Jean Yen-chun Lin on A Spark in the Smokestacks

When author Jean Lin initially approached first-time homeowners of newly built gated communities in Beijing regarding their protests against overflowing landfills and waste incinerator construction plans, she believed that her research should focus on mobilization strategies in an authoritarian context....

December 31, 2019

Eight Books to Help You Understand the Climate Crises and What You Can do to Curtail Future Deterioration

Climate change is a global problem. The increasing temperature, shrinking ice sheets, and surge of extreme weather conditions have damaged Earth—affecting everyone that lives on this planet. Forecasts show that these effects will only get more extreme as time goes...

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, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Climate Change

It’s the first Throwback Thursday of April. Later this month, we’ll celebrate Earth Day. Did you know that Columbia University Press has been a leading publisher on the topics of Climate Change and other environmental issues for over a decade?...

August 17, 2012

Daniel McCool on the rebirth of rivers

Daniel McCool explains the new era in river policy in the U.S.

August 16, 2012

Q&A with Daniel McCool, author of River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers

Q&A with Daniel McCool, author of River Republic, on his love for rivers and the writing of his book.

August 14, 2012

Daniel McCool on rethinking our relationships with rivers

In today’s guest post, Daniel McCool discusses our abuse of rivers.

April 27, 2012

Carl Hobbs: Earth Day and Mother's Day

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post, written by Stuart Sim, addresses how economic concerns drive us to harm the environment.

April 25, 2012

James Rodger Fleming: Geoengineering's Checkered Past

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post concerns the history of climate manipulation, or geoengineering, and is written by James Rodger Fleming.

April 25, 2012

Bryan Tilt: China's Path to Sustainable Development

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post concerns sustainable development in China and is written by anthropologist Bryan Tilt.

April 24, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

April 23, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 1 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann