Books & Profiles

In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.

This book documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns.

In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature.

Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond.

Denis Wood takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.

Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.

This book catalyzes the reflection about the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in the environmental humanities and offers transdisciplinary insights into the challenge of sustainability and ongoing changes in our society and environment.

The book explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron’s film Avatar (2010).

This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.

In his work, Francaviglia proposes “to tell the story of how the Great Basin’s environment resonates in the spiritual lives of all its people”.