Featured Book:
The Big Muddy An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples From Hernando De Soto to Hurricane Katrina(2012). This 291-page text is authored by Christopher Morris, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. The book, a work of environmental history, examines the relationships between people and the land from the time of hunters and gatherers up through the modern age. Specifically, the book focuses on such topics as deforestation, disease, invasive species and the terraforming of the Mississippi itself. New Library Acquisitions:
AGRICULTURE.
Harvest
: an adventure into the heart of America's family farms / Richard Horan
CLIMATE CHANGE.
International
law in the era of climate change / edited by Rosemary Rayfuse, Shirley V. Scott
CORPORATIONS.
Earth
is our business : changing the rules of the game / Polly Higgins
FORESTS.
Forest and range policy :
its development in the United States / Samuel Trask Dana, Sally K. Fairfax,
assistance from Mark Rey and Barbara T. Andrews on chapters 9 and 10
GLOBALIZATION.
Globalization
and the environment : capitalism, ecology and power / Peter Newell
GREENHOUSE GASES &
CARBON.
Carbon capture and storage
in developing countries : a perspective on barriers to deployment / Natalia
Kulichenko, Eleanor Ereira
HISTORY.
For
love of the land : a history of the National Association of Conservation
Districts / R. Neil Sampson
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Marine
nature conservation and management at the borders of the European Union /
Detlef Czybulka (Hrsg.)
MULTIMEDIA.
Fresh
[videorecording] / a Ripple Effect production ; produced and directed by Ana
Sofia Joanes
NATURAL DISASTERS.
Disasters
without borders : the international politics of natural disasters / John
Hannigan
PHILOSOPHY.
Loving
this planet : leading thinkers talk about how to make a better world / Helen
Caldicott
WETLANDS.
Tropical
wetland management : the South-American Pantanal and the international experience
/ Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
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