Nature and the Environment

Sinking Chicago

Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment

Harold L. Platt

The first long-term study of the effects of climate change on an American city

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 figures, 13 maps

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Exploiting the Wilderness

An Analysis of Wildlife Crime

Greg L. Warchol

A contemporary criminological analysis of the African and Asian illegal trade in wildlife

208 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 tables, 16 halftones, 2 maps

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The Next Social Contract

Animals, the Anthropocene, and Biopolitics

Wayne Gabardi

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the fate of animals in the twenty-first century Anthropocene era

242 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone

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American Dunkirk

The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11

James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf

How an unplanned maritime response to the 9/11 disaster showed creativity, improvisation, and the power of community-based resources

196 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 12 halftones, 1 map

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Rebuilding Community after Katrina

Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative

Edited by Ken Reardon and John Forester

How a community-university partnership brought together analysis and political muscle to sustain New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

262 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 halftones, 7 maps

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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis

Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Robert R. Gioielli

How the postwar decay of America's industrial city's helped to give rise to environmental movement

224 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 halftones

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The Risk Society Revisited

Social Theory and Governance

Eugene A. Rosa, Aaron M. McCright, and Ortwin Renn

How risk is a feature in all societies, and its connection to the challenges of sustainability

264 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 figures

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Greening Africana Studies

Linking Environmental Studies with Transforming Black Experiences

Rubin Patterson

Establishes the need to include Environmental Studies as part of the Africana Studies curriculum

242 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 28 tables, 3 figures, 3 halftones, 6 maps

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Sustainable Failures

Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World

Sherry Cable

Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy.

242 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 tables, 1 figure

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Where Rivers Meet the Sea

The Political Ecology of Water

Stephanie C. Kane

A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law.

246 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 figures, 14 halftones

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