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Back to SearchJoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa" (U Hawai’i Press, 2020)
Episode 768
In Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020), JoAnna Poblete demonstrates how western-style economi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Sandra Postel, "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 255
In Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity (Island Press), Sandra Postel acknowledges society’s past mishaps with managing water and em…
5 years, 10 months ago
R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk, "Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value" (Business Expert Press, 2017)
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018)
Episode 57
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018).
Cities have been built along…
5 years, 10 months ago
Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 70
By the time Bolivian President Evo Morales was deposed in December 2019, it had become increasingly clear that Latin America’s Pink Tide – the wave o…
5 years, 10 months ago
Matto Mildenberger, "Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 453
Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?
In his new book Carbon Captured: How Busin…
5 years, 10 months ago
Robert Sroufe, "Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business" (Emerald, 2018)
Episode 54
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and t…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening" (Wesleyan UP, 2018)
Episode 101
“What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?” So asks—and answers—Rachel Mundy, who is Assistant Profe…
5 years, 11 months ago
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)
Episode 52
We sit at the beginning of what could be “both a truly terrifying and a golden era in humanity.” In The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Pos…
5 years, 11 months ago
Thomas C. Rust, "Watching over Yellowstone: The US Army's Experience in America's First National Park, 1886–1918" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Episode 738
When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility: work they were unt…
5 years, 11 months ago