Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

Environmental Studies · Sustainable Development
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Driven Wild
How the Fight against
Automobiles Launched the
Modern Wilderness Movement
Paul S. Sutter
Foreword by William Cronon
Driven Wild traces the roots of the modern wilderness
movement from 1910 through the 1930s.
Sutter shows how advocacy for wilderness preservation
was spurred by a fear of what automobiles,
aggressive road building, and the dramatic increase
in Americans turning to nature for leisure would do to
the country’s wild places.
Sutter argues that the birth of the movement to protect
wilderness areas reflected a growing belief that
capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumerism
were eroding both American ecology and
values. Wilderness stood for something deeply
sacred that was in danger of being lost, and the
movement to protect it was about saving not only
nature, but ourselves as well.
Paul S. Sutter is Assistant Professor of History, University
of Georgia.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
April
360 pages, 6 x 9’, illus.
ISBN 0-295-98219-5
hardcover, $58.95 CRO
Crater Lake National Park
A History
Rick Harmon
The first comprehensive history of Oregon’s Crater
Lake National Park, this book celebrates its 100th
anniversary. Among the many illustrations is a series
of historical images from rare hand-tinted lantern
slides. This book is also the first to consider the relationship
of the area’s Native American people to
Crater Lake and the Mount Mazama region, traditionally
regarded as a sacred place.
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
April
288 pages, 6 x 9”
colour and b/w illustrations
ISBN 0-87071-537-2
paper, $33.95 CRO
Willamette River Basin Atlas
Trajectories of Environmental and
Ecological Change
The Pacific Northwest Ecosystem
Research Consortium
Using colour maps, photographs, graphs, and other
illustrations, the Willamette River Basin Atlas presents
a wide array of information, which provides a
long-term, large-scale view of changes in human and
natural systems within the Basin.
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
May
192 pages, 11 x 17”
275 colour photos, maps, tables, graphs
ISBN 0-87071-542-9
spiral bound, $83.95 CRO
The Ice Chronicles
The Quest to Understand Global
Climate Change
Paul Andrew Mayewski and Frank White
Foreword by Lynn Margulis
These amazing frozen records, collected by the
members of the National Science Foundation’s
Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two, document
100,000 years of climate history, showing major
environmental events such as volcanoes and forest
fires. They also reveal the dramatic influence humans
have had on the chemistry of the atmosphere and
climate change through substantial additions of
greenhouse gases, acid rain, and stratospheric
ozone depletion. Perhaps most startling is the discovery
that Earth’s natural climate changes
dramatically every few thousand years, often within
the span of a decade. Throughout the book the
adventure of collecting the “Ice Chronicles” is vividly
portrayed.
Paul A. Mayewski is Co-Director of the Institute for
Quaternary and Climate Studies, University of Maine, Orono.
Frank White is the author of The Overview Effect and The
SETI Factor.
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
March
224 pages, 6 x 9”
32 illustrations, 52 figures
ISBN 1-58465-061-3
hardcover, $39.95 CRO
The Lessening Stream
An Environmental History of the
Santa Cruz River
Michael F. Logan
The Lessening Stream reviews the changing human
use of Arizona’s Santa Cruz River and its aquifer
from the earliest human presence in the valley to
today.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
April
300 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISBN 0-8165-1586-7
hardcover, $58.95 CRO
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