Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics – serie
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Weighing the Future
Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health …
Making Our Beasts
Paleontology in the United States
Av Elana Shever
Häftad, 2025
303 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Making Our Beasts is an ethnography of science in action that uses a familiar topic—dinosaurs—to lead readers to understand science …
Germ Wars
The Politics of Microbes and America's Landscape of Fear
Inbunden, 2017
1156 kr
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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. Germ Wars argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the production …
Germ Wars
The Politics of Microbes and America's Landscape of Fear
Häftad, 2017
306 kr
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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. Germ Wars argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the production …
Flame and Fortune in the American West
Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire
Häftad, 2016
263 kr
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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 …
Flame and Fortune in the American West
Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire
Inbunden, 2016
1156 kr
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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 …
Life without Lead
Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay
Inbunden, 2018
1156 kr
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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 …
Life without Lead
Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay
Häftad, 2018
263 kr
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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 …
Coral Whisperers
Scientists on the Brink
Inbunden, 2018
816 kr
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In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and …
Coral Whisperers
Scientists on the Brink
Häftad, 2018
237 kr
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In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and …
Destination Anthropocene
Science and Tourism in The Bahamas
Av Amelia Moore
Inbunden, 2019
1156 kr
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Destination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago. Known to travelers as a paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising …
Destination Anthropocene
Science and Tourism in The Bahamas
Av Amelia Moore
Häftad, 2019
263 kr
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Destination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago. Known to travelers as a paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising …
Unsettled Waters
Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West
Inbunden, 2018
1156 kr
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In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters 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 …
Unsettled Waters
Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters 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 …
Wilted
Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
Inbunden, 2019
1156 kr
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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth‑highest‑grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control …
Wilted
Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
Häftad, 2019
371 kr
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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth‑highest‑grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control …
Weighing the Future
Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health …
Economic Poisoning
Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior …
Economic Poisoning
Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior …
Continent in Dust
Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
Av Jerry C. Zee
Inbunden, 2022
816 kr
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In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an …
Continent in Dust
Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
Av Jerry C. Zee
Häftad, 2022
328 kr
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In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an …
Worlds of Gray and Green
Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
Av Sebastián Ureta, Patricio Flores
Inbunden, 2022
816 kr
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The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities …
Worlds of Gray and Green
Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
Av Sebastián Ureta, Patricio Flores
Häftad, 2022
263 kr
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The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities …
Fluvial Imagination
On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy
Av Colin Hoag
Häftad, 2022
306 kr
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate …
Low-Carbon Contradiction
Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba
Inbunden, 2023
816 kr
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In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America’s most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of its crude oil supplies, resulting in a severe energy crisis. In the face of this shock, Cuba started to develop a low-carbon economy based on economic …
Low-Carbon Contradiction
Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America’s most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of its crude oil supplies, resulting in a severe energy crisis. In the face of this shock, Cuba started to develop a low-carbon economy based on economic …
Taste of Water
Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
Inbunden, 2023
731 kr
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Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered consumers’ awareness of the environment their water …
Taste of Water
Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
Häftad, 2023
261 kr
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Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered consumers’ awareness of the environment their water …
Unmaking the Bomb
Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
Av Shannon Cram
Inbunden, 2023
816 kr
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"A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation."—One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus ReviewsWhat does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the …
Unmaking the Bomb
Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
Av Shannon Cram
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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"A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation."—One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus ReviewsWhat does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the …
