New Books in Environmental Studies
Episodes
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as ...
Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A little more than 70 percent of Planet Earth is ocean. So wouldn’t a better name for our global home be Planet Ocean? You may be surprised at just ...
Climate Change, Oceans and Gender
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oceans are inextricably linked to the climate. Today, oceans are warming far more rapidly than they have in the past 65 million years, placing the spo...
Eunice Blavascunas, "Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest" (Indiana UP, 2020)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest (Indiana University Press, 2020), Eunice Blavascunas provide...
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s nothing more vital to survival than water. “Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!”, said the Ancient Mariner, in the poem by ...
Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining i...
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti's Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020...
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature o...
Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harnessing the Sun is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics and Head of the Climate C...
David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound (University of Washington Press, 2021) tells a story about exploitation and a story of hope. ...
Jaime Lowe, "Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires" (MCD, 2021)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires for less than a dollar an hour On February 23, 2016, ...
Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2021, a landmark court order from a district court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest fossil fuel companies in...
Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ranea Lenor Hanson's Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress (U Minnesota Press, 2021) weaves a narrative that captures life on the wate...
Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Mark Maslin, Professor of Geo...
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can farmers adapt to climate changes? How can regenerative farmers have livelihoods that nourish themselves and their communities? How can we brea...
Laura Paskus, "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate (U New Mexico Press, 2020) explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world ...
Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we see in the news every day, climate change is already upon us. The climate crisis is no longer a bridge to be crossed in the future. It must be d...
Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pre...
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
22 Sep 2021
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...
Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock an...
Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Robert Kirk, the publisher of Princeton University Press's "Pedia" book series. Encyclopedic in nature and miniature in form, the...
Robin Globus Veldman, "The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change" (U California Press, 2019)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive...
Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From rocky coves at Mendocino and Monterey to San Diego’s reefs, abalone have held a cherished place in California culture for millennia. Prized for...
Andy Hoffman, “Saving the World at Business School (Part 2)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saving the World at Business School (Part 2) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of ...
Andy Hoffman “Saving the World at Business School (Part 1)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saving the World at Business School (Part 1) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of S...
Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and vi...
Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's we...
Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what hap...
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
08 Sep 2021
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...
Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm prod...
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021), Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of la...
Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptuali...
Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Joanna Haigh, Professor Emerita of Atmospheric...
Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and large amounts of development aid are allocated towards adaptation in the Global South. Yet...
Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can consumers, nations, and international organizations work together to improve food systems before our planet loses its ability to sustain itsel...
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the ...
Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable...
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, "Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting Ame...
Paul Sabin, "Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" (Norton, 2021)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the pu...
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India by Andrew Flachs (University of Arizona Press, ...
Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remapping empire, nature, and scientific enquiry beyond the simple binary exchange between periphery and metropole, Dr. Kirsten Greer demonstrates how...
Jonathan E. Robins, "Oil Palm: A Global History" (UNC Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in ...
Benjamin R. Cohen et al., "Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food" (MIT Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The modern way of eating—our taste for food that is processed, packaged, and advertised—has its roots as far back as the 1870s. Many food writers ...
Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and pre...
Alexander Menrisky, "Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the proliferation of scientific ecology in the second half of the 20th C emphasizing the interconnection between environment and humanity, Wi...
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seeds, plants and food can act as repositories of memory and identity, thus countering the alienation caused by displacement. How does this manifest i...
Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Margarita Balmaceda’s Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Columbia University Pre...
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021), Dr. Beronda Montgomery connects the science of plants to the behavior of people. She unpa...
Hillary Angelo, "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are dev...
Michael G. Hillard, "Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry" (Cornell UP, 2021)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of...
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world is in a midst of a renewable energy revolution, with the price of utility scale photo-voltaic solar power falling by nearly 90% between 2009...
Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales' entanglement an...
From the Archives: Building a Sustainable Future through Urban Governance with Dr Sophie Webber
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With two megacities and strong economic growth, Indonesia has seen dramatic rates of rural-urban migrations. According to the World Bank, nearly 70 pe...
Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Gina Warren discusses her newest book Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, published May 2021 by University of Washington P...
Stacia Ryder et al., "Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures" (Routledge, 2021)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Pre...
Nicoletta Batini, "The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet" (Island Press, 2021)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Nicoletta Batini, and co-authors, unpack t...
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aase Kvaneid’s new book explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front li...
Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If floods are inevitable, why do humans insist on building alongside riverbanks? Todd Kerstetter, professor of history at Texas Christian University, ...
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Improper pest management has led to significant yield loss in rice and other crop harvests in Cambodia, causing economic losses to farmers and environ...
Kristin Poling, "Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier ...
Jenny Price, "Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been “saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon tra...
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Popular discussions of China’s growth prospects often focus on the success or failure specific industries. They might address the challenges rising ...
Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed a syst...
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, its waters home to hundreds, if not thousands, of shipwrecks. As maritime neighbours with both ...
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How seriously should take the Chinese government’s discourse about ‘ecological civilization’? Mette Hansen argues that whatever the shortcomings...
Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer, "Wildness: Relations of People and Place" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a unique expression of life. Yet t...
Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr, "A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have known the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as a site of industrial production, a place to hea...
Katrinell M. Davis, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery" (UNC Press, 2021)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years d...
Ryanne Pilgeram, "Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West" (U Washington Press, 2021)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out: Conteste...
Joel Alden Schlosser, "Herodotus in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Joel Alden Schlosser has turned his attention to Herodotus, an historian and political thinker from classical Greece, to learn how ...
Caterina Scaramelli, "How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey (Stanford UP, 2021) tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological ...
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming? Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William N...
Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recording...
David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond...
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on climate ethics and environmental justice. Much...
David Hardin, "Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint" (Belt, 2021)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the...
Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021)
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species...
Bret Gustafson, "Bolivia in the Age of Gas" (Duke UP, 2020)
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, a...
Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i" (Duke UP, 2021)
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i (Duke University Press, 2021), Candace Fuj...
Allison Cobb, "Plastic: An Autobiography" (Nightboat Books, 2021)
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books, 2021) explores how technology, sprung from desire, draws all beings into its net, and asks how to live j...
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2020) is a handbook for navigating our ...
James Beattie, "Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes" (Routledge, 2019)
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Routledge, 2019) addresses broad issues of intere...
Timothy Beatley, "The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats" (Island Press, 2020)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has ta...
Lucas Bessire, "Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" (Princeton UP, 2021)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has ta...
Katherine E. Standefer, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life" (Little, Brown Spark, 2020)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the push for a Universal Healthcare system in the United States becomes more and more popular among the American people, we’re beginning to have ...
Juno Salazar Parreñas, "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2018)
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutan...
Pey-Yi Chu, "The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define per...
Kara M. Schlichting, "New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Providing a fresh perspective is one of the biggest challenges for historians of New York City. Kara Murphy Schlichting, however, has managed to do ju...
Tom Philpott, "Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) is an unsettling journey into the ...
James Skillen, "This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West" (Oxford UP, 2020)
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 6th, 2021, when right wing supporters of Donald Trump staged an insurrection at the US Capitol building, they were participating in a long ...
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research: Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Mal...
Anthony Warner, "Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds...
Wade Davis, "Magdalena, River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia" (Knopf, 2020)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia....
Ray Ison and Ed Straw, "The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2020)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2020) is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking ...
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of env...
David Sepkoski, "Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming threat of mass extinction. We...
Ian M. Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2020)
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian M. Miller’s book Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2020) offers a transform...
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Chris Hamby about his book Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice (Little Brown, 2020). Hamby looks...
Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making" (UNC Press, 2020)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Makin (University of North Carolina Press 2020), Dr. Sharik...
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder...