New Library Acquisitions - Week of October 1st

Featured Book: 

James Morton Turner, The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics Since 1964 (2012).  This 576-page text, authored by Turner, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College, with a foreword by renown environmentalist William Cronan, discusses the concept and treatment of wilderness on public lands in the fifty years following the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. A work of history this text also provides  insight into how wilderness has influenced the broader polical battles being waged today. 

New Library Acquisitions:

BIOGRAPHY.

The wildness within : remembering David Brower / Kenneth Brower

 

CARBON MARKETS.

Demystifying carbon markets : a guide to developing carbon credit projects / Michiel Arnoldus, Roger Bymolt

CLIMATE CHANGE.

Asserting native resilience : Pacific rim indigenous nations face the climate crisis / edited by Zoltán Grossman and Alan Parker ; foreward by Billy Frank, Jr

 

Visualizing climate change : a guide to visual communication of climate change and developing local solutions / Stephen R.J. Sheppard

 

CULTURAL HERITAGE LAW.

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions : explanatory notes / Sabine von Schorlemer, Peter-Tobias Stoll, editors

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMENTARY.

Rambunctious garden : saving nature in a post-wild world / Emma Marris

 

The promise of wilderness : American environmental politics since 1964 / James Morton Turner; foreword by William Cronon

HISTORY.

The spirit of the Appalachian Trail : community, environment, and belief on a long-distance hiking path / Susan Power Bratton

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Environment and development in Mexico : recommendations for reconciliation / Jan Gilbreath ; foreword by Janine Ferretti

Smart methods for environmental externalities : urban planning, environmental health and hygiene in the Netherlands / Gert de Roo, Jelger Visser and Christian Zuidema

Energy law in Taiwan / Anton Ming-Zhi Gao

 

Social movements in Iran : environmentalism and civil society / Simin Fadaee

 

La mise en œuvre du droit international de l'environnement / publié sous la direction de Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Lavanya Rajamani = Implementation of international environmental law / edited by Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Lavanya Rajamani

LAW OF THE SEA.

UNCLOS 1982 commentary : supplementary documents / [edited by] Myron H. Nordquist, Satya N. Nandan, James Kraska

NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS.

Handbook of federal Indian law

 

NATURAL RESOURCES.

Upstream oil and gas : cases, materials, and commentary / Marc Hammerson

Oil and gas : a practical handbook / consulting editor, Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill

PUBLIC HEALTH.

For the public's health : revitalizing law and policy to meet new challenges / Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Technology, globalization, and sustainable development : transforming the industrial state / Nicholas A. Ashford, Ralph P. Hall