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The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity is being held in Montreal, from December 7 to 19th, 2022. In light of this, and the greater discussion around protecting the environment, we have put together a reading list of recent titles in Environmental Studies. To browse more books in this subject area, please follow this link.
By Ursula Lang
As urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience, and adaptation, Living with Yards explores the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban habitats. By conducting in-depth visits to more than forty yards and sharing her results, Lang provokes us to think about what else these realms of daily life might become.
By Stephanie C. Kane
Rivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.
By William Leiss
Canada has committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that will ensure we meet the net-zero emissions target.
By Stephanie Sodero
Under the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the health, education, and economy of communities.
By Mike Mason
Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history is being written in fire in Australia, California and Greece, in the warming waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic and Antarctica, Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate change, discussing everything from carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere caused by cars, coal, and oil to global warming and worsening natural disasters. As the fight against climate change comes to a head, Carbon Blues searches for fruitful ways forward.
By Lynne Quarmby
Weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. Inspiring and deeply personal, this is the story of one scientist’s rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.
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