New Books in Environmental Studies
Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-07 11:03
- last episode published
- 2025-03-07 09:00
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- 5.89 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-07 | California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flo... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025) The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its sh... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Andrew Boyd is a humorist and long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He led the decade-long satirical media campaign “Billionaires for Bush,” and is co-founder of both Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning creative agency and th... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024) Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much d... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024) Today I talked to Marcia Bjornerud about Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Flatiron Books, 2024). Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Mar... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024) From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the... |
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| 2025-03-01 | Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex wo... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024) Part of what makes the challenges that collectively are called the “environmental crisis” so difficult is that the vocabulary we deploy in thinking and discussing the issues emerged under social conditions that are far removed from our present. The fam... |
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| 2025-02-28 | Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2024) presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Austr... |
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| 2025-02-27 |
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores Our book is: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores (UP of Colorado, 2024) which presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century.... |
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