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By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world.

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Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds examines how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction by arguing for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.

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We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings. One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vision of our new future.

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Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

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Among the most complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries' transitions to democracy is the restoration of the environment. This book considers how rule making, sanctions, incentives, and programs shape environmental protection efforts, and to what extent these emerging policy structures are promoting environmental well-being.

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A diverse and probing enquiry which aims to consider the nature of land use, abuse and degradation.

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The author examines natural disasters around the Pacific Rim throughout history together with scientific data context to produce enlightening-and highly readable-entries.

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In a battle to match population growth with food and energy production, the countries of the Middle East have been developing water resources, including international rivers and groundwater, without considering their neighbours' needs as well. The result has bee more frequent and increasingly bitter conflicts.

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Rivers of the World, vividly written and meticulously researched, is a rich and thorough treatment of some 200 of the world's rivers.

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Explores one of the crucial problems of the contemporary era - struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. This book combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization."

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This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. -- .

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Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, this title shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

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By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet.

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Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for "quality of life." His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of ...

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This volume combines theoretical analysis with a rich set of case studies to understand how national identity is negotiated across spatial scales. As nationalism and identity have continued as critical global flashpoints, this book provides the only up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the territorial and scalar dimensions of national identity.

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This volume combines theoretical analysis with a rich set of case studies to understand how national identity is negotiated across spatial scales. As nationalism and identity have continued as critical global flashpoints, this book provides the only up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the territorial and scalar dimensions of national identity.

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National institutions involved in environmental policy planning respond more to the accommodation of special interests, whether vested, parochial, or societal, than to the realities of technological advances.

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We have a special relationship with the sea. Sea Change addresses such issues as pollution by sewage, nuclear waste and dumping at sea; destruction of marine environment, impacts of climate change, coastal erosion and rising sea levels;