Environmental Studies / Environmental Philosophy

The Canadian Environment in Political Context provides a comprehensive introduction to environmental policy in Canada, addressing key issues including climate change, biodiversity, and oceans governance.

Transformative Politics of Nature examines political barriers to land and wildlife conservation and presents possible transformative pathways forward that address both proximate and fundamental factors from Western and Indigenous perspectives.

With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.

Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs. This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways.

Premodern Ecologies explores how places, both local and global, shape scholarship on medieval and Renaissance English literature.

Fishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.

Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.

Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers—Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, among others—by applying them to contemporary environmental crises.

In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.

Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce our alienation from the rest of nature and reflects on how anthropology has contributed to the prevailing Western perception of a divide between nature and culture.

In this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure.

Muskeg and the Northern Environment in Canada provides a wealth of information for the wide range of specialists -- scientists, engineers, foresters, agriculturalists, and environmentalists -- who deal with this unusual and remarkable resource.

This book is a history of the development of an awareness, of institutions, and of policies on the shaping of the man-made environment. It is however more than that. Mr Carver describes his own life and sensibilities, his family and his colleagues, with a trained and compassionate eye and a taut and careful prose.

The great progress made in recent years in the field of the chemical and physical properties of water and the dependence of the life processes on these makes it appear desirable to take water as an environment as the central theme. This book has grown out of the course in Hydrobiology given at the Biological Station at Lunz.