Nature/Environment

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The Mine Next Door

Turning Points in Corporate Social Responsibility Communicative Practice

By Amy O'Connor
Subjects: Business, Business Management and Leadership, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Politics

How do corporations decipher their responsibility to the community?

Rejecting Climate Doomism

By Diana Stuart
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Science

A strong call to action for the environment and our future

The Post-Global City

Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

Edited by Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Subjects: African Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Series: African Perspectives

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa

Bureaucracy vs. Environment

The Environmental Costs of Bureaucratic Governance

Edited by John Baden & Richard L. Stroup
Subjects: Political Science, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Planetarity from Below

Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora

By Emily Yu Zong
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, China, American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics

Curating the Commons

Socially Engaged Public Art

By Katia Arfara
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Urban Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

In-depth explorations of socially engaged public artworks from the perspective of a curator and scholar

The Politics of Beginning

The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation

By Alejandro Esguerra
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, International Relations
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Developing our understanding of how to translate knowledge into new political projects

Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

Climate Games

Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster

By Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, and Reuben Kline
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Experiments reveal people can work together to prevent climate change

Empire and Environment

Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou
Subjects: American Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions

Twisting in the Wind

The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy

By Oksan Bayulgen
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Theory

Political barriers to clean energy transitions

The George Reserve Deer Herd

Population Ecology of a K-Selected Species

By Dale R. McCullough
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment

The Birds of Michigan

By Norman Asa Wood
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Nature Guides

Lightning Birds

An Aeroecology of the Airwaves

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A work of interdisciplinary scholarship at the crossroads of radio history, ornithology, sound studies, and ecocriticism

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia

Edited by A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Natural Resources, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eleven papers explore the ecological ramifications of ethnicity in Southeast Asia.

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

Climate Change Solutions

Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction

By Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, and Brian Petersen
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Capitalism and climate change solutions are incompatible

Stringfellow Acid Pits

The Toxic and Legal Legacy

By Brian Craig
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Nature/Environment

Before Erin Brockovich, there was Penny Newman and the fight for the biggest toxic waste lawsuit in California history

Great Lakes Sea Lamprey

The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader

By Cory Brant
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature

A captivating look at an ecological terror and the cooperative effort that brought the Great Lakes back from the brink

The Life of the Lakes, 4th Ed.

A Guide to the Great Lakes Fishery

4th Edition

By Brandon C Schroeder & Shari L Dann
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Guidebook, Nature/Environment

A detailed look at the history, health, and management of the Great Lakes fishery

Great Lakes Rocks

4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region

By Stephen E Kesler
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A much-needed exploration of Great Lakes geology

Michigan Ferns and Lycophytes

A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region

By Daniel D. Palmer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Nature Guides, Guidebook

The most comprehensive guide to Michigan’s ferns and related plants

Mountains Without Handrails

Reflections on the National Parks

With a New Foreword by Holly Doremus

By Joseph L. Sax
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A controversial, informed, and important look at the protection and management of America’s national parks

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region, Revised Ed.

Revised Edition

By James H. Harding & David A Mifsud
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Guidebook, Nature/Environment, Nature Guides
Series: Great Lakes Environment

A revised and updated guide to reptiles and amphibians in the Great Lakes region

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