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  • Ribbons of Green

    The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque

    by John Fleck, Robert P. Berrens ...
    Series series New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
    The first combined social and ecological look at how institutions in New Mexico intentionally built the Rio Grande Valley through the heart of Albuquerque to create “natural” corridors of green spaces in a modern American city.Dry one year, overflowing the next, the Rio Grande has sustained its arid valley for millennia. In Ribbons of Green, John Fleck and Robert P. Berrens seek to understand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Energy Use in Bitcoin Mining

    The Environmental Impact of Cryptocurrencies

    by Benjamin A. Jones, Andrew L. Goodkind, Robert P. Berrens ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
    This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining’s energy use and environmental impacts. Bitcoin, the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency, has ignited the world of decentralized finance and digital currencies. However, Bitcoin has a major problem: it uses massive amounts of energy to produce or ‘mine’ the coins, and this energy use has tremendous environmental consequences. By ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

    by John Soluri ...
    Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A City on a Lake

    Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

    by Matthew Vitz ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are

    How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures

    by PhD Maceo Carrillo Martinet ...
    **Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same.Global knowledge, personal stories, and natural science for repairing environmental harm, restoring biodiversity, and rekindling cultural-ecological bonds—for readers of The Serviceberry and Fresh ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

    A Global Ecological History

    by Gregory T. Cushman ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Green Republic

    A Conservation History of Costa Rica

    by Sterling Evans ...
    With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • No Rain in the Amazon

    How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet

    by Nikolas Kozloff ...
    Series series MacSci
    Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fate of the Forest

    Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon

    by Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn ...
    The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second Conquest of Latin America

    Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930

    Edited by Steven C. Topik, Allen Wells ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW

    Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California

    by Dionicio Nodín Valdés ...
    Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of those struggles, which were the era's longest and most protracted campaigns by agricultural workers, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD