New Books in Environmental Studies
Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 1091
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
John F. Ahern, "Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearbe…
00:35:13 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It…
01:04:36 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff talks about his long career, how he became a “tech…
01:07:06 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationsh…
01:05:41 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted m…
00:58:53 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping (Manchester UP, 2023), Christiaan De Beukela…
00:47:59 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 (U Nebraska Press, 2021) explores natural and anthropogenic dis…
01:23:50 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell, 2022) shows how the state can sh…
00:44:09 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal fr…
01:13:00 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Irish vegan studies are poised for increasing relevance as climate change threatens the legitimacy and longevity of animal agriculture and widespread health problems related to animal product consump…
01:22:40 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events …
00:43:39 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
Human-caused climate change is real and growing in impact. Yet many Americans see climate change as a belief that they can opt out of. Two belief structures are to blame: American Protestantism and p…
00:33:27 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation …
00:48:49 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
Many of us have likely seen photos of the Aral Sea, and the rusted Soviet-era ships, sitting in the desert with no water in sight. The Aral Sea is now just 10% of its former volume, shrinking down fr…
00:39:27 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
What is the difference between global warming and climate change? This episode explores:
What led Dr. Wu into STEM, and to the study of climate change.
Why the term global warming is misleading, an…
01:00:15 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” winner, talks about her book Waste: One Woman’s Fight A…
00:59:49 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)
A collection of 42 essays meditating on both California’s natural gifts and its natural disasters, Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril (Chin Music, 2022) urges readers to cons…
00:59:55 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
For most of human history, the Mediterranean was home to a significant number of pastoralists, who herded livestock along seasonal migratory routes. Today, traces of this pastoralist presence have al…
00:54:58 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity. The book examines the ar…
00:31:49 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID er…
00:43:17 |
Mon 26 Dec 2022
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