Серия "Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics"

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy.&#160;<I>Unsettled Waters</I>&#160;is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story...

The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in modern American history.&#160;<I>Germ Wars</I> argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the production of new forms of microbial nature and the changing practices of warfare. In the last century, revolutions in biological science have made visible a vast microscopic world,...

Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is&#160;the most destructive fire&mdash;in terms of structures lost&mdash;in&#160;California history. More than 3,000...

Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation&rsquo;s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests.<BR /><BR /> In <I>Wilted</I>,&#160;Julie&#160;Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on...

In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world&rsquo;s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today&rsquo;s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans.&#160;<I>Coral Whisperers</I>&#160;captures a critical moment in the history of coral reef science. Gleaning insights from over one hundred interviews...

Destination Anthropocene&#160;documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago.&#160;Known to travelers as a&#160;paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores an&#160;experimental&#160;form of&#160;tourism...

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested...