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A Good Drink 1 Swamplands 2 Bet the Farm 3 Bird Brother 4 Tech to Table 5 Thicker Than Water 6 Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition 7 Autonorama 8 Cities for Life 9 Pathways to Success 10 From the Ground Up 11 American Urbanist 12 Dream Play Build 13 Climate Change in U.S. Cities 14 A Healthy Nature Handbook 15 Grain by Grain 16 Lyme 17
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New Shanna Farrell
A Good Drink In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits A fun and illuminating exploration into the sustainable spirits movement and the distillers leading it. As a bartender, Shanna Farrell not only poured spirits, but learned their stories—who made them and how. In A Good Drink, Farrell goes in search of the bars, distillers, and farmers who are driving a transformation to sustainable spirits. She meets mezcaleros in Guadalajara who are working to preserve traditional ways of producing mezcal; a London bar owner who has eliminated individual bottles and ice; and distillers in South Carolina who are bringing a rare variety of corn back from near extinction, among many others. For readers who have ever wondered who grew the pears that went into their brandy or why their cocktail is an unnatural shade of red, A Good Drink will be an eye-opening tour of the spirits industry. For anyone who cares about the future of the planet, it offers a hopeful vision of change, one pour at a time.
Shanna Farrell is an interviewer at UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center, where she works on a wide variety of projects and specializes in drink cultural and environmental history. She is the author of Bay Area Cocktails. Her writing has appeared in Imbibe magazine, Life & Thyme, PUNCH, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She holds Master’s Degrees from both New York University and Columbia University.
Social Science/Agriculture & Food September 2021 Hardcover: $29.00 978-1-64283-143-6 Ebook: $28.99 978-1-64283-144-3 232 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade
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Food Town, USA Mark Winne
Author’s residence: San Francisco, California
Grain by Grain Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle
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New Edward Struzik
Swamplands Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat An ode to the strangely beautiful and underappreciated peatlands of the world - and a call to understand their ecological importance. In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these–collectively known as swamplands or peatlands–often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Nature/General October 2021 Hardcover: $32.00 978-1-64283-080-4 Ebook: $31.99 978-1-64283-081-1 256 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade
Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet’s survival might depend on it.
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Firestorm Edward Struzik
Future Arctic Edward Struzik
Edward Struzik has been writing about scientific and environmental issues for more than 30 years. A fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, his numerous accolades include the prestigious Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to the understanding of science. His books include Future Arctic, Arctic Icons, The Big Thaw, Northwest Passage, and Firestorm. He is an active speaker and lecturer, and his work as a regular contributor to Yale Environment 360 covers topics such as the effects of climate change and fossil fuel extraction on northern ecosystems and their inhabitants. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Author’s residence: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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New Beth Hoffman
Bet the Farm The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America A personal account, written by a journalist, of the financial struggles facing family farmers in America. In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband’s family ranch in Iowa— all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America’s two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth’s eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet, and finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can’t make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don’t have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a firsthand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
Social Science/Agriculture & Food October 2021 Hardcover: $26.00 978-1-64283-159-7 Ebook: $25.99 978-1-64283-160-3 200 pages. 5 x 8 | 3 figures Island Press Trade
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Beth Hoffman is a beginning farmer on 540 acres in Iowa. For the last twenty years, she has worked as a journalist covering food and agriculture. Her work has been aired and published on NPR’s Morning Edition, The Guardian, The Salt, Latino USA, and the News Hour.
Food from the Radical Center Gary Paul Nabhan
Author’s residence: Lovilia, Iowa The Farm Bill Daniel Imhoff with Christina Badaracco
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New Rodney Stotts with Kate Pipkin
Bird Brother A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife Rodney Stotts’ incredible journey to become a master falconer shows the power and possibilities of nature and the human spirit.
Biography & Autobiography/ Environmentalists & Naturalists February 2022 Hardcover $26.00 978-1-64283-174-0 Ebook: $25.99 978-1-64283-175-7 232 pages. 6 x 9 | 25 black and white photos Island Press Trade
In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we’ve endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.
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The Bird-Friendly City Timothy Beatley
Urban Raptors Edited by Clint W. Boal and Cheryl R. Dykstra
Raised in Southeast Washington, D.C., Rodney Stotts has achieved the highest level of master falconer. Stotts is an educator and the founder and director of a successful educational nonprofit called Rodney’s Raptors. When he’s not on the sanctuary property located in Laurel, Maryland, Rodney lives on seven acres in Charlotte Court House, Virginia, where he is working to turn the property into a haven for underprivileged youth and anyone who is interested in learning about falconry, wildlife, and conservation. The finished project will be called Dippy’s Dream, after Rodney’s deceased mother. His work has been featured National Geographic, NPR, and other national outlets. He is the subject of the documentary The Falconer. Kate Pipkin is the Senior Director of Communications and Marketing for the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. She has contributed to The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Loch Raven Review, and other publications. Authors’ residences: Laurel, Maryland; Baltimore, Maryland
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New Richard Munson
Tech to Table 25 Innovators Reimagining Food These profiles of 25 exciting entrepreneurs take the reader through the major innovations that are changing the way we grow and eat food. Imagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these inventions might just save your health and the planet’s. Today, landmark technological advances are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by industrialized food. Tech to Table introduces readers to twenty-five of the most creative entrepreneurs innovating these solutions. They come from various places and professions, identities and backgrounds. But they share an outsider’s perspective and an idealistic, often disruptive, ambition to reinvent the food system. The pace and breadth of change is astonishing, as investors pump billions of dollars into ag-tech. Not every innovator will prosper long-term, but each marks a fundamental change in our approach to feeding a growing population—sustainably.
Business & Economics/Industries/Food Industry September 2021 Hardcover: $32.00 978-1-64283-190-0 Ebook: $31.99 978-1-64283-191-7 224 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade
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Food Town, USA Mark Winne Richard Munson is the author of several books, most recently Tesla: Inventor of the Modern. He also has written a biography of Jacques Cousteau; a history of electricity; and a behind-the-scenes look at how congressional appropriators spend taxpayer money. Now based in Chicago, Munson has worked on environmental and clean-energy issues at non-profits, within universities, in the private sector, and on Capitol Hill. Author’s residence: Hinsdale, Illinois
How to Feed the World Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
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New Erica Cirino
Thicker Than Water The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis A global tour of the plastic pollution crisis, with cutting-edge research demonstrating the depth of the problem, and what must happen to reverse it.
Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection October 2021 Hardcover: $28.00 978-1-64283-137-5 Ebook: $27.99 978-1-64283-138-2 272 pages. 6 x 9 20 illustrations Island Press Trade
Much of what you’ve heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea—more like a soup than a floating garbage dump. Less than nine percent of the plastic we create is reused, and microplastic fragments are found almost everywhere, even in our bodies. In Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, journalist Erica Cirino brings readers on a globe-hopping journey to meet the scientists and activists telling the real story of the plastic crisis. New technologies and awareness bring some hope, but Cirino shows that we can only fix the problem if we begin to repair our throwaway culture. Thicker Than Water is an eloquent call to reexamine the systems churning out waves of plastic waste.
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Plastic Soup Michiel Roscam Abbing Erica Cirino is a science writer and artist who explores the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds. Her photographic and written works have appeared in Scientific American, The Guardian, VICE, Hakai Magazine, The Atlantic, and other esteemed publications. She is a recipient of fellowships from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and Safina Center, as well as several awards for visual art. Bottled and Sold Peter H. Gleick
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New Christof Spieler
Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit The popular Trains, Buses, People has been updated to include Canada and new US cities, with an added analysis of the impact of poverty on transit systems. Transit expert Christof Spieler has fully updated and expanded his popular book Trains, Buses, People to include eight Canadian cities and two new US cities (Indianapolis and San Juan, Puerto Rico). In Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, Spieler profiles the 49 metropolitan areas in the US and eight metropolitan areas in Canada that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. The best and worst systems are ranked and Spieler offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning. Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective and how to make it inclusive.
Transportation/Public Transportation August 2021 Paperback: $45.00 978-1-64283-213-6 Ebook: $44.99 978-1-64283-214-3 336 pages. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 | Full color Island Press Short
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New Mobilities Todd Litman Christof Spieler, PE, AICP, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a Lecturer in Architecture and Engineering at Rice University. He was a member of the board of directors of Houston METRO from 2010 to 2018. Author’s residence: Houston, Texas Better Buses, Better Cities Steven Higashide
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New Peter Norton
Autonorama The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving Norton argues that the promise of autonomous vehicles is distracting us from investing in better, more sustainable transportation options, and increasing our dependence on cars. In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive “mobility solutions” that tech companies and automakers are promising us. The salesmanship behind the “driverless future” is distracting us from better ways to get around that we can implement now. Unlike autonomous vehicles, these alternatives are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive.
Transportation/General October 2021 Hardcover: $22.00 978-1-64283-240-2 Ebook: $21.99 978-1-64283-241-9 224 pages. 5 x 8 | 12 illustrations Island Press Trade
Norton takes the reader on an engaging ride—from the GM Futurama exhibit to “smart” highways and vehicles—to show how we are once again being sold car dependency in the guise of mobility. Autonorama is hopeful, advocating for wise, proven, humane mobility that we can invest in now, without waiting for technology that is forever just out of reach.
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Three Revolutions Daniel Sperling Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He has authored many articles, book chapters, and the book Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. Author’s residence: Charlottesville, Virginia New Mobilities Todd Litman
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New Jason Corburn
Cities for Life How Communities Can Recover from Trauma and Rebuild for Health Cities for Life draws lessons from three global cities that are helping their communities heal from trauma. In cities around the world, planning and health experts are beginning to understand the role of social and environmental conditions that lead to trauma. By respecting the lived experience of those who were most impacted by harms, some cities have developed innovative solutions for urban trauma. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma—from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, poverty, and other harms. Cities for Life is about a new way forward with urban communities that rebuilds our social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health.
Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning November 2021 Paperback: $30.00 978-1-64283-172-6 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-173-3 280 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short
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Schools That Heal Claire Latané Jason Corburn is a professor in the department of city and regional planning and the school of public health at UC Berkeley. He directs the Institute of Urban & Regional Development and co-directs the joint master of city planning and master of public health degree program. His books include Street Science, Toward the Healthy City, and Healthy City Planning. Author’s residence: Berkeley, California
Right of Way Angie Schmitt
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New Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis
Pathways to Success Taking Conservation to Scale in Complex Systems A highly anticipated follow-up to a classic conservation text, guiding readers to successfully implement large-scale conservation projects.
Nature/Ecology December 2021 Paperback: $29.00 978-1-64283-135-1 Ebook: $28.99 978-1-64283-136-8 304 pages. 7 x 10 | 100 illustrations Island Press Short
As environmental problems grow larger and more pressing, conservation work has increasingly emphasized broad approaches to combat global-scale crises of biodiversity loss, invasive species, and climate change. Pathways to Success is a modern guide to building large-scale transformative conservation programs capable of tackling the complex issues we now face. In this strikingly illustrated volume, coauthors Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis walk readers through fundamental concepts of effective program-level design, helping them to think strategically about project coordination, funding, and stakeholder input. Pathways to Success is the definitive guide for conservation program managers and funders who want to increase the effectiveness of their work combating climate change, species extinctions, and the many challenges we face to keep our planet livable.
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Beyond Polarization Steven L. Yaffee
Corridor Ecology, Second Edition Jodi A. Hilty, Annika T. H. Keeley, William Z. Lidicker Jr., Adina M. Merenlender
Nick Salafsky is Executive Director of Foundations of Success, the Product Manager of Miradi Adaptive Management Software, and one of the initial founders of the Conservation Measures Partnership. Over the past two decades he has worked with hundreds of conservation projects and programs around the world on strategic planning, adaptive management, and cross-program learning. Richard Margoluis is Chief Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where he and his team support grant-making in environmental conservation, basic science, patient care, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining the Moore Foundation, Richard worked with Nick as codirector of Foundations of Success and was also one of the initial founders of the Conservation Measures Partnership Authors’ residences: Bethesda, Maryland; Aptos, California
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New Alison Sant
From the Ground Up Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities Cities can survive in the face of climate change - and even thrive - as these inspiring examples show. In From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities, design expert Alison Sant focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are working to mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities. Sant presents 12 case studies, drawn from research and over 90 interviews with people who are working in these communities to make a difference. These efforts show how US cities are reclaiming their streets from cars, restoring watersheds, growing forests, and adapting shorelines to improve people’s lives while addressing our changing climate. From the Ground Up is a call to action. When we make the places we live more climate resilient, we need to acknowledge and address the history of social and racial injustice. Advocates, non-profit organizations, community-based groups, and government officials will find examples of how to build alliances to support and embolden this vision together.
Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design January 2022 Paperback: $35.00 978-1-61091-896-1 Ebook: $34.99 978-1-61091-897-8 296 pages. 7 x 10 Island Press Short
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Resilience for All Barbara Brown Wilson Alison Sant is a co-founder and partner in the Studio for Urban Projects, an interdisciplinary design collaborative based in San Francisco. She has taught at the California College of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley. Author’s residence: Mill Valley, CA Soft City David Sim
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New Richard K. Rein
American Urbanist How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life The first biography of William H. Whyte, an eclectic thinker who reshaped American public life, including cities, open spaces, and corporations.
Biography & Autobiography/Social Scientists & Psychologists January 2022 Hardcover: $30.00 978-1-64283-170-2 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-171-9 328 pages. 6 x 9 | 15 photos, 10 illustrations Island Press Trade
American Urbanist shares the remarkable life and wisdom of William H. Whyte, whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today—from New York’s bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. Over his five decades of research and writing, his wide-ranging work changed how people thought about careers and companies, cities and suburbs, urban planning, open space preservation, and more. In a time when most Americans were eager fit in, he advocated for oddball ideas and unconformity. His ideas influenced everything from corporate hiring practices to designs of city plazas. “We need the kind of curiosity that blows the lid off everything,” he once said. This fascinating biography offers a rare glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast whose healthy skepticism of the status quo can help guide our efforts to create the kinds of places we want to live in today.
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DIY City Hank Dittmar After a reporting career that included stops at Time Magazine and People, Richard K. Rein launched a nationally acclaimed weekly newspaper, U.S. 1, that helped the Princeton-Route 1 corridor become more than an “edge city.” Rein now serves on Princeton Future, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable urbanism in his hometown. Author’s residence: Princeton, New Jersey Urban Acupuncture Jaime Lerner
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New James Rojas and John Kamp
Dream Play Build Hands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places Shares a new approach to community engagement that brings art and creativity into discussions about urban design. People love their communities and want them to become safer, healthier, more prosperous places. But the standard approach to public meetings somehow makes everyone miserable. Conversations that should be inspiring can become shouting matches. So what would it look like to facilitate truly meaningful discussions? What if they could be fun? For twenty years, James Rojas and John Kamp have been using art, creative expression, and storytelling to shake up the classic community meeting. In Dream Play Build, they share their insights into building common ground and inviting active participation among diverse groups. Their approach, “Place It!,” draws on three methods: the interactive model-building workshop, the pop-up, and site exploration using our senses. Inspirational and fun, this book celebrates the value of engaging with the dreams we have for our communities.
Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning February 2022 Paperback: $25.00 978-1-64283-149-8 Ebook: $24.99 978-1-64283-150-4 200 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short
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Resilience for All Barbara Brown Wilson James Rojas is an urban planner, community activist, educator, and artist who runs the planning, model-building, and community-outreach practice Place It!. He is an international expert in public engagement and has traveled around the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and South America, facilitating over 500 workshops, and building 100+ interactive models. His research has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Dwell, Places, and in numerous books. John Kamp runs the landscape, urban design, and engagement practice Prairieform. He has developed innovative tools to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in both design and the natural world, with two decades of experience leading handson interactive workshops with James Rojas of Place It!. He frequently translates the findings and outcomes of those workshops into designs for inclusive and livable streets and neighborhoods that leave room for all residents to improvise and help create a more welcoming public realm.
Design as Democracy Edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester Jr., Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally
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New Edited by William Solecki and Cynthia Rosenzweig
Climate Change and U.S. Cities Urban Systems, Sectors, and Prospects for Action A foundational analysis of the current science on climate change in cities across the U.S. From roads to clean water systems, the built infrastructure sustaining urban populations is increasingly vulnerable to climate. Understanding the dilemma and identifying a path forward is particularly important as cities are significant agents of climate action. A follow-up to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents the current and future climate risk for U.S. cities, urban systems, and their residents. It is an examination of research findings since early 2012, with a critical emphasis on the crosscutting factors of economics, equity, and governance. Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning February 2022 Paperback: $45.00 978-1-61091-978-4 Ebook: $44.99 978-1-61091-979-1 384 pages. 6 x 9 | 14 figures Island Press Short
Urban stakeholders and decision makers will gain an understanding of climate risks and a set of conclusions and recommendations for action. Climate Change and U.S. Cities boldly lays out the tools that cities must harness to effect decisive, meaningful change.
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Climate Action Planning Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale
Gray to Green Communities Dana Bourland
William Solecki is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY, and served as the Interim Executive Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay for its first two years. He is the former Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and was Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and the US National Research Council’s Resilience Roundtable. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She was named as one of “Nature’s 10: Ten People Who Mattered in 2012” by the journal Nature, for her work preparing New York City for climate extremes and change. She is a Professor at Barnard College and a Senior Research Scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Editors’ residences: New York, New York
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Recently Published Edited by Justin Pepper and Don Parker
A Healthy Nature Handbook Illustrated Sequences for Ecological Restoration in the Chicago Wilderness Region An illustrated handbook to restoring nature in the Chicago region. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to far more protected nature than most people realize. There’s a critical factor of the Chicago Wilderness restoration effort that makes it unique. A grassroots volunteer community, thousands strong, works alongside agency staff to give nearby nature what it needs to thrive in an everchanging urban context. A Healthy Nature Handbook captures hard-earned ecological wisdom from this community in engaging and highly readable chapters, each including illustrated restoration sequences. Nature/Ecosystems & Habitats September 2021 Paperback: $20.00 978-1-64283-242-6 Ebook: $19.99 978-1-64283-243-3 168 pages. 7 x 10 Island Press Short
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Justin Pepper is the Bobolink Foundation’s Chief Conservation Officer. Bobolink’s focus is biodiversity conservation in the Americas, emphasizing grasslands, coastal conservation, wildlife and wild landscapes, and community-based conservation. Don Parker is a Chicago-region freelance writer, editor, and illustrator with extensive experience in the field of conservation. First as editor of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, then with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, and now serving a range of clients, Don has worked for two decades to engage people in meaningful long-term relationships with the natural world. Editors’ residences: Chicago, Illinois
Primer of Ecological Restoration Karen D. Holl
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney
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Now in Paperback Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle
Grain by Grain A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food “A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up.” –Kirkus Reviews
Agriculture & Food September 2021 Paperback: $19.00 978-1-64283-244-0 Ebook: $18.99 978-1-61091-979-1 288 pages. 6 x 9 | 16 photos Island Press Trade
When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Years later, it would become the centerpiece of his multimillion dollar heirloom grain company, Kamut International. How Bob went from being a true believer in better farming through chemistry to a leading proponent of organics is the unlikely story of Grain by Grain. Along the way, readers will learn how ancient wheat can lower inflammation, how regenerative agriculture can bring back rural jobs, and how combining time-tested farming practices with modern science can point the way for the future of food.
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Building Community Food Webs Ken Meter
The Economics of Sustainable Food Edited by Nicoletta Batini
Bob Quinn is an organic farmer near Big Sandy, Montana, and a leading green businessman. He served on the first National Organic Standards Board, and has been recognized with the Montana Organic Association Lifetime of Service Award, The Organic Trade Association Organic Leadership Award, and Rodale Institute’s Organic Pioneer Award. His enterprises include the ancient grain business Kamut International and Montana’s first wind farm. Liz Carlisle is a Lecturer in the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. Her first book, Lentil Underground, won the Montana Book Award and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Authors’ residences: Big Sandy, Montana; Stanford, California
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Now in Paperback Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Lyme The First Epidemic of Climate Change “Superbly written and researched.” —Booklist Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. Mary Beth Pfeiffer argues it is the first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, infecting millions around the globe. She tells the heart-rending stories of its victims, families whose lives have been destroyed by a single, often unseen, tick bite. Pfeiffer also warns of the emergence of other tick-borne illnesses that make Lyme more difficult to treat and pose their own grave risks. Lyme is an impeccably researched account of an enigmatic disease, making a powerful case for action to fight ticks, heal patients, and recognize humanity’s role in a modern scourge. Health/Science November 2021 Paperback: $21.00 978-1-64283-247-1 Ebook: $20.99 978-1-61091-845-9 304 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade
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Toms River Dan Fagin Mary Beth Pfeiffer has been an investigative reporter for three decades and is the author of Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill (Carroll & Graf Publishers/Basic Books, 2007). Author’s residence: Stone Ridge, New York Seven Modern Plagues Mark Jerome Walters
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