The environment

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

An engaging and at times sobering look at the coexistence of humans and animals in the 21st century and how their sometimes disparate needs affect environments, politics, economies, and culture worldwide.

This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States-and suggests how their influence can be reduced.

This concisely written and easy-to-read resource provides information on emerging issues and valuable historical context that enables students to better understand a broad range of environmental health topics, from pollution to infectious diseases, natural disasters, and waste management.

Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe?

Fracking for gas trapped in shale could be a game changer in the quest to find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels, but it also has potential for harm.

How many of our efforts to save the environment are effective?

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority-and have a well-established history of being wrong.

This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world's fish.

This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a "e;tabularasa"e; to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life.

A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction.

Environmental history - the history of the relationship between people and the natural world - is a dynamic and increasingly important field.

In this legislative autobiography Franklin L.

Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize.

A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction.

Nearly twenty years after its initial publication, Dr.

In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century.

Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams.

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

"e;Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book.

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways?

What makes trash trash?

In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment.

What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle?

Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities.

Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century.

In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century.

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction.

In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Saez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework.

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories.

Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death.

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards.

Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction.

The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources.

One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized.

We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own.

Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams.

"e;Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book.

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm's way.

Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture.

Green buildings are better buildings.