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 3: Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
van Dooren offers an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows...
episode 78: Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, "La Batea" (Red Hook, 2017)
A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of small-scale miners in Colombia in a unique and powerful way...
episode 54: Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2000)
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains...
episode 57: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso Books, 2020)
Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....
episode 66: Brian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (Zed Book, 2019)
Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...
episode 10: Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?
episode 113: Sue Stuart-Smith, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Scribner, 2020)
Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....
episode 2: Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace" (Henry Holt, 2020)
Safina looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual within a particular community...
episode 56: Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)
What would actually make America great? More people.
episode 54: Karen Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" (Island Press, 2020)
Holl offers a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems...