History for a Sustainable Future
History for a Sustainable Future means to publish short, peer-reviewed monographs that provide valuable historical context that illuminates the nature of the current landscape of environmental problems, innovations, decisions, and futures before us. The series takes as its primary mission the dissemination of accessible historical information and resources for scholars and teachers, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens. The driving theme behind this series involves making environmental history more relevant to 21st century concerns about the environment.
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The Green Power of Socialism
Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
ISBN: 9780262547451
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 20, 2024
How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society.
Monsoon Economies
India's History in a Changing Climate
ISBN: 9780262543583
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 12, 2022
How interventions to mitigate climate-caused poverty and inequality in India came at a cost to environmental sustainability.
The Contamination of the Earth
A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
ISBN: 9780262542739
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 16, 2021
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.
Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age
Histories of Longing and Belonging
ISBN: 9780262537810
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.
The Greenest Nation?
A New History of German Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780262534697
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
ISBN: 9780262534703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
Plantations and Protected Areas
A Global History of Forest Management
ISBN: 9780262029933
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 4, 2015
How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.
The Arid Lands
History, Power, Knowledge
ISBN: 9780262034524
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2016
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.
The Green Power of Socialism
Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
ISBN: 9780262547451
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 20, 2024
How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society.
Monsoon Economies
India's History in a Changing Climate
ISBN: 9780262543583
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 12, 2022
How interventions to mitigate climate-caused poverty and inequality in India came at a cost to environmental sustainability.
The Contamination of the Earth
A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
ISBN: 9780262542739
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 16, 2021
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.
Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age
Histories of Longing and Belonging
ISBN: 9780262537810
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.
The Greenest Nation?
A New History of German Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780262534697
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
ISBN: 9780262534703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
Plantations and Protected Areas
A Global History of Forest Management
ISBN: 9780262029933
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 4, 2015
How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.
The Arid Lands
History, Power, Knowledge
ISBN: 9780262034524
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2016
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.