John Waldman: 4 books
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
Still the Same Hawk
Reflections on Nature and New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City’s complex relationship to nature.
How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the...
Running Silver
Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the...
Prospects for Resilience
Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous...