Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/environmental-studies/
episode 63: Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
episode 33: Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2019)
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
episode 42: Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley" (UBC Press, 2016)
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
episode 44: Kate O'Neill, "Waste" (Polity, 2019)
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers..
episode 141: Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate" (Routledge, 2018)
How do states use cultural policy?
episode 612: Helen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans" (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...
episode 59: Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...
episode 42: Michael E. Mann, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines" (2012)
How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not?
episode 2: Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Past studies a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in Italy and the way their production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment...