Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
The book explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron’s film Avatar (2010).
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years in a cabin amidst woodland near Walden Pond.