Environment and Climate

Preparing for Climate Change

A Boston Review Book

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz

State of the Nation: Getting Warmer

When it comes to global warming, the public has consistently manifested one strikingly widespread misperception.

  • Jon Krosnick
  • Ariel Malka
  • David Scott Yeager

Living With Coal

Coal sits at the center of the most inconvenient truth about global-warming policy.

  • David G. Victor
  • Richard K. Morse

View from the Mountaintop

Coal may not remain the cheapest source of electric power for much longer.

  • Richard Heinberg

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.

  • Catherine Tumber

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The Rising Tide

Time to adapt to climate change.

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider

Every Last Drop

Managing our way out of the water crisis.

  • Frank R. Rijsberman

Our Daily Bread

Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse.

  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Walter Falcon

Water Technologies

Case Study: What Works Best in Poor Countries?

  • Michael Kremer
  • Edward Miguel
  • Clair Null
  • Alix Zwane

Can We Stop Global Warming?

There is a lot we don’t know about climate change, but what we do know should motivate us to action.

  • Kerry Emanuel
with responses from
  • Nicholas Stern
  • David G. Victor & Danny Cullenward
  • Kirsten Oleson & Chandra Shekhar Sinha
  • Jeffrey Logan & Joanna Lewis & Michael B. Cummings
  • Judy Layzer & William Moomaw

End of the Wild

The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

  • Stephen M. Meyer

Grave New World

Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .

  • George Scialabba

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.

  • Charles Sabel
  • Bradley Karkkainen
  • Archon Fung
with responses from
  • Matt Wilson & Eric Weltman
  • Daniel J. Fiorino
  • Theodore J. Lowi
  • DeWitt John
  • Jacqueline Savitz
  • Lawrence Susskind
  • Daniel A. Farber
  • Jason F. Shogren
  • Cass Sunstein

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle
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