Environmental Studies

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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.

Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

2nd Edition

By Gayle Greene
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Health & Medicine

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure

Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

By Molly Wallace
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays give context to environmental risk

Feather Brained

My Bumbling Quest to Become a Birder and Find a Rare Bird on My Own

By Bob Tarte
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Memoir, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Memoirist Bob Tarte returns with another hilarious look into his birdbrained world

The Michigan Eco-Traveler

A Guide to Sustainable Adventures in the Great Lakes State

By Sally Barber
Subjects: Travel, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Guidebook, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The first ever guide to green fun in the Mitten state

The Double-Crested Cormorant

Symbol of Ecological Conflict

Edited by Dennis Wild
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The struggle of a maligned and mistreated bird to compete with human interests

Extreme Michigan Weather

The Wild World of the Great Lakes State

By Paul Gross
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Decades of weather information for twenty-two cities, plus descriptions of Michigan's weather extremes

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

The Wolves of Isle Royale

A Broken Balance

By Rolf Peterson
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A new edition of a classic: the compelling firsthand account of an ancient predator-prey relationship---the Isle Royale wolf and moose dynamic

Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By Paolo Squatriti
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities

Americans and Their Land

The House Built on Abundance

By Anne Mackin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, History, American History

The story of Americans' relation to land, how it has changed in the face of diminishing resources, and what the future may hold

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies

Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System

By J. Terrence McCabe
Subjects: Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, African Studies
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya

Natural Coincidence

The Trip from Kalamazoo

By Bil Gilbert
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Memoir

Essays filled with affection, sophistication, and down-home common sense in an engagingly understated style by this prolific naturalist

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