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Ecology

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 1

Kotchen Matthew J., Stock James H., Wolfram Catherine D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711171, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Sea Life

Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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Ecology

Abundant Earth Toward an Ecological Civilization

Crist Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780226596808, ISBN: HB: 9780226596778, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In "Abundant Earth", Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes – a large and growing h...

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Cultural Studies

Ecology

Pure Adulteration Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 halftones

In the late nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to t...

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Ecology

Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones

This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...

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Ecology

Emergence of Ecosocialism Collected Essays by Joel Kovel

Saul Quincy

ISBN: PB: 9781940939957, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Emergence of Ecosocialism" is the first book by the author, activist and scholar Joel Kovel. Kovel led an expansive political and intellectual life from the mid-1960s until his death in the spring of 2018: in addition to being a foundational eco...

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Ecology

Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies

Lanicci John, Murray Elisabeth Hope, Ramsay James D.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps

Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Markon Carl

ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone

The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict

Beldo Les

ISBN: PB: 9780226657400, ISBN: HB: 9780226657370, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...

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