Keywords for Environmental Studies

Edited by William A. Gleason, Joni Adamson and David N. Pellow

Understandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: It continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies.
 
"Keywords for Environmental Studies" analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences and the sciences of nature. Sixty essays from humanists, social scientists and scientists, each written about a single term, reveal the broad range of quantitative and qualitative approaches critical to the state of the field today. From “ecotourism” to “ecoterrorism,” from “genome” to “species,” this accessible volume illustrates the ways in which scholars are collaborating across disciplinary boundaries to reach shared understandings of key issues — such as extreme weather events or increasing global environmental inequities — in order to facilitate the pursuit of broad collective goals and actions. This book underscores the crucial realization that every discipline has a stake in the central environmental questions of our time, and that interdisciplinary conversations not only enhance but are requisite to environmental studies today.
 
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Bio

Joni Adamson is a professor of English at Arizona State University, where she directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative and is a senior sustainability scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. She is also affiliate faculty of ASU's Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.

Praise for this book

Provides an engaging introduction and current perspective on some key concepts in the environmental sciences that foreground multidisciplinary aspects of the field.

Choice

This gem of a book will prove indispensable in environmental studies. The editors have assembled brilliant thinkers who provide pithy yet ambitious reflections on key terms fundamental to environmental inquiry. This is a unique and essential resource.

Rob Nixon Author of "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"
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Publisher
NYU Press
ISBN
978-0814762967
Genres
Science, Reference or textbook, Nonfiction, Nature, Humanities, Essays, Environment and sustainability
College or unit
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Department of English

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