- Bending Science
- Thomas O. McGarity
- Wendy E. Wagner
- McGarity and Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards.Bending Science exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health.
- Hardcover 2008
- But Is It True?
- Aaron Wildavsky
- We've eaten PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, and breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Amid this chaos of questions and conflicting information, Aaron Wildavsky arrives with just what the beleaguered citizen needs: a clear, fair, and factual look at how the rival claims of environmentalists and industrialists work, what they mean, and where to start sorting them out.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
- Samuel P. Hays
- Paperback
- Deep-Sea Biodiversity
- Michael A. Rex
- Ron J. Etter
- In Deep-Sea Biodiversity, Michael Rex and Ron Etter present the first synthesis of patterns and causes of biodiversity in organisms that dwell in the vast sediment ecosystem that blankets the ocean floor. Deep-Sea Biodiversity offers a new understanding of marine biodiversity that will be of general interest to ecologists and is crucial to responsible exploitation of natural resources at the deep-sea floor.
- Hardcover 2010
- The Discovery of Global Warming
- Spencer R. Weart
- In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached their conclusion--by way of unexpected twists and turns and in the face of formidable intellectual, financial, and political obstacles--is told for the first time in The Discovery of Global Warming.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- The Discovery of Global Warming
- Spencer R. Weart
- In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion was the story Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded to reflect the latest science.
- Paperback 2008
- Energizing China
- Michael B. McElroy
- Chris P. Nielsen
- Peter Lydon
- Given the risks of climate change, is there an imperative, shared responsibility to help China respond to the environmental effects of its coal dependence? By linking global hazards to local air pollution concerns--from indoor stove smoke to burgeoning ground-level ozone--this volume of eighteen studies seeks integrated strategies to address a range of harmful emissions. Counterbalancing the scientific inquiry are key chapters on China's unique legal, institutional, political, and cultural factors in effective pollution control.
- Paperback 1998
- Environmental Health
- Dade W. Moeller
- Environmental Health has established itself as the most succinct and comprehensive textbook on the subject. This extensively revised and rewritten third edition continues this tradition by incorporating new developments and by adding timely coverage of topics such as environmental economics and terrorism.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Extended Organism
- J. Scott Turner
- Building on Richard Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, physiological ecologist Scott Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures that animals build undoubtedly do physiological work, capturing and channeling chemical and physical energy, Turner argues that such structures are more properly regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal's phenotype.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Fatal Misconception
- Matthew Connelly
- Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake ourselves by policing national borders and breeding better people. Supported by affluent countries, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, the population control movement experimented with ways to limit population growth. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly’s critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2009
- Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
- Micah S. Muscolino
- This work explores interactions between society and environment in China’s most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth-century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s. Author Micah S. Muscolino gives us a better understanding of the relationship between past ecological changes and present environmental challenges.
- Hardcover 2009
- Globalization and the Rural Environment
- Edited by Otto T. Solbrig
- Edited by Robert Paarlberg
- Edited by Francesco Di Castri
- Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
- Paperback 2001
- The Greening of Industry
- Edited by John D. Graham
- Edited by Jennifer K. Hartwell
- Environmentalists often perceive the risk management approach to environmental and public health policy as a tool to block regulation of industrial pollution. In contrast, this book presents six case studies which provide examples of how federal risk-based regulation has encouraged industry's investment in pollution control.
- Hardcover
- Man and Nature
- George Marsh
- Edited by David Lowenthal
- George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land.
- Hardcover 1965 / Paperback
- Nature Wars
- Mark L. Winston
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- The Northeast's Changing Forest
- Lloyd C. Irland
- In the first book to review the nature of the Northeast's forests, their significance, and policy issues for a general audience, Lloyd Irland tells the story of the changing forests of the nine northeastern states. He reviews their history from the original European settlements through the age of shipbuilding to the retreat of farming and regrowth of the forest in the twentieth century. Emphasizing the continuity of the history and varied uses of the forests, the work summarizes the forces shaping past farming and land abandonment, forest cutting practices, insects, winds, diseases, and land development patterns.
- Hardcover 1999
- Resources under Regimes
- Paul R. Josephson
- Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- The Sea, Volume 10, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Hardcover
- The Sea, Volume 13, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Sea, Volume 14A, The Global Coastal Ocean
- Edited by Allan R. Robinson
- Edited by Kenneth H. Brink
- A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice.
- Hardcover 2006
- Slicing the Silence
- Tom Griffiths
- From Scott and Shackleton to sled dogs and penguins, stories of Antarctica seize our imagination. In December 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the Australian Antarctic Division to deliver the new team of winterers. In this beautifully written book, he reflects on the history of human experiences in Antarctica, taking the reader on a journey of discovery, exploration, and adventure in an unforgettable land.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009
- The Smaller Majority
- Piotr Naskrecki
- This large-format volume of color photographs takes readers on a magnificent visual journey into the remote world of small tropical organisms critical to biodiversity. A unique introduction to the marvelous variety of the overlooked life under our feet, Naskrecki's book returns us to a child's sense of wonder with a fully informed, deeply felt understanding of the importance of the world's smaller, teeming life.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone
- Mark L. Winston
- With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory--where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental disaster. As he seeks a middle ground where concerns about genetic engineering can be rationally discussed and resolved, Winston gives us a full and balanced view of the forces at play in the chaotic debate over agricultural biotechnology.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005