American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
Essays from the New Mexico Environmental Symposium held in Albuquerque in April 1996 discuss the ways in which concepts of human nature shape our understandings of environmental issues and direct our environmental politics.
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.
In his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ Pope Francis invokes all humans, believers and non-believers alike, to work together to save the earth from environmental degradation and create a fair and sustainable future for all.
Cultivating Arctic Landscapes gives a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, and addresses the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene argues that the current climate crisis calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge, suggesting that our collective inclination has been to go on in an experimental and exploratory mode, in which we refuse to foreclose on options or jump too quickly to “solutions.”
This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.
An edited volume examining and challenging the reputed “greenness” of Finland.