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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security is a landmark publication which links the complexities of climate change to the wellbeing and resilience of human populations.Trade Review‘This volume provides a useful overview of the debate on climate change and human security.’ -- Benoit Mayer, Climate LawTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Human Security in the Age of Carbon Michael R. Redclift and Marco Grasso PART I: FRAMING THE ISSUE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY 1. Climate Change as an Issue of Human Security Simon Dalby 2. Elements and Value-added of a Human Security Approach in the Study of Climate Change Des Gasper 3. The IPCC, Human Security, and the Climate-conflict Nexus Ragnhild Nordås and Nils Petter Gleditsch 4. Space, Time and Scales of Human Security in Climate Change Richard Matthew PART II: THE DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN SECURITY IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONTEXT 5. The Environmental Determinants of Human Security in the Context of Climate Change David Simon 6. The Social Dimensions of Human Security under a Changing Climate Jürgen Scheffran and Elise Remling 7. Vulnerability Does Not Just Fall from the Sky: Toward Multi-scale Pro-poor Climate Policy Jesse Ribot 8. Disasters and Human Security: Natural Hazards and Political Instability in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Christian Webersik and Christian D. Klose PART III: A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY 9. The Impact of Climate Change on Human Security in Latin America and the Caribbean Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Guy Edwards and J Timmons Roberts 10. Human Security and Climate Change in the Mediterranean Region Marco Grasso and Giuseppe Feola 11. Climate Change and Human Security in the Arctic Mark Nuttall 12. Climate Change and Human Security in Africa Sharath Srinivasan and Elizabeth E. Watson PART IV: RESPONSES TO THE THREATS POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE TO HUMAN SECURITY 13. Climate Change and Human Security: The Individual and Community Response C. Michael Hall 14. Climate Change, Human Security and the Built Environment Karen Bickerstaff and Emma Hinton 15. Climate Change and Human Security: The International Governance Architectures, Policies and Instruments Michael Mason 16. A Human Rights-based Approach from Strengthening Human Security Against Climate Change Steve Vanderheiden Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America’s last urban frontier. The blooming of cities in a fragile desert region poses a host of environmental challenges. This book addresses a pressing question: are large cities ultimately sustainable in such a fragile environment?

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘So many environmental problems stem from seeing humans as distinct from nature. This perceptive book critically interrogates the nature-human divide, encouraging us to move beyond binary thinking as a route to environmental wellbeing. All who wrestle with humanity’s place on Earth and the intellectual foundations of environmentalism will benefit from this careful and clear-eyed book.’ -- Paul Wapner, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rethinking nature relations beyond binaries 2. Classification and dichotomy 3. Deconstructing understandings of nature 4. Nature and use as multi-locality: neither urban nor rural 5. Nature as multi-use: neither productivism nor landscape 6. Nature use as multi-identity: neither leisure nor work 7. Nature and nature use as multi-interest: neither wilderness nor conflict-free 8. Possibilities for understanding and continuing land-use culture 9. Implications for conceptions of management and planning: beyond a private and common property contradiction 10. Conclusion: we were never Western References Index

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Book SynopsisEcosystem Dynamics focuses on long-term terrestrial ecosystems and their changing relationships with human societies.Trade Review“Personal anecdotes enliven the writing and add a human touch; for graduate students, these will serve as important reminders that there is much to learn outside the laboratory.” (Choice, 1 February 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix About the companion website xi 1 Where Are We and How Did We Arrive Here? 1 1.1 Why this book? 1 1.2 Ecosystems in crisis 2 1.3 Relevance of the past 5 1.4 Forecasting the future 7 1.5 Chapter details and logic 9 1.6 For whom is the book intended? 12 1.7 Four key questions and the links to policy 13 2 Modelling 15 2.1 Introduction 15 2.1.1 How did these models develop? 16 2.1.2 Climate data, climate and earth system models 16 2.2 Background ecosystem, vegetation and species models 18 2.2.1 Vegetation models 18 2.2.2 Species-level modelling 25 2.2.3 Equilibrium physiologically-based modelling of species 27 2.2.4 Statistical equilibrium modelling of species 30 2.2.5 Some uncertainties and assumptions that apply generally to bioclimatic models 31 2.2.6 Models of intermediate complexity 32 2.2.7 Biogeochemistry integrated into equilibrium biome models 33 2.2.8 Integrating biome and NPP models 35 2.3 Dynamic modelling 36 2.3.1 Local to landscape scales: forest gap modelling 36 2.3.2 Regional to global scales: dynamic global vegetation modelling 38 2.4 Integrating models 44 2.4.1 Earth system models 44 2.4.2 Integrated assessment models 45 2.4.3 Agent-based models 48 2.5 Further reading 48 3 Data 49 3.1 Introduction 49 3.2 Which data are relevant? 50 3.3 Ecosystem dynamics: direct observation 51 3.3.1 Phenology 51 3.3.2 Biological monitoring 53 3.4 Ecosystem dynamics: indirect measurement or proxy data 56 3.4.1 Historical ecology 57 3.4.2 Palaeoecology 58 3.4.3 Pollen analysis 60 3.4.4 Charcoal and fire scars 63 3.5 Drivers of ecosystem dynamics 67 3.5.1 Palaeoclimates and greenhouse gases 67 3.5.2 Human impact on ecosystem dynamics 69 3.6 Databases 70 3.7 Gaps in available data and approaches 70 4 Climate Change and Millennial Ecosystem Dynamics: A Complex Relationship 73 4.1 Introduction 73 4.2 Reconstructing climate from biological data 74 4.3 The very long records of vegetation dynamics 78 4.4 Holocene records 81 4.5 Modelling of Holocene vegetation dynamics to help understand pollen data 83 4.5.1 Climate or people? The Tilia–Fagus transition in Draved Forest, Denmark 86 4.5.2 Climate or migration biology? The late-Holocene spread of Picea into southern Fennoscandia 87 4.5.3 Fagus in Europe 91 4.6 Simulating Fennoscandian Holocene forest dynamics 94 4.6.1 Holocene dynamics of the Sahara 98 4.7 Climate and megafaunal extinction 101 4.7.1 Recent range shifts 103 4.8 So how important is climate change for future millennial ecosystem dynamics? 103 5 The Role of Episodic Events in Millennial Ecosystem Dynamics: Where the Wild Strawberries Grow 109 5.1 Introduction 109 5.2 Fire 115 5.2.1 Past to present fire 116 5.2.2 Present to future fire 121 5.2.3 Modelling fire 121 5.2.4 Modelling ignition 122 5.2.5 Modelling fire spread 124 5.2.6 Data–model comparison 128 5.3 Forest pathogens during the Holocene 131 5.4 Hurricanes and wind damage 135 5.5 Conclusion 139 6 The Impact of Past and Future Human Exploitation on Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics 141 6.1 Introduction 141 6.2 Denmark: case study of human impact during the Holocene 146 6.3 Islands: sensitive indicators of human impact 152 6.4 Human influence on Mediterranean, temperate and boreal forests 157 6.5 The tropics 163 6.6 Spatial upscaling of the timing and ecosystem consequences of human impact 164 7 Millennial Ecosystem Dynamics and Their Relationship to Ecosystem Services: Past and Future 173 7.1 Introduction 173 7.2 MEA classification 176 7.2.1 Provisioning services 176 7.2.2 Regulating services 177 7.2.3 Cultural services 177 7.2.4 Supporting services 177 7.3 The current crisis in ecosystem services 179 7.3.1 How did we get here? A palaeo perspective 181 7.3.2 Provisioning services in the past 182 7.3.3 Regulating services in the past 185 7.3.4 Cultural services in the past 189 7.3.5 Supporting services in the past 190 7.4 Ecosystem services and the future 193 7.5 Relating the maintenance of biodiversity to ecosystem service provision 197 7.6 Scenarios of possible futures: some different approaches 197 7.6.1 IPCC Special report on emission scenarios 199 7.6.2 MEA scenarios 201 7.6.3 ALARM scenarios 203 7.7 So what do scenarios say about the possible futures for ecosystem services? 204 7.7.1 MEA scenarios 204 7.7.2 SRES scenarios 205 7.7.3 ALARM scenarios 207 8 Cultural Ecosystem Services 211 8.1 Introduction 211 8.2 Sacred sites and species 212 8.2.1 Some examples from around the globe 214 8.3 Cultural landscapes: biodiverse relicts of former land use systems 219 8.4 Hunting as a cultural ecosystem service 221 9 Conservation 225 9.1 Conservation as we know it 225 9.2 Knowledge of the past: relevance for conservation 228 9.2.1 Fire history, conservation and ecosystem restoration 229 9.2.2 Ecosystem restoration 234 9.2.3 The wood pasture debate 235 9.2.4 Reference states or baselines? 237 9.3 Conservation in practice: protected areas (Natura 2000) 242 9.4 Conservation and alien or invasive species 244 9.4.1 Alien species, climate change and conservation 248 9.5 Global change, biodiversity and conservation in the future 253 9.5.1 The Convention on biological diversity 254 9.5.2 Atlas of biodiversity risk 255 9.6 Conclusion 257 10 Where Are We Headed? 259 10.1 Introduction 259 10.2 Emergent themes and important underlying concepts 262 10.2.1 How have ecosystems changed in the past? 262 10.2.2 How much of this change is attributable to human activities? 263 10.2.3 How much change is anticipated for the future? 264 10.2.4 What are the appropriate ecosystem management measures by which to prepare for the future? 265 References 271 Glossary 297 Index 311

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment. Provides the historical perspective that is typically missing from recent work in environmental anthropology Includes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume's editors Offers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations Divided into five thematic sections: (1) the nature/culture divide; (2) relationship between environment and social organization; (3) methodological debates and innovations; (4) politics and practice; and (5) epistemological issues of environmental anthropology Organized into a series of paired papers, which speak' to each other, designed to encourage readers to make connections that they might not customarily make Trade Review“Environmental Anthropology is a rich addition to Blackwell’s successful series of Anthologies in social and cultural anthropology. It intends to give historical and theoretical depth to the largely crisis-driven work in this burgeoning sub-field of anthropology. The eight-five page introduction and bibliography map out a cyclical development of a branch of anthropology which seems ever more relevant, given contemporary concerns about environmental degradation, climate change, peak oil, and resource-related conflict. The editors, Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter, are well positioned to present these extremely wide-ranging selections of works defined by their timeless relevance. Dove and Carpenter have done a formidable job in providing what is likely to become a key textbook in specialized courses on environmental anthropology and a rich reference for anybody interested in the multifarious ways in which humans have lived and shaped their worlds.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December 2009) “This reader provides an excellent sampling of classic anthropological writings on human ecology and environments. A truly comprehensive survey of the field and a range of genuine classics … articles that deserve their wide reputation. In comparison with other readers on this general topic, the present one focuses on truly influential, widely cited works and is more balanced and comprehensive. Very highly recommended for courses in environmental or ecological anthropology, conservation biology, and human ecology. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice, November 2008) "Anthropology has a long and rich history of efforts to make sense of human societies in relation to their natural environments, and this edited collection, by Michael Dove and Carol Carpenter of Yale University, is an important contribution to that history. I strongly recommend the book to environmental scientists and conservation practitioners as a source of ideas about the human dimension of the things they care about." (Environment Conservation, 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Editors' Biographical Information. Preface. Acknowledgments. Text Credits. Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental Anthropology: Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter. Part I: The Nature-Culture Dichotomy:. Questioning the Nature-Culture Dichotomy: From Posey’s Indigenous Knowledge to Fairhead and Leach’s Politics of Knowledge. 1. Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: Darrell Posey. 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives: James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. How Cattle Problematize the Nature-Culture Divide: From Evans-Pritchard’s “Cattle Complex” to Harris’ 'Sacred Cows' and Beyond. 3. Interest in Cattle: E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 4. The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle: Marvin Harris. Part II: Ecology And Social Organization:. Early Essays on Social Organization and Ecology: Mauss and Steward. 5. Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology: Marcel Mauss. 6. The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration: Julian H. Steward. Beyond Steward: 'Ecosystems with Human Beings in Them' in Barth and Geertz. 7. Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan: Fredrik Barth. 8. The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco: Clifford Geertz. “Natural” Disasters and Social Order: Response and Revelation in Firth and Waddell. 9. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and Their Economic Effects: Raymond Firth. 10. How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea: Eric Waddell. Part III: Methodological Challenges And Debates:. Ethnoecology and the Defense of Swidden Agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro. 11. An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture: Harold Conklin. 12. Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at Its Implications for Settlement Patterns: Robert L. Carneiro. Natural Science Models of Resource-Use: From Rappaport’s Cybernetics to the Optimal Foraging of Hawkes, Hill, and O’Connell. 13. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People: Roy A. Rappaport. 14. Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay: Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill and James F. O’Connell. The Bounded and Balanced Community: Solway and Lee, and Netting. 15. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History: Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee. 16. Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem: Robert McC. Netting. Part IV: The Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment:. Indigeneity and Natural Resource Politics: Ellen and Li. 17. Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram: Roy Ellen. 18. Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot: Tania M. Li. Environmental Campaigns and Collaborations: Brosius and Tsing. 19. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest: J. Peter Brosius. 20. Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies: Anna L. Tsing. Part V: Knowing the Environment:. Social Identity and Perception of the Landscape: Frake and Bloch. 21. People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity: Maurice Bloch. 22. Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia: Charles O. Frake. The Limits of Knowledge and Its Implications for Understanding Environmental Relations: Bateson and Ingold. 23. Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation: Gregory Bateson. 24. Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism: Tim Ingold. Index of Subjects. Index of Names

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Book SynopsisLife''s Work is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions. New and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. Investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity. Focuses on both theoretical and practical issues. Includes case studies on migration, education and domesticity. Trade Review"A fascinating journey through the tangled power relations and layered geographies of social reproduction. The essays are creative, diverse, and internationally thought-provoking." Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "An inspired, highly readable, and vitally significant collection of papers. In attempting to pull apart and examine "the multiple relations, spaces, practices and possibilities of life's work," it moves considerably beyond the achievements of those who have previously wed feminist, Marxist and postructural theories to address issues of social reproduction." Allan Pred, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley "A stimulating collection infused with feminist scholarship from the domestic labour debate to embodiment and gendered subjectivities. The collection powerfully documents the changing connections between employment and all those other forms of work that make up the total social organisation of labor. Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the diversity of ways of living and making a living in a globalized world." Linda McDowell, Professor of Geography, University College London "With great clarity and a fascinating range of examples, this collection promises to shift our understanding of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and class in late capitalism." Caren Kaplan, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UC Berkeley "Some of the chapters are fascinating ... What sets this book apart from others that have wrestled with the production/reproduction boundary is its distinctly multi- and transnational flavour. In the contemporary world social reproduction can be just as 'global' as production has become, and the chapters in Life's Work provide many absorbing and welcome examples." Progress in Human Geography "A wide ranging, hyper(post)modern collection of essays in social and cultural geography...It trips nicely from pen to page" Network “The book’s authors extend the social reproduction debates in Marxist, feminist, and development studies by advocating the conceptual importance of economic-social-political complexity, subjectivity, and empirical analysis. The introductory chapter is well-written and would serve as a useful and comprehensible piece for both upper level undergraduate and graduate courses.” Annals of the Association of American GeographersTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Life’s Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique. Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Cindi Katz. Part I: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject. 1. Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks: John Morgan. 2. Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes. Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe. 3. Producing the Future: Getting To Be British. Jean Lave. Part II: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity. 1. Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms. Maria Fannin. 2. Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces. Melissa Hyams. 3. Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics. Rosemary Marangoly George. Part III: Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation. 1. Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia. Geraldine Pratt. 2. Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor. Altha J Cravey. 3. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Alison Mountz. Index.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment.Trade Review“Environmental Anthropology is a rich addition to Blackwell’s successful series of Anthologies in social and cultural anthropology. It intends to give historical and theoretical depth to the largely crisis-driven work in this burgeoning sub-field of anthropology. The eight-five page introduction and bibliography map out a cyclical development of a branch of anthropology which seems ever more relevant, given contemporary concerns about environmental degradation, climate change, peak oil, and resource-related conflict. The editors, Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter, are well positioned to present these extremely wide-ranging selections of works defined by their timeless relevance. Dove and Carpenter have done a formidable job in providing what is likely to become a key textbook in specialized courses on environmental anthropology and a rich reference for anybody interested in the multifarious ways in which humans have lived and shaped their worlds.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December 2009) “This reader provides an excellent sampling of classic anthropological writings on human ecology and environments. A truly comprehensive survey of the field and a range of genuine classics … articles that deserve their wide reputation. In comparison with other readers on this general topic, the present one focuses on truly influential, widely cited works and is more balanced and comprehensive. Very highly recommended for courses in environmental or ecological anthropology, conservation biology, and human ecology. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice, November 2008) "Anthropology has a long and rich history of efforts to make sense of human societies in relation to their natural environments, and this edited collection, by Michael Dove and Carol Carpenter of Yale University, is an important contribution to that history. I strongly recommend the book to environmental scientists and conservation practitioners as a source of ideas about the human dimension of the things they care about." (Environment Conservation, 2008)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Editors' Biographical Information. Preface. Acknowledgments. Text Credits. Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental Anthropology: Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter. Part I: The Nature-Culture Dichotomy:. Questioning the Nature-Culture Dichotomy: From Posey’s Indigenous Knowledge to Fairhead and Leach’s Politics of Knowledge. 1. Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: Darrell Posey. 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives: James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. How Cattle Problematize the Nature-Culture Divide: From Evans-Pritchard’s “Cattle Complex” to Harris’ 'Sacred Cows' and Beyond. 3. Interest in Cattle: E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 4. The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle: Marvin Harris. Part II: Ecology And Social Organization:. Early Essays on Social Organization and Ecology: Mauss and Steward. 5. Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology: Marcel Mauss. 6. The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration: Julian H. Steward. Beyond Steward: 'Ecosystems with Human Beings in Them' in Barth and Geertz. 7. Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan: Fredrik Barth. 8. The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco: Clifford Geertz. “Natural” Disasters and Social Order: Response and Revelation in Firth and Waddell. 9. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and Their Economic Effects: Raymond Firth. 10. How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea: Eric Waddell. Part III: Methodological Challenges And Debates:. Ethnoecology and the Defense of Swidden Agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro. 11. An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture: Harold Conklin. 12. Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at Its Implications for Settlement Patterns: Robert L. Carneiro. Natural Science Models of Resource-Use: From Rappaport’s Cybernetics to the Optimal Foraging of Hawkes, Hill, and O’Connell. 13. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People: Roy A. Rappaport. 14. Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay: Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill and James F. O’Connell. The Bounded and Balanced Community: Solway and Lee, and Netting. 15. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History: Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee. 16. Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem: Robert McC. Netting. Part IV: The Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment:. Indigeneity and Natural Resource Politics: Ellen and Li. 17. Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram: Roy Ellen. 18. Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot: Tania M. Li. Environmental Campaigns and Collaborations: Brosius and Tsing. 19. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest: J. Peter Brosius. 20. Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies: Anna L. Tsing. Part V: Knowing the Environment:. Social Identity and Perception of the Landscape: Frake and Bloch. 21. People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity: Maurice Bloch. 22. Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia: Charles O. Frake. The Limits of Knowledge and Its Implications for Understanding Environmental Relations: Bateson and Ingold. 23. Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation: Gregory Bateson. 24. Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism: Tim Ingold. Index of Subjects. Index of Names

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Book SynopsisEnvironment and Society: A Critical Introduction is an overview of the diverse conceptual tools and traditions for thinking about, explaining and addressing the environmental challenges we face in the contemporary world. Provides an introduction to the environmental challenges we face in the contemporary world through foundational theoretical ideas illustrated with concrete, everyday examples Utilizes compelling, conversational language to expound on theory, history, and scientific topics, making the text accessible to a diverse readership Draws upon contemporary theoretical understandings in nature/society theory while demonstrating through practice and deployment Includes discussion of key historical events, topical issues, and policies, as well as scientific concepts Trade Review"Combining theory and case material, this title provides an accessible insight into one of the most important issues of our time." (The Environmentalist, May 2010)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Text Boxes. Acknowledgments. 1 Introduction: The View from Clifton Bridge. What Is This Book? Part I Approaches and Perspectives. 2 Population and Scarcity. A Crowded Desert City. The Problem of "Geometric" Growth. Population, Development, and Environment Impact. The Other Side of the Coin: Population and Innovation. Limits to Population: An Effect Rather than a Cause? Thinking with Population. 3 Markets and Commodities. The Bet. Managing Environmental Bads: The Coase Theorem. Market Failure. Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Problems. Beyond Market Failure: Gaps between Nature and Economy. Thinking with Markets. 4 Institutions and "The Commons". Controlling Carbon? The Prisoner's Dilemma. The Tragedy of the Commons. The Evidence and Logic of Collective Action. Crafting Sustainable Environmental Institutions. Are All Commoners Equal? Does Scale Matter? Thinking with Institutions. 5 Environmental Ethics. The Price of Cheap Meat. Improving Nature: From Biblical Tradition to John Locke. Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir in Yosemite, California. Aldo Leopold and "The Land Ethic". Liberation for Animals! Holism, Scientism, and Pragmatism? Oh My! Thinking with Ethics. 6 Risks and Hazards. The Great Flood of 1993. Environments as Hazard. The Problem of Risk Perception. Risk as Culture. Beyond Risk: The Political Economy of Hazards. Thinking with Hazards and Risk. 7 Political Economy. The Strange Logic of "Under-pollution". Labor, Accumulation, and Crisis. Production of Nature. Global Capitalism and the Ecology of Uneven Development. Social Reproduction and Nature. Environments and Economism. Thinking with Political Economy. 8 Social Construction of Nature. Welcome to the Jungle. So You Say It’s "Natural"? Environmental Discourse. The Limits of Constructivism: Science, Relativism, and the Very Material World. Thinking with Construction. Part II Objects of Concern. 9 Carbon Dioxide. Stuck in Pittsburgh Traffic. A Short History of CO2. Institutions: Climate Free-Riders and Carbon Cooperation. Markets: Trading More Gases, Buying Less Carbon. Political Economy: Who Killed the Atmosphere? The Carbon Puzzle. 10 Trees. Chained to a Tree in Berkeley California. A Short History of Trees. Population and Markets: The Forest Transition Theory. Political Economy: Accumulation and Deforestation. Ethics, Justice, and Equity: Should Trees Have Standing? The Tree Puzzle. 11 Wolves. January 12, 1995, Yellowstone National Park. A Short History of Wolves. Ethics: Rewilding the Northeast. Institutions: Stakeholder Management. Social Construction: Of Wolves and Men Masculinity. The Wolf Puzzle. 12 Tuna. Blood Tuna. A Short History of Tuna. Markets and Commodities: Eco-Labels to the Rescue?. Political Economy: Re-regulating Fishery Economies. Ethics and Ecocentrism: The Social Construction of Charismatic Species. The Tuna Puzzle. 13 Bottled Water. A Tale of Two Bottles. A Short History of Bottled Water. Population: Bottling for Scarcity? Risk: Health and Safety in a Bottle? Political Economy: Manufacturing Demand on an Enclosed Commons. The Bottled Water Puzzle. 14 French Fries. MMM-MMM Good. A Short History of the Fry. Risk Analysis: Eating What We Choose and Choosing What We Eat. Political Economy: Eat Fries or Else! Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage? The French Fry Puzzle. Glossary. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn August 2003, one of the largest wildfires in Canadian history struck near Kelowna, British Columbia and the surrounding Okanagan Valley, causing  unprecedented  damage. As Shelley Pacholok observes in this innovative study, the turbulence and extreme conditions that followed in the wake of this disaster destabilized an important  area of social life – that of gender relations.Into the Fire combines insights from gender studies and disaster studies to explore the extent to which notions of “masculinity” and “femininity” are challenged in the wake of crises. Pacholok focuses on how gender relations were simultaneously sustained and disrupted   among those who fought the fire,  drawing on media representations as well as interviews with firefighters . Into the Fire illuminates how disasters can serve as catalysts for new patterns of gender, even in highly masculine spaces.Trade Review'Pacholok's analysis of how a high stakes natural disaster can spark uneven change in gender relations at work is novel, insightful, and thorough... This book will be a valuable and engaging resource for scholars of gender, work, and the environment alike.' -- Sarah Th baud American Journal of Sociology, vol 119:06:2014Table of ContentsContents Illustrations Tables Preface Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 GENDER, DISASTER, AND THE MOUNTAIN PARK FIRE: A METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ROAD MAP Chapter 3 'FIREFIGHTING IS A MAN'S GAME': ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES AND PRACTICES Chapter 4 'WE FELT LIKE WE LOST': EXPLAINING FAILURE AND RESCUING MASCULINITY Chapter 5 NAVIGATING HIERARCHY AND CONTESTING MASCULINITIES Chapter 6 WORKING WITH THE OTHER: RESISTANCE, ACCOMMODATION, AND REPRODUCTION Chapter 7 CONCLUSION Appendix DILEMMAS, TENSIONS, AND CONTRADICTIONS IN FEMINIST INSPIRED RESEARCH

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Book SynopsisA systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.Trade Review"Provides another cogent argument for considering social justice and environmental sustainability as aspects of an integrated system." - Journal of Social Policy"A concise and practical read that handily summarizes key arguments and debates that any green criminologist or environmental harm researcher should be aware of." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books blog"Rob White provides a magisterial overview of the promise and the performance of recent green writing about environmental, ecological and species justice. His insight is keen and genuine, his commentary on difficult and troubling issues always fair-minded." Professor Piers Beirne, University of Southern Maine"Rob White has been at the forefront of green criminology, developing frameworks of analysis for understanding ecological degradation. In this book, he blazes an important new trail, establishing a moral basis for action." Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Justice-based approaches to environmental harm; Environmental justice and harm to humans; Conservation, ecological justice and harm to nature; Species justice and harm to animals; Toward eco-justice for all

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Book SynopsisA systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.Trade Review"Provides another cogent argument for considering social justice and environmental sustainability as aspects of an integrated system." - Journal of Social Policy"A concise and practical read that handily summarizes key arguments and debates that any green criminologist or environmental harm researcher should be aware of." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books blog"Rob White provides a magisterial overview of the promise and the performance of recent green writing about environmental, ecological and species justice. His insight is keen and genuine, his commentary on difficult and troubling issues always fair-minded." Professor Piers Beirne, University of Southern Maine"Rob White has been at the forefront of green criminology, developing frameworks of analysis for understanding ecological degradation. In this book, he blazes an important new trail, establishing a moral basis for action." Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Justice-based approaches to environmental harm; Environmental justice and harm to humans; Conservation, ecological justice and harm to nature; Species justice and harm to animals; Toward eco-justice for all

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Policy and Sustainable Development uses Hong Kong to explore environmental economic and social development in China, providing concepts of sustainability, contexts for environmental policymaking, and key challenges in sustainable development.Trade Review"This is an invaluable text for students of sustainable development policies in China and Hong Kong. Offering detailed studies on a range of issues, Harris provides an extremely useful resource for students and researchers alike. " Gabriela Kütting, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey"From the fascinating case of Hong Kong, Paul Harris offers an engaging examination of the prospects of and challenges for sustainable development where it is least expected and most needed." Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado at Boulder"Rich communities still struggle between development and environment - Hong Kong's story provides an example of how Chinese cities may evolve. Professor Harris gives us a thorough analysis of the challenge of achieving sustainability." Christine Loh, Undersecretary for the Environment, Hong Kong"Internationally renowned for his expertise in China and sustainable development, Paul Harris has written another marvellous book. The gap between the promise and practice of sustainable development in Hong Kong is growing - but so is the potential. Harris argues powerfully that the talents and resources available to Hong Kong could put it in the first rank of sustainable cities, and that this is vital not only for Hong Kong and China but for the world as a whole. Environmental policy and sustainable development in China is written primarily for undergraduate students, but its relevance ranges far and wide. Not to be missed." Andrew Dobson, University of KeeleTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Conceptions of sustainable development: Conceptualising sustainable development; Origins and critiques of sustainable development; Implementing sustainable development; Part Two: Contexts for sustainable development in China's world city: Geography and population; History and development; Government institutions and policy priorities; Consumption and a city's environmental footprint; Part Three: Challenges of sustainable development: Air; Water; Energy and climate change; Transportation; Environmental spaces; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis optimistic and accessible book contributes to our understanding of the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes by assessing the extent of, and reasons for, environmental justice/injustice in seven diverse countries.Trade Review"The range of this book is both breathtaking and unique. Karen Bell analyses data from seven very different countries, and points an unerring finger at capitalism as the principal cause of environmental injustice. If ever there was a fundamental point of reference, this is it." Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, UK"A revealing snapshot of current local and global environmental justice issues in a variety of countries, a valuable contribution to what Gordon Walker called the “international travelling of the environmental justice frame." LSE Review of Books blog“Achieving Environmental Justice is an important read for anyone wishing to develop a more critical analysis of the anti-ecological logic of global capitalism and the need for EJ movements around the world to embrace a politics of substantive environmental justice.” Dr. Daniel Faber, Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, Northeastern University, US“From Bolivia to the US, Karen Bell provides an impressive tour de force of the struggles of environmental justice movements.” Professor Peter Newell, Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: fighting for humanity; The concept and measurement of environmental justice; The causes of environmental injustice; 'Killing yourself is no way to make a living': environmental justice in the United States; 'The world has been deceived': environmental justice in the Republic of Korea (South Korea); 'Regulation means bad': environmental justice in the United Kingdom; 'We have always been close to nature': environmental justice in Sweden; 'The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollution': environmental justice in the People’s Republic of China; 'Recuperating all that we have lost and forgotten': environmental justice in the Plurinational State of Bolivia; 'Socialism creates a better opportunity': environmental justice in Cuba; Achieving environmental justice.

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Book SynopsisWhy we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others. With an updated Afterword, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to hide their wealth, create indebtedness and expand their political influence.Trade Review"The value of Sayer's account lies in his readable and persuasive attack on the idea that the very richest have accumulated their wealth fairly and deserve to be allowed to accumulate more." The London School of Economics and Political Science"massive admiration for the delightful eloquence of the author, who guides readers carefully and enlighteningly through political-economic terms, concepts and theories that can often be, in the hands of other writers, opaque and/or dangerously misleading" Soundings"[This book's] brilliant dissection of where the rich get their wealth from, and how they seek to justify it, ought to be required reading for anyone seeking to understand what is wrong with our problem-filled world." Noel Castree, Progress in Human Geography"Sayer shows compellingly...just how much tolerating grand accumulations of private wealth is costing us." Too Much."A timely and insightful guide to how the rich managed top shape a language and political agenda that suited their purposes just perfectly." Tax Justice Focus"This is a powerful book deserving a wide readership." People, Place and Policy"Why We Can't Afford the Rich presents a nuanced, well-formed vision, which speaks from the perspective of a moral economy." Marx & Philosophy Review of Books."In his book, [Sayer] reveals the crippling and unfair means by which the 1% manage to personally gain wealth that's been created by others' labor." Jewish Currents"Packed with useful information and insights, this is a useful complement to Thomas Pikkety’s Capital in the Twenty First Century, and makes a serious challenge to the many claims propagated by rich people and their minions." Tax Justice Network"This is a quietly angry book, full of facts and figures that show the rich to be a major cause of the inequality that Wilkinson and Pickett revealed in their book The Spirit Level and of the injustice that Danny Dorling described in his book Injustice." Citizen's Income Trust"This timely and important book exposes the pernicious influence of the super rich on our economic and social fabric. It underlines the need for radical action to redistribute wealth, rebalance our economy and tackle inequality. A must read for politicians and policymakers alike" Frances O'Grady, TUC General Secretary"Sayer's penetrating analysis of asset-based unearned income is a powerful case for socialism, supporting as he does land nationalisation and the creation of banks with the remit to lend for productive investment in ethical and environmentally sustainable business." Morning Star"Sayer does an impressive job of bringing home to the reader the scale of the threat capitalism now poses to humanity. As an introduction to critical political economy, the book is one of the best available." Counterfire?"A refreshing antidote to a public discourse that has allowed the perpetrators of the financial crisis to make massive gains, while the full burden of costs falls on those innocent of its causes. A must-read for all those who want to reverse that injustice and a wake-up call for the rich." Ann Pettifor, Director, Prime: Policy research in macroeconomics"Sayer puts forth a cogent and thoroughly convincing argument that will enlighten and inform—and may even help instigate the radical changes he puts forth." Publishers Weekly"Sayer proceeds with arguments that are internally coherent and does not invent economic mechanisms in the way that populists often do, never forgetting that cake-making must come before cake distribution." The Times Literary Supplement"Adds to the growing body of work that challenges mainstream economic thinking and traditional self-justifications for inequality." New Left Project“Unmatched in persuasive argument and compelling illustrations, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich and the super-rich are destroying not just the economy but the planet too. Everyone should read Why we can’t afford the rich and spread the word.” Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley"?Cuts through the hype so often used to defend growing inequality and gets to the core of the problem, with suggestions about where solutions may come from." Danny Dorling, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: A Guide to Wealth Extraction; Slippery Terms and Vital Distinctions; For rent . . . for what?; Interest . . . for what? or We need to talk about usury; Profit from production: or capitalists and rentiers: what’s the difference?; Other ways to skin a cat; Don’t the Rich Create Jobs? – and other objections; Part II: Putting the Rich in Context: What Determines What People Get?; To what do we owe our wealth?: Our dependence on the commons; So what determines pay?; The myth of the level playing field; Part III: How the Rich Got Richer: Their Part in the Crisis; The roots of the crisis; Key winners; Summing up: the crisis and the return of the rentiers; Part IV: Rule by the Rich, for the Rich; Silent power, pol donations lattice of influence; Hiding it; Illegal? + poachers; What about philanthropy?; Plutonomy; Part V: Ill-gotten and Ill-spent: From Consumption to Ill-Being and CO2; Spending it; Global warming trumps everything; Conclusion: back to basics – what kind of economy do we need?.

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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.Trade Review"A tour de force that opens up an entirely new terrain of scholarly research on urban Africa this book fills a variety of huge gaps in the existing literature" Martin Murray University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Experts: The ‘State’ of Urban Environments in Africa; The Past: The Urban Biogeography of (Post)Colonialism; The Artists: Using African Literature to Read Urban Environments; The Cityscape: Place-Names, Culture and Spirits; From the Grass Roots: Popular Understandings of Urban Environmental Issues in Africa; Conclusion: Re-Reading Urban Environments.

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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.Trade Review"A tour de force that opens up an entirely new terrain of scholarly research on urban Africa this book fills a variety of huge gaps in the existing literature" Martin Murray University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Experts: The ‘State’ of Urban Environments in Africa; The Past: The Urban Biogeography of (Post)Colonialism; The Artists: Using African Literature to Read Urban Environments; The Cityscape: Place-Names, Culture and Spirits; From the Grass Roots: Popular Understandings of Urban Environmental Issues in Africa; Conclusion: Re-Reading Urban Environments.

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Book SynopsisA forerunner of Charles Bowden's acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.Trade Review"Where most ecologically minded writers draw a clean line in the sand between man and nature, Bowden stomps all over the sanctimonious boundary, in the process merging history and natural history into a spooky and seamless narrative." * Esquire *"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds . . . and the romantic faddishness of environmentalists. Bowden is an observant reporter, but the primitive strength of Desierto derives from his compulsive hunger . . . to examine and experience the underside of border life. . . . Fansof Castaneda and Traven will find much to like here." * Los Angeles Times *"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican border with saints and sinners, but his enduring hero is the desert itself. The seven essays are a poignant blend of history, science, legend and lore, naturalism, investigative journalism, portrait painting, and independent thinking. . . . Thought-provoking and moving." * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.Trade ReviewHillis brings encyclopedic scientific knowledge to the task of explaining the Hill Country’s 'natural wealth.' He doesn’t allow scientific jargon or Latin taxonomy to muddy his prose, however. Using plain, understandable language, he paints accessible portraits of the land he’s spent a lifetime walking and exploring...He dissects the region with both practiced ease and great authority, tapping his wisdom as a scientist, as a scholar and as a lover of nature. Reading the book feels much like perusing a personal journal that captures a lifetime of experiences...Armadillos to Ziziphus is one of those books that can be read in one sitting or used as a go-to compendium, whereby the reader looks up something sparked by a curious moment. * San Antonio Report *[A] charming new primer on the region's environment. * Austin Monthly *This book is intensely delightful...Hillis writes short, entertaining essays on nature...Hillis writes in a fluid, open, sometimes awed manner, primed for enjoyment by the reasonably curious reader. * Austin American-Statesman *One of the most practical and pleasing new Texas books of 2023. . . I will read these incandescent essays . . . again and again. * Austin American-Statesman *[Hillis]'s decades of personal and professional experience in the region are evident in the text . . . [Armadillos to Ziziphus] will be of great interest to naturalists and scholars as well as general readers interested in developing their ecological knowledge of this region, and could serve as an informative prerequisite for environmental tours or individual outdoor enthusiasts planning a visit to the area. * Choice *[Armadillos to Ziziphus] lovingly catalogs the region’s environmental components, making seemingly familiar features new. More important, Hillis offers practicable pathways toward not only safeguarding the region’s endangered environments but also repairing and rejuvenating them...The succinct essays are packed with information, and Hillis’s writing style balances scientific precision with conversational ease. It is a wonderful addition not only to the environmental writing on Texas but also to environmentalist activism in Texas. * H-Net Reviews *I go back to these elegant, accessible essays again and again. There's just something so appealing about an accomplished scientist such as David M. Hillis, who can speak and write in way that's open to just about everybody, including the neighbors of his ranch in Mason County. Chief of the Biodiversity Center at the University of Texas, he explains the interplay of the elements in transparent prose in Armadillos to Ziziphus: A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country (University of Texas Press). If I owned a Hill Country cabin, this book would be waiting to delight and inform every guest. -- Michael Barnes * Austin-American Statesman *Table of Contents Foreword by Harry W. Greene Preface I. The Texas Hill Country: A Naturalist’s Paradise 1. Geological Setting of the Edwards Plateau 2. From Acid Sands to Alkaline Clays 3. Hill Country Weather: Droughts, Floods, and Severe Storms 4. Some Texas Icons Haven’t Been Here All That Long 5. Hill Country Endemics 6. What Is the Value of Biodiversity? II. The Seasonal Life of a Vernal Pool 7. Tilting at Tiny Windmills 8. Crustacean Wonders 9. The Fascinating Flora of Vernal Pools 10. Those Who Live in Glass Houses 11. A Season of Symphonies 12. What Happened to All Our Frogs? III. Flowing Waters: Aquifers, Caves, Springs, and Rivers 13. Life without Light 14. Lanterns of Summer 15. Musings about Mussels 16. The Last Wild River IV. Life of a Grassland 17. Why Do Some Grasses Grow in the Winter, but Others in the Summer? 18. Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and Other Pollinators 19. The Noble Life of a Dung-Roller 20. Where Have All the Quail Gone? 21. Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Plagues 22. The History of Texas Cattle Written in Their DNA V. In the Woodlands and Brushlands 23. Containing and Preventing Oak Wilt 24. The Challenges of Being an Oak Tree in the Hill Country 25. How Do Trees Sense When It Is Time to Leaf Out and Bloom? 26. The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Trees 27. Spring Is Here, and So Are the Snakes 28. Songs of the Summer Dog Days 29. Going Batty 30. Deer Densities on the Edwards Plateau 31. Bucks in Velvet 32. The Future of Hill Country Deer Populations 33. The Carbon Cycle and How It Affects Our Daily Lives VI. Backyard Biology 34. The Remarkable Life of Hummingbirds 35. Ways to Attract and Increase Bird Populations 36. The Unexpected Beauty and Diversity of Lichens 37. There Is More to Mistletoe than Kissing 38. The Ups and Downs of Ants 39. A Pattern in the Web 40. Caterpillar Plagues and Their Connection to the Weather 41. Predators and Second Chances VII. Climatic Adaptations 42. Toadally Cool 43. The Surprising Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly 44. How Do Animals Survive the Winter? Part 1: Migrating 45. How Do Animals Survive the Winter? Part 2: Keeping Warm and Active 46. How Do Animals (and Plants) Survive the Winter? Part 3: Waiting Out the Cold VIII. Restoration and the Future of the Hill Country’s Natural Resources 47. The Restoration and Benefits of Native Grasses 48. The Pros and Cons of Brush Control 49. Recovery of a Texas Icon: The Texas Horned Lizard 50. Avoiding the Dangers of Lead Poisoning in Game Meat 51. Our Climate Future in Central Texas 52. If the Earth Is Warming, Why Did We Just Have a Record Cold Snap? 53. Practical, Painless, and Significant Solutions to Climate Change 54. Six Resolutions for Supporting Native Plants and Animals Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the environment in society, such as: social mobilization on behalf of environmental objectives; the relationships between human population, economic growth and stresses on the planet's natural resources; debates about the relative effects of collective and individual action; and unequal distribution of the social costs of environmental degradation. Organized around key themes, with each section featuring questions for debate and suggestions for further reading, the book introduces students to the history of environmental studies, and demonstrates how the field's interdisciplinary approach uniqueTrade ReviewThis book is both well-organized and nicely abridged for use in undergraduate courses this textbook fulfills the major criteria for teaching undergraduates: it is accessible, affordable, and informative. I highly recommend its integration into environmental history courses. * Western Historical Quarterly *Environment and Societylives up to its ambitious aims. Providing essential readings in environmental studies, this book serves as an excellent introduction to the enduring questions and most important emerging ideas in the field today. -- Kimberly Smith,Professor of Environmental Studies, Carleton CollegeEnvironment and Societyprovides a thoughtful and diverse selection of key readings in environmental studies, including pieces from some of the best known thinkers along with some well chosen works that don't appear in other readers. This is a valuable book for teachers, students, and anyone interested in environmental thought. -- Richard York,co-author of The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

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Book SynopsisPublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the timTrade Review"In the best tradition of environmental history, Kohout's graceful prose brings these far-flung places to life and invites readers to share an encounter with landscapes, labs, and libraries where material traces of the imperial past persist. Chapters from Taking the Field would work well as readings for undergraduate classes on US environmental history and the nineteenth-century US. Kohout's emphasis on methodology and sources also make this engaging book an ideal assignment for graduate seminars."—John Mayer Crum, H-Environment“Amy Kohout’s fascinating book examines soldiers as naturalists, the U.S. empire at home and abroad, and nature at the heart of expansionism. Her writing is both deeply moving and persuasive. Taking the Field is a thoroughly original study of the West and the nation.”—David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush“Deeply researched and beautifully written, Taking the Field helps readers think about environment, science, labor, and the U.S. military in new ways. With Amy Kohout as our guide, we see American soldiers at work on the frontiers of empire, both in the U.S. West and the Philippines, turning landscape and nation into a new form of American power. Taking the Field is a marvelous success.”—Christopher Capozzola, author of Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century“An eye-opening new narrative exploring how the American drive for empire was bound up with a quest to control and preserve nature. . . . Through innovative and affective writing, Kohout takes us vividly into the field—where the building and breaking of both empire and nature took place. In her hands, taxidermied birds collected by soldiers for American museums of natural history take flight again, allowing us to see the vast expanses of American empire with new insight and better appreciate its manifold impacts.”—Douglas Cazaux Sackman, author of Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Preparation 1. The Nature of Frontier Army Work 2. Collecting the West Interlude 1: Revising and Remembering 3. The Nature of the Philippine Frontier 4. Collecting the Philippines Interlude 2: Looking for Arrowhead Lake 5. The Frontier in Miniature Conclusion: Unnatural History Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBlending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, Mieka Erley offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. As Erley shows in On Russian Soil, the earth has inspired utopian dreams, reactionary ideologies, social theories, and durable myths about the relationship between nation and nature.In this period of modernization, soil was understood as the collective body of the nation, sitting at the crux of all economic and social problems. The soil question was debated by nationalists and radical materialists, Slavophiles and Westernizers, poets and scientists.On Russian Soil highlights a selection of key myths at the intersection of cultural and material history that show how soil served as a natural, national, and symbolic resource from Fedor Dostoevsky''s nativeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Groundwork 1. Native Soil: The Roots of the Organic Nation 2. Matter: Models of Soil and Society 3. Dirt: Dirty Literature 4. Sediment: Soviet Construction on Asian Soil 5. Wasteland: Platonov's Dialectics of Waste and Recuperation 6. Virgin Land: The Libidinal Economy of Virgin Land Epilogue: Beyond Earth

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Book SynopsisBy exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, Roaming Free Like a Deer provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. Daniel Capper clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist environmental ethics often are touted as useful weapons in the fight against climate change. However, two formidable but often overlooked problems with this perspective exist. First, much of the literature on Buddhist environmental ethics uncritically embraces Buddhist ideals without examining the real-world impacts of those ideals, thereby sometimes ignoring difficulties in terms of practical applications. Moreover, for some understandable but still troublesome reasons, Buddhists from differTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Some Methods in Buddhist Environmental Ethics 2. The Buddha's Nature 3. The Clever Bee of Sri Lanka 4. Beautiful Thai Buffaloes 5. Eating the Enlightened Plants of China 6. Japanese Water Buddhas 7. Releasing Animals in Tibet 8. Natural Persons in the West Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBy exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, Roaming Free Like a Deer provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. Daniel Capper clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist environmental ethics often are touted as useful weapons in the fight against climate change. However, two formidable but often overlooked problems with this perspective exist. First, much of the literature on Buddhist environmental ethics uncritically embraces Buddhist ideals without examining the real-world impacts of those ideals, thereby sometimes ignoring difficulties in terms of practical applications. Moreover, for some understandable but still troublesome reasons, Buddhists from differTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Some Methods in Buddhist Environmental Ethics 2. The Buddha's Nature 3. The Clever Bee of Sri Lanka 4. Beautiful Thai Buffaloes 5. Eating the Enlightened Plants of China 6. Japanese Water Buddhas 7. Releasing Animals in Tibet 8. Natural Persons in the West Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEcological Guide to the Mosses and Common Liverworts of the Northeast is an essential introduction to identifying mosses and common liverworts found in the northeastern United States and Canada. This richly illustrated guide, organized by substrate, offers readers with little prior experience or knowledge an intuitive, easy-to-use method for distinguishing over 250 species of bryophytes in the field.Sue Alix Williams teaches us how to narrow down species possibilities at a site by first paying attention to the particular substrate, such as a tree trunk or a river rock. Field and microscopic keys detail characteristics visible by the naked eye or through a microscope. Drawings of plant features placed side-by-side for quick comparison accompany photo galleries of species. With an illustrated overview of bryophyte terminology and tips for collecting specimens, Ecological Guide to the Mosses and Common Liverworts of the Northeast is an invaluable reso

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Book SynopsisHow to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea coast and the shores of the Aegean, farmers, scientists, fishermen, and families grapple with livelihoods in transition, as their environment is bound up in national and international conservation projects. Bridges and drainage canals, apartment buildings and highways—as well as the birds, water buffalo, and various animals of the regions—all inform a moral ecology in the making. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in wetlands and deltas, Caterina Scaramelli offers an anthropological understanding of sweeping environmental and infrastructural change, and the moral claims made on livability and materiality in Turkey, and beyond. Beginning from a moral ecological position, she takes into account the notion that politics is not simply projected onto animals, plants, soil, water, sediments, rocks, and other non-human beings and materials. Rather, people make politics through them. With this book, she highlights the aspirations, moral relations, and care practices in constant play in contestations and alliances over environmental change.Trade Review"Caterina Scaramelli is a deeply informed guide to the wetlands, whose very ecological richness and complexity make them an ideal lens for understanding what humans have done with and to the environment. How to Make a Wetland is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, nuance, and lucidity."—James C. Scott, Yale University"How to Make a Wetland is a nuanced analysis of the competing moral ecologies that go into the making and maintaining of Turkey's wetlands. Caterina Scaramelli's lucid ethnography is a crucial addition to studies of lived environments and environmental infrastructure—a refreshing new take on anthropocentric development processes in Turkey and beyond."—Elif Babül, Mount Holyoke College"How to Make a Wetland offers a model for attending to the making of value in environmental politics. Swamp drainers, iridescent birds, a contested fishing lagoon, and water buffalo biopolitics are just some of the highlights in Caterina Scaramelli's vivid study of Turkey's deltas."—Tim Choy, University of California, Davis"[How to Make a Wetland] makes an irrefutable case why ethnographers of Turkey can no longer treat the natural environment as a mere backdrop to human culture. Horses, flamingoes, buffaloes, egrets, and swamphens populate its pages as stakeholders in wetland management plans. Whether knee-deep in mud, on a dinghy boat, or in a university office, Scaramelli shows how environmental conservation in modern Turkey has evolved in dialogue with those colorful creatures and the boggy ground under their feet."—Faisal Husain, Critical Inquiry"Through insightful analysis of the processes and effects of environmental transformations, this fascinating and original ethnography shows how the work of creating wetlands is central to moral ecological claims made by the author's diverse interlocutors (famers, bureaucrats, scientists, activists, developers, etc.) in two delta regions of Turkey.Stylistically, the book is almost lyrical, as the ebbs and flows of water (and the stickiness of mud) are used as a metaphor for the larger project making this a most engaging read."—Committee for the Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association"How to Make a Wetland is a fine-grained and rich ethnography of a politically and materially muddled terrain, and Scaramelli provides several compelling ideas to enrich understandings of varied people in their variable environment."—Gabriel Urlich Lennon, Anthropology Book ForumTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. The Wetlands of Turkey 2. Sediments 3. Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure 4. Caring for the Delta 5. Emergent Wetland Animals Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea coast and the shores of the Aegean, farmers, scientists, fishermen, and families grapple with livelihoods in transition, as their environment is bound up in national and international conservation projects. Bridges and drainage canals, apartment buildings and highways—as well as the birds, water buffalo, and various animals of the regions—all inform a moral ecology in the making. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in wetlands and deltas, Caterina Scaramelli offers an anthropological understanding of sweeping environmental and infrastructural change, and the moral claims made on livability and materiality in Turkey, and beyond. Beginning from a moral ecological position, she takes into account the notion that politics is not simply projected onto animals, plants, soil, water, sediments, rocks, and other non-human beings and materials. Rather, people make politics through them. With this book, she highlights the aspirations, moral relations, and care practices in constant play in contestations and alliances over environmental change.Trade Review"Caterina Scaramelli is a deeply informed guide to the wetlands, whose very ecological richness and complexity make them an ideal lens for understanding what humans have done with and to the environment. How to Make a Wetland is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, nuance, and lucidity."—James C. Scott, Yale University"How to Make a Wetland is a nuanced analysis of the competing moral ecologies that go into the making and maintaining of Turkey's wetlands. Caterina Scaramelli's lucid ethnography is a crucial addition to studies of lived environments and environmental infrastructure—a refreshing new take on anthropocentric development processes in Turkey and beyond."—Elif Babül, Mount Holyoke College"How to Make a Wetland offers a model for attending to the making of value in environmental politics. Swamp drainers, iridescent birds, a contested fishing lagoon, and water buffalo biopolitics are just some of the highlights in Caterina Scaramelli's vivid study of Turkey's deltas."—Tim Choy, University of California, Davis"[How to Make a Wetland] makes an irrefutable case why ethnographers of Turkey can no longer treat the natural environment as a mere backdrop to human culture. Horses, flamingoes, buffaloes, egrets, and swamphens populate its pages as stakeholders in wetland management plans. Whether knee-deep in mud, on a dinghy boat, or in a university office, Scaramelli shows how environmental conservation in modern Turkey has evolved in dialogue with those colorful creatures and the boggy ground under their feet."—Faisal Husain, Critical Inquiry"Through insightful analysis of the processes and effects of environmental transformations, this fascinating and original ethnography shows how the work of creating wetlands is central to moral ecological claims made by the author's diverse interlocutors (famers, bureaucrats, scientists, activists, developers, etc.) in two delta regions of Turkey.Stylistically, the book is almost lyrical, as the ebbs and flows of water (and the stickiness of mud) are used as a metaphor for the larger project making this a most engaging read."—Committee for the Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association"How to Make a Wetland is a fine-grained and rich ethnography of a politically and materially muddled terrain, and Scaramelli provides several compelling ideas to enrich understandings of varied people in their variable environment."—Gabriel Urlich Lennon, Anthropology Book ForumTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. The Wetlands of Turkey 2. Sediments 3. Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure 4. Caring for the Delta 5. Emergent Wetland Animals Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIs climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.Trade Review‘A valuable and timely contribution to the study of environmentalism. Given the seriousness of global climate change, this book provides a window into how ecomodernism fits within the broader framework of contemporary environmental thought.’Jennifer Moore Bernstein, University of Southern California ‘This book is a much-needed corrective to the misconception of ecomodernism as neoliberal techno-optimism. Symons locates ecomodernism firmly within the tradition and logic of social democracy by advancing its most urgent, practical argument – that state-directed low-carbon innovation must be at the heart of our climate response.’Steve Rayner, University of Oxford ‘an upbeat perspective on what might be possible when climate emergency management focuses on state-led innovation and universal development.’ Financial Adviser ​ Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Thirty Years Crisis Chapter 2: Ecomodernism and its Critics Chapter 3: Assessing the Technological Challenge Chapter 4: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation Chapter 5: Human Flourishing Amid Climate Harms Chapter 6: Global Social Democracy and Geoengineering Justice Conclusion: Climate and its Metaphors Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the survival of a world that is quickly disappearing—and perhaps in the genesis of another world. Stoekl considers a range of possibilities for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology, psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from philosophical, cultural, and economic perspectives. One involves the self-sustaining world “without us”; another, the world under our control, which can run the political spectrum from corporatism to Marxism to the Green New Deal; and a third that carries a social and communitarian charge, an energy of the “universe” affirmed through, among other things, meditation and gifting. Each of these carves out a different space in the relations between objects, humans, and their survival and degradation. Each is necessary, unavoidable, and intimately bound with, and infinitely distant from, the others.Along the way, Stoekl cites a wide range of authors, from philosophers to social thinkers, literary theorists to criminologists, anthropologists to novelists. This beautifully written, compelling, and nuanced book is a must for anyone interested in questions of ecology, energy, the environmental humanities, contemporary theories of the object, postmodern and posthuman aesthetics, or religion and the sacred in relation to community.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionFirst Order. Base Sustainability1. Objects, Energy, the Chora2. Animals, Scale, Death3. Statues, Language, MachinesSecond Order. Restricted Sustainability4. Technocracy, Energy Economics, Utopia5. Solar Architecture, Sadism, Heterogeneity6. Anamorphoses of the FutureThird Order. General Sustainability7. Sustainability’s Return8. Marxism, Meditation, Consumption9. The Dead, the Future: Scrounging and Gifting the RuinsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the survival of a world that is quickly disappearing—and perhaps in the genesis of another world. Stoekl considers a range of possibilities for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology, psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from philosophical, cultural, and economic perspectives. One involves the self-sustaining world “without us”; another, the world under our control, which can run the political spectrum from corporatism to Marxism to the Green New Deal; and a third that carries a social and communitarian charge, an energy of the “universe” affirmed through, among other things, meditation and gifting. Each of these carves out a different space in the relations between objects, humans, and their survival and degradation. Each is necessary, unavoidable, and intimately bound with, and infinitely distant from, the others.Along the way, Stoekl cites a wide range of authors, from philosophers to social thinkers, literary theorists to criminologists, anthropologists to novelists. This beautifully written, compelling, and nuanced book is a must for anyone interested in questions of ecology, energy, the environmental humanities, contemporary theories of the object, postmodern and posthuman aesthetics, or religion and the sacred in relation to community.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionFirst Order. Base Sustainability1. Objects, Energy, the Chora2. Animals, Scale, Death3. Statues, Language, MachinesSecond Order. Restricted Sustainability4. Technocracy, Energy Economics, Utopia5. Solar Architecture, Sadism, Heterogeneity6. Anamorphoses of the FutureThird Order. General Sustainability7. Sustainability’s Return8. Marxism, Meditation, Consumption9. The Dead, the Future: Scrounging and Gifting the RuinsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHumanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016, Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago, detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean waters. For the editors of Timescales, this event captures the disjunctive temporalities of our era’s—the Anthropocene’s—ecological crises: the rapid and accelerating degradation of our planet’s life-supporting environment established slowly over millennia. They contend that, to represent and respond to these crises (i.e., climate change, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, species extinction, and biodiversity loss) requires reframing time itself, making more visible the relationship between past, present, and future, and between a human life span and the planet’s. Timescales’ collection of lively and thought-provoking essays puts oceanographers, geophysicists, geologists, and anthropologists into conversation with literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists. Together forging new intellectual spaces, they explore the relationship between geological deep time and historical particularity, between ecological crises and cultural expression, between environmental policy and social constructions, between restoration ecology and future imaginaries, and between constructive pessimism and radical (and actionable) hope. Interspersed among these essays are three complementary “etudes,” in which artists describe experimental works that explore the various timescales of ecological crisis. Contributors: Jason Bell, Harvard Law School; Iemanjá Brown, College of Wooster; Beatriz Cortez, California State U, Northridge; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Jane E. Dmochowski, U of Pennsylvania; David A. D. Evans, Yale U; Kate Farquhar; Marcia Ferguson, U of Pennsylvania; Ömür Harmanşah, U of Illinois at Chicago; Troy Herion; Mimi Lien; Mary Mattingly; Paul Mitchell, U of Pennsylvania; Frank Pavia, California Institute of Technology; Dan Rothenberg; Jennifer E. Telesca, Pratt Institute; Charles M. Tung, Seattle U. Trade Review"[Timescales] brings together reflections from experts in a variety of academic disciplines on the relationships between past, present, and future and what that means for a planet in crisis."—Penn Today

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Book SynopsisHumanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016, Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago, detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean waters. For the editors of Timescales, this event captures the disjunctive temporalities of our era’s—the Anthropocene’s—ecological crises: the rapid and accelerating degradation of our planet’s life-supporting environment established slowly over millennia. They contend that, to represent and respond to these crises (i.e., climate change, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, species extinction, and biodiversity loss) requires reframing time itself, making more visible the relationship between past, present, and future, and between a human life span and the planet’s. Timescales’ collection of lively and thought-provoking essays puts oceanographers, geophysicists, geologists, and anthropologists into conversation with literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists. Together forging new intellectual spaces, they explore the relationship between geological deep time and historical particularity, between ecological crises and cultural expression, between environmental policy and social constructions, between restoration ecology and future imaginaries, and between constructive pessimism and radical (and actionable) hope. Interspersed among these essays are three complementary “etudes,” in which artists describe experimental works that explore the various timescales of ecological crisis. Contributors: Jason Bell, Harvard Law School; Iemanjá Brown, College of Wooster; Beatriz Cortez, California State U, Northridge; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Jane E. Dmochowski, U of Pennsylvania; David A. D. Evans, Yale U; Kate Farquhar; Marcia Ferguson, U of Pennsylvania; Ömür Harmanşah, U of Illinois at Chicago; Troy Herion; Mimi Lien; Mary Mattingly; Paul Mitchell, U of Pennsylvania; Frank Pavia, California Institute of Technology; Dan Rothenberg; Jennifer E. Telesca, Pratt Institute; Charles M. Tung, Seattle U. Trade Review"[Timescales] brings together reflections from experts in a variety of academic disciplines on the relationships between past, present, and future and what that means for a planet in crisis."—Penn Today

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Book SynopsisAn urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars move beyond longstanding perspectives on the Anthropocene—such as science fiction and apocalyptic narratives—to show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction.Embracing pop cultural phenomena like True Detective, Jaws, and Twin Peaks, as well as topics from the New Weird and prehistoric shark fiction to ruin porn and the “monstroscene,” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Gothic while opening important new paths of inquiry. These essays map a genealogy of the Gothic while providing fresh perspectives on the ongoing climate chaos, the North/South divide, issues of racialization, dark ecology, questions surrounding environmental justice, and much more.Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Timothy Clark, U of Durham; Rebecca Duncan, Linnaeus U; Michael Fuchs, U of Oldenburg, Germany; Esthie Hugo, U of Warwick; Dawn Keetley, Lehigh U; Laura R. Kremmel, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Timothy Morton, Rice U; Barry Murnane, U of Oxford; Jennifer Schell, U of Alaska Fairbanks; Lisa M. Vetere, Monmouth U; Sara Wasson, Lancaster U; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.Trade Review"All of the essays connect the subjective potency of the texts under discussion — the affects and moods that they inspire in the reader or viewer — to the ways that such works also give us a deeper understanding of the ongoing ecological transactions that are putting our very existence at risk. Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth both reclaims the gothic as an urgently relevant mode of fiction-making and suggests that aesthetic approaches are able to bring us a kind of understanding that scientific studies on their own could not."—Los Angeles Review of Books"It is impossible for me to do complete justice to this book in a review, but I will say that the sixteen essays included in it are all illuminating, thoughtful, and interesting."—Gothic WandererTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gothic in the AnthropocenePart I. Anthropocene1. The AnthropoceneJeffrey Andrew Weinstock2. De-extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the AnthropoceneMichael Fuchs3. Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: Posthuman Horror (and Hope?) in the Zone of ExceptionRune Graulund4. Monstrous Megalodons of the Anthropocene: Extinction and Adaptation in Prehistoric Shark Fiction, 1974–2018Jennifer Schell5. A Violence “Just below the Skin”: Atmospheric Terror and Racial Ecologies from the African AnthropoceneEsthie HugoPart II. Plantationocene6. Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Landscapes of the AnthropoceneLisa M. Vetere7. True Detective’s Folk GothicDawn Keetley8. Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, Animals, and GothicJustin D. EdwardsPart III. Capitalocene9. Gothic in the Capitalocene: World-Ecological Crisis, Decolonial Horror, and the South African PostcolonyRebecca Duncan10. Overpopulation: The Human as InhumanTimothy Clark11. Digging Up Dirt: Reading the Anthropocene through German RomanticismBarry Murnane12. Got a Light? The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The ReturnTimothy Morton and Rune GraulundPart IV. Chthulucene13. The Anthropocene Within: Love and Extinction in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the BridgeJohan Höglund14. Rot and Recycle: Gothic Eco-burialLaura R. Kremmel15. Erotics and Annihilation: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Queering the Weird, and Challenges to the “Anthropocene”Sara Wasson16. MonstroceneFred BottingContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet The environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of “human-made” disruptions on a planetary scale, is a disruption of the fabric of life as a whole. The contributors to Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene argue that understanding the multispecies nature of these disruptions requires multispecies methods.Answering methodological challenges posed by the Anthropocene, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene retools the empirical study of the socioecological chaos of the contemporary moment across the arts, human science, and natural science. Based on critical landscape history, multispecies curiosity, and collaboration across disciplines and knowledge systems, the volume presents thirteen transdisciplinary accounts of practical methodological experimentation, highlighting diverse settings ranging from the High Arctic to the deserts of southern Africa and from the pampas of Argentina to the coral reefs of the Western Pacific, always insisting on the importance of firsthand, “rubber boots” immersion in the field.The methodological companion to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Minnesota, 2017), this collection puts forth empirical studies of the multispecies messiness of contemporary life that investigate some of the critical questions of our time.Contributors: Filippo Bertoni, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; Harshavardhan Bhat, U of Westminster; Nathalia Brichet, U of Copenhagen; Janne Flora, Aarhus U, Denmark; Natalie Forssman, U of British Columbia; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Kirsten Hastrup, U of Copenhagen; Colin Hoag, Smith College; Joseph Klein, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andrew S. Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Daniel Münster, U of Oslo; Ursula Münster, U of Oslo; Jon Rasmus Nyquist, U of Oslo; Katy Overstreet, U of Copenhagen; Pierre du Plessis, U of Oslo; Meredith Root-Bernstein; Heather Anne Swanson, Aarhus U; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, U of California,Santa Cruz; Stine Vestbo.Trade Review "From snorkel fins to worn sneakers, drip torches, boats, dogsleds, and the hooves of a horse, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene is a bold essay collection that pays attention to the ambulatory prosthetics that we wear or carry into particular fields (ocean, forest, savannah, university) and their many histories—material, colonial, multispecies. Situated knowledge has found its footing."—Melody Jue, author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater "Explicitly cross-disciplinary, [Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene] will be of wide interest to colleges and universities with larger libraries."—CHOICE "Where [Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene] really shines—and offers something new—is in its ethical and political imperative to develop novel methodologies to understand our current moment."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisRethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future but any earlier sense of Earth as “providential” seems of merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly solicitude is a symptom and consequence of these successive Western modes of engagement with the Earth, now exemplified in global capitalism. Within these constructs, Earth can only appear as constitutively indifferent to the fate of all its inhabitants. The “provisional ecology” outlined in Does the Earth Care?—drawing on a variety of literary and philosophical sources from Richard Jefferies and Robert Macfarlane to Martin Heidegger and Gaia theory—fundamentally challenges that assumption, while offering an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated despair in the face of impending ecological disaster. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review "Smith and Young's book is a stimulating read. It offers nuggets of insight and wisdom throughout, weaving together geoscience and the posthumanities to pain on a large and vivid canvas."—The AAG Review of Books

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities perspective with empirical methods derived from the social sciences to study the influence of environmental stories on our affects, attitudes, and actions. Empirical Ecocriticism provides an approachable introduction to this growing field’s main methods and demonstrates their potential through case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers’ willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater. Part manifesto, part toolkit, part proof of concept, and part dialogue, this introductory volume is divided into three sections: methods, case studies, and reflections. International in scope, it points toward a novel and fruitful synthesis of the environmental humanities and social sciences. Contributors: Matthew Ballew, Yale U; Helena Bilandzic, U of Augsburg; Rebecca Dirksen, Indiana U; Greg Garrard, UBC Okanagan; Matthew H. Goldberg, Yale U; Abel Gustafson, U of Cincinnati; David I. Hanauer, Indiana U of Pennsylvania; Ursula K. Heise, UCLA; Jeremy Jimenez, SUNY Cortland; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale U; David M. Markowitz, U of Oregon; Marcus Mayorga; Jessica Gall Myrick, Penn State U; Mary Beth Oliver, Penn State U; Yan Pang, Point Park U; Mark Pedelty, U of Minnesota; Seth A. Rosenthal, Yale U; Elja Roy, U of Memphis; Nicolai Skiveren, Aarhus U; Paul Slovic, U of Oregon; Scott Slovic, U of Idaho; Nicolette Sopcak, U of Alberta; Paul Sopcak, MacEwan U; Sara Warner, Cornell U. Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder Part I. Methods 1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects W. P. Malecki 2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes Paul Sopcak and Nicolette Sopcak 3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production Rebecca Dirksen, Mark Pedelty, Yan Pang, and Elja Roy Part II. Case Studies 4. Does Climate Fiction Work? An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Abel Gustafson, Anthony Leiserowitz, Matthew H. Goldberg, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Matthew Ballew 5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives Jessica Gall Myrick and Mary Beth Oliver 6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker’s “Am I Blue?” Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Marcus Mayorga, and Paul Slovic 7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China Nicolai Skiveren 8. All the World’s a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments Sara Warner and Jeremy Jimenez 9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Scott Slovic and David M. Markowitz Part III. Reflections 10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology Ursula K. Heise 11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism Greg Garrard 12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion David I. Hanauer 13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication Helena Bilandzic Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, it builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists. This is a timely, original and compelling investigation into ethics in the natural world during the Anthropocene, and a call for biocentric ecological justice before it is too late.Table of ContentsIntroducing Ecological Justice Political Non-Ranking Biocentrism The Community of Justice The Currency of Distributive Justice The Principles of Distributive Justice Ecological Justice and the Capabilities Approach Biodiversity Loss: An Injustice? Who Owns the Earth? Visions of Just Conservation Outlook for Implementation

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Book SynopsisThis accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building The Significance of Building and Construction Building and the Construction State Speculation and Building Booms Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building Why Building More Housing Won’t Work Building That Matters to People Constructing for Species Survival Building and Construction That Cares

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Book SynopsisThis accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building The Significance of Building and Construction Building and the Construction State Speculation and Building Booms Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building Why Building More Housing Won’t Work Building That Matters to People Constructing for Species Survival Building and Construction That Cares

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Book SynopsisTo reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisation is often seen as a technical project, detached from questions of politics and social justice. What if this is leading to unfair transitions, in which some people bear the costs of change while others benefit? In this timely and expansive book, Ed Atkins asks: are we getting decarbonisation right? And how could it be made better for people and communities? In doing so, this book proposes a different type of energy transition. One that prioritises and takes opportunities to do better – to provide better jobs, community ownership and improve people’s homes and lives.Trade Review"A Just Energy Transition elucidates the major theoretical discussions pertaining to the relationship between decarbonisation and social justice…The book’s discussion of the root factors of NIMBYism and the wide-ranging repercussions of energy poverty are comprehensive and convincing." LSETable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Transition 3. Scale 4. Ownership 5. Community 6. Home 7. Work 8. Global 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPolitical elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy. Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. Such transformative mobilisations can fulfil the popular slogan, ‘System Change Not Climate Change’. This book develops key critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas.Table of Contents1. Introduction to techno-market fixes versus system change 2. Techno-market fixes provoke controversies and alternatives: the big picture 3. EU’s agribiotech fix: stimulating blockages and agroecological alternatives 4. EU’s biofuels fix: prioritising an investment climate 5. UK waste incineration fix: perpetuating and displacing waste burdens 6. Green New Deal agendas: system change versus continuity 7. Conclusion: What social agency for system change?

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.Table of ContentsInterleave 1 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis Interleave 2 2. Methods in Crisis Interleave 3 3. Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' Interleave 4 4. Smoke, Machines and Public Health Interleave 5 5. Kin, Care and Crises Interleave 6 6. Pyro-Reproductive Futures Interleave 7 7. Making Bushfire Babies

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Book SynopsisThe threat of social-environmental destruction is a fundamental challenge for those who are interested in creating and maintaining liveable worlds. This volume will bring together international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography and other social sciences to explore practices of repairing damaged and precarious ecologies through various societal, environmental and material involvements across different locations and geographies. Contributions will offer novel theoretical perspectives and empirical insights on the reparative and insurgent capacity of mending ecologies to craft relations of care and sustenance of human and nonhuman communities. The volume will be divided into several sections that are organized around a series of concepts that denote countervailing forces, processes and movements of damaging and repairing. Each section will consist of two or three contributions that offer experimental explorations of what ecological reparation means, and each section will begin with a short note that briefly describes the key concepts and issues that will be explored within.Table of ContentsIntroduction: No justice, no ecological peace: The groundings of ecological reparation (Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Maddalena Tacchetti) Acknowledgements PART I Depletion: Resurgence 1. Experiments in situ: Soil repair practices as part of place-based action for change in El Salvador (Naomi Millner) 2. Hesitant: three theses on ecological reparation (otherwise) (Manuel Tironi) 3. The False Bay Coast of Cape Town: A Critical Zone (Lesley Green and Vanessa Farr) PART II Deskilling: Experimenting 4. Reflections on a mending ecology through pastures for life (Claire Waterton) 5. Fab Cities as Infrastructures for Ecological Reparation: Maker Activism, Vernacular Skills, and Prototypes for Self-Grounding Collective Life (Atsuro Morita and Kazutoshi Tsuda) 6. The Cosmoecological Workshop: Or, How to Philosophise with a Hammer (Martin Savransky) PART III Contaminating: Cohabiting 7. Multispecies mending from micro to macro: Biome restoration, carbon recycling, and ecologies of participation (Eleanor Hadley Kershaw) 8. Involvement as an ethics for more than human interdependencies (Nerea Calvillo) 9. From Museum to MOB (Timothy Choy) PART IV Enclosing: Reclaiming Land 10. Land in Our Names: Building an Anti-Racist Food Movement (Sam Siva) 11. Land reparations and ecological justice – an Interview with Sam Siva (Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos) 12. Waste, improvement and repair on Ireland's Peat Bogs (Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie) 13. New Peasantries in Italy: Eco-commons, Agroecology and Food Communities (Andrea Ghelfi) 14. “Obedecer a la Vida”: Environmental Citizenship Otherwise? (Juan Camilo Cajigas) PART V Loss: Recollecting 15. Travelling Memories: Repairing the past and imagining the future in medium-secure forensic psychiatric care (Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey, Donna Ciarlo and Abisola Balogun-Katung) 16. Conversations on benches (Leila Dawney and Linda Brothwell) 17. Curating reparation and recrafting solidarity in post-accord Colombia (Fredy Mora-Gámez) PART VI Representing: Self-governing 18. Commons-based mending ecologies (Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou) 19. Ri-Maflow: des-pair, resistance and re-pair in an urban industrial ecology (Marco Checchi) 20. Chilean streets: An archive against the grain of History (Cristobal Bonelli and Marisol de la Cadena) PART VII Isolating: Embodying 21. (Un)crafting ecologies: actions involving special skills at (un)making things humans with your hands (Eliana Sánchez-Aldana) 22. Cultivating Attention to Fragility: The Sensible Encounters of Maintenance (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille) 23. Technological black boxing versus ecological reparation: From encased-industrial to open-renewable wind energy (Aristotle Tympas) PART VIII Growth: Flourishing 24. Algorithmic Food Justice (Lara Houston, Sara Heitlinger, Ruth Catlow and Alex Taylor) 25. Being affected by páramo: Maps, landscape drawings, and a risky science (Alejandra Osejo and Santiago Martínez Medina) 26. Ordinary Hope (Steven J. Jackson)

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Book SynopsisI highly recommAnd Quickening as an extremely useful and practicalguide. It reaffirms that personal and social change areintertwined; that each of us counts; that our lives do make adifference; and that, through involvement and by developing ourskills, we can make an even greater difference. --ReverAnd Jesse L. Jackson, president and founder, NationalRainbow Coalition An antidote to cynicism . . . an essential 'how-to' manual foranyone interested in translating values into positiveresults. --Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Exploding the popular myths about public life, power, andself-interest that stop individuals from discovering the rewards ofpublic involvement, this thoughtful resource offers practicaladvice from ordinary Americans on how to get more involved. Detailsguidelines anyone can use to master the skills required to beeffective in public life.Trade Review``I highly recommAnd Quickening as an extremely useful andpractical guide. It reaffirms that personal and social change areintertwined; that each of us counts; that our lives do make adifference; and that, through involvement and by developing ourskills, we can make an even greater difference.'' (ReverAnd JesseL. Jackson, president and founder, National RainbowCoalition) "An antidote to cynicism ... an essential 'how-to' manual foranyone interested in translating values into positive results."(Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's) "One of the few truly optimistic books about the state of thecountry today. The book is as much a storehouse of life-changingideas that work as a you-take-charge manual on how to understandeconomics, power, teamwork, the media, corporate strategies and'living demoncracy.'" "In their accessible, emphatically interactive volume, Lappea andDu Bois challenge debilitating myths about democracy, public life,self-interest, and power; discuss the one-on-one skills (activelistening, creative conflict, mediation, and negotiation) and theskills for use in group settings (political imagination, publicdialogue, public judgment, celebration and appreciation, evaluationand reflection, and mentoring) that are essential elements inbuilding a 'culture of democracy.'" ``The Quickening of America is as urgent and important as any bookpublished in yearsbut, unlike many, it is also of real use toordinary people.'' (Jonathon Kozol, author of SavageInequalities) ``Fascinating stories and insights from Americans who are learningthat democracy is about much more than what happens in Washington.Lappea and Du Bois reveal a new practice of democracy as citizenproblem solvingin our schools, communities, and workplaces. Apowerful antidote to despairhard hitting yet hopeful.'' (HenryCisneros, secretary, Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment) ``In The Quickening of America I learned how to movewith power,effectiveness, and good humorbeyond self-imposed limits.... Weregular people can and must make history.'' (Randy Hayes, director,Rainforest Action Network) ``After years of listening to regular women and men at thegrassroots, the authors have distilled hundreds of inspiringsuccess stories into a unique `how-to' book, infusing the conceptsof `democracy', `power', and `public life' with vibrant new meaningand challenging us to profoundly rethink our lives.'' (FritjofCapra, founder and president, The Elmwood Institute, and author ofThe Tao of Physics) ``As an elected official who longs for more empowered citizens, Ihope thousands of people will read this book, where they willdiscover again what hard work, but also what satisfying work,democracy can be.'' (Daniel Kemmis, mayor, City of Missoula,Montana) ``Lappea and Du Bois are chroniclers of changein the way we thinkabout ourselves and the world in which we live.... [a] convincingand refreshing reaffirmation of the democratic process.'' (PatrickJ. Leahy, senator, State of Vermont)Table of ContentsOVERCOMING THE MYTHS THAT LIMIT US. 1. A Powerful New Concept for Effective Living. 2. We Each Have a Public Life. 3. Claiming Our Self-Interest (It's Not Selfishness). 4. Discovering Power (It's Not a Dirty Word). AMERICA COMING ALIVE: THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION. 5. Our Jobs, Our Economy, and Our Lives. 6. Making the Media Our Voice. 7. From Client to Citizen. 8. Governing "By the People". 9. Educating Real-World Problem Solvers. LIVING DEMOCRACY: THE PRACTICAL TOOLS. 10. Mastering the Arts of Democracy: One-on-One Skills. 11. Mastering the Arts of Democracy: Group Skills. 12. Embracing the Democratic Self. 13. What, No Manifesto? Resources for Building a Living Democracy.

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Book SynopsisContemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and the embracing spatiality of human life with the same critical insight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time and history on the one hand, and social relations and society on the other. Thirdspace is both an enquiry into the origins and impact of the spatial turn and an attempt to expand the scope and practical relevance of how we think about space and such related concepts as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment, home, city, region, territory, and geography. The book's central argument is that spatial thinking, or what has been called the geographical or spatial imagination, has tended to be bicameral, or confined to two approaches. Spatiality is either seen as concrete material forms to be mapped, analyzed, and explained; or as mental constructs, ideas about and representations of space and its social significance. Edward Soja critically re-evaluates this dualism to create an alternative approach, one that comprehends both the material and mental dimensions of spatiality but also extends beyond them to new and different modes of spatial thinking. Thirdspace is composed as a sequence of intellectual and empirical journeys, beginning with a spatial biography of Henri Lefebvre and his adventurous conceptualization of social space as simultaneously perceived, conceived, and lived. The author draws on Lefebvre to describe a trialectics of spatiality that threads though all subsequent journeys, reappearing in many new forms in bell hooks evocative exploration of the margins as a space of radical openness; in post-modern spatial feminist interpretations of the interplay of race, class, and gender; in the postcolonial critique and the new cultural politics of difference and identity; in Michel Foucault's heterotopologies and trialectics of space, knowledge, and power; and in interpretative tours of the Citadel of downtown Los Angeles, the Exopolis of Orange County, and the Centrum of Amsterdam.Trade Review"There is much that is innovative and thought provoking in the book ..." Rob Atkinson, Capital and Class "Thirdspace is Soja's most demanding theoretical work to date. It is a book which attempts to open up new ways of thinking about and responding to the binaries which continue to dominate the way we make practical and theoretical sense of the world. In concluding this short review of a very complex text I can only echo a comment Derek Gregory (1990:41) made when reviewing Soja's Postmodern Goegraphies: 'its intellectually sparkle is the product of a rare and generous critical intelligence'." Richard Bedford, University of Waikato "In all, a compilation of empirical and intellectual journeys." The Geographical Journal " Such as serious and important undertaking by such a prodigious intellect compels an in-depth and extended transdisciplinary and critical dialogue. Its destiny, I suspect, is to be the centre of a heated and fruitful debate. ed Soja has changed how we think about space." Robert Beauregard, Milano graduate School of Management "Soja offers a powerful new way of thinking that simultaneously takes apart and reorganizes the basic premise from which dualistic thinking derives power." Geographical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction/Itinerary/Overture. Part I: Discovering Thirdspace: . 1. The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre. 2. The Trialectics of Spatiality. 3. Exploring the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margins. 4. Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace. 5. Heterotopologies: Foucault and the Geohistory of Otherness. 6. Re-Presenting the Spatial Critique of Historicism. Part II: Inside and Outside Los Angeles: . 7. Remembrances: A Heterotopology of the Citadel-LA. 8. Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern World. 9. The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Select Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.

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