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Contents

Foreword Lawrence Buell

Acknowledgments

Introduction Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N.

Pellow

1. Agrarian Ecology Gary Paul Nabhan

2. Animal Stacy Alaimo

3. Anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Colin N.

Waters

4. Biodiversity Andy Dobson

5. Biomimicry Bryony Schwan

6. Biopolitics James J. Hughes

7. Bioregionalism Keith Pezzoli

8. Biosemiotics Timo Maran

9. Biosphere Tyler Volk

10. Built Environment William A. Gleason

11. Climate Change Andrew Ross

12. Conservation-Preservation William G. Moseley

13. Consumption Andrew Szasz

14. Cosmos Laura Dassow Walls

15. Culture Dianne Rocheleau and Padini Nirmal

16. Degradation Stephanie Foote

17. Democracy Sheila Jasanoff

18. Eco-Art Basia Irland

19. Ecocriticism Greg Garrard

20. Ecofascism Michael E. Zimmerman and Teresa A. Toulouse

21. Ecofeminism Greta Gaard

22. Ecology Reinmar Seidler and Kamaljit S. Bawa

23. Ecomedia Michael Ziser

24. Economy Robert Costanza

25. Ecopoetics Kate Rigby

26. Eco-terrorism David N. Pellow

27. Ecotourism Robert Melchior Figueroa

28. Education Mitchell Thomashow

29. Environment Vermonja R. Alston

30. Environmentalism(s) Joan Martinez-Alier

31. Environmental Justice Giovanna Di Chiro

32. Ethics Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

33. Ethnography Deborah Bird Rose

34. Evolution Dorion Sagan

35. Extinction Ursula K. Heise

36. Genome David E. Salt

37. Globalization Arthur P. J. Mol

38. Green Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry

39. Health Alissa Cordner, Phil Brown, and Rachel Morello-

Frosch

40. History Stefania Barca

41. Humanities Joni Adamson

42. Imperialism Ashley Dawson

43. Indigeneity Kyle Powys Whyte

44. Landscape Dorceta E. Taylor

45. Natural Disaster Priscilla Wald

46. Nature Noel Castree

47. Nature Writing Karla Armbruster

48. Pastoral Sarah Phillips Casteel

49. Place Wendy Harcourt

50. Political Ecology Mario Blaser and Arturo Escobar

51. Pollution Serenella Iovino

52. Queer Ecology Catriona Sandilands

53. Religion Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

54. Risk Society Robert J. Brulle

55. Scale Julie Sze

56. Species Quentin Wheeler

57. Sublime Patrick D. Murphy

58. Sustainability Julian Agyeman

59. Translation Carmen Flys-Junquera and Carmen Valero-

Garcés

60. Urban Ecology Nik Heynen

About the Contributors

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the

Department of English and Senior Sustainability Scholar in

the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute for Sustainability at

Arizona State University. She served as President of the

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

(ASLE) in 2012 and co-leads Humanities for the Environment,

an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seed-funded networking

project (hfe-observatories.org). She is the author of

American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism (2001)

and peer-reviewed articles and chapters on environmental

justice, food justice, global indigenous studies, and

cosmopolitics. She is coeditor of five collections,

including Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to

Cosmos (forthcoming), American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

(2013), and The Environmental Justice Reader (2002).

Julian Agyeman is a Professor in Urban and Environmental

Policy and Planning at Tufts University. His research

interests are in the complex and embedded relations between

humans and the environment and the effects of this on policy

and planning processes and outcomes in relation to notions

of justice and equity. His books include Just Sustainabilities:

Development in an Unequal World, Sustainable Communities and the

Challenge of Environmental Justice, and Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class,

and Sustainability.

Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English and Distinguished

Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

and Director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies

program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her

publications include Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as

Feminist Space (2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the

Material Self (2010), which won the Association for the Study of

Literature and Environment (ASLE) book award for

ecocriticism; and Material Feminisms (2008), which she

coedited. She has served on the MLA Division of Literature

and Science and the inaugural committee of the new MLA forum

for Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities. She is

currently editing the Matter for the Gender series of

Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, and is writing two

books: Protest and Pleasure: New Materialism, Environmental Activism and

Feminist Exposure and Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of

the Abyss.

Vermonja R. Alston is Associate Professor in the Departments

of English and Equity Studies at York University in Toronto.

She has published articles on environmental justice, poetry

and poetics, and cosmopolitanism in journals and edited

volumes. Dr. Alston has completed a manuscript on twentieth-

century African American and Caribbean cosmopolitanism. She

teaches postcolonial literary studies, ecocriticism,

indigenous literature of the Americas, and Caribbean poetry

and poetics.

Karla Armbruster is a Professor in the English Department at

Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. A past president

of the Association for the Study of Literature and the

Environment, she is coeditor of Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding

the Boundaries of Ecocriticism and The Bioregional Imagination: New

Perspectives on Literature, Ecology, and Place. Her current project is a

book of narrative criticism about the wildness of dogs in

literature, popular culture, and everyday life.

Stefania Barca is Senior Research Associate at the Center

for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

She is the author of Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a

Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916, winner of the Turku book prize

for 2011 (jointly awarded by the Rachel Carson Center for

Environment and Society [LMU Munich] and the European

Society for Environmental History).

Kamaljit S. Bawa is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at

the University of Massachusetts–Boston, and Founder-

President of the Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Research

in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). He has published

more than 190 scientific papers and ten authored or edited

books and monographs. He is a recipient of the Gunnerus

Prize in Sustainability Science. His latest book, Himalaya:

Mountains of Life, a sequel to Sahyadris: India’s Western Ghats, was

published in 2013.

Mario Blaser is the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal

Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the author

of Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond (2010), and

coeditor of Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: Insights for the Global Age

(2010) and In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and

the Environment (2004).

Phil Brown is University Distinguished Professor of

Sociology and Health Sciences and Director of the Social

Science Environmental Health Research Institute at

Northeastern University. He is the author of No Safe Place: Toxic

Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action and Toxic Exposures: Contested

Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement, and coeditor of Social

Movements in Health and Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health

Social Movements. He studies biomonitoring and household

exposure, social policy concerning flame retardants,

reporting back data to participants, and health social

movements.

Robert J. Brulle is a Professor of Sociology and

Environmental Science in the Department of Sociology at

Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His

research focuses on the U.S. environmental movement,

critical theory, and public participation in environmental

policy making. He is the author of over seventy articles in

these areas and of Agency, Democracy, and the Environment: The U.S.

Environmental Movement from the Perspective of Critical Theory, as well as

coeditor, with David Pellow, of Power, Justice, and the Environment

and coeditor, with Riley Dunlap, of Climate Change and Society. 

He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences in 2012.

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of

American Literature at Harvard. His books include The

Environmental Imagination (1995), Writing for an Endangered World

(2001), and The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005). He has held

fellowships from the Mellon and Guggenheim foundations and

the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 he

received the Modern Language Association’s Jay Hubbell Award

for lifetime contributions to American literature

scholarship.

Sarah Phillips Casteel is an Associate Professor of English

at Carleton University. She is the author of Second Arrivals:

Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas (2007)

and the coeditor with Winfried Siemerling of Canada and Its

Americas: Transnational Navigations (2010).

Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at the University of

Wollongong, Australia, and the University of Manchester,

England. Among other things, he is interested in the

construction, circulation, and reception of ideas about

“nature.” He is author, most recently, of Making Sense of

Nature: Representation, Politics, and Democracy (2014).

Alissa Cordner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at

Whitman College. Her research focuses on environmental

sociology, risks and disasters, environmental health and

justice, and public engagement in science and policy making.

Her book Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and

Environmental Health will be published in 2016.

Robert Costanza is Professor and Chair in Public Policy at

the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National

University. His transdisciplinary research integrates the

study of humans with the study of the rest of nature to

address research, policy, and management issues at multiple

time and space scales, from small watersheds to the global

system. He is cofounder of the International Society for

Ecological Economics and founding editor-in-chief of Solutions

(www.thesolutionsjournal.org).

Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate

Center. He is the author of the Routledge Concise History of

Twentieth-Century British Literature (forthcoming) and Mongrel Nation:

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (2007), and

coeditor of three essay collections: Democracy, the State, and the

Struggle for Global Justice (2009); Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom

and the National Security Campus (2009); and Exceptional State:

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (2007).

Giovanna Di Chiro is the Lang Professor for Issues of Social

Change at Swarthmore College, and Policy Advisor for

Environmental Justice at Nuestras Raíces, Inc. She has

published widely on the intersections of environmental

science and policy, with a focus on social and economic

disparities and human rights. She is coeditor of the volume

Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and is

completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and

Environmental Justice. Di Chiro’s research, teaching, and

activism focus on community-based approaches to

sustainability and the intersections of social justice and

sustainability.

Andy Dobson is an ecologist whose interests are focused on

the role that parasites and infectious diseases play in

natural ecosystems. His work uses a mixture of mathematical

models, long-term field work, and collaborations with

parasitologists and wildlife veterinarians; the principle

research sites are Serengeti National Park in Tanzania,

Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, the coastal salt

marshes of California, and the high Canadian Arctic.

Arturo Escobar is Professor of Anthropology at the

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. His main interests

are political ecology, design, and the anthropology of

development, social movements, and science and technology.

Over the past twenty years, he has worked closely with

several Afro-Colombian social movements in the Colombian

Pacific. His main books are Encountering Development: The Making

and Unmaking of the Third World (2nd ed. 2011) and Territories of

Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (2008).

Robert Melchior Figueroa is Associate Professor in the

School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State

University and Director of the Environmental Justice Project

for the Center for Environmental Philosophy. He is coeditor,

with Sandra Harding, of Science and Other Cultures: Issues in

Philosophies of Science and Technology (2003) and editor of

“Ecotourism and Environmental Justice,” a special issue of

Environmental Philosophy (2010). He collaborates on the Uluru

Project (Australia) and on the Mesa Verde Project (United

States), both on tourism and cultural-political

reconciliation through environmental heritage.

Stephanie Foote is Professor of English and Gender and

Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. In addition to numerous essays, she is the author

of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American

Literature (2001) and The Parvenu’s Plot (2014), with Elizabeth

Mazzolini; the editor of Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material

Cultures, Social Justice (2012); and, with Stephanie LeMenager, the

editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.

Greta Gaard is Professor of English and Coordinator of the

Sustainability Program at the University of Wisconsin–River

Falls. Her work emerges from the intersections of feminism,

environmental justice, queer studies, and critical animal

studies, exploring a wide range of issues, including

interspecies justice, material perspectives on fireworks and

space exploration, postcolonial ecofeminism, and the eco-

politics of climate change. She author or editor of five

books and over fifty refereed articles, and her most recent

volume is International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013),

coedited with Simon Estok and Serpil Oppermann. She is

currently at work on a manuscript titled “Critical

Ecofeminism,” and her creative nonfiction eco-memoir, The

Nature of Home (2007), is being translated into Chinese and

Portuguese.

Greg Garrard is Sustainability Professor at the University

of British Columbia. A founding member and former Chair of

the Association for the Study of Literature and the

Environment (UK and Ireland), he is the author of Ecocriticism

(2004, 2011 2nd ed.) and numerous essays on eco-pedagogy,

animal studies, and environmental criticism. He has recently

edited The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (2014) and become

coeditor of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.

William A. Gleason is Professor and Chair of English at

Princeton University, where he is also affiliated with the

Program in American Studies, the Center for African American

Studies, the Program in Urban Studies, and the Princeton

Environmental Institute. He is the author of The Leisure Ethic:

Work and Play in American Literature, 1840–1940 (1999) and Sites Unseen:

Architecture, Race, and American Literature (2011), a runner-up for

the 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize in American

Studies.

John Grim is currently a Senior Lecturer and Research

Scholar at Yale University and Environmental Ethicist-in-

Residence at Yale’s Center for Bioethics. With Mary Evelyn

Tucker, he codirect Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology, a

project arising from a series of conferences held from 1996

to 1998 at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World

Religions. Grim is the author of The Shaman (1983) and an

edited volume, Indigenous Traditions and Ecology (2001). With Mary

Evelyn Tucker, he has coedited Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate

Change? (2001) and a volume of Thomas Berry’s essays, The

Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (2009).

Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical

Development and Feminist Studies at the International

Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University

Rotterdam. She joined ISS/EUR in 2011, after twenty years at

the Society for International Development in Rome, as Editor

of Development and Director of Programmes. Her most recent

edited collections are Practicing Feminist Political Ecology: Beyond the

Green Economy (2015) and OUP Handbook on Transnational Feminist

Movements (2015). Her monograph Body Politics in Development: Critical

Debates in Gender and Development (2009) received the 2010 FWSA

Book Prize.

Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia Howard Professor of

Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and at

the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.

She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and served as President of

the Association for the Study of Literature and the

Environment the same year. Her books include Chronoschisms:

Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism (1997), Sense of Place and Sense of

Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (2008), and Nach der

Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur (After Nature: Species

Extinction and Modern Culture, 2010). She is editor of the

book series Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment with Palgrave-

Macmillan and coeditor of the series Literature and Contemporary

Thought with Routledge. Her book Imagining Extinction: The Cultural

Meanings of Endangered Species will appear in 2016.

Nik Heynen is a Professor in the Department of Geography at

the University of Georgia. His research interests include

urban political ecology and social movement theory with

specific interests in environmental and food politics. His

main research foci relate to the analysis of how social

power relations, including class, race, and gender, are

inscribed in the transformation of nature/space, and how in

turn these processes contribute to interrelated connections

among nature, space, and vulnerable populations.

James J. Hughes is a bioethicist and sociologist at Trinity

College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he teaches health

policy and serves as Director of Institutional Research and

Planning. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute

for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Hughes is author

of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned

Human of the Future and is working on a second book tentatively

titled “Cyborg Buddha.”

Serenella Iovino is Professor of Ethics at the University of

Turin, Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt

Foundation, and past President of the European Association

for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment

(EASLCE). She has written extensively on ecocriticism,

environmental philosophy, and German philosophical

literature of the Age of Goethe. You can find more

information about her work at

http://unito.academia.edu/serenellaiovino.

Basia Irland, author, poet, sculptor, installation artist,

and activist, creates international water projects featured

in her book, Water Library. She works with scholars from

diverse disciplines restoring riparian zones; filming and

producing water documentaries; connecting communities along

the lengths of rivers; building rainwater harvesting

systems; and creating global waterborne disease projects.

She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Art and Art

History at the University of New Mexico, where she

established the Arts and Ecology Program.

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and

Technology Studies at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy

School of Government. Her research centers on the role of

science and technology in democratic governance, with

particular focus on the use of science in legal and

political decision making. Her books include The Fifth Branch:

Science Advisers as Policymakers, Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and

Technology in America, and Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in

Europe and the U.S.

Carmen Flys-Junquera is an Associate Professor of American

Literature at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. She

founded and coordinates Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica

(GIECO) and was President of the European Association for

the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment from 2010

to 2012. She is the General Editor of Ecozon@: European Journal

of Literature, Culture, and Environment. Her research is focused on

ecocriticism, ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sense

of place, mostly in American contemporary ethnic literature

as well as contemporary Spanish literature.

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore

Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature

and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of

Oregon. Her latest book, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American

Century, was published by Oxford University Press. She is

coeditor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.

Timo Maran is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of

Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His

publications include Mimikri semiootika (Semiotics of Mimicry,

2008), Readings in Zoosemiotics (coedited with D. Martinelli and

A. Turovski, 2011), Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull

on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (coedited with K. Lindström, R.

Magnus, and M. Toennessen 2012).

Joan Martinez-Alier is Emeritus Professor at ICTA,

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and at FLACSO, Ecuador;

author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment, and Society (1987)

and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and

Valuation (2002); coeditor of Ecological Economics from the Ground Up

(2012); past President of the International Society for

Ecological Economics; and Director of the EJOLT project

(Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities, and

Trade), 2011 to 2015.

Arthur P. J. Mol is Rector Magnificus and Vice-Chairman of

the Board of Wageningen University and Research, the

Netherlands; Professor of Environmental Policy at Wageningen

University; joint editor of the journal Environmental Politics;

and editor of the book series New Horizons in Environmental Politics.

He has published extensively on environmental social theory,

environmental politics and policy, globalization, the

information age, and China's struggles to cope with

environmental challenges.

Rachel Morello-Frosch is Professor in the Department of

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and the School

of Public Health at the University of California–

Berkeley. Her scientific work examines the combined,

synergistic effects of social and environmental factors in

environmental health disparities. She also studies the ways

in which health social movements (re)shape scientific

thinking about environmental health issues. She is coauthor

of the book Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social

Movements.

William G. Moseley is a Professor of Geography at Macalester

College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His books include four

editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues (2004, 2006,

2008, 2011), Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in

Africa (2008), The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary

Debates and Classic Writings (2007), and African Environment and

Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities (2004).

Patrick D. Murphy is Professor and Chair of the Department

of English at the University of Central Florida. He has

authored Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies (2009),

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature (2000), A Place for

Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder (2000), and Literature,

Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques (1995). He teaches critical

theory, modern and contemporary American literature,

comparative literature, ecocriticism, and ecofeminism.

Gary Paul Nabhan is the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable

Food Systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center.

A conservation biologist, ethnobotanist, and agroecologist,

he worked at the first Earth Day headquarters in 1970. He

has served on the boards of the Society for Conservation

Biology, the U.S. National Park System, Wild Farm Alliance,

and Seed Savers Exchange. Cofounder of Native Seeds/SEARCH

and a MacArthur Fellow, he was a pioneer in the food

relocalization movement and the global initiative to save

heirloom seeds. He farms in Patagonia Arizona.

Padini Nirmal is a doctoral student at Clark University. Her

doctoral research focuses on the dispossession of indigenous

peoples by the development-capitalism-modernity complex and

the resistance movements that emerge at its juncture in

Kerala, India. Broadly, her research interests lie within

political ecology, feminism, and critical development

studies.

David N. Pellow is Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies

and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at

the University of California–Santa Barbara. His teaching and

research focus on environmental and ecological justice in

the United States and globally. He has served on the Boards

of Directors for the Center for Urban Transformation,

Greenpeace USA, and International Rivers.

Keith Pezzoli is Director of the Urban Studies and Planning

Program, and a Professor of Teaching in the Communications

Department at the University of California–San Diego. He

teaches courses on Community-Based Action Research, food

justice, environmental movements, and globalization.

Pezzoli’s research and publications examine science and

technology, and human-nature relations in the development of

cities and regions, including a book, Human Settlements and

Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City (2000).

Kate Rigby is Professor of English and Comparative

Literature at Monash University. Among her publications in

the area of literature and environment are Topographies of the

Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004) and Ecocritical

Theory: New European Approaches (2011). Rigby is a Fellow of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities and was the founding

President of the Association for the Study of Literature,

Environment, and Culture (Australia–New Zealand).

Dianne Rocheleau is a Professor of Geography at Clark

University. She is a feminist political ecologist who has

worked on emergent ecologies including humans and other

beings, and their artifacts, technologies, and territories.

She has studied with, for, and about social movements and

rural people’s ecologies of resistance in farmlands,

forests, and regional agroforests in the Dominican Republic,

Kenya, Mexico, and the United States. She has coauthored and

coedited four books: Feminist Political Ecology, (1996); Gender,

Environment, and Development in Kenya; Power, Process, and Participation:

Tools for Change (1995); and Agroforestry in Dryland Africa (1988). She

is also coeditor with Arturo Escobar of the Duke Press

Series New Ecologies for the 21st Century.

Deborah Bird Rose is Professor of Social Inclusion at

Macquarie University and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at

the University of New South Wales (Sydney). Her research

focuses on how we humans include and exclude other members

of the family of life on Earth in this era of extinctions,

and her most recent book is Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction

(2011).

Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis

at New York University. A contributor to the Nation, Village

Voice, New York Times, and Artforum, he is the author of many

books, including Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable

City, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, Fast Boat

to China: Lessons from Shanghai, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its

Hidden Costs, and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of

Property Value in Disney’s New Town. His most recent book is

Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal.

Dorion Sagan’s interests include philosophy, science, and

literature. He is sole or coauthor of twenty-nine books

translated into thirteen languages. His most recent works

include Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel, Cosmic

Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science, Biospheres: Metamorphosis

on Planet Earth, and The Sciences of Avatar.

David E. Salt is interested in understanding the molecular

mechanisms that control how plants acquire the mineral

nutrients they require from the soil, along with the

evolutionary forces that shape these mechanisms. Professor

Salt has held faculty positions in the United States at

Rutgers University, Northern Arizona University, and Purdue

University, and is currently a Sixth Century Chair at the

University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. He has

published over 110 peer-reviewed papers, which have over

seven thousand citations. These include papers published in

such journals as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences, Plant Cell, and PLoS Genetics.

Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is Professor in the Faculty of

Environmental Studies at York University, where she teaches

and writes at the intersections of environmental literatures

and histories, social and political theory, and feminist and

queer studies. She is the author of over sixty chapters and

articles, and recently the coeditor of Queer Ecologies: Sex,

Nature, Politics, Desire (2010) and Green Words, Green Worlds:

Environmental Literatures and Politics (forthcoming).

Bryony Schwan is the cofounder of the Biomimicry 3.8

Institute and served as the founding Executive Director for

eight years. Prior to that, Schwan worked for eleven years

as the Executive Director and then as the National Campaigns

Director for Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), a nonprofit

environmental justice organization that she founded in 1995.

She is an affiliate faculty member at the University of

Montana, where she teaches in the Environmental Studies

program.

Reinmar Seidler is Research Assistant Professor in

Environmental Biology at the University of Massachusetts–

Boston, where he teaches evolutionary biology, conservation

biology, and sustainability science. He has published widely

on aspects of environmental management, with a particular

focus on South Asia. Most recently, he edited and coauthored

P. S. Ashton’s On the Forests of Tropical Asia, a comprehensive study

of the ecology, biogeography, evolutionary history, and

human history of Asian tropical forests (2015). With K. S.

Bawa, he is currently preparing a volume of essays on the

past, present, and future of climate change in the

Himalayas.

Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the

University of California–Santa Barbara. She is the author of

Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (2015) and is

coeditor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (2011).

Andrew Szasz has written books and articles on the toxics

movement, green consuming, environmental regulation, and

environmental justice. Szasz is currently Professor and

Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the

University of California–Santa Cruz. He teaches courses on

Environmental Justice, Sociology of Climate Change, and

Sociological Theory.

Julie Sze is a Professor at the University of California–

Davis and the founding director of the Environmental Justice

Project for the John Muir Institute for the Environment.

Sze’s research investigates environmental justice and

inequality; culture and environment; race, gender, and

power; and urban/community health and activism. Sze’s book,

Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental

Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Prize. She has

authored and coauthored thirty peer-reviewed articles and

book chapters and is the author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams

and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (2015).

Dorceta E. Taylor is James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor

at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources

and Environment, where she is the Coordinator of the

Environmental Justice Field of Studies. She also holds a

joint appointment with the Program in the Environment. She

is a past Chair of the American Sociological Association’s

Environment and Technology Section. Professor Taylor

received doctorates in Sociology and Forestry &

Environmental Studies from Yale University in 1991. She is

the author of The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s–

1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change (2009) and Toxic

Communities:  Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential

Mobility (2014).

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of

Modern Judaism and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies

at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She is the

author of Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Knowledge, Virtue, and Well-

Being (2003) and the editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and

Revealed Word (2002), The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the

Phenomenon of Life (2008), and Building Perfect Humans? Refocusing the

Debate on Transhumanism (2012).

Mitchell Thomashow is Director of the Second Nature

Presidential Fellows Program, designed to assist the

executive leadership of colleges and universities in

promoting a comprehensive sustainability agenda on their

campuses. Previously (2006–2011), he was the President of

Unity College in Maine. He is the author of Ecological Identity:

Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (1995) and Bringing the Biosphere

Home (2001). The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus (2014)

provides a framework for advancing sustainable living and

teaching in a variety of campus environments.

Teresa A. Toulouse is Professor of English at the University

of Colorado–Boulder. She is the author of The Art of Prophesying:

New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief; The Captive’s Position: Female

Captivity, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England; and the

coeditor, with Andrew Delbanco, of volume 2 of The Complete

Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson. As Director of American Studies

at Tulane University, she taught and continues to teach

courses on American literature and the environment.

Mary Evelyn Tucker is currently a Senior Lecturer and

Research Scholar at Yale University and an Environmental

Ethicist-in-Residence at Yale’s Center for Bioethics. With

John Grim, she codirects Yale’s Forum on Religion and

Ecology, a project arising from a series of conferences held

from 1996 to 1998 at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World

Religions. Tucker is author and coeditor of many books,

including Confucianism and Ecology (1998), Confucian Spirituality

(2003), and The Philosophy of Qi (2007). With Brian Swimme, she

created a multimedia project titled Journey of the Universe

(2011). With John Grim, she has coedited Religion and Ecology:

Can the Climate Change? (2001) and a volume of Thomas Berry’s

essays, The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (2009).

Carmen Valero-Garcés is a Full Professor of Translation and

Interpreting at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, and

member of Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica (GIECO). She

studies the relationships among ecocriticism, environmental

studies, and translation. She is the guest editor of a

special issue of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and

Environment 5, no. 1 (2014), titled “Translating the

Environmental Humanities.”

Tyler Volk is Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies

at New York University. For more than twenty years, his

research has focused on the global carbon cycle, the

dynamics of the biosphere, and systems at all scales. Volk’s

books include CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge;

Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth; and Metapatterns across Space,

Time, and Mind.

Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Chair of the

Program in Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the

author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

(1995) and Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

(2008). She is currently at work on a book entitled “Human

Being after Genocide,” which explores the convergence of

science and politics in the production of new creation

stories about humanity following the Second World War.

Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White

Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the

author of The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping

of America (2009), Emerson’s Life in Science (2003), and Seeing New

Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science (1995),

as well as numerous essays; and the coeditor of several

volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism.

Colin N. Waters is a geologist with twenty-seven years’

experience working at the British Geological Survey, with

particular interest in Carboniferous and Anthropocene

stratigraphy. He is Secretary of the Geological Society

Stratigraphy Commission and Anthropocene Working Group.

Relevant publications include Zalasiewicz et al., “Are We

Living in the Anthropocene?” GSA Today 18, no. 2 (2008): 4–8;

and Zalasiewicz et al., “Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene,”

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369 (2011): 1036–55. He

is Senior Editor of “A Stratigraphical Basis for the

Anthropocene,” Geological Society, London, Special

Publications 395 (2014).

Quentin Wheeler is the fourth President of ESF, the College

of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New

York, and is Founding Director of the International

Institute for Species Exploration. He was previously

Professor of taxonomy at Cornell University, Director of the

division of environmental biology at the National Science

Foundation, Keeper and Head of Entomology in the Natural

History Museum, London, and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of

Natural History and the Environment, Vice-President, and

Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona

State University. He writes a weekly column on new species

for London’s Observer newspaper. His most recent book is What

on Earth? (2013).

Mark Williams is a geologist with a particular interest in

the reconstruction of ancient climate. One area of his

research has focused on the climate of the Pliocene world,

some three million years ago, when CO2 levels were similar

to their levels in the present. Williams is a former

geologist with the British Geological Survey and British

Antarctic Survey, and his geological expertise has taken him

from the Cambrian to the Anthropocene, and from the tropics

to the Antarctic. He teaches palaeoclimates and

micropalaeontology at the University of Leicester in the

United Kingdom.

Kyle Powys Whyte is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at

Michigan State University. He is an enrolled member of the

Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a federally recognized tribe in

Oklahoma. Kyle’s most recent research addresses moral and

political issues concerning climate change impacts on

indigenous peoples.

Jan Zalasiewicz is a field geologist, stratigrapher, and

palaeontologist formerly with the British Geological Survey

and now at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His

research covers geological processes and environmental

change from the Precambrian to the present day, with

particular interests in the early Palaeozoic and the late

Cenozoic, and in present-day and future geological change.

He currently chairs the Anthropocene Working Group of the

International Commission on Stratigraphy. He has written the

books The Earth after Us (2008), The Planet in a Pebble (2010), and,

with Mark Williams, The Goldilocks Planet (2012) and Ocean Worlds

(2014).

Michael E. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Eclipse

of the Self: The Development of Heidegger’s Concept of Authenticity;

Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity; Contesting Earth’s Future; Integral

Ecology (coauthored with Sean Esbjorn-Hargens); and more than

one hundred articles and chapters.

Michael Ziser is the author of Environmental Practice and Early

American Literature (2013) and Associate Professor of English at

the University of California–Davis, where he codirects the

Environments and Societies Research Initiative.