Environment and Society

Based on dozens of interviews with faculty and students, Making Climate Lawyers fills a gap in the literature on the intellectual history of climate change, most of which focuses on the history of climate science.

The Green Years, 1964–1976 is the inspiring story of the passage of the USA’s most important environmental legislation. Both Democrats and Republicans share credit for this achievement, a major contrast to the sharp divisions over environmental issues today.

Sustainable Cities in American Democracy examines the long arc of sustainable cities in the U.S. as a democratic project of diverse civic groups in both contest and in collaboration with institutional and policy actors of many types.

This book seeks to understand the convergence of science, technology, and policy in one of the most significant ‘Big Science’ programs in human history.

The first in-depth account of the constitutional developments surrounding conservation policies during the long Progressive Era. No book until now has focused on the intersection between the conservation policies and the constitutional conflicts of the time.

American environmental and natural resources law date to the early 1970s, when the steady-state "Balance of Nature" model was in vogue. In order for these laws to be able to deal with the continuous change of the Anthropocene, they and American culture more generally need to embrace new narratives of complex ecosystems and humans’ role within them—narratives exemplified by cultural tricksters and ecology’s resilience and theory.