Environmental Studies
Between Care and Justice
Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean
Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
Toward Environmental Wholeness
Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.
Soft Science Sustainability
Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.
Value, Beauty, and Nature
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.
Grounding God
Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.
Evolutionary Emergence of Purposive Goals and Values
Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.
Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World
Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.
A Wild and Sacred Call
An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.
The Devil's Fools
Infused with eco-logic, informed by feminism, and taking cues from Eve, Cain, Proserpine, Ulysses, Parsifal, and selves present and past, the fifty poems of The Devil’s Fools question and illustrate myths of nature and the nature of inherited myth.
A Passionate Life
The first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.
The Threefold Struggle
Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.
Bitter Harvest
Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.
In the Catskills and My Boyhood
Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.
Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly
Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.
Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds
Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.
The Dialectics of Global Justice
Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.
Wild Diplomacy
Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.
Inside the Green Lobby
A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park.
Material Insurgency
Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.
The Seasons
Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Animals in Irish Society
The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
Naturalizing God?
Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.
A World Not Made for Us
Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophy
Garbage in Popular Culture
Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
E-Co-Affectivity
Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.
Manufactured Uncertainty
Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.
Walkable Cities
Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.
Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism
Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.
The Big Thaw
Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.
The Imagination of Plants
Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.
Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature
Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.
The Distortion of Nature's Image
Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
Forest and Crag
A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.
P'ungsu
The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.
RiverTime
Journeys on the world’s rivers, from a naturalist’s point of view.
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place
Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.
Towards Continental Environmental Policy?
Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.
Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.
Whitehead's Religious Thought
Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.
Tales of an Ecotourist
Combining humor and memorable anecdotes, five famous ecotourist destinations offer a breathtaking backdrop to better understanding climate change.
Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East
Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East.
Still Speaking of Nature
An engaging and accessible introduction to the natural world in New England and upstate New York.
In the Gorge
Poems that contemplate the fraught interdependence of the human and more-than-human in an era of extreme environmental degradation.
The Variety of Integral Ecologies
Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences.
Innovative Congressional Minimum Standards Preemption Statutes
Examines a new type of federal preemption statute popular since 1965 that allows states to retain a certain amount of regulatory discretion, with a focus on environmental statutes.
Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides
Examines the ecological and historical significance of the harbor and what it can bring to future residents.
Running the Long Path
An ultrarunner’s fast-paced narrative into the wilds of New York’s Hudson Valley, as he attempts to set a new record for completing the Long Path, a 350-mile hiking trail that links New York City and Albany.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition
Examines the role of politics in the environmental policy making process.
Flight Paths
How a small group of New York biologists brought the peregrine falcon and bald eagle back from the brink of extinction.
World Politics at the Edge of Chaos
Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.
Naturalizing Heidegger
Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.
Feathers of Hope
A joyful journey through Pete Dubacher’s Berkshire Bird Paradise, and a thoughtful contemplation of our relationship to birds and nature.
Creating Sustainable Communities
Explores efforts aimed at creating sustainable communities throughout the Hudson River region.
Philosophizing ad Infinitum
An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France's preeminent historians of philosophy.
Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility
Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
The Barbarian Principle
Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.
Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic
Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.
Emplotting Virtue
A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.
Life Streams
Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.
Energy and Empire
Reveals the role played by political and economic elites in the privileging of civilian commercial nuclear energy over other options, such as solar, in the United States after 1945.
Saving Eagle Mitch
When a Navy SEAL and former Army Ranger rescue a wounded eagle in war-torn Afghanistan, a writer learns what it can take to do one good deed in a seemingly wicked world.
The Ordination of a Tree
A firsthand look at the Thai Buddhist environmental movement and its activist monks.
Critical Animal Studies
Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.
Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.
Water Drops
An introduction to our most precious natural resource.
Strong Hearts, Native Lands
Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.
Water Pollution Policies and the American States
A fresh perspective on American water pollution policy
Nature and Logos
Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of nature.
Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy
Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.
Environmental Evasion
Brings ecocriticism into conversation with critical American studies approaches to literary canon formation.
Environmental History of the Hudson River
Biologists, historians, and social scientists explore the reciprocal relationships between humans and the Hudson River.
Drifting
A two-week canoe trip down the Hudson offers an opportunity to reflect on America’s past, present, and uncertain future.
Elemental Philosophy
Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.
Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.
Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope
Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.
Plants as Persons
Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.
Transporting Atlanta
Examines the dynamics of Atlanta’s transportation crisis.
Radicalizing Levinas
Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.
The Dance of Person and Place
Uses the concept of "worldmaking" to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy.
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital
Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.
Environmental Integration
A new and original way of looking at the challenge presented by environmental issues.
If Creation Is a Gift
Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.
Comparative Environmental Regulation in the United States and Russia
Explores how policy actors in the United States and Russia have developed flexible incentive-based instruments for environmental protection.
Acceptable Genes?
Perspectives on genetically modified foods from world religions and indigenous traditions.
Religious Naturalism Today
Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.
The Trinity and Creation in Augustine
Looks at Augustine’s theology in light of environmental concerns.
Before the Voice of Reason
Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.
Onto-Ethologies
Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.
Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation
Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.
Living with Ambiguity
How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.
Who Gets What?
Examines the domestic constraints negotiators operate under when nations seek to cooperate.
Ecosee
Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.
Living Waters
Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec.
The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher
Collected essays present Weston’s pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis.
Ecology and Popular Film
Ecocritical takes on popular film.