Social impact of environmental issues Books
Yale University Press Earthmasters
Book SynopsisGoes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years.Trade Review‘In his crystal-clear analysis Clive Hamilton warns against “Promethean recklessness” and calls for “utmost caution and deep reflection”. It’s depressing to realise what we have done and still want to do to our planet, but hope lies in thinkers such as Hamilton, if only we heed them before it’s too late.’—Tom Moriarty, Irish Times. -- Tom Moriarty * Irish Times *
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Landscapes in History Design and Planning in the
Book SynopsisThe definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan.Trade Review"valuable as a reference work...but it deserves to be read as a good one-volume history of world landscapes" (Landscape History, Vol.20, 2000)Table of ContentsPart One European and Asian Landscapes 1 Part Two The North American Landscape 381 References 771 Index 827
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Reconstructing the Balkans
Book SynopsisThe past few years have seen the re-emergence of the Balkans as the cockpit of Europe. The break up of Yugoslavia, the regional conflict between ethnic groups, the creation of new states like Slovenia and the transformation of existing ones like Albania, have made the area of prime importance in geopolitical terms once again. Reconstructing the Balkans looks at the complex and rapidly changing human geography of the Balkans and considers the cultural, social and political geographies of the region and its neighbours. It provides both an examination of the history of the Balkans emphasising ethnicity and nationality issues and an evaluation of the historical and geographical roots of contemporary Balkan disputes from a range of national viewpoints. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, the book assesses some of the geographical consequences of the region s conflicts and analyses the post-socialist restructuring, reconstruction and reconfiguration regionwide and country by countrTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE BALKAN CONTEXT. The Balkans: Perceptions and Realities (D. Hall & D.Danta). Contemporary Balkan Questions: The Geographic and Historic Context(D. Danta & D. Hall). EMERGING FROM THE YUGOSLAV VORTEX. Place and Its Role in Serbian Identity (G. White). Destruction and Reconstruction: The Case of Dubrovnik (J.Oberreit). Macedonian Cultural and National Identity (T. Terkenli). NEIGHBOURS IN TRANSITION. Albania as a Gateway (D. Rugg). Thessaloniki and Balkan Realities (S. Kostopoulou). The Persistence of Collectivism: Responses to Land Restitution inRomania (M. Meurs). Hungary as a Place of Refuge (A. Dingsdale). THE BROADER CONTEXT. The Balkans: A European Challenge (A. Williams). Reconstructing the Balkans: The Economic Horizon (D. Hall & D.Danta). Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
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University of California Press Contesting Earths Future
Book SynopsisRadical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. This book offers a balanced appraisal of radical ecology's principles, goals, and limitations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I. Deep Ecology's Wider Identification with Nature 2. Deep Ecology and Counterculturalism 3. Deep Ecology, Heidegger, and Postmodem Theory 4. Social Ecology and Its Critique of Deep Ecology 5. Radical Ecology, Transpersonal Psychology, and the Evolution of Consciousness 6. Ecofeminism's Critique of the Patriarchal Domination of Woman and Nature 7. Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology 8. Chaos Theory, Ecological Sensibility, and Cyborgism Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Human Geography An Essential Anthology
Book SynopsisThis book provides students in human geography with a vital resource - a collection of writings critical to understanding the field as a whole and revealing the interactions of its component parts. It is designed to give students ready access to the literature their studies are most likely to lead them to consult. The book is divided into five parts. Parts I and II describe the nature of the enterprise and show the origins and current state of thinking on central issues. Part III is concerned with interactions between nature, culture and landscape. Part IV considers area differences and geographic units such as region, place and locality. Part V provides insights into the concepts of space, time and space-time. The editors have provided a general introduction, introductions to each part and contextual notes for each chapter. Each part concludes with sections of further reading by subject and the volume ends with a time chart of the main developments in geography. This collecTrade Review"This is an immensely useful book, aimed primarily at the undergraduate level. The editors have invested the readings with a coherence and sense of purpose that reflects very clearly their own powerful rendition of geographical tradition." Geography "... this anthology of human geography has it all. Covering a period of over 150 years, much care has been paid to include a variety of the most eminent geographers and a selection of the most important geographical concepts, making this anthology well worth waiting for." The Geographical Journal "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to be applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years. In short, I strongly recommend this wonderful anthology." Robert D. Sack, University of Wisconsin "Human Geography is an ambitious project which confronts the positive, enlightenment view of human behaviour and the processes that yield spatial patterns. Excellent value." Bryan H. Massam, York University, Canada "The book is for all who are seriously interested in the way their subject has developed and in the origins of ideas and approaches now so familiar as to be taken for granted. Teachers and students of undergraduate ideas and methods courses will find this invaluable." Times Educational Supplement "This is a large, comprehensive, and excellent anthology. The editors are to applauded for their care and judgement in selecting from the best of geographical writings from the last 150 years." Robert Sack, University of WisconsinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix General Introduction 1 Part I: Recounting Geography's History 17 Introduction 18 1. A Plea for the History of Geography 25 John K. Wright 2. Paradigms and Revolution or Evolution? 37 R. J. Johnston 3. Musing on Helicon: Root Metaphors and Geography 54 Anne Buttimer 4. Institutionalization of Geography and Strategies of Change 66 Horacio Capel 5. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto 95 David Harvey 6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 108 Donna Haraway Part II: The Enterprise 129 Introduction 130 7. What Geography Ought to Be 139 Peter Kropotkin 8. On the Scope and Methods of Geography 155 Halford J. Mackinder 9. The Study of Geography 173 Franz Boas 10. Meaning and Aim of Human Geography 181 Paul Vidal de la Blache 11. Geography without Human Agency: A Humanistic Critique 192 David Ley 12. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography 211 Derek Gregory Part III: Nature, Culture and Landscape 233 Introduction 234 13. Traces on the Rhodian Shore 246 Clarence J. Glacke 14. Influences of Geographic Environment 252 Ellen C. Semple 15. Civilizations: Organisms or Systems? 268 Karl W. Butzer 16. Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature 282 Neil Smith and Phil O'Keefe 17. The Morphology of Landscape 296 Carl O. Sauer 18. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape 316 John B. Jackson 19. Marxism, Culture and the Duplicity of Landscape 329 Stephen Daniels 20. Geography as a Science of Observation: The Landscape, the Gaze and Masculinity 341 Gillian Rose 21. The Land Ethic 351 Aldo Leopold Part IV: Region, Place and Locality 365 Introduction 366 22. Regional Environment, Heredity and Consciousness 378 A. J. Herbertson 23. Human Regions 385 H. J. Fleure 24. The Character of Regional Geography 388 Richard Hartshorne 25. In What Sense a Regional Problem? 398 Doreen Massey 26. From Orientalism 414 Edward W. Said 27. Deconstructing the Map 422 J. B. Harley 28. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 444 Yi-Fu Tuan 29. A Woman's Place? 458 Linda McDowell and Doreen Massey 30. The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies 476 Philip Cooke 31. The Inadequacy of the Regional Concept 492 George H. T. Kimbl Part V: Space, Time and Space-Time 513 Introduction 514 32. The Territorial Growth of States 525 Friedrich Ratzel 33. The Geographical Pivot of History 536 Halford J. Mackinder 34. Owners' Time and Own Time: The Making of a Capitalist Time-Consciousness 1300-1880 552 Nigel Thrift 35. Exceptionalism in Geography: a Methodological Examination 571 F. K. Schaefer 36. Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts 590 John D. Nystue 37. The Geography of Capitalist Accumulation 600 David Harvey 38. Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 623 Edward W. Soja 39. The Choreography of Existence: Comments on Hagerstrand's Time-Geography and its Usefulness 636 Alan Pred 40. Diorama, Path and Project 650 Torsten Hagerstrand 41. A View of the GIS Crisis in Geography 675 Stan Openshaw A Chronology of Geography 1859-1995 686 Alisdair Rogers
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Space and Social Theory
Book Synopsis* The worlda s leading geographical theorists focus on the interactions of space, difference, culture and identity* A unique synthesis of social and spatial theory* Locks into current debates on gender, marginality and discourse, and brings a welcome perspective on realities of experience and everyday life. .Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences (Georges Benko). Part I Reasons, Texts and Debates Around Postmodernism. Postmodern Bloodlines (Michael Dear). Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development (Richard Peet). Shelf Length Zero: The Disappearance of the Geographical Text (Michael Curry). Part II Writing Space, Forming Identities. Re-Presenting the Extended Moment of Danger: A Meditation on Hypermodernity, Identity and the Montage Form (Allan Pred). Identity, Space, and other Uncertainties (Wolfgang Natter and John Paul Jones). Belonging: Spaces of Meandering Desire (Ulf Strohmayer). Spatial Stress and Resistance: Social Meanings of Spatialization (Rob Shields). Lacan and Geography: the Production of Space Revisited (Derek Gregory). Part III Planning and the Postmodern . Panning in/for Postmodernity (Ed Soja). Warp, Woof and Regulation: A Tool for Social Science (Alain Lipietz). Institutional Reflexivity and the Rise of the Regional State (Phil Cooke). Part IV The Politics of Difference. Postmodern Becomings: From the Space of Form to the Space of Potentiality (Julie Kathy Gibson-Graham). Geopolitics and the Postmodern: Issues or Knowledge, Difference and North-South Relations (David Slater). Postmodern Space and Japanese Tradition (Augustin Berque). Imperfect Panopticism: Envisioning the Construction of Normal Lives (Matt Hannah). Imagining the Normad: Mobility and the Postmodern Primitive (Tim Cresswell). Conclusion. Forget the Delivery, or, What Post are We Talking about? (Ulf Strohmayer). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Changing the Face of the Earth
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the impact of humankind on the natural environment from earliest times to the present. The first edition has been widely adopted in universities, acclaimed both for its wide scholarship and its author''s readable style. The new edition is fully revised throughout and takes account of comments and suggestions received from all over the world. It has been restructured into a form appropriate for new methods of university teaching, the diagrams have been clarified, and references and sections of further reading provided at the end of each chapter. Revised edition of a widely-used textbook. More concise, more chapters, better adapted to course use. Revised further reading. Clearly-written, well-illustrated, popular with students. Trade Review"If one were to seek a single text for an integrated course in environmental studies, this could be that book." M. R. Brett-Crowther, International Journal of Environmental Studies "Changing the Face of the Earth traces the history of human impact, starting at the very beginning ... Covering important historical influences, from Darwin and Huntingdon to Semple, Glacken and Vidal de la Blanche, this second edition has been adapted to suit the latest teaching methods, and includes new chapters and up-to-date references." The Geographical Journal Reviews of the first edition: "This is a veritable tour de force: it covers an astonishing range of material, is superbly referenced, and is a worthy successor to the original Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. It traces the human impact through time in a way that has never previously been achieved." Andrew Goudie, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford "This is scholarship of a high order. The book should become the classic text for geographers and interested members of the public, who want to know more about the tortuous relationship between human tenure, economy and the natural world." Timothy O'Riordan, Times Higher Education Supplement "There is no shortage of books that cry out about the problem of our age, but they vary considerably in their approach. Easily top of the pile is Ian Simmons's Changing the Face of the Earth." New Scientist "The reviewer has no criticism of this excellent and stimulating book which ought to be of use as a source book for teaching, a textbook or simply an inspiring read, for those not only in Geography but in a range of related disciplines." Geography "This is a fascinating, very readable and superb book, which should be required reading for all students who have the slightest interest in the environment and biogeography. Professor Simmons is to be congratulated on his efforts." Applied GeographyTable of ContentsPreface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements. Units and References. 1. General Introduction. 2. Organizing Concepts. 3. Hunter-Gatherers. 4. The Development of Agriculture. 5. Advanced Solar Agriculture. 6. Industrialism: Energy after the Nineteenth Century. 7. Industrialisation: the Impact on Related Systems. 8. New Energies, New Thinking?. 9. Meditations. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Human Impact Reader
Book SynopsisA textbook found in environmental science and physical geography courses is The Human Impact. This reader has been designed to be used with this text as a resource for students. It consists of key papers on landform, hydrological and ecological processes, and on cases from around the world.Trade Review"The reader will gain a broader knowledge of ecology, a greater appreciation for research efforts, and better understand the complexities underlying present environmental problems from reading this interesting compendium." Margaret A. Aycock, Lamar UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: The Human Impact: A Developing Literature. Acknowledgements. Part I: Geomorphological and Surface Impacts: Introduction. 1. Man's Impact on Shorelines and Nearshore Environments: A Geomorphological Perspective: H. J. Walker. 2. Land Subsidence: A Worldwide Environmental Hazard: L. Carbognin. 3. Reservoirs and Earthquakes: R. B. Meade. 4. Human Influence Upon Sedimentation in Llangorse Lake, Wales: R. Jones, K. Benson-Evans and F. M. Chambers. 5. Soil Conservation in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin: S. W. Trimble and S. W. Lund. Part II: Soil Impacts: Introduction. 6. Framework for Man-Made Soil Changes - an Outline of Metapedogenesis: D. H. Yaalon and B. Yaron. 7. Salinization: New Perspectives on a Major Desertification Issue: D. S. G. Thomas and N. J. Middleton. 8. Salinization of Non-Irrigated Soils and Associated Streams: A Review: A. J. Peck. 9. Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece: T. H. Van Andel and E. Zangger. 10. Soil Erosion in Britain: A Review: J. Boardman and R. Evans. Part III: Water Impacts: Introduction. 11. Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster in the Soviet Union: P. P. Micklin. 12. Lowering of a Shallow, Saline Water Table by Extensive Eucalypt Reforestation: M. A. Bari and N. J. Schofield. 13. Nutrient Loss Accelerated by Clear-Cutting of a Forest Ecosystem: F. H. Bormann, G. E. Likens, D. W. Fisher and R. S. Fisher. 14. Effects of Construction on Fluvial Sediment, Urban and Suburban Areas of Maryland: M. G. Wolman and A. P. Schick. 15. Rain, Roads, Roof and Runoff: Hydrology in Cities: G. E. Hollis. 16. Farming and Nitrate Pollution: T. P. Burt and N. E. Haycock. 17. Diatom and Chemical Evidence for Reversibility of Acidification of Scottish Lochs: R. W. Battarbee, R. J. Flower, A. C. Stevenson, V. J. Jones, R. Harrison and P. G. Appleby. 18. Lake Acidification in Galloway: A Palaeoecological Test of Competing Hypotheses: R. W. Battarbee, R. J. Flower, A. C. Stevenson and B. Rippey. Part IV: Climatic and Atmospheric Impacts: Introduction. 19. Man-Made Climatic Changes: H. E. Landsberg. 20. Climatic Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: J. Hansen, D. Johnson, A. Lacis, S. Lededeff, P. Lee and G. Russell. 21. Atmospheric Methane: Trends over the Last 10,000 Years: M. A. K. Khalil and R. A. Rasmussen. 22. Possible Climatic Change due to Sulphur Dioxide-Derived Cloud Condensation Nuclei: T. M. L. Wigley. 23. Possible Climatic Impacts of Tropical Deforestation: E. Salati and C. N. Nobre. 24. Large Losses of Total Ozone in Antarctica Reveal Seasonal C1Ox/NOx Interactions: J. C. Farman, B. G. Gardener and J. D. Sharklin. 25. Chlorofluorocarbons and the Depletion of Stratospheric Ozone: F. S. Rowland. 26. Biomass Burning in the Tropics: Impacts on Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycles: P. J. Crutzen and M. O. Andrea. 27. Acid Rain: A Serious Regional Environmental Problem: G. E. Likens and F. H. Bormann. 28. Decrease in Anthropogenic Lead, Cadmium and Zinc in Greenland Snows Since the Late 1960s: C. F. Boutron, U. Gorlach, J. P. Candelone, M. A. Bolshow and R. J. Delmas. Part V: Biological Impacts: Introduction. 29. Habitat Fragmentation in the Temperate Zone: D. S. Wilcove, C. H. McLellan, and A. P. Dobson. 30. The Effects of Deforestation in Amazonia: H. Sioli. 31. Rates of Deforestation in the Humid Tropics: Estimates and Measurements: A. Grainger. 32. Wetland Loss in Louisiana: H. J. Walker, J. M. Coleman, H. H. Roberts and R. S. Tye. 33. Coral Reefs - A Challenging Ecosystem for Human Societies: B. Salvat. 34. Is Desertification a Myth?: T. Binns. 35. Large Herbivorous Mammals: Exotic Species in Northern Australia: W. J. Freeland. 36. Chlorinated Hydrocarbons and Eggshell Changes in Raptorial and Fish-Eating Birds: J. J. Hickey and O. W. Anderson. 37. Forest Decline and Acidic Deposition: L. F. Pitelka and D. J. Raynal. 38. The Biodiversity Challenge: Expanded Hotspots Analysis: N. Myers. Part VI: Conclusion: Introduction. 39. The Human Species: A Suicidal Success: C. Tickell. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Nature
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. Uses international case studies to illustrate the theoretical positions. A helpful introduction by the editors sets the chapters in context. Enables teachers and students to explore the ways in which social nature is evident and to engage with the direct implications of this for human lives, ecologies and politics. Trade Review"Nature as a concept, it is often said, is elusive, complex, promiscuous and yet familiar. Social Nature is a superb introduction to nature's complexity from the vantage point of the very best of critical geography. An excellent introduction to the epistemological thickets which have grown up around, and which threaten to strangle, our understanding of Nature as artifice and artifact." Michael Watts "No other single volume summarizes and critically reviews the geographical research on social nature." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Socializing Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 2. Being Constructive About Nature?: David Demeritt (Kings College, London). 3. Nature, Poststructuralism, and Politics: Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) and Joel Wainwright (University of Minnesota). 4. The Nature of 'Race': Kay Anderson (Durham University). 5. Postcolonialism and the Production of Nature: Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia). 6. Gendered Natures: Feminism, Politics, and Social Nature: Jane Moeckli (University of Iowa) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota). 7. Social Nature and Environmental Policy in the South: Views from Verandah and Veld: Piers Blaikie (University of East Anglia). 8. Political Ecology: A Critical Agenda for Change?: Ray Bryant (King's College, London). 9. Natural Disasters?: Mark Pelling (University of Liverpool). 10. Marxism, Capitalism, and the Production of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester). 11. Dissolving Dualisms: Actor-networks and the Reimagination of Nature: Noel Castree (University of Manchester) and Tom MacMillan (University of Manchester). 12. Solid Rock and Shifting Sands: The Moral Paradox of saving a Socially Constructed Nature: James Proctor (University of California, Santa Barbara). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Forests
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume highlight in various ways the complex articulations of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Taken together, they show how social science research has come of age, moving beyond the crude ''tragedy of the commons'' and ''prisoner''s dilemma'' approaches of the 1970s and early 1980s.Table of Contents1. Forest Lives and Struggles: An Introduction (Martin Doornbos, Ashwani Saith and Ben White, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague). 2.Development Discourses and Peasant-Forest Relations: Natural Resource Utilization as Social Process (Anja Nygren, Department of Anthropology, University of Helsinki). 3. Fashioned Forest Paths, Occluded Histories? International Environmental Analysis in West African Locales (Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; and James Fairhead, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). 4. State Sciences and Development Histories: Encoding Local Forestry Knowledge in Bengal (K. Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle). 5. The Changing Regime: Forest Property and Reformasi in Indonesia (John F. McCarthy, Asian Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia). 6. Balancing Politics, Economics and Conservation: The Case of the Cameroon Forestry Law Reform (Francois Ekoko, UNDP/BDP/SEED, New York). 7. People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest Lands in Thailand (Jin Sato, Institute of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo). 8. Resettlement, Opium and Labour Dependence: Akha-Tai Relations in Northern Laos (Paul T. Cohen, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney). 9.Environmentalists, Rubber Tappers and Empowerment: The Politics and Economics of Extractive Reserves (Katrina Brown, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich; and S'rgio Rosendo, University of East Anglia, Norwich). 10. Maintaining Centralized Control in Community-based Forestry: Policy Construction in the Philippines (Richard Gauld, Department of Geography, King's College London). 11. Unpacking the 'Joint' in Joint Forest Management (Nandini Sundar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi). 12. Community Forestry and Tree Theft in Mexico: Resistance or Complicity in Conservation? (Dan Klooster, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York). 13. Remote Sensibilities: Discourses of Technology and the Making of Indonesia's Natural Disaster (Emily E. Harwell, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies). 14. From Timber to Tourism? Recommoditizing the Japanese Forest (John Knight, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast). Notes on Contributors. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd GIS A Short Introduction
Book SynopsisThis guide enables students of human geography to take a critical look at the set of practices, hardware and software that are together described as GIS. A guide to GIS for students of human geography. Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry employed in GIS and illustrates their relevance for human geographers. Traces the history of GIS and human geography from 1970 to the present. Illustrates the challenges of data collection, classification in the context of multiple stakeholders and epistemological approaches. Tracks the use of GIS in applied contexts through the stages of problem definition, data acquisition and classification, choice of software, spatial analysis and graphic output. Includes an inventory of tools and information related to GIS, including web-based resources. Supported by a website, www.blackwellpublishing.com/scTrade Review“Geography and non-geography students interested in GIS should read this book. It is an important contribution that elegantly illuminates GIS systems and GIS science. By giving close attention to the details of rigorous GIS analysis, the impact of GIS on society, and the relationship of GIS to geographic epistemologies and social theory, Schuurman provides a unique and up-to-date summary of the field.” Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota "This is an excellent choice for an introductory undergraduate GIS class, and it should also be required reading for all critics who have dismissed GIS as being purely technical enterprise. It takes the reader through the nuts and bolts of GIS concepts while at the same time scrutinizing its intellectual and social implications. The discussion of GIS applications, highlighted by contemporary case studies, does an admiral job of conveying the curious messiness of actual GIS practice" Stacy Warren, Eastern Washington University. "Schuurman develops an intellectual and practical history of the field and of the technology....the book offers insights into the development of our field that have recieved little coverage in other venues. Further, Schuurmann offers excellent examples of reflexivity in GIS practice, showing how we might make the social processes of GIS use more transparent to ourselves and to others." Progress in Human Geography, Vol 29/1, 2005 Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Author's Acknowledgements. 1.Introducing The Identities Of GIS. 2.GIS, Human Geography, And The Intellectual Territory Between Them. 3.The Devil Is In The Data: Collection, Representation, And Standardization. 4.Bringing It All Together Using GIS To Analyse And Model Spatial Phenomena. 5.Where Do I Go From Here? GIS Training And Research. References. Index.
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Princeton University Press Billionaire Wilderness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America""Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction""One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership""Excellent and inspiring."---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times"One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life."---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight"This is the sort of book you didn’t know you needed until after you pick it up."---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books"I just ordered the book Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, on the strength of a recommendation by an architect friend who builds homes for the elite in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m only a chapter in, but I’m already fascinated by how conservation can become a way to salve guilt."---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
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Princeton University Press Billionaire Wilderness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America""Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction""One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership"
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Princeton University Press EcoTypes
Book SynopsisWhy acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environmentWhen we picture the ideal environmentalist, we likely have in mind someone who dedicates herself to reducing her own environmental footprint through individual choices about consumptiondriving a fuel-efficient car, for example, or eating less meat, or refusing plastic straws. This is a benchmark that many aspire toand many others reject. In Eco-Types, Emily Huddart Kennedy shows that there is more than one way to care about the environment, outlining a spectrum of eco-social relationships that range from engagement to indifference. Drawing on three years of interviews and research, Kennedy describes five archetypal relationships with the environment: the Eco-Engaged, often politically liberal, who have an acute level of concern about the environment, a moral commitment to protect it, and the conviction that an individual can make a d
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Pluto Press Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru
Book SynopsisA critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in PeruTrade Review'This superb ethnography invites us to 'slow down' the assumption that water is either a resource or a vital force and attend to how its multiplicity implies a politics of entangled worldings. This book will change how you think about the politics of water!' -- Mario Blaser, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Memorial University, Canada'Though many recent researchers have examined water through a climate change lens, this highly original book is distinctive in examining climate change through a water lens' -- Ben Orlove, anthropologist and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York'This book expresses the power of ethnography. Using her kaleidoscopic notions, Astrid Stensrud presents an analysis of a politics of water that empirically emerging from multiple worlds to transform political ecology and political economy into pluriversal analytics' -- Marisol de la Caden, Professor of Anthropology at UC-Davis, California and author of 'Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds' (Duke, 2015)'An exemplary ethnographic analysis that, focusing on 'waterworlds' in Peru, illuminates the many and diverse ways that people conceptualise and value water, engage with water, and compose human and non-human relationships through water' -- Professor Veronica Strang FAcSS, Executive Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and author of 'Water, Culture and Nature' (Reaktion Press 2015)'A powerful engagement with contemporary anthropological debates on the heterogeneity of water. Working with a multiplicity of water practices, Stensrud makes a compelling case for recognizing the intrinsic value of remaining open to difference in the face of climate change' -- Professor Penny Harvey, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsMaps and Figures List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Words in Quechua and Spanish Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics 1. Engineering Water Flows 2. Colonising the Desert 3. Water Payments 4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters 5. Water Efficiency 6. Legible and Illegible Water 7. Owning Water Conclusion: Water Multiplicity Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ecology and Society An Introduction
Book Synopsisaeo This book introduces environmental ideas to a sociology audience. It is designed for a growing field in the sociology of environmental issues, and will be of great use to sociologists wanting to fill a gap in teaching.Trade Review'Its unusual perspective makes this an interesting text. It does more than just catalogue ideas and events, it tries to analyse these so that key strands can be extracted.' TEG News 'Martell has pulled off a difficult trick: he has written a book that will both inform students and engage professional scholars, and he has secured himself a place in future discussions regarding the relationship between environment and society.' The Sociological review 'In aiming to provide a theoretically informed undergraduate text on contemporary green issues, the book goes some way to filling a gap where the level of support material is widely regarded as insufficient.' Antipode "Ecology and Society makes an important contribution to this emerging literature by providing an introduction to green ideas for students of social science. This book will appeal to both students and researchers. It is written in an accessible style, provides useful summaries of key literature and suggests further reading at the end of each chapter ... a useful contribution to the literature on environment-society relations and a valuable addition to student reading lists.' Local EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Ecology and Industrialism. 2. The Sustainable Society. 3. Green Philosophy. 4. The Green Movement. 5. Ecology and Political Theory. 6. Rethinking Relations Between Society and Nature. 7. The Future of Environmentalism. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Theory and the Environment
Book Synopsisaeo One of the first major attempts to assess the contributions of contemporary social theory to the study of environmental issues. aeo Analyses the work of some of the most influential contemporary thinkers, including Anthony Giddens, Andre Gorz, Jurgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck.Trade Review"This book is a most welcome addition to the contemporary discussion of environmental issues in the social sciences. As a critical evaluation and reconstruction of its four chosen theorists, it could hardly be bettered. It is clear, rigorous, intellectually challenging and politically serious ... a fine and lasting achievement." Ted Benton, University of Essex "Offers a welcome and timely survey of those thinkers - Andre Gorz, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck - who have tried to move beyond the exploded belief in the "conquest" of nature and unlimited growth." New Statesman and Society "David Goldblatt has done us the large favour of starting from the other end of the story. Rather than using environmentalism to shore up a set of conclusions arrived at elsewhere, he starts with the two main questions posed by environmentalism - the structural origins of environmental degradation and the conditions under which environmental movements might ameliorate or prevent that degradation - and examines the work of four contemporary social theorists to see what answers they provide. Goldblatt's own analysis is thoughtful, well argued and has a painful honesty to it; even when it appears that conclusions do not please him, he follows them through to the end. In this thoughtful book, David Goldblatt has helped us to move towards some answers." Times Literary Supplement "An academically thorough and at the same time readable assessment of relevant writings of Anthony Giddens, Andre Gorz, J%uuml;rgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck. The discussions of individual theorists would work well as stand-alone chapters, and would provide students with very good starting points in each case ... ideal for student reading lists on environment-related social science courses." Environmental Values "Highly engaging review of current developments in social theory ... this book is a testimony to the vigour and creativity of the discipline's response to the environmental challenge. His writing is refreshingly clear and points are made cogently and logically." International Journal of Environmental Studies "The conclusion is the most interesting chapter, because in it Goldblatt brings together his own arguments." Environment and Planning 'David Goldblatt's book is a welcome and scholarly contribution to a growing socialist literature in what may broadly be termed political ecology ... Goldblatt's main acheivement ... is to draw together the disparate conceptual apparatus of modern European social theory and then to show how it provides the necessary foundation for a critical political ecology.' Capital and Class 'Social theorists may need to head in such directions given the place that Goldblatt, carefully and convincingly, leads us to.' Urban StudiesTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Social Theory, Environmental Degradation and Environmental Politics. 1. Capitalism, Industrialism and the Transformation of Nature: Anthony Giddens. 2. Urbanism, Globalization and Environmental Politics: Anthony Giddens. 3. The Political Ecology of Capitalism: Andre Gorz. 4. Social and Cultural Origins of Environmental Movements: Jurgen Habermas. 5. The Sociology of Risk: Ulrich Beck. Conclusion: Social Theory, Socialism and the Environment. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Political Theory and Ecological Values
Book SynopsisThis book shows why political theorists must take account of ecological concerns as part of their core enterprise, and how they can do so. It mounts a challenge to the received wisdom, of political theorists and their ecological critics alike, that specifically ecological values go against human interests.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Ecological Values and Human Interests. Part I: Critique: Two Dogmas of Ecologism:. 2. Intrinsic Value in Nature: Analysis and Critique of a Misleading Idea. 3. Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem. Part II: Reconstruction: Human Interests and Ecological Values:. 4. The Enlightenment of Self-Interest. 5. Human Interests and Environmental Values. 6. Human Self-respect and Respect for Nonhumans. Part III: Conclusion:. 7. Political Theory for a Sustainable Polity. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modernities A Geohistorical Interpretation
Book Synopsisaeo A clear and wide--ranging analysis of modernity and the a moderna from the perspective of geography. aeo Argues that there are three a prime modernitiesa which have been defined by the development of the modern world: from mercantile modernity to industrial modernity and then to todaya s consumer modernity.Trade Review"This book reaches across disciplines, across countries and across ideologies, developing along the way a stimulating and original perspective on the making of the modern world." Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol "Modernities is short, sensible, clear and reflective. It raises in an intelligent way the questions with which we all must deal. It is a book well worth reading." Immanuel Wallerstein, Binghamton University "Modernities is to be recommended. It is highly accessible and presents complex ideas in a clear and entertaining fashion. It will interest proponents and opponents of modern thought, and would find much favour amongst sociologists, geographers and students of the social sciences more generally. The book highlights the continued importance of geographical approaches to the study of the rich and varied histories and geographies of modernity."Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sociological Research OnlineTable of ContentsPreface. Prologue: Being Geohistorical. Who's Modern?. 1. Modern, --ity, --ism, --ization:. Ambiguous to the core. Social theory with smoke in its eyes. 2. Prime Modernities:. Multiple moderns versus multiple modernities. Consensus and coercion in the projection of hegemonic power. 3. Ordinary Modernity: . Cultural celebrations of the ordinariness. Feeling comfortable: the modern home. Suburbia: the domestic landscape of consumer modernity. Not modernism. 4. Modern States: . Inter-stateness. Absolutism as a political way of life. Going Dutch. The changing nature of territoriality. 5. Political Movements: . Parties and movements. Movements and modernities. Socialism against the modernity that Britain built. Environmentalism against the modernity that America built. r 6. Geographical Tensions:. Where and what?. Place-space tensions. Nation-state as enabling place and dis-enabling space. Home-household as enabling place and dis-enabling space. 7. Americanization:. Incipient, capacious and resonant Americanizations. Inside America: conditions for constructing a modernity. Outside America: seeing the most modern of the modern. Americanization and globalization. Epilogue. Presents and Ends. System logic: the extraordinary effect of ordinary modernity. Political practice: the post-traditional challenge. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metamorphosis of the World
Book Synopsis* Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 * In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today.Trade Review'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive - indeed complete - description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.'—Zygmunt Bauman 'This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after – transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.'—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University 'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.' —Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of Contents Foreword Preface Introduction, Evidence, Theory Chapter I Why metamorphosis of the world, why not transformation? Chapter II Being God Chapter III How climate change might save the world Chapter IV Theorising metamorphosis Themes Chapter V From class to risk-class: Inequality in times of metamorphosis Chapter VI Where does the power go? Politics of invisibility Chapter VII Emancipatory catastrophism: Common goods as side effects of bads Chapter VIII Public bads: Politics of visibility Chapter IX Digital risk: Failing of functioning institutions Chapter X Meta-power game of politics: Metamorphosis of the nation and international relations Chapter XI Cosmopolitan communities of risk: From United Nations to United Cities Outlook Chapter XII Global Risk Generations: United in decline Bibliography
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University of British Columbia Press This Elusive Land
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary anthology discusses the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, featuring a range of contexts and issues in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land.Trade ReviewThis exhaustively-researched anthology reviews the experiences of women in their relation to the Canadian environment. It is meant to stress our dependence on the natural environment. The essays note the handicaps women faced via their marginalization but give constructive suggestions on their role in supporting and saving the environment. An excellent reference text. -- Ron MacIsaac * The Lower Island News *
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University of British Columbia Press Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.Trade ReviewIn a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: "Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. * Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1 *Table of ContentsPreface / Laurie E. Adkin1 Ecology, Citizenship, Democracy / Laurie E. Adkin2 Unsatisfactory Democracy: Conflict over Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Wheat / Peter Andrée and Lucy Sharratt3 Regulating Farm Pollution in Quebec: Environmentalists and the Union des producteurs agricoles Contest the Meaning of Sustainable Development / Nathalie Berny, Raymond Hudon, and Maxime Ouellet4 Modern Enclosure: Salmon Aquaculture and First Nations Resistance in British Columbia / Donna Harrison5 Fisheries Privatization versus Community-Based Management in Nova Scotia: Emerging Alliances between First Nations and Non-Native Fishers / Martha Stiegman6 First Nations, ENGOs, and Ontario’s Lands for Life Consultation Process / Patricia Ballamingie7 Participation, Information, and Forest Conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia / Darren R. Bardati8 The Limits of Integrated Resource Management in Alberta for Aboriginal and Environmental Groups: The Northern East Slopes Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management Strategy / Colette Fluet and Naomi Krogman9 Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Bella Coola: Political Ecology on the Margins of Industria / William T. Hipwell10 Privatization, Deregulation, and Environmental Protection: The Case of Provincial Parks in Newfoundland and Labrador / Jim Overton11 Managing Conflict in Alberta: The Case of Forest Certification and Citizen Committees / John R. Parkins12 Beyond the Reach of Democracy? The University and Institutional Citizenship / Jason Found and R. Michael M’Gonigle13 The Myth of Citizen Participation: Waste Management in the Fundy Region of New Brunswick / Susan W. Lee14 Neo-liberalism, Water, and First Nations / Michael Mascarenhas15 Contesting Development, Democracy, and Justice in the Red Hill Valley / Jane Mulkewich and Richard Oddie16 Instant Gentrification: Social Inequality and Brownfields Redevelopment in Downtown Toronto / Cheryl Teelucksingh17 Taking a Stand in Exurbia: Environmental Movements to Preserve Nature and Resist Sprawl / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert18 Democracy from the Trenches: Environmental Conflicts and Ecological Citizenship / Laurie E. AdkinReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.Trade ReviewIn a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: "Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. * Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1 *Table of ContentsPreface / Laurie E. Adkin1 Ecology, Citizenship, Democracy / Laurie E. Adkin2 Unsatisfactory Democracy: Conflict over Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Wheat / Peter Andrée and Lucy Sharratt3 Regulating Farm Pollution in Quebec: Environmentalists and the Union des producteurs agricoles Contest the Meaning of Sustainable Development / Nathalie Berny, Raymond Hudon, and Maxime Ouellet4 Modern Enclosure: Salmon Aquaculture and First Nations Resistance in British Columbia / Donna Harrison5 Fisheries Privatization versus Community-Based Management in Nova Scotia: Emerging Alliances between First Nations and Non-Native Fishers / Martha Stiegman6 First Nations, ENGOs, and Ontario’s Lands for Life Consultation Process / Patricia Ballamingie7 Participation, Information, and Forest Conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia / Darren R. Bardati8 The Limits of Integrated Resource Management in Alberta for Aboriginal and Environmental Groups: The Northern East Slopes Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management Strategy / Colette Fluet and Naomi Krogman9 Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Bella Coola: Political Ecology on the Margins of Industria / William T. Hipwell10 Privatization, Deregulation, and Environmental Protection: The Case of Provincial Parks in Newfoundland and Labrador / Jim Overton11 Managing Conflict in Alberta: The Case of Forest Certification and Citizen Committees / John R. Parkins12 Beyond the Reach of Democracy? The University and Institutional Citizenship / Jason Found and R. Michael M’Gonigle13 The Myth of Citizen Participation: Waste Management in the Fundy Region of New Brunswick / Susan W. Lee14 Neo-liberalism, Water, and First Nations / Michael Mascarenhas15 Contesting Development, Democracy, and Justice in the Red Hill Valley / Jane Mulkewich and Richard Oddie16 Instant Gentrification: Social Inequality and Brownfields Redevelopment in Downtown Toronto / Cheryl Teelucksingh17 Taking a Stand in Exurbia: Environmental Movements to Preserve Nature and Resist Sprawl / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert18 Democracy from the Trenches: Environmental Conflicts and Ecological Citizenship / Laurie E. AdkinReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press British Columbias Inland Rainforest
Book SynopsisThis book brings together information from a wide range of sources about the ecology, management, and conservation of British Columbia’s inland rainforest.Table of ContentsPreface1 Introduction2 The Physical Setting3 Ecology and Productivity4 Changing Communities, Changing Values, Changing Uses5 Changing Forests: Timber Harvesting and Silviculture6 Changing Ecosystems: Forest Management Effects on Biodiversity7 Changing Climate: Carbon Dynamics and Climate Change8 Managing Ecological Landscape Patterns and Processes9 A Vision for a Unique EcosystemAppendicesGlossary; References Cited; Indices
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University of British Columbia Press Northscapes History Technology and the Making of
Book SynopsisNorthscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Making the Action Visible, Making Environments in Northern Landscapes / Dolly Jørgensen and Sverker SörlinPart 1: Exploring the North1 “A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art”: European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones2 How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld’s Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi3 Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne CroninPart 2: Colonizing the North4 Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison5 In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia LajusPart 3: Working the North6 Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas7 The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir8 More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth9 A Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo LaakkonenPart 4: Imagining the North10 North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke11 Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna KarlsdóttirEpilogue The Networked North: Thinking about the Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Histories of the North / Finn Arne JørgensenSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Ecology of Salmonids in Estuaries around the
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to understanding the crucial role estuaries play in the salmonid life cycle and what can be done to conserve – and recover – this important fish habitat.Trade ReviewEcology of Salmonids in Estuaries around the World has been sorely needed to complement the syntheses on the freshwater and ocean ecology of salmonids. It is written for a diverse array of users, and I highly recommend it to graduate and undergraduate students, salmonid scientists and managers, citizen scientists (there is a primer in Appendix 3 written especially for this group), and conservationists. -- Kurt L. Fresh, National Marine Fisheries Service * Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, No. 155 *[Levings'] travels and consultation with colleagues enabled [him] to write a book that fills an important gap in the knowledge of estuarine ecology and suitability for the support of salmonid populations. Most large estuaries also serve as harbors for ship traffic and have huge human populations. These factors have affected the fishes to the point where many species have undergone drastic population decreases. This conservation problem is skillfully discussed by the author. In addition to its considerable scientific value, this handsome volume is well written and illustrated. It is a credit to the author and the University of British Columbia Press. Summing Up: Recommended -- J. C. Briggs, Oregon State University * CHOICE, April 2017 *The book seamlessly transitions from descriptions of the different types of estuaries, based on their morphological composition and specific attributes, to the behaviour of several salmonid species including their interactions with other species within estuarian environments … calling on a lifetime of estuarian studies, Levings details adaptations to field study techniques and strategies, and their limitations, employed in British Columbia and around the world. -- Bert Ionson * The Ormsby Review *… there is much to be learned about both fish ecology and physical oceanography/limnology from this book, which will interest many readers, even those without any specific affinity for salmonids … It is clear that Levings’s long career dedicated to researching estuarine biology contributes greatly to the detail contained within the book … potentially making it an important reference for early career salmonid researchers or others developing research agendas on the topic. -- Robert J. Lennox, Carleton University * Canadian Field-Naturalist *Colin Levings has distilled his vast knowledge from a lifetime of work on estuarine processes and salmonid ecology into a clear, concise and accessible book for a wide audience. -- Francis Juanes et. al * Fish and Fisheries *I recommend that those studying estuaries consider purchasing this reasonably priced book. It provides a comprehensive review of what is known about salmonid estuaries, as well as recommendations for future work. -- Jim Irvine, Fisheries and Oceans Canada * NPAFC Newsletter No. 41, January 2017 *Table of ContentsPreface1 Why a Focus on Salmonids in Estuaries?2 What Salmonids and Estuaries to Consider3 Salmonid’s-Eye View of the Estuary: Physical, Chemical, and Geological Aspects4 What Habitats are Used by Salmonids in Estuaries?5 Global Distribution of Salmonid Species and Local Salmonid Diversity in Estuaries6 How Have Salmonid Abundance and Distribution Been Assessed in Estuaries?7 How Do Salmonids Behave in Estuary Habitat?8 Salmonid Growth in the Estuary9 Smolting and Osmoregulation10 Habitat-Based Food Webs Supporting Salmonids in the Natural Estuary11 Biotic Interactions in the Natural Estuary12 How Have Habitat and Water Properties Changed for Salmonids in Estuaries?13 Salmonid Survival in Estuaries14 Effects of Habitat and Community Change on Fitness Components for Survival in the Disrupted Estuary15 Harvesting and Production of Salmonids and Other Ecosystem Services Provided by the Estuary16 Health of Salmonids in Estuaries17 What Shapes an Estuary for Salmonids?18 Future Considerations for Conservation of Salmonids in Estuaries19 ConclusionGlossary; References; Index
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University of Nebraska Press Kayaking Alone Nine Hundred Miles from Idahos
Book SynopsisThe Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Mike Barenti entered the heart of this conflict when he slid a whitewater kayak into the headwaters of central Idaho's Salmon River and started paddling toward the Pacific Ocean. This is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large.Trade Review“A fresh look at a river system critical to our history and our future. . . . This is a good book about paddling, and an even better book about the salmon, science and politics up the Columbia.”—The Spokesman-Review"Part travelogue, part history lesson, part ecological meditation, Kayaking Alone is the product of a tough but revealing trip."—Idaho Arts Quarterly“This book flows from cover to cover like the rivers traveled within its pages, and the story is never the same for long. Barenti takes readers on a ride deep into the personality of the West, shedding light on the culture of the region every time he eddies out.”—Sam Weiss, Paddling Life“Kayaking Alone provides much more than a chronicle of one man’s quest to find adventure on a great river system…Barenti weaves conversations with the people he meets, farmers, ranchers, river guides, fisheries biologists, native peoples and dam workers, into a narrative revealing the complex interaction among the economy, the environment and the lives of the inhabitants of the lower Snake and Columbia River.”—Stan Miller, OutthereMonthly.com “This book is a good combination of paddling, river history, and the plight of the salmon on the river of the same name.”—Cascade Currents"Kayaking Alone turns out to be a meditation on salmon, on western rivers, and on American relations to the natural world. The prose is direct and provoking, and the book's pace moves as smartly as any healthy current—delivering us from landmark to new vista to conclusions with steady force."—Jeffrey McCarthy, Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Map 1. Sunbeam 2. Where the Marlboro Man Might Settle 3. Henry Clay Merritt, on His 158th Birthday 4. Into the Wilderness 5. Watching Fish in Riggins 6. Dragonflies and the Plant Migration 7. Into the Breach 8. Locking through with Smolt 9. River of Empire 10. The Swallowing Monster and the Pictograph Island 11. Watching Fish at Bonneville Dam 12. Used Up by the Wind 13. Looking Back at Cape Disappointment Selected Sources
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University of Nebraska Press Virtual America
Book SynopsisTraces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography “out there.”Trade Review"This is the book for any intelligent, concerned, sensitive person who might be given to weeping over the screech of a chain saw when a neighbor fells a tree or depression as developers extend yet another strip mall into the countryside. It has the power to change one's life."—P. D. Travis, Choice Magazine"In persuasively linking the modern digital technologies of imagined reality to their historical antecedents, Opie has produced an important book and a new framework for understanding the story, one that is all the more relevant the more virtual our reality becomes."—Gregory Summers, Annals of Iowa"Opie's book will help us maintain genuine connectivity in the cyber era."—Brian Black, Technology and Culture"This book can usefully guide students to think about how Americans have continually reconstructed their sense of place as they searched for an often problematic authenticity." —David E. Nye, American Studies JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Welcome to VirtuaLand: Old Dreamworlds and the Power of a New Modernity2. Antique America: Searching for Authenticity3. Human Kodaks in the Future Perfect: Virtual America Embodied in World’s Fairs4. Sleepwalking in America: A Brief History5. Finding Authenticity: Inhabiting Place in AmericaBibliography
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MQ - University of Nebraska Press Sandhill and Whooping Cranes Ancient Voices over Americas Wetlands
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University of Nebraska Press The Entire Earth and Sky
Book SynopsisAntarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the world.Trade Review“Leslie Roberts packed her duffel, her down parka, her bunny boots, her quill, her notebook and headed south. But she also packed her heart, her soul, and her gift. The result is pure art: honest, true to place, original, and lovely. “—David G. Campbell, author of The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica“‘I am Antarctica and Antarctica is me,’ Leslie Carol Roberts wants to cry out, knowing that the famous and forbidding land of penguins, ferocious leopard seals, explorers lucky and not, scientists who shag their way through the months-long winter night (also cooks and drivers and pilots and Scott Base string bikinis) is in peril. The Entire Earth and Sky introduces us to the place in a new and thorough and wholly original way. Roberts, possessed of a certain sweet curiosity and impressive smarts, is a poet of the ice, and a cataloger, too. In the end she makes one thing clear: we are all Antarctica, and Antarctica is us.”—Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream, Big Bend, and Into Woods“Roberts shows a poet’s attention to detail. . . . [She] tells many forgotten stories of Antarctica in an engaging style that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cold places, travel adventures, and overlooked history.”—Booklist“[Roberts] bring[s] to life and light the historic port of Lyttelton. . . . Roberts introduces readers to the intriguing Norris, a man entirely dedicated to preserving the artifacts and thus shaping the narrative of one specific place on Earth.”—Orion “Roberts’ seriousness, respect, and deep reflections about Antarctica run through the narrative as a strong thread, drawing it together into a potent whole.”—Melbourne Historical JournalTable of Contents[No TOC]
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LSU Press State of Disaster
Book SynopsisExplores Louisiana's protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the people displaced by those efforts. As Craig Colten shows, the state's coastal restoration plan seeks to protect cities and industry but sacrifices the coastal dwellers who have occupied this perilous place for centuries.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Colonial Ecology Atlantic Economy Transforming
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy is an insightful, topical, and nuanced work that proves successful in its project. Roberts makes a strong case for cis-Atlantic frameworks, showing how the choices and actions of individuals on a local level can influence larger regional and global processes. It is a welcome contribution to the fields of environmental history, economic history, Native American history, and the history of the Atlantic World." * American Indian Quarterly *"A fine contribution to the resurgent field of early American environmental history. Strother E. Roberts deftly integrates Atlantic and continental approaches, and his materialist emphasis nicely complements recent works on early New England's environmental history that focus on cultural representations." * James Rice, Tufts University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Conflicts, Choices, and Change Chapter 1. Hunting Beaver: The Postdiluvian World of Fur Trade Chapter 2. Raising Crops: Feeding the Market Chapter 3. Gathering Firewood: Scarcity Amid Abundance Chapter 4. Felling Timber: Profits and Politics Chapter 5. Keeping Livestock: A Commerce in Beasts Domestic and Wild Epilogue. A New Era in the Life of the River Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Communities and the Environment Ethnicity Gender
Book SynopsisA discussion of community-based conservation. Although the contributors advocate community action, they cover its dangers as well as its promises. They explore the political contexts in which communities emerge and operate, focusing on issues related to ethnicity, gender and the state.Table of ContentsThe role of community in natural resource conservation / Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson Invoking community: indigenous people and ancestral domain in Palawan, the Philippines / Melanie Hughes McDermott Gender dimensions of community resource management: the case of water users' associations in South Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen The ethnopolitics of irrigation in management in the Ziz oasis, Morocco / Hsain Ilahiane Reidentifying ground rules: community inheritance disputes among the Digo of Kenya / Bettina Ng'weno Communitites, states, and the governance of Pacific Northwest salmon fisheries / Sara Singleton Boundary work: community, market, and state reconsidered / Tania Murray Li Community and the commons: romantic and other views / Bonnie J. McCay
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Rutgers University Press New Perspectives on Environmental Justice Gender
Book SynopsisWomen make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of colour communities. This collection of essays pays tribute to the contributions women have made in these endeavours.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part One. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice: Historical and Theoretical Roots 1. Toward a Queer Ecofeminism 2. Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History Part Two. Gender, Sexuality, and Activism 3. Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice 4. Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice 5. The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists' Perceptions of Environmental Justice 6. Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon 7. Toxic Bodies? ACT UP's Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation Part Three. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Health Concerns 8. Producing "Roundup Ready" Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy 9. Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer 10. Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism 11. No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law Part Four. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in Literature and Popular Culture 12. Bodily Invasions: Gene Trading and Organ Theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Fiction 13. Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl 14. "Lo que quiero es tierra": Longing and Belonging in Cherrie Moraga's Ecological Vision 15. Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice 16. "The Power is Your, Planeteers!" Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children's Environmental Popular Culture Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Political Ecology Across Spaces Scales and Social
Book SynopsisEnvironmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels.Trade ReviewPolitical ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. -- Marianne Schmick * Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida *Political ecology is a strong and growing interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and this book makes a welcome and unique contribution. Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon have put together an engaging and well-written collection that is full of fresh ideas and applications related to current theoretical debate, concepts and methods. -- Marianne Schmick * Director, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Place, Power, Difference: Multiscale Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century by Liza L. Gezon and Susan Paulson 2. Politics, Ecologies, Genealogies by Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, and Michael Watts PART ONE: Policy and Environment 3. The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land-Use Conflicts in Arizona by Mette J. Brogden and James B. Greenberg 4. Whose Water? Political Ecology of Water Reform in Zimbabwe by Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman 5. The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Andrew Gardner 6. Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya by A. Fiona D. Mackenzie 7. The Political Ecology of Consumption: Beyond Greed and Guilt by Josiah McC. Heyman PART TWO: Social Hierarchies in Local-Global Relationships 8. Finding the Global in the Local: Environmental Struggles in Northern Madagascar by Lisa L. Gezon 9. Symbolic Action and Soil Fertility: Political Ecology and the Transformation of Space and Place in Tonga by Charles J. Stevens 10. Gendered Practices and Landscapes in the Andes: The Shape of Asymmetrical Exchanges by Susan Paulson 11. Undermining Modernity: Protecting Landscapes and Meanings among the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia by Alf Hornborg PART THREE: Forest Visions 12. Shade: Throwing Light on Politics and Ecology in Contemporary Pakistan by Michael R. Dove 13. A Global Political Ecology of Bioprospecting by Hanne Svarstad 14. The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest by Arturo Escobar and Susan Paulson Notes on Contributors Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority
Book SynopsisDrawing on his primary fieldwork in six countries, environmental researcher Timothy Doyle argues that there is, in fact, no one global environmental movement; rather, there are many, and the differences between them far outweigh their similarities.Trade ReviewA marvelous book. Timothy Doyle provides exactly the right balance of evidence and critical judgment to show how environmental movements differ across the globe. More importantly he shows why this matters and does so in an accessible and informative way. -Brian Doherty, author of Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Water Wisdom Preparing the Groundwork for
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is a vast literature on water in the Middle East, but few studies that take on such a balanced approach as Water Wisdom. The book makes a great addition to academic libraries around the world and for scholars involved in water policy studies." -- Aaron Wolf * director of the Program in Water Conflict Management, Oregon State University *"This comprehensive, informed, and balanced volume provides invaluable insights into the roots of the water management challenges in the Middle East and charts a course for resolving this pressing issue." -- James D. Wolfensohn * former Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement *"Water Wisdom holds considerable comparative interest for agricultural historials of arid lands and regions with histories of military conflict and occupation." * Agricultural History *
£31.50
The University of Arizona Press California A Fire Survey To the Last Smoke
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£14.36
University of Arizona Press Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press North Shore A Natural History of Minnesotas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In North Shore, lovers of that sacred strip of scree and cold water finally have a definitive natural history. But they also have a meticulous and wondrous book that will entertain as much as educate, that demystifies even as it allows for the magical moments the North Shore is famous for inspiring. I’ve never felt so in tune with my favorite place as I did turning the last page of this book, and seldom have I felt so thankful." —Peter Geye "North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast reads like a friendly and detailed journal that Great-great-great-great Grandmother Earth has been keeping from the very beginning. It tells the natural and cultural story of the North Shore: past, present, and future." —Betsy Bowen, writer, illustrator, and long-time North Shore resident"North Shore satisfies in its breadth but never complicates."—Great Lakes Echo"[Y]ou will be amazed, as I have been, at how compelling worms, frogs, and scientific exploration can be. "—Lake Superior Magazine"North Shore reminds us that the natural history of the region is still being written, and that all of us who live near its shores are the creators of the next chapter."—The Ely Winter Times"Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer have written an accessible book that comprehensively describes the history and geology of the coast, surrounding highlands, and Lake Superior itself. In addition, the authors have provided fascinating subchapters on some of the most interesting species that are key elements of the region."—The Prairie Naturalist"[North Shore] is a celebration of the big and little lives that make Lake Superior and its surrounding region so richly complex, an eye-opening recounting of human errors that have brought the natural systems close to collapse."—SEJournal"Compelling and accessible, the book provides readers with a science-based knowledge of the Minnesota North Shore watershed."—Ely Timberjay"The book’s merits merits include breathtaking photos, maps and charts, handsome page design, and impassioned writing. "—CHOICE"North Shore. . . is vast in scope, thought-provoking, and poetic in places. It is full of passages that invite repeated visits, and reveal deeper meanings with each visit. "—Wilderness News"Has the substance of a textbook, but reads in a friendly and fascinating narrative."—Star TribuneTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A Gathering of WatersI. Headwaters As Good As It Gets: Bird Diversity on the North ShoreHarvesting the Forest’s Bounty: WildcraftingBe It Ever So Humble: No Home Like That of a Pitcher PlantHealing a Watershed for Coaster Brook TroutII. HighlandsThe Case of the Missing Duff: Earthworm InvasionsThe Secret Life of SalamandersStranger Than Fiction: Plant Galls and Their MakersBlack Bears and the Tettegouche OaksThe Nose Knows: Star-Nosed Moles and a Life Down UnderIII. NearshoreNorth Shore Places: What’s in a Name?Where Has All the Sewage Gone? Development and Water QualityHay Pickers and Grass Gatherers: Botanical Exploration along the LakeshoreBetween a Rock and a Lake: Life on the Cliff EdgeThe Leading Edge: North Shore Bird MigrationIV. Lake SuperiorMapping Lake Superior: The Early YearsSearching High and Low: The Science of Lake Superior ExplorationAmphipods and Diatoms: The Big Lake’s Bread and ButterHow Much Water Is Enough? The Plumbing of Lake SuperiorThe Missing Link: The Lake Superior and Mississippi River CanalThe Rise and Fall of SeichesV. IslandsThe Chorus Frogs of Isle RoyaleThe Long View: Moose and Wolves on Isle RoyaleNature or Nuisance? Gulls in the Great LakesA Mansion of Many Rooms: The Return of Lake Trout to SuperiorEpilogue: The Wild Card of Climate ChangeAcknowledgmentsFrontispiece CreditsIndex
£27.90
Duke University Press Romancing the Wild
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist and former rafting guide considers why ecotourists—almost all of whom are white, upper-middle-class Westerners—choose to engage in physically and emotionally strenuous activities such as mountain climbing and white-water rafting.Trade Review“Fletcher forensically analyses what it is about getting active in the great outdoors that chimes with the culture of its majority attendees – white middle class westerners.” * Wanderlust *"Robert Fletcher, an accomplished white-water tour guide, ecotourist, and cultural anthropologist, emerges in this text as one of the rare few whopossesses the skill set needed to gain ethnographic entree into this elusive, fast-moving subculture." -- Sally Ann Ness * Current Anthropology *“Although the main topic in this substantially researched title is why people engage in ecotourism, the practical implications of this study are important. . . . The book has serious implications for those who would promote ecotourism as a primary means of saving endangered landscapes, saying it may not be the panacea we had hoped. VERDICT Recommended for academic libraries.” * Library Journal *“Fletcher offers readers a serious review of ecotourism and its evolution over the past several decades…. Altogether, there are few aspects of the human condition as it interacts with nature that the author does not touch on, from politics to psychology to sexuality and literature (Was Don Quixote the original ecotourist?). Any reader looking for a deep understanding of ecotourism should start here.” * Booklist *"This book makes an important contribution to tourism studies. Further, by situating the ecotourist as the quintessential postmodern subject, Fletcher offers an analysis that will be of interest to a much broader audience, linking contemporary work to leisure and contemporary production to consumption." -- Laurie Kroshus Medina * American Ethnologist *"In Romancing the Wild, Fletcher ... generally describes the contemporary ecotourist scouring the globe for the next adventure. Because anthropology is famous for getting at the humanity behind the data, works such as Romancing the Wild are particularly important." -- Frank Hutchins * American Anthropologist *"[A] comprehensive and well-written discussion of the ways in which adventure seeking activities like whitewater kayaking, mountaineering, and so on, can be used to think about how and why certain kinds of dominant cultural values, norms, and discourses – such as individual autonomy, self-actualization, continual progress, and class privilege – are formulated, communicated, and experienced in identity-shaping ways." -- Luis Vivanco * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Encountering Experience 1 1. The Ecotourism Experience 29 2. Becoming an Ecotourist 45 3. Playing on the Edge 72 4. Affluence and Its Discontents 91 5. Call of the Wild 113 6. Ecotourism at Large 130 7. The Ecotourist Gaze 149 Conclusion. The Teachings of Don Quixote 167 Notes 191 Bibliography 215 Index 245
£98.60
Duke University Press Romancing the Wild
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist and former rafting guide considers why ecotourists—almost all of whom are white, upper-middle-class Westerners—choose to engage in physically and emotionally strenuous activities such as mountain climbing and white-water rafting.Trade Review“Fletcher forensically analyses what it is about getting active in the great outdoors that chimes with the culture of its majority attendees – white middle class westerners.” * Wanderlust *"Robert Fletcher, an accomplished white-water tour guide, ecotourist, and cultural anthropologist, emerges in this text as one of the rare few whopossesses the skill set needed to gain ethnographic entree into this elusive, fast-moving subculture." -- Sally Ann Ness * Current Anthropology *“Although the main topic in this substantially researched title is why people engage in ecotourism, the practical implications of this study are important. . . . The book has serious implications for those who would promote ecotourism as a primary means of saving endangered landscapes, saying it may not be the panacea we had hoped. VERDICT Recommended for academic libraries.” * Library Journal *“Fletcher offers readers a serious review of ecotourism and its evolution over the past several decades…. Altogether, there are few aspects of the human condition as it interacts with nature that the author does not touch on, from politics to psychology to sexuality and literature (Was Don Quixote the original ecotourist?). Any reader looking for a deep understanding of ecotourism should start here.” * Booklist *"This book makes an important contribution to tourism studies. Further, by situating the ecotourist as the quintessential postmodern subject, Fletcher offers an analysis that will be of interest to a much broader audience, linking contemporary work to leisure and contemporary production to consumption." -- Laurie Kroshus Medina * American Ethnologist *"In Romancing the Wild, Fletcher ... generally describes the contemporary ecotourist scouring the globe for the next adventure. Because anthropology is famous for getting at the humanity behind the data, works such as Romancing the Wild are particularly important." -- Frank Hutchins * American Anthropologist *"[A] comprehensive and well-written discussion of the ways in which adventure seeking activities like whitewater kayaking, mountaineering, and so on, can be used to think about how and why certain kinds of dominant cultural values, norms, and discourses – such as individual autonomy, self-actualization, continual progress, and class privilege – are formulated, communicated, and experienced in identity-shaping ways." -- Luis Vivanco * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Encountering Experience 1 1. The Ecotourism Experience 29 2. Becoming an Ecotourist 45 3. Playing on the Edge 72 4. Affluence and Its Discontents 91 5. Call of the Wild 113 6. Ecotourism at Large 130 7. The Ecotourist Gaze 149 Conclusion. The Teachings of Don Quixote 167 Notes 191 Bibliography 215 Index 245
£25.19
Duke University Press A City on a Lake Urban Political Ecology and the
Book SynopsisMatthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity, showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline.Trade Review"For Mexicanists, political historians, urban historians, and historians of planning, I suspect, Vitz’s emphasis on the politics of planning and what it reveals about the Porfiriato, the revolution, and the Cárdenas years will be well placed." -- John R. McNeill * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"Matthew Vitz's work is a valuable and enjoyable contribution to a growing literature that takes seriously the way Mexico City's lacustrine past shapes its present." -- C. Lurtz * Choice *"The book will appeal to several audiences. Environmental historians of Latin America will appreciate the new approach through political ecology to an often-discussed region. Because the book outlines Mexican history from the perspective of its national capital in a clear accessible . . . manner, the topic may appeal to historians interested in a comparative approach in urban history. Water historians, meanwhile, will appreciate how the author acknowledges the social, cultural, and political influences that shape water management." -- Rocio Gomez * Canadian Journal of History *"Seldom are the city and hinterland, technocratic elites and popular groups, studied together – in Mexico or elsewhere – so Matthew Vitz’s work is a tremendous contribution to the field of Latin American urban history and the history of urban planning. In the case of A City on a Lake, this integration is accomplished through widespread archival research and a sophisticated analytical lens that links the histories of capitalism, urbanization, and the environment. Historians of Mexico will surely profit from this approach." -- Emilio de Antanuano * Planning Perspectives *"Vitz draws from a rich collection of archival sources to illustrate a metropolis caught between a growing population extracting more and more resources from a still-viable ecosystem and a government increasingly run by technocrats. . . . Given current global concerns about climate change, A City on a Lake is a welcome and valuable addition to environmental histories of Latin America and the world, as well as the history of inequality, which cannot be divorced from ecological perspectives." -- James A. Garza * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A City on a Lake is an innovative and complex study of the social, political, and environmental dynamics of Mexico City’s demographic and spatial expansion from the Porfiriato (1876–1911) through the middle of the twentieth century. . . . A meticulously sourced and theoretically grounded study that will likely be influential across several academic fields." -- Christopher Woolley * The Latin Americanist *"In this deeply researched and nicely detailed book, Vitz makes important contributions to the environmental and especially urban history of Latin America." -- Emily Wakild * Journal of Social History *"[This] book would make for an excellent text to assign to advanced undergraduates. It deserves to find a much wider readership than that, though. This impressive, sophisticated analysis will be of considerable interest to historians and geographers, in particular, and will appeal to scholars interested in the politics." -- Richard Conway * HAHR *"A City on a Lake is a very detailed environmental history which will speak more to Mexicanists and environmental historians. . . . the book is a superb example of urban political ecological analysis which transcends the boundaries of the city to examine the complex interactions between the city and its non-urban hinterlands. In this regard, A City on a Lake can contribute to recent debates on planetary urbanization within urban political ecology." -- Creighton Connolly * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Matthew Vitz’s book, A City on a Lake, is a thoroughly researched and intricately woven history of environmental change in Mexico City from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. . . . Vitz’s argument is articulated through richly described data, which vividly conveys the complexity of urban environmentmaking." -- Alejandro de Coss Corzo * Journal of Latin American Studies *"A major contribution to Mexican political historiography that unpacks the fascinating and complex story of a revolutionary nation whose capital city happens to sit on a lake. ... This remarkable book will likewise fuel debates in the larger field of radical political ecology, precisely be-cause it supports the claim that states matter as much as capital in any theoretical or analytical accounting of urbanization-led environmental change. In masterfully weaving multiple conceptual and disciplinary threads into a single convincing account, this must-read book will force a rethinking of new and old assumptions in a variety of fields. One could not ask for more." -- Diane E. Davis * Environmental History *"This book is a meticulously researched account of the production and reproduction of Mexico City’s 'metropolitan environment' during the long twentieth century, the bulk of which centers on the 1910s through the 1930s. ... Matthew Vitz has written an original, archivally rich analysis that deserves to be read by all those interested in cities past and present." -- J. Brian Freeman * The Americas *"Vitz makes important contributions to histories of the Mexican Revolution and state formation. . .. Vitz is to be commended for his ability to integrate the ecological, social, and political dimensions of cities and their hinterlands into an engaging narrative." -- Denisa Jashari * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment 1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment 19 2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment 51 II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment 3. Water and Hygiene in the City 81 4. The City and Its Forests 109 5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes 136 6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements 164 7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy 193 Conclusion 218 Notes 235 Bibliography 291 Index 321
£75.65
Duke University Press A City on a Lake Urban Political Ecology and the
Book SynopsisMatthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity, showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline.Trade Review"For Mexicanists, political historians, urban historians, and historians of planning, I suspect, Vitz’s emphasis on the politics of planning and what it reveals about the Porfiriato, the revolution, and the Cárdenas years will be well placed." -- John R. McNeill * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"Matthew Vitz's work is a valuable and enjoyable contribution to a growing literature that takes seriously the way Mexico City's lacustrine past shapes its present." -- C. Lurtz * Choice *"The book will appeal to several audiences. Environmental historians of Latin America will appreciate the new approach through political ecology to an often-discussed region. Because the book outlines Mexican history from the perspective of its national capital in a clear accessible . . . manner, the topic may appeal to historians interested in a comparative approach in urban history. Water historians, meanwhile, will appreciate how the author acknowledges the social, cultural, and political influences that shape water management." -- Rocio Gomez * Canadian Journal of History *"Seldom are the city and hinterland, technocratic elites and popular groups, studied together – in Mexico or elsewhere – so Matthew Vitz’s work is a tremendous contribution to the field of Latin American urban history and the history of urban planning. In the case of A City on a Lake, this integration is accomplished through widespread archival research and a sophisticated analytical lens that links the histories of capitalism, urbanization, and the environment. Historians of Mexico will surely profit from this approach." -- Emilio de Antanuano * Planning Perspectives *"Vitz draws from a rich collection of archival sources to illustrate a metropolis caught between a growing population extracting more and more resources from a still-viable ecosystem and a government increasingly run by technocrats. . . . Given current global concerns about climate change, A City on a Lake is a welcome and valuable addition to environmental histories of Latin America and the world, as well as the history of inequality, which cannot be divorced from ecological perspectives." -- James A. Garza * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A City on a Lake is an innovative and complex study of the social, political, and environmental dynamics of Mexico City’s demographic and spatial expansion from the Porfiriato (1876–1911) through the middle of the twentieth century. . . . A meticulously sourced and theoretically grounded study that will likely be influential across several academic fields." -- Christopher Woolley * The Latin Americanist *"In this deeply researched and nicely detailed book, Vitz makes important contributions to the environmental and especially urban history of Latin America." -- Emily Wakild * Journal of Social History *"[This] book would make for an excellent text to assign to advanced undergraduates. It deserves to find a much wider readership than that, though. This impressive, sophisticated analysis will be of considerable interest to historians and geographers, in particular, and will appeal to scholars interested in the politics." -- Richard Conway * HAHR *"A City on a Lake is a very detailed environmental history which will speak more to Mexicanists and environmental historians. . . . the book is a superb example of urban political ecological analysis which transcends the boundaries of the city to examine the complex interactions between the city and its non-urban hinterlands. In this regard, A City on a Lake can contribute to recent debates on planetary urbanization within urban political ecology." -- Creighton Connolly * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Matthew Vitz’s book, A City on a Lake, is a thoroughly researched and intricately woven history of environmental change in Mexico City from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. . . . Vitz’s argument is articulated through richly described data, which vividly conveys the complexity of urban environmentmaking." -- Alejandro de Coss Corzo * Journal of Latin American Studies *"A major contribution to Mexican political historiography that unpacks the fascinating and complex story of a revolutionary nation whose capital city happens to sit on a lake. ... This remarkable book will likewise fuel debates in the larger field of radical political ecology, precisely be-cause it supports the claim that states matter as much as capital in any theoretical or analytical accounting of urbanization-led environmental change. In masterfully weaving multiple conceptual and disciplinary threads into a single convincing account, this must-read book will force a rethinking of new and old assumptions in a variety of fields. One could not ask for more." -- Diane E. Davis * Environmental History *"This book is a meticulously researched account of the production and reproduction of Mexico City’s 'metropolitan environment' during the long twentieth century, the bulk of which centers on the 1910s through the 1930s. ... Matthew Vitz has written an original, archivally rich analysis that deserves to be read by all those interested in cities past and present." -- J. Brian Freeman * The Americas *"Vitz makes important contributions to histories of the Mexican Revolution and state formation. . .. Vitz is to be commended for his ability to integrate the ecological, social, and political dimensions of cities and their hinterlands into an engaging narrative." -- Denisa Jashari * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment 1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment 19 2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment 51 II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment 3. Water and Hygiene in the City 81 4. The City and Its Forests 109 5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes 136 6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements 164 7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy 193 Conclusion 218 Notes 235 Bibliography 291 Index 321
£21.59
University of Pittsburgh Press Transforming New Orleans Its Environs
Book SynopsisFrom prehistoric midden building to late twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region.
£39.00
University of Pittsburgh Press Weeds
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, Falck examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles.
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Living with Lead An Environmental History of Idahos Coeur DAlenes 18852011 Intersections
Book SynopsisThe Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history.
£42.63
