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Books that bring issues of poverty and food security into dialogue with those of biodiversity loss, climate change, and deforestation.
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The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
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James Morcan (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 453 ratings
score: 300,
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Saving Wild: Inspiration from 50 Leading Conservationists
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Lori Robinson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 200,
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
score: 200,
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Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar (Volume 245) (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)
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Saving Paradise (Pono Hawkins #1)
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Mike Bond (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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Lemurs of the Lost World
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Jane Wilson-Howarth (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
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3.75 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico
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Marty Essen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 100,
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We Are Amphibians
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
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4.25 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
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Alessandro Boccaletti (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 65 ratings
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One Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Second Nature: Saving Tiger Landscapes in the Twenty-First Century
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Sanjay Gubbi (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 100,
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Treed
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Virginia Arthur (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More
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4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir
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Kinari Webb (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Rough Waters: Alaska to Oregon
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Nancy Danielson Mendenhall (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere
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score: 99,
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Serengeti Shall Not Die
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4.30 avg rating — 252 ratings
score: 99,
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Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 99,
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
score: 99,
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American Environmentalism: Readings In Conservation History
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3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 98,
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The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change
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Gleb Raygorodetsky (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 98,
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African Wildlife and Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation
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David Hulme (Editor)
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score: 97,
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Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java
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4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 96,
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Greening the great Red Island: Madagascar in Nature and Culture
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Jeffery C. Kaufmann (Editor)
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score: 95,
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Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies
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Karl S. Zimmerer (Editor)
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 94,
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Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World (Integral Books)
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4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 93,
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Parks in Peril: People, Politics, and Protected Areas
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Katrina Brandon (Editor)
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 92,
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Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 91,
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Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
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3.81 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 90,
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Critical Political Ecology
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 89,
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People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance
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Clark C. Gibson (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 88,
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Nature's Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 87,
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Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 86,
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Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience
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Fikret Berkes (Editor)
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 85,
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Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
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3.85 avg rating — 152 ratings
score: 84,
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Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
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3.97 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 83,
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Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
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J. Peter Brosius (Contributor)
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 82,
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Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work: Towards More Effective Conservation and Development (Biology and Resource Management Series)
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Thomas O. McShane (Editor)
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score: 81,
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Natural Connections: Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
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David Western (Editor)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 80,
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Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 79,
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Harvesting Wild Species: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
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Curtis H. Freese (Editor)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 78,
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Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction
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3.92 avg rating — 205 ratings
score: 77,
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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4.21 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
score: 76,
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Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations
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score: 75,
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