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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.
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