Dear GEP-ED, I am writing to share the announcement of our new book with Cambridge University Press:
Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research: Legacy readings with commentaries News about our interactions with the environment hits us daily, from zoonotic disease pandemics to flood damage due to climate change to deforestation driving species extinctions. It’s always topical, it always seems new, and in scale it often is. Never before has a pandemic spread this far or this fast. Never before have our actions increased temperatures this much. However, the interactions between people and their environments are not new but have long precedents. Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research tracks the history of research about socio-environmental interdependence via 53 foundational readings--spanning centuries, continents and disciplines. Intended as a canonical reference volume, the assembled readings with critical commentaries from leading experts showcase key ideas about socio-environmental change, and in the concluding chapter we link those ideas to the wide diversity of current approaches to socio-environmental scholarship. For research teams, our book can serve as a springboard for advancing collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. As a resource in the classroom, the legacy readings with commentaries provide instructors and students with a landscape view of the past and present of socio-environmental research. Edited by: William R. Burnside Simone Pulver, University of California, Santa Barbara Kathryn J. Fiorella, Cornell University Meghan L. Avolio, Johns Hopkins University Steven M. Alexander, University of Waterloo Contributors: Richard York, Emilio F. Moran, Richard B. Norgaard, Patricia Balvanera, J. Baird Callicott and Marina Fischer-Kowalski Cambridge University Press, 2023 Table of Contents Introduction. Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research. Simone Pulver, William R. Burnside, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Meghan L. Avolio, and Steven M. Alexander Part I. Early Classics of Socio-Environmental Research. Commentary. Richard York Part II. The Roots of Socio-Environmental Research in Geography and Anthropology. Commentary. Emilio J. Moran Part III. Socio-Environmental Research in Economics, Sociology, and Political Science. Commentary. Richard B. Norgaard Part IV. Socio-Environmental Research in Ecology. Commentary. Patricia Balvanera Part V. Ethical, Religious and Historical Approaches to Socio-Environmental Research. Commentary. J. Baird Callicott Part VI. Technology, Energy, Materials, and Socio-Environmental Research. Commentary. Marina Fischer-Kowalski Conclusion. Looking Forward: Legacy Readings and Contemporary Socio-Environmental Research. William R. Burnside, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Meghan L. Avolio, Steven M. Alexander, and Simone Pulver URL: www.cambridge.org/9781009177849 ____________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Simone Pulver Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Director, Environmental Leadership Incubator University of California at Santa Barbara Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research (Cambridge University Press) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/6D41FB3B-36BB-4F89-B6C5-5D353104D5E9%40ucsb.edu.
