Island Press: 819 books
by Richard Alley
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
On November 2, 2011, Richard Alley participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate...
Discovering Big Cat Country
On the trail of tigers and snow leopards
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the mseasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein began his career in the heart of Nepal’s tiger country and the perilous Himalayan slopes of the snow...
John Muir's Last Journey
South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
John Muir's Last Journey is a must read for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
Keeping the Wild
Against the Domestication of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between...
Wildfire
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
During the summer of 2000, Americans from coast to coast witnessed the worst fire season in recorded history. Daily news reports brought dramatic images of vast swaths of land going up in smoke, from the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, to the scrublands of Texas, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where...
Hope Is an Imperative
The Essential David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future...
by Stephanie Mills, Jeanne Carstensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Five thought-provoking essays by Stephanie Mills are followed by reviews and excerpts of the ten mimportant pieces of related literature written by experts in the various fields. Reviewers include Peter Borrelli, David Brower, Ernest Callenbach, J. Baird Callicott, Lois Gibbs, and others. Following the essays is an annotated bibliography listing over 100 important environmental works.
More Tree Talk
The People, Politics, and Economics of Timber
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
More Tree Talk is an insightful and compelling look at the human dimension of the challenges facing forestry. First published in 1981, Tree Talk was widely hailed as the meven-handed and well-written introduction to forestry issues available. More Tree Talk is an entirely revised edition of that classic...
Reducing Toxics
A New Approach To Policy And Industrial Decisionmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for...
Forcing the Spring
The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
"...[a] provocative and original account..." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movemthat emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not...
Simple Pleasures
Thoughts on Food, Friendship, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In Simple Pleasures: Thoughts on Food, Friendship, and Life we have highlighted two chapters from Stephanie Mill’s reflection the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties, of a perhaps simpler than average North American life. It is a thoughtful paean to living, like Thoreau, a deliberate...
Shadows in the Sun
Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural...
Tibet Wild
A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
As one of the world’ s leading field biologists, George Schaller has spmuch of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species— from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to pandas in the Wolong and snow leopards in the Himalaya. Throughout his...
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay
A Story of Revival
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...