New Books in Environmental Studies
Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
- Website
- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/environmental-studies/
- Description
- Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-23 19:43
- last episode published
- 2024-11-23 09:00
- publication frequency
- 6.06 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 964
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- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-23 | In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philosophy, and ecocriticism to tarry with the question of ecological catastrophe. Taking as one of their con... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth) Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. Mark Blyth (whose planned February 2020 appearance was scrubbed by the pandemic) ... |
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| 2024-11-08 | From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015—and where the international climate effort needs to go from here. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climat... |
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| 2024-11-02 | Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer goods, to name just a few prominent uses. How did oil come to occupy its central position in the worl... |
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| 2024-11-01 | "Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.” This is a quote by Luisa Neubauer – the most famous German climate activist. As global climate change forecasts become more drasti... |
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| 2024-10-29 |
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024) As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along th... |
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| 2024-10-26 |
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024) Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious antic... |
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| 2024-10-25 |
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing... |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024) News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements—sea level—may seem unremarkable, a long-famili... |
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| 2024-10-20 |
Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021) Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and wide range of emotions and strategies people develop to respond to toxicity in everyday life. An exami... |
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