New Library Acquisitions -- Week of August 6th

Featured Book: 

Eric Rutkow, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation (2012).

Told as a series of historical vignette's from the colonial era through to modern day Ruktow's American Canopy examines America's relationship with its most bountiful resource -- its forests.  Focusing on the economic, psychological, and cultural importance of trees and forests in the United States this work shows the collective evolution of America's forests from commodity to conservation.  In particular to environmental researchers, chapter 10 discusses the role of trees in the environmental era.

New Library Acquisitions:

CLIMATE CHANGE.
Restoring Lands : coordinating science, politics and action : complexities of climate and governance / Herman A. Karl, Lynn Scarlett, Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Michael Flaxman, editors

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY.

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation : the environmental history of a Lowcountry landscape / Drew A. Swanson

The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / Mark Fiege

HAZARDOUS WASTE.

Chemicals, environment, health : a global management perspective / edited by Philip Wexler ... [et al.]

HEALTH & SAFETY.

The politics of precaution : regulating health, safety, and environmental risks in Europe and the United States / David Vogel

LAND USE.

ReThinking a lot : the design and culture of parking / Eran Ben-Joseph

Tribes, land, and the environment / edited by Sarah Krakoff, Ezra Rosser

OIL.

Oil pollution deskbook / by Russell V. Randle

Private empire : ExxonMobil and American power / Steve Coll

PHILOSOPHY.

History of moral science [electronic resource] / by Robert Blakey

RENEWABLE RESOURCES.

Renewable resources and renewable energy : a global challenge / edited by Paolo Fornasiero and Mauro Graziani

SCIENCE.

Bioremediation and sustainability : research and applications / edited by Romeela Mohee, Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius and Ackmez Mudhoo, Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
Sustainable development law in the UK : from rhetoric to reality / Andrea Ross
 
Sustainable development : environment, energy and water resources / M.K. Ghosh Roy