Pamela Mason: 5 books

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard. This...

A comprehensive dictionary of environmental economics, compiled by leading academics in the field. Each expression or phrase is explained clearly in non-technical language, with references given to its use in the growing literature on the subject area. From abatement to zonal travel cost method (ZTCM),...

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...

We all leave legacies, of one kind or another.      There is the legacy we leave to our family when we are no longer a part of this earth, be it financial, emotional or spiritual.      Then there is the legacy we leave because we have been on this earth: rising temperatures, destruction of...

Who would have imagined child and human brokering was such a lucrative business? And who would have conjured up an ingenious plan that would cause your inventory to come to you? Joan M. Sparks,Executive Director and behind the scenes child broker at the Good Samaritan Home. A carnival worker, turned...