Conservation of the Environment

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorse...

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism and manifest destiny, pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only pa...

An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in Americas national park system Americas national parks are some of the ...

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...