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Inhuman Nature
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.
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Planning for the Planet: Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
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Roundtable Review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
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Roundtable Review of The Passage to Cosmos by Laura Dassow Walls
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
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In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau
In the first comprehensive account of the Kaibab deer controversy, Christian C. Young describes the interactions, rivalries, and conflicts between state and federal agencies, scientists, nature lovers, conservationists, and hunters.
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Hanford: A Conversation about Nuclear Waste and Cleanup
In Hanford: A Conversation About Nuclear Waste and Cleanup, Roy Gephart takes us on a journey through a world of facts, values, conflicts, and choices facing the most complex environmental cleanup project in the United States, the US Department of Energy’s Hanford Site.
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Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
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Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt
Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.