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Unnatural Companions 1 Valuing Nature 2 Primer of Ecological Restoration 3 Designing the Megaregion 4 Designing Streets for Kids 5 Precision Community Health 6 DIY City 7 Beyond Polarization 8 Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition 9 Missing Middle Housing 10 Parks and Recreation System Planning 11 Planetary Health 12 The Cougar Conundrum 13 Replenish 14

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New Peter Christie

Unnatural Companions Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction A deep dive into the impact that pets have on wildlife, ending in a call-toaction for animal lovers.

We love our pets. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life. The pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife—often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions, journalist Peter Christie argues that to reverse the alarming trend of wildlife decline, pet owners must acknowledge the petsversus-conservation dilemma. Our well-fed and sheltered cats too often prey on small backyard wildlife, seemingly harmless reptiles released into the wild might be the next destructive invasive species, and the popular trend of designer pet food may have deleterious effects on the environment.

Christie’s book is a cautionary tale to responsible pet owners, but he concludes with the positive message that the small changes we make at home can foster better practices within the pet industry that will ultimately benefit our pets’ wild brethren.

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection April 2020 Hardcover: $28.00 978-1-61091-970-8 Ebook: $27.99 978-1-61091-971-5 272 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Trade

Of related interest

Vaquita Brooke Bessesen Peter Christie is an award-winning Canadian science journalist and author who writes frequently about conservation. He is a national Science in Society Journalism Award winner whose stories and features have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, ON Nature, Canadian Geographic, The Ottawa Citizen, The Vancouver Sun, The Edmonton Journal, and The Montreal Gazette. He is the award-winning author of science books for children and young adults. Christie has also worked as a science communications consultant for the World Wildlife Fund, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the Royal Society of Canada, the Boreal Songbird Initiative, and the Canadian Climate Forum.

Rainforest Tony Juniper

Author’s residence: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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New William J. Ginn

Valuing Nature A Handbook for Impact Investing A definitive overview of impact investing, accessibly written by a pioneer of the field.

Valuing Nature presents a new set of nature-based investment areas to help conservationists and investors work together to tackle problems such as climate change. The book examines the scope of nature-based impact investing, offers tools for investors and organizations to consider as they develop their own projects, and shares tips on how nonprofits can successfully navigate this new space. Case studies from around the world demonstrate how we can utilize private capital to achieve more sustainable uses of our natural resources.

Business & Economics/Green Business May 2020 Hardcover: $30.00 978-1-64283-091-0 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-092-7 232 pages. 6 x 9 | 30 illustrations Island Press Trade

William Ginn provides a roadmap for conservation professionals, nonprofit managers, and impact investors to improve the management of natural systems.

Of related interest

Quantified Joe Whitworth

Nature’s Fortune Mark R. Tercek and Jonathan S. Adams

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William Ginn is a business strategy consultant who has served in senior leadership positions in both nonprofit organizations and businesses. During his tenure at The Nature Conservancy, Ginn served as Chief Conservation Officer and then Executive Vice President, founding NatureVest, a partnership with private investors that has brought over $200 million of investment into conservation projects worldwide. He is the author of the 2005 Island Press book Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business.

Author’s residence: Pownal, Maine

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New Karen D. Holl

Primer of Ecological Restoration An overview of recent trends in ecological restoration, perfect for students.

The Primer of Ecological Restoration is a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve ecosystems damaged by human activity such as agriculture, logging, and mining.

The book introduces readers to the basics of restoration project planning, monitoring, and adaptive management. It explains abiotic factors such as landforms, soil, and hydrology that are the building blocks to recovering microorganism, plant, and animal communities. Other chapters cover invasive species and legal and financial considerations. Each chapter concludes with recommended reading and reference lists. Extensive pedagogic resources are available online for instructors.

This timely primer summarizes recent trends in the field suitable for introductory ecological restoration classes or for practitioners seeking constructive guidance for real-world projects.

Science/Environmental Science March 2020 Paperback: $35.00 978-1-61091-972-2 Ebook: $34.99 978-1-61091-973-9 224 pages. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 2 photos, 19 illustrations Island Press Text

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Karen D. Holl is a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches ecological restoration. She conducts research in the rainforests of Latin America and the chaparral, grassland, and riparian systems in California. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and a co-winner of the Theodore Sperry Award of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

Author’s residence: Felton, California

Introduction to Restoration Ecology Evelyn A. Howell, John A. Harrington, and Stephen B. Glass

Ecological Restoration, Second Edition Andre F. Clewell and James Aronson

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New Jonathan Barnett

Designing the Megaregion Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale One of the few books about the urgent issue of designing on a megaregional scale.

In Designing the Megaregion, planning and urban design expert Jonathan Barnett takes a fresh look at designing megaregions. Barnett argues that planning megaregions requires ecological literacy and a renewed commitment to social equity in order to address the increasing pressure that growth puts on natural, built, and human resources. If current trends continue, new construction in megaregions will put additional stress on natural resources, make highway gridlock and airline delays much worse, and cause each region to become more separate and unequal.

Barnett offers an incremental approach to designing at the megaregional scale that will help prepare for future economic and population growth.

Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning March 2020 Paperback: $30.00 978-1-64283-043-9 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-044-6 120 pages. 6 x 9 | 24 photos Island Press Short

There is an urgent need to begin designing megaregions, and Barnett offers a hopeful way forward using systems that are already in place.

Of related interest

Megaregions Edited by Catherine L. Ross

Resilient Cities, Second Edition Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer

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Jonathan Barnett is an emeritus Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an architect and planner as well as an educator, and is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design. Barnett is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been awarded the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Design and Regional Planning, the Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the William H. Whyte Award from the Partners for Livable Communities for being a pioneer in urban design education and practice.

Author’s residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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New Global Designing Cities Initiative/National Association of City Transportation Officials

Designing Streets for Kids The first design guide focused on creating safer streets for kids and their caregivers, as part of the internationally known NACTO series Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed childfocused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child.

The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an oftenoverlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.

Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning April 2020 Hardcover: $40.00 978-1-64283-071-2 212 pages. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 | Full color Island Press Short

Of related interest

Launched in 2014 as a program of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) focuses on the critical role of streets around the world. NACTO-GDCI is committed to raising the state of the practice for street design and sustainable transportation by building a common vision, providing technical assistance and design guidance, sharing data, and supporting peer-to-peer exchanges and regular communication among international cities. NACTOGDCI’s Streets for Kids program is generously supported by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, FIA Foundation, and Fondation Botnar.

Author’s residence: New York City

Global Street Design Guide Global Designing Cities Initiative/National Association of City Transportation Officials

Urban Street Design Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials

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New Bechara Choucair

Precision Community Health Four Innovations for Well-being Clearly explains the groundbreaking strategy of precision community health and how it can provide targeted care for all communities.

When Bechara Choucair was a young doctor, he learned an important lesson: treating a patient for hypothermia does little good if she has to spend the next night out in the freezing cold. As health commissioner of Chicago, he was determined to address the societal causes of disease and focus the city’s resources on its most vulnerable populations. That targeted approach has led to dramatic successes, such as lowering rates of smoking, teen pregnancy, breast cancer mortalities, and other serious ills.

Social Science/Disease & Health Issues May 2020 Hardcover: $28.00 978-1-64283-016-3 Ebook: $27.99 978-1-64283-017-0 256 pages. 6 x 9 Island Press Short

In Precision Community Health, Choucair shows how those successes can be replicated and expanded around the country. The key is to use advanced technologies to identify which populations are most at risk for specific health threats and avert crises before they begin. Using this strategy can make a wholesale change in the way public health is practiced and in the well-being of all our communities.

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Twenty Years of Life Suzanne Bohan Bechara Choucair, a family physician by training, was commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health from 2009 to 2014. He is currently senior vice president and chief community health officer at Kaiser Permanente.

Author’s residence: San Francisco, California Urban Sprawl and Public Health Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson

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New Hank Dittmar

DIY City The Collective Power of Small Actions Hank Dittmar’s last original work offers hope for cities in small-scale, individual actions.

Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest of town planning” to the Prince of Wales, believed in letting small things happen. Looking at the global cities of the world, he saw a crisis of success, with gentrification and global capital driving up home prices in some cities, while others decayed for lack of investment.

In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, with lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history.

Dittmar’s timely response to the challenges many cities face today is to make Do-It-Yourself the norm rather than the exception by removing the barriers to small-scale building and local business. The message of DIY City can offer hope to anyone who cares about cities.

Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning June 2020 Paperback: $30.00 978-1-64283-052-1 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-64283-053-8 200 pages. 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 one 8-page color insert, 25 photos Island Press Short

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My Kind of City Hank Dittmar Hank Dittmar (1956–2018) was the founding principal of Hank Dittmar Associates, an international urban planning firm. Before that, he was chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, leading the foundation in contributing to the design of our built environment at practical and policy levels both in the UK and internationally.

Dittmar also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism, the founding president and CEO of Reconnecting America, and executive director of the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership.

The Heart of the City Alexander Garvin

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New Steven L. Yaffee

Beyond Polarization Public Process and the Unlikely Story of California’s Marine Protected Areas An optimistic message about the possibility of public process, using a marine protection success story

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection March 2020 Paperback: $45.00 978-1-64283-082-8 528 pages. 6 x 9 | 24 illustrations Island Press Short

Beyond Polarization is a story of hope about positive collective action.

Written from an insider’s perspective, it tells the story of California’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative—groundbreaking legislation passed after a ten-year public process that left an enduring legacy.

The MLPA process provides a blueprint for successful public policy to conserve not just marine life, but any natural resource in contention across jurisdictions. The book is organized by geographical region, each with its unique stakeholders and concerns. Steven Yaffee, an expert on collaborative decision making, explains how its lessons can be applied to similar initiative processes across the country and internationally.

Beyond Polarization offers an optimistic message about the public policy process in a time of civic division: that policymakers, scientists, and local citizens can successfully collaborate to protect natural resources we all have a stake in.

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Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice Julia M. Wondolleck and Steven L. Yaffee

Steven L. Yaffee is Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan. He has worked for more than forty years on endangered species, public lands, and ecosystem management policy, and the design and management of collaborative decision-making processes. He is the author or coauthor of five books.

Author’s residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Making Collaboration Work Julia M. Wondolleck and Steven L. Yaffee

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New Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition A fully revised and expanded edition of an essential guide for building green, affordable housing.

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is the most comprehensive resource on how green building principles can be incorporated into affordable housing design, construction, and operation. In this fully revised edition, Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer capture the rapid evolution of green building practices and make a compelling case for integrating green building in affordable housing. The Blueprint offers guidance on innovative practices, green building certifications for affordable housing, and the latest financing strategies. The completely new case studies share detailed insights on how the many elements of a green building are incorporated into different housing types and locations.

Every affordable housing project can achieve the fundamentals of good green building design. The Blueprint gives project teams what they need to push for excellence.

Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design July 2020 Paperback: $35.00 978-1-64283-038-5 Ebook: $34.99 978-1-64283-039-2 240 pages. 7 x 10 | 25 photos, 25 illustrations Island Press Short

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Walker Wells is a principal at Raimi+Associates, a consulting service that supports healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities. He is former Executive Director of Global Green USA and a lecturer in the UCLA planning program.

Kimberly Vermeer is President of Urban Habitat Initiatives Inc., a Boston-based consulting practice working to advance sustainability and climate resilience, especially in multifamily and affordable housing.

Author’s residence: Venice, California and Boston, Massachusetts

The Power of Existing Buildings Robert Sroufe, Craig Stevenson, and Beth Eckenrode

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing Global Green USA

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New Daniel Parolek

Missing Middle Housing Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis A tested and realistic approach to creating well-designed, thoughtful missing-middle housing Daniel Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of Missing Middle housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts— to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing, explains why more developers should be building them, and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable them to be built.

July 2020 Paperback: $40.00 978-1-64283-054-5 Ebook: $39.99 978-1-64283-055-2 256 pages. 8 x 9 Full color, 75 photos, 75 illustrations Island Press Short

Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.

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Soft City David Sim Dan Parolek, Founding Principal of Opticos Design, is one of the foremost urban designers and architects working to meet the growing demand for walkable urban living.

He is co-author of Form-Based Codes.

Author’s residence: Berkeley, California Design Professional’s Guide to Zero Net Energy Buildings Charles Eley

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New David L. Barth

Parks and Recreation System Planning A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities A new approach to parks and recreation system planning that will help planners create more successful and sustainable parks systems Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth draws on real-world examples to provide a step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Chapters outline each step—evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more—necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system.

Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design July 2020 Paperback: $40.00 978-1-61091-933-3 Ebook: $39.99 978-1-61091-934-0 288 pages. 6 x 9 | 40 photos, 40 illustrations Island Press Short

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Vacant to Vibrant Sandra L. Albro David Barth is a registered landscape architect, certified planner, and certified parks and recreation professional, specializing in the planning, design, and implementation of the public realm. He has developed parks and recreation system master plans for over 100 communities throughout the United States and led the planning and/or design of hundreds of parks and trails.

Author’s residence: Gainesville, Florida

Urban Green Peter Harnik

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New Edited by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin

Planetary Health Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves An up-to-date, readable introduction to the emerging field of planetary health, a fundamental pillar of biomedical and environmental sciences.

Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere.

Social Science/Disease & Health Issues August 2020 Paperback: $40.00 978-1-61091-966-1 Ebook: $39.99 978-1-61091-967-8 456 pages. 7 x 10 Full color throughout, 100 illustrations Island Press Text

Interdisciplinary in nature, Planetary Health explores how accelerating environmental change affects each dimension of human health. It then turns to the rich terrain of solutions, reimagining our cities, our food systems, our energy sector, the chemicals we use, even our economics and our ethics. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic introduction to a field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world.

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Making Healthy Places Edited by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson

Samuel Myers, MD, MPH is a Principle Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Planetary Health Alliance. Dr. Myers serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet-Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Planetary Health and the Lancet Commission on Arctic health. He was the inaugural recipient of the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in 2018 for research quantifying the impacts of environmental change on human nutrition. He has also been awarded the Prince Albert II of Monaco—Institut Pasteur Award for research at the interface of global environmental change and human health.

Biodiversity Change and Human Health Edited by Osvaldo E. Sala, Laura A. Meyerson, and Camille Parmesan

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is head of the Our Plant, Our Health initiative at the Wellcome Trust. He was previously Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and Special Assistant to the Director for Climate Change and Health, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Authors’ residences: Cambridge, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington

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New Mark Elbroch

The Cougar Conundrum Sharing the World with a Successful Predator A leading carnivore expert offers science-based approaches to creating a peaceful coexistence between humans and mountain lions.

Mountain lions, once on the edge of extinction, have made a remarkable comeback. But this has led to an unexpected modern conundrum: Do more mountain lions mean they’re a threat to humans and domestic animals? Or do they need our help to survive? Carnivore expert Mark Elbroch dismisses old myths, arguing that ecosystems depend on keystone predators to keep them in healthy balance. Humans and mountain lions can coexist, he explains, if we arm ourselves with knowledge and common sense. Elbroch explores the realities of human and livestock safety in the presence of mountain lions, as well as human impacts on lions and the need for sensible management strategies.

The Cougar Conundrum delivers a clear-eyed assessment of a modern wildlife challenge, offering practical advice for wildlife managers, conservationists, hunters, and those who share their habitat with large predators.

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection August 2020 Paperback: $30.00 978-1-61091-998-2 Ebook: $29.99 978-1-61091-999-9 272 pages. 6 x 9 | 40 photos Island Press Short

Of related interest

An Indomitable Beast Alan Rabinowitz Mark Elbroch is an internationally recognized expert on carnivores and mountain lions. He is Director and Lead Scientist for Panthera’s Puma Program. He has contributed to puma research and conservation in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Mexico, and Chile, and has worked as a wildlife consultant across North America, specializing in field inventories, the identification of wildlife corridors, and supporting capture efforts of diverse species. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic’s CatWatch Blog and has authored and coauthored ten books on natural history. He is a 2011 Switzer Fellow.

Author’s residence: Sequim, Washington

The Carnivore Way Cristina Eisenberg

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New in Paperback Sandra Postel

Replenish The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity A renowned water expert looks at repairing our broken water cycle using nature’s rhythms “Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book.” —Elizabeth Kolbert “Remarkable.” —New York Times Book Review “Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently.” —Booklist, starred review “An informative, purposeful argument.” —Kirkus Political Science/Public Policy/ Environmental Policy March 2020 Hardcover: $29.00 978-1-61091-790-2 (2017) Paperback: $23.00 978-1-64283-010-1 Ebook: $22.99 978-1-61091-791-9 336 pages. 6 x 9 | 15 illustrations Island Press Short

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?

Of related interest

Chasing Water Brian Richter

The Great Lakes Water Wars Peter Annin

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Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and co-creator of Change the Course, the national water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for restoring billions of gallons of water to depleted rivers and wetlands. From 2009-2015, she served as the Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. Postel is the author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, the basis for a PBS documentary. Her work has appeared in Science, Natural History, and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Author’s residence: Los Lunas, New Mexico

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