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Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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Ecology

Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation

Klein David R.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones

This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...

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Ecology

Wading Right In Discovering the Nature of Wetlands

Owen Koning Catherine, Ashworth Sharon M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554358, ISBN: HB: 9780226554211, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 line drawings

Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scien...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska

Mackovjak James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...

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Ecology

Stockholm Paradigm Climate Change and Emerging Disease

Brooks Daniel R., Hoberg Eric P., Boeger Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226632445, ISBN: HB: 9780226632308, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 40 line drawings

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and era...

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Ecology

Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

Rothschild Rachel Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226634715, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through th...

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Ecology

Wild Sea A History of the Southern Ocean

McCann Joy

ISBN: HB: 9780226622385, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 maps

"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessi...

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Nature

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Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne, Wohlhauser Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables

In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...

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Ecology

Discerning Experts The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

Oppenheimer Michael, Oreskes Naomi, Jamieson Dale, Brysse Keynyn, O'Reilly Jessica, Shindell Matthew, Wazeck Milena

ISBN: PB: 9780226602011, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 11 tables

"Discerning Experts" assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors exp...

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Ecology

Downriver Into the Future of Water in the West

Hansman Heather

ISBN: HB: 9780226432670, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some...

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