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Episode 138
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation tha…
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Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Fuji: A Mountain in the Making (Princeton UP, 2025) is A panoramic biography of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present
Mount Fuji is…
5 months, 1 week ago
Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 17
This episode explores what China’s subnational climate experiments tell us about the possibilities and limits of climate leadership in an era of inte…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Manuel Ortiz, "Why We Struggle to Go Green: Hard Truths about the Clean Energy Transition" (Texas A&M Press, 2025)
Clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change.
Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls to…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)
Episode 132
For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Caitlin Schroering, "Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 444
Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) to e…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)
Episode 238
This episode features a conversation with the inspiring Dr. Veronica House, whose book Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Jennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This
From canoes on the beach at Dzidzilalich to steamships and piers, Seattle's waterfront was the center of the city's economy and culture for generatio…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 186
A radical history of England, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion, 2025) by Dr. Katrina Navickas is a gripp…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?
Brought to you by the BISA Env…
5 months, 3 weeks ago