Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 33 days 9 hours 32 minutes
episode 35: NBN Classic: Kate Brown, "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.
episode 39: NBN Classic: Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
episode 46: Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" (U California Press, 2017)
Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...
episode 187: Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
An interview with Andrea Ballestero
episode 131: Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
An interview with Fred Spier
episode 139: Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
An interview with Martin Kalb
episode 129: Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
An interview with Nancy Fraser
episode 128: Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
An interview with Abby L. Goode
episode 38: Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
An interview with Joshua Duclos
episode 78: Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
An interview with Alex Nathanson