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• Introduction
• Nature Revealed
• Relics of the Past
• Recent Human Footprints
• Connecting People, Places and Resources
• Sea Level Rising.

• Defining and understanding environmental sustainability
• The current state of environmental degradation
• The fundamental causes of environmental degradation
• A strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable resource-based economy
• Building public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability
• Changing the politics and communication of environmental sustainability
• Conclusion: The long transition to environmental sustainability is already underway

"Those of us in the developed world have a far greater environmental impact than people in the developing world, but there is great political pressure in the developing world to increase material wealth. And that political pressure will lead to increased environmental impacts. Our political stability and security depend on the maintenance of material wealth where it exists and economic growth where people are poor. But to achieve those goals, we must learn how to construct a high throughput economy that does not destroy our planet's ecosystems. This is the major theme of this book: How do we realistically get from the current economic paradigm to one that permits economic growth while protecting the planet's ecosystems? To achieve the transition to environmental sustainability, we must undertake the following five actions: 1. Research, measure and understand the current state of environmental degradation. 2. Understand the causes of environmental degradation. 3. Develop a strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable-resource-based economy. 4. Build public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability. 5. Change the politics, advocacy, and communication of environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher

• Defining and understanding environmental sustainability
• The current state of environmental degradation
• The fundamental causes of environmental degradation
• A strategy for reducing pollution and growing a renewable resource-based economy
• Building public sector infrastructure to support environmental sustainability
• Changing the politics and communication of environmental sustainability
• Conclusion: The long transition to environmental sustainability is already underway

"This book seeks to answer two fundamental questions: Why do we keep destroying nature when science makes it clear that in doing so we risk our own destruction? How can we stop doing so and regain the unity of humans and nature? First, the book shows that the inability of modern society to modify its relationship with nature has its roots in the collective fictions that have gradually shaped it since the Neolithic revolution. The collective fictions that underpin modernity include, in particular, the subject-object duality, the matter-mind duality, the primacy of rationality, and the superiority of the human species over all other living beings. These deeply ingrained fictions prevent us from acting in the word in agreement with the needs and knowledge that we have. Second, the book argues that humans have a nature that defines them as a unique species beyond their cultural differences, and this nature is not made only of flesh and bones, but also of a set of fundamental needs. Fundamental needs connect humans with nature spontaneously because they are the manifestation of life in them. They also make it possible to re-establish the unity of body and mind and of the different forms of knowledge and to give the economy a new direction, focused on the development of the human being and of its living environment. Challenging our collective fictions and reconnecting with our deepest nature is essential if we are to overcome the current ecological crisis and allow life on Earth to flourish"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• The planet and the political
• The pandemic and our sense of time
• The historicity of things, including humans
• Staying with the present

"The book opens with a discussion of the pandemic, then investigates the modern origins of the separation between "natural" and "human" histories, and what may be at stake in that separation. Does having different worlds make it difficult for humans to deal with a planet that is one?"-- Provided by publisher

"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• Unruly Landscapes
• Town and Country on Iron Age Cyprus
• A Map
• On Chronology
• Part I On Environs
• 2. Reassessing the "Land" of Landscape: Environments, Climates, Weathering
• Archaeologies of Landscape
• Environments, Climates, Histories
• Weathered Landscapes
• 3. Unruly Landscapes: Rural Resources, Territory, Time
• Consuming Landscapes
• Territory and the Messy Chora
• Unruly Time
• Part II On the Rural
• 4. Pulses in an Electromagnetic Field: First-Millennium bce Environmental and Social Change
• Collapse and Regeneration
• An Environmental History of the Early First Millennium bce
• Surveying Landscapes of Before and After
• 5. Beyond Amathus: South-Central Cyprus in Context
• Emergent Settlements
• Mortuary and Ritual Landscapes
• A South-Central Small World?
• 6. Gypsum, Copper, Soil: Archaic Countrysides
• Gypsum
• Copper and Trees
• Soil and Water
• 7. Conclusions: Becoming Rural
• Relational Countrysides
• Unruly Anthropocenes
• Appendix: List of Survey Sites in the Vasilikos and Maroni Valleys

"Using various archaeological, environmental, and historical data, this book argues that changes in landscapes, climate, and rural practices were instrumental to Iron Age political formations on Cyprus. It offers new insights into landscape archaeologies and contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments"--Provided by publisher.

• 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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• 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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Listen to the scientists. That's the refrain of climate activist Greta Thunberg. Climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth's own natural warming mechanisms, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further warming the planet

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places critical concepts in context, and shows the impact of government, industry, and population on the American landscape. Comprehensive yet brief, First Along the River discusses the religious and philosophical beliefs that shaped Americans' relationship to the environment, traces the origins and development of government regulations that impact Americans' use of natural resources, and shows why popular environmental groups were founded and how they changed over time. The fifth edition includes up-to-date coverage of the environmental movement and developments including an overview of environmental issues since 2012, environmental policies impacted by the Trump administration, the coronavirus pandemic, and the switch back to a more global perspective under the Biden administration.
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• Introduction: Great Lakes Perspectives
• Toward the Transcalar
• Saginaw Bay
• Interlude: Ecological Novelty and Management of the Littoral Zone / Mark Davis
• Nipigon Bay
• Interlude: Cultural Narratives of Lake Superior's North Shore / Mae Davenport
• Green Bay
• Interlude: The Great Lakes in Geologic Time / Marcia Bjornerud
• Bay of Quinte
• Interlude: Interview with Kyle Powys Whyte
• Maumee Bay
• Interlude: Interview with Peter Annin
• Curious Methods
• Conclusion: Lovely Descriptions

"Threatened by issues of environmental health, climate change, population growth, and industrial demands, the coastal zone of the Great Lakes reflects an increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the people of the basin and the resources that support them. Perhaps no place is the physical manifestation of this struggle more evident than in the basin's shallow bays. While many regional and local responses to these issues focus on methods of control, Five Bay Landscapes argues that responses should begin with critical, experiential, and pluralistic understandings of place. Through a series of five narratives, each located on a bay within the Great Lakes, the authors share their practice of curious site explorations. These explorations, both written and visual, consider the nuances and systems of these shorelines along with the lessons these findings might offer for future design and planning interventions. Using the Great Lakes as a context, Five Bay Landscapes illuminates a dynamic and robust landscape system and establishes a series of methods for understanding, analyzing, and intervening within the changing landscape"-- Provided by publisher

As humans, we have remarkable capacity to collaborate, building global infrastructure that connects financial, political and social systems. However, having scaled our infrastructure globally, planetary boundaries have been exceeded in multiple directions. To protect Earth, we now face a task to transition both philosophically and technologically to lifestyles that seek to restore critical functions of natural ecosystems so that we, and other species on the planet, can survive. This is a mammoth challenge that will require changes in the jobs of hundreds of millions of people and a shift in ethic and legislation toward ecological protection and restoration. This book explores the motivations of human society, our global infrastructure and legislation. It highlights various systems and challenges that are contributing to ecosystem and species loss, and documents some of the solutions being offered. The interconnectivity of all these things is evident given the overlapping themes throughout the various sections, and the book serves to collectively highlight some of these major challenges and the locked-in nature of our systems so that we can address them.
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• Acknowledgements History as a Starting Point: Preface to the English Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Deconstructing our Beliefs, (Re)-thinking Nature Chapter 2: Turning Africa into Parkland (1850-1960 Chapter 3: A Special Project for Africa (1960-1965) Chapter 4: The Expert and the Emperor (1965-1970) Chapter 5: Violence Below the Surface of Nature (1970-1978) Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Trap (1978-1996) Chapter 7: The Fiction of the Community Approach (1996-2009) Chapter 8: The Roots of Injustice (2009-2019) Conclusion
• Looking Ahead: Afterword Notes Index.
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The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization - all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity. But this Africa has never existed. The more we destroy nature here, the more we fantasize about it in Africa. Along with UNESCO, the WWF and other organizations, we convince ourselves that the African national parks are protecting the last vestiges of a world once untouched and wild. In reality, argues Guillaume Blanc, these organizations are responsible for naturalizing large tracts of the African continent, turning territories into parks and forcibly evicting thousands of people from the lands where they have lived for centuries. Making use of archives and oral histories, Blanc investigates this battle for a phantom Africa and the contradictory claims of nations who destroy nature at home while believing that they are protecting the natural world abroad. In so doing, they enact a new type of colonialism: green colonialism.
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• Introductio
• n1. The Works and Arts of Men: Irrigation and Environmen
• t2. Waters Dedicated to Some Purposes: New Infrastructur
• e3. For the Beautification of the City: Christian Urban Refor
• m4. Divine Mercy and Help: Natural Disaster and the Rise of Rogation Procession
• s5. Seeking the Dew of His Grace: Drought
• s6. From Purification to Protection: Plagu
• e7. That for Which the King of Kings Sent the Flood? Floods and LocustsConclusion.
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How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. When Christians conquered the city in 1238, it was already one of the richest agricultural areas in the Mediterranean thanks to a network of irrigation canals constructed under Muslim rule. Despite this constructed environment, drought, flooding, plagues, and other natural disasters continued to confront civic leaders in the later medieval period. Abigail Agresta argues that the city's Christian rulers took a technocratic approach to environmental challenges in the fourteenth century but by the mid-fifteenth century relied increasingly on religious ritual, reflecting a dramatic transformation in the city's religious identity. Using the records of Valencia's municipal council, she traces the council's efforts to expand the region's infrastructure in response to natural disasters, while simultaneously rendering the landscape within the city walls more visibly Christian. This having been achieved, Valencia's leaders began by the mid-fifteenth century to privilege rogations and other ritual responses over infrastructure projects. But these appeals to divine aid were less about desperation than confidence in the city's Christianity. Reversing traditional narratives of technological progress, The Keys to Bread and Wine shows how religious concerns shaped the governance of the environment, with far-reaching implications for the environmental and religious history of medieval Iberia.
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• Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1
• 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15
• 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33
• 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53
• 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70
• 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawai'i: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94
• 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112
• 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135
• 8. Telling One's Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149
• 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174
• 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187
• 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196
• 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229.
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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright.
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• Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew 1
• 1. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 15
• 2. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands 33
• 3. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers 53
• 4. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 70
• 5. The Disappearing Snails of Hawai'i: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren 94
• 6. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones 112
• 7. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke 135
• 8. Telling One's Own Story in the Hearing of Buffalo: Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley 149
• 9. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru 174
• 10. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan 187
• 11. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright 196
• 12. Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford 218 Contributors 225 Index 229.
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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright.
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• Prologue. Loss: A Reckoning
• Ecological Grief: A rhetorical achievement
• Anticipating Loss: On naming
• Revealing Loss: On archiving
• Imagining Loss: On making-visible
• Epilogue. Caring Rhetorics: Meditations

Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues in this eloquent and urgent book, our capacity to grieve for more-than-human others is neither natural nor inevitable. Weaving together personal narratives, theoretical meditations, and insightful readings of cultural artifacts, he suggests that ecological grief is best understood as a rhetorical achievement. As a collection of worldmaking practices, rhetoric makes things matter, bestows value, directs attention, generates knowledge, and foments feelings. By dwelling on three rhetorical practices-naming, archiving, and making visible-Barnett shows how they prepare us to grieve past, present, and future ecological losses. Simultaneously diagnostic and prescriptive, this book reveals rhetorical practices that set our ecological grief into motion and illuminates pathways to more connected, caring earthly coexistence.
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• Sensing the invisible: plant form and landscape transformation
• Interlude I. Plant morphologies leads to geomorphology
• From plant morphologies to landscape structures
• Fast and slow disasters: plant disease, forest fires, and climate change
• Interlude II. Pine cultivation and pine as an agent of landscape transformation
• Plant morphology, geomorphology and weather
• Biogeomorphological politics
• From landscape histories to climate models
• From climate change to biomass energy
• Interlude III. Airscapes
• Landscapes and energy politics
• Trees are shape shifters

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.
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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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• 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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• 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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• Perception and unrest
• Ecofeminism and ecophenomenology
• Seeing better
• The specter of correlationism
• Androcentrism, nondiscursive grounds, and the hyperdialectic
• Radical reflection, reversibility, and the flesh.

In this bold argument, Robert Booth asserts that the environmental crisis stems from our anthropocentric understanding of, and behavior in, the more-than-human world. Linking environmental phenomenology to ecofeminism, he shows why and how an ecophenomenological praxis may interrupt the environmental crisis at its source.
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• Perception and unrest
• Ecofeminism and ecophenomenology
• Seeing better
• The specter of correlationism
• Androcentrism, nondiscursive grounds, and the hyperdialectic
• Radical reflection, reversibility, and the flesh

In this bold argument, Robert Booth asserts that the environmental crisis stems from our anthropocentric understanding of, and behavior in, the more-than-human world. Linking environmental phenomenology to ecofeminism, he shows why and how an ecophenomenological praxis may interrupt the environmental crisis at its source.
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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

• An invitation to hope
• What is hope?
• Jane's four reasons for hope. Reason 1: The amazing human intellect ; Reason 2: The resilience of nature ; Reason 3: The power of young people ; Reason 4: The indomitable human spirit
• Becoming a messenger of hope. A lifelong journey
• Conclusion: A message of hope from Jane

Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Public Nature Part One: 1850s-1880s Ch.
• 1. Saving the Union Ch.
• 2. Seeing the Country Part Two: 1890s-1940s Ch.
• 3. Tramp Style Ch.
• 4. Campers' Republic Part Three: 1950s-2010s Ch.
• 5. The Back to Nature Crowd ch.
• 6. Tents and Public Statements Epilogue: "We MUST Camp" Notes Index.
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An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a shady spot in the great outdoors. For a modest fee, reserve the basic infrastructure-a picnic table, a parking spot, and a place to build a fire. Pitch the tent and unroll the sleeping bags. Sit under the stars with friends or family and roast some marshmallows. This book reveals that, for all its appeal, the simplicity of camping is deceptive, its history and meanings far from obvious. Why do some Americans find pleasure in sleeping outside, particularly when so many others, past and present, have had to do so for reasons other than recreation? Never only a vacation choice, camping has been something people do out of dire necessity and as a tactic of political protest. Yet the dominant interpretation of camping as a modern recreational ideal has obscured the connections to these other roles. A closer look at the history of camping since the Civil War reveals a deeper significance of this American tradition and its links to core beliefs about nature and national belonging. Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside. It uses extensive research to trace surprising links between veterans, tramps, John Muir, African American freedpeople, Indian communities, and early leisure campers in the nineteenth century; tin-can tourists, federal campground designers, Depression-era transients, family campers, backpacking enthusiasts, and political activists in the twentieth century; and the crisis of the unsheltered and the tent-based Occupy Movement in the twenty-first. These entwined stories show how Americans camp to claim a place in the American republic and why the outdoors is critical to how we relate to nature, the nation, and each other.
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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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• 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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• From the Contents: Geographic Settings.- Spatial Locations of Nepal (Geopolitics).- Culture, Religion, and Natural Resources.- Population Growth, Migration and Residential Mobility (Literature review and field verifications).- Demographic Theory and Population Growth.- Fertility, Mortality, and Demographic Transition.- Human-environment relationships.- General Theory of Development and Migration.- Political Ecology of Land Encroachment.- Concepts and Determinants of Migration.
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This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country's representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical structure- plains, hill ranges, mountainous massifs - and wide range of altitudinal terrains, which represent and replicate South Asian and East Asian continental conditions differing as markedly as humid tropical lowlands, sub-tropical hill ranges and temperate to sub-arctic mountainous environments. Associated forest regimes, in which deforestation and reforestation patterns have evolved in recent times, and differing densities of settlement and cleared agricultural landscapes in each of these altitudinal zones, add to the environmental diversity of Nepal. Associated fauna and exotic species are in various states of endangerment especially Bengal tigers, one horned rhinos, wild elephants, crocodile, musk deer, and peasants, to name a few- so that their forested and mountainous habitats as 'Wild Life Reserves' also deserve our attention, and are featured in this monograph's remit.
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• Preface: dumped Globality All the world's a dump Mechanics: the fall, massiveness, piling up Falling before and after the death of god Je suis biomasse Antilogos Toward an intellectual history of heaps, piles, and other jumbled things Our polluted senses Toxicity Shitty apocalypse, or scatological eschatology Falling in love and being dumped On the arcane utility of the useless The portrait of a thing as its own wastebasket Dumpology Estamira, esta mira, "this sight" The writing dump Parts of the void In-formation Rameau's nephew for the twenty-first century Dump philosophy, or the task of thinking in the age of dumping.
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Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art, in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth, along with everything that lives and thinks on it, is at an advanced stage of being converted into a dump for industrial output and its by-products feeding consumerism and its excesses. Every day, scientific studies, media reports, and first-hand accounts of the rapidly deteriorating state of the environment hit us with a growing and disconcerting force. Trends such as microplastics in water, airborne toxins, topsoil degradation, and dangerous levels of carbon dioxide have upset the delicate ecological balance that has until now been sustaining life on the planet. Marder's original treatise paints a portrait of the Anthropocene as a global dump which wreaks havoc, causing disease and degrading our sensation, perception, and thinking, so that nuance is lost and ideas are reduced to soundbites in chains of free association. Describing the dump's fundamental characteristics and its effects on the body and the mind, he contemplates wider physiological, social, economic, and environmental metabolisms in the age of dumping, as well as the role of philosophy caught in its crosshairs. While surveying the devastation that is the reality of the twenty-first century, the book provides a frightening and yet intellectually spellbinding glimpse of the future.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Environmental complexity: an ecosemiotic vision
• 3. Environmental uncertainty: contrasting strategies and species adaptation
• 4. Information theory and meaning
• 5. The role of ecology in the ecosemiotic arena
• 6. Landscape dimension: some relevant characteristics of landscape
• 7. Resources: a general theory
• 8. An ecosemiotic approach to landscape description and interpretation: from zoosemiotics to an eco-field model
• 9. Fundamentals of ecoacoustics: a new quantitative contribution to the ecosemiotic narrative
• 10. Cultural landscapes.
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The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes. Ecosemiotics with its affinity to the humanities, is presented here as the best disciplinary approach for interpreting complex environmental conditions for a broad audience, across a multitude of temporal and spatial scales. It is proposed as an intellectual bridge between divergent sciences to incorporate within a unique framework different paradigms. The ecosemiotic paradigm helps to explain how organisms interact with their external environments using mechanisms common to all living beings that capture external information and matter for internal usage. This paradigm can be applied in all the circumstances where a living being (man, animal, plant, fungi, etc.) performs processes to stay alive.
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• Volume 1. The United States
• volume 2. International

This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issues of the 21st century, with a special focus on current challenges, trends, and policy choices. This set provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and focused resource for understanding the nature and scope of environmental challenges facing the United States and the world in the 21st century, as well as options for meeting those challenges. Volume One covers environmental trends and challenges within the United States, while Volume Two illuminates environmental issues and choices around the world. Issues covered in both volumes include vital topics such as climate change, air and water pollution, natural resource and species protection, and agricultural/industrial impacts on the environment and public health. For all topics, the authors-scholars and experts hailing from a wide range of environmental and policy fields-detail a range of political, social, and economic options for the future and explain why the issue in question is important for society and people as well as the natural world. User-friendly division of volumes into U.S. and international coverage Authoritative and objective analysis from environmental scholars Illuminating sidebars providing case studies about important environmental trends and policies Lists of issue-specific resources for further research.
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• Chapter 1: Transformation and the Anthropocene.-
• Chapter 2: Understanding Change and Governing Transformation.-
• Chapter 3: Domains of Change in Biodiversity Conservation.-
• Chapter 4: Novel Decisions and Conservative Frames.-
• Chapter 5: Cultural Landscapes and Novel Ecosystems.-
• Chapter 6. Climate Change, Conservation, and Expertise.-
• Chapter 7. Contested Concepts, Cultures of Knowledge and the Chimera of Change.-
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: Reform, Reinvention, and Renewal.
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This book focuses on the present and future challenges of managing ecosystem transformation on a planet where human impacts are pervasive. In this new epoch, the Anthropocene, the already rapid rate of species loss is amplified by climate change and other stress factors, causing transformation of highly-valued landscapes. Many locations are already transforming into novel ecosystems, where new species, interactions, and ecological functions are creating landscapes unlike anything seen before. This has sparked contentious debate not just about science, but about decision-making, responsibility, fairness, and human capacity to intervene. Clement argues that the social and ecological reality of the Anthropocene requires modernised governance and policy to confront these new challenges and achieve ecological objectives. There is a real opportunity to enable society to cope with transformed ecosystems by changing governance, but this is notoriously difficult. Aimed at anyone involved in these conversations, be those researchers, practitioners, decision makers or students, this book brings together diffuse research exploring how to confront institutional change and ecological transformation in different contexts, and provides insight into how to translate governance concepts into productive pathways forward.
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• Birth of a name
• Birth of a place
• Peopling Puget Sound
• Defending Puget Sound
• The maritime highway
• Seaweed in the sound
• The silver wave
• Old fish and new laws
• The table is set
• Homebodies.

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book.
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• Birth of a name
• Birth of a place
• Peopling Puget Sound
• Defending Puget Sound
• The maritime highway
• Seaweed in the sound
• The silver wave
• Old fish and new laws
• The table is set
• Homebodies

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book.
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It's about you and me - and our governments. As Covid-19 has wreaked havoc across the world, the time for this idea has come: we need to re-set our relationship with nature. The pandemic has put the spotlight on how human expansion on earth has led to an increase in zoonotic viruses jumping species, and calls on us to re-examine our rampant commercialisation of nature and animals in farming, wildlife management and in our diets. At the heart of the problem is "anthropocentrism": our egotistical view that ecosystems, plants trees and other animals exist for the benefit of humans, and humans alone. In his trademark accessible and anecdotal style, Cruise explores the ethical and practical issues, the personal and political choices - and solutions - to the greatest problem facing all species on earth

A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But this idea that we have only recently begun to manipulate the natural world is false. We've been meddling with nature since the last ice age. It's just that we're getting better at it - a lot better. Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution through hunting, domesticating, polluting, hybridizing, conserving and genetically modifying life on Earth. Looking ahead to the future, she casts aside the scaremongering myths on the dangers of interference, and outlines the true risks and incredible opportunities that new biotechnologies will offer us in the years ahead. Not only do they present us with the chance to improve our own lives, but they increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.
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• Blindsided by life
• Urban Galapagos
• The inadvertent ark
• The last escape
• The human niche
• The intelligence of crows
• Embracing diversity to balance risk
• The law of inseparability
• Humpty Dumpty and the robotic sex bees
• Living with evolution
• Not the end of nature
• Conclusion: No longer among the living

"Biologist Rob Dunn grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But as Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions. The rules of life, Dunn explains, are all-encompassing, governing where species are likely to abound, the inevitable arms race between humans and our predators, and even our own ignorance about nature. Collectively, these rules shed light on the future of life and our destiny, revealing where our visions for cities, roads, schools, and society at large run afoul of nature's inescapable dictates. The future we have been planning is one in which we try to hold back life. As Dunn argues, we cannot: Surviving or reversing climate change and other ecological catastrophes isn't just a question of reducing our carbon footprint with clean technologies or protecting ecosystems. It's not about "fixes." It's about working with nature, and so learning to live by the rules that entails. Drawing on topics as diverse as how microbes acquired during birth affect our health and what species might inhabit the crust of the Earth, Dunn reveals the surprising complexities of the natural world and the interconnectedness of life itself. Along the way, he offers plenty of simple lessons in how we can, individually and collectively, through environmental policy, make the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure our own species' survival. At once hopeful and practical, A Natural History of the Future offers a vision of our future in which humans and the natural world coexist symbiotically"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography
• Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn'
• Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature
• Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation - A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994
• Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of 'Living Things' Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?
• References Index.
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Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen's finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
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• Paysages abîmés ? Friches industrielles, ruines, héritage
• De la "city of mud" à London orbital : analyse des stratégies visuelles autour des paysages photographiques londoniens / Isabelle Le Pape
• Deindustrialised Urban Landscapes in the North of England : Exploring and Photographing Post-Industrial Manchester / Aurore Caignet
• From toxic to futuristic : miners, their landscape and the manipulation of (British) heritage / Silvia Pireddu
• Paysages toxiques
• Les paysages de l'extraction en Amérique du Sud : entre esthétisme et sidération / Marie Forget
• La patrimonialisation des sites nucléaires : un non-sens ? Le regard des artistes / Odile De Bruyn
• Paysages déshumanisants : de la négation de l'altérité à la violence systémique
• "Shattered Peoples and Scarred Places" : The Dehumanizing Impact of Colonization on Australia's landscapes / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
• The Dachau Plantation and Other Paradoxical Landscapes of the Holocaust / Eileen Groth Lyon
• Les paysages inhumains du déni de citoyenneté : les Centres de Rétention administrative / Rémi Baudouï et Manuel Kabouche
• Des paysages entre altération et altérité : Vertigo Sea et Purple de John Akomfrah / Valérie Morisson
• Paysages mémoires de conflits
• Passés sous silence - les paysages éprouvés d'Ernest Hemingway dans In Our Time / Nathalie Cochoy
• Paysages meurtris du 11 septembre 2001 dans la littérature américaine / Aliette Ventéjoux
• Traces, absences
• Unearth : Regenerating Hidden Histories and Revealing Instabilities / Fedra Dekeyser
• Paysages avec figures absentes / Pierre Wat.

"Paysages inhumains explore un paradoxe : les paysages toujours façonnés par l'homme peuvent cependant devenir inhumains, à force de dégradation, de pollution, de répression, de destruction. De la représentation de friches industrielles à celle de conflits armés en passant par des paysages toxiques mais aussi des forêts en apparence "vierges" qui repoussent sur des charniers, il existe un fil rouge, qui est celui de la présence puis de l'effacement, de l'absence de l'humain dans des paysages devenus inhospitaliers. Des historiens, historiens de l'art, géographes, urbanistes, chercheurs en littérature, mais aussi des photographes et des artistes ont contribué à ce volume pluridisciplinaire, car la représentation de tels paysages est un enjeu écologique, esthétique et politique. Nous devons prendre conscience de ces paysages devenus inhumains pour les limiter, ou les réparer et si possible avec eux nous ré-accorder."--Page 4 of cover.

"This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources."--Page 4 of cover

• Power in nature : from mitochondria to emotion and deception: The basis of life's power ; Power and bodies ; Power and behaviors ; Proto-human powers
• Power in the pleistocene : on spears, fires, furs, words, and flutes - and why men are such power-hogs: Hands and stone ; The fire ape ; Skins ; From grunts to sentences ; Gender power ; The power of art
• Power in the holocene : the rise of social inequality: Gerdening, big men, and chiefs : power from food production ; Plow and plunder : kings and the first states ; Herding cattle, flogging slaves : power from domestication ; Stories of our ancestors : religion and power ; Tools for wording : communication technologies ; Numbers on money ; Pathologies of power
• Power in the anthropocene : the wonderful world of fossil fuels: It's all energy ; The coal train ; Oil, cars, airplanes, and the new middle class ; Oil-age wars and weapons ; Electrifying! ; The human superorganism
• Overpowered : the fine mess we've gotten ourselves into: Climate chaos and its remedies ; Disappearance of wild nature ; Resource depletion ; Soaring economic inequality ; Pollution ; Overpopulation and overconsumption ; Global debt bubble ; Weapons of mass destruction
• Optimum power : sustaining our power over time: Involuntary power limits : death, extinction, collapse ; Self-limitation in natural and human-engineered systems ; Taboos, souls, and enlightenment ; Taxes, regulations, activism, and rationing : power restraint in the modern world ; Games, disarmament, and degrowth ; Denial, optimism bias, and irrational exuberance
• The future of power : learning to live happily within limits: All against all ; Trade-offs along the path of self-restraint ; The fate of the superorganism ; Questioning technology ; Learning to live with less energy and stuff ; Lessening inequality ; Population : lowering it and keeping it steady ; Fighting power with power ; Long-term power through beauty, spirituality, and happiness

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. - Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions - and their answers - will determine our fate.
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• List of Figures List of Sidebars Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Power in Nature: From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception The Basis of Life's Power Power and Bodies Power and Behaviors Proto-Human Powers
• 2. Power in the Pleistocene: On Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs Hands and Stone The Fire Ape Skins From Grunts to Sentences Gender Power The Power of Art
• 3. Power in the Holocene: The Rise of Social Inequality Gerdening, Big Men, and Chiefs: Power from Food Production Plow and Plunder: Kings and the First States Herding Cattle, Flogging Slaves: Power from Domestication Stories of Our Ancestors: Religion and Power Tools for Wording: Communication Technologies Numbers on Money Pathologies of Power
• 4. Power in the Anthropocene: The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels It's All Energy The Coal Train Oil, Cars, Airplanes, and the New Middle Class Oil-Age Wars and Weapons Electrifying! The Human Superorganism
• 5. Overpowered: The Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into Climate Chaos and Its Remedies Disappearance of Wild Nature Resource Depletion Soaring Economic Inequality Pollution Overpopulation and Overconsumption Global Debt Bubble Weapons of Mass Destruction
• 6. Optimum Power: Sustaining Our Power Over Time Involuntary Power Limits: Death, Extinction, Collapse Self-Limitation in Natural and Human-Engineered Systems Taboos, Souls, and Enlightenment Taxes, Regulations, Activism, and Rationing: Power Restraint in the Modern World Games, Disarmament, and Degrowth Denial, Optimism Bias, and Irrational Exuberance
• 7. The Future of Power: Learning to Live Happily Within Limits All Against All Trade-Offs Along the Path of Self-Restraint The Fate of the Superorganism Questioning Technology Learning to Live with Less Energy and Stuff Lessening Inequality Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady Fighting Power with Power Long-Term Power Through Beauty, Spirituality, and Happiness
• Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers.
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Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. - Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions - and their answers - will determine our fate.
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• Introduction: Strange victory
• Crime scene. Dark waters ; The wasting ; Here come the warm jets
• Season of disbelief. Frankenstein in the lower ninth ; Chickens without their heads cut off ; Aspen saves the world
• As gods. Pigeon apocalypse. Bayou bonjour: Oil and water is the fabric of your town; Barataria; The forest machine ; The immortal jellyfish ; Green rabbit

The old distinctions - between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact - have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories and reporting have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?
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More than a century ago elephants in the eastern Cape were systematically hunted - until only 16 were left. Today there are 650 elephants in the Addo Elephant National Park, the densest concentration of wild elephants anywhere on the planet. While elephants are undoubtedly still the park's top drawcard, the past four decades have seen the emphasis shift from protecting a single species to conserving five biomes and the wild animals that occupy them. Today, Addo can boast the Big Seven: elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino, as well as great white shark and southern right whale. Like Shaping Kruger, its successful predecessor, Shaping Addo expertly delves into the history of the park, detailing the positive impact that changing conservation practices have had on its development. Drawing on decades of groundbreaking research, the author provides fascinating insight into the lives and habits of the animals (both terrestrial and marine), examining individual species, the relationship between them, and the carefully crafted management strategies required to ensure the survival of all species. Shaping Addo is an engrossing account of how a seemingly insignificant sanctuary was transformed into an astonishingly successful mega-park, and the most ecologically diverse protected space in South Africa. -- Publisher description

• Part I. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality: 1. The Ultrasocial Origin of our Existential Crisis
• 2. The Evolution of Ultrasociality in Humans and Social Insects
• 3. Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage and the Evolution of Human Nature
• 4. The Agricultural Transition and how it Changed our Species
• Part II. The Rise and Consolidation of State/Market Societies: 5. The Rise of State Societies
• 6. The Modern State/Market Superorganism
• 7. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of the Superorganism
• Part III. Back to the Future: 8. Taming the Market: A Minimal Bioeconomic Program
• 9. Evolving a Sustainable and Equitable Future: What can we learn from Non-Market Cultures?
• 10. Reclaiming Human Nature: The Future will be Better (Eventually)
• Index.
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production. Recognizing this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the well-being of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.
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• Part I. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality: 1. The Ultrasocial Origin of our Existential Crisis
• 2. The Evolution of Ultrasociality in Humans and Social Insects
• 3. Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage and the Evolution of Human Nature
• 4. The Agricultural Transition and how it Changed our Species
• Part II. The Rise and Consolidation of State/Market Societies: 5. The Rise of State Societies
• 6. The Modern State/Market Superorganism
• 7. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of the Superorganism
• Part III. Back to the Future: 8. Taming the Market: A Minimal Bioeconomic Program
• 9. Evolving a Sustainable and Equitable Future: What can we learn from Non-Market Cultures?
• 10. Reclaiming Human Nature: The Future will be Better (Eventually)
• Index.
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Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production. Recognizing this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the well-being of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.
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• Down the river
• Into the wild
• Up in the air

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"-- Provided by publisher
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. -- adapted from jacket

• Weaving : postcolonial and multispecies politics of plants
• Leaking : containment and recalcitrance of swamps
• Infecting : irrigation, mosquitoes, and malaria in wartime
• Crossing : wildlife in agriculture
• Enclosing : pelicans, protected areas, and private property
• Migrating : wetlands, transcontinental bird movements, and global environmental crisis
• Rippling : capitalism, seals, and baselines

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O'Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin-a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas-as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O'Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region's history within global environmental humanities conversations, O'Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.
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• 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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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
• It's not the end of the world
• Earth's lungs aren't burning
• Enough with the plastic straws
• The sixth extinction is cancelled
• Sweatshops save the planet
• Greed saved the whales, not Greenpeace
• Have your steak and eat it, too
• Saving nature is bomb
• Destroying the environment to save it
• All about the green
• The denial of power
• False gods for lost souls
• Epilogue

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die, " contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. What's really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.
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• "Do you think we're going to be okay?"
• Population and progress. Pessimism: Has the bomb exploded? ; Hope: Better placed than ever
• Energy. Pessimism: Slaves to power ; Hope: Power to the people
• Food. Pessimism: Eating the Earth ; Hope: Green shoots
• Climate. Pessimism: Where all roads meet ; Hope: Making up for lost time
• Economics. Pessimism: Counting the costs ; Hope: Valuing the future
• Epilogue[s]. Pessimism: Are we almost at the end? ; Hope: The grass is greener.

The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens presents a radical analysis of a civilisation on the brink of catastrophe. Setting out the pressing existential threats we face, he writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like at its most pessimistic and hopeful. In lucid prose, Behrens argues that structural problems need structural solutions, and examines critical areas in which political will is required, including women's education, food and energy security, biodiversity and economics. The author is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and is both a highly-qualified scientist and an award-winning educational communicator.

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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• Introduction: In the name of the "mutha'"
• What's going on?
• The dirty/earthy mother
• The gods we worship
• The Anthropocene is a motherfucker
• Color Mother Nature gone
• "Feed the green"
• "Word is born"
• Call (on) your "mutha'"
• Coda: "Gather and vote."

The ecocide and domination of nature that is the Anthropocene does not represent the actions of all humans, but that of Man, the Western and masculine identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that long has masked itself as the civilized and the human. In this book, Jane Caputi looks at two major "myths" of the Earth, one ancient and one contemporary, and uses them to devise a manifesto for the survival of nature-which includes human beings-in our current ecological crisis. These are the myths of Mother Earth and the Anthropocene. The former personifies nature as a figure with the power to give life or death, and one who shares a communal destiny with all other living things. The latter myth sees humans as exceptional for exerting an implicitly sexual domination of Mother Earth through technological achievement, from the plow to synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Much that we take for granted as inferior or taboo is based in a splitting apart of inherent unities: culture-nature; up-down, male-female; spirit-matter; mind-body; life-death; sacred-profane; reason-madness; human-beast; light-dark. The first is valued and the second reviled. This provides the framework for any number of related injustices-sexual, racial, and ecological. This book resists this pattern, in part, by deliberately putting the dirty back into the mind, the obscene back into the sacred, and vice versa. Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice argue for the significance and reality of the Earth Mother. Caputi engages specifically with the powers of that Mother, ones made taboo and even obscene throughout heteropatriarchal traditions. Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, green activism, femme, queer and gender non-binary philosophies, literature and arts, Afrofuturism, and popular culture images, Call Your "Mutha" contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence so much of Man's supremacy, but instead a sign that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is turning away, withdrawing the support systems necessary for life and continuance. Caputi looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which respect for the autonomous and potent Earth Mother and a call for their return has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.
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• Introduction: In the name of the "mutha'"
• What's going on?
• The dirty/earthy mother
• The gods we worship
• The Anthropocene is a motherfucker
• Color Mother Nature gone
• "Feed the green"
• "Word is born"
• Call (on) your "mutha'"
• Coda: "Gather and vote."

The ecocide and domination of nature that is the Anthropocene does not represent the actions of all humans, but that of Man, the Western and masculine identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that long has masked itself as the civilized and the human. In this book, Jane Caputi looks at two major "myths" of the Earth, one ancient and one contemporary, and uses them to devise a manifesto for the survival of nature-which includes human beings-in our current ecological crisis. These are the myths of Mother Earth and the Anthropocene. The former personifies nature as a figure with the power to give life or death, and one who shares a communal destiny with all other living things. The latter myth sees humans as exceptional for exerting an implicitly sexual domination of Mother Earth through technological achievement, from the plow to synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Much that we take for granted as inferior or taboo is based in a splitting apart of inherent unities: culture-nature; up-down, male-female; spirit-matter; mind-body; life-death; sacred-profane; reason-madness; human-beast; light-dark. The first is valued and the second reviled. This provides the framework for any number of related injustices-sexual, racial, and ecological. This book resists this pattern, in part, by deliberately putting the dirty back into the mind, the obscene back into the sacred, and vice versa. Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice argue for the significance and reality of the Earth Mother. Caputi engages specifically with the powers of that Mother, ones made taboo and even obscene throughout heteropatriarchal traditions. Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American, ecofeminism, ecowomanism, green activism, femme, queer and gender non-binary philosophies, literature and arts, Afrofuturism, and popular culture images, Call Your "Mutha" contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence so much of Man's supremacy, but instead a sign that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is turning away, withdrawing the support systems necessary for life and continuance. Caputi looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which respect for the autonomous and potent Earth Mother and a call for their return has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.
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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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• 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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• Contents Foreword by Holmes Rolston III Acknowledgments Introduction: Connection to Nature and the Enduring Influence of Deep Ecology
• Chapter 1: Self-Realization and Identification with Nature
• Chapter 2: Ecological Identity Matters: Deep Ecology and Conservation Psychology
• Chapter 3: Connection to Nature and Environmental Values
• Chapter 4: We Belong Outside: Connectedness to Nature and Outdoor Experience
• Chapter 5: Loving More-than-Human Life: Connectedness to Nature, Deep Ecology, and Biophilia Bibliography About the Author.
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In Connection to Nature, Deep Ecology, and Conservation Social Science: Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World , Christian Diehm analyzes the relevance of the philosophy of deep ecology to contemporary discussions of human-nature connectedness. Focusing on deep ecologists' notion of "identification" with nature, Diehm argues that deep ecological theory is less conceptually problematic than is sometimes thought, and offers valuable insights into what a sense of connection to nature entails, what its attitudinal and behavioral effects might be, and how it might be nurtured and developed. This book is closely informed by, and engages at length with, conservation social science, which Diehm draws on to assess the claims of deep ecology theorists, resolve long-standing problems associated with their work, investigate the impacts of time outdoors on human-nature bonding, and critically review the biophilia hypothesis. Emphasizing the foundational role of ecologically-inclusive identities in pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, Diehm demonstrates that having a sense of connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates have realized, and that deep ecology has much to add to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
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• General Introduction.- A Conceptual Framework for Constituting a Footprint Family.- Exploring Some Fundamentals of Environmental Footprints.- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Nice to have or Essential for Environmental Footprints?.- Understanding the Complementarities of Environmental Footprints and Planetary Boundaries.- Benchmarking the National Carbon, Water and Land Footprints Against Allocated Planetary Boundaries.- General Discussion. .
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This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment. It begins with an overview which provides a starting point for understanding the concept of environmental footprints. On the basis of a thorough investigation into the theoretical and methodological aspects of selected environmental footprints that have been widely adopted, a unified framework for structuring, categorizing and integrating various footprint indicators is established. Furthermore, the book brings clarity to the relationship between footprint analysis and life cycle assessment, and challenges the isolation of environmental footprints and planetary boundaries. The findings provide novel insights into the development of environmental footprints for environmental impact assessment and environmental sustainability assessment.
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• 1. A Prelude to the Age of the Epochal.-
• 2. A Perplexing Appeal to History.-
• 3. The Entangled Human-Technological-Natural World.-
• 4. Epochal Thinking in the Shadow of Anthropogenic Catastrophe.-
• 5. Historical Event: A Narrow Category.-
• 6. The Epochal Event.- Conclusion.
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This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon's book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.
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• Introduction: Reimagining ways of talking about the Anthropocene / Anu Valtonen and Outi Rantala
• Imagining place and politics in the anthropocene / Forrest Clingerman
• Walking with rocks, with care / Outi Rantala, Anu Valtonen and Tarja Salmela
• On scientific fabulation : storytelling in the more-than-human world / Emily Höckert
• Rethinking knowledge, power, agency : learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh / Afroja Khanam and Tiina Seppälä
• Spaces of climate justice : towards an ethical politics of intervention in the anthropocene / Paul Routledge
• Between extractivism and sacredness : the struggle for environmental inheritances by the Adivasi communities of India / Arpita Bisht
• Beyond the Capitalocene : an ecocentric perspective for the energy transition / Giovanni Frigo
• Temporality, technology and justice in Hannah Arendt : a critical approach / Jana Lozanoska
• The Anthropocene and climate change in the post-Paris Agreement debate / Paolo Davide Farah and Marek Prityi
• The role of imagination, marginalized communities, law and technology in building an ethical approach to the anthropocene / Paolo Davide Farah

Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe, this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts, highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment, sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging localised solutions to the current ecological crisis.
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"Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize "feral" ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene. Playful, political, and insistently attuned to more-than-human histories, Feral Atlas does more than catalog sites of imperial and industrial ruin. Stretching conventional notions of maps and mapping, it draws on the relational potential of the digital to offer new ways of analyzing--and apprehending--the Anthropocene; while acknowledging danger, it demonstrates how in situ observation and transdisciplinary collaboration can cultivate vital forms of recognition and response to the urgent environmental challenges of our times."--Summary from publisher

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A master's narrative
• 3. Undoing the Anthropocene
• 4. Conclusions
• 5. Epilogue. Within and beyond the Covid19 pandemic.
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The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour - or the 'forces of reproduction'. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely contribution to the environmental humanities.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
• 1. The Nature Industry
• 2. Nature in Fragments
• 3. Living in the Subjunctive
• 4. The Primitive Accumulation of Nature
• 5. The Cult of the Wild
• 6. Privatizing Nature
• 7. Living at the End of Nature Notes References Index.
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The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the "Anthropocene, " "the great acceleration, " and "rewilding" in order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa. Utilizing a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt school, Green rearranges narrative fragments from the "global nature industry, " which subjugates all aspects of nature to the logic of capitalist production, in order to disrupt preconceived notions and habitual ways of thinking about how we inhabit the Anthropocene. Examining climate change through the details of everyday life, particularly the history of conspicuous consumption and the exploitation of Africa, she surfaces the myths and fantasies that have brought the world to its current ecological crisis and that continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood. Beginning with African rainforest exhibits in New York and Cornwall, Green discusses how these representations of the climate catastrophe fail to acknowledge the unequal pace at which humans consume and continue to replicate imperial narratives about Africa. Examining this history and climate change through the lens of South Africa's entry into capitalist modernity, Green argues that the Anthropocene redirects attention away from the real problem, which is not human's relation with nature, but people's relations with each other. A sophisticated, carefully argued call to rethink how we approach relationships between and among humans and the world in which we live, Fragments from the History of Loss is a challenge to both the current era and the scholarly conversation about the Anthropocene.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
• 1. The Nature Industry
• 2. Nature in Fragments
• 3. Living in the Subjunctive
• 4. The Primitive Accumulation of Nature
• 5. The Cult of the Wild
• 6. Privatizing Nature
• 7. Living at the End of Nature Notes References Index.
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The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the "Anthropocene, " "the great acceleration, " and "rewilding" in order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa. Utilizing a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt school, Green rearranges narrative fragments from the "global nature industry, " which subjugates all aspects of nature to the logic of capitalist production, in order to disrupt preconceived notions and habitual ways of thinking about how we inhabit the Anthropocene. Examining climate change through the details of everyday life, particularly the history of conspicuous consumption and the exploitation of Africa, she surfaces the myths and fantasies that have brought the world to its current ecological crisis and that continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood. Beginning with African rainforest exhibits in New York and Cornwall, Green discusses how these representations of the climate catastrophe fail to acknowledge the unequal pace at which humans consume and continue to replicate imperial narratives about Africa. Examining this history and climate change through the lens of South Africa's entry into capitalist modernity, Green argues that the Anthropocene redirects attention away from the real problem, which is not human's relation with nature, but people's relations with each other. A sophisticated, carefully argued call to rethink how we approach relationships between and among humans and the world in which we live, Fragments from the History of Loss is a challenge to both the current era and the scholarly conversation about the Anthropocene.
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• Introduction
• 1: The restless Earth
• 2: The first people of Gariwerd
• 3: Strangers in a foreign land
• 4: Dispossession and environmental transformation
• 5: Science, resources and industry
• 6: The Grampians National Park
• 7: Colonial legacies.

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: A History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time.In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage.
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• List of maps
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. Introduction: 1. The human system
• Part II. Pleistocene Evolution: 2. Biological and cultural evolution
• 3. Speech and social evolution
• 4. Systemic expansion
• 5. Production and confederation
• Part III. Holocene Evolution: 6. Society: network vs hierarchy
• 7. Collisions and contraction
• 8. From global networks to capitalism
• Part IV. Anthropocene Evolution: 9. Systemic threats
• 10. Hope for adaptations
• Appendix. Frameworks for analysis
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.
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• List of maps
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. Introduction: 1. The human system
• Part II. Pleistocene Evolution: 2. Biological and cultural evolution
• 3. Speech and social evolution
• 4. Systemic expansion
• 5. Production and confederation
• Part III. Holocene Evolution: 6. Society: network vs hierarchy
• 7. Collisions and contraction
• 8. From global networks to capitalism
• Part IV. Anthropocene Evolution: 9. Systemic threats
• 10. Hope for adaptations
• Appendix. Frameworks for analysis
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Global Environmental History
• Chapter 1 The Foragers
• Chapter 2 Farmers and Herders
• Chapter 3 Early Civilizations
• Chapter 4 Eurasia in the Classical Age
• Chapter 5 Medieval Eurasia and Africa
• Chapter 6 The Invasion of America
• Chapter 7 The Transformation of the Old World
• Chapter 8 The Transition to an Industrial World
• Chapter 9 The West and the Non-West in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 10 War and Developmentalism in the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 11 Peace and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 12 Climate Change and Climate Wars
• Chapter 13 Plundering the Oceans
• Chapter 14 Extinctions and Survivals
• Chapter 15 Environmentalism Epilogue One Past, Many Futures Notes Index.
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes-epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions-have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment-species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion-back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
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"Humanity is facing the greatest environmental disaster of our existence. Global pandemics, extreme weather events, and massive wildfires all define the era that many are now calling the Anthropocene. In the three lectures that comprise Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, renowned Indigenous activist and leader Ailton Krenak argues that the current environmental crisis is rooted in modern society's flawed concept of 'humanity' -- that human beings are superior to any other form of nature and therefore justified to exploit it as we please. As a result, our entire civilization is built upon structures, organizations, and institutions that alienate us from the land, rivers, and trees, and that have forced the marginalization (and sometimes outright elimination) of any community that refuses to abide by these rules. Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas have already faced the end of the world many times before. Now, to stop our collective march towards the abyss, we must reject the homogenizing effect of our human-first perspective and embrace a new idea of 'dreaming,' one that allows us to regain our proper place within nature. Only then may we find new solutions to survive."-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction
• Bruce Jennings, Kaitlin Kish, and Christopher J. Orr
• Part I Navigating Wicked Dilemmas of Liberty and Agency in the Anthropocene
• 2. Liberty in the near Anthropocene: State, Market, and Livelihood
• Stephen Quilley
• 3. Nations and Nationalism in the Anthropocene
• Steven J. Mock
• 4. Reclaiming Freedom Through Prefigurative Politics
• Kaitlin Kish
• Part II Seeds of Freedom and Nature in Modern Traditions
• 5. Are Freedom and Interdependency Compatible? Lessons from Classical Liberal and Contemporary Feminist Theory
• Amy R. McCready
• 6. Limits and Liberty in the Anthropocene
• Peter F. Cannavo
• 7. The Virtue Ethics Alternative to Freedom for a Mutually Beneficial Human-Earth Relationship
• Anna Beresford
• 8. Who Stands for Unci Makha: The Liberal Nation-State, Racism, Freedom, and Nature
• Jeffery L. Nicholas
• 9. Nature, Liberty, and Ontology: Why Nature Experience Still Exists and Matters in the Anthropocene
• Piers H.G. Stephens
• Part III Resisting the Undertow of Modernity
• 10. Liberation from excess - a post-growth economy case for freedom in the Anthropocene
• Rafael Ziegler
• 11. Cognitively Unstable Rational Agents: A New Challenge for Economics in the Anthropocene?
• Morgan Tait
• 12. The Civilicene and its Alternatives: Anthropology and its Longue Duree
• Joshua Sterlin
• 13. Defending and Driving the Climate Movement by Redefining Freedom
• Aaron Karp
• Part IV From Navigating the Anthropocene to Being in the Ecozoic
• 14. A Beginners Guide to Avoiding Bad Policy Mistakes in the Anthropocene
• Martin Hensher
• 15. Liberty, energy and complexity in the Longue Duree
• Stephen Quilley
• 16. Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Agency for Transitions into the Ecozoic
• Ivan Dario Vargas Roncancio
• 17. From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to Harmony in the Ecozoic
• Christopher J. Orr and Peter G. Brown
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This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions - choice, thought, action - has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on transformations in human-nature relationships that characterize the Anthropocene: increasing extraction of resources, industrialization, technological development, ecological destruction, and mass production linked to global consumerism. This volume provides a deeply critical examination of the concept of liberty as it relates to environmental politics and ethics in the long view. Contributions explore this entanglement of freedom and the ecological crisis, as well as investigate alternative modernities and more ecologically benign ways of living on Earth. The overarching framework for this collection is that liberty and agency need to be rethought before these strongly held ideals of our age are forced out. On a finite planet, our choices will become limited if we hope to survive the climatic transitions set in motion by uncontrolled consumption of resources and energy over the past 150 years. This volume suggests concrete political and philosophical approaches and governance strategies for learning how to flourish in new ways within the ecological constraints of the planet. Mapping out new ways forward for long-term ecological well-being, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of ecology, environmental ethics, politics, and sociology, and for the wider audience interested in the human-Earth relationship and global sustainability.
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A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
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• Introduction : the place with no edge
• Containing the river
• Inviting water
• Harvesting cypress
• Wetland oil
• Perforating wetlands
• The leaking landscape
• Conclusion : on the edge of intimacy

In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with, rather than independence from, the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master the landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with, and vulnerable to, it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system's failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming's rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans' relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment, whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable, inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
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• Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments v
• Preface 1
• Introduction 3
• A Chronology of Rachel Carson's Life and Works 5
• The Carson Genealogy 79
• The Literary Companion 81
• Appendix I: Glossary 305
• Appendix II: A Guide to Writing, Art and Research Topics 310
• Bibliography 313
• Index 327.

"Rachel Carson was a marine biologist credited with the founding of the ecology movement and the rise in ecofeminism. One of her most popular works was Silent Spring, which challenged the use of DDT (an insecticide infamous for its negative environmental effects) and questioned the claims of modern industry. Carson also wrote essays, reviews, articles, and more to educate the public about the impacts of chemical pollutants on both the environment and the human body. This literary companion provides readers with Carson's key messages via an A-to-Z index of topics discussed in her works including carcinogens, endangered species, and radioactivity"-- Provided by publisher.

What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?"" asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores how the evolution of rodeo has reflected rural western beliefs and assumptions about the natural world that have led to environmental crises and served the beef empire. By unearthing behind-the-scenes stories of rodeo animals as diverse individuals, this book lays bare contradictions within rodeo and the rural West. For almost 150 years, westerners have used rodeo to symbolically reenact their struggles with animals and the land as uniformly progressive and triumphant. Nance upends that view with accounts of individual animals that reveal how diligently rodeo people have worked to make livestock into surrogates for the trials of rural life in the West and the violence in its history. Western horses and cattle were more than just props. Rodeo reclaims their lived history through compelling stories of anonymous roping steers and calves who inspired reform of the sport, such as the famed but abused bucker Steamboat, and the many broncs and bulls, famous or not, who unknowingly built an industry. Rodeo is a dangerous sport that reveals many westerners as people proudly tolerant of risk and violence, and ready to impose these values on livestock. In Rodeo: An Animal History, Nance pushes past standard histories and the sport's publicity to show how rodeo was shot through with stubbornness and human failing as much as fortitude and community spirit.
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• List of Figures
• Part I. Home Sick
• Part II. Jet Lag
• Acknowledgements
• Reprint Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index.

"This book is a search for the elusive concept of the Anthropocene: the current geologic era defined by human impact on the planet, a concept that is embedding itself ever deeper into the humanities and across disciplines. Searching for the Anthropocene follows a journey through an eclectic range of topics, texts, places, and events to examine how we relate to, travel across, and write about our environment. We live in a time of rampant consumerism and irresponsible disregard for the natural world. Still, we strive to find authentic interactions, something to counter the feeling of looming doom in which humans are inherently implicated, often searching for these in literature and art. The debates around the Anthropocene are in one sense an effort to reveal and work through these tensions. Ranging from beech forests and beach fossils to jet engines and airport renovations, from snacks and snipers to fantasies of space travel and nightmares of cars on the streets, this book develops a wide-angle approach to environmental awareness. Blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought, Searching for the Anthropocene offers fresh ways to ponder literature and the humanities side-by-side with current conditions of environmental catastrophe, existential crisis, and social unrest"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Author's Caution
• Preface
• The Cost of Capsizing
• Notes on Technique
• Chapter 1: Paddling Heavy Water
• Learning from Rivers
• Notes on Technique: Paddling Heavy Water
• Chapter 2: The High Brace
• Why and How to Stay in Your Boat
• Making a Plan
• Enlisting Help
• When to Throw the High Brace, and When to Eddy Out
• Notes on Technique: The High Brace
• Chapter 3: When to Eddy Out
• Looking for Flat Water
• Solo or Tandem Paddling
• Options When Cutting the Eddy Fence
• Notes on Technique: When to Eddy Out

• Chapter 4: How to Cut the Eddy Fence
• Dealing with Anger
• Storytelling
• How to Meditate
• Back to Waterton
• Math and Nightmares
• Notes on Technique: How to Cut the Eddy Fence
• Chapter 5: Forward Ferry
• Taking Responsibility
• Notes on Technique: Forward Ferry
• Chapter 6: Thrown Overboard
• Notes on Technique: Thrown Overboard
• Chapter 7: Reading the River
• When Reading the River
• FOMO
• What I Read in the River
• The Power of Myth
• Notes on Technique: Reading the River
• Chapter 8: Bow-In and Pointing Downstream
• Bow-In
• The Role of Creativity

• Emotions and Passions
• Low Brace to Maintain Balance
• This Is Not a Holiday
• Notes on Technique: Bow-In and Pointing Downstream
• Chapter 9: Rescue Mid-River
• Creating a Culture of Resilience
• NGO Leaders
• Nonprofit Organizations
• NGO Funders
• Notes on Technique: Rescue Mid-River
• Chapter 10: Eddy Back In
• Notes on Technique: Eddy Back In
• Gratitude
• Notes
• Bookshelf
• About the Author

"A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Following a river-running metaphor, and proposing a variety of techniques to help with various states of anxiety resulting from burnout, including clarity of purpose, recognition of limits, fitness and diet, mediation and yoga, as well as organizational structural changes such as leave-of-absence policies, Legault encourages readers to find time to 'eddy out' to rest a moment in quieter waters and scout downriver to ensure our lifetime of engagement is fulfilling, effective, and self-sustaining."--Publisher's description.

"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-based approaches. Covers this conceptual ground with clarity, focus, warmth, memoir, mindfulness practices, curricular ideas, and compelling narrative. It invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to reflect on their life experiences, enabling them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing"-- Provided by publisher.

A thoughtful exploration of how humans have endangered the Earth but can pull it back from the brink, as told by a renowned conservationist This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research in the savannas and his own life's journey to argue that conservation is not a modern invention. The success of all societies past and present lies in conservation practices, breaking biological barriers and learning to live in large cooperative groups able to sustain a healthy environment. Our ecological emancipation from nature enabled us to expand our horizons from conserving food and water for survival to saving whales, elephants, and our cultural heritage. In the Anthropocene, our scientific knowledge and modern sensibilities offer hope for combating global warming and creating a planet able to sustain the wealth of life, but only if we use our unique cultural capacity of cooperation to plan our future.
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A thoughtful exploration of how humans have endangered the Earth but can pull it back from the brink, as told by a renowned conservationist This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research in the savannas and his own life's journey to argue that conservation is not a modern invention. The success of all societies past and present lies in conservation practices, breaking biological barriers and learning to live in large cooperative groups able to sustain a healthy environment. Our ecological emancipation from nature enabled us to expand our horizons from conserving food and water for survival to saving whales, elephants, and our cultural heritage. In the Anthropocene, our scientific knowledge and modern sensibilities offer hope for combating global warming and creating a planet able to sustain the wealth of life, but only if we use our unique cultural capacity of cooperation to plan our future.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Environmental Philosophy: Anthropocentrism, Intrinsic Value, and Worldview Clash
• Dualisms and Critical Environmental Philosophy
• Structure of the Book
• Part I Anthropocentrism and Philosophical Anthropology
• 1 Anthropocentrism, Dualism, and Models of the Human
• The Meanings of Anthropocentrism
• Dualisms and the "Liberation Model" of Anthropocentrism
• Models of the Human and Environmental Kantianism
• Pleistocene Dreams
• 2 The Unfinished Animal
• Ecological Materialism: Embeddedness and Ontogeny

• The Unfinished Animal
• Action, Articulation, and Value
• Part II The Intrinsic Value of Nature
• 3 The Problem of Intrinsic Value and the Primacy of Priorities
• Intrinsic Value and Metaethics
• Property and Priority Questions
• Enabling Environmental Practices and Value Theory
• On Value Theory
• 4 Environmental Values and Vital Priorities
• Environmental Goods and Moral Values: Basic Principles
• Two Kinds of Values
• Note on the Ontology of Value
• Relations Between Value Kinds
• Value Relations and Affective Intensity
• Principles of Prioritization: Stability and Dynamism

• 5 Political Ecology and Value Theory
• Ecopolitics and Ethos
• Forms of Social Determination
• Economic Value and Ecosystem Services
• Political Ecological Ethics
• Part III Ecological Ontology
• 6 Metascientific Stances and Dependence
• Environmentalism and Metascientific Stances
• From Rational-Social Dualism To Unruly Complexity
• Stratification and Dependence
• Conclusion. A World Not Made for Us
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index

"In A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism: the intrinsic value of nature, the need for an ecological worldview, and a new conception of the place of humankind in nature. Peterson makes the case that a genuinely critical environmental philosophy must adopt an ecological materialist conception of the human, a pluralistic value theory that emphasizes the need for value prioritization, and a stratified categorical ontology that affirms the basic principle of human asymmetrical dependence on more-than-human nature. Integrating environmental ethics with the latest work in political ecology, Peterson argues it is important to understanding that the world is not made for us, and that coming to terms with this fact is a condition for survival in future human and more-than-human communities of liberation and solidarity"-- Provided by publisher.

"In A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism: the intrinsic value of nature, the need for an ecological worldview, and a new conception of the place of humankind in nature. Peterson makes the case that a genuinely critical environmental philosophy must adopt an ecological materialist conception of the human, a pluralistic value theory that emphasizes the need for value prioritization, and a stratified categorical ontology that affirms the basic principle of human asymmetrical dependence on more-than-human nature. Integrating environmental ethics with the latest work in political ecology, Peterson argues it is important to understanding that the world is not made for us, and that coming to terms with this fact is a condition for survival in future human and more-than-human communities of liberation and solidarity"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Part I: Forward to Nature
• Turning from the Past
• Turning Toward the Future
• Forward to Nature, Away from Nature
• Places, Natural and Otherwise
• Part II: Writing a New Environmental Era
• Writing a New Environmental Era
• Confronting Denial
• Going Nowhere Fast
• Epilogue: About this Book
• Appendix: Writing a New Practice, Details, Details
• Notes.
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Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving forward to forge a more harmonious relationship with nature in the future. Using the rise of the automobile and climate change denial literature to explore how our current environmental era was written into existence, Ken Hiltner argues that the humanities-and not, as might be expected, the sciences-need to lead us there. In one sense, climate change is caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. Science can address this cause. However, approached in another way altogether, climate change is caused by a range of troubling human activities that require the release of these gases, such as our obsessions with cars, lavish houses, air travel and endless consumer goods. The natural sciences may be able to tell us how these activities are changing our climate, but not why we are engaging in them. That's a job for the humanities and social sciences. As this book argues, we need to see anthropogenic (i.e. human-caused) climate change for what it is and address it as such: a human problem brought about by human actions. A passionate and personal exploration of why the Environmental Humanities matter and why we should be looking forward, not back to nature, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in the future and sustainability of our planet.
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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

• 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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• 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

• 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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• 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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• 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.
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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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