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Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

“This book provides a unique, cogent, engaging account of environmental determinism that has long been much needed in the classroom and beyond.”-- Andrew Sluyter, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, USA This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise an...

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and...

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“This book provides a unique, cogent, engaging account of environmental determinism that has long been much needed in the classroom and beyond.”-- Andrew Sluyter, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, USA This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise an...

This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns ¿ patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them ¿ development of weather science where appropriate.

An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds.

An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds.

This book describes what changes human activities have produced in the global environment from 300 years ago to the present day. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative inventory of human impact in its varied forms on the land, oceans, atmosphere and climate ranging from long-standing alterations to new and surprising ones that have emerged in recent years from environmental disasters to false alarms to success stories of environmental man...

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, an...