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74 Environment & Nature Water 4.0 The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource David L. Sedlak Turn on the tap, and water pours out. Pull out the plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away, but these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, explains this book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing Water 1.0, the early Roman aqueducts, fountains and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the development of drinking water and sewage treatment systems – the second and third revolutions in urban water. He offers an insider’s look at current systems that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, treatment plants and storm sewers to provide water that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential reading. David L. Sedlak is the Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. February 288 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17649-0 £20.00* The Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World William Nordhaus Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics and politics involved – and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using accessible language and taking care to present different points of view, he discusses the problem from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. William Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is author of the award-winning A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, published by Yale. November 320 pp. 210x140mm. 46 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18977-3 £20.00* The Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future Paul Sabin In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine – with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered that human welfare would flourish thanks to flexible markets, technological change and our collective ingenuity. The Bet weaves the two men’s lives and ideas together with the era’s partisan political clashes over the environment and the role of government. In a lively narrative leading from the dawning environmentalism of the 1960s through the pivotal presidential contest between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and on into the 1990s, Paul Sabin shows how the fight between Ehrlich and Simon – between environmental fears and free-market confidence – helped create the gulf separating environmentalists and their critics today. Paul Sabin is associate professor, Department of History, Yale University. He was founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program, a national nonprofit organisation. September 320 pp. 210x140mm. 24 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17648-3 £18.99* Translation rights: McCormick & Williams, New York
Environment & Nature 75 All the Trees of the Forest Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present Alon Tal In this insightful and provocative book, Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands and ecosystems. Tal’s description of Israel’s trials and errors, and his exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country’s forests, will provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands. ‘Alon Tal is a wonderfully engaging writer, and he has crafted a narrative that will have considerable crossover appeal.’ – Char Miller, Pomona College ‘The book is exceptional in scope and depth – I know of nothing like it.’ – Gretchen Daily, Stanford University Alon Tal is professor of environmental policy at Ben Gurion University and founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Yale Agrarian Studies Series November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 35 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18950-6 £40.00 No Hebrew rights The Future of Nature Documents of Global Change Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability, it shows how 21st century predictors should think about what forecasting the future means from a fully global perspective. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices. Libby Robin is professor of environmental history in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University and a Senior Research Fellow in the National Museum of Australia Research Centre. Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Paul Warde is a reader in environmental and economic history at the University of East Anglia, an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and associate research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge. November 512 pp. 234x156mm. 44 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18461-7 £20.00 Birds of New Zealand A Photographic Guide Paul Scofield Photography by Brent Stephenson New Zealand’s birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, but thanks to recent conservation efforts, many of the country’s species of birds are now protected in parks and island sanctuaries. Illustrated with nearly a thousand new photographs from one of New Zealand’s top nature photographers and drawing on the latest information from birders and biologists, Birds of New Zealand offers a definitive introduction to the identification and behaviour of the country’s extraordinary avian life. The book includes expert and up-to-date information on the 345 bird species found in New Zealand, including species ranging from albatrosses and shearwaters to kiwi and kaka. It will be a valuable addition to the existing literature on birding. Paul Scofield is Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. October 500 pp. 234x156mm. 1000 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19682-5 £30.00* Not for sale in Australia or New Zealand Translation rights: Auckland University Press, New Zealand Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences Edited by Dawn Langan Teele In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist that these methods carry inherent inconsistencies, limitations or ethical dilemmas that observational approaches do not. This unique collection of essays by the most influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and will provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines. ‘An excellent book on a subject that lies at the center of current methodological debates in the social sciences. The volume brings together many of the leading protagonists and antagonists (i.e., skeptics) of the experimental method and in the process illustrates the strengths, and the limitations, of this powerful method. Astute and readable. Highly recommended.’ – John Gerring, author of Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework Dawn Langan Teele is a graduate student at Yale University. February 272 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-16940-9 £14.99*
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