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Ecology

Politics of Scale A History of Rangeland Science

Sayre Nathan F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226083254, ISBN: HB: 9780226083117, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production –...

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Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Heise Ursula K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226358161, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 13 halftones, 2 tables

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention th...

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Mammals

Biography & Memoires

In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears

Fair Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps

For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...

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Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Ecology

Good That Transcends How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform

Freyfogle Eric T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326115, ISBN: HB: 9780226326085, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance t...

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Sea Life

All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Finley Carmel

ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...

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Science, Conservation, and National Parks

Beissinger Steven R., Ackerly David D., Doremus Holly, Machlis Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226423005, ISBN: HB: 9780226422954, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 13 tables

As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitu...

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Unfreezing the Arctic Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

Stuhl Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780226416649, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, most commentato...

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Ecology

Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar

Corson Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...

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Green State in Africa

Death Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780300215830, Yale University Press, September 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodivers...

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