Environmental science, engineering and technology Books
Princeton University Press Climate Change Justice
Book SynopsisClimate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developinTrade Review"Anyone taking part in the next round of climate negotiations in Mexico in December should take this book with them. It is ... certainly a guide. Legislating for the future is always tricky. This area is trickier than most."--Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times "[T]his book is a potent attack on an argument that is growing rapidly in popularity yet declining in clarity and focus... Chapter 1 provides what must be one of the most comprehensive, comprehensible, and yet still succinct accounts of the science of anthropogenic climate change currently in print."--Jamison E. Colburn, Concurring Opinions blog "[B]y reflecting so clearly on the current 'economic consensus', Posner and Weisbach provide a useful introduction to the current state of play in climate change politics."--Joy Paton, Australian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ethically Relevant Facts and Predictions 10 Chapter 2: Policy Instruments 41 Chapter 3: Symbols, Not Substance 59 Chapter 4: Climate Change and Distributive Justice: Climate Change Blinders 73 Chapter 5: Punishing the Wrongdoers: A Climate Guilt Clause? 99 Chapter 6: Equality and the Case against Per Capita Permits 119 Chapter 7: Future Generations: The Debate over Discounting 144 Chapter 8: Global Welfare, Global Justice, and Climate Change 169 A Recapitulation 189 Afterword: The Copenhagen Accord 193 Notes 199 Index 219
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Emerald Publishing Limited Geotechnique volume 1 issue 1 Facsimile edition
Book SynopsisA unique opportunity to purchase a re-print of the first issue of the world renowned Geotechnique journal.Table of ContentsForeword, by K. Tezaghi Editorial: A study of the Geotechnical Properties of some Post-Glacial Clays, by A. W. Skempton Données concernant la résistance an cisaillement déduites des essays de pénétrartion en profondeur, par E.E. De Beer, Engineering Geology in Switzerland, by A. von Moos, Driving and Loading Tests on Six Precast Concrete Piles in Gravel, by A. W. Bishop, V. H. Collingridge, and T. P. O’Sullivan, Remarques sur quelques marnes fortement preconsolidées par J. Florentin et G. L’Heritean, Conlomb and Earth Pressure, By H. Q. Golder, Book Review, General Bibliography of Soil Mechanics and Related Subjects published since 1946: Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain
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University of British Columbia Press Life in 2030
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.Table of ContentsPreface / Jon Tinker 1. Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada / John B. Robinsonand D. Scott Slocombe 2. The Sustainable Society Project / John B. Robinson andCaroline Van Bers 3. Defining a Sustainable Society / John B. Robinson, GeorgeFrancis, Sally Lerner and Russell Legge 4. Design Criteria for a Sustainable Canadian Society / D. ScottSlocombe, Sally Lerner and Caroline Van Bers 5. Life in 2030: The Sustainability Scenario / David Biggs andJohn B. Robinson 6. Achieving a Sustainable Society / D. Scott Slocombe, SallyLerner, George Francis and John B. Robinson 7. A Retrospective / George Francis Appendixes A. Project Participants and Project Papers B. The Socioeconomic Resource Framework / David Biggs
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University of British Columbia Press Sustainable Production Building Canadian Capacity
Book SynopsisAims to establish a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward. This work is useful for those in business, public policy and engineering.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. New Century Ideas and Sustainable Production / Glen Toner andDavid V.J. Bell Part 1: Sustainable Production and Its Context 2. From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness: Private SectorPractices for Sustainable Production / Bob Masterson 3. Policy Instruments and Sustainable Production: Toward Foresightwithout Foreclosure / Robert Paehlke Part 2: The Knowledge-Based Economy, Social Capital, andProduct Design 4. Developing Sustainability in the Knowledge-Based Economy:Prospects and Potential / Keith Newton and John Besley 5. Sustainability, Social Capital, and the Canadian ICT Sector /David Wheeler, Kelly Thomson, and Michael A. Perkin 6. Innovation, Architecture, and the Changing Role of DesignProfessionals: Assessing the Ford Model U / Carey Frey Part 3: External and Internal Drivers of SustainableProduction 7. Collaborative Public Policy for Sustainable Production: A BroadAgenda and a Modest Proposal / John Moffet, Stephanie Meyer, and JuliePezzack 8. Mobilizing Producers toward Environmental Sustainability: TheProspects for Market-Oriented Regulations / Mark Jaccard 9. Sustainable Production and the Financial Markers: Opportunitiesto Pursue and Barriers to Overcome / Blair W. Feltmate, Brian A.Schofield, and Ron Yachnin 10. Engaging Senior Management on Sustainability / KevinBrady Conclusion 11. Whither Sustainable Production? Sustainable Enterprise and theRole of Government / David V.J. Bell and Glen Toner Index
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University of British Columbia Press Sustainable Production Building Canadian
Book SynopsisEstablishes a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward. This work focuses on the systems by which industrial economies produce goods and services.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. New Century Ideas and Sustainable Production / Glen Toner andDavid V.J. Bell Part 1: Sustainable Production and Its Context 2. From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness: Private SectorPractices for Sustainable Production / Bob Masterson 3. Policy Instruments and Sustainable Production: Toward Foresightwithout Foreclosure / Robert Paehlke Part 2: The Knowledge-Based Economy, Social Capital, andProduct Design 4. Developing Sustainability in the Knowledge-Based Economy:Prospects and Potential / Keith Newton and John Besley 5. Sustainability, Social Capital, and the Canadian ICT Sector /David Wheeler, Kelly Thomson, and Michael A. Perkin 6. Innovation, Architecture, and the Changing Role of DesignProfessionals: Assessing the Ford Model U / Carey Frey Part 3: External and Internal Drivers of SustainableProduction 7. Collaborative Public Policy for Sustainable Production: A BroadAgenda and a Modest Proposal / John Moffet, Stephanie Meyer, and JuliePezzack 8. Mobilizing Producers toward Environmental Sustainability: TheProspects for Market-Oriented Regulations / Mark Jaccard 9. Sustainable Production and the Financial Markers: Opportunitiesto Pursue and Barriers to Overcome / Blair W. Feltmate, Brian A.Schofield, and Ron Yachnin 10. Engaging Senior Management on Sustainability / KevinBrady Conclusion 11. Whither Sustainable Production? Sustainable Enterprise and theRole of Government / David V.J. Bell and Glen Toner Index
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University of British Columbia Press Birds of Ontario Habitat Requirements Limiting
Book SynopsisThis volume and its predecessor condense the vast amount of literature on the nonpasserines of Ontario into a compact reference manual that will be essential to biologists, environmental planners, and serious birders.Trade Review"Sandilands has done a very thorough job of researching information... A tremendous amount of material is summarized in the species accounts, and it is presented in a well-written style. I strongly recommend this book and future volumes in the series. - Ron Tozer, Ontario Birds"Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONScope and Sources of InformationFormat of the Species AccountsFuture ResearchSPECIES ACCOUNTSBlack-bellied PloverAmerican Golden-PloverSemipalmated PloverPiping PloverKilldeerBlack-necked StiltAmerican AvocetSpotted SandpiperSolitary SandpiperGreater YellowlegsWilletLesser YellowlegsUpland SandpiperEskimo CurlewWhimbrelHudsonian GodwitMarbled GodwitRuddy TurnstoneRed KnotSanderlingSemipalmated SandpiperWestern SandpiperLeast SandpiperWhite-rumped SandpiperBaird’s SandpiperPectoral SandpiperPurple SandpiperDunlinStilt SandpiperBuff-breasted SandpiperRuffShort-billed DowitcherLong-billed DowitcherWilson’s SnipeAmerican WoodcockWilson’s PhalaropeRed-necked PhalaropeBonaparte’s GullLittle GullFranklin’s GullRing-billed GullHerring GullIceland GullLesser Black-backed GullGlaucous GullGreat Black-backed GullCaspian TernBlack TernCommon TernArctic TernForster’s TernParasitic JaegerBlack GuillemotRock PigeonMourning DoveYellow-billed CuckooBlack-billed CuckooBarn OwlEastern Screech-OwlGreat Horned OwlSnowy OwlNorthern Hawk OwlBarred OwlGreat Gray OwlLong-eared OwlShort-eared OwlBoreal OwlNorthern Saw-whet OwlCommon NighthawkChuck-will’s-widowWhip-poor-willChimney SwiftRuby-throated HummingbirdBelted KingfisherRed-headed WoodpeckerRed-bellied WoodpeckerYellow-bellied SapsuckerDowny WoodpeckerHairy WoodpeckerAmerican Three-toed WoodpeckerBlack-backed WoodpeckerNorthern FlickerPileated WoodpeckerLiterature CitedIndex to Common and Scientific Bird Names
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University of British Columbia Press The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.Trade ReviewThe Aquaculture Controversy is a valuable contribution to a critical Canadian policy debate—one that is bound to inform future studies on the unfolding blue revolution and its ongoing Canadian impacts. -- Dean Bavington * Literary Review of Canada *Young’s and Matthews’ Aquaculture Controversy in Canada deserves special attention for at least two reasons: Firstly, because it is a book vigorously written to unfold the many layers of the aquaculture debate with Canada as a major player as well as — one is tempted to overstate — a “victim” of the global industry. Secondly, the book is an excellent example of good sociology -- Matthias Gross, University of Halle, Germany * Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 36(1) 2011 *This book offers intriguing insights into the debates about aquaculture and the reasons why the various parties, whether for or against, are so entrenched in their views. It should be of interest to current stakeholders in the industry as well as fisheries scientists and scholars. -- Miriam Wright, University of Windsor * International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XXIV No 1 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: A High-Speed Collision: Aquaculture as Intersection and Metaphor1 Aquaculture in a Global Context2 Aquaculture in a Local ContextPart 2: Knowledge Battlefield3 Knowledge Battlefield: Science, Framing, and “Facts”4 Knowledge Warriors? Experts and the Aquaculture Controversy5 Media and the Knowledge Battlefield / with Mary ListonPart 3: Political Economy6 Aquaculture and Community Development7 Governing AquacultureConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.Trade ReviewThe Aquaculture Controversy is a valuable contribution to a critical Canadian policy debate—one that is bound to inform future studies on the unfolding blue revolution and its ongoing Canadian impacts. -- Dean Bavington * Literary Review of Canada *Young’s and Matthews’ Aquaculture Controversy in Canada deserves special attention for at least two reasons: Firstly, because it is a book vigorously written to unfold the many layers of the aquaculture debate with Canada as a major player as well as — one is tempted to overstate — a “victim” of the global industry. Secondly, the book is an excellent example of good sociology -- Matthias Gross, University of Halle, Germany * Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 36(1) 2011 *This book offers intriguing insights into the debates about aquaculture and the reasons why the various parties, whether for or against, are so entrenched in their views. It should be of interest to current stakeholders in the industry as well as fisheries scientists and scholars. -- Miriam Wright, University of Windsor * International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XXIV No 1 *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: A High-Speed Collision: Aquaculture as Intersection and Metaphor1 Aquaculture in a Global Context2 Aquaculture in a Local ContextPart 2: Knowledge Battlefield3 Knowledge Battlefield: Science, Framing, and “Facts”4 Knowledge Warriors? Experts and the Aquaculture Controversy5 Media and the Knowledge Battlefield / with Mary ListonPart 3: Political Economy6 Aquaculture and Community Development7 Governing AquacultureConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a
Book SynopsisIn the face of growing anxiety about the environmental sustainability of the world, George Francis, a leading authority in the field of sustainability studies, examines initiatives undertaken in Canada over the past twenty-five years to protect some of our unique environments.Trade ReviewStriving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World … is an important and interesting look at various innovative ideas that have had varying degrees of success pertaining to living sustainably in Canada. -- Glenn Perrett * Simcoe.com *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Adopting Complexity to Guide Inquiries: Framework, Methods, and Rationale2 The Landscape Regions: Biosphere Reserves and Model Forests3 Governing Landscape Regions: Learning from Experience and Surprise4 Technologies and Innovations: Recent Origins and the Canadian Situation5 Innovations and Sustainability in the Landscape Regions: Looking Ahead, Looking Back6 Other Approaches toward Desirable Sustainability for Canadian Communities7 Where Next? Possibilities Being Explored8 Where Next for Complexity Thinking Itself?AppendicesNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Community Forestry in Canada
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive look at community forestry initiatives across Canada, this book provides a rich and detailed portrait of the sector from Newfoundland to British Columbia.Trade Review“…[Community Forestry in Canada]'s layout in 14 stand-alone chapters makes it accessible, and it will be of interest to students studying social forestry or forestry practitioners working in the field of community forestry within the UK or worldwide […] Twenty-eight people contributed to this book and it is extremely well referenced, confirming it a useful source of information. -- David White * Chartered Forester *This is the first anthology on the subject of community forestry to specifically examine the Canadian context … This volume provides insights into how policy and governance surrounding community forestry in Canada is being reshaped through strong public processes initiated by local residents and organizations … How will these kinds of political-economic negotiations affect the ongoing development of community forestry in British Columbia, as well as in other parts of Canada? For people on the ground grappling with these questions, Teitelbaum’s compilation provides a vital starting point. -- Erika Bland * BC Studies *Though this work will be most relevant to readers in Canada or those with a specific focus in Canadian studies, it will also be a strong resource for individuals interested in forest governance and/or community-based resource management. Summing Up: Recommended. -- J. L. Rhoades, Antioch University New England * CHOICE, April 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Shared Framework for the Analysis of Community Forestry in Canada Part 1: Regional Portraits1 The Roots of Community Forestry: Subsistence and Regional Development in Newfoundland / Erin C. Kelly and Sara Carson2 Community Forestry in the Maritimes: Long-Standing Debates and Recent Developments / Thomas Beckley3 Community Forestry in Quebec: A Search for Alternative Forest Governance Models / Solange Nadeau and Sara Teitelbaum4 Community Forestry on Crown Land in Northern Ontario: Emerging Paradigm or Localized Anomaly? / Lynn Palmer, M.A. (Peggy) Smith, and Chander Shahi5 Forests and Communities on the Fringe: An Overview of Community Forestry in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba / John R. Parkins, Ryan Bullock, Bram Noble, and Maureen G. Reed6 Community Forestry in British Columbia: From a Movement to an Institution / Lisa AmbusPart 2: Case Studies: Connecting Principle and Practice7 Community Forestry in an Age of Crisis: Structural Change, the Mountain Pine Beetle, and the Evolution of the Burns Lake Community Forest / Kirsten McIlveen and Michelle Rhodes8 Searching for Common Ground: An Urban Forest Initiative in Northwestern Ontario / James Robson, Mya Wheeler, A. John Sinclair, Alan Diduck, M.A. (Peggy) Smith, and Teika Newton9 Community Forestry and Local Development at the Periphery: Four Cases from Western Quebec / Édith Leclerc and Guy Chiasson10 Striking the Balance: Source Water Protection and Organizational Resilience in BC’s Community Forests / Lauren Rethoret, Murray Rutherford, and Evelyn Pinkerton11 Practicing Participatory Governance through Community Forestry: A Qualitative Analysis of Four Canadian Case Studies / Sara TeitelbaumPart 3: Community Forestry: Looking Towards the Future12 Stronger Rights, Novel Outcomes: Why Community Forests Need More Control over Forest Management / Erik Leslie13 Whither Community Forests in Canada? Scenarios of Forest Governance, Adaptive Policy Development, and the Example of Nova Scotia / Peter N. Duinker and L. Kris MacLellan14 Towards an Integrated System of Communities and Forests in Canada / Ryan Bullock and Maureen G. ReedIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Unbuilt Environments
Book SynopsisIn the latter half of the twentieth century, legions of industrial pioneers came to northwestern British Columbia with grand plans for mines, dams, and energy-development schemes. Yet many of their projects failed to materialize or were abandoned midstream. Unbuilt Environments reveals that these lapsed resource projects had lasting effects on the natural and human environment. Drawing on a range of case studies to analyze the social and environmental impacts of unfinished projects, Jonathan Peyton considers development failure a productive concept for northwestern Canada. He looks at a closed asbestos mine, an abandoned rail grade, an imagined series of hydroelectric installations, a failed LNG export facility, and a transmission line and finds that these unrealized developments continue to shape contemporary resource conflicts.Trade ReviewUnbuilt Environments is an enthralling book … [and] a great contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary narrative on resource development conflicts in northwest British Columbia, a region that is currently the site of intense mining exploration and controversy over energy projects. Drawing on fieldwork throughout northwest British Columbia and on research which is both eloquent and honest, Unbuilt Environments is a practical, accessible, and reliable resource from a respected emerging researcher. I strongly recommend this book for the expert and non-expert. -- Rajiv Thakur, Missouri State University, West Plains * Polymath *Unbuilt Environments provides an even-handed discussion of development in a region that remains relatively aloof from capital investment and integration into the global economy. -- Gordon Hak * NiCHE, Network in Canadian History & Environment *Jonathan Peyton by bringing to light the history of these spasmodic industrial developments in the north has done an immense public service. His research is comprehensive, his analysis precise, his tone moderate and dispassionate. Indeed, there are moments when the reader, overwhelmed by Peyton’s revelations, the scale of the corruption, the extent of the folly, the aggregate waste of tax payers’ wealth, almost wishes for a more emotional reaction from the author. Yet the great strength of the book is its restraint, for the facts and history alone provide sufficient indictment. -- Wade Davis * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsForeword: How Shall We Live? / Graeme WynnIntroduction: The Stikine Watershed and the Unbuilt Environment1 Cassiar, Asbestos: How to Know a Place2 Liberating Stranded Resources: The Dease Lake Extension as the Railway to Nowhere3 Corporate Ecology: BC Hydro, Failure, and the Stikine-Iskut Project4 “Industry for the future”: Dome Petroleum and the Afterlives of “Aggressive” Development5 Transmission: Contesting Energy and Enterprise in the New Northwest Gold RushConclusion: The Tumbling GeographyAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Caring for Eeyou Istchee
Book SynopsisIn Caring for Eeyou Istchee, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners reveal how protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection.Trade ReviewThis book expertly details what nature bureaucrats call a “new protected area paradigm,” according to which lands are “governed by and with Indigenous people," promoting "respect for [their] knowledge, values, collective tenure, stewardship, ... and management of biodiversity" (p. xii). -- B. E. Johansen * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword / Stan StevensPrefaceIntroduction / Rodney Mark, Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottPart 1: Context1 Protected Area Development in Northern Canadian Indigenous Contexts / Monica E. Mulrennan and Fikret Berkes2 The Politics of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Protection / Wren Nasr and Colin H. Scott3 A Balancing Act: Mining and Protected Areas on Wemindji Territory / Ugo Lapointe and Colin H. Scott4 Collecting Scientific Knowledge: an Historical Perspective on Eastern James Bay Research / Katherine ScottPart 2: What to Protect5 Shoreline Displacement and Human Adaptation in Eastern James Bay: A 6,000-year Perspective / Florin Pendea, Andre Costopoulos, Gail Chmura , Colin D. Wren, Jennifer Bracewell, Samuel Vaneeckhout, Jari Okkonen, Eva Hulse, and Dustin Keeler6 Patterns on the Land: Paakumshumwaau through the Lens of Natural History / James W. Fyles, Grant Ingram, Greg Mikkelson, Florin Pendea, Katherine Scott, and Kristen Whitbeck7 The Mammals of Wemindji: in Time, Space, and Ways of Knowing / Murray M. Humphries, Jason Samson, and Heather E. Milligan8 Coastal Goose Hunt of the Wemindji Cree: Adaptations to Social and Ecological Change / Claude Péloquin and Fikret Berkes9 Coastal Landscape Modifications by Cree Hunters / Jesse S. Sayles and Monica E. Mulrennan10 Aa-wiichaautuwiihkw: Cultural Connections and Continuities along the Wemindji Coast / Véronique Bussières, Monica E. Mulrennan, and Dorothy StewartPart 3: How to Protect11 Wemindji Cree Relations with the Government of Quebec in Creating the Paakumshumwaau-Maatuskaau Biodiversity Reserve / Julie Hébert, François Brassard, Ugo Lapointe, and Colin H. Scott12 A Responsibility to Protect and Restore: Advancing the Tawich (Marine) Conservation Area / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. ScottConclusion / Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Caring for Eeyou Istchee
Book SynopsisIn Caring for Eeyou Istchee, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners reveal how protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection.Trade ReviewThis book expertly details what nature bureaucrats call a “new protected area paradigm,” according to which lands are “governed by and with Indigenous people," promoting "respect for [their] knowledge, values, collective tenure, stewardship, ... and management of biodiversity" (p. xii). -- B. E. Johansen * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword / Stan StevensPrefaceIntroduction / Rodney Mark, Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottPart 1: Context1 Protected Area Development in Northern Canadian Indigenous Contexts / Monica E. Mulrennan and Fikret Berkes2 The Politics of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Protection / Wren Nasr and Colin H. Scott3 A Balancing Act: Mining and Protected Areas on Wemindji Territory / Ugo Lapointe and Colin H. Scott4 Collecting Scientific Knowledge: an Historical Perspective on Eastern James Bay Research / Katherine ScottPart 2: What to Protect5 Shoreline Displacement and Human Adaptation in Eastern James Bay: A 6,000-year Perspective / Florin Pendea, Andre Costopoulos, Gail Chmura , Colin D. Wren, Jennifer Bracewell, Samuel Vaneeckhout, Jari Okkonen, Eva Hulse, and Dustin Keeler6 Patterns on the Land: Paakumshumwaau through the Lens of Natural History / James W. Fyles, Grant Ingram, Greg Mikkelson, Florin Pendea, Katherine Scott, and Kristen Whitbeck7 The Mammals of Wemindji: in Time, Space, and Ways of Knowing / Murray M. Humphries, Jason Samson, and Heather E. Milligan8 Coastal Goose Hunt of the Wemindji Cree: Adaptations to Social and Ecological Change / Claude Péloquin and Fikret Berkes9 Coastal Landscape Modifications by Cree Hunters / Jesse S. Sayles and Monica E. Mulrennan10 Aa-wiichaautuwiihkw: Cultural Connections and Continuities along the Wemindji Coast / Véronique Bussières, Monica E. Mulrennan, and Dorothy StewartPart 3: How to Protect11 Wemindji Cree Relations with the Government of Quebec in Creating the Paakumshumwaau-Maatuskaau Biodiversity Reserve / Julie Hébert, François Brassard, Ugo Lapointe, and Colin H. Scott12 A Responsibility to Protect and Restore: Advancing the Tawich (Marine) Conservation Area / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. ScottConclusion / Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottIndex
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Cornell University Press Earth A Tenants Manual
Book SynopsisIt''s impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still less an academic exercise. It''s a survival issue. This is the only planet we have. We''re stuck here, and we don''t own the placeit would be the height of arrogance to assume that we do. We''re tenants here, not owners, but we''re tenants with hope for a long-term tenancy. We want to extend our lease just as far as we can.from Earth: A Tenant''s ManualIn Earth: A Tenant''s Manual, the distinguished geologist Frank H. T. Rhodes, President Emeritus of Cornell University, provides a sweeping, accessible, and deeply informed guide to the home we all share, showing us how we might best preserve the Earth''s livability for ourselves and future generations. Rhodes begins by setting the scene for our active planet and explaining how its location and composition determine hTrade ReviewRhodes reviews earth science, identifies and discusses the major environmental issues currently facing societies, and describes and promotes pathways for sustainable use of Earth and its resources.... Overall, the book is highly readable. Although science is a focus, the presentation is such that anyone with an interest in environmental issues will enjoy and learn from the work. It could serve well as a text for students in an upper-division environmental issues class. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPart I. Earth Present: The Third Planet 1. The Third Planet 2. The Home Planet 3. The Rocky Planet 4. The Blue Planet 5. The Veiled Planet 6. The Hazardous Planet 7. The Ancient Planet 8. The Bountiful Planet 9. The Finite PlanetPart II. Earth Past: The Changing Planet 10. The Singular Planet 11. The Uninhabitable Planet 12. The Living Planet 13. The Warming Planet 14. The Polluted Planet 15. The Crowded PlanetPart III. Earth Future: The Sustainable Planet 16. The Sustainable Planet 17. Water as Sustenance 18. Air as Sustenance 19. Soil as Sustenance 20. Food as Sustenance 21. Energy as Sustenance 22. Materials as Sustenance 23. Prospects for Sustenance 24. Policies for SustenanceEpilogue Related Reading Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Discovering the Chesapeake The History of an
Book SynopsisIn the next few thousand years, the ice may form again and the Bay will once more be the valley of the Susquehanna, unless, of course, human-induced changes in climate create some other currently unpredictable condition."-from the IntroductionTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 The Chesapeake Ecosystem - Its Geological Heritage George W. Fisher and Jerry R. Schubel Chapter 2 Climate and Climate History in the Chesapeake Bay Region John E. Kutzbach and Thompson Webb III Chapter 3 Forests before and after the Colonial Encounter Grace S. Brush Chapter 4 Human Influences on the Physical Characteristics of the Chesapeake Bay Donald W. Pritchard and Jerry Schubel Chapter 5 A Long-Term History of Terrestrial Birds and Mammals in the Chesapeake-Susquehanna Watershed David W. Steadman Chapter 6 Living along the "Great Shellfish Bay" - The Relationship between Prehistoric Peoples and the Chesapeake Henry M. Miller Chapter 7 Human Biology of Populations in the Chesapeake Watershed Douglas H. Ubelaker and Philip D. Curtin Chapter 8 A Useful Arcadia - European Colonists as Biotic Factors in Chesapeake Forests Timothy Silver Chapter 9 Reconstructing the Colonial Environment of the Upper Chesapeake Watershed Robert D. Mitchell, Warren R. Hofstra, and Edward F. Connor Chapter 10 Human Influences on Aquatic Resources in the Chesapeake Bay Victor S. Kennedy and Kent Mountford Chapter 11 Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Impact of European Agriculture, 1620-1820 Lorena S. Walsh Chapter 12 Chesapeake Gardens and Botanical Frontiers Anne E. Yentsch and James L. Reveal Chapter 13 Genteel Erosion - The Ecological Consequences of Agrarian Reform in the Chesapeake, 1730-1840 Carville Earle and Ronald Hoffman Chapter 14 Farming, Disease, and Change in the Chesapeake Ecosystem G. Terry Sharrer Chapter 15 Bird Populations of the Chesapeake Bay Region 350 Years of Change James F. Lynch Commentary - Reading the Palimpsest William Cronon Index
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Rutgers University Press Science by the People Participation Power and the
Book SynopsisStudies show that citizen science projects—projects involving nonprofessionals—face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.Trade Review“With cutbacks in government funding for regulatory science and roll-backs on regulations, there is going to be growing pressure for citizens to fill in the void with research and documentation. This book presents a much-needed overview of the dilemmas faced by citizen science groups. With detailed case studies on fracking, genetically modified foods, and nuclear radiation contamination, The Politics of Citizen Science will prove valuable for students, researchers, and citizen scientists.” -- David J Hess * Vanderbilt University *"Departing from the usual hype around citizen science, Science by the People takes a hard look at how science works--or doesn't--for citizens trying to improve their environments. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike." -- Gwen Ottinger * Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges *"'Meet RPI Professor at upcoming book signing' - interview with Abby Kincy" by Heather Kovar https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/meet-rpi-professor-at-upcoming-book-signing * CBS 6 Sunday Morning News Albany *"By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability." * ASA Environmental Sociology News *"While avoiding both cynicism and celebration, Kimura and Kinchy here suggest ways that citizen science can address dilemmas and meaningfully involve people who have been excluded from science." * Choice *"The issues Kimura and Kinchy raise in their book, including volunteering, taking a stand, contextualizing data, and shifting scales encourage citizen scientists to think critically. Although their book raises difficult issues, these issues are presented in a way that is accessible to many." * Science Connected Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Environmental Citizen Science: Virtues and Dilemmas 2 How is Environmental Citizen Science Political? 3 Investigating the Impacts of Fracking 4 Detecting Radiation 5 Tracking Genetically Engineered Cops Conclusion: A Vision of Science by and for the People Appendix: Resources for Getting Involved in Citizen Science Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors
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Rutgers University Press Science by the People Participation Power and the
Book SynopsisStudies show that citizen science projects—projects involving nonprofessionals—face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.Trade Review“With cutbacks in government funding for regulatory science and roll-backs on regulations, there is going to be growing pressure for citizens to fill in the void with research and documentation. This book presents a much-needed overview of the dilemmas faced by citizen science groups. With detailed case studies on fracking, genetically modified foods, and nuclear radiation contamination, The Politics of Citizen Science will prove valuable for students, researchers, and citizen scientists.” -- David J Hess * Vanderbilt University *"Departing from the usual hype around citizen science, Science by the People takes a hard look at how science works--or doesn't--for citizens trying to improve their environments. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike." -- Gwen Ottinger * Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges *"'Meet RPI Professor at upcoming book signing' - interview with Abby Kincy" by Heather Kovar https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/meet-rpi-professor-at-upcoming-book-signing * CBS 6 Sunday Morning News Albany *"By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability." * ASA Environmental Sociology News *"While avoiding both cynicism and celebration, Kimura and Kinchy here suggest ways that citizen science can address dilemmas and meaningfully involve people who have been excluded from science." * Choice *"The issues Kimura and Kinchy raise in their book, including volunteering, taking a stand, contextualizing data, and shifting scales encourage citizen scientists to think critically. Although their book raises difficult issues, these issues are presented in a way that is accessible to many." * Science Connected Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Environmental Citizen Science: Virtues and Dilemmas 2 How is Environmental Citizen Science Political? 3 Investigating the Impacts of Fracking 4 Detecting Radiation 5 Tracking Genetically Engineered Cops Conclusion: A Vision of Science by and for the People Appendix: Resources for Getting Involved in Citizen Science Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors
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Rutgers University Press The Devils Fruit Farmworkers Health and
Book SynopsisDescribes the features and facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices.Trade Review"For anyone seeking to understand the...current-day complexities of both undocumented and resident farmworkers’ lived realities, Saxton’s book is a wonderful place to start. As a medical anthropologist, Saxton takes an 'activist ethnographic' approach to her research, meaning that her labors of care and accompaniment were inseparable from her role as a data collector and witness to the struggle of strawberry farmworkers in California’s Central Valley region. While accessible to lay readers and academics alike, the book may be especially useful to anthropology students, as Saxton explores, in first-person narrative, both research methods and the challenges of embedding oneself in a community facing multilayered vulnerabilities."— Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development "This book is very thoroughly researched and very detailed. It is recommended for faculty researchers and students interested in medical anthropology, environmental justice, the plight of im/migrant farmworkers, environmental science or legal protections for farmworkers. It is recommended for academic libraries with social science or science programs related to these areas."— Electronic Green Journal "Strange: challenging pandemic logics," by Aimee Rickman and Dvera I. Saxton— Monthly Review "Farmworkers Are Both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?" by Dvera I. Saxton— KCET "A comprehensive account of the many abuses faced by farmworkers attempting to eke out a living in California’s industrial agriculture. With a compendium of actual lived farmworker experiences, the author makes a compelling case for the premise that farmworkers are discardable human beings hired to make a profit for their employer, irrespective of the many dangers that often result in disease, disability and even death. Reform is needed now!"— Ann López, Director, Center for Farmworker Families "Overall, the book is well written, timely, and engaging. It is perfectly suited for introductory anthropology courses and is sure to engage undergraduate students new to the discipline and interested in matters such as food justice, immigration, politics, and environmental justice... The Devil’s Fruit serves as an important primer to critical medical anthropology’s history of activist engagement and political action."— Noah Kline, Medical Anthropology Journal "The Devil’s Fruit brings together more than a decade’s worth of research and writing by Saxton on the lot of strawberry farmworkers. The breadth and extent of her multidisciplinary research is breathtaking."— Journal of Industrial Relations "Dvera Saxton's The Devil's Fruit is an urgent read—at once a detailed account of how life-threatening harm to farmworkers is literally baked into the system of industrial agriculture and a rousing activist-scholar call to action. Told with outrage and compassion, the stories of anti-pesticide, immigrant rights, and farmworker organizers reminds us of the long standing movements for farmworker justice in California and will be tactically useful for scholars, organizers, activists, students, and anyone who wants to challenge these deeply troubling conditions."— Erica Kohl-Arenas, author of The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty "The California strawberry industry is facing a challenging future as the chemicals, the water, and the labor pool it depended on slip from its grasp. It unlikely that the baskets of golfball-sized fruit that fill supermarket bins will be there ten years from now. The stories that Saxton and others tell about the sacrifices required, of humans and of nature, to grow this fruit lead us to ask: isn’t it time to let the season-less strawberry go?" — E. Melanie DuPuis, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson Abbreviations Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer 1: Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths 2: Strawberries: An (Un)natural History 3: Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm 4: Accompanying Farmworkers 5: Ecosocial Solidarities: Teachers, Students, and Farmworker Families 6: Conclusion: Activist Anthropology as Triage Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press The Devils Fruit Farmworkers Health and
Book SynopsisDescribes the features and facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices.Trade Review"For anyone seeking to understand the...current-day complexities of both undocumented and resident farmworkers’ lived realities, Saxton’s book is a wonderful place to start. As a medical anthropologist, Saxton takes an 'activist ethnographic' approach to her research, meaning that her labors of care and accompaniment were inseparable from her role as a data collector and witness to the struggle of strawberry farmworkers in California’s Central Valley region. While accessible to lay readers and academics alike, the book may be especially useful to anthropology students, as Saxton explores, in first-person narrative, both research methods and the challenges of embedding oneself in a community facing multilayered vulnerabilities."— Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development "This book is very thoroughly researched and very detailed. It is recommended for faculty researchers and students interested in medical anthropology, environmental justice, the plight of im/migrant farmworkers, environmental science or legal protections for farmworkers. It is recommended for academic libraries with social science or science programs related to these areas."— Electronic Green Journal "Strange: challenging pandemic logics," by Aimee Rickman and Dvera I. Saxton— Monthly Review "Farmworkers Are Both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?" by Dvera I. Saxton— KCET "A comprehensive account of the many abuses faced by farmworkers attempting to eke out a living in California’s industrial agriculture. With a compendium of actual lived farmworker experiences, the author makes a compelling case for the premise that farmworkers are discardable human beings hired to make a profit for their employer, irrespective of the many dangers that often result in disease, disability and even death. Reform is needed now!"— Ann López, Director, Center for Farmworker Families "Overall, the book is well written, timely, and engaging. It is perfectly suited for introductory anthropology courses and is sure to engage undergraduate students new to the discipline and interested in matters such as food justice, immigration, politics, and environmental justice... The Devil’s Fruit serves as an important primer to critical medical anthropology’s history of activist engagement and political action."— Noah Kline, Medical Anthropology Journal "The Devil’s Fruit brings together more than a decade’s worth of research and writing by Saxton on the lot of strawberry farmworkers. The breadth and extent of her multidisciplinary research is breathtaking."— Journal of Industrial Relations "Dvera Saxton's The Devil's Fruit is an urgent read—at once a detailed account of how life-threatening harm to farmworkers is literally baked into the system of industrial agriculture and a rousing activist-scholar call to action. Told with outrage and compassion, the stories of anti-pesticide, immigrant rights, and farmworker organizers reminds us of the long standing movements for farmworker justice in California and will be tactically useful for scholars, organizers, activists, students, and anyone who wants to challenge these deeply troubling conditions."— Erica Kohl-Arenas, author of The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty "The California strawberry industry is facing a challenging future as the chemicals, the water, and the labor pool it depended on slip from its grasp. It unlikely that the baskets of golfball-sized fruit that fill supermarket bins will be there ten years from now. The stories that Saxton and others tell about the sacrifices required, of humans and of nature, to grow this fruit lead us to ask: isn’t it time to let the season-less strawberry go?" — E. Melanie DuPuis, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson Abbreviations Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer 1: Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths 2: Strawberries: An (Un)natural History 3: Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm 4: Accompanying Farmworkers 5: Ecosocial Solidarities: Teachers, Students, and Farmworker Families 6: Conclusion: Activist Anthropology as Triage Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£105.40
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reducing Soil Water Evaporation with Tillage and
Book SynopsisDrawing on multidisciplinary research, the authors of this text provide an overview of the theories and data that explain the process of evaporation from free water and soils which are bare, tilled or residue-covered. They discuss the benefits of various methods of reducing evaporation.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. The Process of Evaporation. Measurement and Modeling of Soil Evaporation. Evaporation Reduction by Tillage. Evaporation Reduction by Straw Mulching. Evaporation Reduction by Combing Mulching. Index.
£95.36
New York University Press Toxic Town IBM Pollution and Industrial Risks
Book SynopsisBy weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, this book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a "Smarter Planet."Trade Review"This carefully crafted ethnographic account affirms the deep and adverse footprint of market-based industrial production on contemporary human lives and communities. By exploring the personal experience of exposure to the toxic risk produced by irresponsible corporate actions in a contaminated community, Little tells the occupational and environment story of our times: deindustrialization has left behind doubly damaged communities but helped to spark hope-affirming grassroots activism. This book makes clear the contributions of anthropology to the framing of a political ecological theory of human-environmental relations." -- Merrill Singer,University of Connecticut at Storrs"This intense local study offers an important contribution, melding a keen application of key concepts in science and technology studies with ethnographic engagement with local people deeply affected by living with the consequences of the Computer Age.Toxic Townwill be of interest not only to anthropologists but to scholars across many disciplines who seek to understand triumphal technocapitalisms central role in creating and sustaining the pollution crisis." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xxi 1. Down in Big Blue's Toxic Plume in Upstate New York 1 2. The New Mitigation Landscape 16 3. From Shoes to Computers to Vapor Mitigation Systems 35 4. Living the Tangle of Risk, Deindustrialization, and 63 Community Transformation 5. Post-Mitigation Skepticism and Frustration 97 6. Grassroots Action and Conflicted Environmental Justice 118 7. Citizens, Experts, and Emerging Vapor Intrusion Science 166 and Policy 8. Accounting for the Paradox of IBM's "Smarter Planet" 180 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 233 About the Author 243
£59.50
New York University Press Keywords for Environmental Studies 3
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis gem of a book will prove indispensablein environmental studies. The editors have assembled brilliant thinkers who provide pithy yet ambitious reflections on key terms fundamental to environmental inquiry. This is a unique and essential resource. -- Rob Nixon,author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorProvides an engaging introduction and current perspective on some key concepts in the environmental sciences that foreground multidisciplinary aspects of the field. * Choice *
£21.84
New York University Press Refining Expertise How Responsible Engineers
Book SynopsisDrives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities to advance community healthTrade Review"Refining Expertiseis the fascinating story of New Sharpy, a small community in Louisiana, USA. This community actively opposes the neighboring refinerys health and environment claims but suddenly ceases its opposition and accedes to the refinerys expertise. As such, Ottinger ethnographic analysis of the New Sharpy case shows how American petrochemical facilities may thwart environmental justice activism and attempts to democratize science." * European Association of Social Anthropologists *"Who has authority? Specifically, what makes people experts, with the authority to speak on scientific topics? In this descriptive 'contribution to our collective understanding,' Ottinger (Univ. of Washington-Bothell; coeditor, with B. Cohen, Technoscience and Environmental Justice) relates the experiences of concerned citizens in New Sarpy, Louisiana, who felt that their health was being adversely impacted by a nearby oil refinery....Overall, Ottinger advocates support for the 'democratization of science,' i.e., opening technical issues to public dialogue." * Choice *"An intriguing and impressive account of corporate social responsibilityand neoliberalism writ largeon the ground, in action, in chemical plant communities in Louisiana. The storytelling is rich, the analysis is crisp. Ottinger effectively draws out what Gramsci termed a passive revolutionhow, in complex, culturally saturated ways, corporate commitment to `responsible care has created critical challenges for environmental activism and justice." -- Kim Fortun,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"Builds on STS studies and close ethnographic research to provide a sophisticated analysis of remarkable changes in corporate claims to expertise and in the responses of environmental justice activists. Written with a good storytellers sense of drama and timing, this book engages the reader with a visceral sense of neoliberal cultural terrain and how it infiltrates actors subjectivities and identities to subtly constrain community-industry relations and block the democratization of knowledge." -- Dorothy Holland,co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics"Gwen Ottinger's powerful and beautifully written Refining Expertisetells a different story: she shows, through exceptionally rich ethnographic and interview evidence and sophisticated theoretical observation, that the ways that industry experts frame themselves and their companies as political actors has a profound effect on de-fanging opposition....Ottinger makes a strong case that her research shows that citizen participation in environmental policy creation must be required. The high costs of activism, the lack of state regulatory protection, and the sophisticated means by which activism is channeled mean that it is unrealistic to think that citizens can expect that their own activities can pressure regulatory agencies and industry to protect them from environmental harms. Companies are now the new 'governors' and the state is the broker. The only way to ensure environmental protection in this situation, Ottinger argues, is by having citizens help write environmental protection laws themselves. The evidence and careful reasoning in Refining Expertisemakes it hard to disagree." -- Kelly Moore * Journal of Responsible Innovation *"Ottinger's book is lucid, well written, and it analyses with great precision and sensitivity the concessions, compromises, and contradictions that have been generated out of New Sarpy's and Norco's encounters with the oil industry. For readers with a critical interest in governmentality studies, community development, corporate social responsibility, and citizen science that are rich insights to be found." -- Rosie R. Meade * Antipode *Table of Contents1. The Battlefront 2. Dangerous Stories 3. Noisome Neighbors 4. From Deliberation to Dialogue 5. Responsible Refiners 6. Passive Revolution and Resistance
£22.79
New York University Press The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Book SynopsisExamines the environmental racism at the foundation of the Silicon Valley economyNext to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities. Silicon Valley offers a sobering illustration of environmental inequality and other problems that are increasingly linked to the globalization of the world''s economies. In The Silicon Valley of Dreams, the authors take a hard look at the high-tech region of Silicon Valley to examine environmental racism within the context of immigrant patterns, labor markets, and the historical patterns of colonialism. One cannot understand Silicon Valley or the high-tech global economy in general, they contend, without also understanding the role people of color play in the labor force, Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the contemporary critique of high tech industry. * Contemporary Sociology *The Silicon Valley of Dreams . . . exposes the numerous inequities that plague the area, from the huge number of temporary workers, the highest per capita in the nation, to the obvious absence of union jobs. * Conscious Choice *Offers a lot for the general reader. The authors must be congratulated. * International Migration Review *Powerful and passionate expose. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Provides a timely and necessary counter-balance to the incessant ‘new economy' hype that touts Silicon Valley as the answer to the myriad economic and environmental challenges around the world. This comprehensive overview helps to peel away the veneer by using an innovative combination of research methods, including direct participatory research. It raises disturbing and compelling concerns by examining the many environmental and gender injustices that have been at the center of the ‘Silicon Valley miracle.' An important contribution to the key debates of the twenty-first century about sustainable development. -- Ted Smith,Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics CoalitionThis landmark study adds significantly to our understanding of both the underside of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry in specific, and the historic links between social inequality and environmental inequality in general. The authors also leave us with a sense of hope by offering examples of effective movements for justice. -- Karen Hossfeld,San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction2 Early History and the Struggle for Resources: Native Nations, Spain, Mexico, and the United States 3 The Valley of the Heart's Delight: Santa Clara County's Agricultural Period, 1870-1970 4 The Emergence of Silicon Valley: High-Tech Development and Ecocide, 1950-2001 5 The Political Economy of Work and Health in Silicon Valley 6 The Core: Work and the Struggle to Make a Living without Dying 7 The Periphery: Expendable People, Dangerous Work 8 Beyond Silicon Valley: The Social and Environmental Costs of the Global Microelectronics Industry 9 Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond 10 The Broader Picture: Natural Resources, Globalization, and Increasing InequalityNotes References Index About the Authors
£23.74
New York University Press Toxic Town IBM Pollution and Industrial Risks
Book SynopsisBy weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, this book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a "Smarter Planet."Trade Review"This carefully crafted ethnographic account affirms the deep and adverse footprint of market-based industrial production on contemporary human lives and communities. By exploring the personal experience of exposure to the toxic risk produced by irresponsible corporate actions in a contaminated community, Little tells the occupational and environment story of our times: deindustrialization has left behind doubly damaged communities but helped to spark hope-affirming grassroots activism. This book makes clear the contributions of anthropology to the framing of a political ecological theory of human-environmental relations." -- Merrill Singer,University of Connecticut at Storrs"This intense local study offers an important contribution, melding a keen application of key concepts in science and technology studies with ethnographic engagement with local people deeply affected by living with the consequences of the Computer Age.Toxic Townwill be of interest not only to anthropologists but to scholars across many disciplines who seek to understand triumphal technocapitalisms central role in creating and sustaining the pollution crisis." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xxi 1. Down in Big Blue's Toxic Plume in Upstate New York 1 2. The New Mitigation Landscape 16 3. From Shoes to Computers to Vapor Mitigation Systems 35 4. Living the Tangle of Risk, Deindustrialization, and 63 Community Transformation 5. Post-Mitigation Skepticism and Frustration 97 6. Grassroots Action and Conflicted Environmental Justice 118 7. Citizens, Experts, and Emerging Vapor Intrusion Science 166 and Policy 8. Accounting for the Paradox of IBM's "Smarter Planet" 180 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 233 About the Author 243
£22.79
University of Minnesota Press Observation Points
Book SynopsisA new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Naturalizing RhetoricThomas Patin1. Being Here, Looking There: Mediating Vistas in the National Parks of the Contemporary American WestRobert M. Bednar2. Remembering Zion: Architectural Encounters in a National ParkGregory Clark3. Roadside Wilderness: U.S. National Park Design in the 1950s and 1960sPeter Peters4. Critical Vehicles Crash the Scene: Spectacular Nature and Popular Spectacle at the Grand CanyonMark Neumann5. How German Is the American West? The Legacy of Caspar David Friedrich’s Visual Poetics in American Landscape PaintingSabine Wilke6. Yellowstone National Park in Metaphor: Place and Actor Representations in Visitor PublicationsDavid A. Tschida7. Image/Text/Geography: Yellowstone and the Spatial Rhetoric of LandscapeGareth John8. Can Patriotism Be Carved in Stone? A Critical Analysis of Mount Rushmore’s Orientation FilmsTeresa Bergman9. Thinking like a Mountain: Mount Rushmore’s GazeWilliam Chaloupka10. George Catlin’s Wilderness UtopiaAlbert Boime11. Memorials and Mourning: Recovering Native Resistance in and to the Monuments of the NationStephen Germic12. America’s Best Idea: Environmental Public Memory and the Rhetoric of Conservation CivicsCindy Spurlock13. America in Ruins: Parks, Poetics, and PoliticsThomas PatinContributorsIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban
Book SynopsisA bold rethinking of urban political ecologyTrade Review"Everyday Environmentalism makes a compelling argument about how new environmental understandings can emerge from a critique of everyday life. Moving seamlessly between theory and practice in mutually illuminating ways, this book sheds exciting new light on the conditions of possibility for a radical socionatural politics." —Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley"Everyday Environmentalism provides access to a host of historically complex ideas central to the evolution of urban political ecology and beyond. Alex Loftus’s depth of knowledge within social theory, urban studies, and socionature studies is robust." —Nik Heynen, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Emerging Moments in an Urban Political Ecology1. The Urbanization of Nature: Neil Smith and Posthumanist Controversies2. Sensuous Socio-Natures: The Concept of Nature in Marx3. Cyborg Consciousness: Questioning the Dialectics of Nature in Lukács4. When Theory Becomes a Material Force: Gramsci’s Conjunctural Natures5. Cultural Praxis as the Production of Nature: Lefebvrean NaturesConclusion: The Nature of Everyday LifeNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Removing Mountains
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.Trade Review"Rebecca R. Scott takes us into the coalfields, mining the cultural poetics that give rise to conflicts over the meaning and significance of this disturbing technology. Her careful excavations reveal the roles that gender, race, and class play in shaping people’s sense of belonging both in their local environments and in the larger modern world. These are deep—and sometimes deeply contradictory—cultural processes that are all but invisible to those content to stay on the surface. Scott strips away the easy answers and finds hard questions underneath." —Matt Wray, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Logic of Extraction 1. Hillbillies and Coal Miners: Representations of a National Sacrifice Zone 2. Men Moving Mountains: Coal Mining Masculinities and Mountaintop Removal 3. The Gendered Politics of Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse 4. ATVs in Action: Transgression, Property Rights, and Tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy Trail 5. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Appalachia, America, and Mountaintop Removal 6. Traces of History: "White" People, Black Coal Conclusion: Coal Facts Appendix: Guide to Participants Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Minnesota Press Against Ecological Sovereignty
Book SynopsisLinks the political critique of sovereign power with ecological concernsTrade Review"Very occasionally one comes across a book that is genuinely original. Mick Smith's interrogation of ecological sovereignty offers an entirely new perspective on the dangers and opportunities involved in defining our current condition as an ecological ‘crisis.’ As a reassertion of the need for a politics and ethics of the environment, Smith's argument is fresh, very intelligent, and hard to beat." —Andrew Dobson, author of Citizenship and the EnvironmentTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Grain of Sand1. Awakening2. The Sovereignty of Good3. Primitivism: Anarchy, Politics, and the State of Nature4. Suspended Animation: Radical Ecology, Sovereign Powers, and Saving the (Natural) World 5. Risks, Responsibilities, and Side Effects: Arendt, Beck, and the Politics of Acting into Nature6. Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics7. Against Ecological SovereigntyApologue: In Relation to the Lack of Environmental PolicyNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Fuel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"From the first we realize Fuel is not a traditional academic essay, but a fantastic dictionary, full of tall tales, craziness, real history, fake history, anticipations of the future, segues from one fuel form or fantasy to another, and sheer nonsense tied to hard truths. In this sense it's like fuel—there at the beginning and still with us, kicking and screaming, to the bitter end."—Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University"With a nod to dictionary mania of Jules Verne, Fuel maps what starts as the common law right to a small bundle of wood but becomes an ever more dangerous dream of the power of pure fuel-less energy. Air, amber, bitumen . . . coal, cobalt, coke . . . Pinkus brilliantly punctures this gaseous utopian fantasy of an immaterial fuel and gestures toward a present less addicted to future fuels."—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University"Pinkus totes a toolbox packed with allegory and alchemy, theories and thinkers with which to prod her materials. The fuels catalogued range from the (seemingly) obvious – wood, coal, oil, uranium – through the more fictional-imaginative – the philosopher’s stone, dilithium crystals – to the (seemingly) absurd – albatrosses, goats, the arrow of Eros, patriotism."—New Scientist"An illuminating read for those engaging in interdisciplinary work on the concerns of climate change."—CHOICE"A heroic effort to remind us that sustainability is often an illusion caused by our human-sized view of the world."—The Manchester Review of Books"Inventive and engaging."—Los Angeles Review of Books "Pinkus’s innovative and eccentric book proves to be the perfect gateway to analyze underrepresented perspectives of the energy world, destabilizing existing narratives about fuels." —PoLARTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsFuel: A Speculative DictionaryNotesBibliography
£19.79
Ohio University Press Toxic Timescapes
Book SynopsisFrom radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.Trade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *
£56.10
Ohio University Press Toxic Timescapes
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume's contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality.The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and pTrade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *
£26.09
Duke University Press Agrarian Environments
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India.Trade Review“[T]he chapters in this book are very cogently argued, and combine to create a coherent whole. They raise important questions, relevant not only to India but also to many other countries in the world.” - Wolfgang Hoeschele, International Politics“Agrarian Environments makes a pathbreaking theoretical contribution. . . .” - Brian Caton, The Journal of Asian Studies“[A] stimulating and conceptually sophisticated critique of romanticized populist discourse on indigenous communities, women and environmental/agrarian management. . . . [T]he volume is likely to be of great interest and value to anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, development, environmental issues, gender or community-based resource management.” - Sarah Jewitt, The Journal of Peasant Studies[E]xtremely rich, both empirically and theoretically. . . . I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Ajantha Subramanian, American Ethnologist“This fine piece of interdisciplinary work attempts a fundamental reformulation of human-nature relationship. . . . Students of south Asia will find this book extremely rewarding. Given its theoretical profundity, it is a must read for all those having an interest in agrarian-environmental studies.” - Manish K. Thakur, Journal of Development Studies“Agrarian Environments is a volume of historically and empirically informed essays that represents a new generation of scholarship that promises to reshape the fields of agrarian and environmental studies. By confronting some of the received wisdoms that have separated the study of agriculture from that of the environment, this book opens up a whole range of new and refreshing questions that will be of relevance to scholars and policymakers in all parts of the world.”—Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India“This volume brings a remarkable maturity of vision to the study of the environmental history and politics of India. Departing from the tired nature/culture dichotomy, it offers a fresh approach that situates the environment, agriculture, and politics within a single field. Our understanding of the politics of Indian environment and the academic field of environmental studies will never be the same after Agrarian Environments.”—Gyan Prakash, Princeton University“Agrarian Environments makes a pathbreaking theoretical contribution. . . .” -- Brian Caton * Journal of Asian Studies *“[A] stimulating and conceptually sophisticated critique of romanticized populist discourse on indigenous communities, women and environmental/agrarian management. . . . [T]he volume is likely to be of great interest and value to anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, development, environmental issues, gender or community-based resource management.” -- Sarah Jewitt * The Journal of Peasant Studies *“[T]he chapters in this book are very cogently argued, and combine to create a coherent whole. They raise important questions, relevant not only to India but also to many other countries in the world.” -- Wolfgang Hoeschele * International Politics *“This fine piece of interdisciplinary work attempts a fundamental reformulation of human-nature relationship. . . . Students of south Asia will find this book extremely rewarding. Given its theoretical profundity, it is a must read for all those having an interest in agrarian-environmental studies.” -- Manish K. Thakur * Journal of Development Studies *[E]xtremely rich, both empirically and theoretically. . . . I cannot recommend it highly enough." -- Ajantha Subramanian * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsForeword / James C. Scott vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Agrarian Environments / Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan 1 State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818–1947 / Haripriya Rangan 23 Colonial Influences on Property, Community, and Land Use in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh / J. Mark Baker 47 Environmental Alarm and Institutionalized Conservation in Himachal Pradesh, 1865–1994 / Vasant K. Saberwal 68 State Power and Agricultural Transformation in Tamil Nadu / Jenny Springer 86 Famine in the Landscape: Imagining Hunger in South Asian History, 1860–1990 / Darren C. Zook 107 Economic Rents and Natural Resources: Common Conflicts in Premodern India / Sumit Guha 132 Identities and Livelihoods: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nature in a South Bihar Village / Cecile Jackson and Molly Chattopadhyay 147 Regimes of Control, Strategies of Access: Politics of Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India / Shubhra Gururani 170 Pastoralism and Community in Rajasthan: Interrogating Categories of Arid Lands Development / Paul Robbins 191 Labored Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India / Vinay Gidwani 216 Reflections Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia / David Ludden 251 Cathecting the Natural / Ajay Skaria 265 Bibliography 277 Contributors 303 Index 307
£25.19
Duke University Press In Search of the Rain Forest
Book SynopsisCollects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders.Trade Review“In Search of the Rain Forest dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves ‘rain forest studies’ into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends.”—Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon“This is an immensely thought-provoking and entertaining book. It makes a compelling case for an approach to the rain forest that eschews environmental fundamentalism in favor of a rich and multilayered understanding of the social complexities of rain forest practice and representation.”—Raymond L. Bryant, author of The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Mapping Out The Quest In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3 Rain Forest Icons Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69 The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101 Rain Forest and Jungle In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133 Spectacles of Wildness Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167 Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204 The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246 Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285 Contributors 305 Index 309
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Duke University Press Landscapes of Power and Identity
Book SynopsisThis comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonizationTrade Review“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”— David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University“This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”—Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910“Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . Landscapes of Power and Identity will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” -- Rachel St. John * Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Abbreviations xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1 1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19 2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55 3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89 4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117 5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 162 6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 196 7. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 240 8. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295 Notes 327 Glossary 375 Bibliography 385 Index 423
£27.90
Duke University Press Greening Brazil
Book SynopsisTraces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously.Trade Review“Greening Brazil is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders’ understanding of Brazil’s internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often misunderstood country whose environmental performance has truly global implications.”—J. Timmons Roberts, coauthor of Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America“Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck have vast and complementary direct experiences with environmental reform in Brazil, and their long-term commitment to following these issues has clearly paid off in their analysis of the country’s long, rich, and distinctive reform history.”—Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz“Greening Brazil is a superb analysis of the growth of the Brazilian environmental movement since the 1950s. The authors bring to the task a sophisticated understanding of Brazilian politics and a deep knowledge of international trends in environmental politics. Greening Brazil is the most satisfying account yet written of any environmental movement outside of Europe and the United States.” -- Angus Wright * Latin American Politics and Society *“Greening Brazil is a vital contribution for readers interested in the development of social environmentalism in Brazil, as well as the recent rise in environmental politics in Brazil and Latin America. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck . . . produce a persuasive view of the social, institutional, and governmental interactions that have shaped governance of the environmental movement and politics in Brazil. . . . It should be seen as a pioneering book in the field, hopefully encouraging more research on the subject.” -- Isabel DiVanna * Canadian Journal of History *“Greening Brazil, a breakthrough book, makes an outstanding contribution to this puzzle. It demonstrates how small agencies in low salience issue areas confronting powerful detractors survive, expand and make a difference. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck persuasively argue that extensive interpersonal and professional networks carefully cultivated by key leaders, along with their finely honed discernment over which battles to fight and how to fight them, are the key explanatory factors. . . . Moreover, the book is a vivid example of how to advance knowledge, informed by theory, on the real workings of Latin American institutions beyond deductive analyses of pathologies in institutional design followed by prescriptions on how to fix them.” -- Eduardo Silva * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables viii Preface ix List of Acronyms and Organizations xv Introduction 1 1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23 2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63 3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97 4. Amazonia 140 5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186 Conclusion 223 Appendix: List of Interviews 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 249 Index 273
£25.19
Duke University Press The Environment and the People in American Cities
Book SynopsisExamines the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States over four centuries. This book focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and responses to perceived breakdowns in social order.Trade Review“Taylor has gleaned profound insights from the social sciences and humanities to weave them into this superbly written tour de force on environmental and social justice in the urban US. . . . In short, this is the best account of urban ecology that has come out in the past two decades. . . . [T]his magnum opus has the makings of a classic that is destined to be one of the most referenced volumes of our times. Essential.” - T. Niazi, Choice“. . . [A] major contribution to the history of American environmentalism and American social history in general. . . . [Taylor’s] insights require serious engagement by every student of American environmentalism.” - Kimberly K. Smith, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences“Dorceta Taylor’s impressive work not only more than fulfils an expectation to learn about how American cities and urban environmentalism emerged, but it contextualises these developments through some important and often neglected lenses. . . . Taylor’s work is a valuable companion to studying the sociology of urban environmentalism, today and in the past.” - Stewart Barr, Urban Studies“Taylor has written an important overview of what cities have faced from anenvironmental perspective, and readers from many different disciplines will find much to ponder.” - Lisa Keller, The Historian“The Environment and the People in American Cities is one of those great and versatile books that any environmental social scientist would want to have sitting on her shelf. I have read many books on related topics over the years and I can’t recall any other that does anything like this one. By focusing on racial, ethnic, and class issues as they play out in the urban landscape, against such backdrops as public health concerns, parks, and industrial workplaces, Dorceta E. Taylor makes a major contribution. I’ll never view my urban surroundings in quite the same way again.”—Valerie Gunter, coauthor of Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies“All future research on environmentalism and social change will have to reference The Environment and the People in American Cities. It is a pathbreaking, first-rate work of scholarship. As the first scholar to consider the relationship between social inequality and conservation issues within such an inclusive framework, Dorceta E. Taylor makes stunning links between the terrain of contemporary environmental and social-justice conflicts and those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”—David Pellow, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago“Dorceta E. Taylor has set out to write nothing short of a ‘People’s Environmental History of American Cities.’ At the core of her social history are inequalities based on race, gender, class, and ethnicity, as wealthy white elites shaped access to housing, workplaces, parks and even cemeteries to their wishes, at the expense of everyone else. Taylor’s book is a call for broader perspectives on environmental issues, to include segregation, labor market and workplace dynamics, social movements, politics, and social control. A magnum opus chock full of fascinating details of an untold history of the environmental injustices at the root of our society.”—Timmons Roberts, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University“[A] major contribution to the history of American environmentalism and American social history in general. . . . [Taylor’s] insights require serious engagement by every student of American environmentalism.” -- Kimberly K. Smith * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *“Dorceta Taylor’s impressive work not only more than fulfils an expectation to learn about how American cities and urban environmentalism emerged, but it contextualises these developments through some important and often neglected lenses. . . . Taylor’s work is a valuable companion to studying the sociology of urban environmentalism, today and in the past.” -- Stewart Barr * Urban Studies *“Taylor has gleaned profound insights from the social sciences and humanities to weave them into this superbly written tour de force on environmental and social justice in the urban US. . . . In short, this is the best account of urban ecology that has come out in the past two decades. . . . [T]his magnum opus has the makings of a classic that is destined to be one of the most referenced volumes of our times. Essential.” -- T. Niazi * Choice *“Taylor has written an important overview of what cities have faced from an environmental perspective, and readers from many different disciplines will find much to ponder.” -- Lisa Keller * The Historian *Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, and Boxes ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Condition of the City 41 1. The Evolution of the City 43 2. Epidemics, Cities, and Environmental Reform 69 Part II. Reforming the City 113 3. Wealthy Urbanites: Fleeing Downtown and Privatizing Green Space 115 4. Social Inequality and the Quest for Order in the City 131 5. Data Gathering as a Mechanism for Understanding the City and Imposing Order 181 6. Sanitation and Housing Reform 199 Part III. Urban Park, Order, and Social Reform 221 7. Conceptualizing and Framing Urban Parks 223 8. Elite Ideology, Activism, and Park Development 251 9. Social Class, Activism, and Park Use 296 10. Contemporary Efforts to Finance Urban Parks 338 Part IV. The Rise of Comprehensive Zoning 365 11. Class, Race, Space, and Zoning in America 367 12. Land Use and Zoning in American Cities 380 Part V. Reforming the Workplace and Reducing Community Hazards 405 13. Workplace and Community Hazards 407 14. The Industrial Workplace 446 Conclusion 501 Notes 507 Index 603
£29.70
Duke University Press Black and Green
Book SynopsisPresents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways.Trade Review“The strength of the work is Asher’s sophisticated conceptualization of how the various forces in play are mutually reactive. She consistently and lucidly explains the connections and ambivalent interplay between development projects, international environmentalism, the state, and global liberalization on the one hand, and local knowledge, community activism, gender roles, and Afro-Colombian traditional practices, whether in reference to land tenure or cultivation practices, on the other. . . . Highly recommended. Upper -division undergraduates and above.” - J. M. Rosehthal, Choice“This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on indigenous and black resistance in Latin America. . . . Asher gives an ethnographically rich account of how the black movement emerged in the context of what appeared to be a changing rationale for sustainable development in theregion.” - Ulrich Oslender, The Americas“This book is ideal for those conducting graduate-level research onColombia and black movement issues in Latin America.” - Jan Hoffman French, Journal of Latin American Studies“The author manages to enthral the reader into her line of argument. . . . The combination of an ethnographic sensitivity and fluid and contextualising writing has a seductive effect on the reader whether or not they are an expert on the topic or region. This aspect, without a doubt, gives the book the potential to be an excellent tool for undergraduate programmes in a wide array of disciplines ranging from anthropology to development studies, and from political science to Latin-American studies.” - Eduardo Restrepo, Bulletin of Latin American Research“Overall, Black and Green is an engaging study that signifies a defining moment for academic studies about both Afro-Colombians and nature in Latin America.” - Sophie M. Lavoie, Feminist Review Blog“Kiran Asher effectively captures the nuances of the multiple positions taken by Afrocolombians and their allies regarding the development of the Pacific lowlands—ethno-cultural activists, mainstream politicians, black women’s networks, nongovernmental organizations, and social scientists—producing an intricate and multifaceted vision of the heterogeneous interests at play in the creation of the black movement in Colombia. Asher’s keen ethnographic eye explores the contradictions that emerge when local demands are translated into transnational discourses of identity, rights, environmentalism, and community development. She lays bare the complex texture of the negotiations that gave rise to legislation and planning, on the one hand, and of the voicing of local hopes and aspirations—particularly of Afrocolombian women—on the other. She moves with ease between the halls of the Colombian Senate and the workshop of a women’s cooperative, revealing the numerous levels at which Afrocolombian environmental discourse emerges. In the process, Asher crafts a sensitive and sympathetic, yet also sharp-edged and daring portrait of a significant social movement that is coming to the fore across Latin America.”—Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia“Kiran Asher provides the best exploration we have of Afro-Colombians’ experiences in the wake of an unprecedented 1991 constitutional clause recognizing collective land rights for black communities. Across the disciplines, students of racial politics and environmental organizing will benefit from her thoughtful analysis and the clarity of her approach.”—Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, author of Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960“Overall, Black and Green is an engaging study that signifies a defining moment for academic studies about both Afro-Colombians and nature in Latin America.” -- Sophie M. Lavoie * Feminist Review Blog *“The author manages to enthral the reader into her line of argument. . . . The combination of an ethnographic sensitivity and fluid and contextualising writing has a seductive effect on the reader whether or not they are an expert on the topic or region. This aspect, without a doubt, gives the book the potential to be an excellent tool for undergraduate programmes in a wide array of disciplines ranging from anthropology to development studies, and from political science to Latin-American studies.” -- Eduardo Restrepo * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“The strength of the work is Asher’s sophisticated conceptualization of how the various forces in play are mutually reactive. She consistently and lucidly explains the connections and ambivalent interplay between development projects, international environmentalism, the state, and global liberalization on the one hand, and local knowledge, community activism, gender roles, and Afro-Colombian traditional practices, whether in reference to land tenure or cultivation practices, on the other. . . . Highly recommended. Upper -division undergraduates and above.” -- J. M. Rosehthal * Choice *“This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on indigenous and black resistance in Latin America. . . . Asher gives an ethnographically rich account of how the black movement emerged in the context of what appeared to be a changing rationale for sustainable development in the region.” -- Ulrich Oslender * The Americas *“This book is ideal for those conducting graduate-level research on Colombia and black movement issues in Latin America.” -- Jan Hoffman French * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms xiii Introduction: Black Social Movements and Development in the Making 1 1. Afro-Colombian Ethnicity: From Invisibility to the Limelight 32 2. "The El Dorado of Modern Times": Economy, Ecology, and Territory 57 3. "El Ruido Interno de Comunidades Negras": The Ethno-Cultural Politics of the PCN 100 4. "Seeing with the Eyes of Black Women": Gender, Ethnicity, and Development 130 5. Displacement, Development, and Afro-Colombian Movements 154 Appendix A. Transitory Article 55 191 Appendix B. Law 70 of 1993: Outline and Salient Features 192 Notes 197 References 211 Index 233
£25.19
Duke University Press Ecologies of Comparison
Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sTrade Review“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a revivingbreath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” - Julian M. Groves, Anthropological Quarterly“While demanding, Choy’s ethnographic method also appears quite inviting. With it, he is able to move easily from theoretical questions regarding the construction of scientific truth and expertise to the shifting scales of mass media and local, even personal, anecdotes. Ultimately, his ethnographic approach with its attention to detail avoids being simply a means to an end; instead it stands in as a positive example of the negotiations and comparisons that we make as we live amidst the shifting terrain of contemporary culture.” - Benjamin K. Hodges, Journal of Anthropological Research “Ecologies of Comparison is a stimulating ethnography…The book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, science studies scholars, and Asian studies scholars alike.” - Peter C. Little, Electronic Green Journal“This beautifully written book urges us to take another look at some of our most important tools for thinking. What do comparisons do? Why do we use examples? When does it matter if components of our world are specific to their times and places? Ecologies of Comparison offers a stimulating tour into both Hong Kong’s environmental politics and the work of political analysis itself.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“Tim Choy’s much-anticipated meditation on the many forms of life to be found in Hong Kong environmentalism is a bracing read. Taking knowledge itself as his object, Choy shows how the deep complicity of ethnography, theory, and politics offers not only profound challenges to scholarly practice but also new opportunities and horizons. Ecologies of Comparison is original, contemporary, and resonant. A true breath of fresh air.”—Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia and In Amazonia: A Natural History“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a reviving breath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” -- Julian M. Groves * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration xi 1. Problems of a Political Nature 1 Passions 19 2. Endangerment 23 Slow 51 3. Specific Life 53 Chess 73 4. Articulated Knowledges 76 Hair 106 5. Earthly Vocations 109 Hiking 137 6. Air's Substantiations 139 Notes 169 Bibliography 185 Index 199
£76.50
Duke University Press The Struggle for Maize
Book SynopsisArgues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.Trade Review“The Struggle for Maize is an important book about a crucial topic, the debate over the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico, the crop’s biological center of origin. The debate is significant because the more the modern varieties of corn become disseminated, the more biological diversity is lost, as that diversity depends on the traditional corn varieties cultivated by peasants. Elizabeth Fitting gives us an excellent account of the various positions in the GM corn debate and the connections between international processes and local Mexican communities.”—Gerardo Otero, editor of Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America“Through the case of Mexican maize, Elizabeth Fitting brings fresh insights and sharp analysis to bear on two of the most important and controversial issues in contemporary development studies: the politics of food and GM technology. All of those who are interested in the politics of food and food sovereignty, knowledge, and technology in Mexico and beyond, especially in the context of raging debates about persistent food crises and the future of the peasantry, should read this brilliant book.”—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-editor of Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization“[A]n important addition to much more than the ethnographic study of agriculture and the Mexican countryside. . . . This outstanding book is part of a new wave of anthropological scholarship. Fitting combines the strengths of rich local ethnographic work without losing sight of the global nature of agricultural change. . . . Fitting’s book should find a large audience that includes anthropologists, development specialists, those interested in the role and place of genetically modified crops and food studies, as well as specialists in Mexican and Latin American studies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This is a timely contribution that deserves attention... The clear organization of the text and its lucid prosemake it appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses such as rural studies, globalization, political ecology, anthropology of food, and social movements, and for those interested in GM foods.” -- Alison Elizabeth Lee * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Elizabeth Fitting’s book is an important and lucid contribution to understanding the latest turn in Mexico’s long debate over its food system, cultural identity, and national economy...No other analysis presents the national debate about transgenic maize and its political and cultural contexts with the acuity of Fitting’s book.” -- Stephen Brush * American Anthropologist *“The Struggle for Maize deals with the resilience of corn as a crop and commodity and as a cultural practice, despite the challenges presented by a globalized economy that has introduced GMO corn varieties into Mexico. Depending on one's point of view, GMO may have accrued some economic benefits here and there in the country (but certainly not in San José Miahuatlán), but the agricultural, social, and environmental harms it has presented, Fitting argues, outweigh those benefits. And her book is successful in showing that, and thus is an important contribution to that ongoing debate.” -- Sterling Evans * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *“[A] timely, well-researched and extremely readable book . . . Fitting has intervened with an incisive critique of conventional agricultural development in Mexico, specifically showing how the discourse of scientific expertise is used to discredit other kinds of knowledge and equally valid concerns about the cultural effects of transgenic crops. The Struggle for Maize—a snapshot of the state of the agriculture/development debate in Mexico and a brilliant gathering together of literature on the topic—stands as both a corrective and a rebuke to such dismissals and exclusions.” -- Alice Brooke Wilson * Human Ecology *“Working across scale and over time, The Struggle for Maize provides a multidimensional perspective on the GM corn debates, which Fitting effectively demonstrates are about much more than crop varieties. . . . The Struggle for Maize succeeds at coalescing a wide array of perspectives and data around the central issue of the role of corn agriculture in Mexico. With Fitting’s engaging and accessible writing style, the pages turn easily even as they deliver dense and stimulating content.“ -- Eric Casler * Rural Sociology *“Fitting has written an insightful book that urges us to ponder the future of farming in and beyond Mexico. Its fresh take on getting to the background history of the food on our plates will be of use to those interested in food safety, food policy and food security, as well as to scholars of labour, peasant studies and the history of Mexico.” -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography is alive with possibility and is written to make it readable and compelling for undergraduate and graduate classes and for many kinds of students, scholars, and audiences. Fitting is a master at connecting dots, putting pieces together, linking here and there, this and that, and listening to the world in ways that upend the given commonsense about industry and agriculture." -- Peter Benson * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1 Part I: Debates 33 1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35 2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75 Part II: Livelihoods 117 3. Community and Conflict 120 4. Remaking the Countryside 155 5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197 Conclusion 230 Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001–2002 239 Notes 249 Glossary 265 Bibliography 271 Index 293
£80.10
Duke University Press Ecologies of Comparison
Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sTrade Review“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a revivingbreath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” - Julian M. Groves, Anthropological Quarterly“While demanding, Choy’s ethnographic method also appears quite inviting. With it, he is able to move easily from theoretical questions regarding the construction of scientific truth and expertise to the shifting scales of mass media and local, even personal, anecdotes. Ultimately, his ethnographic approach with its attention to detail avoids being simply a means to an end; instead it stands in as a positive example of the negotiations and comparisons that we make as we live amidst the shifting terrain of contemporary culture.” - Benjamin K. Hodges, Journal of Anthropological Research “Ecologies of Comparison is a stimulating ethnography…The book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, science studies scholars, and Asian studies scholars alike.” - Peter C. Little, Electronic Green Journal“This beautifully written book urges us to take another look at some of our most important tools for thinking. What do comparisons do? Why do we use examples? When does it matter if components of our world are specific to their times and places? Ecologies of Comparison offers a stimulating tour into both Hong Kong’s environmental politics and the work of political analysis itself.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“Tim Choy’s much-anticipated meditation on the many forms of life to be found in Hong Kong environmentalism is a bracing read. Taking knowledge itself as his object, Choy shows how the deep complicity of ethnography, theory, and politics offers not only profound challenges to scholarly practice but also new opportunities and horizons. Ecologies of Comparison is original, contemporary, and resonant. A true breath of fresh air.”—Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia and In Amazonia: A Natural History“[A]n exquisite anthropological account of how recent environmental campaigns in Hong Kong resonate with social and political dilemmas surrounding its return to Chinese sovereignty.Choy’s book provides a reviving breath to the study of environmentalism and to our understanding of postcolonial Hong Kong.” -- Julian M. Groves * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration xi 1. Problems of a Political Nature 1 Passions 19 2. Endangerment 23 Slow 51 3. Specific Life 53 Chess 73 4. Articulated Knowledges 76 Hair 106 5. Earthly Vocations 109 Hiking 137 6. Air's Substantiations 139 Notes 169 Bibliography 185 Index 199
£22.49
Duke University Press The Struggle for Maize
Book SynopsisArgues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.Trade Review“The Struggle for Maize is an important book about a crucial topic, the debate over the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico, the crop’s biological center of origin. The debate is significant because the more the modern varieties of corn become disseminated, the more biological diversity is lost, as that diversity depends on the traditional corn varieties cultivated by peasants. Elizabeth Fitting gives us an excellent account of the various positions in the GM corn debate and the connections between international processes and local Mexican communities.”—Gerardo Otero, editor of Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America“Through the case of Mexican maize, Elizabeth Fitting brings fresh insights and sharp analysis to bear on two of the most important and controversial issues in contemporary development studies: the politics of food and GM technology. All of those who are interested in the politics of food and food sovereignty, knowledge, and technology in Mexico and beyond, especially in the context of raging debates about persistent food crises and the future of the peasantry, should read this brilliant book.”—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-editor of Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization“[A]n important addition to much more than the ethnographic study of agriculture and the Mexican countryside. . . . This outstanding book is part of a new wave of anthropological scholarship. Fitting combines the strengths of rich local ethnographic work without losing sight of the global nature of agricultural change. . . . Fitting’s book should find a large audience that includes anthropologists, development specialists, those interested in the role and place of genetically modified crops and food studies, as well as specialists in Mexican and Latin American studies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This is a timely contribution that deserves attention... The clear organization of the text and its lucid prosemake it appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses such as rural studies, globalization, political ecology, anthropology of food, and social movements, and for those interested in GM foods.” -- Alison Elizabeth Lee * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Elizabeth Fitting’s book is an important and lucid contribution to understanding the latest turn in Mexico’s long debate over its food system, cultural identity, and national economy...No other analysis presents the national debate about transgenic maize and its political and cultural contexts with the acuity of Fitting’s book.” -- Stephen Brush * American Anthropologist *“The Struggle for Maize deals with the resilience of corn as a crop and commodity and as a cultural practice, despite the challenges presented by a globalized economy that has introduced GMO corn varieties into Mexico. Depending on one's point of view, GMO may have accrued some economic benefits here and there in the country (but certainly not in San José Miahuatlán), but the agricultural, social, and environmental harms it has presented, Fitting argues, outweigh those benefits. And her book is successful in showing that, and thus is an important contribution to that ongoing debate.” -- Sterling Evans * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *“[A] timely, well-researched and extremely readable book . . . Fitting has intervened with an incisive critique of conventional agricultural development in Mexico, specifically showing how the discourse of scientific expertise is used to discredit other kinds of knowledge and equally valid concerns about the cultural effects of transgenic crops. The Struggle for Maize—a snapshot of the state of the agriculture/development debate in Mexico and a brilliant gathering together of literature on the topic—stands as both a corrective and a rebuke to such dismissals and exclusions.” -- Alice Brooke Wilson * Human Ecology *“Working across scale and over time, The Struggle for Maize provides a multidimensional perspective on the GM corn debates, which Fitting effectively demonstrates are about much more than crop varieties. . . . The Struggle for Maize succeeds at coalescing a wide array of perspectives and data around the central issue of the role of corn agriculture in Mexico. With Fitting’s engaging and accessible writing style, the pages turn easily even as they deliver dense and stimulating content.“ -- Eric Casler * Rural Sociology *“Fitting has written an insightful book that urges us to ponder the future of farming in and beyond Mexico. Its fresh take on getting to the background history of the food on our plates will be of use to those interested in food safety, food policy and food security, as well as to scholars of labour, peasant studies and the history of Mexico.” -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography is alive with possibility and is written to make it readable and compelling for undergraduate and graduate classes and for many kinds of students, scholars, and audiences. Fitting is a master at connecting dots, putting pieces together, linking here and there, this and that, and listening to the world in ways that upend the given commonsense about industry and agriculture." -- Peter Benson * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1 Part I: Debates 33 1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35 2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75 Part II: Livelihoods 117 3. Community and Conflict 120 4. Remaking the Countryside 155 5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197 Conclusion 230 Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001–2002 239 Notes 249 Glossary 265 Bibliography 271 Index 293
£25.19
Duke University Press In Search of the Amazon
Book SynopsisThis history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.Trade Review"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's In Search of the Amazon is much more than the sum of its parts. With clear prose and sharp analysis, Garfield's wonderful new book is a model for how to write the social history of nature, placing the great, wondrous Amazon at the heart of America's transnational twentieth century."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"In this path-breaking study, Seth Garfield explores one of the most significant U.S. interventions in Amazonia. During World War II, the United States was desperate for rubber after losing access to Asian markets. In alliance with Brazil, the U.S. government embarked on an aggressive initiative to jump-start the Amazon rubber trade. Garfield masterfully recasts U.S.-Amazonian relations, revealing the wartime roots of the ideological and bureaucratic structures that have shaped modern Amazonia."—Susanna B. Hecht, author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha"Seth Garfield's extraordinary book reflects an enormous amount of research, knowledge, and thought about the Amazon. Besides recounting a fascinating chapter of World War II, Garfield places the history of the Amazon within a grid of political, social, and economic concerns that transcend the region's borders but are ultimately modulated by its particular circumstances of settlement and exploitation. He demonstrates the importance of wartime events in shaping subsequent disputes over the fate of the rain forest."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920"The book is engagingly written and packed full of information and excellent illustrations. . . . It will appeal especially strongly to those interested in U.S. involvement in Latin America before the Cold War. By placing U.S. intervention in Amazonian and Brazilian histories, Garfield recounts another chapter in the making of this enigmatic region that is the wartime roots of the ideological and administrative structures that have shaped the place today." -- Mark Harris * American Historical Review *"[Garfield] succeeds best as a straightforward storyteller in the best tradition of talented historians." -- Angus Wright * Environmental History *"Garfield is to be commended for shedding so much light on the cultural and eonomic history of the Amazon in the twentieth century. This book is a must have for all those interested in development policy in the Amazon." -- Nigel Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *“I highly recommend this book for its systematic and nuanced treatment of a region in flux. Garfield traces important precursors of contemporary inter-regional migration, land conflict, environmental change, and regional development policies. Amazon specialists will enjoy the meticulous archival work, and geographers will appreciate the focus on environmental history and political ecology. Those with general Latin American interests will learn about an important but often overlooked chapter in regional change.” -- Brian J. Godfrey * Journal of Latin American Geography *“This thoughtful, well-rounded book is, then, an invaluable addition to the English language historiography of the Amazon that remedies a gap in the extant literature. It also foregrounds an aspect of the war effort far from the battlefields that made an important, if largely unacknowledged, contribution to Allied victory for which participating Brazilian rubbers tappers could retrospectively be proud.” -- Philip Chrimes * International Affairs *“Garfield makes an important contribution to Brazilian historiography…. [He] combines thorough research in US and Brazilian government documents and contemporary publications with discerning use of labor and criminal court cases and oral histories with rubber migrants.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Although this may seem like well-traveled historiographical territory, Garfield finds new information to tap and synthesize. Whereas most books on the Amazon focus on a single topic … the strength and novelty of Garfield’s work is his focus on the convergence of all of these elements and more. Garfield’s social and environmental approach means that he does not focus solely on the thoughts and actions of policy makers. Instead, he puts labor and nature at the center of the narrative to show how the Amazon was built from below. Garfield’s book successfully merges global, national, and local history.” -- Myrna Santiago * Labor *"In Search of the Amazon is an important addition to the Amazonia bookshelf.... [R]eaders will enjoy the exotic settings, dramatic story, and larger historical interpretations." -- Michael L. Conniff * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9 2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49 3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170 Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 333
£80.10
Duke University Press In Search of the Amazon
Book SynopsisThis history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.Trade Review"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's In Search of the Amazon is much more than the sum of its parts. With clear prose and sharp analysis, Garfield's wonderful new book is a model for how to write the social history of nature, placing the great, wondrous Amazon at the heart of America's transnational twentieth century."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"In this path-breaking study, Seth Garfield explores one of the most significant U.S. interventions in Amazonia. During World War II, the United States was desperate for rubber after losing access to Asian markets. In alliance with Brazil, the U.S. government embarked on an aggressive initiative to jump-start the Amazon rubber trade. Garfield masterfully recasts U.S.-Amazonian relations, revealing the wartime roots of the ideological and bureaucratic structures that have shaped modern Amazonia."—Susanna B. Hecht, author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha"Seth Garfield's extraordinary book reflects an enormous amount of research, knowledge, and thought about the Amazon. Besides recounting a fascinating chapter of World War II, Garfield places the history of the Amazon within a grid of political, social, and economic concerns that transcend the region's borders but are ultimately modulated by its particular circumstances of settlement and exploitation. He demonstrates the importance of wartime events in shaping subsequent disputes over the fate of the rain forest."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920"The book is engagingly written and packed full of information and excellent illustrations. . . . It will appeal especially strongly to those interested in U.S. involvement in Latin America before the Cold War. By placing U.S. intervention in Amazonian and Brazilian histories, Garfield recounts another chapter in the making of this enigmatic region that is the wartime roots of the ideological and administrative structures that have shaped the place today." -- Mark Harris * American Historical Review *"[Garfield] succeeds best as a straightforward storyteller in the best tradition of talented historians." -- Angus Wright * Environmental History *"Garfield is to be commended for shedding so much light on the cultural and eonomic history of the Amazon in the twentieth century. This book is a must have for all those interested in development policy in the Amazon." -- Nigel Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *“I highly recommend this book for its systematic and nuanced treatment of a region in flux. Garfield traces important precursors of contemporary inter-regional migration, land conflict, environmental change, and regional development policies. Amazon specialists will enjoy the meticulous archival work, and geographers will appreciate the focus on environmental history and political ecology. Those with general Latin American interests will learn about an important but often overlooked chapter in regional change.” -- Brian J. Godfrey * Journal of Latin American Geography *“This thoughtful, well-rounded book is, then, an invaluable addition to the English language historiography of the Amazon that remedies a gap in the extant literature. It also foregrounds an aspect of the war effort far from the battlefields that made an important, if largely unacknowledged, contribution to Allied victory for which participating Brazilian rubbers tappers could retrospectively be proud.” -- Philip Chrimes * International Affairs *“Garfield makes an important contribution to Brazilian historiography…. [He] combines thorough research in US and Brazilian government documents and contemporary publications with discerning use of labor and criminal court cases and oral histories with rubber migrants.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Although this may seem like well-traveled historiographical territory, Garfield finds new information to tap and synthesize. Whereas most books on the Amazon focus on a single topic … the strength and novelty of Garfield’s work is his focus on the convergence of all of these elements and more. Garfield’s social and environmental approach means that he does not focus solely on the thoughts and actions of policy makers. Instead, he puts labor and nature at the center of the narrative to show how the Amazon was built from below. Garfield’s book successfully merges global, national, and local history.” -- Myrna Santiago * Labor *"In Search of the Amazon is an important addition to the Amazonia bookshelf.... [R]eaders will enjoy the exotic settings, dramatic story, and larger historical interpretations." -- Michael L. Conniff * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9 2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49 3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170 Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 333
£27.90
Duke University Press La Frontera
Book SynopsisOffers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of forestry "miracle" in Chile. This book narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory.Trade Review"La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory tells the compelling backstory to Chile's forestry boom. Indigenous people, settlers and foresters were pushed out through enclosure and fraud, as temperate rainforest was burned to make way first for agriculture, then sterile plantations of Monterey pine." -- Patience Schell * Times Higher Education * "A much-needed analysis of a region the history of which has been understudied." -- Claudio Robles-Ortiz * Journal of Agrarian Change *“La Frontera brings a great deal to the table; individual chapters provide enough fodder for a week’s seminar meeting. Undergraduates might feel overwhelmed, but as that list of themes indicates, they will find in the book many crucial features of the long twentieth century in Latin America as a whole.With Klubock’s telling, we have new ways to understand how Chile experienced those processes.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *“La Frontera makes its social subjects come alive. It convincingly shows that the debate over the forest has a long history and that we cannot understand forest policy without taking social history into account. This is political ecology at its best.” -- Eduardo Silva * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Klubock’s source base for this nuanced and detailed monograph includes diverse archival materials, many of which had not previously been used by historians, as well as oral histories of forestry workers, labour activists and indigenous communities. ... This is an excellent study, addressing an extremely complex history, to which a review of this length cannot do justice. La Frontera pioneers a new approach to social and environmental history and will be a reference in point for years to come." -- Patience A. Schell * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This exceptional book is a rare combination of the best traditions of social history and environmental history in a powerful analysis of Chile’s forestry sector from the late nineteenth century to the present.... Readers interested in the contemporary environmentalist challenge of Mapuche movements today will find La Frontera indispensable. Historians interested in Latin America’s experience of 'enclosing of the commons' will find no better book." -- Heidi Tinsman * The Historian *"Insightful and necessary." -- Emily Wakild * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Maps x Introduction 1 1. Landed Property and State Sovereignty on the Frontier 29 2. Natural Disorder: Ecological Crisis, the State, and the Origins of Modern Forestry 58 3. Forest Commons and Peasant Protest on the Frontier, 1920s and 1930s 90 4. Changing Landscapes: Tree Plantations, Forestry, and State-Directed Development after 1930 118 5. Peasants, Forests, and the Politics of Social Reform on the Frontier, 1930s-1950s 145 6. Agrarian Reform and State-Directed Forestry Development, 1950s and 1960s 176 7. Agrarian Reform Arrives in the Forests 208 8. Dictatorship and Free-Market Forestry 239 9. Democracy, Environmentalism, and the Mapuche Challenge to Forestry Development 268 Conclusion 298 Notes 309 Bibliography 361 Index 373
£112.20
Duke University Press How Climate Change Comes to Matter
Book SynopsisA rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.Trade Review“How Climate Change Comes to Matter is dense, intelligent, and thoroughly researched…. She presents an interesting conversation about climate change, rather than engaging in many of the typical debates one could read anywhere. Her unique perspective informs the content of the book and makes for an interesting read.” -- Jonathan Bond * Vancouver Weekly *“... readers can reflect on the experimental methods used for public engagement and questions of media, politics, and scientific expertise that operate on shifting theoretical, empirical, and moral perspectives to help consider definitions of what climate change means. Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” -- R. A. Delgado Jr. * Choice *"This book is a marvel. It brings climate change research directly back into the folds of the anthropological tradition; and brings the anthropological tradition to the beating centers of climate change discourse. If you have never before had an interest in climate change, you will be spellbound by this ethnography. If you do have an interest in climate change, this book is essential." -- Elizabeth Marino * Anthropos *"...a key work examining the wide variety of 'discourse coalitions' involved in climate communication. It is a magisterial treatment of the deep roots of contention in this momentous and unfolding story." -- Noel Salmond * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Inuit Gift 39 2. Reporting on Climate Change 81 3. Blessing the Facts 121 4. Negotiating Risk, Expertise, and Near-Advocacy 162 5. What Gets Measured Gets Managed 201 Epilogue. Rethinking Public Engagement and Collaboration 243 Appendix. A Decade of Climate Change 253 Notes 263 References 283 Index 303
£75.65
Duke University Press How Climate Change Comes to Matter
Book SynopsisA rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.Trade Review“How Climate Change Comes to Matter is dense, intelligent, and thoroughly researched…. She presents an interesting conversation about climate change, rather than engaging in many of the typical debates one could read anywhere. Her unique perspective informs the content of the book and makes for an interesting read.” -- Jonathan Bond * Vancouver Weekly *“... readers can reflect on the experimental methods used for public engagement and questions of media, politics, and scientific expertise that operate on shifting theoretical, empirical, and moral perspectives to help consider definitions of what climate change means. Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” -- R. A. Delgado Jr. * Choice *"This book is a marvel. It brings climate change research directly back into the folds of the anthropological tradition; and brings the anthropological tradition to the beating centers of climate change discourse. If you have never before had an interest in climate change, you will be spellbound by this ethnography. If you do have an interest in climate change, this book is essential." -- Elizabeth Marino * Anthropos *"...a key work examining the wide variety of 'discourse coalitions' involved in climate communication. It is a magisterial treatment of the deep roots of contention in this momentous and unfolding story." -- Noel Salmond * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Inuit Gift 39 2. Reporting on Climate Change 81 3. Blessing the Facts 121 4. Negotiating Risk, Expertise, and Near-Advocacy 162 5. What Gets Measured Gets Managed 201 Epilogue. Rethinking Public Engagement and Collaboration 243 Appendix. A Decade of Climate Change 253 Notes 263 References 283 Index 303
£20.69
Duke University Press Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Book SynopsisIn Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining.Trade Review"In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the specialist literature on mining and social change in Melanesia, but also written in a clear style that will be of great use in the classroom. I recommend Jacka’s accessible, straightforward ethnography to all readers." -- Alex Golub * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Alchemy in the Rain Forest] is an important contribution to environmental anthropology and political ecology. Jacka ultimately argues that the mine’s promises of development are as illusive as the alchemists’ quest for gold. What is unique about the book is not that ultimate assessment, but its exploration of the ways in which people who bear the greatest social and environmental harms of large-scale mining understand and navigate those changes." -- Jessica M. Smith * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Jacka provides a multifaceted examination of gold mining in Papua New Guinea and its social and cultural impacts during the second half of the twentieth century. While highlighting the important conflicts and tensions, the author firmly resists the temptation to embark on a morality tale of evil multinationals dispossessing people of their land and culture. On the contrary, he offers nuanced analysis based on both field-work interviews and historical archives." -- José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez * Ambix *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier 21 1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics 25 2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization 49 Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place 77 3. Land: Yu 81 4. People: Wandakali 105 5. Spirits: Yama 129 Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life 199 Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land 229 Notes 241 References 249 Index 269
£76.50
