Books & Profiles

On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.

Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity.

The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.

Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.

An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.

The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.

Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.

A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.

This book traces the rise of Republican challenges to environmental laws in the United States and shows what they mean for the future of environmentalism in the political arena.

Traces the elm’s transformation from a fast-growing weed into a regional and national icon.