Conservation of the Environment

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...