New Library Acquisitions -- Week of August 20th

Featured Book: 

Christopher C. Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (2012).  Seller's in his book, Crabgrass Crucible examines the birth and relationship of the American suburb in the twentieth century.  Focusing on the post-war expansion of the suburbs in New York and Los Angeles, the author argues that despite the role of the suburbs in altering the natural state, the suburbs with their unique connection with their environment ironically sparked the birth of the environmental movement in this country.  A fascinating read for anyone interested in the birth of the environmental movement in the U.S.

New Library Acquisitions:

DISASTERS.

Global weirdness : severe storms, deadly heat waves, relentless drought, rising seas, and the weather of the future / [produced by] Climate Central

 

ECONOMICS.

Sustainable business : economic development and environmentally sound technologies / Regency Corporation Limited in association with the United Nations Environment Programme

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

Environmental justice : legal theory and practice / by Barry E. Hill

 

GENDER.

Women, the environment and sustainable development : towards a theoretical synthesis / Rosi Braidotti ... [et al.]

 

HISTORY.

Climate and culture change in North America AD 900-1600 / by William C. Foster

 

Crabgrass crucible : suburban nature and the rise of environmentalism in twentieth-century America / Christopher C. Sellers

 

HYDROFRACKING.

Marcellus shale gas drilling : legal trends

 

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

China's climate policy / Chen, Gang

 

Environmental law in Switzerland / Anne Petitpierre

 

The European Union and multilateral governance : assessing EU participation in United Nations human rights and environmental fora / edited by Jan Wouters, Hans Bruyninckx, Sudeshna Basu, Simon Schunz

 

Carvão e meio ambiente / Centro de Ecologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

 

Geo Brasil 2002 : perspectivas do meio ambiente no Brasil / Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente--PNUMA, Escritório Regional para a América Latina e o Caribe [e] Ministério do Meio Ambiente--MMA, Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis--IBAMA

 

Ciência, tecnologia e sociedade na Amazônia : questões para o desenvolvimento sustentável / Francisco de Assis Costa

 

LAW OF THE SEA.

The Law of the Sea Convention : US accession and globalization / edited by Myron H. Nordquist ... [et al.]

 

NUCLEAR ENERGY.

Major proposals to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty : a resource guide / Claire Applegarth and Rhianna Tyson

 

PHILOSOPHY.

Gaia : the human journey from chaos to cosmos / Elisabet Sahtouris

 

POLITICS.

Handbook of global environmental politics / edited by Peter Dauvergne

 

SCIENCE.

Elements of environmental chemistry / Ronald A. Hites, Jonathan D. Raff

 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Indicators of sustainable development : framework and methodologies

 

The general exception clauses of the TRIPS agreement : promoting sustainable development / Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr

 

TECHNOLOGY.

Environmental monitoring using GNSS : global navigation satellite systems / Joseph L. Awange

 

WATER RESOURCES.

Dam nation : how water shaped the West and will determine its future / Stephen Grace