Conservation of the Environment

A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. D...

Tackles a human problem we all sharethe fate of the earth and our role in its future Confident that your personal good deeds of environmental virt...

Civil society organizations are among the most vociferous critics of the modern food system. Yet even after decades of campaigns, governments have ...

From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, fore...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and...

Stretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the La...

Water is a molecular marvel. Its seemingly simple formulaH2Odictates the properties that make water both essential for life and easily contaminated...

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Compelling, fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a sp...

To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmental challenges, colleges and universities must make environmental literacy a core lear...

Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime ...

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one o...

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy l...

In the last decade biodiversity loss and persistent poverty in developing countries have been recognised as major international problems that requi...

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international lea...

The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines ques...

This book presents a broad overview of pollution issues facing climatic, economic, and legal globalization. Topics include changes in oceans from a...

'After Mark Cockers glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker mo...

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental HistoryThe Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of V...

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the col...

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the col...

Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place is a must-have for anyone wanting to have a reciprocating relationship with their communities,...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers both a love song and a paean of regret to Am...

Sally Sierer Bethea was one of the first women in America to become a riverkeepera vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accoun...

An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit fro...

How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming Weve all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, clim...

A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations ...

Longleaf pine forests are an iconic forest of the southeastern United States. Although these forests were often called pine barrens by early explor...

Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book ...

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants...

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical ...

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous commu...

Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene is an investigation of the cultural meanings, representations, and values of soil i...

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate c...

Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life.For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist Joh...

2024 Best Indigenous Studies Award, The Mormon History Association 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library A history of how the...

National parks are widely revered as Americas best ideathey are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American p...

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