Nature and Environment

4 NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

FALL/WINTER 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRES

December 2022, 32 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 4 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-104-2 Paper 978-1-64769-103-5 $7.95

ALSO OF INTEREST: Debunking Creation Myths about America's Public Lands John D. Leshy

eBook 978-1-60781-710-9 Paper 978-1-60781-659-1 $7.95

Water, Community, and the Culture of Owning Eric T. Freyfogle

eBook 978-1-60781-711-6 Paper 978-1-60781-632-4 $7.95

Eating Our Way through the Anthropocene

Jessica Fanzo

Food systems and climate change

Originally delivered as the Stegner Lecture at the 2020 annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, Jessica Fanzo here explores how, in the context of the broad global trends of population growth, climate crisis, and inequitable food availability, food systems need to be re-oriented to ensure they can produce enough food to nourish the world. This re-orientation includes moving toward onfarm sustainable food production practices, decreasing food loss and waste, addressing poverty by creating jobs and decent livelihoods, and providing safe, affordable, and healthy diets for everyone. At the same time, food systems must decrease the pressure on biodiversity loss, conserve land and water resources, minimize air and water pollution, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. This is a lot to ask of an entrenched system.

Food policy is central to changing systems, and bold policies must be applied to accelerate and incentivize economic, societal, and technological transformations towards a more socially just and sustainable global food system. But policy decisions come with synergies, trade-offs, and sometimes unexpected consequences. In a world of uncertainty, we must seek global solutions to human and planetary health.

Jessica Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics and vice dean of Faculty Affairs at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor-in-chief for Global Food Security and since 2017 has served on various advisory groups including the Food Systems Economic Commission, the Global Nutrition Report, the Global Panel of Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition Foresight 2.0 report, the UN High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Systems and Nutrition, and the EAT-Lancet Commission. She is the author of Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2021.

December 2022, 344 pp., 6 x 9 21 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-102-8 Hardcover 978-1-64769-100-4 $95.00s Paper 978-1-64769-101-1 $34.95

Contributors:

Shaul Bassi Abigail Benesh Brenda Bowen Nathaniel Broadhurst Robin Kundis Craig Taylor Cunningham Kathryn K. Davies Christopher Finlayson Jeremy B. C. Jackson Jeffrey M. McCarthy Steve Mentz Thomas Swensen Tierney Thys

Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean

Edited by Robin Kundis Craig and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy

A cutting-edge interdisciplinary examination of humanity’s changing relationship to the ocean

The world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical, social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures, changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience, melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding drama of climate change. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean’s precarious position in the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a positive change in public action to enhance the world’s resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors. These essays begin that crucial work of positively re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene.

This volume brings diverse perspectives to the planet’s ocean future. New essays are contextualized with narratives woven from earlier ocean writers, showing readers how past perceptions of the ocean have led us to where we are today in terms of both problems and potential new visions. In this one volume, readers experience both the history of humanity’s multi- and interdisciplinary interactions with the ocean, find new perspectives on that history, and discover ideas for looking forward.

Robin Kundis Craig is the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her research areas include climate change adaptation and ocean and coastal law. She has authored, coauthored, or edited twelve books, including The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene and Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change.

Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is director of the environmental humanities graduate program at the University of Utah and professor in the Honors College. He is the author of three books focusing on environmental literature: Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking; Green Modernism: Nature and the English Novel; and Conrad and Nature.

“The book makes a unique contribution in bringing together thinkers across a wide range of disciplines, from oceanography to law to literary criticism. There are a number of new voices contributing insights into ocean management, ocean protection, and ocean narrative.”

— Anastasia M. Telesetsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

“This collection is unique and innovative in coordinating the knowledge of scholars from the sciences and the humanities, as well as notably in highlighting the importance of a legal perspective. The writing is engaging and replete with pithy citations along with memorable, helpful details. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean is at once enjoyable, sobering, and thought-provoking.”