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Contents

New Books 1–24

IUCN–The International Union for

Conservation of Nature 25

Environmental Law Institute 26

Techne Press 27

Now Available 28–30

Ordering Information 31

Sales Representatives 32

Index 33

New Books

Bottled and Sold 1

Smart Power 2

Climate 2030 2

Straight Up 3

Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River 5

Five Easy Pieces 6

The Wolf’s Tooth 7

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change 8

Cities for People 9

Global Issues

Water Security 10

Water Ethics 10

Water Resources 11

Foundations of Environmental Physics 13

Escape from the Ivory Tower 15

Green Building

Community Character 16

Seven Rules for Sustainable Cities 17

Urban Green 18

Conservation Capital in the Americas 18

The Sprawl Repair Manual 19

Light Imprint Handbook 19

Blue Frontier 20

Ecosystem Studies

Climate Savvy 21

Beyond Naturalness 21

Trophic Cascades 22

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being 22

Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land 23

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes 23

Safe Passages 24

Repeat Photography 24

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New Books

Peter H. Gleick is President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development,

Environment, and Security in Oakland, California, and is a recipient of the

prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for his work on water issues.

6 X 9. 288 pages. Figures, notes, index.

Cloth: $26.95 978-1-59726-528-7

Current Affairs

Author’s Residence:

Oakland, California

April 30, 2010

Expected Shipping Date:

A lucid assesment on our

society’s choices about

drinking water

Bottled and SoldThe Story Behind Our

Obsession with Bottled Water

Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned sci-entist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?

Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most success-ful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer for it. It’s a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales.

Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist’s eye and a natural storyteller’s wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we’ve turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.

“Designer” H2O may be laughable, but the debate over com-modifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society’s choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being “green,” and fundamental val-ues. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity.

Peter H. Gleick

2

New Books

Smart PowerPeter Fox-Penner

Peter Fox-Penner is a consulting executive and an internationally recognized

authority on energy and electric power industry issues. Dr. Fox-Penner is a

principal and chairman emeritus of The Brattle Group, a leading international

economic consulting firm.

New developments in the discussions of climate change and con-servation of energy are prompting utilities to undergo the largest changes in their history, transforming them from regulated com-modity energy fi rms to low-carbon network operators. The combi-nation of industry structure, regulation, and business mission that utilities adopted more than a century ago must be retooled for an era with different priorities, a different mission for utilities, and very different utility technologies.

Smart Power examines the many facets of this transformation in thorough but non-technical terms. From the options for long-term power generation, to the policy choices and regulatory reform needed to accomplish the nation’s goals, to new strategies for the development of an effi ciency-focused business model, Peter Fox-Penner provides clear and lively guidance through a thoroughly transformed landscape of power generation.

Energy/Current Affairs


Washington, D.C.

April 20, 2010


6 X 9. 226 pages.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-706-9

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-705-2

New Books

Rachel Cleetus is an economist with the Union of Concerned Scientists Climate

Program. The focus of her work is designing effective global warming policies at the

federal, regional, state, and international levels. Steven Clemmer is the research

director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Energy Program. He conducts

research on the economic and environmental benefits of implementing renewable

energy technologies and policies at the state and national levels. He also man-

ages UCS’s coal and Midwest renewable energy projects and serves on the steer-

ing committee of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative. David Friedman is

the research director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Vehicles Program

and is the author or co-author of more than thirty technical papers and reports

on advancements in conventional, fuel cell, and hybrid electric vehicles, with an

emphasis on clean and efficient technologies.

Climate 2030A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy

Rachel Cleetus, Steven Clemmer, and

David Friedman

Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy is a peer-reviewed analysis of the economic and technological potential for a comprehensive suite of climate, energy, and transportation solutions and policies to greatly reduce U.S. global warming emissions and help get us on a path to avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change. The results demonstrate that meeting stringent near- and medium-term emissions caps in the United States is feasible and can be done cost-effectively. This analysis is an important contribution to the U.S. and international climate policy debates.

8 X 10. 212 pages. Photos, figures,

tables.

Paper: $25.00s 978-0-938987-08-6

Current Affairs

Authors’ Residences:

March 1, 2010


9


New Books

6 X 9. 180 pages.

Paper: $21.95s 978-1-59726-716-8

Current Affairs/Energy


Washington, D.C.

March 5, 2010


Joseph J. Romm is a climate expert,

physicist, energy consultant, and

author. He is executive director and

founder of the Center for Energy and

Climate Solutions; principal of the

Capital E Group; fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement of

Science; senior fellow at the Center

for American Progress and former

acting assistant secretary of the U.S.

Department of Energy. His previous

books include Hell and High Water,

The Hype About Hydrogen, and

Cool Companies. He writes the blog

ClimateProgress.org.

How the media is missing the

story of the century

Straight UpAmerica’s Fiercest Climate

Blogger Takes on the Status

Quo Media, Deniers, Scientists,

Politicians, and Clean Energy

Solutions

In 2009, Rolling Stone named Joe Romm to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America.” Romm is a climate expert, physicist, energy consultant, and former offi cial in the Department of Energy. But it’s his infl uential blog, one of the “Top Fifteen Green Websites” according to Time magazine, that’s caught national attention. Climate change is far more urgent than people understand, Romm says, and traditional media, scientists, and politicians are missing the story.

Straight Up draws on Romm’s most important posts to explain the dangers of and solutions to climate change that you won’t fi nd in newspapers, in journals, or on T.V. Compared to coverage of Jay-Z or the latest philandering politician, climate change makes up a patheti-cally small share of news reports. And when journalists do try to tackle this complex issue, they often lack the background to tell the full story. Despite the dearth of reporting, polls show that two in fi ve Americans think the press is actually exaggerating the threat of climate change. That gives Big Oil, and others with a vested interest in the status quo, a huge opportunity to mislead the public.

Romm cuts through the misinformation and presents the truth about humanity’s most dire threat. His analysis is based on sophisticated knowledge of renewable technologies, climate impacts, and govern-ment policy, written in a style everyone can understand. Romm shows how a 20 percent reduction in global emissions over the next quarter century could improve the economy; how we can replace most coal and with what technologies; why Sarah Palin wears a polar bear pin; and why controversial, emerging technologies like biochar have to be part of the solution.

The ultimate solution, Romm argues, is bigger than any individual technology: it’s citizen action. Without public pressure, Washington and industry don’t budge. With it, our grandkids might just have a habitable place to live.

Joseph J. Romm

4

New BooksNew in Paperback

Kitchen LiteracyHow We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from

and Why We Need to Get It Back

“Vileisis’s well-researched treatise will give those interested in local

and organic foods, food processing and American culinary culture

plenty to chew on.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Vileisis gathers it all in one place, weaving a clear, easy-to-read

tapestry whose meaning is plain by the end of the book: you are what

you eat, so think about what you’ve been eating. This important and

eye-opening book uncovers the machinery behind the modern food

industry.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL

“Kitchen Literacy brings home just how essential it is for eaters to

cultivate knowledge of their food.” —AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Ann Vileisis

6 X 9. 352 pages. Figures.

Paper: $19.95 978-1-59726-717-5

Cloth: $27.95 978-1-59726-144-9

E-Book: $27.95 978-1-59726-371-9

Ann Vileisis is a writer and historian. She is the author of Discovering the Unknown

Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands (Island Press, 1997), which won presti-

gious awards from the American Historical Association and the American Society for

Environmental History. An avid gardener and cook, she lives on the Oregon coast.

History/Cooking


Port Orford, Oregon

March 15, 2010


Shadows in the SunTravels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Wade Davis

5.5 X 8.25. 304 pages.

Paper: $21.95s 978-1-59726-392-4

Wade Davis has spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant

explorer, and later went to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the

creation of zombies. The Haiti assignment led to his writing The Serpent and the

Rainbow (Simon and Schuster, 1986), an international bestseller that was later

released as a feature motion picture. Among his other books are Nomads of the

Dawn (Pomegranate Press, 1995), Passage of Darkness (University of North Carolina

Press, 1988), and One River (Simon and Schuster, 1996).

Wade Davis has been called “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examina-tion of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world.

Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, Shadows in the Sun is a testament to a world where spirits still stalk the land and seize the human heart. Its essays and stories, though distilled from travels in widely separated parts of the world, are fundamentally about land-scape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding, and the consequences of failure.

Anthropology/Travel

May 10, 2010



Washington, D.C.


New Books

R. Edward Grumbine is a professor

of environmental studies at Prescott

College and the author of Ghost Bears.

6 X 9. 240 pages.

Color insert, maps, notes, index.

Cloth: $25.95 978-1-59726-551-5

Politics/Nature/

Current Affairs


Prescott, Arizona

April 7, 2010


China’s struggle for sustainability

Where the Dragon

Meets the Angry River

Nature and Power in the

People’s Republic of China

China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and facto-ries—every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang’s raging waters were on the verge of being dammed when a 2004 government moratorium halted con-struction. Might the Chinese dragon bow to the “Angry River“? Would Beijing put local people and their land ahead of power and profi t? Could this remote region actually become a model for sustainable growth?

Ed Grumbine traveled to the far corners of China’s Yunnan province to fi nd out. He was driven by a single question: could this last frag-ment of wild nature withstand China’s unrelenting development? But as he hiked through deep-cut emerald mountains, backcountry villages, and burgeoning tourist towns, talking with trekking guides, schoolchildren, and rural farmers, he discovered that the problem wasn’t as simple as growth versus conservation.

In its struggle to “build a well-off society in an all-round way,” Beijing juggles a host of competing priorities: health care for impov-erished villagers; habitat for threatened tigers; cars for a growing middle class; clean air for all citizens; energy to power new cities; rubber for the global marketplace.

Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River is an incisive look at the possible fates of China and the planet. Will the Angry River continue to fl ow? Will Tibetan girls from subsistence farming families learn to read and write? Can China and the United States come together to lead action on climate change? Far-reaching in its history and scope, this unique book shows us the real-world consequences of conser-vation and development decisions now being made in Beijing and beyond.

R. Edward Grumbine

6

New Books

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces features fi ve contributions, origi-nally published in Nature and Science, demon-strating the massive impacts of modern industrial fi sheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these

articles illustrate a transition in scientifi c thought—from the initially contested realization that the crisis of fi sheries and their underlying ocean ecosystems was, in fact, global to its broad acceptance by mainstream scientifi c and public opinion.

Daniel Pauly, a well-known fi sheries expert who was a co-au-thor of all fi ve articles, presents each original article here and surrounds it with a rich array of contemporary comments, many of which led Pauly and his colleagues to further study. In ad-dition, Pauly documents how popular media reported on the articles and their fi ndings. By doing so, he demonstrates how science evolves. In one chapter, for example, the popular media pick up a contribution and use Pauly’s conclusions to contextu-alize current political disputes; in another, what might be seen as nitpicking by fellow scientists leads Pauly and his colleagues to strengthen their case that commercial fi shing is endangering the global marine ecosystem. This structure also allows read-ers to see how scientists’ interactions with the popular media can shape the reception of their own, sometimes controversial, scientifi c studies.

In an epilog, Pauly refl ects on the ways that scientifi c consensus emerges from discussions both within and outside the scientifi c community.

Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is a professor in the Fisheries Centre and Zoology Department

at the University of British Columbia. Until 2008, he was director of the

University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre.

7 X 10. 200 pages.

Figures, tables, boxes.

Paper: $25.00s 978-1-59726-719-9

Cloth: $50.00s 978-1-59726-718-2


Vancouver, British Columbia

Science/Oceans

June 30, 2010


A dramatic illustration of the

way new scientifi c insights

become “mainstream”

The Impact of Fisheries

on Marine Ecosystems


New Books

Keystone Predators, Trophic

Cascades, and Biodiversity

Cristina Eisenberg

The Wolf’s Tooth

Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate infl uence on their environ-ment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from—or returned to—an ecosystem.

In The Wolf’s Tooth, scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg explores the concept of “trophic cascades” and the role of top predators in regulating ecosystems. Her fascinating and wide-ranging work provides clear explanations of the science sur-rounding keystone predators and considers how this notion can help provide practical solutions for restoring ecosystem health and functioning.

Eisenberg examines both general concepts and specifi c issues, sharing accounts from her own fi eldwork to illustrate and bring to life the ideas she presents. She considers how resource manag-ers can use knowledge about trophic cascades to guide recovery efforts, including how this science can be applied to move forward the bold vision of rewilding the North American continent. In the end, the author provides her own recommendations for local and landscape-scale applications of what has been learned about interactive food webs.

At their most fundamental level, trophic cascades are powerful stories about ecosystem processes—of predators and their prey, of what it takes to survive in a landscape, of the fl ow of nutrients. The Wolf’s Tooth is the fi rst book to focus on the vital connection between trophic cascades and restoring biodiversity and habitats, and to do so in a way that is accessible to a diverse readership.

6 X 9. 248 pages.

Cloth: $35.00s 978-1-59726-397-9

Science/Ecology


Bigfork, Montana

May 10, 2010


A fascinating and wide-ranging

look at the dramatic ecological

consequences of predator removal

and return

Cristina Eisenberg is a conservation biologist at Oregon State University,

College of Forestry, and Boone and Crockett Fellow who studies how

wolves affect forest ecosystems throughout the West.

8

New Books

Urbanism in the Age

of Climate Change

Peter Calthorpe

Peter Calthorpe is an architect and planner and a founding member of the

Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992

to promote sustainable building practices. He is the author of The Regional City

(Island Press, 2001). He won the 2006 Urban Land Institute’s J. C. Nichols Prize

for Visionaries in Urban Development for his work in walkable communities and

land preservation.

8 X 10. 225 pages.

Color figures and photos.

Cloth: $49.50s 978-1-59726-720-5


Berkeley, California

July 10, 2010

Urban Affairs/Design


From the beginning of his career, Peter Calthorpe has been a leading innovator in sustainable build-ing projects, sustainable development, and walk-able communities. A leader in the New Urbanism Movement, he is an important resource for solutions to current problems of urban sprawl, suburban isola-tion, and the related problems of outsized energy

consumption and an outsized share of world emissions.

According to Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, relentless and thoughtless development has created a way of living that brings us to a point of reckoning regarding energy, climate change, and the way we shape our communities. The answer to these crises is sustain-able development, a thoughtful combination of good urbanism with renewable energy sources, state-of-the-art conservation techniques, new green technologies, and integrated services and utilities. Sustain-able urbanism, the most recent result of Calthorpe’s forward thinking, provides all the inherent benefi ts of urbanism amplifi ed by a new generation of ecological design, smart grids, climate responsive build-ings, electric cars, and next-generation transit systems.

This clearly written (and clearly provocative) work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fi fty years have produced mas-sive changes in our culture, economy, and environment, the next fi fty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. The book, enhanced by its superb graphic design, is an exploration of the chal-lenges and potential shifts in each of these arenas, and how they can affect the future of our communities.

Progressive ideas on sustainable

and humane built environments

by a well-known thought leader


New Books

8 X 10. 285 pages. Color figures and

photos.

Cloth: $49.50s 978-1-59726-573-7

Cities for People

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actu-ally use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or re-creating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfi gure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people.

Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the fi ve human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects.

In a fi nal chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a hu-man scale in the fast-growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book.

The book is extensively illustrated with more than seven hundred photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects—Urban Quality Consultants.

He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life.

He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with

creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including

Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others.

Urban Affairs/

Urban Design


Copenhagen, Denmark

May 10, 2010


A renowned architect and

planner reveals the secrets to

making cities people-friendly

Foreword by Lord Richard Rogers

10

Global Issues

Science/Water

Editors’ Residences:

Montreal, Quebec

February 17, 2010


6 X 9. 312 pages.

Paper: $35.00s 978-1-59726-565-2

Cloth: $70.00s 978-1-59726-564-5

Science/Water

February 17, 2010


8.5 X 11. 300 pages.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-736-6

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-735-9

Water EthicsFoundational Readings for Students and Professionals

Edited by Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt

Peter G. Brown is a Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Sciences,

Geography, and School of the Environment at McGill University. He is author

of Restoring the Public Trust and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a

Flourishing Earth, and coauthor of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth

Economy. Jeremy J. Schmidt is a PhD Candidate and Trudeau Scholar in the

Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario.

The world’s emerging water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to the book, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judg-ments and cultural assumptions.

Each of the book’s six sections discusses a different approach to think-ing about the relationship between water and humanity, from utilitari-anism to eco-feminism to religious beliefs. Contributors range from Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, to Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and water policy expert Sandra Postel. Water Ethics will help readers understand how various moral perspectives have guided and will continue to guide water policy around the globe.

An indispensable guide to humanity’s

relationship with water and the world

Water SecurityWorld Economic Forum Water Initiative

At the 2008 Davos Annual Meeting, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon identifi ed water as “the climate adaptation issue,” directing the World Economic Forum to assemble the world’s foremost group of public, pri-vate, non-governmental-organization and academic experts to examine

the impending global water crisis from all perspectives.

The result of their work is this forecast—a stark, non-technical overview of where we will be by 2025 if we continue to (mis)manage our water resources. Water Security contains compelling commentary from lead-ing decision-makers, past and present. The commentary is supported by analysis from leading academics of how the world economy will be

affected if world leaders cannot agree on solutions.

The fi ndings are shocking. Perhaps equally stunning are the potential solutions and the recommendations that the group presents. All are included in this landmark publication.

Since 2006, the World Economic Forum Water Initiative has raised awareness of the

need to manage our future water needs and the challenge to economic and social

security if we fail to do so. Its work has helped catalyze several major initiatives in

water management around the world.


New Books

5.5 X 8.25. 256 pages.

Figures, tables, boxes, notes, index.

Paper: $21.95x 978-1-59726-495-2

Cloth: $60.00x 978-1-59726-494-5

Water Resources

In this concise introduction to water resources, Shimon Anisfeld explores the fundamental interactions between humans and water, including drinking, sanitation, irriga-tion, and power production. The book familiarizes stu-dents with the current water crisis and with approaches for managing this essential resource more effectively in a time of rapid environmental and social change. Anisfeld addresses both human and ecological problems, including scarcity, pollution, disease, fl ooding, confl icts over water, and degradation of aquatic ecosystems. In addition to providing the background necessary to understand each of these problems, the book discusses ways to move toward better management and addresses the key current debates in the water policy fi eld.

In the past, water development has often proceeded in a single-sec-tor fashion, with each group of users implementing its own plans without coordination with other groups, resulting in both confl ict and ineffi ciency. Now, Anisfeld writes, the challenge of water man-agement is fi guring out how to balance all the different demands for water, from sanitation to energy generation to ecosystem protection.

For inquiring students of any level, Water Resources provides a com-prehensive one-volume guide to a complex but vital fi eld of study.

Shimon Anisfeld

Dr. Shimon Anisfeld is senior lecturer and research scientist in water resources

and environmental chemistry at Yale University’s School of Forestry and

Environmental Studies. His articles have appeared in major journals, including

Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, and

Estuaries.

Science/Water


Newton, Massachusetts

June 30, 2010


A thorough introduction

to today’s water problems—

and solutions

THE FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SERIES

Series Editor: James Gustave Speth

A collaboration between Island Press and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. It

offers concise, authoritative guides to essential subjects in the environmental curriculum, and incor-

porates a case-based approach to teaching and learning.

NEW IN THE SERIES

12

Global Issues

Science / Nature

5.5 x 8.75. 288 pages. 2007.

Paper: $21.95x 978-1-59726-047-3

Economics / Environment

5.5 x 8.75. 184 pages. 2007.

Paper: $21.95x 978-1-59726-049-7

International Environmental

Policy & Law

5.5 x 8.75. 180 pages. 2006.

Paper: $21.95x 978-1-59726-081-7

Ecology and Ecosystem

ConservationOswald J. Schmitz

“A wonderfully readable introduction to the ecological context for con-

servation practice. Ideal for a general readership or as the basis for an excellent university course.” —SIMON LEVIN, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF FRAGILE DOMINION

“Starting from concrete examples and questions in the fi eld of conserva-tion biology, this book presents the principles of modern ecology in a simple form accessible to all. It is easy and enjoyable to read, while at the same time scientifi cally rigorous. An excellent introduction to ecology as the scientifi c underpinning of conservation biology.”

—MICHEL LOREAU, PROFESSOR, CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN THEORETICAL ECOLOGY,

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, QUEBEC

Markets and the EnvironmentNathaniel Keohane and Sheila M. Olmstead

“The niche for this work lies in its emphasis on market intervention in the environment, and Keohane and Olmstead (both Yale) provide an excellent argument for why an economist deserves a seat at the environ-mental policy table . . . Summing Up: Recommended.” —CHOICE

“Provides a concise introduction to the economic theory of environmen-tal policy and natural resource management.” —JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE

Global Environmental GovernanceJames Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas

Recommended by Choice magazine.

“With its concise but very thorough treatment of the inherently complex topic of global governance, whether focused on environmental or other issues, this fi rst in the series sets a high bar for the ensuing books.” —CHOICE

“Speth and Haas have penned a compact, elegant account of global envi-ronmental politics, diplomacy, and institutions and their intellectual foun-dations. The authors combine insider experience with scholarly perspec-tive, a sense of urgency with a sense of humor—The best book of its kind yet written.” —J. R. MCNEILL, CINCO HERMANOS CHAIR IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND INTERNATIONAL

AFFAIRS, SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

“A superb primer on global environmental trends and their underlying causes, efforts over the past thirty years to deal with them, and possible solutions for the future, including radically new approaches. It would be an excellent starting point for any college environmental policy course.”

—NORMAN VIG, WINIFRED AND ATHERTON BEAN PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND

SOCIETY, EMERITUS, CARLETON COLLEGE

ALSO IN THE SERIES


New Books

Foundations of

Environmental Physics

Understanding Energy Use

and Human Impacts

Kyle Forinash

7 X 9. 440 pages.

Figures, tables, boxes, examples,

appendices, notes, index.

Cloth: $65.00x 978-1-59726-709-0

Kyle Forinash is Professor of Physics at the University of Indiana Southeast, in

New Albany, Indiana. He has published papers in nonlinear dynamics and theo-

retical biophysics in addition to pedagogical papers about the use of computers

and the Internet in introductory physics courses and for distance learning. He

is coauthor of Mathematical Methods in Physics: P artial Differential Equations,

Fourier Series, and Special Functions.

A new, practice-based

environmental physics text

that emphasizes critical

reasoning

Foundations of Environmental Physics is designed to focus students on the current energy and environmental problems facing society, and to give them the critical thinking and computational skills needed to sort out potential solutions. From its pedagogical approach, students learn that a simple calculation based on fi rst principles can often reveal the plausibility (or implausibility) of a proposed solution or new technology.

Throughout its chapters, the text asks students to apply key concepts to current data (which they are required to locate using the Inter-net and other sources) to get a clearer picture of the most pressing issues in environmental science. The text begins by exploring how changes in world population impact all aspects of the environment, particularly with respect to energy use. It then discusses what the fi rst and second laws of thermodynamics tell us about renewable and nonrenewable energy; how current energy use is changing the global climate; and how alternative technologies can be evaluated through scientifi c risk assessment. In approaching real-world problems, students come to understand the physical principles that underlie scientifi c fi ndings.

This informative and engaging textbook offers what prospective scientists, managers, and policymakers need most: the knowledge to understand environmental threats and the skills to fi nd solutions.


Louisville, Kentucky

Science/Environment

June 24, 2010


14

Global Issues

7 X 10. 488 pages. Figures, glossary,

suggested readings, index.

Cloth: $75.00x 978-1-59726-681-9

Economics / Ecology


College Park, Maryland

Burlington, Vermont

April 30, 2010


Herman E. Daly is a professor at the

University of Maryland, School of Public

Affairs. He is a cofounder of Ecological

Economics, the leading journal in the

discipline, and recipient of the Right

Livelihood Award, also known as the

“alternative Nobel Prize.”

Joshua Farley is a professor of communi-

ty development and applied economics

and assistant research professor at the

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

at the University of Vermont.

Ecological EconomicsPrinciples and Applications

In its fi rst edition, this book helped to defi ne the emerging fi eld of ecological economics. This new edition surveys the fi eld today. It incorporates all of the latest research fi ndings and grounds economic inquiry in a more robust understanding of human needs and behavior. Humans and ecological systems, it argues,

are inextricably bound together in complex and long-misun-derstood ways.

According to ecological economists, conventional economics does not refl ect adequately the value of essential factors like clean air and water, species diversity, and social and genera-tional equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists have overlooked problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources.

This introductory-level textbook is designed specifi cally to address this signifi cant fl aw in economic thought. The book describes a relatively new “transdiscipline” that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences. It provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassi-cal economic thought, but places that foundation within an interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity. In doing so, it presents a revolutionary way of viewing the world.

The second edition of Ecological Economics provides a clear, readable, and easy-to-understand overview of a fi eld of study that continues to grow in importance. It remains the only stand-alone textbook that offers a complete explanation of theory and practice in the discipline.

Herman E. Daly and

Joshua Farley

Second Edition

A brand new edition of the

leading textbook in the fi eld

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED


New Books

Science/Communications


Santa Barbara, California

June 30, 2010


Escape from the Ivory Tower

Most scientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. And many researchers have the horror sto-ries to prove it. As Nancy Baron points out, scientists who decide they want to inform those outside their own research arena and help guide public discourse need to learn a new set of skills. No matter what your scientifi c specialty is, writes Baron, the keys to success are thinking clearly, knowing what you want to say, understanding your audience, and using everyday language to get your main points across. Devel-oping these skills is the object of this book.

According to Baron, scientists, journalists, and policymakers repre-sent three very different cultures. Speaking effectively to journal-ists and policymakers—the people who make scientists’ fi ndings available to the general public—requires scientists to learn a new language. In this clear and understandable guide to “communicat-ing science,” Baron explains to scientists how to engage an audience, how to tell why a particular fi nding matters, and how to describe research in an interesting way. She explains to journalists how to develop the same skills for explaining science. The book includes case studies from journalists and from some of the more than four thousand scientists Baron has trained in communication workshops. Many of her trainees have gone on to become well-known spokes-people for science-related issues. The book is accompanied by an interactive website maintained by Baron herself.

A former journalist, Nancy Baron is a motivated promoter for clearly communicat-

ing the public implications of scientific findings. She has spent most of the past

eight years training scientists to better communicate science to the media and the

public. During this time she has worked with more than four thousand scientists

and many journalists and NGO professionals. Escape from the Ivory Tower is a

direct result of her experience.

6 X 9. 240 pages.

Paper: $27.50s 978-1-59726-664-2

Cloth: $55.00s 978-1-59726-663-5

A Guide to Making Your

Science Matter

Nancy Baron

A how-to guide for conveying

scientifi c research to journalists

and policymakers

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Green Building

Community Character

Lane H. Kendig

Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities butaccounts for how people who participate in a com-munity live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defi nes here refl ect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the

diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifi cations for a community’s “character” are its relationship to other communities, its size, and the resulting social and economic characteristics.

According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regu-lations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of devel-opment. As Kendig shows, there is a wide range of measures that defi ne character and these vary with the type of character a com-munity desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers “community character” as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes.

A companion book, A Guide to Planning with Community Character,provides a detailed explanation of applying community character in a comprehensive plan, with chapters on designing urban, subur-ban, and rural character types, using character in comprehensive plans, and strategies for addressing characteristic challenges of planning and zoning in the twenty-fi rst century.

Lane H. Kendig is the founder and former president of Kendig Keast

Collaborative, a planning consulting firm with offices in Chicago, Houston,

Wisconsin, and Colorado. He has been practicing and writing about the rela-

tionship between community design planning and regulatory tools for more

than forty years. He is the author of Performance Zoning and Too Big, Boring,

or Ugly, Traffic Sheds, Performance Standards for Non-Residential Uses, and

numerous articles.

8 X 10. 250 pages. Figures, photos.

Paper: $40.00s 978-1-59726-696-3

Cloth: $80.00s 978-1-59726-695-6


Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

June 10, 2010

Urban Planning


A framework for planning

and developing all kinds of

built communities

A Guide to Planning with

Community Character

Paper: $42.00s 978-1-59726-698-7

Cloth: $85.00s 978-1-59726-697-0


New Books

Seven Rules for

Sustainable Cities

Design Strategies for the

Post Carbon World

Patrick M. Condon

Foreword by Robert Yaro

Questions of how to green the North American economy, create a green energy and transporta-tion infrastructure, and halt the deadly increase in greenhouse gas buildup dominate our daily news. Related questions of how the design of cities can impact these chal-lenges dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the United States and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon discusses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowl-edge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design rules that can, if followed, help save the planet.

No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions. And no other book so vividly compares and contrasts the differing experiences of U.S. and Canadian cities.

Of particular new importance is how city form affects the production of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The author explains this rela-tionship in an accessible way, and goes on to show how conforming to seven simple rules for community design could literally do a world of good. Each chapter in the book explains one rule in depth, adding a wealth of research to support each claim. If widely used, Condon argues, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations—a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.

Patrick M. Condon, a professor at the University of British Columbia, holds the UBC

James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments, and is Senior Researcher

at the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC. He is the author of many books, includ-

ing Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities, published by Island Press.

7 X 10. 200 pages. Figures, photos.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-665-9

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-650-5

Urban Planning


Vancouver, British Columbia

April 29, 2010


Synthesizes a wealth of research

into a straightforward prescription

for creating sustainable

North American cities

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Green Building

Urban GreenInnovative Parks for Resurgent Cities

Peter Harnik

Peter Harnik is director of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for

Public Land and author of Inside City Parks, a book about the park and recreation

systems of the twenty-five largest U.S. cities. In 2003, his research resulted in The

Excellent City Park System: What Makes It Great and How to Get There. Previous to

that, he was cofounder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.6 X 9. 208 pages. Color photo insert.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-684-0

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-679-6

Urban Planning


Arlington, Virginia

June 20, 2010


Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parkland. After fi rst exploring the question of why urban parks are needed, Peter Harnik looks at how much parkland is truly possible and where specifi c investment can go.

Among the book’s many examples and practical solutions are reusing the land from defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. While no strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of chal-lenges, collectively they suggest a path toward making cities more beautiful, sociable, fun, ecologically sound, and successful.

Conservation Capital in the Americas Exemplary Conservation Finance Initiatives

Edited by James N. Levitt

Foreword by Paul E. Simons, United States Ambassador to Chile

Published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, in collaboration with the

Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard

Kennedy School and Island Press.

This book is the result of a remarkable conference that brought to-gether more than one hundred conservation fi nance experts and prac-titioners from North, Central, and South America. They met in Valdivia, Chile, in January 2009 to share insights across a spectrum of practice areas, from tax-related initiatives to limited development, conservation investment banking, fi nancing sustainable development and ecosystem services, and more. Perspectives are offered by authors from such di-verse institutions as The Harvard Forest, Universidad Austral de Chile, The Nature Conservancy, Open Space Institute, and the Peruvian Min-istry of Transportation. The case studies and situational analyses offer a window on the contours of conservation fi nance across the hemisphere in the early twenty-fi rst century.

James N. Levitt is director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard

Forest, Harvard University, and a research fellow at the Ash Institute for Democratic

Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a lead organizer

of the conference on “Conservation Capital in the Americas.”

7 X 10. 320 pages. Figures, photos,

references, index.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-55844-207-8

Land Use Planning

Editor’s Residence:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 30, 2010


Foreword by Mayor Michael Bloomberg


New Books

Light Imprint HandbookIntegrating Sustainability and Community Design

Thomas E. Low

What is Light Imprint (LI)? Light Imprint is a green approach to neighborhood design. It employs New Urbanist principles to create compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. To this, it adds a tool box of techniques to manage stormwater and natural drainage—an ever present environmental challenge that plays a major role in shap-ing cities and towns. This book lays out an array of Light Imprint tools, each shown in the context of an actual New Urbanist project. You will fi nd more than sixty techniques for paving streets and walkways, chan-neling and storing water, and fi ltering surface runoff before release into the underground water table. The tools are useful in both new development and existing communities. By fi tting the right tool to the right situation, it is possible to save money, improve environmental effi ciency, and build in beauty. Who is this book for? Anyone who cares about neighborhoods including: planners, developers, architects, engineers, public offi cials, investors, and community activists.

5 X 8. 350 pages.

Paper: $54.00s 978-1-931871-09-9

Urban Planning/Design


Charlotte, North Carolina

February 17, 2010


Thomas E. Low is director of town planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company,

Charlotte, North Carolina, and chair of Civic By Design Forum, Charlotte, North

Carolina.

The Sprawl Repair Manual

The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustain-able, economical, energy- and resource-effi cient patterns. As Galina Tachieva asserts in this exceptionally useful book, sprawl repair will require a proactive and aggressive approach, focused on design, regula-tion, and incentives.

The Sprawl Repair Manual draws on more than two decades of practi-cal experience in the fi eld of repairing and building communities to analyze the current pattern of sprawl development, disassemble it into its elemental components, and present a process for transforming them into human-scale, sustainable elements. The techniques are illustrated both two- and three-dimensionally, providing users with clear meth-odologies for the sprawl repair interventions, some of which are radical, but all of which will produce positive results.

Galina Tachieva

Galina Tachieva is a partner and director of town planning at the central office of

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, in Miami, Florida. She is originally from Bulgaria,

and received a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Architecture

and Civil Engineering in Sofia and a master’s in urban design from the University of

Miami, Florida. Tachieva submitted a “Sprawl Repair Kit,” which contains some of

the ideas and drawings from her book, to the 2009 Re-Burbia competition sponsored

by the blog Inhabitat and DWELL magazine, where it won the People’s Choice Award.

8.5 X 10. 250 pages. Color figures.

Paper: $45.00s 978-1-59726-732-8

Cloth: $90.00s 978-1-59726-731-1

Urban Planning


Miami, Florida

May 10, 2010


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Ecosystem Studies

State of the Wild 2010–2011A Global Portrait

With a special section on Wildlife Conservation in a Time of War

State of the Wild is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places. Each volume in the series com-bines evocative writings with a fascinating tour of conservation news highlights and vital statistics from around the world.

One-third of each volume focuses on a topic of particular concern to conservationists. This 2010–2011 edition considers how destabilization and war affect wildlife and wild places.

Uniquely structured with magazine-like features up front, conservation news in the middle, and essays from eminent authors and experienced scientists throughout, this landmark series is an essential addition to any environmental bookshelf.

8 X 10. 182 pages. Full color

throughout.

Paper: $29.95 978-1-59726-678-9

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-677-2

Founded in 1895, the Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild

places through science, international conservation, education, and the

management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the

fl agship Bronx Zoo in New York City. Together these activities change attitudes

toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony.

WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life

on earth.

Nature/Wildlife

February 23, 2010


PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

Blue FrontierDispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness

David Helvarg

“The author connects the dots among the various threats to America’s

oceans surpassingly well.”

—THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

“A vivid tapestry of an America interwoven with the sea.”

—SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

“An infuriating portrayal of mankind’s most breathtaking crime, the

destruction of the oceans that birthed our species.”

—ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., PRESIDENT, WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE

“The most comprehensive account available of the state of our

nation’s oceans . . .”

—BILL MCKIBBEN, AUTHOR OF THE END OF NATURE

David Helvarg has written many articles for major print media and commentar-

ies for public radio, and he has produced award-winning documentaries for PBS,

Discovery, and A&E. He is the founder and director of the Blue Frontier Campaign. 6 X 9. 334 pages.

Paper: $16.95 978-1-57805-157-1

Science/Oceans


San Francisco, California


Wildlife Conservation Society


New Books

7 X 10. 350 pages.

Paper: $40.00s 978-1-58576-686-4

Cloth: $80.00s 978-1-59726-685-7

Environment/Management


Seattle, Washington

Bainbridge Island, Washington

June 30, 2010


Climate Savvy

Lara J. Hansen and Jennifer R. Hoffman

Climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strate-gies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience?

Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy. Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality.

Lara J. Hansen is executive director of EcoAdapt, a nonprofit organization

focused on adapting conservation and resource management to climate change.

Jennifer R. Hoffman is director of projects for EcoAdapt. With Jennifer Biringer,

they wrote and edited Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and

Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems.

Adapting Conservation and Resource Management

to a Changing World

Beyond NaturalnessRethinking Park and Wilderness Stewardship in an Era

of Rapid Change

The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in es-tablishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, invasive species, and climate change increase?

Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymak-ers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The book offers excellent writing and focus on some of the diffi cult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.

Edited by David N. Cole and Laurie Yung

6 X 9. 368 pages.

Paper: $35.00s 978-1-59726-509-6

Cloth: $70.00s 978-1-59726-508-9

Science/Environment


Missoula, Montana

March 9, 2010


David N. Cole is a research geographer at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research

Institute, U.S. Forest Service in Missoula, Montana. Laurie Yung is director of the

Wilderness Institute and a research assistant professor in the College of Forestry

and Conservation at the University of Montana in Missoula.

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Ecosystem Studies

Trophic CascadesPredators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature

Edited by John Terborgh and James A. Estes

John Terborgh is a research professor at Duke University. He has directed a

biological station in the Peruvian Amazon for thirty-six years and has conducted

research on both plants and animals, emphasizing interactions between them.

After spending most of his career as a research scientist with the U.S. Geological

Survey, James A. Estes is currently a faculty member at the University of California

at Santa Cruz where he is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by preda-tors—are an essential aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically disrupted by human interven-tions—for example, when wolves and cougars are removed, allowing deer and beaver to become destructive—yet have only recently begun to be considered in the development of conservation and manage-ment strategies.

Trophic Cascades is the fi rst comprehensive presentation of the sci-ence on this subject. It brings together some of the world’s leading scientists and researchers to explain the importance of large animals in regulating ecosystems, and to relate that scientifi c knowledge to practical conservation. It is a groundbreaking work for scientists and managers involved with biodiversity conservation and protection.

Science/Wildlife

May 30, 2010



Durham, North Carolina

Santa Cruz, California

7 x 10. 456 pages. Tables, figures.

Paper: $45.00s 978-1-59726-487-7

Cloth: $90.00s 978-1-59726-486-0

Science/Policy

January 10, 2010


Ecosystems and Human Well-BeingA Manual for Assessment Practitioners

UNEP/World Conservation Monitoring Centre

The World Conservation Monitoring Centre is the biodiversity information and

assessment collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme

(UNEP), the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organization, and

WCMC, a U.K.-based charity.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is the most extensive study of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. It is one of the most important conservation initiatives ever undertaken, and the ecosystem services paradigm on which it is based provides the standard for practice. This manual supplies the specifi c tools that practitioners of the paradigm need in order to extend their work into the future.

The manual is a stand-alone “how to” guide to conducting assess-ments of the impacts on humans of ecosystem changes. It builds on the experiences and lessons learned from the MA global and sub-global assessment initiatives, with chapters written by well-known participants in those initiatives. It also includes insights gained from service-focused assessment activities since the completion of the MA in 2005.

7 X 10. 272 pages.

Paper: $35.00s 978-1-59726-711-3

Cloth: $70.00s 978-1-59726-710-6


New Books

Restoring Disturbed LandscapesPutting Principles into Practice

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes.

Abundantly illustrated with photos and fi gures, Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is an engaging and accessible work designed specifi cally for restoration practitioners with limited training or experience in the fi eld. It uses a fi ve-step adaptive procedure to tell restorationists where to start, what information they need to acquire, and how to apply this information to their specifi c situations.

David J. Tongway and John A. Ludwig

7 X 10. 200 pages.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-581-2

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-580-5

Science/Ecology


Canberra, Australia

Atherton, Australia

June 15, 2010

Expected Shipping Date:David J. Tongway is a soil scientist and ecologist formerly with CSIRO. He is cur-

rently an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO’s Gungahlin laboratory in Canberra. John A. Ludwig is a plant and landscape ecologist formerly with New Mexico State

University and CSIRO. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO’s laboratory in

Atherton.

7 X 10. 275 pages.

Paper: $30.00s 978-1-59726-572-0

Cloth: $60.00s 978-1-59726-571-3

Science/Ecology

May 7, 2010


Restoring Ecological Health

to Your Land

This is the fi rst practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientifi c training or background the “how to” information and knowledge they need to plan and imple-ment ecological restoration activities.

The fi rst part of the book introduces the process of ecological restora-tion in simple, easily understood language through specifi c examples drawn from the authors’ experience in restoring their own lands. The second half shows how that same “thinking” and “doing” can be applied to North America’s major ecosystems and landscapes in any condition or scale.

Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan W. Haney

Steven I. Apfelbaum is chairman of Applied Ecological Services and has been

active in teaching and practicing ecological restoration for more than thirty years.

Alan W. Haney is a forest ecologist and former dean of the College of Natural

Resources, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.


Juda, Wisconsin

Custer, Wisconsin

THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION SERIES

Cosponsored by the Society for Ecological Restoration International and Island Press, this series

offers a foundation of practical knowledge and scientific insight that will help ecological restoration

become the powerful reparative and healing tool that the world needs.

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Ecosystem Studies

Repeat Photography

Safe Passages

Edited by Jon P. Beckmann, Anthony P. Clevenger,

Marcel P. Huijser, and Jodi A. Hilty

Safe Passages brings together the latest information on the emerging science of road ecology as it relates to mitigating interactions between roads and wildlife. This practical handbook of tools and examples is designed to assist individuals and organizations to reduce road-wildlife impacts.

Detailed case studies span a range of scales, from site-specifi c wildlife crossing structures, to statewide planning for habitat connectivity, to national legislation. Contributors explore the cooperative efforts that are emerging as a result of diverse organizations—including transportation agencies, land and wildlife management agencies, and nongovernmen-tal organizations—fi nding common ground to tackle important road ecology issues and problems.

First developed in the 1880s, repeat photography remains an important and cost-effective technique for scientists working to track and study landscape change. This volume explores the technical and geographic scope of this important technique.

Repeat Photography demonstrates the wide range of potential applica-tions, examines new techniques for acquiring data from repeat photog-raphy, and clearly shows that repeat photography remains a valuable, and cost-effective means of monitoring change in both developed and developing regions. More than one hundred sets of photographs serve as examples.

Recent concerns about climate change and its effects on natural land-scapes, combined with ongoing concerns about land-use practices, make this state-of-the-art review a timely contribution to the literature.

Edited by Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, and

Raymond M. Turner

Jon P. Beckmann is an associate conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation

Society and an affiliated professor at Idaho State University. Anthony P. Clevenger is a senior wildlife research scientist at the Western Transportation Institute at

Montana State University. Marcel P. Huijser is a research road ecologist at the

Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University. Jodi A. Hilty is director

of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s North America Program.

Highways, Wildlife, and Habitat Connectivity

Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences

Dr. Robert H. Webb is a hydrologist and Diane E. Boyer is a photo archivist with the

U.S. Geological Survey National Research Program in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Raymond M. Turner is a botanist, now retired from the USGS in Tucson.

6 X 9. 383 pages.

Paper: $40.00s 978-1-59726-654-3

Cloth: $70.00s 978-1-59726-653-6

8.5 X 11. 530 pages. Color photo

insert.

Paper: $75.00s 978-1-59726-713-7

Cloth: $125.00s 978-1-59726-712-0

Science/Wildlife

June 30, 2010


Science/Photography

June 21, 2010



Wichita, Kansas

Bozeman, Montana


Tucson, Arizona


New Books

The International Union for Conservation of Nature is a multicultural, multilingual organization that seeks

to influence, encourage, and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity

of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resouces is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

IUCN—The International Union for Conservation of Nature

Books from IUCN —The International Union for Conservation of Nature

Dryland OpportunitiesMichael Mortimore

Drylands cover 41 percent of the earth’s terrestrial surface. The urgency of and international response to climate change have given a new place to drylands in terms of both their vulnerability to predicted climate change impacts and their potential contribu-tion to climate change mitigation. This book aims to apply the new scientifi c insights on complex dryland systems to practical options for development. A new dryland paradigm is built on the resources and capacities of dryland peoples, on new and emergent economic opportunities, on inward investment, and on the best support that dryland science can offer.

98 pages. Illustrations and maps.

Paper: $16.00s 978-2-8317-1183-6


Paper: $25.00s 978-2-8317-1178-2

Conservation for a New EraJeffrey A. McNeely and Susan A. Mainka

Conservation for a New Era outlines the critical issues facing us in the twenty-fi rst century, developed from the results of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008. The landmark publication takes on the pressing issues of today and highlights the solutions to be found through investing in nature. The book is essential reading for governments, businesses, and decision makers. It provides a snapshot of the current situation, split into twenty-one easy-to-read sections, as well as a roadmap for the future.

Aquaculture Site Selection and

Site ManagementThe World Conservation Union

Aquaculture is currently facing a signifi cant challenge: how to alleviate the pressure on fi sh stocks exerted by commercial fi shing and yet meet the increasing demand for sea products in a sus-tainable way. The aim of this guide is to promote the sustainable development of Mediterranean aquaculture by providing basic guidelines for good practice in site selection and site management.


Paper: $25.00s 978-2-8317-1171-3

26

Environmental Law InstituteBooks from the Environmental Law Institute

TSCA Deskbook

Air Pollution Control Law

Arnold W. Reitze, Jr.

The most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to and analysis of the Clean Air Act (CAA) is now available from the Environmental Law Institute. Authored by George Washington University Law School Prof. Arnold W. Reitze, Jr., one of the most noted authorities on the Act, this second edition of Air Pollution Control Law explains the legislative provisions, regulatory requirements, and court decisions that constitute the body of air pollution control law.

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Island Press Index


Air Pollution Control Law, 2nd Ed., Reitze . . . . 26

Anisfeld, Water Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Apfelbaum/Haney, Restoring Ecological Health

to Your Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Apollo’s Fire, Inslee/Hendricks . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Aquaculture Site Selection and Site Manage-

ment, World Conservation Union . . . . . . . 25

Athens, Building an Emerald City . . . . . . . . . . 29

Barnosky, Heatstroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Baron, Escape from the Ivory Tower . . . . . . . . 15

Beckmann et al., eds., Safe Passages. . . . . . . 24

Bevington, The Rebirth of Environmentalism . 30

Beyond Naturalness, Cole/Yung . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Blue Frontier, Helvarg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Bottled and Sold, Gleick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brown/Schmidt, Water Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Building an Emerald City, Athens . . . . . . . . . . 29

Calthorpe, Urbanism in the Age of Climate

Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Catastrophe in the Making, Freudenburg et al. 28

Changing Contexts in Urban Regeneration,

Stouten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chasing Molecules, Grossman . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Cities for People, Gehl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Cleetus et al., Climate 2030 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Climate 2030, Cleetus et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Climate Change Science and Policy, Schneider

et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Climate Savvy, Hansen/Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Climate Solutions Consensus, National

Council for Science and the Environment . 30

Cole/Yung, Beyond Naturalness . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Community Character, Kendig . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Community Planning, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Condon, Seven Rules for Sustainable Commu-

nities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Conservation Capital in the Americas, Levitt . 18

Conservation for a New Era, McNeely/Mainka 25

The Conservation Program Handbook, Tassel 29

Daly/Farley, Ecological Economics, 2nd Ed. . 14

Davis, Shadows in the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Dominant Animal, Erhlich/Ehrlich . . . . . . 29

Don’t Be Such a Scientist, Randy Olson . . . . .28

Dryland Opportunities, Mortimore . . . . . . . . . 25

Ecological Economics, 2nd Ed. , Daly/Farley . 14

Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation, Schmitz 12

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, UNEP . . . 22

Eisenberg, The Wolf’s Tooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Erhlich/Ehrlich, The Dominant Animal . . . . . . 29

Escape from the Ivory Tower, Baron . . . . . . . . 15

The Europeanisation of Cities, Hamedinger/

Wolffhardt, eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Five Easy Pieces, Pauly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Floodplain Management, Freitag et al. . . . . . . . 9

Ford, Modeling the Environment, 2nd Ed. . . . 29

Forinash, Foundations of Environmental Phys-

ics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Foundations of Ecological Resilience, Gunder-

son et al., eds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Foundations of Environmental Physics, Fori-

nash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Fox-Penner, Smart Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Freitag et al., Floodplain Management . . . . . . . 9

Freudenburg et al., Catastrophe in the Making 28

Gehl, Cities for People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Gerber et al., eds., Livestock in a Changing

Landscape, Vol. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Gleick, Bottled and Sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Global Environmental Governance, Speth/Haas 12

Greening Our Built World, Kats . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Grossman, Chasing Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Grumbine, Where the Dragon Meets the Angry

River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Gunderson et al., eds., Foundations of Ecologi-

cal Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Hamedinger/Wolffhardt, eds., The Europeanisa-

tion of Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Hansen/Hoffman, Climate Savvy . . . . . . . . . . 21

Harnik, Urban Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Heatstroke, Barnosky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Helvarg, Blue Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Houck, Taking Back Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Inslee/Hendricks, Apollo’s Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Kats, Greening Our Built World . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Kelly, Community Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

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