Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven ...

This collection of essays historicizes the divorce of the 'natural' from the human, and shows that 'nature' is a human construction, arguing that what we have constructed we can reconstruct.

The story that inspired Dark Waters, the major motion picture from Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes. 1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the ...

This book uncovers their links to the rising tide of fundamentalisms, violence against women, and the environmental death of the planet. It illustrates how the commons continue to shrink, as natural resources are patented.

An accessible political and legal history of the Endangered Species Act.

This book will appeal to upperclass undergraduates, graduate students, and to all citizens interested in protecting the environment.

Shaping World History is based on original research and also draws widely from the literature on the history of science, technology, climate, agriculture, and historical epidemiology.

New edition of introductory textbook, ideal for students taking a course on air pollution and global warming, whatever their background.

The book offers a first hand testimony of the straits' negotiation, which will be extremely useful for scholars & students of the Law of the Sea.

"The first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts, including maps of the production areas for each of 22 major commodities".--BOOKJACKET.