Books & Profiles

This multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology, and history.

The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.

Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.

Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.

With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as “the green republic.” Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country’s national park system.

Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

With reference to Puritjarra, a rock shelter in the Cleland Hills in western central Australia, this environmental art project examines the relationship between knowledge systems–be they indigenous, scientific, or artistic–and place.