New Books in Environmental Studies

Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how...

Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and su...

Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Watkins joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Trees Ancient and Modern (Reaktion, 2025). This delightful new book explores the relati...

Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researcher...

Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic ...

A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. S...

R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and t...

Jesse Rodenbiker, "Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Based on two years of extensive fieldwork, Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (Cornell UP, 2023) exami...

Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human being...

Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Rev...

Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases a...

In Search of Green China: Ma Tianjie on Pan Yue and the CCP’s “Ecological Civilization"

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A former journalist and environmental campaigner named Pan Yue rose through the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party, championing the concept of “ec...

Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dangerous ideas. I...

Lily Hsueh, "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" (MIT Press, 2025)

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Lily Hseuh is trained as an economist and public policy scholar, and is an associate professor in Economics and Public Policy in the School of Pu...

The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. ...

Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did India’s landmark Forest Rights Act come into being? And what difference has it made to the lives of historically marginalized forest-dwellin...

Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, "Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic" (Yale UP, 2025)

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A vital account of the state of the Arctic today--emphasising the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition Nowhere is the dual thre...

Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Mukul Sharma is a professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His formal training is in Political Science and has worked as a specia...

Elizabeth Sawin, "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" (Island Press, 2024)

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin has dedicated her career to the theory and practice of creating change in complex systems. In 2021, she founded and is curren...

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, "The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water" (Routledge, 2024)

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water champions the Hydrocene and presents it as disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emph...

Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world needs to adapt to climate change – but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? Sink or S...

John Mathias, "Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala" (U California Press, 2024)

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors? In this episode Joh...

Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by ...

Kathryn Dyt, "The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about the way that Southeast Asian rulers governed their kingdoms, we usually think of the relationship between the rulers and the peopl...

Jen Rose Smith, "Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic" (Duke UP, 2025)

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities an...

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson , "Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland" (Indiana UP, 2019)

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), Árni Heimir Ingólfsson provides a striking account of the ...

Thea Riofrancos, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (W.W. Norton, 2025) is an in-depth analysis into the growing industry of green technologies and the...

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and t...

Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jon Mills, has had an impressive career as practicing professional, researcher, educator and writer in the psychology and psychoanalytic field. H...

Bob Wyss, "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal" (University of California Press, 2025)

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades coal has been crucial to America's culture, society, and environment, an essential ingredient in driving out winter's cold, cooking meals,...

Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their ...

Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle ...

Spike Bucklow, "The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Spike Bucklow joins Jana Byars to talk about The Year: An Ecology of the Zodiac (Reaktion, 2025). This delightful book defies genre. It is a journey...

The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their d...

Devika Shankar, "An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India, 1860-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. In ...

Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth...

Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental ...

Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth (Bloomsbury, 2022) tackles the reenchantment process at work in a pa...

Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen, "The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination" (Reaktion, 2025)

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination (Reaktion, 2025), nature writers Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen set ...

Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why do Americans eat so much beef? In Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2019), the h...

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we speak to Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Professor of History at the University of Reading about her new book Medieval Meteorology: Foreca...

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we speak to Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Professor of History at the University of Reading about her new book Medieval Meteorology: Foreca...

Maan Barua, "Plantation Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Plantation Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantatio...

Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the fu...

Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942" (NUS Press, 2019)

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Imperial Creature: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (National University of Singapore Press, 2019), Timothy Barnard explor...

Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of t...

Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Environmental sustainability policy has failed due to focusing on symptoms rather than the root cause problems. Through significant research and a det...

Tim Lenton, "Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2025)

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As global change escalates, we are already starting to experience damaging tipping points in the social, ecological and climate systems that we depend...

Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman w...

Jamie Wang, "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore" (MIT Press, 2024)

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imag...

Domale Dube, "Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice" (University of Illinois Press, 2025)

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women’s Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbo...

154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, Kim Stanley Robinson h...

Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the...

Yuki Kato, "Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City" (NYU Press, 2025)

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gardens are often spaces of hope, expected to solve many problems in a city including food insecurity and climate resilience. In fact, there has been ...

Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025)

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters (OSU Press, 2025), Kurt Fausch draws on his experience as a stream ecologist, h...

Robert N. Spengler, "Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity" (Univ of California Press, 2025)

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force--and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not huma...

Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It has been 10 years since the Paris Agreements of 2015 and – despite the initial enthusiasm – global investment in fossil fuels has increased and...

Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It has been 10 years since the Paris Agreements of 2015 and – despite the initial enthusiasm – global investment in fossil fuels has increased and...

Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facin...

Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye to eye. Bo...

Judith Scheele, "Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara" (Basic Books, 2025)

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, cli...

Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Alex Batesmith sits down with Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster to discuss their groundbreaking new book, Green Transiti...

Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conce...

Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press, 2025) by Dr. Brent Z. Kaup & Dr. Kelly F. Austi...

Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

These days it’s harder than ever to watch TV, scroll social media, or even just sit at home looking out of the window without contemplating the ques...

Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fifteen...

Johanna Drucker, "Affluvia: the Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture" (Bridge Art, 2025)

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Tarin Ahmed, the host, is joined by guest, Johanna Drucker,  an American author, book artist, visual the...

Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fire is a means of control and has been deployed or constrained to levy power over individuals, societies, and ecologies. In Burn Scars: A Documenta...

Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive institu...

Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2025)

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands (Cornell University Press, 2025) examines the impacts of re...

Barbara Allen, "Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction" (Reaktion, 2025)

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction (Reaktion, 2025) by Reverend Barbara Allen presents thirty-one extinct species through the p...

Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked—seemingly by accident—in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanis...

Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fernando Pérez-Montesinos's first book, Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (University of ...

Ashlee Piper, "No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity" (Celadon Books, 2025)

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity by Ashlee Piper, was published by Celadon Books in Apri...

Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums (Penguin, 2025), zoologist Jack Ashby shares hidden stories behind th...

Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant...

Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government propos...

Ann McCallum Staats, "Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants" (MIT Kids Press, 2025)

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our lovely interview, we celebrate Ann McCallum Staats' brand new book (just launched this week!), Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest...

Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature: How Ants...

Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why we must rethink our residency on the planet to understand the connected challenges of tribalism, inequity, climate justice, and democracy. How can...

Marine Environment Assessment in Palawan, Philippines

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Billy Haworth is a geographer interested in human-environment interactions, with expertise positioned at the intersection of human geography, criti...

Janine Schipper, "Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest" ((U Wyoming Press, 2025)

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest (University of Wyoming Press, 2025) by Dr. Janine Schipper reco...

Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational ...

What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The argument that authoritarian governments are better at dealing with the climate emergency is gaining ground, fuelled by the idea that undemocratic ...

Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context (Policy Press, 2024) investigates and analyses places in Europe, ...

Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, in 1969 quickly became a landmark in the history of American environmentalism...

Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon (2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the li...

Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of...

Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for a fascinating conversation with one of today’s leading voices in environmental studies, Daniel Macfarlane, as we explore his new book T...

Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral characte...

Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Jessica Smith, Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department and Dean’s Fellow for Earth ...

Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special episode that features a conversation between Sonia Bussu and Hans Asenbaum on democracy, capitalism, climate and the practices and p...

Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, in Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Env...

Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS—a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of—poisoned the entire country. Based on or...

Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter o...

Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. ...

Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World ...

Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World (Green Writers Press, 2025), a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature write...

Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked...

Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'susta...