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The Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award
Sep 23 2024
Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis
May 31 2024
This post was originally published on DeSmog.By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for ReclamationI grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination. Its culture inspired iconic works and political move
Q&A with Jade Sasser, author of Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
Apr 03 2024
Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first c
Case Studies in the Environment Welcomes Jennifer Bernstein as incoming Editor-in-Chief
May 26 2022
"I believe in the importance of this journal in filling a theoretical and pedagogical gap in academia"
Visual Culture & the Climate Crisis
Sep 23 2020
Afterimage's recent relaunch with the University of California Press integrates the journal's legacy of contemporary arts and media criticism with an expanded commitment to scholarly essays. As part of this mission, the editorial team wanted to approach the journal as a unique venue for academics to
How to Manage Climate Anxiety and Carry On: A Virtual Conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray
Apr 22 2020
How can we effectively combat climate change while grappling with feelings of powerlessness and despair? This is one of the key questions author Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University, seeks to answer in her new book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety.
Gen Z: The Climate Generation
Feb 11 2020
How can we expect young people to face what has been called the greatest existential threat if their go-to solution is to erase themselves? How can we help them desire instead of dread their futures?
Climate Change is Changing What it Means to Be an Environmental Steward
Nov 06 2019
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, running from November 3-9, focusing on an overall theme of how we and our peer presses "Read. Think. Act." From the AU Presses: "Read. Think. Act." is a particularly apt theme as many citizens