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
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Rivers of the Sultan offers a history of the Ottoman Empire's management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. During the early sixteenth century, a radical political realign…
01:41:43 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a distinct, quan…
00:46:28 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pand…
00:39:47 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate
In the past few years, youth-led groups such as the Fridays for Future school strike movement have changed the face of climate activism globally. In this interview, Malaysian youth climate advocate F…
00:25:33 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
In Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), Dr. Susanne A. Wengle shows how agrotechnology served—and undermined—Sovi…
00:59:52 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Ecosphere
John Linstrom talks about the ecosphere, a way of understanding the world deriving principally from the work of ecologist and philosopher Stan Rowe. We also refer briefly to James Lovelock’s Gaia hyp…
00:21:48 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Bethany Wiggin et al., "Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Time cannot be measured in so many coffee spoons, or that is what editors, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Dr. Carolyn Fornoff, and Dr. Patricia Eunji Kim argue in Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporal…
01:06:35 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Laura J. Martin, "Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasi…
00:58:08 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political theorist John Dunn about what the COVID-19 pandemic reveals ab…
00:51:16 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome's power but fear Rome's ruin--will we turn out like the Romans, we wonder, or can we escape their fate? …
00:51:47 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy Hoffman, the dynamic and innovative business professor at the University of Michigan, about what the…
00:43:22 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, an…
01:06:18 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia
“An atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” is how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the IPCC report published in February 2022. But what did th…
00:37:09 |
Mon 04 Apr 2022
Sophie Chao, "In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua" (Duke UP, 2022)
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind people i…
01:01:41 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022)
edited by Ilan Kelman
Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarcti…
00:42:16 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital div…
00:51:08 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Heather Goodall, "Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980" (ANU Press, 2022)
Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022)
by Heather Goodall
The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dharug lands, was a place of fishing grounds, swim…
00:51:31 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to the status quo-- pandemics…
00:47:23 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)
It is slowly becoming clear that we are heading towards a deep ecological catastrophe. Our societies carbon footprint and its impact have been known for some time, and already we are starting to see …
01:39:53 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
Peter B. Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
In The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (Columbia UP, 2020), Peter Lavelle offers a fascinating narrative history of natural resource de…
01:07:15 |
Tue 22 Mar 2022
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