Category: Environmental Studies

April 10, 2019

Book Excerpt and Reviews! The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

“Woodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest...

April 8, 2019

Media Roundup: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

“In often witty and humorous language, Timothy Morton provides a kind of affective atlas for the human era. The book calls for scholars to recognize the structures of entwinement between (the human) species and ecological phenomena and to develop modes...

April 5, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation

“The central ethical question addressed by Minteer is not only how far we might go to prevent biological extinction but also how far should we go. He comes to this conundrum as a distinguished environmental philosopher with a broad and...

April 4, 2019

Media Roundup: The Fall of the Wild

 “Minteer bravely takes on the many facile assumptions of conservation’s technofixologists and misanthropes alike to offer us a humbler and hopefully more effective way to save and to savor the presence of the remaining living riches of the “natural” world.”...

April 3, 2019

Q&A: Ben A. Minteer on The Fall of the Wild

“What to do—and not to do—about the biodiversity crisis that we ourselves are engineering? In The Fall of the Wild, Ben Minteer takes us through the options. His assessment of the situation is balanced, clear-sighted, and humane.” ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The...

April 2, 2019

Book Giveaway! Environmental and Climate Studies

April 22 is Earth Day, but here at CUP, we believe that a discussion about the environment and climate change warrants more than one day of conversation. Thus, we’ll be showcasing new and forthcoming titles on the topic all month....

June 25, 2018

Introducing Game Theory and Climate Change

This week, we’re featuring our newest releases on the topic of climate change. Today’s book excerpt comes from chapter one of Game Theory and Climate Change.  A conceptual framework with which to analyze climate change as a strategic game, Game Theory and Climate...

April 18, 2018

Earth at Risk: An Excerpt

This month, in honor of Earth Day, we’re featuring titles that are related to climate change and environmental studies. Today we’re presenting you with an excerpt from Earth at Risk: Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability, by Claude Henry and Laurence...

April 11, 2018

Confronting the Climate Challenge: An Excerpt

This month, in honor of Earth Day, we’re featuring titles that are related to climate change and environmental studies. Today we’re presenting you with an excerpt from Confronting the Climate Challenge: U.S. Policy Options, by Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead. Remember to...

April 10, 2018

Book Giveaway! Confronting the Climate Challenge

In reflection of Earth Day, this month we’ll be featuring a title related to climate change, environmental studies, and sustainability. This week’s book is Confronting the Climate Challenge: U.S. Policy Options, by Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead. Throughout the week, we will be...

March 15, 2018

The Fracking Debate (An Introduction)

Tonight, Daniel Raimi will be speaking at the Colorado School of Mines. During his talk, Mr. Raimi will discuss his recently released book, The Fracking Debate. To help those attending prep for this event, (and for those interested in the topic),...

August 18, 2017

It Is an Entire World That Has Disappeared

Read the afterword to EXTINCTION STUDIES: STORIES OF TIME, DEATH, AND GENERATIONS, edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew, with a foreword by Cary Wolfe!