Books & Profiles

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Auer, Matthew R., ed. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.

Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.

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Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?

The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.

The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.

Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.

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.