Island Press Fall 2017 Catalog

Fall 2017

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New Carey Gillam

Whitewash The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science A renowned journalist reveals new evidence of industry efforts to manipulate science

In Whitewash, veteran journalist Carey Gillam uncovers one of the most controversial stories in the history of food and agriculture. Gillam explores the global debate over the safety of a pesticide so pervasive that it is found in our cereals, snacks, and even in our urine. Known as Monsanto’s Roundup by consumers and as glyphosate by scientists, the world’s most popular weed killer is sold as safe enough to drink, but Gillam’s research shows that message has been carefully crafted to conceal a host of dangers. Whitewash is more than an exposé about the hazards of one chemical. It’s a story of power, politics, and the deadly consequences of putting corporate interests ahead of public safety.

Food & Agriculture, Health October 2017 | 6 X 9 | 272 pages.

Hardcover: $30.00 978-1-61091-832-9 E-Book: $29.99 978-1-61091-833-6 Island Press Trade Selling Territory: Worldwide

Of related interest

Toms River Dan Fagin

Carey Gillam is a veteran journalist, researcher, and writer with more than 25 years of experience covering corporate America. A former senior correspondent for Reuters’ international news service, Gillam digs deep into the big business of food and agriculture.

AUTHOR RESIDENCE: Overland Park, Kansas

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Lake Effect Nancy A. Nichols

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New Edward Struzik

Firestorm How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future Engaging prose reveals new insights about wildfire throughout the US and Canada

Energy & Climate October 2017 | 6 X 9 | 248 pages. | 26 photos Hardcover: $30.00 978-1-61091-818-3 E-Book: $29.99 978-1-61091-819-0 Island Press Trade Selling Territory: Worldwide

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.”

It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It’s possible for us to flourish in the coming age of megafires—but it will take a radical new approach that requires acknowledging that fires are no longer avoidable. Living with fire also means, Struzik reveals, that we must better understand how the surprising, far-reaching impacts of these massive fires will linger long after the smoke eventually clears.

Of related interest Future Arctic Edward Struzik

Satellites in the High Country Jason Mark

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Edward Struzik is an award-winning writer and photographer. A fellow at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen University in Kingston, Canada, his numerous accolades include the prestigious Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to the understanding of science.

AUTHOR RESIDENCE: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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New Sandra Postel

Replenish The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity A hopeful vision of a secure water future

We spend billions of dollars on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering to control water for our own prosperity. What if the answer was not control, but replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms. Forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff, and “sponge cities”are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Postel argues that efforts like these will be essential as we adjust to a hotter, wilder climate. Will we continue to fight the water cycle, endangering ourselves and the planet, or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers?

Water, Food & Agriculture October 2017 | 6 X 9 | 328 pages.

12 illustrations.

Hardcover: $28.00 978-1-61091-790-2 E-Book: $27.99 978-1-61091-791-9 Island Press Trade Selling Territory: Worldwide

Of related interest

Water is for Fighting Over John Fleck

Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and co-creator of Change the Course, which has restored billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and wetlands.

For six years, she served as Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Postel is author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity. Her work has appeared in Science, Natural History, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

AUTHOR RESIDENCE: Los Lunas, New Mexico

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Chasing Water Brian Richter

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New John Cary

Design for Good A New Era of Architecture for Everyone Good design is not just a luxury; this book shows how design can elevate and empower

Green Building, Environmental Health October 2017 | 8 X 10 | 280 pages | Full color.

Hardcover: $60.00 978-1-61091-792-6 Paper: $30.00 978-1-61091-793-3 E-Book: $29.99 978-1-61091-794-0 |Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

In Design for Good, John Cary offers character-driven, real-world stories about projects across the globe that are designed and created with and for the people who will use them. The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools necessary to seek out and demand designs that dignify.

From Rwanda’s Butaro Hospital to Kalamazoo College’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the examples in the book show what is possible when design is a collaborative, dignified, empathic process. Cary draws from his own experience as well as dozens of interviews to show not only that everyone deserves good design, but how it can be achieved.

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The Shape of Green Lance Hosey

John Cary is an architect, writer, speaker, and curator focused on design and philanthropy. Consulting principally for TED, he is also an advisor to Aspen Global Health & Development and an array of foundations and nonprofits globally.

Design for an Empathic World Sim Van der Ryn

AUTHOR RESIDENCE: Oakland, CA

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New Aaron T. Wolf

The Spirit of Dialogue Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict A novel, yet proven approach to conflict resolution born from faith traditions

Communication September 2017 | 6 X 9 | 224 pages.

63 figures, 27 boxes, 7 tables Hardcover: $60.00 978-1-61091-616-5 Paper: $30.00 978-1-61091-617-2 E-Book: $29.99 978-1-61091-618-9 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

Over more than twenty years as a mediator, Aaron T. Wolf has learned that successful conflict resolution is shaped by complicated dynamics—from how comfortable the meeting room is to the participants’ deepest senses of self.

Bridging seemingly intractable issues means addressing multiple layers of needs. Wolf’s approach may be surprising to Westerners who are accustomed to separating rationality from spirituality and science from religion. The Spirit of Dialogue draws lessons from a diversity of faith traditions to transform conflict, from identifying the root cause of anger to aligning with an energy beyond oneself—what Christians call grace—to the true listening practiced

by Buddhist monks. Whether atheist or fundamentalist, Muslim or Jewish, Quaker or Hindu, any reader involved in difficult dialogue will find concrete steps towards a meeting of souls.

Of related interest Common Ground on Hostile Turf Lucy Moore

Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals Susan Kay Jacobson

Aaron T. Wolf is a Professor of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank and several international governments and agencies on various aspects of transboundary water resources and dispute resolution. A trained mediator/facilitator, Wolf directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation, through which he has offered workshops, facilitations, and mediations in basins throughout the world.

AUTHOR RESIDENCE: Corvallis, Oregon

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New Edited by Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub

Energy Democracy Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions The first book to frame the growing energy democracy movement

The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having cataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color.

Energy democracy tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movement with broader movements for progressive change in this country and around the world. Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives to show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like. The book will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.

Energy & Climate, Environmental Health October 2017 | 6 X 9 | 288 pages.

23 photos, 8 illustrations Paperback: $30.00 978-1-61091-851-0 E-Book: $29.99 978-1-61091-852-7 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

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Our Renewable Future Richard Heinberg and David Fridley Denise Fairchild is president and CEO of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a national nonprofit organization of business, labor, and community groups dedicated to climate resilience strategies that produce environmental, economic, and equity outcomes.

Al Weinrub is coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA), the Bay Area's largest clean energy coalition. The LCEA promotes the equitable development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change and building sustainable and resilient communities.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES: Washington, DC; Oakland, CA

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Energy Sprawl Solutions Edited by Joseph M. Kiesecker and David E. Naugle

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New Edited by Daniel Lerch

The Community Resilience Reader Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval Visionaries present solutions to resilience crises undertaken at the community level

Energy & Climate, Sustainable Development October 2017 | 6 X 9 | 336 pages.

14 illustrations Paperback: $28.00 978-1-61091-860-2 E-Book: $27.99 978-1-61091-861-9 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working on the ground to present a new vision for creating resilience. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how it requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that it starts and ends with the people living in a community.

From Post Carbon Institute, the producers of the award-winning The Post Carbon Reader, The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for community leaders, college students, and concerned citizens.

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Planning for Community Resilience Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover, Lori Feild Schwarz, and John T. Cooper The Ecological Design and Planning Reader

Edited by Forster O. Ndubisi

Daniel Lerch is Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, serving as lead editor and manager of the Institute’s books and reports. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty (2007)—the first major local government guidebook on the end of cheap oil—and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project. Lerch has delivered over 100 presentations to audiences across the United States and abroad, and has been interviewed for numerous media outlets. He has worked with urban sustainability issues for over twenty years in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

EDITOR’S RESIDENCE: Guadalajara, Mexico

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New Edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester Jr., Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally

Design as Democracy Techniques for Collective Creativity 60 urban design techniques that advance racial, economic, and social justice for urban residents

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges.

Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.

Land Use Planning, Landscape Architecture December 2017 | 8 X 10 | 264 pages.

Full color Paperback: $40.00 978-1-61091-847-3 E-Book: $39.99 978-1-61091-848-0 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

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David de la Peña is an architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis.

Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley

Diane Jones Allen is Principal Landscape Architect with DesignJones LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Randolph T. Hester Jr. champions cultural and biological diversity through his writing and built work in complex political environments, from Manteo, North Carolina to Los Angeles and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.

Jeffrey Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Seeing the Better City Charles R. Wolfe

Laura J. Lawson is Dean of Agriculture and Urban Programs and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Marcia J. McNally is a recognized leader in international environmental mobilization and on-the-ground citizen participation. She retired from University of California, Berkeley in 2010 but continues to teach at Berkeley and in Taiwan.

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New Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, and Stefan Al

Beyond Mobility Planning Cities for People and Places A blueprint to return to a more people-oriented form of building cities

Beyond Mobility is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places. This is as important, if not more important, than expediting movement. A stronger focus on accessibility and place creates better communities, environments, and economies.

Land Use Planning November 2017 | 7 X 10 | 280 pages | Full color .

Paperback: $45.00 978-1-61091-834-3 E-Book: $44.99 978-1-61091-835-0 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

There are many examples of communities across the globe working to create a seamless fit between transit and surrounding land uses, retrofit car-oriented suburbs, reclaim surplus or dangerous roadways for other activities, and revitalize neglected urban spaces like abandoned railways in urban centers.

The authors draw on experiences and data from a range of cities and countries around the globe in making the case for moving beyond mobility.

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Transit Street Design Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials

Completing Our Streets Barbara McCann

Robert Cervero is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six books as well as numerous articles and research publications. He was a contributing author to the recent IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment and UN-Habitat's Global Report on Sustainable Mobility and in 2013 was ranked among the top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UMB's Futures Cities.

Erick Guerra is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. He has published a dozen articles on the relationship between transportation infrastructure, land use, urban development, and travel behavior.

Stefan Al is Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published several books, including Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook and The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream. As a practicing architect and urban designer, he has worked on renowned projects such as the Canton Tower in Guangzhou.

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES: Berkeley, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York, New York

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New Edited by Jason Beske and David Dixon

Suburban Remix Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places Inspiration that highlights how suburbs have as much potential to change as the country around them

Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use suburbs have a hard time competing.

Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live work, play, and invest. The case studies and analysis show how compact new urban places are being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis.

Land Use Planning February 2018 | 7 X 10 | 272 pages. | Full color.

Hardcover: $80.00 978-1-61091-862-6 Paper: $40.00 978-1-61091-863-3 E-Book: $39.99 978-1-61091-864-0 Island Press Short Selling Territory: Worldwide

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The Future of the Suburban City Grady Gammage, Jr. Jason Beske, AICP, is an urban planner with Cooley LLP’s real estate practice in Reston Town Center. He has focused his public- and private-sector practice on the urbanization of suburban communities and the design of vital, people-oriented places. A frequent speaker and instructor at national and state planning conferences, Jason earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in community and regional planning from Iowa State University’s College of Design.

Sprawl Repair Manual Galina Tachieva

David Dixon, FAIA, leads Stantec's Urban Places Group, a specialized practice that helps cities and suburbs alike thrive by harnessing the growing North American demand for urban living. David's work has won national awards from the AIA, CNU, International Downtown Association, and ASLA. Before joining Stantec, he founded and for 25 years led the planning and urban design practice at Goody Clancy. David is co-author of Urban Design for an Urban Century: Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES: Reston, Virginia; Boston, Massachusetts

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New Kim Sorvig with J. William Thompson

Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition A Guide to Green Building Outdoors Up-to-date third edition of a definitive text on sustainable landscape construction

Landscape Architecture, Land Use Planning February 2018 | 8.5 X 11 | 400 pages.

110 photos, 70 illustrations.

Hardcover: $90.00 978-1-61091-809-1 Paper: $55.00 978-1-61091-810-7 E-Book: $54.99 978-1-61091-811-4 Island Press Text Selling Territory: Worldwide

Since the publication of its first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped spur a movement towards resilient outdoor environments, in the U.S. and throughout the world. The third edition has been updated to address important recent developments in this landscape revolution, including expanded coverage of industry trends toward performance monitoring, as well as the necessity to plan for the realities of changing climates. Some of the trends covered will shift how landscape architects and contractors will do business in the challenging years ahead: many professionals and clients will focus on restoration projects, motivated by ecosystem services and social justice, and funded by innovative methods.

Sustainable Landscape Construction is part of the canon of landscape construction texts, and with this update, remains a visionary, one of a kind reference for professionals and students.

Of related interest

Wild By Design Margie Ruddick

Kim Sorvig is a research associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, and co-author of the Sustainable Building Technical Manual, published by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Urban Street Stormwater Design Guide

J. William Thompson is the former editor-in-chief of Landscape Architecture, the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES: Santa Fe, New Mexico; Washington, DC

National Association of City Transportation Officials

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