Anthem EnviroExperts

Through the online micro-reviews site Anthem EnviroExperts Review, Anthem Press seeks to build a community of practice committed to creating a clearer and deeper understanding of how ecological systems – at every level – operate and have been damaged by unsustainable development. We seek to involve natural scientists, social scientists, policy analysts, planning practitioners, activists and literary scholars in this community of practice.

In this issue of Anthem EnviroExperts Review we present five micro-reviews. The first examines Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Cardamore Stokes. This book discusses how interest groups have obstructed clean energy laws. Our second review considers an Anthem Press volume: Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health: Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level by Ella Jisun Kim. This book argues that the public engages more readily with planning efforts that frame human wellness concerns as part of the climate adaptation process. The third book reviewed is Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics by Matto Mildenberger. This volume pursues a historical-institutionalist theory of national climate politics. Our fourth review covers Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation and Institution Building in Shared River Basins by Scott M. Moore. In this book, Moore discusses water conflict and a combination of ideational and institutional factors. The final micro-review considers Water Futures of India, edited by P. P. Majumdar and V. M. Tiwari. This collection deals with the status of water science and technology dealing with the current water crisis.

Associated with the Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative (AESI), Anthem EnviroExperts Review publishes short reviews of important books and reports in the environmental field, broadly defined. The Moderator of the Review is Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He acts as the General Editor of AESI and oversees our book series, each featuring scholars, practitioners and business experts keen to link theory and practice.

We have identified published books on environment and sustainability that ought to be reviewed. If you would like to submit a micro review (250 words) on any of these books, we will include your review in a future issue. Please send all micro reviews to Lawrence Susskind (Susskind@mit.edu) and enviroexperts@anthempress.com.

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