2019 Columbia University Press Earth and Climate Sciences Catalog

Ea r t h & C l i ma t e S c ien c es 2019

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New and Forthcoming Hot Carbon

Drought

Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

John F. Marra

“This is an engaging and witty account of the discovery of carbon-14—there are— surprising twists and turns along the way.

With its entertaining descriptions of carbon-14’s role in understanding fundamental life processes, dating archaeological specimens, and chronicling past climate, this book is a page-turner for anyone interested in the history of scientific discovery.”

-James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological

Benjamin I. Cook

Drought is one of the many problems anthropogenic climate change may exacerbate, but it is also a complex phenomenon at the intersection of a range of scientific disciplines and public-policy issues. In this innovative text, Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17689-7

Oceanography, Harvard University

$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-17688-0

$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18670-4

April 2019 256 pages 57 illus.

June 2019 288 pages 45 illus.

The Universe as It Really Is Earth, Space, Matter, and Time Thomas R. Scott With the assistance of James Lawrence Powell

“This excellent, accessible guide from Scott . . . allows readers to acquaint themselves with the basic facts, history, and key figures of multiple physical sciences in a single volume. Scott presents a wide range of scientific fact and history in a way that will delight and inform readers."-Publishers Weekly

Vanishing Ice Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas Vivien Gornitz

“Anyone who wants a better understanding of the different parts of the cryosphere, the detailed consequences of melting ice and this aspect of climate change will find this book an invaluable resource."-Suzanne B.

O'Connell, professor of earth and environmental sciences, Wesleyan University $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-16824-3 June 2019 320 pages 55 illus.

$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18494-6

Renewable Energy

2018 368 pages 38 illus.

A Primer for the Twenty-First Century

The Fall of the Wild Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation Ben A. Minteer

“What to do—and not to do—about the biodiversity crisis that we ourselves are engineering? In The Fall of the Wild, Ben Minteer takes us through the options. His assessment of the situation is balanced, clear-sighted, and humane."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History $28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-17778-8 2018 192 pages / 25 illus.

Bruce Usher

“There’s a lot of talk about renewable energy these days. But few really understand it—the basic science, the limits, and the great promise it holds.

Read Bruce Usher’s Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century to better understand the great technological and economic revolution of this

century."-Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University, and coauthor of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18785-5 $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18784-8 January 2019 224 pages 34 illus.

Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers

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The Green Marble

Second edition

David P. Turner

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon

“This text should have great appeal for teaching an introductory undergraduate course on climate change science as well as a broad survey for graduate students."

—Lonnie G. Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, in the School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University

“A superb textbook, easily one of the best currently available. Very few texts are written as thoughtfully as this one. Mathez and Smerdon hit a home run!”—Scott Mandia, cofounder and chairman, Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

$50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-0-231-17283-7 $150.00 / £116.00 cloth 978-0-231-17282-0 2018 520 pages / 235 illus.

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability “From 4.5 billion years of Earth history to the future of civilization, The Green Marble provides a broad sweep of humanity’s interwoven dependence on the planet’s elegant biogeochemical cycles and self-regulating feedbacks that maintain a climate suitable for life. Anyone interested in the Earth’s life-support system will find a wealth of deep insights into the emerging field of Earth system science.”

-Ruth DeFries, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18061-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18060-3 2018 328 pages 20 illus.

Game Theory and Climate Change Parkash Chander

"Written exceptionally clearly, this book lays out a novel theory of cooperative games and coalition formation as it applies to environmental problems—and in the process makes significant progress in reconciling cooperative and noncooperative game theory."—Benjamin Ho, Vassar College $70.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-18464-9 2018 344 pages 19 illus.

Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World George R. McGhee Jr.

"A superb and unique synthesis of the current knowledge of processes and conditions during the Late Paleozoic, incorporating the results from all subdisciplines of the earth and life sciences. McGhee demonstrates his expertise and knowledge in all the subdisciplines in a magnificent way.

The book is a pleasure to read and at the same time erudite."

-Hermann Pfefferkorn, University of Pennsylvania $50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-0-231-18097-9

$150.00 / £116.00 cloth 978-0-231-18096-2 2018 320 pages 50 illus.

Confronting the Climate Challenge

Coping with the Climate Crisis Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination

U.S. Policy Options Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead

Edited by Rabah Arezki, Patrick Bolton, Karim El Aynaoui, and Maurice Obstfeld

“The Paris Agreement will only find its way into the history books if we manage to implement it. Coping with the Climate Crisis looks at precisely that topic, making the latest economic research on climate change user-friendly for policy makers."-Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank

$60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18756-5 2018 232 pages 30 illus.

University

“This book shows brilliantly how the United States can tackle the climate challenge effectively, using the fiscal system to slow climate change while protecting those who are vulnerable to the costs of a rapid transformation of the energy system.”—William Nordhaus, Yale

$65.00 / £54.95 cloth 978-0-231-17902-7 2017 376 pages

For exam or desk copy requests, please visit cup.columbia.edu/for-instructors A Moving Border

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change

Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them Donald R. Prothero

"A natural follow-up to the author’s The Story of Life in 25 Fossils . . . . [A] useful introduction to geology."-Kirkus Reviews "The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks provides twenty-five well-lit doorways into the sometimes dark and imposing edifice of the geologic past. Colorful characters welcome the reader in, revealing the very human nature of scientific inquiry and our long and complicated relationship with rocks."-Marcia Bjornerud, author of Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of

Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, and Andrea Bagnato

Italy’s northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of northern and southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers—all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed shifts, so does the border, contradicting its representations on official maps. By examining the nexus of nationalism and cartography, A Moving Border details how borders are both material and imagined and explores the ways global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory.

the Earth

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-1-941332-45-0

$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18260-7

2018 192 pages 60 illus.

2018 368 pages 160 illus.

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Empowering the Great Energy Transition Policy for a Low-Carbon Future

50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events

Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Lynn R. Sykes

"Valentine, Sovacool, and Brown offer an erudite, sobering, and compelling analysis of the complicated challenges, tradeoffs, and opportunities involved in transitioning globally to a renewable energy future.

Writing in prose accessible to experts and laypersons alike, the authors adroitly integrate a multidisciplinary body of research (pro and con) to make a full-throated case for shifting to a renewable energy future. Readers may or may not agree with their arguments for an energy reset, but they cannot ignore the data, realpolitik, and strategic analysis the authors provide to explain and address the often halting and mostly patchworked progress made so far."-Robert F. Durant, professor emeritus at American University, and coeditor of Environmental Gover anance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18596-7 August 2019 320 pages

Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes

“A leader in the plate tectonic revolution, Sykes also spearheaded studies of earthquake hazards and prediction for five decades.

His unvarnished reflections and insights will captivate anyone intrigued by the irregular rhythms and spasms of the earth or curious about the scientists who strive to decipher them."-Rob Wesson,

former chief of the Office of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Engineering at the U.S. Geological Survey, and author of Darwin’s First Theory $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18688-9

June 2019 304 pages 103 illus.

Time and the Generations Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet Partha Dasgupta

"Written with pellucid refinement and compelling responsibility, [this book] incisively appraises humankind’s numbers in tandem with assessments of ecology, time, personal decisions, and varied social and economic circumstances. Composed at the frontiers of norms and methods, philosophy and economics, demography and social analysis, Time and the Generations offers a systematic and bracing homage to heterodox reason in the spirit of Ken Arrow."-Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and

History, Columbia University

$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-16012-4 June 2019 320 pages 9 illus.

Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

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Of Related Interest Political Theology of the Earth

The Ecocentrists

Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public

Keith Makoto Woodhouse

A History of Radical Environmentalism "Woodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of environmental activism

Catherine Keller

“How is a political theology of the earth distinctive? It resists the hegemony of those theologies (and post-theologies) organized around divine omnipotence, absolute sovereignty, and human dominion over the earth. Doing so, it can now mine rich veins in traditions that explore liveliness beyond the human and human entanglements with a multifaceted, morphing earth. In this inspiring book, Keller calls upon eco-activists to explore the spiritual affinities between us, as we foment energies needed to respond to the Anthropocene. An indispensable book for today!”-William E. Connolly, author of Facing the

and thought."-James Morton Turner, Wellesley College $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-16588-4 2018 392 pages 13 illus.

Thomas Berry A Biography

Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming

Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal

$27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18991-0 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18990-3 2018 248 pages

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Muslim Environmentalisms Religious and Social Foundations Anna M. Gade

"Anna M. Gade places her arguments within a rich exploration of historical and modern theoretical approaches to the environment and environmentalism. This book is theoretically sophisticated, lively, and interesting."-Marion Katz, author of

Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19105-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19104-3 August 2019 320 pages

Perishability Fatigue Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay Vincent Bruyere

“Perishability Fatigue is a wondrous and perceptive exploration of the preserved, the frozen, and the suspended. The book is a still life composed of ideas and objects staged to create an image not of what life is but where and in what time we find its concepts––a beautiful image with which to think life as it withers, as it is held."

-Todd Meyers, New York University Shanghai $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18859-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18858-6 2018 184 pages 10 illus.

Critical Life Studies

“This book gives tribute to an important thinker who influenced and shaped the fields of cross-cultural studies, religion, and ecology in the twentieth century. The intellectual endeavor of Thomas Berry articulates the failings of the Eurocentric nation-state model and urges listening to the unintended consequences of human hegemony over the natural order of the world."-Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University

$28.95 / £23.00 cloth 978-0-231-17698-9 June 2019 352 pages 53 illus.

A Year Without a Winter Edited by Dehlia Hannah

Today, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges. Beyond news media, what are the cultural registers of this phenomenon?

How can artistic and literary engagements with destabilizing natural patterns reorient our perspectives on humanity’s position within the environment? A Year Without a Winter brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration. Inspired by the literary "‘dare" that gave birth to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in tthe aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, and by expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection reframes the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. $23.00 / £17.99 paper 978-1-941332-38-2 2018 284 pages + illustrations throughout

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

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Film and the Natural Environment

The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies

Elements and Atmospheres

Hunter Vaughan

Adam O'Brien

"In Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple

films and their productive apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become'updated' into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural studies more broadly."-Adrian Ivakhiv, author of Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema,

Affect, Nature

“In this original and lucidly written study, Adam O’Brien shows us how to think environmentally about film theory, history and criticism.... He explores the ways in which narrative and character are shaped by, and interact with, the environment in which a film is located, as well as the specific use of landscape and setting in genres such as film noir and in a variety of national cinemas, including Japan.”-David Ingram, senior lecturer

in film and television studies at Brunel University London and author of Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18241-6 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18240-9

$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18265-2

March 2019 256 pages 26 illus.

2018 144 pages 16 illus.

Short Cuts

Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson Craig Thomas

The existing sustainable development paradigm and its reliance on tradeoffs between the three pillars of environment, economics, and equity is not robust enough to maintain global carrying capacity. Craig Thomas argues that the holistic and transdisciplinary thinking of four iconic American naturalists—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson—can help solve our biggest twenty-firstcentury challenges by synthesizing values from four eras of cultural and environmental history. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4178-3 2018 230 pages 15 illus.

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SkepticBlog

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-15719-3 $27.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-15718-6 2011 272 pages / 7 illus.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title “A Survival Guide for the Misinformation Age is an impassioned plea for science literacy. Given the state of the world today, in which scientifically underinformed voters elect scientifically illiterate politicians, David Helfand has written the right book at the right time with the right message. Read it now.

The future of our civilization may depend on it."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History $22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-16873-1 $29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16872-4 2016 344 pages 53 illus.

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Paleoclimates

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$75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-16054-4 2012 192 pages 40 illus.

Thomas M. Cronin

“I strongly recommend this book as essential background material for graduate students, an up-to-date review for researchers in the field, and an important resource for anyone with a general interest in climatic change.”—The Holocene $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-14494-0 2009 448 pages 147 illus.

New in Paper Dark Ecology For a Logic of Future Coexistence Timothy Morton

"[A] radical vision of what ecological thought can be."-Los Angeles

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$24.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17753-5 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-17752-8 2018 208 pages

The Wellek Library Lectures

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution Donald R. Prothero

"Prothero is a masterful communicator of science and a lover of paleontology, and these traits have combined to produce one of the best books on the history of life I have read. If you want an introduction to the history of life on Earth, get this book."

-BioScience $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17191-5 $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17190-8 2018 408 pages / 150 illus.

The Madhouse Effect

How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles

"[A] brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.... [The Madhouse Effect] may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of sound science."-Yale Climate Connections $18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-17787-0 $24.00/ £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-17786-3 2018 240 pages / 53 illus.

Building the New American Economy Smart, Fair, and Sustainable Jeffrey D. Sachs Foreword by Bernie Sanders

"Sachs confronts Trump's idea of rebuilding the U.S. and particularly its infrastructure.... [He] focuses on long-term societal objectives centered on sustainable development.... Highly recommended."-Choice $12.95 / £9.99 paper 978-0-231-18405-2 $17.95 / £13.99 cloth 978-0-231-18404-5 2018 152 pages