swen Hutter, and Wolfgang C. Müller: The Conflict over Nuclear Energy: Public Opinion, Protest Movements, and Green Parties in Comparative Perspective 5: Wolfgang C. Müller: Austria: Rejecting Nuclear Energy-From Party Competition Accident to State Doctrine 6: Sylvain Brouard and Isabelle Guinaudeau: Nuclear Politics in France: High Profile Policy and Low Salient Politics 7: Paul W. Thurner: Germany: Party System Change and Policy Reversals 8: Fabio Franchino: Italy: Leading and Lagging: Innovation, Delays and Coalition Politics in Nuclear Energy Policy 9: Kees Aarts and Maarten Arentsen: Nuclear Power and Politics in the Netherlands 10: Sören Holmberg and Per Hedberg: The Will of the People? Swedish Nuclear Power Policy 11: Hanspeter Kriesi: Switzerland 12: Wolfgang C. Müller, Paul W. Thurner, and Christian Schulze: Conclusion: Explaining Nuclear Policy Reversals Appendix: Other European Countries ? An Analytical Reconstruction: Paul W. Thurner, Wolfgang C. Muller, and Christian Schulze: Appendix: Policy Scales for a Country's Nuclear Energy Policy:
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Oxford University Press Anthropocene Insecurities Reflections on
Book SynopsisIn June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth''s biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity''s own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The 50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imagine constructive ways ahead.Table of ContentsJan Eliasson: Foreword 1: Eva Lövbrand, Malin Mobjörk, and Rickard Söder: One Earth, Multiple Worlds: Securing Collective Survival on a Human-Dominated Planet Part I: Governing the Environment and Security Nexus: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead 2: Björn-Ola Linnér and Henrik Selin: Geopolitics and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 3: Lucile Maertens and Judith Nora Hardt: Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Security Council 4: Marcus D. King, Caitlin Werrell, and Francesco Femia: The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: Closing the Climate Security Governance Gaps 5: Dan Smith: The Security Space in the Anthropocene Speech Part II: Reimagining Security in an Entangled World 6: Simon Dalby: To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels 7: Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel: From Human Environment to Post-Human Earth: Troubling the Nature/Culture Divide in the Stockholm Declaration 8: Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastián Granda Henao: Whose Security/Security For Whom? Rethinking the Anthropocene Through Ontological Security Afterword
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Oxford University Press Profits and Sustainability
Book SynopsisAre profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet, rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove many of these individuals are explored as the book looks at how they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies. The green entrepreneurs seen here are shown to have created new markets and industries, and driven innovations in sustainable practices, even at times when most consumers and governments marginalized the entire subject. The struggles of early pioneers appear to have been rewarded by the growth of environmental awareness among cTrade ReviewJones has written a captivating, engaging and thoughtful book about the evolution of green business along with a serious discussion of whether capitalism and sustainability have been, or can be, compatible. Profits and Sustainability is a book which is rich in detail, based on original research, written in delightful language and reflects Jones exceptional knowledge of global business and the history of capitalism. * Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Business History, Routledge *Profits and Sustainability shows that financial and environmental sustainability are difficult to reconcile as the growing environmental awareness of consumers, businesses and the state has been accompanied by cumulative environmental deterioration. It should be read by anyone seeking to better understand the shifting boundaries of corporate sustainability that is, what businesses can and cannot accomplish in the fight against environmental degradation and climate change. * Ganga Shreedhar, LSE Blog *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Business of Sustainability Part 1: Green Intentions 1: Pioneering in Food and Energy 2: Poisoned Earth: Green Businesses 1930s-1950s 3: Earthrise and the Rise of Green Business 4: Accidental Sustainability: Waste and Tourism as Green Businesses Part 2: Green Business 5: Making Money By Saving the World 6: Building Green Institutions 7: Can Finance Change the World? 8: The Green Team: Government and Business 9: Corporate Environmentalism and the Boundaries of Sustainability 10: Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Urban Biodiversity and Equity
Book SynopsisThis advanced textbook moves beyond a basic scientific comprehension of urban ecosystems to understand the essential details of how scientists, policy makers, and practitioners develop solutions to effectively manage urban biodiversity. Such efforts necessitate unravelling the complex components that bolster or constrain biodiversity including human-wildlife interactions, resource availability, climate fluctuations, novel species relationships, and landscape heterogeneity. However, key to an understanding of these processes is also recognizing the tremendous social variation inherent within and across urban areas. The diversity of urban human communities fundamentally shapes how society designs, builds, and manages urban landscapes. This means that urban environmental management unavoidably must account for human social variation. Unfortunately, urban systems have a history and continued legacy of social inequality (e.g., systemic racism and classism) that govern how cities are both bu
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Oxford University Press, Canada Introduction to Environmental Assessment
Book SynopsisThis practical, step-by-step introduction to environmental assessment examines EA tools, procedures, and methodology while taking into account both physical and human environments. With its interdisciplinary approach and extensive Canadian case studies, this text exposes students to EA at work in the real world.Trade ReviewConcise, relevant and well organized. This book is both approachable and thorough, a rare combination. It is definitely an improvement over an already good text in my opinion." * Ian Spooner, Acadia University *Established from the first edition as a solid guide to environmental assessment, this text has improved with each edition, and with the fourth edition (and added section on the federal Impact Assessment Act) it is up-to-date." * Thom Meredith, McGill University *Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Boxed Features, Figures, and Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Aims and Objectives of Environmental Assessment Introduction Environmental Assessment The EA Process Purpose and Objectives of EA Who's Who in the EA Process Getting the Big Picture Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 2. Environmental Assessment in Canada Overview of Environmental Assessment in Canada Provincial EA Systems Northern EA Origins and Development of EA in Canada Continuous Learning Process Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 3. Pre-project Planning and Public Engagement Introduction Roles and Responsibilities Project Need and Consideration of Alternatives Public Engagement Project Description Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 4. Determining the Need for Assessment Screening Screening Approaches Level of Assessment Required Screening and the Precautionary Principle Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 5. Scoping and Baseline Assessment Scoping Baseline Assessment Knowledge to Support Baseline Assessments Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 6. Impact Prediction and Characterization Impact Prediction Change and Project Effects What to Predict How to Predict Characterizing Predicted Impacts Addressing Uncertainty Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 7. Managing Project Impacts Impact Management Mitigation Hierarchy Checklist for Management Prescriptions Adaptive Management Creating and Enhancing Positive Impacts Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 8. Significance Determination Impact Significance Measurement and Meaning: Components of Significance Approaches to Significance Determination Key Principles for Determining Significance Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 9. Follow-Up and Monitoring Follow-Up Rationale for Post-decision Monitoring Effective Follow-Up and Monitoring Monitoring Methods and Techniques Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 10. Indigenous Consultation and Engagement Indigenous Engagement Duty to Consult Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems Enduring Challenges to Indigenous Engagement Toward Meaningful Indigenous Engagement in EA Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 11. Cumulative Effects Assessment Cumulative Effects Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects Regional Assessment Basic Science Components of a CEA Framework Governance for Cumulative Effects Management Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 12. Strategic Environmental Assessment Higher-Order Assessment Defining Strategic EA Origins and Evolution Foundational Principles of Strategic EA SEA Benefits SEA Design Enduring Challenges Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 13. Professional Practice and Ethics Professional Practice Ethical Conduct Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 14. Environmental Assessment Prospects References Glossary Index
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Oxford University Press Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect Participatory Governance in Sustainable Communities
Book SynopsisCan contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis? Some argue that democracy has to be a central part of a strategy to deal with climate change. Others argue that experience shows it not to be up to the challenge in the time frame available-that it will require a stronger hand, even a form of eco-authoritarianism. A question that does not lend itself to an easy assessment, this volume seeks to out and assess the competing answers. While the book supports the case for environmental democracy, it argues that establishing and sustaining democratic practices will be difficult during the global climate turmoil ahead, especially in the face of state of emergencies. This inquiry undertakes a search for an appropriate political-ecological strategy for preserving a measure of democratic governance during hard times. Without ignoring the global dimensions of the crisis, the analysis finds an alternative path in the theory and practices participatory environmental governance embodied in a growing relocalization movement, and global eco-localism generally. Although such movements largely operate under the radar of the social sciences, the media and the political realm generally, these vibrant socio-ecological movements not only speak to the crisis ahead, but are already well established and thriving on the ground, including ecovillages, eco-communes, eco-neighborhoods, and local transition initiatives. With the help of these ideas and projects, the task is to influence the discourse of environmental political theory in ways that can be of assistance to those who will face climate crisis in its full magnitude.Trade ReviewThe book is a work of impressive scholarship that presents an engaging overview of a diverse range of green political theories. * Chris Shaw, University of Sussex *This book undertakes a valuable assessment of the challenge presented to democratic political systems by the future climate crisis. * Thomas O'Brien, Democratization *The book's discussion is accessible and engaging...Fischer provides an excellent introduction to the topic of participatory processes, interspersing case-study material with an overview of key theoretical insights from Dryzek, Blühdorn, and Bookchin, amongst others. * Peter Tangney, Environmental Politics *Penetrating, illuminating, and ultimately hopeful! Frank Fischer's hard thinking for the hard times that lie ahead revitalizes both democratic theory and green theorybut it does far more. By grounding his theory in vibrant socio-ecological movements, from community forestry to transition towns to ecovillages the world over, Fischer uncovers the new life already emerging in the cracks of failing systems. Think of this book as political survival gear for the coming decades. * Karen Litfin, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington *An eminently important book on the politics of climate change at a time when liberal representative democracy has come under severe pressure from a number of sides. * Ingolfur Blühdorn, Head of the Institute for Social Change and Stability, Vienna University of Economics and Business *Facing up to the climate crisis, Fischer insightfully poses afresh long-standing, yet recently neglected, questions in environmental thought. His new book thus offers an important point of departure that sharply challenges the current orthodoxy on democracy and the environment. * Douglas Torgerson, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Trent University *As more individuals and societies face the hard realities of the intensifying global climate emergency, Frank Fischer offers a critical and comprehensive environmental political theory for coping with the ethical and political challenges of the climate crisis. It carefully outlines pragmatic approaches to participatory governance and environmental democracy that will succeed. While not giving up on global agreements or national policies, his timely analysis returns us to local intentional communities to create fair, practical and robust ways of life to cope with rapid climate change. * Timothy W. Luke, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. *Table of ContentsPART I: CLIMATE CHANGE, CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY: SETTING THE STAGE; PART II: DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS IN FACE OF CLIMATE CRISIS; PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL DEMOCRACY AS PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE; PART IV: MAKING THEORY MATTER: FROM RESILIENCE TO ECO-LOCALISM AND PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
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The University of Chicago Press Invasive Species in a Globalized World
Book SynopsisRecognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, this title draws together a wide variety of ecologists, historians, economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and communications scholars, to facilitate a dialogue among these disciplines and understand the invasive species phenomenon.Trade Review"Satisfying, exciting, and incorporating an astonishing variety of scholars and traditions, Invasive Species in a Globalized World provides an adequate background in invasion ecology and then steers the topic toward policy in an effective way. This is a crucial and currently lacking segment along the pathway from research to action." (Julie Lockwood, Rutgers University and coauthor of Avian Invasions: The Ecology and Evolution of Exotic Birds and Invasion Ecology)"
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The University of Chicago Press A Good That Transcends
Book SynopsisSince the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle reveals in this book, that resistance has far deeper roots. Calling upon key environmental voices from the past and presentincluding Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, David Orr, and even Pope Francis in his Encyclicaland exploring core concepts like wilderness and the tragedy of the commons, A Good That Transcends not only unearths the causes of our embedded culture of resistance, but also offers a path forward to true, lasting environmental initiatives. A lawyer by training, with expertise in property rights, Freyfogle uses his legal knowledge to demonstrate that bad land use practices are rooted in the way in which we see the natural world, value it, and understand our place within it. While social and economic factors are important components of our current predicament, it is our culture, he shows, that is driving the reform crisisand in the face of accelerating environmental change, a change in culture is vital. Drawing upon a diverse array of disciplines from history and philosophy to the life sciences, economics, and literature, Freyfogle seeks better ways for humans to live in nature, helping us to rethink our relationship with the land and craft a new conservation ethic. By confronting our ongoing resistance to reform as well as pointing the way toward a common good, A Good That Transcends enables us to see how we might rise above institutional and cultural challenges, look at environmental problems, appreciate their severity, and both support and participate in reform.
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The University of Chicago Press National Parks Forever Fifty Years of Fighting
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this self-described 'dual memoir,' Jonathan and Destry take turns making the case—and then synthesize their viewpoints—that the National Park Service needs to be independent from the political 'whipsaw' of Washington politics, making it more like the Smithsonian Institution. . . . By providing both historical and personal context to the NPS’s politicization, the Jarvis brothers make a powerful case." * American Scientist *"There’s an argument that can be made, one backed by evidence, that the past fifty years have seen the most egregious attempts to subvert the mission of the National Park Service to preserve and protect natural resources unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations. That argument is clearly laid out in National Parks Forever. . . . A rich collection of institutional knowledge from within the machinations of government and from within the National Park Service." -- Kurt Repanshek * National Parks Traveler *“An earnest plea to move the National Park Service out of the highly politicized Department of the Interior and make it an independent agency.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Painful history plus a roadmap for change equals a compelling book." * Revelator *"Offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the park service." -- Rob Hotakainen * E&E News:Greenwire *"The text offers a readable, well-organized argument for the independence proposal, illustrated by selected black-and-white photos. Readers interested in the US government's interface with conservation will appreciate this book. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"This book is compelling reading for all conservation biologists to emulate positive aspects and avoid pitfalls when developing an effective and self-sustaining park system." * Community Ecology *“In careers spanning half a century, both Jon and Destry Jarvis personally witnessed how the National Park Service became a partisan battleground for competing political ideologies, with policies ricocheting back and forth every time a new administration came to power. Filled with detailed firsthand accounts and insightful analysis, National Parks Forever not only chronicles the sorrowful result, but also points to a way to rescue ‘America’s best idea’—and make it even better.” -- Dayton Duncan, writer/producer, "The National Parks: America’s Best Idea"“The history retold by these two brothers, each outstanding in their lifelong dedication to Parks, is compelling and instructive, as well as a very good read. But their lessons learned and call for independence must be enacted if the parks are to survive. I advised NPS leadership for eight years; I witnessed that a major priority is to ensure that the full history of Americans is preserved in the places where that history unfolded. If NPS remains a political football, we will lose not only magnificent landscapes but the hundreds of parks that tell the true stories of America’s past. At this time when our history has become violently politicized, we must depoliticize the one federal agency that knows how to memorialize the truth for future generations.” -- Margaret J. Wheatley, author of "Leadership and the New Science" and former member of National Parks Advisory BoardTable of ContentsForeword by Chris Johns Preface Introduction and a Brief History of the National Parks: 1872-1972 One. Growing the System and Telling a More Complete Story Two. Alaska: Doing It Right the First Time Three. The Politics of Park Policy Four. Using the Best Available Science Five. Ecosystem Thinking Requires Collaboration Six. Interference in the Mission Seven. Independence: Finding a Sustainable Future for a Perpetuity Agency Notes Bibliography and Further Reading Index of People and Places
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John Wiley & Sons Green Meat Sustaining Eaters Animals and the
Book SynopsisDoes a sustainable future include eating meat?Trade Review"Bringing together a mix of scholars, practitioners, and advocates, Green Meat? highlights diverse perspectives on the future of animal food production. While it may not settle every argument about meat, it undoubtedly offers a valuable contribution to the debate." Garrett M. Broad, Fordham University and author of More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change"Green Meat? provides compelling examples throughout of how meat can be sustainably produced and consumed, but as Abra Brynne discusses in the final chapter, how do we turn theory into practice in ways that slow climate change? Corporations and meat producers will continue to monitor profits and governments will support these companies. The real power lies with consumers and entrepreneurs, those advocating for change and working within existing structures to diversify the meat industry at all levels. Combining holistic grazing with industrial meat production and adding plant-based options at major fast food chains are two examples of changing attitudes and practices. Meat will remain an integral part of humans' diets for the foreseeable future, and Green Meat? provides realistic yet hopeful analyses of how we can consume meat more sustainably. We will need to incorporate all of these ideas when it comes to creating a greener meatscape-modernization, replacement, and renewal; this is the most powerful takeaway from the collection." HNet
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McGill-Queen's University Press Canadas Waste Flows
Book SynopsisFrom shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory.Canada''s Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada''s Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. Through a comparative Trade Review"Canada's Waste Flows generatively redirects the reader's vision away from urban recycling and domestic waste towards the larger problems of waste contamination generated by settler colonialism, neoliberal government, and resource extraction in the Canadian North. Rigorously researched and tightly theorized, Myra Hird's compelling book demonstrates how waste is much more than a technical challenge for specialists: waste has become a pervasive geological stratum, an index of the Anthropocene, which poses urgent challenges for social thought and political action in Canada and beyond." Andrew Barry, University College London"Canada's Waste Flows is one of the first attempts not just to discuss the challenges posed by waste in a municipal or national framework, but to connect these municipal and national politics to global events. Hird examines Canada's waste problems and their colonial legacies in a detailed and holistic way. A fascinating read." Sabrina Peric, University of Calgary
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McGill-Queen's University Press Hidden Scourge
Book SynopsisAnalyzing over 100,000 industrial spills from Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Montana, and the Northwest Territories, this book takes the reader behind the firewall of disinformation to uncover scientific truths about crude oil and saline water spills and the cumulative impacts of the fossil fuel industry on ecosystems and society.Trade Review"This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature"This book is bound to become a seminal work for anyone concerned with the impact of the fossil fuel industry on our land, health, and governments. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment." Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State“A must-read for oil historians and environmental historians seeking to understand the ecological impacts of fossil fuel industry spills.” H-Environment
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John Wiley & Sons Under the Weather Reimagining Mobility in the
Book SynopsisUnder the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the health, education, and economy of communities.Trade Review'This is a brilliantly written and articulate exploration of how communications, transportation and exchanges are affected in the era of climate change and how quickly we need to adapt our 'vital mobilities' to these challenges. This fascinating book brings the subject to life. Recommended reading for anyone interested in disasters, climate change and medical responses. " Bertrand Taithe, professor of cultural history and past director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester"[Sodero]'s puts a name to the vexing complexities of a global circulation of people and things embedded in local, regional, and global ecosystems disrupted by those very movements. Climatic disruptions—in Canada and elsewhere—show no signs of abating any time soon, and an ecological mobilities approach that helps us learn productive lessons from those productions will certainly be an important part of an effective response." H-Environment
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McGill-Queen's University Press Under the Weather
Book SynopsisHumans and human mobility, including driving and flying, are entangled with the climate emergency. Fossil-fuelled mobility worsens severe weather, and in turn, severe weather disrupts human mobility. A shift to zero-emission vehicles is critical but insufficient to repair the damage or prepare communities for the coming disruptions severe weather will bring. In Under the Weather Stephanie Sodero explores the intersection between human mobility and severe weather. Anchored in two Atlantic Canadian hurricane case studies, Hurricane Juan in Mi''kma''ki/Nova Scotia in 2003 and Hurricane Igor in Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland in 2010, the book contributes to contemporary cultural and policy discussions by offering five practical recommendations revolutionize mobility, prioritize vital mobility of medical goods and services, embrace ecological mobilities, rebrand redundancy, and think flexibly for how mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways Trade Review'This is a brilliantly written and articulate exploration of how communications, transportation and exchanges are affected in the era of climate change and how quickly we need to adapt our 'vital mobilities' to these challenges. This fascinating book brings the subject to life. Recommended reading for anyone interested in disasters, climate change and medical responses. " Bertrand Taithe, professor of cultural history and past director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester"[Sodero]'s puts a name to the vexing complexities of a global circulation of people and things embedded in local, regional, and global ecosystems disrupted by those very movements. Climatic disruptions—in Canada and elsewhere—show no signs of abating any time soon, and an ecological mobilities approach that helps us learn productive lessons from those productions will certainly be an important part of an effective response." H-Environment
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Columbia University Press Earth at Risk
Book SynopsisEarth at Risk shows what a world organized along the principles of sustainability could look like, building on the experience of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. Though formidable obstacles remain, Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana present the case for collective initiatives and change that build momentum for implementation and action.Trade ReviewThe authors are ideally situated to understand the ins and outs of the climate crisis, and in this book they deliver an insightful overview, one that will be useful to any student of our dilemma. -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In Earth at Risk, Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana do more than explain why action is urgently needed to conserve the world's natural capital. They also explain why some previous efforts failed, why others succeeded, and how, drawing from the lessons of both kinds of experience, the world can achieve sustainable development in the future. -- Scott Barrett, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Erosion of Biological Diversity2. The Ubiquitous Waste and Growing Scarcity of Water and Soil3. Energy: As Little as Possible4. Perspectives on Climate Change5. Enlisting the Scientific Method6. Sustainability at the Intersection of Science and Nature7. Scientific Uncertainty, Fabricated Uncertainty, and the Vulnerability of Regulation8. Producing and Disseminating Sustainability-Enhancing Innovations9. Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development10. Global Governance of Sustainable Development11. The Geopolitics of Environment12. The New Multipolarity of Sustainable DevelopmentConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£25.50
Columbia University Press The Ecocentrists
Book SynopsisKeith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s relationships to the nonhuman world.Trade ReviewWoodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of environmental activism and thought. -- James Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeThis book is a profound achievement. In The Ecocentrists, Keith Woodhouse examines ecocentrism within and up against traditions of radical American protest, politics, and action. Deepening our understanding of radical environmentalism well beyond any previous study, the book lays to rest caricature and misinformation. Each chapter—each page—will make you think hard. -- William Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaA compelling story about the enigmatic journey of environmentalism since the 1960s, The Ecocentrists shines a bright light on the radical potential and heartbreaking pitfalls of Americans’ ecological crusades. Highlighting the historic and contemporary tensions within the environmental movement between localism and globalism, populism and elitism, freedom and limits, and humanism and misanthropy, Woodhouse provides essential reading for anyone interested in thinking through how efforts to create a healthier planet can be made as just and humane as possible. -- Darren Frederick Speece, author of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental PoliticsThe Ecocentrists captures eloquently the human stories of those who stood up for the nonhuman world. Keith Woodhouse’s willingness to take seriously the most radical members of the environmental movement yields fresh ways of understanding conventional environmental politics. A smart, rigorous, and brilliant book. -- Kendra Smith-Howard, University of AlbanyInsightful and well-grounded in the literature, this is required reading for historians of environmentalism and modern political movements and, for the general reader, a stimulating introduction to an urgent area of popular concern. * Publishers Weekly *His book is strongest when it contextualizes radical environmentalism in relation to broader ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism)....Recommended. * Choice *This outstanding and extensively researched work, covers a wide range of ideas and personalities; an essential addition for all environmental collections. * Library Journal (starred review) *In the era of climate change, Woodhouse wonders if the ecocentrists’ narrative of crisis is the only one that can create a clear-eyed view of the problem, as well as the political and popular will to mobilize against it. * Los Angeles Review of Books *A well-crafted expansion of our understanding of the environmental movement, and it reminds us that, while there areno easy answers to our current moment of environmental crisis, we are not the first to have wrestled with the difficult questions about human freedom and our relationships with the more-than-human world. * H-Environment *A superb history of radical environmentalism in the United States. -- Benjamin Kunkel * New Republic *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ecology and Revolutionary Thought2. Crisis Environmentalism3. A Radical Break4. Public Lands and the Public Good5. Earth First! Against Itself6. The Limits and Legacy of RadicalismConclusionNotesIndex
£25.50
Columbia University Press Retreat from a Rising Sea
Book SynopsisThis big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.Trade ReviewRetreat from a Rising Sea is a landmark work long overdue. The book offers deep analysis, case histories, and names villains of denial. It offers visions, solutions, and historic examples of how coastal cities and communities have dealt in the past and will need to cope in the future with rising coastal risks. It is a must-read for coastal residents and policy makers alike. If this book had been written ten years ago, the world would be better off. -- Klaus Jacob, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Earth Institute Retreat from a Rising Sea is a book that should be read by everyone concerned about our coasts. In its passion to explain the conclusion that science clearly indicates, it signals the urgency of our retreat from the coast. -- Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book In Retreat from a Rising Sea, the authors raise tough and crucial questions about living in coastal communities in an era of rising seas and more frequent superstorms. In highlighting the vulnerabilities of many cities and communities in the United States and around the world, they provide a sobering wake-up call for policy makers and planners-and for the billions of people on the front lines of a changing climate. -- Vicki Arroyo, executive director, Georgetown Climate Center, and professor from practice, Georgetown University Law Center This accessible, impassioned argument considers the scientific, political, and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change and fervently presses for Americans to come to terms with the disastrous changes to the world's oceans sooner rather than later. Publishers Weekly Clear and authoritative... If only our leaders would read this book. Miami HeraldTable of ContentsForeword, by the Santa Aguila Foundation Preface Acknowledgments 1. Control + Alt + Retreat 2. The Overflowing Ocean 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans 4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands 5. Cities on the Brink 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future Bibliography Index
£21.25
Columbia University Press Retreat from a Rising Sea
Book SynopsisThis big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.Trade ReviewRetreat from a Rising Sea is a landmark work long overdue. The book offers deep analysis, case histories, and names villains of denial. It offers visions, solutions, and historic examples of how coastal cities and communities have dealt in the past and will need to cope in the future with rising coastal risks. It is a must-read for coastal residents and policy makers alike. If this book had been written ten years ago, the world would be better off. -- Klaus Jacob, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Earth Institute Retreat from a Rising Sea is a book that should be read by everyone concerned about our coasts. In its passion to explain the conclusion that science clearly indicates, it signals the urgency of our retreat from the coast. -- Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book In Retreat from a Rising Sea, the authors raise tough and crucial questions about living in coastal communities in an era of rising seas and more frequent superstorms. In highlighting the vulnerabilities of many cities and communities in the United States and around the world, they provide a sobering wake-up call for policy makers and planners-and for the billions of people on the front lines of a changing climate. -- Vicki Arroyo, executive director, Georgetown Climate Center, and professor from practice, Georgetown University Law Center This accessible, impassioned argument considers the scientific, political, and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change and fervently presses for Americans to come to terms with the disastrous changes to the world's oceans sooner rather than later. Publishers Weekly Clear and authoritative... If only our leaders would read this book. Miami HeraldTable of ContentsForeword, by the Santa Aguila Foundation Preface Acknowledgments 1. Control + Alt + Retreat 2. The Overflowing Ocean 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans 4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands 5. Cities on the Brink 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future Bibliography Index
£15.29
Columbia University Press Dams and Development in China
Book SynopsisExamines the array of water-management decisions faced by Chinese leaders and their consequences for local communities.Trade ReviewWith the clear-eyed objectivity and inquisitive mind of an anthropologist, Tilt explores the prospects for reshaping the political economy of Chinese dam building-where planning has for too long been dominated by a 'dictatorship of engineers'-by infusing a moral economy in which culture, heritage, equity, and natural ecosystems are given due consideration. With more than 2,000 dams being built in China each year, a transformation of dam development is urgently needed. -- Brian Richter, director of Global Freshwater Strategies, The Nature Conservancy Dams and Development is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of hydropower development in China, providing insights on topics ranging from the relationship between state capitalism and the building of dams, to new data on the effects of resettlement on livelihoods, attitudes and social networks, his reflections as an anthropologist on bringing together different epistemologies of expertise in a large, interdisciplinary project on hydropower decision-making, and information on China's new dam construction overseas. Carefully avoiding black and white characterizations, Tilt instead explores water management as a struggle over competing values among groups and differential access to resources and power. Dams and Development is a welcome addition to the anthropological literature on China's environment, and will be excellent for classroom use. -- Emily Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder A practical look at some of the most interesting challenges of our time. -- Sinead Ferris Asian Review of Books A good book for a course related to cultural geography and anthropological themes of development. -- Richard Louis Edmonds The China Quarterly An ambitious book on the complexities inherent in China's quest for cleaner sources of energy and power through the development of hydropower-and its effects... It should be read by students, scholars, and policy analysts as they wrestle with the complexities and contradictions China faces in the development versus conservation conundrum. -- Andrew Mertha The China Journal A succinct and very useful introduction. Pacific Affairs An in-depth research on the problems and issues related to large hydropower projects in China. For those who have an interest in this field, this is definitely a work that must be read. American Anthropologist [Dams and Development in China] is hard to put down. Not only is this efficient volume usefully packed with a wide array of compelling data, some surprising survey results, and a remarkably navigable mapping of government policy processes and decision-making models, it also manages to indulge in some lovely scenery descriptions and offer some hope that there are some signs of improvement. This book will be of interest to anyone curious about contemporary China or global environmental studies. -- E. Elena Songster Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Abbreviations 1. The Moral Economy of Water and Power 2. Crisis and Opportunity: Water Resources and Dams in Contemporary China 3. The Lancang River: Coping with Resettlement and Agricultural Change 4. The Nu River: Anticipating Development and Displacement 5. Experts, Assessments, and Models: The Science of Decision Making 6. People in the Way: Resettlement in Policy and Practice 7. A Broader Confluence: Conservation Initiatives and China's Global Dam Industry Conclusion: The Moral Economy Revisited List of Chinese Terms Notes Works Cited Index
£73.60
Columbia University Press Chinas Green Religion
Book SynopsisIn China’s Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a “green” subjectivity and agency that transforms what it means to live a flourishing life on earth.Trade ReviewThis book presents a novel interpretation of Daoism as a 'green religion' that can transcend its premodern, Chinese origins and offer to the world a distinctive ecological orientation of wider relevance. Miller is arguably the world's leading scholar of Daoism and the environment, and China's Green Religion makes a striking and important contribution to the field of religion and ecology. -- Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster University This book breaks new ground and may serve as a model for more sophisticated engagements with Daoism in terms of ecology. It is at the cutting edge of Daoist Studies. -- Louis Komjathy, Associate Professor of Chinese Religions and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of San Diego James Miller's book is a rich and deeply informed exploration of the relationships of Daoist religion and philosophy with nature and the environment. Miller discusses Daoist principles in new and exciting ways, often related to current ecological and ecocritical topics. He applies Daoist principles to current problems and possible futures, arguing that Daoism could help us develop not only sustainability but also flourishing. This is an important book with new and exciting ideas for environmentalists and citizens. -- Eugene Anderson, University of California, Riverside There is perhaps no scholar in the West who could have written such a valuable book on the contributions of Daoism to ecological thought and practice in China. Meticulously researched and clearly written, this is a book that will indispensable for academics and policy makers alike who are concerned about China's future. -- Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Religion, Modernity, and Ecology 2. The Subjectivity of Nature 3. Liquid Ecology 4. The Porosity of the Body 5. The Locative Imagination 6. The Political Ecology of the Daoist Body 7. From Modernity to Sustainability 8. From Sustainability to Flourishing Notes Bibliography Index
£44.00
Columbia University Press Chinas Green Religion
Book SynopsisIn China’s Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a “green” subjectivity and agency that transforms what it means to live a flourishing life on earth.Trade ReviewThis book presents a novel interpretation of Daoism as a 'green religion' that can transcend its premodern, Chinese origins and offer to the world a distinctive ecological orientation of wider relevance. Miller is arguably the world's leading scholar of Daoism and the environment, and China's Green Religion makes a striking and important contribution to the field of religion and ecology. -- Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster UniversityThis book breaks new ground and may serve as a model for more sophisticated engagements with Daoism in terms of ecology. It is at the cutting edge of Daoist Studies. -- Louis Komjathy, Associate Professor of Chinese Religions and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of San DiegoJames Miller's book is a rich and deeply informed exploration of the relationships of Daoist religion and philosophy with nature and the environment. Miller discusses Daoist principles in new and exciting ways, often related to current ecological and ecocritical topics. He applies Daoist principles to current problems and possible futures, arguing that Daoism could help us develop not only sustainability but also flourishing. This is an important book with new and exciting ideas for environmentalists and citizens. -- Eugene Anderson, University of California, RiversideThere is perhaps no scholar in the West who could have written such a valuable book on the contributions of Daoism to ecological thought and practice in China. Meticulously researched and clearly written, this is a book that will indispensable for academics and policy makers alike who are concerned about China's future. -- Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religion, Modernity, and Ecology2. The Subjectivity of Nature3. Liquid Ecology4. The Porosity of the Body5. The Locative Imagination6. The Political Ecology of the Daoist Body7. From Modernity to Sustainability8. From Sustainability to FlourishingNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.80
Columbia University Press Confronting the Climate Challenge
Book SynopsisConfronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of U.S. climate-policy options. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can reduce emissions at low cost but also can avoid burdening low-income households or especially vulnerable industries.Trade ReviewCurbing greenhouse gases is one of the most challenging issues we face. While the benefits are potentially huge, developing policies to keep costs down is urgent. Goulder and Hafstead's well-written and accessible book carefully explains the issue and evaluates the main policy proposals. It is a must read for anyone interested in the details of climate mitigation. I strongly recommend it. -- Robert Mendelsohn, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI: Introduction And Analytical Background1. Introduction2. Climate Policy, Fiscal Interactions, and Economic OutcomesII: The Model’s Structure, Inputs, and Baseline Output3. Structure of the E3 Model4. Data, Parameters, and the Reference Case PathIII: Policy Approaches And Outcomes5. Two Approaches to Carbon Dioxide Emissions Pricing: A Carbon Tax and a Cap-And-Trade System6. Alternatives to Emissions Pricing: A Clean Energy Standard and a Gasoline Tax Increase7. Distribution of Policy Impacts Across Industries and HouseholdsIV: Conclusions8. Key InsightsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix DNotesReferencesIndex
£49.60
Columbia University Press Game Theory and Climate Change
Book SynopsisParkash Chander argues that we can make progress on the climate-change impasse through incorporating the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework generates.Trade ReviewWritten exceptionally clearly, this book lays out a novel theory of cooperative games and coalition formation as it applies to environmental problems—and in the process makes significant progress in reconciling cooperative and noncooperative game theory. -- Benjamin Ho, Vassar CollegeClimate change is an extraordinarily challenging problem, partly because of its global commons nature. For this reason, game theory can bring valuable insights to considerations of alternative public policies, as well as to international negotiations among the countries of the world. In Game Theory and Climate Change, Parkash Chander adds in significant ways to the relevant scholarly literature at the interface of climate change, economics, and game theory. -- Robert N. Stavins, Harvard UniversityIn this important and timely book, Chander, a leading environmental economist and game theorist, systematically develops a set of game-theoretic solutions to the grand challenge of global climate change. He convincingly demonstrates the value of integrating insights from both cooperative and noncooperative games, and the importance of side payments in improving international climate agreements. He advances important solution concepts such as subgame perfect agreements and incorporates important real-world features, such as heterogeneity across nations. I strongly recommend the book to researchers as well as practitioners interested in international climate negotiations. -- Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State UniversityThe book will interest PhD students and game-theory experts. Recommended. * Choice *This is a timely book, interpreting climate change negotiations in terms of game theoryconcepts. The content of the book is based on a stream of papers published by theauthor over more than 20 years. The book is aimed at economists who use finely craftedmathematical models to explore possible solutions to complex social and environmentalproblems. The extensive bibliography will be helpful to any newcomer in the fieldof environmental economics. -- Alain B. Haurie * MathSciNet *Work like Chander's is important precisely because it creates tools we can use to imagine the distance between our world and one in which powerful actors have committed to a response to climate change. * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPreface1. Purpose and Scope2. The Basic Framework3. Rationale for Cooperation4. The Core of a Strategic Game5. Environmental Games6. Coalition Formation Games7. Dynamic Environmental Games8. Limits to Climate Change9. The Journey from Kyoto to Paris10. International Trade and Climate ChangeConclusionReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
£54.40
Columbia University Press Underwater
Book SynopsisRebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.Trade ReviewIn this essential book, Rebecca Elliott narrates the history of the individualization of risk through an unlikely lens: the de-mutualization of flood insurance in the United States. As rising global temperatures wreak havoc on the climate, those living in the path of storms are increasingly left to deal with the consequences on their own. This is a rich and deeply human story about people and organizations going underwater, learning to make sense of loss and to become ‘resilient’—until the next wave. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990sUnderwater is a masterpiece of social and historical analysis, revealing the increasingly powerful and contested role of the insurance industry—through its rationalities, technologies, and moral economy—in an age of climate crisis. It opens on the impossible decision so many of us facing climate-driven catastrophes in the places we live must now make: to retreat or to remain. As Elliot shows in incisive, often painful detail, these decisions force us to reckon with multiple forms of loss—some measured in our ties to buildings, communities, landscapes, and ways of life, others in the dollar amounts of our insurance coverage and housing investments. These vital reckonings, meanwhile, differ depending on where we live, whether we own our homes, and how 'deserving' we are perceived to be—all variables profoundly shaped by race and class. Elliott compellingly situates these struggles within an emergent 'politics of loss'—itself the flip-side of ever more inadequate politics of sustainability. Disparities and precarities driven both by policy and escalating hazard have ushered in an engaged, often enraged 'climate public,' and wrought havoc in the insurance industry itself. Through this brilliant, moving, and elegantly written analysis, we see a space opening for radical reimagining. What if we reject the devolution of risk and individualizing logics of insurance and housing markets, and recognize our collective interdependence? Elliott leaves us with a crucial understanding: there can be no safer ground if we go it alone. -- Miriam Greenberg, coauthor of Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New OrleansIn this lucidly written and brilliantly argued book, Rebecca Elliott takes us from the flooded basements of victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York—and we could add the West Coast aflame as I write—to a powerful cultural conflict standing between us and an urgently needed fix. Flood insurance. Premium costs. Risk classification. Zoning. Building standards. Buried in the ‘administrative decisions’ within each realm are momentous questions. Should the government step out and leave owners with deeply devalued homes, ‘free’ to rebuild at their own risk? Or, on the other hand, should the government bear the cost of climate denial when financial obligations spike high and flames and floods are upon us? This is a highly important book arriving at a crucial hour. Read it and pass it on. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a finalist for the National Book AwardUnderwater is a tragically timely, subtly scary, and completely essential book about living with loss in a climate-changed world. Elliott brings a sophisticated sociological perspective and a compassionate ethnographic eye to debates over how we protect ourselves and our neighbors as the ground shifts beneath our feet. A major contribution. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeUnderwater explores how Americans directly affected by storms like Hurricane Sandy have been forced to confront the impact climate change has on their homes, families, and communities. This path-breaking study shows that the terrain of these discussions, centered on struggles over arcane issues like insurance and flood maps, raises deeply political and moral questions about who should pay for and be responsible for the impacts of what will certainly be steadily worsening events. -- Neil Fligstein, University of California, BerkeleyThere is clearly a lot here for economic sociologists, as well as for scholars of natural disasters, cities and the built environment, and risk and insurance. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimeline of EventsIntroduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of LossConclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?Methodological AppendixNotesIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Underwater
Book SynopsisRebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.Trade ReviewIn this essential book, Rebecca Elliott narrates the history of the individualization of risk through an unlikely lens: the de-mutualization of flood insurance in the United States. As rising global temperatures wreak havoc on the climate, those living in the path of storms are increasingly left to deal with the consequences on their own. This is a rich and deeply human story about people and organizations going underwater, learning to make sense of loss and to become ‘resilient’—until the next wave. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990sUnderwater is a masterpiece of social and historical analysis, revealing the increasingly powerful and contested role of the insurance industry—through its rationalities, technologies, and moral economy—in an age of climate crisis. It opens on the impossible decision so many of us facing climate-driven catastrophes in the places we live must now make: to retreat or to remain. As Elliot shows in incisive, often painful detail, these decisions force us to reckon with multiple forms of loss—some measured in our ties to buildings, communities, landscapes, and ways of life, others in the dollar amounts of our insurance coverage and housing investments. These vital reckonings, meanwhile, differ depending on where we live, whether we own our homes, and how 'deserving' we are perceived to be—all variables profoundly shaped by race and class. Elliott compellingly situates these struggles within an emergent 'politics of loss'—itself the flip-side of ever more inadequate politics of sustainability. Disparities and precarities driven both by policy and escalating hazard have ushered in an engaged, often enraged 'climate public,' and wrought havoc in the insurance industry itself. Through this brilliant, moving, and elegantly written analysis, we see a space opening for radical reimagining. What if we reject the devolution of risk and individualizing logics of insurance and housing markets, and recognize our collective interdependence? Elliott leaves us with a crucial understanding: there can be no safer ground if we go it alone. -- Miriam Greenberg, coauthor of Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New OrleansIn this lucidly written and brilliantly argued book, Rebecca Elliott takes us from the flooded basements of victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York—and we could add the West Coast aflame as I write—to a powerful cultural conflict standing between us and an urgently needed fix. Flood insurance. Premium costs. Risk classification. Zoning. Building standards. Buried in the ‘administrative decisions’ within each realm are momentous questions. Should the government step out and leave owners with deeply devalued homes, ‘free’ to rebuild at their own risk? Or, on the other hand, should the government bear the cost of climate denial when financial obligations spike high and flames and floods are upon us? This is a highly important book arriving at a crucial hour. Read it and pass it on. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a finalist for the National Book AwardUnderwater is a tragically timely, subtly scary, and completely essential book about living with loss in a climate-changed world. Elliott brings a sophisticated sociological perspective and a compassionate ethnographic eye to debates over how we protect ourselves and our neighbors as the ground shifts beneath our feet. A major contribution. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeUnderwater explores how Americans directly affected by storms like Hurricane Sandy have been forced to confront the impact climate change has on their homes, families, and communities. This path-breaking study shows that the terrain of these discussions, centered on struggles over arcane issues like insurance and flood maps, raises deeply political and moral questions about who should pay for and be responsible for the impacts of what will certainly be steadily worsening events. -- Neil Fligstein, University of California, BerkeleyThere is clearly a lot here for economic sociologists, as well as for scholars of natural disasters, cities and the built environment, and risk and insurance. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimeline of EventsIntroduction: Insurance and the Problem of Loss in a Climate-Changed United States1. Transforming the Management of Loss: The Origins of the National Flood Insurance Program2. Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain3. Visions of Loss: Knowing and Pricing Flood Risk4. Shifting Responsibilities for Loss: National Reform of Flood Insurance5. Floodplain Futures: Trajectories of LossConclusion: What Do We Have to Lose?Methodological AppendixNotesIndex
£21.25
Columbia University Press A Spark in the Smokestacks Environmental
Book SynopsisDelving into the online and offline conversations of Beijing communities affected by waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards, Jean Yen-chun Lin demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context.Trade ReviewBy offering a textured account of the way space enables civic life to flourish in China, this beautiful book urgently reminds us that even in nondemocratic contexts, people can do great things when they join together to put their hands on the levers of change. -- Hahrie Han, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversityTranscending conventional depictions of environmental justice politics, A Spark in the Smokestacks provides a rich and compelling portrait of how three communities in Beijing were able to mobilize their civic capacity to fight environmental harms. Lin’s impressive study deserves broad attention in sociology, political science, environmental studies, and beyond. -- Edward T. Walker, author of Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American DemocracyBy systematically examining the intersection of environmental activism and the development of middle-class communities in China, A Spark in the Smokestacks offers fresh evidence and original insights on a very important topic. Lin’s extensive and systematic comparative analysis and prolonged fieldwork have produced rich empirical evidence and in-depth analysis. This book will be a welcome and valuable addition to the fields of China studies and contentious politics. -- Xi Chen, author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in ChinaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Stench on Success: Urban Middle-Class Homeowners and Rising Environmental Challenges2. Gated Communities as Schools of Democracy3. Making Sense of External Threats: Individual, Collective, and Representative Responses4. Mobilizing and Organizing for Environmental Collective Action5. Trajectories of Citizen Science6. Consequences of Community Environmental OrganizingConclusionBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press A Spark in the Smokestacks
Book SynopsisDelving into the online and offline conversations of Beijing communities affected by waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards, Jean Yen-chun Lin demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context.Trade ReviewBy offering a textured account of the way space enables civic life to flourish in China, this beautiful book urgently reminds us that even in nondemocratic contexts, people can do great things when they join together to put their hands on the levers of change. -- Hahrie Han, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversityTranscending conventional depictions of environmental justice politics, A Spark in the Smokestacks provides a rich and compelling portrait of how three communities in Beijing were able to mobilize their civic capacity to fight environmental harms. Lin’s impressive study deserves broad attention in sociology, political science, environmental studies, and beyond. -- Edward T. Walker, author of Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American DemocracyBy systematically examining the intersection of environmental activism and the development of middle-class communities in China, A Spark in the Smokestacks offers fresh evidence and original insights on a very important topic. Lin’s extensive and systematic comparative analysis and prolonged fieldwork have produced rich empirical evidence and in-depth analysis. This book will be a welcome and valuable addition to the fields of China studies and contentious politics. -- Xi Chen, author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in ChinaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Stench on Success: Urban Middle-Class Homeowners and Rising Environmental Challenges2. Gated Communities as Schools of Democracy3. Making Sense of External Threats: Individual, Collective, and Representative Responses4. Mobilizing and Organizing for Environmental Collective Action5. Trajectories of Citizen Science6. Consequences of Community Environmental OrganizingConclusionBibliographyIndex
£25.50
Columbia University Press Energys Digital Future
Book SynopsisAmy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She explores how the rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways.Trade ReviewA knowledgeable, hard-nosed look at a post-oil future. * Kirkus Reviews *Amy Myers Jaffe has long been a sage and articulate voice on global energy matters. Energy’s Digital Future takes a hard and candid look at the future of America’s energy patch and how it can be shaped to help maintain America’s influence on the world stage. -- James A. Baker III, sixty-first U.S. secretary of stateEnergy's Digital Future provides valuable insights into the role technology will play in a successful energy transition. This book has timely and compelling insights informing the transformations we can and need to make. -- Alexander Karsner, senior strategist and space cowboy, Google XA fascinating and deeply important work on how the digital revolution is remaking the global energy system and geopolitics. A must-read for policy makers, business leaders, and students of international relations. -- Helima Croft, managing director and global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets and CNBC contributorEnergy’s Digital Future is a wake-up call and an urgent warning not only to the U.S. government but also to investors worldwide. Jaffe, whom I have often turned to for advice on energy investing, presents a well-balanced, research-backed analysis that points to the need to embrace the digital revolution in energy technologies. The transition to clean energy is already well underway and scholarship such as that presented here should be essential reading for all who care about the existential threat posed by continued reliance on powering our world through fossil fuels. -- Jagdeep Singh Bachher, chief investment officer of the University of CaliforniaThis important book explores how mastering digital technology will shape energy systems that are clean, resilient, and spur growth. Jaffe explains how digitalization is transforming geopolitics as, in one generation, power shifts from those with fossil fuel reserves to those with innovation capacity and access to digital technologies. -- Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School and former special envoy for climate change at the United NationsTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Lessons from History: Nothing Is Inevitable2. Revolutionizing the Link: Energy and Advanced Economic Development3. China’s Energy Strategy4. Meet the Jetsons: Revolutionary Transport Via Automation and Data5. Alexa: Beam Me Up Clean Energy6. The Energy Future and the Possibility of Peak Oil Demand7. Energy Investor Dystopia8. The Losers: The Changing Geopolitics of Oil9. Geopolitics of a Greening EconomyConclusion: Recommendations for the United StatesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Global Environmental Politics
Book SynopsisThis book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international cooperation. Johannes Urpelainen argues that although they continue to prioritize economic growth, innovative bargaining and institutional design offer a way forward.Trade ReviewUrpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed. -- Joshua Busby, University of Texas at AustinEmerging economies are critically important to the future of the planet’s health. Their economic success and growing energy and resource consumption have turned them into pivotal players in international environmental negotiations. Johannes Urpelainen’s excellent new book provides an essential guide to this new reality of environmental diplomacy. -- Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Global Environmental Politics
Book SynopsisThis book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international cooperation. Johannes Urpelainen argues that although they continue to prioritize economic growth, innovative bargaining and institutional design offer a way forward.Trade ReviewUrpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed. -- Joshua Busby, University of Texas at AustinEmerging economies are critically important to the future of the planet’s health. Their economic success and growing energy and resource consumption have turned them into pivotal players in international environmental negotiations. Johannes Urpelainen’s excellent new book provides an essential guide to this new reality of environmental diplomacy. -- Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading experts to explore the possibilities of the Green New Deal, emphasizing the future of work. They examine transformations that are already underway and put forth bold new proposals that can provide jobs while reducing carbon consumption—building a world that is sustainable both economically and ecologically.Trade ReviewA bold and penetrating collection of essays about the most important problems of our time. -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change AmericaCalhoun and Fong have crafted an erudite, timely, and often inspiring collection of essays about work and the Green New Deal. No other book I know looks at infrastructure and environment through the prism of labor, culture, and political economy. This will be an excellent resource for teaching, advocacy, and policy making. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeAs a slogan, the Green New Deal can at times be extended to include almost anything on the current U.S. left’s agenda. But what might it really mean? And how would it work? This book is a welcome intervention because it explores from numerous vantage points—often in real detail and with bracing honesty—the possibilities and limits invoked by the idea of a Green New Deal. Headlines will change, new emergencies will arise and fade, but the climate crisis is not going away. That is why this sort of discussion about realistic solutions is so necessary. -- Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of ViolenceThis book is an incredible (and rare) collection from both organizers and scholars on the key challenge of the twenty-first century: how to transform the world of work toward rapid decarbonization. It contains impressive historical depth on the model of the New Deal and explores how to make the Green version a reality. -- Matthew T. Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming PlanetStudents, organizers, and academics alike will benefit from this book. * H-Environment *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. FongPart I: The New Deal and the Green New Deal1. From the New Deal to the Green New Deal, by Richard A. Walker2. From Romance to Utilitarianism: Lessons on Work and Nature from the New Deal, by Hillary Angelo3. A Green New Deal for Agriculture, by Raj Patel and Jim GoodmanPart II: What Is the Crisis of Work?4. A Green New Deal for Care: Revaluing the Work of Social and Ecological Reproduction, by Alyssa Battistoni5. Another World (of Work) Is Possible, by Stephanie Luce6. Time for Rabble-Rousing: Lessons from the Historic Fight for Reduced Working Hours, by Wilson SherwinPart III: Delivering Jobs and Empowering Workers7. Jobs for All: A Job Guarantee Puts Workers in the Driver’s Seat, by Dustin Guastella8. Unions and the Green New Deal, by Mindy Isser9. “Fancy Funeral” or Radical Rebirth? Just Transition and the Future of Work(ers) in the United States, by Todd E. Vachon10. Overcoming the Tragedy of Growth Machines, by Harvey MolotchPart IV: Transforming Infrastructure11. A Green New Deal for Housing, by Daniel Aldana Cohen12. Low-Carbon, High-Speed: How a Green New Deal Can Transform the Transportation Sector, by J. Mijin Cha and Lara Skinner13. Redesigning Political Economy: The Promise and Peril of a Green New Deal for Energy, by Clark A. MillerPart V: The Work of Building a Better Society14. Community Control and the Climate Crisis: Power, Governance, and Racial Capitalism, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò15. Rethinking the Green New Deal: From War to Work, by Harry C. Boyte and Trygve Throntveit16. How to Create Good Jobs, a Sustainable Environment, and a Durable and Successful Left Political Alliance Through a Green New Deal, by Richard LachmannAcknowledgmentsIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading experts to explore the possibilities of the Green New Deal, emphasizing the future of work. They examine transformations that are already underway and put forth bold new proposals that can provide jobs while reducing carbon consumption—building a world that is sustainable both economically and ecologically.Trade ReviewA bold and penetrating collection of essays about the most important problems of our time. -- Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change AmericaCalhoun and Fong have crafted an erudite, timely, and often inspiring collection of essays about work and the Green New Deal. No other book I know looks at infrastructure and environment through the prism of labor, culture, and political economy. This will be an excellent resource for teaching, advocacy, and policy making. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeAs a slogan, the Green New Deal can at times be extended to include almost anything on the current U.S. left’s agenda. But what might it really mean? And how would it work? This book is a welcome intervention because it explores from numerous vantage points—often in real detail and with bracing honesty—the possibilities and limits invoked by the idea of a Green New Deal. Headlines will change, new emergencies will arise and fade, but the climate crisis is not going away. That is why this sort of discussion about realistic solutions is so necessary. -- Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of ViolenceThis book is an incredible (and rare) collection from both organizers and scholars on the key challenge of the twenty-first century: how to transform the world of work toward rapid decarbonization. It contains impressive historical depth on the model of the New Deal and explores how to make the Green version a reality. -- Matthew T. Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming PlanetStudents, organizers, and academics alike will benefit from this book. * H-Environment *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. FongPart I: The New Deal and the Green New Deal1. From the New Deal to the Green New Deal, by Richard A. Walker2. From Romance to Utilitarianism: Lessons on Work and Nature from the New Deal, by Hillary Angelo3. A Green New Deal for Agriculture, by Raj Patel and Jim GoodmanPart II: What Is the Crisis of Work?4. A Green New Deal for Care: Revaluing the Work of Social and Ecological Reproduction, by Alyssa Battistoni5. Another World (of Work) Is Possible, by Stephanie Luce6. Time for Rabble-Rousing: Lessons from the Historic Fight for Reduced Working Hours, by Wilson SherwinPart III: Delivering Jobs and Empowering Workers7. Jobs for All: A Job Guarantee Puts Workers in the Driver’s Seat, by Dustin Guastella8. Unions and the Green New Deal, by Mindy Isser9. “Fancy Funeral” or Radical Rebirth? Just Transition and the Future of Work(ers) in the United States, by Todd E. Vachon10. Overcoming the Tragedy of Growth Machines, by Harvey MolotchPart IV: Transforming Infrastructure11. A Green New Deal for Housing, by Daniel Aldana Cohen12. Low-Carbon, High-Speed: How a Green New Deal Can Transform the Transportation Sector, by J. Mijin Cha and Lara Skinner13. Redesigning Political Economy: The Promise and Peril of a Green New Deal for Energy, by Clark A. MillerPart V: The Work of Building a Better Society14. Community Control and the Climate Crisis: Power, Governance, and Racial Capitalism, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò15. Rethinking the Green New Deal: From War to Work, by Harry C. Boyte and Trygve Throntveit16. How to Create Good Jobs, a Sustainable Environment, and a Durable and Successful Left Political Alliance Through a Green New Deal, by Richard LachmannAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah
Book SynopsisIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated pioneer of the ''do-nothing'' farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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Penguin Books Ltd This Changes Everything
Book SynopsisNaomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeForget everything you think you know about global warming. It''s not about carbon - it''s about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate.You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it''s impossible to get off fosTrade ReviewWill be one of the most influential books of our time -- Owen JonesKlein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book -- John Gray * Observer *Without a doubt one of the most important books of the decade -- Amitav GhoshSavages the idea that we will be saved by new technologies or by an incremental shift away from fossil fuels... Her solution requires a radical reconfiguration of our economic system * New York Times *Her task is to take a potential catastrophe of unimaginable reach and to be calm and welcoming, drawing new people in. She does vast amounts of travel and research and thinking, then crafts all of it to the scale of her own voice: the voice of a pleasant, funny, unthreatening-looking woman * Guardian *I have devoured Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, the book the world has been waiting for. I urge everyone to read it (especially politicians). It is her most prescient book yet and is a much-needed call to arms as time runs out on climate change -- Cornelia Parker * Observer, Books of the Year *It's no exaggeration to say This Changes Everything is the most important book I've read all year - perhaps in a decade. Klein sets out the scientific case for urgent action on climate change and argues passionately that our only hope of combating its effects is a revolution in our entire economic system. Crucially, she manages to leave the reader with a degree of optimism -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer, Books of the Year *[T]he problems - climate change, plus everything that is changing as a result, plus the increasing toxicity of the planet - can no longer be denied. This is a conversation that needs to happen on a large scale, and on a local scale, and on a personal scale, very soon -- Margaret Atwood * Guardian, Books of the Year *Captured the collective sense of anger and awakening ... [a] frightening look at climate change and capitalism -- Matt Haig * Observer, Books of the Year *Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce, and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today -- Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and Capitalism: A Ghost StoryA book of such ambition and consequence it is almost unreviewable ... The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring * New York Times Book Review *Savages the idea that we will be saved by new technologies or by an incremental shift away from fossil fuels... Her solution requires a radical reconfiguration of our economic system * New York Times *The book has an uplifting message: that humans have changed before, and can change again. It poses a gutsy challenge to those who are vaguely hoping that the whole issue will go away, or that some new technology will save us * Sunday Times *This may be the first truly honest book ever written about climate change * Time *Her task is to take a potential catastrophe of unimaginable reach and to be calm and welcoming, drawing new people in. She does vast amounts of travel and research and thinking, then crafts all of it to the scale of her own voice: the voice of a pleasant, funny, unthreatening-looking woman * Guardian *The proposition that the world's political and economic institutions are preventing us from meeting the lethal challenge of global warming is hardly novel. But Naomi Klein in her new book articulates the case as forcefully and comprehensively as anyone has yet managed * Independent *Powerfully and uncompromisingly written, the impassioned polemic we have come to expect from Klein, mixing first-hand accounts of events around the world and withering political analysis . . . Her stirring vision is nothing less than a political, economic, social, cultural and moral make-over of the human world * New Scientist *Klein is one of the left's most influential figures and a prominent climate champion. . . . [She] is a gifted writer and there is little doubt about the problem she identifies * Financial Times *Gripping and dramatic . . . [Klein] writes of a decisive battle for the fate of the earth in which we either take back control of the planet from the capitalists who are destroying it or watch it all burn * Rolling Stone *An energetic exploration of issues surrounding climate change vociferously advocates immediate, radical reforms... The distinctiveness of the book resides... in its immersive reporting (on "Blockadia" eco-movements and futuristic geoengineering proposals) and in Klein's sheer outspokenness * New Yorker *Klein has, with this book, thoroughly and completely debunked everything promoted under the banner of conservatism today - and she has done so with a work that's more powerful than a stack of C4.This Changes Everything deserves to be viewed not as one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 2010s, but as one of the greatest nonfiction works of all-time. ... This book will expand and intensify the worldwide climate-justice movement, which is why the rhetorical attacks on Klein will become ever more aggressive. It will politically galvanize the young and the vulnerable, who have so much to lose due to the climate crisis. It will create climate leaders across this warming globe. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is not just a book, not just a moment, not just a movement. It is a weapon of justice. It is a path of survival * Washington Monthly *[Her] words and knowledge run deep, inspiring change and the need for immediate action -- Charlize TheronToday @NaomiAKlein's new book #ThisChangesEverything is out now - I'm reading it - it's great -- Russell BrandNaomi Klein is a genius. She has done for politics what Jared Diamond did for the study of human history. She skillfully blends politics, economics and history and distills out simple and powerful truths with universal applicability -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.The manifesto that the climate movement - and the planet - needs right now... For those with whom her message does resonate - and they are likely to be legion - her book could help catalyze the kind of mass movement she argues the world needs now * San Francisco Gate *Has the potential to be the definitive account of our current moment... Klein's great gifts have always been synthesizing huge amounts of information and drawing connections between seemingly disparate issues; on those points, This Changes Everything is no different * Globe and Mail *Meticulously researched and briskly rational in tone, [it] is one of the basic texts of the modern era... an essential purchase in that it tells you precisely what you need to know to discuss the climate dilemma intelligently... This Changes Everything is basic reading and no one will take you seriously until you've read every single page * Toronto Star *An intellectual hero of many in the alter-globalization protests as well as the Occupy movement. . . . Klein is ready for battle and is not afraid to own her politics * Los Angeles Review of Books *This is the best book about climate change in a very long time-in large part because it's about much more. It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. And that in turn should give us hope, because it means the fight for a just world is the same as the fight for a livable one -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and co-founder of 350.org
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MO - University of Illinois Press Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed
Book SynopsisPresents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women, environmental justice activists fighting against mountaintop removal mining and its devastating effects on public health, regional ecology, and community well-being.Trade ReviewAssociation for Humanist Sociology Book Award, 2014. Silver Winner in Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Nautilus Book Awards, 2014. Runner-up in General Nonfiction, Green Book Festival, 2014. "By making grassroots women central, Bell has created a powerful model for scholarly writing that can engage undergraduates, faculty, and general readers. Our Roots Run Deep sees civic engagement as critical and shows that campuses and academics have much to learn from those who sometimes are merely studies or assisted."--Environmental History "These stories reveal not only the profoundly devastating environmental, health, and social impacts experienced by Appalachians living in the 'sacrifice zone,' but also the identity transformation experienced by women who find a sense of purpose and agency in their activism. . . . a complex, detailed rendering of the human costs of US dependence on cheap energy. Recommended."--Choice "Compelling accounts of polluted wells, washed out homesteads, run away coal trucks, and coal dust settling down on the town with each woman facing their own ecological nightmare and then coming to fight back, many endangering their own lives and community relations to do so."--Mobilization "A groundbreaking collection of life stories from women in the struggle against mountaintop removal. These extraordinary stories are luminous with the courage and moral passion of these women as they struggle to protect their communities, families, land, and cultural heritage."--Betsy Taylor, coauthor of Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice"Bell's volume is unique in that it allows each activist to tell her own story in her own words. This approach is especially valuable when it comes to explaining why women in these mountain communities are much more likely than men are to join the environmental justice movement."--The Journal of Southern History"Remarkable and unique. . . . Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed makes enduring methodological and theoretical advances in the field and will be read and cited widely by scholars with interests in gender studies, environmental and environmental justice studies, community studies, social-change movements, and rural sociology."--Social Forces"Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed greatly enriches the growing body of literature on environment activism in the region. The inspiring and instructive stories of these courageous women form an invaluable record that Shannon Elizabeth Bell's sensitively conducted and edited interviews have beautifully captured."--Appalachian Journal"Through the use of powerful oral histories as well as her own clear, concise writing, Bell accomplishes her goal of 'ensur[ing] that women's place in the history of this environmental justice movement is not forgotten.' This book will appeal not only to scholars but also to anyone interested in Appalachian women's activism, the Appalachian region itself, or environmental activism in general."--West Virginia History "Offers an important counter to narratives within both political and feminist studies that have positioned rural women as static of 'failed' political actors. . . . This is an exemplary oral history that demonstrates Bell's skill as an interviewer and her capacity to engender trust and create rapport with her research participants."--Journal of Appalachian Studies "Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed substantially contributes to our understanding of grassroots activism and gender roles. Bell charts new ground with her extension of the 'motherhood effect' in grassroots environmental mobilization to the 'protector identity' motivated by an appreciation of nature. This book will be useful and attractive to scholars, students, and general readers."--Sherry Cable, author of Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Media Commons
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBook of the Year, Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2018 "There is hardly a topic that is more important and yet underresearched than the ways in which media. . . have (mis)represented environmental issues in recent decades. Patrick Murphy has the right credentials, reputation, and ability for the challenge. Given the importance of the topic, this books merits inclusion on the adoption lists of a wide spread of media, environmental, and discourse studies courses (among others) at undergraduate and graduate levels."--Mass Communication and Society"How is it that in less than four years Discovery replaced Ten Ways to Save the Planet with programming encouraging meat consumption, while The Walking Dead now provides post-apocalyptic survival techniques to a global audience? Murphy provides essential scholarship of environmental discourses within the politics and economies of transnational media."--Libby Lester, author of Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News"This book is addressing a universal crisis that right now, as we speak, is rapidly mainstreaming. It is a text that will be recognized as a critically important, highly innovative, and possibly paradigm-changing contribution to our understanding of how mediated discourses work to destroy our planet."--Oliver Boyd-Barrett, author of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire "Murphy skillfully unpacks the links among the institutions, ideology, and messages of global media systems and our imaginaries of the environment. The result is a scathing critique of the absorptive capacity of a market-driven, 'Promethean' discourse that elides social agency in response to our global ecological tensions."--Robert Cox, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication"The book's approach produces an interesting and unique contribution that should be required reading for scholars and students." --European Journal of Communication
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University of Illinois Press Winters of Discontent
Book SynopsisEvery four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism. The essays collectively explore the shifting dynamics and power relations between the civic coalitions that pursue the Winter Olympics and the social movements that oppose their efforts. The contributors look at specific Games impacted by dissent and probe the issues that swirled around failed and withdrawn bids. In addition, contributions on the contemporary Olympics describe current or future bids while delving into the campaigns demanding host nations pay attention to economic, social, humanitarian, and environmental concerns. A first-of-its-kind collection, Winters of Discontent profiles the wide range of activists and social movements that have organized against the Winter Olympics.
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