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Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
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

Twisting in the Wind

The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy

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

Political barriers to clean energy transitions

Borne of the Wind

Michigan Sand Dunes

By Dennis Albert
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

An introduction to the ecology of Michigan's sand dunes

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast 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

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, Law, Legal History, Nature/Environment

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

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, Law

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 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

The People's Own Landscape

Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany

By Scott Moranda
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Nature/Environment
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics

Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By Karen Thornber
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Nature/Environment

Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures

Imagining the Forest

Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

By John R. Knott
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Nature/Environment

How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes

Beyond Sputnik

U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

By Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin Smith, and Jennifer McCormick
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

A timely introduction to all facets of U.S. national science policy

The Xavante in Transition

Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil

By Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, and Ricardo V. Santos
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

Illuminates the experience of a small-scale culture with large-scale change

Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries

Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription

By Donald G. Gifford
Subjects: Law, Health & Medicine, Nature/Environment, Political Science

A history and critique of public health litigation

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

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Growth Triumphant

The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

By Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like

Gardens and Neighbors

Private Water Rights in Roman Italy

By Cynthia Jordan Bannon
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Law, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

The first in-depth study of Roman water rights in Italy

Weaving a Way Home

A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story

By Leslie Van Gelder
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Anthropology, Travel, Memoir

An inquiry into how we engage with the world, and how solutions to environmental challenges can be found in the heart of our emotional relationships with places

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

Carbon Strategies

How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint

By Andrew J. Hoffman
Subjects: Business, Business Management and Leadership, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

A clear, practical guide to sustainable climate policy for business leaders and corporate change-makers

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

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