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Micah S Muscolino
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape-rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment …

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Laurie Kroshus Medina
Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize

In Belize, conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed…

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Laurie Kroshus Medina
Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize

In Belize, conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed…

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Richard Buttny
Unfracked

"Since hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, emerged as a way of extracting natural gas, it has been controversial. After reading a story in his local paper in New York about hydrofracking coming to his…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Population, Board on Environmental Change and Society
Community-Driven Relocation

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018. The variety and frequency of storms have exacerba…

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Maarten A Hajer, Jeroen Oomen
Captured Futures

In this radical age, environmental politics 'as we know it' cannot deliver. To change this, Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen suggest a new, more cultural approach to environmental politics with new disco…

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Jessica Urwin,
Contaminated Country

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear orderThough a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of …

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Peter Cox
Anthropocene Mobilities

International development expert Peter Cox shows how opting for more physically active forms of transport shapes us positively as people, which in turn helps combat climate change, poor global health, and…

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Peter Cox
Anthropocene Mobilities

International development expert Peter Cox shows how opting for more physically active forms of transport shapes us positively as people, which in turn helps combat climate change, poor global health, and…

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Rob Hopkins
How to Fall in Love with the Future

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us---like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us t…

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Erika Marie Bsumek
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.

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Appalachian Epidemics

"As the COVID-19 virus swept across the nation in spring 2020, infection and hospitalization rates in states like West Virginia remained relatively low. By that July, each of Appalachia's 423 countie…

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Incomputable Earth

Incomputable Earth radically interrogates the political epistemology underlying the Anthropocene hypothesis. This open access volume examines how this hypothesis functions as a master concept that simulta…

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Peter Mcphee
An Environmental History of France

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked like it does today. An Environmental History…

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Nancy F Castaldo
Riverkeeper

Dive headfirst into the history of environmental activism in the Hudson River watershed and learn how you can help organizations like Riverkeeper protect clean water around the globe!Every inch of the Uni…

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Thom Hartmann
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition

While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and…

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William M Epstein
Climate Change, Social Inequality, and Doom

A critical examination of how inequality and cultural inertia hinder meaningful climate action.The challenges of climate change, like so many issues today, are not evenly distributed across social and eco…

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Lisa Baril
The Age of Melt

"Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they give and take life. In The Age of Me…

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Grassroots Responses to Extractivism

"This volume aims to make visible the many innovative resistances, alternatives and cosmologies emanating from the Global South. Detailing case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the contri…

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Dan Rubinstein
Water Borne

An unconventional SUP journey to discover how embracing blue space could improve our lives and our world.In June 2023, writer Dan Rubinstein lashed camping gear to his stand-up paddleboard and embarked on…

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