Collection of essays examining the ways in which humanity is enmeshed in its surroundings.

The relationship between social thought and earth processes is in its infancy. This book offers to make good the defect by exploring how human induced changes i

Beauty versus beasts. In the wake of a devastating biological disaster, the United States east of the Mississippi River has been abandoned. Now called the Feral

Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptiv

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah re