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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index.

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• English literature — Early modern, 1500-1700 — History and criticism.
• Ecocriticism — Study and teaching.
• Ecology in literature.
• 1500 – 1700 fast
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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• Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the great outdoors and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces. Drawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns. — Provided by publisher.
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• Bamboozled — Jungle fever — Forty acres and a mule — Black faces — It’s not easy being green — The sanctified church: how sweet it is.

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• African Americans — Social conditions.
• Human ecology — United States.

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Part of the series Oxford handbooks;Oxford handbooks.
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• Part I. History. Being green in late medieval English literature / Gillian Rudd — Shadows of the Renaissance / Robert N. Watson — Romanticism and ecocriticism / Kate Rigby — Cholera, Kipling, and tropical India / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee — Ecocriticism and modernism / Anne Raine — W.E.B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: nature, history, and race in ‘Darkwater’ / John Claborn — Pataphysics and postmodern ecocriticism: a prospectus / Adam Dickinson — Part II. Theory. Ecocriticism and the politics of representation / Cheryl Lousley — Cosmovisions: environmental justice, transnational American studies, and indigenous literature / Joni Adamson — Feminist science studies and ecocriticism: aesthetics and entanglement in the deep sea / Stacy Alaimo — Mediating climate change: ecocriticism, science studies, and ‘The hungry tide’ / Adam Trexler — Ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the biological idea of culture / Helena Feder — Ferality tales / Greg Gerrard — Biosemiotic criticism / Timo Maran — Phenomenology / Timothy Clark — Deconstruction and/as ecology / Timothy Morton — Queer life?: ecocriticism after the fire / Catriona Sandilands — Postcolonialism / Elizabeth DeLoughrey — Extinctions: chronicles of vanishing fauna in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert — Part III. Genre. Ecocritical approaches to literary form and genre: urgency, depth, provisionality, temporality / Richard Kerridge — Are you serious?: a modest proposal for environmental humor / Michael P. Branch — Is American nature writing dead? / Daniel J. Philippon — Environmental writing for children: a selected reconnaissance of heritages, emphases, horizons / Lawrence Buell — The contemporary English novel and its challenges to ecocriticism / Atrid Bracke — A music numerous as space : cognitive environment and the house that lyric builds / Sharon Lattig — Rethinking eco-film studies / David Ingram — Green banjo: the ecoformalism of old-time music / Scott Knickerbocker — Media moralia: reflections on damag
• The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism explores a range of critical perspectives used to analyze literature, film, and the visual arts in relation to the natural environment. Since the publication of field-defining works by Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become a conventional paradigm for critical analysis alongside queer theory, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. The field includes numerous approaches, genres, movements, and media, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The contributors come from around the globe and, similarly, the literature and media covered originate from several countries and continents. Taken together, the essays consider how literary and other cultural productions have engaged with the natural environment to investigate climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, the nature of humanity, and more. Featuring thirty-four original chapters, the volume is organized into three major areas. The first, History, addresses topics such as the Renaissance pastoral, Romantic poetry, the modernist novel, and postmodern transgenic art. The second, Theory, considers how traditional critical theories have expanded to include environmental perspectives. Included in this section are essays on queer theory, science studies, deconstruction, and postcolonialism. Genre, the final major section, explores the specific artforms that have animated the field over the past decade, including nature writing, children’s literature, animated films, and digital media. A short section entitled Views from Here concludes the handbook by zeroing in on the various transnational perspectives informing the continued dissemination and globalization of the field.

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• Ecocriticism.
• Ecology in literature.
• Philosophy of nature in literature.
• Conservation of natural resources in literature.

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• Introduction: Lands of darkness and light — Myth and history: the polar regions up to 1800 — Scarcity and abundance: marine exploitation — Nature conquered, nature unconquered: polar exploration — Dreams and realities: economic development — War and peace: the Cold War — Exploitation and preservation: environmental conflict — Conclusion: Geographies of despair and hope.
• The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature through exploration and economic development, but in many ways they remain wild and untamed. They are the coldest places on Earth, yet have come to occupy an important role in the science and politics of global warming. Despite being located at opposite ends of the planet and being significantly different in many ways, Adrian Howkins argues that the environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica share much in common and have often been closely connected. This book also argues that the Polar Regions are strongly linked to the rest of the world, both through physical processes and through intellectual and political themes. As places of inherent contradiction, the Polar Regions have much to contribute to the way we think about environmental history and the environment more generally — Provided by publisher.

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• Human ecology — Polar regions — History.
• Polar regions — Environmental conditions.
• Polar regions — Climate.

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Part of the series The Commonwealth Fund Book Program;Commonwealth Fund Book Program (Series)
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• Includes index.
• American farming has driven American life and fed much of the world for three centuries. Often in the words of farmers themselves, here is the story of what grows where and why, of America’s primary farming regions east of the Rockies. What was it like Back then to be a farmer? What of the plight of the family farm, what of government programs? What shape will American farming take in the next century? This is a fully informed survey of our number-one industry by one of America’s premier geographers. –Book review.

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• Agriculture — United States — History.
• Agriculture. fast (OCoLC)fst00801355
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Agriculture United States History
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• We asked 100 conservation groups around the world: ‘if you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?’ From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and many, many more, the answers came rolling in. Each provided a synopsis of the threats faced by their selected species, a summary of their degree of threat, an outline of the work being done to save them, and a number of ways in which the reader could help to conserve that species. With beautiful full-page photographs of each of the 100 species, this is a book that will both fascinate and educate and, hopefully, help to secure the future of the threatened animals and plants that it showcases.

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• Endangered species.
• Wildlife conservation.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
• How ecosystems work — Maintaining a green equilibrium — Stewardship and its perils — The challenge of restoration ecology — Catastrophes of the past — A blending of genetic equilibria — Ex-Africa semper aliquid novi — Blending and balance in our gene pool — The intertwined histories of humans and their ecosystems — Learning from our history — Green equilibria and the origin of our pretty good brains — Green equilibrium is more than a metaphor — L’Envoi.
• In this work, the author, a field biologist, explains the rules by which ecosystems thrive, shining light on a set of ecological balancing acts that he calls green equilibria, rules which keep our world vibrant, verdant, and ecologically intact. To explain the idea of green equilibrium, he draws on a range of examples, including coral reefs off the densely populated Philippines, the isolated and thickly forested valleys of Papua New Guinea, the changing Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and a Californian ranch being allowed to return to a wild state. He travels to Guyana’s rainforests and savannahs, for instance, to provide startling vignettes of ecological processes in action. Among other topics, he highlights the snake-head mimicry that swallowtail caterpillars use to scare off predators, the symbiotic relationship between the exceedingly rare Golden Poison-Dart Frog and the tank bromeliad plant, and the invisible world of pathogens and parasites that helps to drive diversity. All these mechanisms, and many more, maintain the green equilibria of Guyana’s rainforest ecosystems. The author also shows how green equilibria have shaped the evolution and history of our own species. We now know that a kind of genetic green equilibrium helped populations adapt to changing environmental conditions as they spread out of Africa. Striking new evidence indicates that some modern human populations still carry genes from past hominids (such as the Neanderthals) as well as genetic adaptations to local hazards such as malaria. Traveling to many different ecosystems, from coral reefs to the high Himalayas, and drawing on his own on-the-ground research, the author illuminates ecological laws in action. Perhaps most important, he introduces us to people, in many countries around the world, who are now using this new knowledge to help heal the planet.

Subjects:

• Ecosystem health.
• Biotic communities.
• Ecosystem management.
• Ecology.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on.
• Human beings — Effect of environment on.
• Biotic communities. fast (OCoLC)fst00832828
• Ecology. fast (OCoLC)fst00901476
• Ecosystem health. fast (OCoLC)fst00902296
• Ecosystem management. fast (OCoLC)fst01432037
• Human beings — Effect of environment on. fast (OCoLC)fst00962843
• Nature — Effect of human beings on. fast (OCoLC)fst01034564

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• Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs–not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites’ lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt.
• Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent. Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged, deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism. –Pub. desc.
• Suburban country life — pt. 1. New York. Nature’s suburbia Ecological mixing and nature fixing Worrying about the water — pt. 2. Los Angeles. Missing nature in Los Angeles Suburban taming : from the personal to the political Anxious about the air — pt. 3. Environmental nation. The environment as a suburban place.

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• Environmentalism — United States — History — 20th century.
• Suburbs — United States — History — 20th century.
• Environmental policy — United States — History — 20th century.
• United States — Environmental conditions.
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-390) and index.

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• Rural geography.
• Rural geography — United States.
• Agricultural geography.
• Agricultural geography — United States.
• Landscape assessment.
• Landscape assessment — United States.
• United States — Geography.

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Part of the series Encyclopedias of the natural world no. 4;Encyclopedias of the natural world no. 4.
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• Adaptive behavior and vigilance / Peter A. Bednekoff — Adaptive dynamics / J.A.J. Metz — Age structure / Tim Benton — Allee effects / Caz M. Taylor — Allometry and growth / Andrew J. Kerkhoff — Apparent competition / Robert D. Holt — Applied ecology / Cleo Bertelsmeier [and others] — Assembly processes / James A. Drake, Paul Staelens, Daniel Wieczynski — Bayesian statistics / Kiona Ogle, Jarrett J. Barber — Behavioral ecology / B.D. Roitberg, R.G. Lalonde — Belowground processes / James Umbanhowar — Beverton-Holt model / Louis W. Botsford — Bifurcations / Fabio Dercole, Sergio Rinaldi — Biogeochemistry and nutrient cycles / Benjamin Z. Houlton — Birth-death models / Christopher J. Dugaw — Bottom-up control / John C. Moore, Peter C. De Ruiter — Branching processes / Linda J.S. Allen — Cannibalism / Alan Hastings — Cellular automata / David E. Hiebeler — Chaos / Robert F. Costantino, Robert A. Desharnais — Coevolution / Brian D. Inouye — Compartment models / Donald L. DeAngelis — Computational ecology / Stuart H. Gage — Conservation biology / H. Reşit Akçakaya — Continental scale patterns / Brian A. Maurer — Cooperation, Evolution of / Matthew R. Zimmerman, Richard McElreath, Peter J. Richerson — Delay differential equations / Yang Kuang — Demography / Charlotte Lee — Difference equations / Jim M. Cushing — Discounting in bioeconomics / Ram Ranjan, Jason F. Shogren — Disease dynamics / Giulio De Leo, Chelsea L. Wood — Dispersal, Animal / Gabriela Yates, Mark S. Boyce — Dispersal, Evolution of / Marissa L. Baskett — Dispersal, Plant / Helene C. Muller-Landau — Diversity measures / Anne Chao, Lou Jost — Dynamic programming / Michael Bode, Hedley Grantham — Ecological economics / Sunny Jardine, James N. Canchirico — Ecosystem ecology / Yiqi Luo, Ensheng Weng, Yuanhe Yang — Ecosystem engineers / Kim Cuddington — Ecosystem services / Fiorenza Micheli, Anne Guerry — Ecosystem valuation / Stephen Polasky — Ecotoxicology / Valery Forbes, Peter Calow — Energy budgets /

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• Ecology — Encyclopedias.
• Encyclopedias. fast (OCoLC)fst01423798

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