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Ecology

Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

Uekotter Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593500287, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
272 pp., 22x14 cm

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. T...

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Hemlock A Forest Giant on the Edge

Foster David R., D'Amato Anthony, Baiser Benjamin, Ellison Aaron M., Foster David, Orwig David, Oswald Wyatt, Plotkin Audrey Barker, Thompson Jonathan, Long Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300179385, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A "foundation...

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Saving the World's Deciduous Forests Ecological Perspectives from East Asia, North America, and Europe

Askins Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166811, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Deciduous forests have been remarkably resilient throughout their history, recovering from major shifts in climate and surviving periods of massive deforestation. But today the world's great forests confront more ominous threats than ever before. Thi...

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Wilderness and the American Mind

Nash Roderick Frazier, Miller Char

ISBN: PB: 9780300190380, Yale University Press, May 2014
440 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illustration

Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. "The Los Angeles T...

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Nature

Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

Chazdon Robin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...

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Large Carnivore Conservation Integrating Science and Policy in the North American West

Clark Susan G., Rutherford Murray B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226107400, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, "Large Carnivore Conservation" argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of peo...

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Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability Redefining Our Relationship with Nature

Larson Brendon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205817, ISBN: HB: 9780300151534, Yale University Press, April 2014
320 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating book. He explores how metaphors...

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General

Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Sachs Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.

<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...

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Earthmasters The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Hamilton Clive

ISBN: PB: 9780300205213, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 milli...

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Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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