Environmental Studies

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Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

Climate Games

Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster

By Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, and Reuben Kline
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Experiments reveal people can work together to prevent climate change

Twisting in the Wind

The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy

By Oksan Bayulgen
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Theory

Political barriers to clean energy transitions

Climate Change Solutions

Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction

By Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, and Brian Petersen
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Capitalism and climate change solutions are incompatible

Mountains Without Handrails

Reflections on the National Parks

With a New Foreword by Holly Doremus

By Joseph L. Sax
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Law

A controversial, informed, and important look at the protection and management of America’s national parks

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.

Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

2nd Edition

By Gayle Greene
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure

Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

By Molly Wallace
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays give context to environmental risk

The Xavante in Transition

Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil

By Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, and Ricardo V. Santos
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

Illuminates the experience of a small-scale culture with large-scale change

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies

Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System

By J. Terrence McCabe
Subjects: Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, African Studies
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Growth Triumphant

The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

By Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By Paolo Squatriti
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities

Americans and Their Land

The House Built on Abundance

By Anne Mackin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, History, American History

The story of Americans' relation to land, how it has changed in the face of diminishing resources, and what the future may hold

The Land between the Rivers

Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819

By Russell M. Lawson
Subjects: History, American History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A retelling of Thomas Nuttall's near-death expedition up the Arkansas River in the early years of the nineteenth century

Natural Coincidence

The Trip from Kalamazoo

By Bil Gilbert
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Memoir

Essays filled with affection, sophistication, and down-home common sense in an engagingly understated style by this prolific naturalist

Imagining Wild America

By John R. Knott
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver

Recycling Land

Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development

By Elizabeth Glass Geltman
Subjects: Law, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Discusses how abandoned industrial land might be reused, even under current pollution laws

A Greener Vision of Home

Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918

By William H. Rollins
Subjects: German Studies, History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany

The Political Economy of Environmental Protection

Analysis and Evidence

Edited by Roger D. Congleton
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Examines the political and economic factors that generate environmental policy

Culture and Global Change

Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest in Mexico

By Lourdes Arizpe, Fernanda Paz, and Margarita Velazquez
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Offers a model for how to gather information on the human dimensions of global change

The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America

Edited by Michael Painter & William Durham
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

The Natural Contract

By Michel Serres
Translated by Elizabeth MacArthur & William Paulson
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Meditations on environmental change and the necessity of a pact between Earth and its inhabitants

Earthly Words

Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers

Edited by John Cooley
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Polar Bears

By Ian Stirling
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A treasury of information and outstanding photographs brought together to reveal the fascinating life of the symbol of Arctic survival, the polar bear

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