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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Policy And Global Affairs, Division On Earth And Life Studies
Incorporating Climate Change and Climate Policy Into Macroeconomic Modeling

Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic signif…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Transportation Research Board, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division On Earth And Life Studies
Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. The United States has a historic opportunity to lead the wa…

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Futures Thinking and Organizational Policy, Volume 2

The case studies in this Volume 2 book support the premise that organizational policies are what ensure institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in corporations, non-profits, and educat…

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Jessica a Scott
Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The…

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Jessica a Scott
Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a vivid consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa, situated in their own contexts and international narratives about those contexts. The…

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Sonali Kolhatkar
Talking about Abolition

"Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream d…

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Sarah Jones
Disposable

"In a ... blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America's racial and income inequality and the devastating impac…

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Sandy Hudson
Defund

"A fiercely-argued, deeply-informed examination of why defunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and protection that increases public safety overall"--

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Harris Dousemetzis
Gay Rights Under Jimmy Carter

Examining a significant and largely unexplored aspect of Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977-1981), Harris Dousemetzis radically revises the current understanding of this critical period in American political…

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Alexis Lerner
Post-Soviet Graffiti

Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse…

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Jennifer Pahlka
Recoding America

Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2023 Named one of Ezra Klein's "Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023," The New York TimesLearn more about Jennifer Pahlka's work at recodingamerica.us. "…

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Sarah Ensor
Queer Lasting

"Queer Lasting asks what contemporary environmentalism's seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable, and looks to the literatures from two periods of queer extinction (the 18…

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Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics
The Politics of Extraction

In The Politics of Extraction, Maiah Jaskoski traces how mobilized communities in Latin America's hydrocarbon and mining regions utilize participatory institutions to challenge extraction. In some cases, …

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

"Liza Grandia expertly weaves together ethnographic narrative, Maya agricultural knowledge, and legal sleuthing to shine light on maize- and seed-related activism in the face of transnational corpora…

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Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
Genesis

"As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to…

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Carol Cleaveland, Michele Waslin
Private Violence

"Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based violence compels asylum claims. Using women's narratives and ethnographic obser…

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

"From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine, to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the…

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Climate Obstruction Across Europe

Starting in the late 1980s, a broad range of actors mounted a long-term effort to oppose action to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. This is the first book to document …

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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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