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• Infected organism
• Out of balance
• Alternatives to sunlight
• Resource extraction
• Climate change
• Scientific evidence
• Dumping grounds
• Soil degradation
• Economic interests
• Consumer commodities
• Extinction crisis
• Sustainable design
• Waste free
• Energy is the key
• Passion for place
• Task of our generation.

Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out of it, put it down, and come back for other five or ten minutes some other time. It's light reading about very difficult subjects, such as: is trying to save every single species necessarily a good thing? Is life really all that fragile? Is undisturbed nature the normal state of things? and twenty-three more insightful essays.
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Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and non-living elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have generally been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change 18 specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perpectives on historical ecology. A broad theoretical background on the material factors central to the field is presented, such as anthropogenic fire, soils, and pathogens. A series of regional applications of this knowledge base investigates landscape transformations over time in South America, the Mississippi Delta, the Great Basin, Thailand and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex, state-level societies. This book attempts to lay the groundwork for a more meaningful understanding of humankind's interaction with its biosphere.
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• Contents Introduction Richard Grusin 1. Extinction Events and Entangled Humanism William E. Connolly 2. Planetary Memories: After Extinction, the Imagined Future Jussi Parikka 3. Photography after Extinction Joanna Zylinska 4. The Six Extinctions: Visualizing Planetary Ecological Crisis Today Joseph Masco 5. Condors at the End of the World Cary Wolfe 6. It's Not the Anthropocene, It's the White Supremacy Scene
• or, the Geological Color Line Nicholas Mirzoeff 7. Lives Worth Living: Extinction, Persons, Disability Claire Colebrook 8. Biocapitalism and De-extinction Ashley Dawson 9. Surviving the Sixth Extinction: American Indian Strategies for Life in the New World Daryl Baldwin, Margaret Noodin, and Bernard C. Perley Acknowledgments Contributors Index.
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A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twenty-first century. The collection considers extinction as a cultural, artistic, and media event as well as a biological one. The authors treat extinction in relation to a variety of topics, including disability, human exceptionalism, science-fiction understandings of time and posthistory, photography, the contemporary ecological crisis, the California Condor, systemic racism, Native American traditions, and capitalism.From discussions of the anticipated sixth extinction to the status of writing, theory, and philosophy after extinction, the contributions of this volume are insightful and innovative, timely and thought provoking. Contributors: Daryl Baldwin, Miami U; Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State U; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center; Joseph Masco, U of Chicago; Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York U; Margaret Noodin, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Bernard C. Perley, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Cary Wolfe, Rice U; Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, U of London.
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• Contents Introduction Richard Grusin 1. Extinction Events and Entangled Humanism William E. Connolly 2. Planetary Memories: After Extinction, the Imagined Future Jussi Parikka 3. Photography after Extinction Joanna Zylinska 4. The Six Extinctions: Visualizing Planetary Ecological Crisis Today Joseph Masco 5. Condors at the End of the World Cary Wolfe 6. It's Not the Anthropocene, It's the White Supremacy Scene
• or, the Geological Color Line Nicholas Mirzoeff 7. Lives Worth Living: Extinction, Persons, Disability Claire Colebrook 8. Biocapitalism and De-extinction Ashley Dawson 9. Surviving the Sixth Extinction: American Indian Strategies for Life in the New World Daryl Baldwin, Margaret Noodin, and Bernard C. Perley Acknowledgments Contributors Index.
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A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twenty-first century. The collection considers extinction as a cultural, artistic, and media event as well as a biological one. The authors treat extinction in relation to a variety of topics, including disability, human exceptionalism, science-fiction understandings of time and posthistory, photography, the contemporary ecological crisis, the California Condor, systemic racism, Native American traditions, and capitalism.From discussions of the anticipated sixth extinction to the status of writing, theory, and philosophy after extinction, the contributions of this volume are insightful and innovative, timely and thought provoking. Contributors: Daryl Baldwin, Miami U; Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State U; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center; Joseph Masco, U of Chicago; Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York U; Margaret Noodin, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Bernard C. Perley, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Cary Wolfe, Rice U; Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, U of London.
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• Introduction
• An unequal terrain
• God's avid gardeners
• Nature as teacher
• Natural utopias
• A conservationist empire
• A wilderness passage into ecology
• Environmental law in the anthropocene
• What kind of democracy?

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific-emissions, pollens, extinctions-but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
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• Introduction
• An unequal terrain
• God's avid gardeners
• Nature as teacher
• Natural utopias
• A conservationist empire
• A wilderness passage into ecology
• Environmental law in the anthropocene
• What kind of democracy?

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific-emissions, pollens, extinctions-but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
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• Introduction
• An unequal terrain
• God's avid gardeners
• Nature as teacher
• Natural utopias
• A conservationist empire
• A wilderness passage into ecology
• Environmental law in the anthropocene
• What kind of democracy?

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific-emissions, pollens, extinctions-but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
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• Acknowledgements Foreword - Susan Griffin
• Introduction - Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, & Whitney A. Bauman
• Part 1: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics and Ecofeminism
• Chapter 1: Before The Death of Nature: Carolyn Iltis, the Carolyn Merchant Few People Know - J. Baird Callicott
• Chapter 2: The Death of Nature or Divorce from Nature? - Kenneth Worthy
• Chapter 3: Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature: Launching new trajectories in interdisciplinary research - Heather Eaton
• Chapter 4: From a Partnership to a Fidelity Ethic: Framing an Old Story for a New Time - Norman Wirzba
• Chapter 5: Bewitching Nature - Elizabeth Allison
• Chapter 6: Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene - Holmes Rolston, III
• Part 2: Environmental History
• Chapter 7: Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchant's Life and Leadership - Nancy C. Unger
• Chapter 8: Carolyn Merchant and The Ecological Indian - Shepard Krech III
• Chapter 9: All Our Relations: Reflections on Women, Nature, and Science - Debora Hammond
• Chapter 10: The Other Scientific Revolution: Calvinist Scientists and the Origins of Ecology - Mark Stoll
• Chapter 11: Carolyn Merchant and the Environmental Humanities in Scandinavia - Sverker Soerlin
• Part 3: The Politics of Landscapes, Embodiment, and Epistemologies
• Chapter 12: Landscape, Science, and Social Reproduction: The Long-Reaching Influence of Carolyn Merchant's Insight - Laura Alice Watt
• Chapter 13: The Spiritual Politics of the Kendeng Mountains Versus the Global Cement Industry - Dewi Candraningrum, translated by Bryanna Wilson
• Chapter 14: Toward a Political Ecology of Environmental Discourse - Yaakov Garb
• Chapter 15: Environmental History and the Materialization of Bodies - Whitney A. Bauman
• Chapter 16: A Mighty Tree is Carolyn Merchant - Pasty Hallen
• Afterword - Carolyn Merchant About the Contributors.
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Carolyn Merchant's foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified her position as one of the most influential scholars of the environment. This book examines and builds upon her decades-long legacy of innovative environmental thought and her critical responses to modern mechanistic and patriarchal conceptions of nature and women as well as her systematic taxonomies of environmental thought and action. Seventeen scholars and activists assess, praise, criticize, and extend Merchant's work to arrive at a better and more complete understanding of the human place in nature today and the potential for healthier and more just relations with nature and among people in the future. Their contributions offer personal observations of Merchant's influence on the teaching, research, and careers of other environmentalists.
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• Before The death of Nature: Carolyn Iltis, the Carolyn Merchant few people know / J. Baird Callicott
• The death of nature or divorce from nature? / Kenneth Worthy
• Carolyn Merchant's The death of nature: launching new trajectories in interdisciplinary research / Heather Eaton
• From a partnership to a fidelity ethic: framing an old story for a new time / Norman Wirzba
• Bewitching nature / Elizabeth Allison
• Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to anthropocene / Holmes Rolston III
• Personal, political, and professional: the impact of Carolyn Merchant's life and leadership / Nancy C. Unger
• Carolyn Merchant and The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III
• All our relations: reflections on women, nature, and science / Debora Hammond
• The other scientific revolution: Calvinist scientists and the origins of ecology / Mark Stoll
• Carolyn Merchant and the environmental humanities in Scandinavia / Sverker Sörlin
• Landscape, science, and social reproduction: the long-reaching influence of Carolyn Merchant's insight / Laura Alice Watt
• The spiritual politics of the Kendeng Mountains versus the global cement industry / Dewi Candraningrum
• Toward a political ecology of environmental discourse / Yaakov Garb
• Environmental history and the materialization of bodies / Whitney A. Bauman
• A mighty tree is Carolyn Merchant / Patsy Hallen
• Afterword / Carolyn Merchant

• Preface Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Introduction: The growing anthropocene consensus Julia Adeney Thomas
• Part I. Strata and Stories: 1. Science: Old and new patterns of the anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz
• 2. Humanities and social sciences: Human stories and the anthropocene earth system Julia Adeney Thomas
• Part II. One Anthropocene: Many Stories: 3. Earth system science: Gravity, the earth system and the anthropocene Will Steffen
• 4. Deep History and disease: Germs and humanity's rise to planetary dominance Kyle Harper
• 5. Anthropology: Colonialism, indigeneity, and wind power in the anthropocene Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
• 6. The ascent of the anthropoi: a story Amitav Ghosh
• 7. Politics in the anthropocene Manuel Arias-Maldonado
• 8. Very recent history and the nuclear anthropocene Kate Brown
• 9. Stratigraphy: Finding global markers in a small Canadian lake Francine McCarthy
• 10. Curating the anthropocene at Berlin's house of world culture Bernd Scherer
• Part III. Future Habitations: 11. Anthropocene ethics, as seen from a Mars mission: a story Clive Hamilton
• 12. Mutualistic cities of the near future Mark Williams, Julia Adeney Thomas, Gavin Brown, Minal Pathak, Moya Burns, Will Steffen, John Clarkson and Jan Zalasiewicz
• Afterword: Jurgen Renn and Christoph Rosol.
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Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. 'Right' in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures.
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• Quand la nuit tombe à 15 heures
• Amazonie et changement climatique
• Une forêt, des hommes...
• Agro-déforestation
• Gros oeuvre dans la forêt
• Les entrailles de la terre
• Violence entre les hommes
• Une autre Amazonie
• Internationaliser l'Amazonie ?

"Août 2019, l'Amazonie brûle, le monde diplomatique s'enflamme, la crise devient planétaire. On craint désormais l'anéantissement programmé de la forêt brésilienne. Mais le feu cache autre chose : c'est du déboisement sauvage qu'il s'agit, et qui a repris depuis que le président Jair Bolsonaro a promis d'encourager le développement productif de l'Amazonie. Ce livre, écrit dans l'urgence, retrace les multiples contradictions de l'écosystème forestier brésilien qui ont mené à cette catastrophe. Les lecteurs qui accompagnent Vision Brésil auront peut-être déjà lu certains de ces textes, distillés au long des dix années d'existence de ce blog. Leur réunion en un seul ouvrage apporte cependant un autre éclairage sur la complexité de cet univers que l'on appelle le poumon de la planète."--Page 4 of cover.

In recent decades, historical geographers have left study of nature-culture interactions to others, most notably to environmental historians. This collection of articles, most of which have been written specifically for this volume, reveals a renewed commitment by, and a rapidly accelerating research agenda for, historical geographers interested in environmental issues. Following an introductory literature review, each case study explores either the direct unplanned impact of humans on the natural environment or the deliberate management policies designed to shape that impact.
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• Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: What is Environmental History? 1 The Nature of Indian America Before Columbus Article: William M. Denevan, "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" (Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82(3) 1992: 369-385) Documents Richard Nelson, "The Watchful World" (from Richard Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (University of Chicago, 1983): 14 - 32. From Gilbert Wilson, Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987) Images of Florida Indians planting and making an offering of a stag to the sun (Images and text extracts from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, The Work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Vols. I and II). U.S. Geological Survey, map of Bitterroot Forest Reserve showing burned areas, 1890. 2 The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases and Extraordinary Animals Article: Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics" (excerpted from Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 - 1900 (Cambridge, 1987)) Documents Frank Givens, "Saynday and Smallpox: The White Man's Gift" From Thomas James, Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans John C. Ewers, "Horse Breeding" George Catlin, "Wild Horses at Play" 3 Colonial Natures: Marketing the Countryside Article: William Cronon, "A World of Fields and Fences" excerpt from Changes in the Land: Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Hill & Wang, 1983) Documents Robert Cushman, "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America" (1622) Lion Gardener, "Livestock and War in Colonial New England" Spanish priests Joseph Murguia and Thomas de la Pena explain Indian frustration with settler livestock in colonial California 4 Slavery and the South Through Environmental History Article: Mart Stewart, "Towards an Environmental History of the U.S. South" Documents newspaper advertisements for African slaves "from 'The Rice Coast' of West Africa, with knowledge of rice growing" Wilderness songs of enslaved people, William Francis Allen, Slave Songs of the United States (1867) Frederick Law Olmsted, "The Rice District" 5 Frontier Expansion and Waste Article: Alan Taylor, "Wasty Ways": Stories of American Settlement" (from Environmental History 3(3) July 1998: 291 - 309 (excerpted)). Documents James Fenimore Cooper on "The Wasty Ways of Pioneers" John J. Audubon and the Wonder of the Passenger Pigeon, 1830s Reporting on Passenger Pigeons (1850) Frederick J. Haskin, "One Bird Survives Millions" (1913) Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California Thomas Cole, Excerpt from "Essay on American Scenery" (1836) 6 Environmental Reform In City and Factory
• Article: Charles E. Rosenberg, From The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 ("Introduction, " and "The Epidemic, " from The Cholera Years (1962, rev. ed. 1987), 1-7, 13 - 39, excerpted) Documents "The Metropolitan Board of Health Suppresses Nuisances" (1866) "Underground Life-Health Officers Clean Out a Dive" (1873) San Francisco fire, 1850s Los Angeles crowd with water flowing into aqueduct Dynamited LA aqueduct, 1927. Alice Hamilton describes the industrial workplace of the early 1900s (1943) 7 Emerging Markets and Vanishing Animals
• Article: Dan Flores, "Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850" (from Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (University of Oklahoma, 2001)). Documents Billy Dixon, "Memories of buffalo hunting" (1870s) Harper's Weekly, "Curing Hides and Bones" (1874) Drake Hotel, Thanksgiving Menu, 1886 Baleen Demand and the Destruction of Whales (1907) Advertisement for Thomson's Glove-Fitting Corset (1874) "Destruction of Birds for Millinery Purposes, " (1886) "Cruelties of Fashion-Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" (1883) 8 The Many Uses of Progressive Conservation Article: Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest" (Environmental History 4(1) January 1999, 80 - 99). Documents Gifford Pinchot, "The Meaning of Conservation" "Mr. A. A. Anderson, Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer's Work" Women Activists Take on Bird Hat Fashion
• --Celia Thaxter, "Woman's Heartlessness" (1887) Charles Askins Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the South Ben Senowin testifies about being apprehended for game law violations 9 National Parks and the Trouble With Wilderness Article: William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" (from William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground (Norton, 1995).
• Documents John Muir on Saving Hetch Hetchy Peter Oscar Little Chief requests permission to hunt in Glacier Park National Parks Act, 1916-- Wilderness Act, 1964 10 Conservation and the New Deal Article: Neil Maher, "A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, " Environmental History, 7, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 435-461 (excerpt) Documents Ann Marie Low, Farmer's Daughter, Describes the New Deal
• Excerpt from Russell Moore, Roosevelt Riddles (1936) Photo Gallery--Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein Capture the Dust Bowl Eli Gorman and Deneh Bitsilly Remember New Deal Livestock Reduction in Navajo Country (1974) 11 Something In the Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, and Air Pollution
• Article: Robert Gottlieb, "Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots" (Environmental History 17(4) Winter, 1993: 1-19 (excerpted). Documents "Fallout: The Silent Killer" (1959) From Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Monsanto Corporation, excerpt from "The Desolate Year" (1962) The Hugh Moore Fund, "The Population Bomb" (1954) The Air Pollution Control Act (1955) The Clean Air Act, with amendments (2001) United Farm Workers, "Pesticides: The Poisons We Eat" (1969) 12 Environmental Protection and the Environmental Movement Article: J. Brooks Flippen, "Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism" (excerpted from Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (New Mexico, 2000): 1- 16, 46-49, 83-87, 98, 233-6, 243-4, 250, 254-5). Documents National Environmental Policy Act (1969) The Endangered Species Act (1973) From Daniel Yankelovich, "The New Naturalism" (1972) Gaylord Nelson Newsletter, "Earth Day" (1970) Black Environmentalists See "Another Side of Pollution" (1970) From Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1969) 13 Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Article: Eileen Maura McGurty, "From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement" (excerpted from Environmental History 2(3) July, 1997: 301-323. Documents Lois Gibbs on toxic waste and environmental justice(1992) From United Church of Christ, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987) The Letter that Shook a Movement (1993) Flint Water Advisory Task Force, "Final Report" (Excerpt) (2016) 14 Global Consumers and Global Environments Article: Matt Klingle, "Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History, " History and Theory, 42(4) Dec. 2003, 94 - 110 (excerpt) Documents A Botanist's Report on Bananas in Honduras (1931) The Impact of Coffee Farming on Indigenous Peoples (2005) State of Denial-California's Appetite for World Resources (2003) 15 Back-Lash Against the Environmental Movement Article: James Morton Turner, "The Specter of Environmentalism: Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right, " Journal of American History 96 (1) June, 2009: 123 - 149 Documents Map of U.S. Federal Lands (2020) Tim Peckinpaugh, "Special Report-The Specter of Environmentalism: The Threat of Environmental Groups" (1982)
• Joe Lane (National Cattlemen's Association) and Larry Echohawk (Shoshone and Bannock Tribes of Idaho), testify about the Sagebrush Rebellion (1980) Carl Pope, "The Politics of Plunder" S. Fred Singer, "The Costs of Environmental Overregulation" Mark Douglas Whitaker, "'Jobs vs. Environment' Myth" 16 Shifting Scale: Climate Change and Global Peril
• Article: Mike Hulme, "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (excerpt, from Osiris 2011 26:245-266) Documents Ben J. Wattenberg, "The Population Explosion is Over" (1996) "World Population is Expected to Nearly Stop Growing by the End of the Century" From United Nations, "World Population Prospects" (2019) Graph of Economic Growth and Air Emission Trends, 1970 - 2018 Graph of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, 1958-2020 Atmospheric CO2 concentrations, 800,000 BP-present The Acid Rain Experience, 1990-2002 Atmospheric CFC Concentration, 1977-2019 Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index, 2020 (NASA) Index .
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Explore how the peoples of America understood and changed their natural environments, remaking their politics, culture, and societies In this newly revised Second Edition of American Environmental History, celebrated environmental historian and author Louis S. Warren provides readers with insightful examination of how different American peoples created and reacted to environmental change and threats from the era before Columbus to the COVID-19 pandemic. You'll find concise editorial introductions to each chapter and interpretive interventions throughout this meticulous collection of essays and historical documents. This book covers topics as varied as Native American relations with nature, colonial invasions, American slavery, market expansion and species destruction, urbanization, Progressive and New Deal conservation, national parks, the environmental impact of consumer appetites, environmentalism and the backlash against it, environmental justice, and climate change. This new edition includes twice as many primary documents as the First Edition, along with findings from related fields such as Native American history, African American history, geography, and environmental justice. Ideal for students and researchers studying American environmental history and for those seeking historical perspectives on contemporary environmental challenges, this book will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in American history and the impact of American peoples on the environment and the world around them. Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is a two-time winner of the Caughey Western History Association Prize, a Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Albert Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Bancroft Prize in American History. .
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• Series Editor's Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: What Is Environmental History? 1. The Natures of Indian America before Columbus. Article: The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of The Americas in 1492 (William M. Denevan) Documents. 'The Watchful World' (Richard Nelson) Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden (1917) (Gilbert Neslon) Images of Florida Indians Planting and Making an Offering of a Stag to the Sun. 2. The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases And Extraordinary Animals. Article: On Virgin Soil Epidemics (Alfred Crosby) Documents. 'Saynday And Smallpox: The White Man's Gift' (1968) (Frank Givens) Three Years among The Indians And Mexicans (1822) (Thomas James) 'Horse Breeding' (1955) (John C. Ewers) 'Wild Horses At Play' (George Catlin) 3. Colonial Natures: Marketing The Countryside. Article: A World of Fields and Fences (William Cronon) Documents. 'Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing Out of England into the Parts of America' (1622) (Robert Cushman) 'Livestock and War in Colonial New England' (Lion Gardener) Explain Indian Frustration with Settler Livestock In Colonial California (1782) (Spanish Priests Joseph Murguia and Thomas De La Pena) 4. Forest and Plantation in Nineteenth-Century America.
• Section I: Clearing The Forest. Article: 'Wasty Ways': Stories of American Settlement (Alan Taylor) Documents. Wasty Ways of Pioneers (1823) (James Fenimore Cooper) What I Saw In California (1846) (Edwin Bryant)
• Section II: Nature and Slavery. Article: Rice, Water, and Power: Landscapes of Domination and Resistance in the Lowcountry, 1790 - 1880 (Mart A. Stewart) Documents. Map of Doboy and Altamaha Sounds (1856) 'The Rice District' (1856) (Frederick Law Olmsted) 5. Urban Nature And Urban Reforms. Article: The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Charles E. Rosenberg) Documents. San Francisco Fire (1850s) Crowd with empty aqueduct (1913) Dynamited Portion of LA Aqueduct (1927) 6. Markets, and the Disappearing Bison. Article: Bison Ecology And Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850 (Dan Flores) Documents. 'Memories of buffalo hunting' (Billy Dixon) 'Curing Hides and Bones' (1974) Thanksgiving Menu (1883) (Drake Hotel) 7. The Many Uses Of Conservation. Article: Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest (Benjamin Heber Johnson) Documents. 'The Meaning of Conservation' (1909) (Gifford Pinchot) Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer's Work' (1902) (A. A. Anderson) Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the South (Charles Askew) Testifies about Being Apprehended for Game Law Violations (Ben Senowin) 8. National Parks And The Trouble With Wilderness. Article: The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (William Cronon) Documents. On Saving Hetch Hetchy (1909) (John Muir) Little Chief Requests Permission to Hunt in Glacier Park, 1932 (Peter Oscar) National Parks Act, 1916 Wilderness Act, 1964. 9. Something In The Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, And Air Pollution. Article: Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots (Robert Gottlieb) Documents. 'Fallout: The Silent Killer' (1959) 'Elixirs Of Death' (1962) (Rachel Carson) The Clean Air Act (1955, 2001) 10. Environmental Protection And The Environmental Movement. Article: Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism (J. Brooks Flippen) Documents. National Environmental Policy Act (1969) The Endangered Species Act (1973) The Population Bomb (1970) (Paul Ehrlich) 11. Environmental Racism And Environmental Justice. Article: Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon (Ellen Stroud) Documents. Toxic Waste and Environmental Justice (1993) (Lois Gibbs) From United Church of Christ Toxic Wastes and 'Race In The United States (1987) The Letter That Shook a Movement'. 12. Backlash against the Environmental Movement. Documents. 'The Politics of Plunder' (1988) (Carl Pope) S. 'The Costs of Environmental Overregulation' (1993) (Fred Singer) 'Jobs vs. Environment Myth' (2000) (Mark Douglas Whitaker) 13. Legacies. Documents. 'The Population Explosion is Over' (1996) (Ben J. Wattenberg) From UN World Population Prospects 1996 and 2000. Graph of Economic Growth Areas and Air Emission Trends, 1970 - 2000. Graph Of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 1958 - 1997. The Triumph Of Diplomacy? Atmospheric CFC Graph: 1977 - 1996. Index.
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This compilation of seminal essays introduces students to the most exciting scholarship and writing on the environmental history in the United States. With primary documents that illustrate the conditions, perception, and influences of environmental issues from the pre-Columbian era to the present, the book invites students to analyze not only the connections between people and nature, but popular ideas of the environment in American history. Subjects include the changing American landscape, virgin soil epidemics and biological invasions, the impact of colonialism and industrial development, conservation, and the environmental movement and the backlash against it. An editorial introduction and headnotes for each chapter add scholarly value to the readings and documents. Students and instructors of American environmental history will find this an ideal collection for their courses and research.
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• pt. 1.: Historical overview--topics and themes
• The American environment and native-European encounters, 1000-1875
• The New England wilderness transformed, 1600-1850
• The tobacco and cotton south, 1600-1900
• Nature and the market economy, 1750-1850
• Western frontiers: the settlement of the Pacific coast and the Great Plains, 1820-1930
• Urban environments, 1850-1960
• Conservation and preservation, 1785-1950
• Indian land policy, 1800-1990
• The rise of ecology, 1890-1990
• pt. 2.: American environmental history A to Z--agencies, concepts, laws, and people
• pt. 3.: Chronology--an environmental history timeline
• pt. 4.: Resource guide.

By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.

• Table of Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Historical Overview-Topics and Themes The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875
• 3 The Physical Environment and Natural Resources
• 3 Native Americans and the Land
• 4 Pueblo Indians and the Southwest
• 6 The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest
• 9 Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast
• 11 Plains Indians and the Westward Movement
• 15 The European Transformation of the Plains
• 18 The Ecological Indian
• 21 Conclusion
• 22 The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850
• 24 The New England Forest and Indian Land Use
• 24 The Settlement of New England
• 26 Colonial Land Use
• 28 Marketing the Forest
• 29 The Forest Economy
• 32 Mind, Labor, and Nature
• 33 The Idea of Wilderness
• 34 Conclusion
• 37 The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900
• 39 The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations
• 39 Tobacco Cultivation
• 42 Slavery and Southern Agriculture
• 44 Rice and Slaves in the Low Country
• 46 Black Indians
• 49 Soil Depletion
• 50 The Cotton South
• 51 Environment and Society in the Cotton South
• 53 Cotton Production
• 55 Post-Civil War Sharecropping
• 56 The Impact of the Boll Weevil
• 57 Conclusion
• 60 Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850
• 62 The Inland Economy and the Environment
• 62 Land Use in the Inland Economy
• 64 The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People
• 65 Market Farming
• 67 The Transportation and Market Revolutions
• 68 Nature and Ambivalence About the Market Economy
• 72 African Americans and Wilderness
• 76 The Hudson River School of Painters
• 77 Artists and the Vanishing Indian
• 80 Conclusion
• 82 Western Frontiers: The Settlement of the Pacific Coast and the Great Plains, 1820-1930
• 85 Westward Expansion of the United States
• 85 California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans
• 86 The Russian Frontier in North America
• 87 California and the Gold Rush
• 89 Types of Gold Mining
• 92 Environmental Effects of Hydraulic Mining
• 94 Environmental Change in the Sierras
• 96 Salmon Extraction in the Pacific Northwest
• 97 European Settlement of the Great Plains
• 100 The Rancher's Frontier
• 102 The Farmer's Frontier
• 103 Narratives of Blacks and Women
• 105 The Dust Bowl of the 1930s
• 106 Conclusion
• 108 Urban Environments, 1850-1960
• 110 Urbanization
• 110 Industry and Energy
• 112 Industrial Cities and Labor
• 116 The City as Wilderness
• 118 Air Pollution
• 120 Garbage
• 122 Noise Pollution
• 123 Water Pollution
• 124 The Sanitary City
• 126 From City to Suburb
• 128 Minorities and Pollution
• 129 Conclusion
• 132 Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950
• 134 Colonial Land Policy
• 134 Federal Land Policy
• 136 Land Law in the Arid West
• 138 Lands for Railroads and Education
• 140 The Conservation Movement
• 141 Reclamation and Water Law
• 144 The Preservation Movement
• 146 Creation of the National Parks
• 148 New Deal Conservation
• 153 Conclusion
• 155 Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990
• 157 Indian Land Treaties
• 157 Indian Removal
• 158 The Dawes Act
• 162 Indians and the Creation of the National Parks
• 162 Indian Removal from Yosemite and Yellowstone
• 163 Legal Maneuvers in Glacier and Mesa Verde
• 166 The Winters Decision
• 168 The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights
• 170 Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation
• 172 Conclusion
• 174 The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990
• 177 Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology
• 177 Human Ecology
• 180 The Organismic Approach to Ecology
• 181 The Economic Approach to Ecology
• 185 The Influence of Chaos Theory
• 189 Conclusion
• 190 Environmentalism and Globalization, 1960-2005
• 193 From Conservation to Environmentalism
• 193 The Rise of Environmentalism
• 194 Population and the Environment
• 195 Environmental Regulation
• 196 Reactions to Environmental Regulation
• 199 Environmental Organizations
• 200 The Environmental Justice Movement
• 202 The Transformation of Consciousness
• 205 Globalization
• 206 Conclusion
• 209 American Environmental History A to Z-Agencies, Concepts, Laws, and People
• 211 Chronology-An Environmental History Timeline
• 267 Resource Guide
• 289 Visual Resources: Films and Videos
• 291 Electronic Resources
• 315 General Environmental History Resources
• 315 Environmental History Societies and Related Associations
• 316 Archival Materials
• 317 Bibliographies
• 317 Biographical Resources
• 318 Environmental Organizations and Information Centers
• 319 Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
• 320 Government Agencies
• 320 Natural History
• 321 Natural Resources
• 321 Regional Resources
• 322 Environmental Justice Resources
• 322 Teaching Resources
• 323 Course Syllabi in American Environmental History
• 324 General Environmental Education
• 324 Historical Overview Web Sites
• 325 Bibliographical Essay
• 331 Bibliography
• 343 What Is Environmental History?
• 343 Anthologies and Bibliographies
• 345 Biographies and Autobiographical Writings
• 347 African Americans and the Environment
• 353 American Indian Land Use
• 356 American Indian Religion
• 364 Asian Americans and the Environment
• 368 Environmental Philosophy and Landscape Perception
• 370 The Environmental Movement
• 378 The History of Ecology
• 382 The History of Environmental Science
• 384 Conservation History and Legislation
• 386 Agricultural History
• 392 Forest History
• 400 Mining History
• 415 Pollution
• 419 Range History
• 423 Religion and Environment
• 426 Urban Environments
• 428 Water and Irrigation History
• 434 Wilderness Preservation
• 443 Wildlife
• 449 Women and Environment
• 457 Index 461.
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By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, "American Environmental History" addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization.This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.
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• What kind of environmental history for antiquity? / W.V. Harris
• Energy consumption and the energy crisis in the Roman world / Paolo Malanima
• Fuelling ancient Mediterranean cities : a framework for charcoal research / Robyn Veal
• What climate science, Ausonius, Nile floods, rye farming, and thatched roofs tell us about the environmental history of the Roman empire / Michael McCormick
• Megadroughts, ENSO, and the invasion of late-Roman Europe by the Huns and Avars / Edward R. Cook
• The Roman world and climate : context, relevance of climate change, and some issues / Sturt Manning
• Defining and detecting deforestation in the ancient Mediterranean, 800BC to 600CE / W.V. Harris
• Problems of relating environmental history and human settlement in the classical and late-classical periods : the example of southern Jordan / Paula Kouki
• Human-environment interactions in the southern Tyrrhenian coastal area : hypotheses from Neapolis and Elea-Velia / Elda Russo Ermolli, Paolo Romano, and Maria Rosaria Ruello
• Large-scale water management projects in Roman central-southern Italy / Duncan Keenan-Jones
• The Mediterranean environment in ancient history : perspectives and prospects / Andrew Wilson.

Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together scientists and scholars who are interested in the interaction of their several disciplines as well as in specific problems such as the effects of climate change and other environmental factors on historical developments and events, the sources of the energy and fuel used in ancient civilizations, and the effects of humans on the lands around the Mediterranean. The collection balances broad Mediterranean-wide studies and tightly focused studies of particular regions in Italy and Jordan.
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• What kind of environmental history for antiquity? / W.V.Harris
• Frameworks
• Energy consumption in the Roman world / Paolo Malanima
• Fuelling ancient Mediterranean cities : a framework for charcoal research / Robyn Veal
• Climate
• What climate science, ausonius, nile floods, rye, and thatch tell us about the environmental history of the Roman empire / Michael McCormick
• Megadroughts, ENSO, and the invasion of late-roman Europe by the Huns and Avars / Edward R. Cook
• The Roman world and climate : context, relevance of climate change, and some issues / Sturt Manning
• Woodlands
• Defining and detecting mediterranean deforestation, 800 BCE to 700 CE / W.V.Harris
• Area reports
• Problems of relating environmental history and human settlement in the classical and late classical periods : the example of southern Jordan / Paula Kouki
• Human-environment interactions in the southern Tyrrhenian coastal area : hypotheses from Neapolis and Elea-Velia / Etda Russo Ermolli, Paola Romano, and Maria Rosaria Ruello
• Large-scale water management projects in Roman Central-Southem Italy / Duncan Keenan-Jones
• Finale
• The mediterranean environment in ancient history : perspectives and prospects / Andrew Wilson
• Bibliography
• Index.

Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together scientists and scholars who are interested in the interaction of their several disciplines as well as in specific problems such as the effects of climate change and other environmental factors on historical developments and events, the sources of the energy and fuel used in ancient civilizations, and the effects of humans on the lands around the Mediterranean. The collection balances broad Mediterranean-wide studies and tightly focused studies of particular regions in Italy and Jordan.
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• The legacy
• Natural extinctions
• The anthropocene
• Long-silenced songs
• Birds in trouble
• Mammals lost
• Vanishing mammals
• Why it all matters
• Drivers of death
• Beyond mourning
• Appendix. Common and scientific names of plants and animals mentioned in the book.

This book shows us the face of Earth's sixth great mass extinction, revealing that this century is a time of darkness for the world's birds and mammals. In The Annihilation of Nature, three of today's most distinguished conservationists tell the stories of the birds and mammals we have lost and those that are now on the road to extinction. These tragic tales, coupled with eighty-three color photographs from the world's leading nature photographers, display the beauty and biodiversity that humans are squandering. Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population explosion, but also as a result of massive commercial endeavors and public apathy. Despite the well-intentioned work of conservation organizations and governments, the authors warn us that not enough is being done and time is short for the most vulnerable of the world's wild birds and mammals. Thousands of populations have already disappeared, other populations are dwindling daily, and soon, our descendants may live in a world containing but a minuscule fraction of the birds and mammals we know today. The Annihilation of Nature is a clarion call for engagement and action. These outspoken scientists urge everyone who cares about nature to become personally connected to the victims of our inadequate conservation efforts and demand that restoration replace destruction. Only then will we have any hope of preventing the worst-case scenario of the sixth mass extinction.
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A Working Group of international scientists is deciding whether to declare a new geological epoch--the Anthropocene--a planet shaped more by mankind than nature. Its members tell the story of the Anthropocene and argue whether it's a tragedy, a comedy, or something more surreal. With archival footage, award-winning stills and interviews, Anthropocene proposes a common secular narrative for mankind but leaves viewers to decide how we should write the ending. The film has the blessing of Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who coined the term, and is the first feature film about the Anthropocene. It is now our turn to decide--in this decade--how the Anthropocene will end.

"A Working Group of international scientists is deciding whether to declare a new geological epoch -- the Anthropocene -- with the Earth shaped more by mankind than nature. Its members tell the story of the Anthropocene and argue whether it's a tragedy, a comedy, or something more surreal. With archival footage, award-winning stills and interviews, [the film] proposes a common secular narrative for mankind but leaves viewers to decide how we should write the ending."--Container

• Preface
• 1. The Multidisciplinary Anthropocene
• 2. The Geological Context of the Anthropocene
• 3. The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit and the Great Acceleration
• 4. The Anthropocene and Climate Change
• 5. The Anthropocene and the Biosphere's Transformation
• 6. The "Anthropos" of the Anthropocene
• 7. Economics and Politics of the Anthropocene
• 8. Existential Challenges in the Anthropocene.
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Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.
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• Origins
• Earth system
• Geologic time
• The great acceleration
• Anthropos
• Oikos
• Politikos
• Prometheus.

Climate scientists, geologists, ecologists, and archaeologists recognize the profound effects of human activity on Earth, though whether and how this should be recognized as a formal geological epoch - the Anthropocene - remains under debate, Erle Ellis describes how the Anthropocene concept is affecting the sciences, humanities, and politics.
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• 1. History and development of the Anthropocene as a stratigraphical concept Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Mark Williams, Colin Summerhayes, Martin Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jacques Grinevald, John McNeill, Naomi Oreskes, Will Steffen, Scott Wing, Phil Gibbard, Davor Vidas, Trevor Hancock and Anthony Barnosky
• 2. Stratigraphic signatures of the Anthropocene Bob Hazen, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Andy Smith, Neil Rose, Agnieszka Galuszka, An Zhisheng, Simon Price, Daniel deB. Richter, Sharon A Billings, James Syvitski and Colin Summerhayes
• 3. The biostratigraphical signature of the Anthropocene Mark Williams, Anthony Barnosky, Jan Zalasiewicz, Martin Head, Ian Wilkinson, David Aldridge, Colin Waters, Valentin Bault and Reinhold Leinfelder
• 4. The tectonosphere and its physical stratigraphical record Peter Haff, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Mark Williams, Anthony Barnosky, Reinhold Leinfelder and Juliana Ivar do Sul
• 5. Anthropocene chemostratigraphy Ian Fairchild, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Summerhayes, Colin Waters, Reinhold Leinfelder, Agnieszka Galuszka, Michael Wagreich, Neil Rose, Irka Hajdas and Catherine Jeandel
• 6. Climate change and the Anthropocene Colin Summerhayes and Alejandro Cearreta
• 7. The stratigraphical boundary of the Anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Mark Williams, Colin Summerhayes, Eric Odada, Michael Wagreich, Erich Draganits, Matt Edgeworth, J. R. McNeill, Will Steffen and Martin Head
• References
• Index.
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The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the geological time scale. The evidence ranges from chemical signals arising from pollution, to landscape changes associated with urbanisation, and biological changes associated with species invasion and extinctions. Global environmental change is placed within the context of planetary processes and deep geological time, allowing the reader to appreciate the scale of human-driven change and compare the global transition taking place today with major transitions in Earth history. This is an authoritative review of the Anthropocene for graduate students and academic researchers across scientific, social science and humanities disciplines.
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• Losing Earth
• Defining a new geological epoch : the stratigraphic justification
• Sticking to the science : the evolution of the Anthropocene concept
• The Anthropocene : why is it seen as a rupture?
• A deep adaptation agenda
• Wisdom in an age of climate crisis
• Are we doomed? Conscious evaluation : the case for hope
• Appendix: Questions about the Anthropocene disruption

• Jan Eliasson: Foreword
• 1: Eva Loevbrand, Malin Mobjoerk, and Rickard Soeder: One Earth, Multiple Worlds: Securing Collective Survival on a Human-Dominated Planet Part I: Governing the Environment and Security Nexus: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead
• 2: Bjoern-Ola Linner and Henrik Selin: Geopolitics and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
• 3: Lucile Maertens and Judith Nora Hardt: Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Security Council
• 4: Marcus D. King, Caitlin Werrell, and Francesco Femia: The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: Closing the Climate Security Governance Gaps
• 5: Dan Smith: The Security Space in the Anthropocene Speech Part II: Reimagining Security in an Entangled World
• 6: Simon Dalby: To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels
• 7: Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel: From Human Environment to Post-Human Earth: Troubling the Nature/Culture Divide in the Stockholm Declaration
• 8: Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastian Granda Henao: Whose Security/Security For Whom? Rethinking the Anthropocene Through Ontological Security Afterword.
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In June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth's biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity's own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The 50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imagine constructive ways ahead.
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A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, this years-in-the-making feature documentary narrated by Alicia Vikander, follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly ten years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth

• Introduction Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, and Thao Phan
• 1. 1080 Courtney Addison
• 2. Carbon Timothy Neale
• 3. Cement Eli Elinoff
• 4. Cheese Xenia Cherkaev, Heather Paxson, and Stefan Helmreich
• 5. Copper Manuel Tironi
• 6. Ice Alexis Rider
• 7. Kerosphere Emelie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and Zoe Todd
• 8. Lithium Scott Wark
• 9. Mould Alison Kenner and Sarah Stalcup
• 10. Mylar Derek P. McCormack
• 11. Seeds Xan Chacko
• 12. Sperm Janelle Lamoreaux and Ayo Wahlberg
• 13. Strontium Brad Bolman
• 14. Tectonics Zeynep Oguz
• 15. Testosterone J.R. Latham and Kate Seear
• 16. Virus Frederic Keck
• 17. Elements-to-Come Thao Phan
• Contributors Index.
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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen, and Knut G. Nustad 1 Part I: Materializing Structures
• 1. Uncommoning Nature: Stories from the Anthropo-Not-Seen / Marisol de la Cadena 35
• 2. Contemporary Capitalism and Dominican New Yorkers' Livery-Cab Bases: A Taxi Story / Christian Krohn-Hansen 59
• 3. Anthropos and Pragmata: On the Shape of Things to Come / Ingjerd Hoem 81 Part II: Material Potential
• 4. Tabu and Bitcoin: Fluctuating (Im)materiality in Two Nonstate Media of Exchange / Keir Martin 103
• 5. Sperm, Eggs, and Wombs: The Fabrication of Vital Matters through Legislative Acts / Marit Melhuus 122
• 6. Lithic Vitality: Human Entanglement with Nonorganic Matter / Penny Harvey 143
• 7. Traces of Pasts and Imaginings of Futures in St Lucia, South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 161 Part III: Material Uncertainties and Heterogeneous Knowledge Practices
• 8. Matters that Matter: Air and Atmosphere as Material Politics in South Africa / Rune Flikke 179
• 9. The Ghost at the Banquet: Ceremony, Community, and Industrial Growth in West Norway / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and John Law 196
• 10. When the Things We Study Respond to Each Other: Tools for Unpacking "the Material" / Anna Tsing 221 Contributors 245 Index 249.
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The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relations between the human, the material, and the political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor, economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment, agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of connecting natural and social histories, the instability and intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt to a changing world.
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• Introduction - Landscape History and Landscape Heritage - The Practice of Landscape History - The Structure and Scenery Approach - Landscapes of the Mind - Landscape, Politics and Power - The Evaluation of Landscape - Symbolic Landscapes - The Aesthetic Approach - Landscape and Place.
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Approaches to Landscape introduces and explores the main perspectives in this increasingly popular field of study. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with relevant photographs, maps and diagrams, it provides a comprehensive review of the literature and key concepts for Landscape Studies.
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• Chapter 1 Around the world in 80 species: What is mass extinction and can we stop it?
• Chapter 2 How can accounting, integrated reporting and engagement prevent extinction?
• Chapter 3 A deep ecology perspective on extinction
• Chapter 4 Species extinction and closing the loop of argument: Imagining accounting and finance as the potential cause of human extinction
• Chapter 5 Recovered species? The eastern North Pacific grey whale unusual mortality event, 1999-2000
• Chapter 6 The Natural Capital Protocol and the honey bee
• Chapter 7 Extraction and extinction: The role of investors in ensuring the marine health of the planet
• Chapter 8 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): An appraisal.
• Chapter 9 Extinction accounting by South African listed companies
• Chapter 10 Business contributions to extinction risk mitigation for black rhinos in Laikipia, Kenya
• Chapter 11 Extinction accounting by the public sector: South African National Parks
• Chapter 12 Extinction accounting in European zoos: Reporting and practice of conservation programmes to prevent animals from extinction
• Chapter 13 An RSPB perspective on extinction and extinction prevention: How is the RSPB collaborating and partnering with business to prevent extinction?
• Chapter 14 Endangered house sparrows and thriving red kites: Do we have useful metrics for sustainability?
• Chapter 15 Deforestation risk and the tissue industry in Italy
• Chapter 16 Accounting for captive belugas: a whale of a business
• Chapter 17 An ecological auto-ethnography of a monarch butterfly
• Chapter 18 Accounting for survival of polar bears: an arctic icon on thin ice
• Chapter 19 Panda accounting and accountability: Preventing giant panda extinction in China
• Chapter 20 Some reflections on extinction accounting, engagement and species.
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The world is currently experiencing a sixth period of mass species extinction, and extinction of flora and fauna is caused by a variety of factors arising from industrial activity and increasing human population, such as global warming, climate change, habitat loss, pollution and use of pesticides. Most causes of extinction are linked to corporate activity, either directly or indirectly. Around the World in 80 Species: Exploring the Business of Extinction responds to the ongoing mass extinction crisis engulfing our planet by exploring the ways in which accounting, business and finance can be used to prevent species extinctions. From Africa to the Far East and from Europe to the Americas, the authors explore species loss and how businesses can stop mass extinctions through greater transparency, and through closer engagement with their investors and wildlife organisations. The book concludes that global capitalism has led us to this extinction crisis and that therefore the mechanisms of capitalism - namely accounting, finance, investment - can help to pull us out. Businesses must urgently address extinction before it is too late for all species, including ourselves. As the first book to explore corporate accounting and accountability in relation to species on the brink of extinction, this book will be of great interest to both professionals and a wider audience interested in the causes and prevention of extinction.
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• Contents Ghosts on a Damaged Planet Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson 1. A Garden or a Grave?: The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region Lesley Stern In the Midst of Damage 2. Marie Curie's Fingerprint: Nuclear Spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone Kate Brown 3. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed Deborah Bird Rose Footprints of the Dead 4. Future Megafaunas: A Historical Perspective on the Scope for a Wilder Anthropocene Jens-Christian Svenning 5. Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary Thinking Andreas Hejnol 6. No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of Spacetimemattering Karen Barad 7. Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene Nils Bubandt What Remains 8. Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories Andrew S. Mathews 9. Establishing New Worlds: The Lichens of Petersham Anne Pringle Coda: Concept and Chronotope Mary Louise Pratt Contributors Index
• Contents Monsters and the Arts of Living Acknowledgments Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan 1. Deep in Admiration Ursula K. Le Guin Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies 2. Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble Donna Haraway 3. Noticing Microbial Worlds: The Post Modern Synthesis in Biology Margaret McFall-Ngai Beyond Individuals 4. Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the Concretion of Cooperative Processes Scott F. Gilbert 5. Wolf, or Homo Homini Lupus Carla Freccero 6. Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication "All the Way Down" Marianne Elisabeth Lien 7. Without Planning: The Evolution of Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies Deborah M. Gordon At the Edge of Extinction 8. Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot Birds Peter Funch 9. Remembering in Our Amnesia, Seeing in Our Blindness Ingrid M. Parker Coda. Beautiful Monsters: Terra in the Cyanocene Dorion Sagan Contributors Index.
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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent \u201carts of living.\u201d Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication\u2019s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
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• Contents Ghosts on a Damaged Planet Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson 1. A Garden or a Grave?: The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region Lesley Stern In the Midst of Damage 2. Marie Curie's Fingerprint: Nuclear Spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone Kate Brown 3. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed Deborah Bird Rose Footprints of the Dead 4. Future Megafaunas: A Historical Perspective on the Scope for a Wilder Anthropocene Jens-Christian Svenning 5. Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary Thinking Andreas Hejnol 6. No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of Spacetimemattering Karen Barad 7. Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene Nils Bubandt What Remains 8. Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories Andrew S. Mathews 9. Establishing New Worlds: The Lichens of Petersham Anne Pringle Coda: Concept and Chronotope Mary Louise Pratt Contributors Index
• Contents Monsters and the Arts of Living Acknowledgments Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan 1. Deep in Admiration Ursula K. Le Guin Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies 2. Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble Donna Haraway 3. Noticing Microbial Worlds: The Post Modern Synthesis in Biology Margaret McFall-Ngai Beyond Individuals 4. Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the Concretion of Cooperative Processes Scott F. Gilbert 5. Wolf, or Homo Homini Lupus Carla Freccero 6. Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication "All the Way Down" Marianne Elisabeth Lien 7. Without Planning: The Evolution of Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies Deborah M. Gordon At the Edge of Extinction 8. Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot Birds Peter Funch 9. Remembering in Our Amnesia, Seeing in Our Blindness Ingrid M. Parker Coda. Beautiful Monsters: Terra in the Cyanocene Dorion Sagan Contributors Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent \u201carts of living.\u201d Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication\u2019s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
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• Contents Ghosts on a Damaged Planet Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson 1. A Garden or a Grave?: The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region Lesley Stern In the Midst of Damage 2. Marie Curie's Fingerprint: Nuclear Spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone Kate Brown 3. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed Deborah Bird Rose Footprints of the Dead 4. Future Megafaunas: A Historical Perspective on the Scope for a Wilder Anthropocene Jens-Christian Svenning 5. Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary Thinking Andreas Hejnol 6. No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of Spacetimemattering Karen Barad 7. Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene Nils Bubandt What Remains 8. Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories Andrew S. Mathews 9. Establishing New Worlds: The Lichens of Petersham Anne Pringle Coda: Concept and Chronotope Mary Louise Pratt Contributors Index
• Contents Monsters and the Arts of Living Acknowledgments Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan 1. Deep in Admiration Ursula K. Le Guin Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies 2. Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble Donna Haraway 3. Noticing Microbial Worlds: The Post Modern Synthesis in Biology Margaret McFall-Ngai Beyond Individuals 4. Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the Concretion of Cooperative Processes Scott F. Gilbert 5. Wolf, or Homo Homini Lupus Carla Freccero 6. Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication "All the Way Down" Marianne Elisabeth Lien 7. Without Planning: The Evolution of Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies Deborah M. Gordon At the Edge of Extinction 8. Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot Birds Peter Funch 9. Remembering in Our Amnesia, Seeing in Our Blindness Ingrid M. Parker Coda. Beautiful Monsters: Terra in the Cyanocene Dorion Sagan Contributors Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent \u201carts of living.\u201d Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication\u2019s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgements The Global Present and Long-term Perspectives of Nature and History: An Introduction Gunnel Cederlof and Mahesh Rangarajan
• 1. Provincializing the Anthropocene: Eurocentrism in the Earth System Kathleen D. Morrison
• 2. Anthropogenic Landscapes of the Central Himalayas Vasudha Pande
• 3. Wild Children Michael Adams
• 4. An Historical Ecology of Cattle in Mozambique Anneli Ekblom
• 5. Wild Beasts in the City Harini Nagendra
• 6. History Eats its Young: The Perils of Short-Termism in Understanding the Past Sandra Swart
• 7. Going, Going, Gone: A History of Israel's Biodiversity Alon Tal
• 8. History and the Militarized Landscape: Long Historical and Broad Social Views David Biggs
• 9. 'Natural' No More? Delhi's Yamuna River Ravi Agarwal
• 10. South Asia's Coastal Frontiers Sunil Amrith
• 11. Narratives from Indian Seas: Marine Resource Use, Ecosystem Responses, and Accidents of History Rohan Arthur
• 12. Expanding Nature Conservation: Considering Wide Landscapes and Deep Histories T. R. Shankar Raman Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research covering countries from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the authors come together to ask how and why human impacts on nature have grown in scale and pace from a long pre-history. The chapters in this volume illumine specific patterns and responses across time, going beyond an overt centring of the European experience. The tapestry of life and the human reshaping of environments evoke both concern and hope, making it vital to understand when, why, and how we came to this particular turn in the road. Eschewing easy labels and questioning eurocentrism in today's climate vocabulary, this is a volume that will stimulate rethinking among scholars and citizens alike.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Table of Contents Acknowledgements The Global Present and Long-term Perspectives of Nature and History: An Introduction Gunnel Cederlof and Mahesh Rangarajan
• 1. Provincializing the Anthropocene: Eurocentrism in the Earth System Kathleen D. Morrison
• 2. Anthropogenic Landscapes of the Central Himalayas Vasudha Pande
• 3. Wild Children Michael Adams
• 4. An Historical Ecology of Cattle in Mozambique Anneli Ekblom
• 5. Wild Beasts in the City Harini Nagendra
• 6. History Eats its Young: The Perils of Short-Termism in Understanding the Past Sandra Swart
• 7. Going, Going, Gone: A History of Israel's Biodiversity Alon Tal
• 8. History and the Militarized Landscape: Long Historical and Broad Social Views David Biggs
• 9. 'Natural' No More? Delhi's Yamuna River Ravi Agarwal
• 10. South Asia's Coastal Frontiers Sunil Amrith
• 11. Narratives from Indian Seas: Marine Resource Use, Ecosystem Responses, and Accidents of History Rohan Arthur
• 12. Expanding Nature Conservation: Considering Wide Landscapes and Deep Histories T. R. Shankar Raman Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research covering countries from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the authors come together to ask how and why human impacts on nature have grown in scale and pace from a long pre-history. The chapters in this volume illumine specific patterns and responses across time, going beyond an overt centring of the European experience. The tapestry of life and the human reshaping of environments evoke both concern and hope, making it vital to understand when, why, and how we came to this particular turn in the road. Eschewing easy labels and questioning eurocentrism in today's climate vocabulary, this is a volume that will stimulate rethinking among scholars and citizens alike.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1. Ouvrir les yeux sur le XXIe siècle
• Haut Bas Fragile
• Entre nature et culture
• Les tentacules de l'histoire
• La confiscation des couleurs
• Poésie périurbaine
• L'éternité toc de l'agriculture intensive
• "la chaleur pénètre au cœur de la montagne - témoignage de Bertrand Delapierre, réalisateur et alpiniste
• "au cœur de la forêt, je ne me sens ni un intrus, ni un envahisseur - témoignage de jakub Rok, chercheur et activiste polonais
• 2. Les deuils de lieux
• Ces paysages qui font partie de nous
• Au commencement était le déracinement
• Les lieux peuvent-ils renaître
• "là où il subsiste des animaux en milieu naturel, le tourisme tend à se développer - témoignage de Pamela Carzon, chercheuse en biologie marine habitant la Polynésie
• "les animaux, je vois de l'espoir au fond de leurs yeux - témoignage de Picket Chabwedzeka, ranger au Zimbabwe
• 3. Rencontrer (encore) l'animal sauvage
• Nous ne sommes pas seuls
• La bibliothèque comme ultime réserve
• Anatomie de la rencontre
• L'orchestre naturel
• "le Bouddha, est la nature - témoignage de Genyû Sôkyû, moine zen et écrivain japonais
• "profiter du jour présent - témoignage de Thomassie Mangiok, habitant du Nunavik, Canada
• 4. Comment le réchauffement climatique fait fondre l'esthétique d'Emmanuel Kant
• Des cigales en hiver
• Le beau fait-il bon ménage avec le bien ?
• Théorie de la déception
• "en apparence, la majesté des lieux est intacte - témoignage de Xavier Lazzaro, écologiste lacustre établi en Bolivie
• "les guerres modifient le comportement des gens vis-à-vis des lieux - témoignage de Josaphat Rubenga, écologiste congolais
• 5. A quoi ressemblera l'avenir ?
• La mobilisation des affects
• Un argument métaphysique.

"Voilà un geste que nous avons tous fait : nous nous apprêtons à prendre une photographie d'un paysage, mais il y a un pylône. Qu'importe, nous cadrons de façon à ce que ce détail gênant n'apparaisse pas sur l'image. Le véritable panorama qui nous entoure - avec ses routes, ses lotissements, ses traces multiples de la civilisation industrielle -, nous refusons de le voir. La littérature écologique, qui chante les grands espaces et la rencontre avec les animaux sauvages, contribue largement à nous maintenir dans l'illusion que nous vivons au cœur d'une nature vierge. Mais ce monde-là n'existe plus, ou seulement dans des zones circonscrites par l'humain, les réserves naturelles. Bien des paysages de notre enfance n'existent déjà plus. Cet essai ose affronter les questions qui dérangent, et qu'il n'est plus possible d'esquiver : à l'heure du réchauffement climatique et de l'Anthropocène, quels liens sensoriels et émotionnels pouvons-nous tisser avec notre environnement ? Quel type de plaisir et d'émerveillement pouvons-nous encore y trouver ? Pourra-t-on ressusciter les paysages disparus ? En nous faisant voyager de la mer Baltique au lac Titicaca, en passant par les collines de Bourgogne, Taïwan ou la passe de Tiputa, ce livre nous ouvre les yeux sur la nature abîmée. Une lucidité d'autant plus urgente qu'elle ne conduit ni à l'apathie, ni à la tristesse, mais à l'engagement."--Page 4 of cover.

"Ce livre est offert à l'anthropologue Philippe Descola, professeur au Collège de France (chaire "anthropologie de la nature") à l'occasion de sa retraite par un collectif amical d'humains et de non-humains - génies et fées qui ont veillé sur ce présent. Il mêle les travaux de soixante-seize auteurs internationaux : étudiants qu'il a dirigés, chercheurs avec lesquels il a travaillé ou échangé, artistes qu'il a inspirés. Anthropologues, archéologues, économistes, écrivains, épistémologues, ethnologues, dessinateurs, géographes, historiens, jardiniers-paysagistes, naturalistes, philosophes, peintres, photographes, poètes, réalisateurs et sociologues joignent leurs appareils, outils, pinceaux, plumes et voix, de l'Europe à l'Asie du Sud-Est, de la Sibérie à l'Océanie, de l'Afrique aux Amériques, aux Andes, à l'Amazonie, pour témoigner des effets de la pensée descolienne sur la façon dont l'humanité se perçoit par rapport à la nature selon époques, sociétés et cultures. Dans une approche interdisciplinaire, ce recueil propose un point mondial sur l'anthropologie de la nature ainsi qu'une synthèse critique de l'oeuvre de Philippe Descola. Au seuil de la forêt la plus anthropisée et de la culture la plus sauvage - ou l'inverse ? la forme, physicalité peut-être inhumaine et cependant bien humaine (ou trop humaine ?) que cette constellation de points lumineux particulier renvoie dans le ciel est bien celle de Philippe Descola dont l'intériorité nous encourage à aller de l'avant sur les pistes pionnières qu'il a ouvertes et qui ne demandent qu'à être prolongées."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction PART ONE: AUSTRALIA 1770
• 1. The quiet continent: Australia 1770
• 2. The land
• 3. The seasons
• 4. The ecosystems
• 5. The Indigenes PART TWO: AUSTRALIA 1990
• 6. The unquiet continent: Australia 1990
• 7. The maritime landscapes
• 8. The pastoral landscapes
• 9. The agricultural landscapes
• 11. The mining landscapes
• 12. Urban landscapes - origins and evolution
• 13. Urban landscapes - patterns and processes
• 14. The relict landscapes PART THREE: VISIONS OF AUSTRALIA 1770-1990s
• 15. Sources and problems of interpretation of the visions of Australia 1770-1990s
• 16. Six visions of Australia 1770-1990s PROSPECT A note on the sources Bibliography Index.
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This edition traces the evolution of the landscape following the settlement of Europeans and assesses the impact on continental ecosystems. It identifies problems that have resulted, leaving the future sustainability of agriculture debatable. These problems include: * breakdown of traditional aboriginal society * soil erosion * destruction of wildlife * spread of noxious plants and animals * environmental pollution.
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• Introduction
• The wide brown land
• The broad blue ocean
• "The tragic ringbarked forests" : Australia 1788-1900
• "Broad, busy bulldozed acres" : Australia 1901-2001
• "And mar the loveliness of ages" : New Zealand and the Pacific to 2001
• Contemporary concerns
• Case studies.

• Act like everything is local (because it is)
• Respect the thin blue line
• Live like crew, not a passenger
• Never underestimate the importance of bugs
• Go slow to go fast
• Stay grounded
• Whatever you do, make life better

When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the scale of the daunting task at hand-and yet, she believes we can set aside our differences and work together to tackle the most challenging planetary problems humanity has ever faced. She knows this, because she's seen it happen, on the International Space Station. Throughout her book, Stott imparts hard-won lessons in high-stakes problem solving, survival, and responding to crisis in space. On a space station, astronauts can't wait for someone else to handle a rescue; and when it comes to our earthbound problems, Stott learned that everyone should live like a crewmember, not like a passenger. In space, where everyone survives in a closed system, everything is local-and Stott discovered that in a profound way, the same is true back at home. Back to Earth distills these lessons and more into seven principles that can be practiced by each and every one of us to make much-needed change. In addition to sharing stories from her own spaceflight, Stott offers eye-opening insights from scientists and changemakers already sparking meaningful change in their communities and around the globe. She explores the complexities and splendor of the earth's biodiversity, and what it takes to preserve it, with both pioneering scientists on earth and engineers working to enable life in space. She meets with activists who use their time in space to advocate for clean water, and with executives who quit their corporate positions and use their global reach to become environmental leaders. Through her stirring call to action, Nicole Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect the Earth and one another-and to change our own lives in the process. And, while we're at it, we might just save humanity.
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本书作者沿百年前西方植物学家走过的路线重 新拍摄了照片. 通过250组近520帧连接百年进空的新老对比照片, 展示了中国西部的巨大变化, 给人一种心灵震撼. 本书作者沿百年前西方植物学家走过的路线重 新拍摄了照片. 通过250组近520帧连接百年进空的新老对比照片, 展示了中国西部的巨大变化, 给人一种心灵震撼.

• Preface
• Bookmap
• Part 1. In Search of Honesty
• 1. Pretending
• 2. Brainstorming Has Its Limits
• 3. Nothing Simple
• 4. The Comforts of Fantasy
• Part 2. Keeping Track of Our Losses
• 5. Rejecting Gifts
• 6. The Uses and Risks of Adaptation
• 7. When Machines Replace People
• 8. Pseudocommunities
• 9. Obsolescence
• 10. Accelerating Social Evolution
• 11. Writing
• Part 3. Towards a Sustainable Economics
• 12. Affluence and Austerity
• 13. Energy and Friendly Fire
• 14. Durable Goods
• 15. Preserving Our Capital
• 16. Conservation for Profit
• 17. Hot Spots and the Globalization of Conservation
• 18. Putting a Value on Nature
• 19. The Downside of Corporate Immortality
• Part 4. Relating to Nature in a Human-Dominated World
• 20. Wilderness as Teacher
• 21. As Opposing View of Nature
• 22. Death of a Plastic Palm
• 23. Scientific Discoveries and Nature's Mysteries
• 24. I Reinvent Agriculture
• 25. Thinking about Breeds and Species
• 26. Strangers in Our Own Land
• 27. Teaching Field Ecology
• 28. The Ubiquitous Right-of-Way
• 29. A Walk in the Woods
• 30. Old Growth
• 31. Intimacy with Nature
• Part 5. Restoring the Community
• 32. The Utopia Fallacy
• 33. Traditions
• 34. Jane Austen and the World of the Community
• 35. Universities, Schools, and Communities
• 36. What Do We Owe Our Children?
• 37. Epilogue: A Call for Fusion and Regeneration
• Notes
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve today's hard questions about society and the environment. The book focuses on our present-day retreat from reality, our alienation from nature, our unthinking acceptance of new technology and rejection of the old, the loss of our ability to discriminate between events we can control and those we cannot, the denial of non-economic values, and the decline of local communities. If we are aware of what we are losing and why we are losing it, the author notes, all of these patterns are reversible. Through down-to-earth examples, ranging from a family canoe trip in the wilderness to the novels of Jane Austen to Chinese turtle and tiger farms, Ehrenfeld shows how we can use what we learn to move ourselves and our society towards a more stable, less frantic, and far more satisfying life, a life in which we are no longer compelled to damage ourselves and our environment, in which our children have a future, and in which fewer species are endangered and more rivers run clean. In the final chapter, he offers a dramatic view of the possibilities inherent in a fusion of the best elements of conservatism and liberalism. Our society has an inherent sense of what is right, says Ehrenfeld, and the creativity and persistence to make good things happen. It is now time to apply our intelligence, guided by our moral judgment, to the very large problems we all face. This book is an important first step.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface
• Bookmap
• Part 1. In Search of Honesty
• 1. Pretending
• 2. Brainstorming Has Its Limits
• 3. Nothing Simple
• 4. The Comforts of Fantasy
• Part 2. Keeping Track of Our Losses
• 5. Rejecting Gifts
• 6. The Uses and Risks of Adaptation
• 7. When Machines Replace People
• 8. Pseudocommunities
• 9. Obsolescence
• 10. Accelerating Social Evolution
• 11. Writing
• Part 3. Towards a Sustainable Economics
• 12. Affluence and Austerity
• 13. Energy and Friendly Fire
• 14. Durable Goods
• 15. Preserving Our Capital
• 16. Conservation for Profit
• 17. Hot Spots and the Globalization of Conservation
• 18. Putting a Value on Nature
• 19. The Downside of Corporate Immortality
• Part 4. Relating to Nature in a Human-Dominated World
• 20. Wilderness as Teacher
• 21. As Opposing View of Nature
• 22. Death of a Plastic Palm
• 23. Scientific Discoveries and Nature's Mysteries
• 24. I Reinvent Agriculture
• 25. Thinking about Breeds and Species
• 26. Strangers in Our Own Land
• 27. Teaching Field Ecology
• 28. The Ubiquitous Right-of-Way
• 29. A Walk in the Woods
• 30. Old Growth
• 31. Intimacy with Nature
• Part 5. Restoring the Community
• 32. The Utopia Fallacy
• 33. Traditions
• 34. Jane Austen and the World of the Community
• 35. Universities, Schools, and Communities
• 36. What Do We Owe Our Children?
• 37. Epilogue: A Call for Fusion and Regeneration
• Notes
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve today's hard questions about society and the environment. The book focuses on our present-day retreat from reality, our alienation from nature, our unthinking acceptance of new technology and rejection of the old, the loss of our ability to discriminate between events we can control and those we cannot, the denial of non-economic values, and the decline of local communities. If we are aware of what we are losing and why we are losing it, the author notes, all of these patterns are reversible. Through down-to-earth examples, ranging from a family canoe trip in the wilderness to the novels of Jane Austen to Chinese turtle and tiger farms, Ehrenfeld shows how we can use what we learn to move ourselves and our society towards a more stable, less frantic, and far more satisfying life, a life in which we are no longer compelled to damage ourselves and our environment, in which our children have a future, and in which fewer species are endangered and more rivers run clean. In the final chapter, he offers a dramatic view of the possibilities inherent in a fusion of the best elements of conservatism and liberalism. Our society has an inherent sense of what is right, says Ehrenfeld, and the creativity and persistence to make good things happen. It is now time to apply our intelligence, guided by our moral judgment, to the very large problems we all face. This book is an important first step.
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• Foreword : medieval bestiaries and Anthropocenic hybrid creatures / Nicolas Nova
• Kingdom of minerals : hybrid rocks, mountains, craters, bones and other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of animals : hybrid eagles, goats, dolphins, crabs, turtles, caterpillars, cows, rats, & other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of plants : hybrid trees, bushes, flowers, seeds, and other misc. specimens
• Kingdom of miscellaneous : hybrid viruses, mushrooms, clouds, and other misc. specimens
• Observations : medieval bestiaries, negative commons, laboratory planet.... On bestiaries (re-calling creatures of the Anthropocene) / Pierre-Olivier Dittman
• On classification (what kind of novum organum would it be?) / Matthieu Duperrex
• On artificiality (the artificial plan) / Benjamin H. Bratton
• On recombinant commons (temporary manifesto for a laboratory of recombinant commons / Aliens in Green
• On negative commons (the shadow over Centreville [and many more territories]) / Alexandre Monnin
• On anthropogenic landscapes (unintentional design in the Anthropocene) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• On life with the non-living (the raw material of the human world) / Michel Lussault
• On planetary indigestion (step into our O.F.F.I.C.E.) / The Center for Genomic Gastronomy
• On ferality (the great "feral Roomba" dismissal) / Pauline Briand
• On temporalities (towards a gestalt switch) / Geoffrey C. Bowker

"An illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas... each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming "post-natural" era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us. A Bestiary of the Anthropocene seeks to capture this precise moment when the biosphere and technosphere merge and mesh into one new hybrid body. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is "natural" or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? What new specimens are currently populating our planet at the beginning of the 21st century?" -- Page 4 of cover

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History
• 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America
• 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War
• 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres
• 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness
• 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II
• 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War
• 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World
• 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement
• Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than "great women in environmental history, " this book examines the intersections that shaped women's unique environmental concerns and activism, and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women discussed include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, immigrants, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, lesbians, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political, and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. The housekeeping role assigned to women has long been recognized as important in environmental history. But that emphasis ignores the vast range of their influence and experiences. Enslaved women, left to do the fieldwork in disproportionate numbers, used their environmental knowledge to subtly undermine their masters, hastening the coming of the Civil War. Many pregnant women, faced with childbirth on the western trails, eyed frontier environments with considerable apprehension. In more recent times, lesbians have created alternative environments to resist homophobia and, in many economically disadvantaged communities, women have been at the forefront of the fight against environmental racism. Women are not always the heroes in this story, as when the popularity of hats lavishly decorated with feathers brought some bird species to near extinction. For better, and sometimes for worse, women have played a unique role in the shaping of the American environment. Their stories feature vibrant characters and shine a light on an underappreciated, often inspiring, and always complex history.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History
• 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America
• 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War
• 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres
• 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness
• 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II
• 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War
• 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World
• 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement
• Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than "great women in environmental history, " this book examines the intersections that shaped women's unique environmental concerns and activism, and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women discussed include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, immigrants, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, lesbians, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political, and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. The housekeeping role assigned to women has long been recognized as important in environmental history. But that emphasis ignores the vast range of their influence and experiences. Enslaved women, left to do the fieldwork in disproportionate numbers, used their environmental knowledge to subtly undermine their masters, hastening the coming of the Civil War. Many pregnant women, faced with childbirth on the western trails, eyed frontier environments with considerable apprehension. In more recent times, lesbians have created alternative environments to resist homophobia and, in many economically disadvantaged communities, women have been at the forefront of the fight against environmental racism. Women are not always the heroes in this story, as when the popularity of hats lavishly decorated with feathers brought some bird species to near extinction. For better, and sometimes for worse, women have played a unique role in the shaping of the American environment. Their stories feature vibrant characters and shine a light on an underappreciated, often inspiring, and always complex history.
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This exciting third book from David Bristow covers everything environmental in South Africa that you always wanted to know about. Subjects including pesticides, poaching, petrol, plastics, population, pollination, pollution, pods, politics, pharmaceuticals, people, prophets, power and poop. Find out what industrially manufactured foods and large-scale farming are doing to us; how state capture has derailed our civil service and triggered sewerage spills, oil slicks and air pollution; who benefits most from health supplements; and what are the real costs of generating power and what works best - coal, nuclear, fracking, solar or wind. You will also read about the good deeds of our eco heroes: those who bring water and hope to stricken towns; who farm regeneratively and sell us wholesome foods; who clean up other people's messes; as well as individual superheroes who nurture their own back gardens. This book celebrates some of them. Written in the same engaging style as his previous two books in the series Stories from the Veld (The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep and Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes), this book is a journey into unravelling the environmental landscape of South Africa. And then comes the hardest questions: are you going to contribute to a green future or a brown past?
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• 1. A Bird's-Eye View
• 2. Planetary Beginnings
• 3. Enter Human Ingenuity
• 4. Conundrums of Settled Life
• 5. Ratchets from Afar
• 6. Smash Open the Bottlenecks
• 7. Monocultures March Across the Midwest
• 8. Competition for the Bounty
• 9. The Revolution Goes Global
• 10. Farmer to Urbanite.
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Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened, of the ratchets, the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. The Big Ratchet itself came in the twentieth century, when a range of technologies, from fossil fuels to scientific plant breeding to nitrogen fertilizers, combined to nearly quadruple our population in a century, and to grow our food supply even faster. To some, these technologies are a sign of our greatness to others, of our hubris. MacArthur fellow and Columbia University professor Ruth DeFries argues that the debate is the wrong one to have. Limits do exist, but every limit that has confronted us, we have surpassed. That cycle of crisis and growth is the story of our history indeed, it is the essence of The Big Ratchet. Understanding it will reveal not just how we reached this point in our history, but how we might survive it.
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• Introduction : Biophilia
• Attraction
• Reason
• Aversion
• Exploitation
• Affection
• Dominion
• Spirituality
• Symbolism
• Childhood
• Design
• Ethics and everyday life.

Human health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia-the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature-sets forth the first full account of nature's powerful influence on the quality of our lives. Stephen Kellert asserts that our capacities to think, feel, communicate, create, and find meaning in life all depend upon our relationship to nature. And yet our increasing disconnection and alienation from the natural world reflect how seriously we have undervalued its important role in our lives. Weaving scientific findings together with personal experiences and perspectives, Kellert explores how our humanity in the most fundamental sense-including our physical health, and capacities for affection, aversion, intellect, control, aesthetics, exploitation, spirituality, and communication are deeply contingent on the quality of our connections to the natural world. Because of this dependency, the human species has developed over the course of its evolution an inherent need to affiliate with nature. But, like much of what it means to be human, this inborn tendency must be learned to become fully functional. In other words, it is a birthright that must be earned. He discusses how we can restore this balance to nature by means of changes in how we raise children, educate ourselves, use land and resources, develop building and community design, practice our ethics, and conduct our everyday lives. Kellert's moving book provides exactly what is needed now: a fresh understanding of how much our essential humanity relies on being a part of the natural world.
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• List of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between
• 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000-1778
• 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange, and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778-1848
• 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845-1869
• 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893
• 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai'i: Making an American Molokai, 1893-1957
• 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of "the Most Hawaiian Island" Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history. .
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• List of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between
• 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000-1778
• 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange, and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778-1848
• 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845-1869
• 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893
• 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai'i: Making an American Molokai, 1893-1957
• 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of "the Most Hawaiian Island" Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history. .
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• List of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between
• 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000-1778
• 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange, and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778-1848
• 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845-1869
• 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893
• 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai'i: Making an American Molokai, 1893-1957
• 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of "the Most Hawaiian Island" Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history. .
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The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a biological network of millions of other species. What is our proper relationship to wild animals-and what is our responsibility to them? In "The Bullhead Queen, " Sue Leaf exemplifies the moral aspect of humans to nature through a collection of engaging meditations on the places she sees every day on Pioneer Lake in east-central Minnesota. Reflecting on the birds she peers at through binoculars and the Lutheran church that anchors the lake's southern shore, Leaf contemplates how her relationship to nature has been colored by the Christian theology of her childhood. Acknowledging the influence of the church on her view of the natural world, she follows the liturgical calendar as a thread, chronicling the change of seasons over the year. Leaf considers the results of the assumption that nature is ours to use: we continue to fish, trap, and hunt animals whose populations are ghosts of their former selves and produce mounting environmental pressures on their habitats. Observing the ways in which the heavy hand of human beings has changed the landscape of Pioneer Lake, and many others like it, she also rejoices in the ways in which the lakes remain wild and exuberant, influencing the lives of all who encounter them.
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• Foreword by William CrononPreface to the 1998 Paperback EditionPreface to the Original Edition: Firestick HistoryMap of AustraliaMap of Australia's VegetationPrologue: Dust to DustBOOK ONE: THE EUCALYPTThe Universal AustralianUnemaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a PyrophyteRed Centre: Fire Regimes of Old AustraliaLand of ContrariesBOOK TWO: THE ABORIGINEFlaming FrontFierstick Farmer: Profile of a PyrophileFires of the DreamingSmokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal AustraliaThis Wonderful Depository of FireBOOK THREE: THE EUROPEANEntwining FireReconnaissance by Fire: Education of a PyrophileRed Steer and Green PickBeyond the Black StumpFire ConservancyBurning Off: Fire Provinces of European AustraliaWhen the Billy BoiledBOOK FOUR: THE NEW AUSTRALIANThe Two FiresAntipodean Fire: The Australian StrategyWild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes in New AustraliaEpilogue: Ashes to AshesNotesBibliographic EssayIndex.
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Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers."Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies."-New York Times Book Review.
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• Foreword by William CrononPreface to the 1998 Paperback EditionPreface to the Original Edition: Firestick HistoryMap of AustraliaMap of Australia's VegetationPrologue: Dust to DustBOOK ONE: THE EUCALYPTThe Universal AustralianUnemaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a PyrophyteRed Centre: Fire Regimes of Old AustraliaLand of ContrariesBOOK TWO: THE ABORIGINEFlaming FrontFierstick Farmer: Profile of a PyrophileFires of the DreamingSmokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal AustraliaThis Wonderful Depository of FireBOOK THREE: THE EUROPEANEntwining FireReconnaissance by Fire: Education of a PyrophileRed Steer and Green PickBeyond the Black StumpFire ConservancyBurning Off: Fire Provinces of European AustraliaWhen the Billy BoiledBOOK FOUR: THE NEW AUSTRALIANThe Two FiresAntipodean Fire: The Australian StrategyWild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes in New AustraliaEpilogue: Ashes to AshesNotesBibliographic EssayIndex.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers."Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies."-New York Times Book Review.
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Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandings.
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Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley's work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J. B. Jackson as editor. The Camaro in the Pasture is the first book to collect this compelling author's writing. With diverse topics ranging from science-fiction fantasies to problems of academic design research, the essays in this volume cover an entire half-century of Riley's observations on the American landscape. The essays-several of which are new or previously unpublished-interpret changing rationales for urban beautification, the evolution and transformation of the strip, the development of a global landscape of golf and resorts replacing an older tourist search for exoticism, and the vernacular landscape as wallpaper not quilt. Ultimately, Riley envisions our future landscape as a rapidly fluctuating electronic net draped over the more slowly changing and familiar land- and building-based system. Throughout, Riley emphasizes the vernacular landscape of contemporary America-how we have shaped and use it, what it is becoming, and, above all, how we experience it.
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• Openings
• On the Value of the Vernacular: Some Skeptical Thoughts
• Autoterritoriality
• Understanding the Strip
• The Urban Cosmeticians: Or, The City Beautiful Rides Again
• The Search for Certainty
• Green Chaos
• What History Should We Teach and Why?
• Sex in the Garden
• Dreams of Tomorrow
• Reflections on the Landscapes of Memory
• Around the House
• From Sacred Grove to Disney World: The Search for Garden Meaning
• On Criticism
• The Camaro in the Pasture
• The Indeterminate Eye: Place and People in Three Decades of Landscape Photography
• Authority and Insecurity
• Some Thoughts on Scholarship and Publication
• About Palimpsests
• Speculations on the New American Landscapes
• Vision, Culture, and Landscape
• Garden, Meaning, and Symbols
• Mystiques and Constructs
• The Postmodern Landscape
• The Goose and the Dish
• Closings
• Readings.

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley's work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J. B. Jackson as editor. The Camaro in the Pasture is the first book to collect this compelling author's writing. With diverse topics ranging from science-fiction fantasies to problems of academic design research, the essays in this volume cover an entire half-century of Riley's observations on the American landscape. The essays-several of which are new or previously unpublished-interpret changing rationales for urban beautification, the evolution and transformation of the strip, the development of a global landscape of golf and resorts replacing an older tourist search for exoticism, and the vernacular landscape as wallpaper not quilt. Ultimately, Riley envisions our future landscape as a rapidly fluctuating electronic net draped over the more slowly changing and familiar land- and building-based system. Throughout, Riley emphasizes the vernacular landscape of contemporary America-how we have shaped and use it, what it is becoming, and, above all, how we experience it.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Classification of Canada's Environments (c. 17th to Early 20th Centuries) 2 Natural Resources, Economic Growth, and the Need for Conservation (c. 19th and 20th
• Centuries)
• 3 Romanticism and the Preservation of Nature (c. 19th and 20th Centuries) 4 Environmentalism (c.1950s to 2000s) 5 Aboriginal Canadians and Natural Resources: An Overview Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index.
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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history.
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• Acknowledgments A Brief Word on Dates and Dating Introduction
• 1: Living in Deep Time: the Environmental Context of Northern North America
• 2: The Turtle Island System: Indigenous Means of Survival
• 3: "Closing up the Seams of Pangaea": Colonization and Its Consequences
• 4: Agriculture and Environmental Change in the Wendat Confederacy, Canada, and Acadia
• 5: Markets, Science, and the Canadian Environment: Knowing and Shaping Nature, 1660-1850
• 6: The Environment of Industry
• 7: The Conservation Era
• 8: High Modernism and the Experience of Nature in Twentieth-Century Canada
• 9: Living Through Chemistry: Toxins, Bodies, and Ecologies
• 10: Survival: the Sixties and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
• 11: Sustainable Development? Environmentalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
• 12: How Much Longer We Can Stand: Climate Change and the Environment in 21st Century Canada Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index.
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The book is a history of how people in the territory that is now Canada have interacted with all that is non-human since the last ice age. It takes as its jumping off point the idea that the primary human interest in nature is getting the resources needed to survive: in other words, food and shelter. So concentrating on the ways in which societies in what we now call Canada have shaped access to nature in order to achieve subsistence (or survival), and the things that flow from that allows us to understand much of the human-nature relationship in this place over time. The book starts with the retreat of the glaciers and the assembling of the natural environment of Canada. It then looks at the means of survival and the different impacts on the land of Indigenous people and of pre-industrial European colonizing societies. Industrial capitalism in the later nineteenth century encouraged a new ordering and control of nature, while science both facilitated and challenged this and its effects. The latter half of the book examines the results: a massive re-engineering of nature, the development of new chemicals and materials and their presence in the environment as waste and pollution, the conservation, preservation and environmental movements, and the attempts, up to our present-day and including the crisis of climate change, to reconcile economic development with environmental protection. The book is written in a lively style that will be accessible to undergraduate students. It features a further reading section that both students and scholars new to the field will find useful and over 65 maps and illustrations. It is the first such book to propose an overall framework for understanding Canadian environmental history.
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• The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration
• From continental drift to nomadic land use
• Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples
• The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century
• On the way to an amphibious society
• Mining the bounty of nature
• The decline of the established economy
• Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present
• Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants
• The golden age of tourism
• Problems in paradise.

To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tourists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood, the Cape has held a place in our national imagination for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn to its beauty and resources since Native Americans wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000 years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident fragility. John T. Cumbler's book offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors. He notes that over the past four hundred years the Cape has experienced three regimes of resource utilization. The first regime of Native Americans who lived relatively lightly on the land was supplanted by European settlers who focused on production and extraction. This second regime began in the age of sail but declined through the age of steam as the soil and seas failed to yield the resources necessary to sustain continuing growth. Environmental and then economic crises during the second half of the nineteenth century eventually gave way to the third regime of tourism and recreation. But this regime has its own environmental costs, as residents have learned over the last half century. Although the Cape remains a special place, its history of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing similar issues around the globe.
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• The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration
• From continental drift to nomadic land use
• Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples
• The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century
• On the way to an amphibious society
• Mining the bounty of nature
• The decline of the established economy
• Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present
• Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants
• The golden age of tourism
• Problems in paradise.

• Monkey conquers the world. We are the children of the climate ; The end of the elephants ; The wheat deal ; Collapse
• Monkey dominates nature. When gods guide the way; All empires will fall ; After summer comes winter ; Biological hazards ; Demographic hazards
• Monkey transforms the Earth. The promises of quicksilver ; Cold, cold Earth ; Dying for the forest ; Unlimited energy ; The cold chill of catastrophe ; A time of excess ; The blind flock ; Tomorrow's world
• Conclusion

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity's unmatched and perhaps irreversible influence on the world. Testot explores the interconnected histories of human evolution and planetary deterioration, arguing that our development from naked apes to Homo sapiens has entailed wide-scale environmental harm. Testot makes the case that humans have usually been catastrophic for the planet, "hyperpredators" responsible for mass extinctions, deforestation, global warming, ocean acidification, and unchecked pollution, as well as the slaughter of our own species. Organized chronologically around seven technological revolutions, Cataclysms unspools the intertwined saga of humanity and our environment, from our shy beginnings in Africa to today's domination of the planet, revealing how we have blown past any limits along the way--whether by exploding our own population numbers, domesticating countless other species, or harnessing energy from fossils. Testot's book, while sweeping, is light and approachable, telling the stories--sometimes rambunctious, sometimes appalling--of how a glorified monkey transformed its own environment beyond all recognition. In order to begin reversing our environmental disaster, we must have a better understanding of our own past and the incalculable environmental costs incurred at every stage of human innovation. Cataclysms offers that understanding and the hope that we can now begin to reform our relationship to the Earth.
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• Monkey conquers the world. We are the children of the climate ; The end of the elephants ; The wheat deal ; Collapse
• Monkey dominates nature. When gods guide the way; All empires will fall ; After summer comes winter ; Biological hazards ; Demographic hazards
• Monkey transforms the Earth. The promises of quicksilver ; Cold, cold Earth ; Dying for the forest ; Unlimited energy ; The cold chill of catastrophe ; A time of excess ; The blind flock ; Tomorrow's world
• Conclusion

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity's unmatched and perhaps irreversible influence on the world. Testot explores the interconnected histories of human evolution and planetary deterioration, arguing that our development from naked apes to Homo sapiens has entailed wide-scale environmental harm. Testot makes the case that humans have usually been catastrophic for the planet, "hyperpredators" responsible for mass extinctions, deforestation, global warming, ocean acidification, and unchecked pollution, as well as the slaughter of our own species. Organized chronologically around seven technological revolutions, Cataclysms unspools the intertwined saga of humanity and our environment, from our shy beginnings in Africa to today's domination of the planet, revealing how we have blown past any limits along the way--whether by exploding our own population numbers, domesticating countless other species, or harnessing energy from fossils. Testot's book, while sweeping, is light and approachable, telling the stories--sometimes rambunctious, sometimes appalling--of how a glorified monkey transformed its own environment beyond all recognition. In order to begin reversing our environmental disaster, we must have a better understanding of our own past and the incalculable environmental costs incurred at every stage of human innovation. Cataclysms offers that understanding and the hope that we can now begin to reform our relationship to the Earth.
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• Series Preface. Introduction (Dick Morris). Dynamic Earth: processes of change (Dick Morris and Charles Turner). Dynamic Earth: human impacts (Alan Reddish). Population change and environmental change (Michael Drake and Joanna Freeland). Changing land (Dick Morris). Water (Mark Brandon and Sandy Smith). Dynamic atmosphere: changing climate and air quality (Roger Blackmore and Rod Barratt). Uneven development, globalization and environmental change (Noel Castree). Conclusion: General conclusions: thinking about environmental change (Dick Morris). Acknowledgements. Index.
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Are we humans destroying the environments in which we live, or is environmental change inevitable and natural? How has the relationship between human societies and environments changed since pre history? Will human population growth outpace the available resources of land and water? Is global warming and climate change already out of control? What can economic and political models tell us about international development? "Changing Environments" takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to such questions, drawing on ideas from science, technology, social science and humanities to examine how and why environments change as a result of natural and human mediated processes. It draws on examples from around the world, and includes consideration of: the scales of time and space over which changes in our environments occur the effects on environments that arise from human use of the resources of energy, land, water and the atmosphere the role of technology and economics in shaping human actions on our environments the use and limitations of different models for thinking about environmental change. The book is part of a series entitled "Environment: Change, Contest and Response" that forms a large part of an Open University course on environmental matters. The other books in the series are: "Making Sense of Environmental Issues"; Contesting Environments; and "Environmental responses".
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• Environmental change - natural and cultural, Neil Roberts
• remote sensing and the assessment of environmental change, Roy Haines-Young
• palaeoclimates and future greenhouse warming, Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts
• historical records and recent climate change, Mike Hulme
• numerical modelling of global climates, Ann Henderson-Sellers
• global warming and periglacial landscapes, Eduard Koster
• ice volumes and climate change, David Sugden and Nick Hulton
• sea-level response to climate, Michael Tooley
• island environments - an uncertain future?, Tom Spencer
• atmospheric pollution and acidification, Richard Battarbee
• human impact on estuarine ecosystems - an historical perspective, Grace Brush
• reconstructing the history of soil erosion, John Dearing
• case-study - China's Yellow River and loess lands, Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang
• the impact of large dams and river basin schemes, Geoff Petts
• Savannah landscapes and global environmental change, Philip Stott
• tropical moist forests - conservation or transformation?, Peter Furley
• land degredation in the tropics, Ian Douglas
• deforestation and environmental change in the Himalaya, Martin Haigh
• dryland degredation, Andrew Goudie
• the desert as a biogeographical resource - the example of the central and southern Sahara, Erhard Schulz.
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• List of Contributors. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Preface and Acknowledgements. Part I: The Nature of Environmental Change:
• 1. The Global Environmental Future: Neil Roberts.
• 2. Remote Sensing of Environmental Change: Roy Haines-Young. Part II: Global Climate Change:
• 3. Past Climates and Future Greenhouse Warming: F. Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts
• .4. Historic Records and Recent Climatic Change: Mike Hulme.
• 5. Numerical Modelling of Global Climate: Ann Henderson-Sellers. Part III: Ice and Ocean:
• 6. Global Warming and Periglacial Landscapes: Eduard A. Koster.
• 7. Ice Volumes and Climate Change: David Sugden and Nick Hulton.
• 8. Sea-level Response to Climate: Michael J. Tooley.
• 9. Tropical Coral Islands - An Uncertain Future?: Tom Spencer. Part IV: The Hydrological System:
• 10. Surface Water Acidification: Richard W. Battarbee.
• 11. Reconstructing the History of Soil Erosion: John Dearing.
• 12. Large-scale River Regulation: Geoff Petts. Part V: The Tropics:
• 13. Savanna Landscapes and Global Environmental Change: Philip Stott
• .14. Tropical Moist Forests - Transformation or Conservation?: Peter A. Furley.
• 15. Land Degradation in the Humid Tropics: Ian Douglas.
• 16. Dryland Degradation: Andrew Goudie. Part VI: Case Studies of Human Impact:
• 17. Case
• 1: Changing Use of the Sahara Desert: Erhard Schulz.
• 18. Case
• 2: The Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System: Grace S. Brush.
• 19. Case
• 3: China's Yellow River Basin: Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang.
• 20. Case
• 4: Deforestation in the Himalaya: Martin J. Haigh. Bibliography. Index.
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Global environmental change is a subject of major scientific and political importance, and of rising media attention. But what do processes such as desertification, acidification and global warming involve? There is a need for a clear, well-integrated account by the scientists themselves of how these processes are altering the earth's natural environments. In "The Changing Global Environment" leading physical geographers provide distilled and up-to-date summaries of research in their own field - themes such as rainforest destruction and remote sensing by satellites. This is not a collection of unconnected research papers, but an integrated text. Taken as a whole, the book is distinguished by its concerns for environmental variations across space and through time, for human-environment interactions and for an awareness that the world is made up of real places and regions. It should be of interest to students in departments of geography, geoscience and environmental studies taking courses in global environmental change, advanced physical geography, climatic change and human ecology.
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The global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the loss of natural habitats, and greenhouse-gas induced global warming have grave and often uncertain implications. But what do these processes involve? What is causing them and what will or might be their consequences? Global warming would, for example, have far-reaching effects on sea levels, rainfall, glacier dynamics, and the distribution of plants and animals, as well as on a wide range of human activities."The Changing Global Environment" provides a clear, well-integrated account by leading scientists of the nature of change in the earth's natural environment in the past, present and future. Taken as a whole, it is distinguished by its concern to understand and to link environmental variations at local, regional and planetary scales, by its clear analyses of human-environment interactions, by its historical perspective, and by an awareness of the social and political causes and consequences of environmental change. The subject is as complex as it is crucial: the authors have aimed not to simplify but to clarify uncertainties, issues and processes.The book is divided into six parts. The first introduces the subject. The second describes patterns of global climatic change in the distant and recent past and models of the climatic future. The third examines the effects of climatic change or arctic and marine environments. Part four is concerned with the hydrological system. Part five focuses on tropical environments, humid, arid and savanna. Part six provides four detailed case studies of change in contrasting environments - desert, estuarine, river and mountain. Written to be accessible to both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book also provides a powerful and stimulating framework for the teaching of environmental issues in higher education.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: senses of place in the face of global challenges
• Part I. Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts: 1. Coral reef collapse and sense of place in the great barrier reef, Australia
• 2. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: case studies from the USA
• 3. The place-subjectivity continuum after a disaster: enquiring into the production of sense of place as an assemblage
• 4. Changing sense of place and local responses to Bengaluru's disappearing lakes
• 5. Place-making for regional conservation: negotiating narratives of stability and change
• Part II. Migration, Mobility and Belonging: 6. Exploring senses of place through narratives of tourism growth and place change: the case of the faroe islands
• 7. No one is a prophet at home: mobility and senses of place in West Africa
• 8. Place detachment and the psychology of nonbelonging: lessons from diepsloot informal settlement
• 9. Sense of place in urban China: multiple determinants of rural-urban migrants' belongingness to the host city
• Part III. Renewable Energy Transitions: 10. Farming landscapes, energy landscapes or both? using social representations theory to understand the impact of energy transitions on rural senses of place
• 11. Auto-photography, senses of place and public support for marine renewable energy
• 12. A life course approach to the pluralisation of sense of place: understanding the social acceptance of low-carbon energy developments
• Part IV. Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims: 13. Ethnocentric bias in perceptions of place: the role of essentialism and the perceived continuity of places
• 14. Sense of place between spatial justice and urban violence in Palestine
• 15. The political ecology of place meaning: identity, political self-determination and illicit resource use in the manas tiger reserve, India
• Part V. Urban Change: 16. Uncovering competing senses of place in a context of rapid urban change
• 17. Gentrification and the creative destruction of sense of place: a psychosocial exploration of urban transformations in Barcelona
• 18. Looking at the urban invisibles: appropriation of space and senses of place by people living in the streets
• Part VI. Technological and Legal Transformations: 19. Electronically mediated sense of place
• 20. A dynamic view of local knowledge and epistemic bonds to place: implications for senses of place and the governance of biodiversity conservation
• 21. Social media and experiences of nature: towards a plurality of senses of place
• Part VII. Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place: 22. Local sense(s) of place in a global world: towards a normative framework for spatial planners
• 23. Urban experimentation and the role of senses of place: an illustrative case from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 24. Domestic matters: IKEA catalogues, the good home and the changing aspirations of urban Chinese
• Part VIII. Conclusion. 25. Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges: A Senses of Place Perspective
• Appendix 1. List of catalogues referred to in chapter 24
• Index.
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Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.
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• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: senses of place in the face of global challenges
• Part I. Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts: 1. Coral reef collapse and sense of place in the great barrier reef, Australia
• 2. Navigating the temporalities of place in climate adaptation: case studies from the USA
• 3. The place-subjectivity continuum after a disaster: enquiring into the production of sense of place as an assemblage
• 4. Changing sense of place and local responses to Bengaluru's disappearing lakes
• 5. Place-making for regional conservation: negotiating narratives of stability and change
• Part II. Migration, Mobility and Belonging: 6. Exploring senses of place through narratives of tourism growth and place change: the case of the faroe islands
• 7. No one is a prophet at home: mobility and senses of place in West Africa
• 8. Place detachment and the psychology of nonbelonging: lessons from diepsloot informal settlement
• 9. Sense of place in urban China: multiple determinants of rural-urban migrants' belongingness to the host city
• Part III. Renewable Energy Transitions: 10. Farming landscapes, energy landscapes or both? using social representations theory to understand the impact of energy transitions on rural senses of place
• 11. Auto-photography, senses of place and public support for marine renewable energy
• 12. A life course approach to the pluralisation of sense of place: understanding the social acceptance of low-carbon energy developments
• Part IV. Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims: 13. Ethnocentric bias in perceptions of place: the role of essentialism and the perceived continuity of places
• 14. Sense of place between spatial justice and urban violence in Palestine
• 15. The political ecology of place meaning: identity, political self-determination and illicit resource use in the manas tiger reserve, India
• Part V. Urban Change: 16. Uncovering competing senses of place in a context of rapid urban change
• 17. Gentrification and the creative destruction of sense of place: a psychosocial exploration of urban transformations in Barcelona
• 18. Looking at the urban invisibles: appropriation of space and senses of place by people living in the streets
• Part VI. Technological and Legal Transformations: 19. Electronically mediated sense of place
• 20. A dynamic view of local knowledge and epistemic bonds to place: implications for senses of place and the governance of biodiversity conservation
• 21. Social media and experiences of nature: towards a plurality of senses of place
• Part VII. Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place: 22. Local sense(s) of place in a global world: towards a normative framework for spatial planners
• 23. Urban experimentation and the role of senses of place: an illustrative case from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 24. Domestic matters: IKEA catalogues, the good home and the changing aspirations of urban Chinese
• Part VIII. Conclusion. 25. Navigating the Spaciousness of Uncertainties Posed by Global Challenges: A Senses of Place Perspective
• Appendix 1. List of catalogues referred to in chapter 24
• Index.
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Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.
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• Chapter 1 General Introduction
• Chapter 2 Primitive Man and His Surroundings
• Chapter 3 Advanced Hunters
• Chapter 4 Agriculture and Its Impact
• Chapter 5 Industrialists
• Chapter 6 The Nuclear Age
• Chapter 7 Conclusions.
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This history describes the human impact on the biophysical systems of the Earth from earliest times to the post-industrial world. Access to energy sources determines the way in which human beings use the natural environment and the degree of access to the forces of energy conditions the rate of environmental change. Professor Simmons considers the impact on primitive man of fire, the advances made by hunter societies, the development of agriculture and the effects of industrialization, with the use of fossil-fuel energy and the population explosion. The author concludes with an assessment of current environmental change and the attempts to assess and control the effects of human activities on the climate and surface of the Earth.
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This is a history of the human impact upon the natural environment of the Earth. It is a compelling story, the result of many years of original research and scholarship and drawn from work in a wide range of natural and humane disciplines. It covers every kind of culture and society, ranges in time from the earliest social groupings to the present, and considers the short and long-term consequences of current trends. A key argument of the book, and one that informs its structure, is that access to energy is a crucial influence on the way in which we have used and exploited our natural surroundings. If environmental impacts of the discovery of fire were substantial, and of agriculture dramatic, the effects of industrial and technological change over the last two centuries have been revolutionary. Exponential growth in the use of fossil fuels and of the human population mean that our own activities now constitute a critical variable in environmental change. The recent history of the interaction between human kind and nature has become different from the past not only in degree but in kind: and there is a mismatch between our ability to affect and to control the natural environment. These issues form the concluding theme of this book. `Changing the Face of the Earth' is appropriately illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams, and contains a full annotated bibliography and an index.
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• Chelovek v i͡aponskom kulʹturnom kontekste / M.N. Kornilov
• Personalisticheskai͡a tendent͡sii͡a v ėkologicheskikh poiskakh / L.I. Vasilenko
• Ot dokazatelʹstv k estestvennoĭ dobrote : psikhologizat͡sii͡a filosofii otnosheniĭ s prirodoĭ / V.E. Ermolaeva.

• Introduction: face
• Future
• Life
• Planet
• Birth
• Labor
• Conclusion: child.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems and Perspectives
• Chapter 2: China's Natural Environment and Early Human Settlement to 1000 BCE
• Chapter 3: States, Wars, and Farms: Environmental Change in Ancient and Early Imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE
• Chapter 4: Deforesting the North and Colonizing the South in the Middle Imperial Period, 300-1300 CE
• Chapter 5: Empire and Environment: China's Borderlands, Islands, and Inner Peripheries in Late Imperial China, 1300-1800 CE
• Chapter 6: Environmental Degradation in Modern China, 1800-1949
• Chapter 7: Controlling Nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-Present
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: China and Its Environment in World Historical Perspective.
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This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any reader interested in China, past or present. Indeed he argues successfully that all of humanity has a stake in China's environmental future.
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