The vast Byzantine walls are a powerful image for the conflict between history and the present that squeezes modern Turkey. Structured around encounters with people during his walks, this is... read more
From the late, great environmentalist, an illustrated anthology of essays by a brigade of quantum physicists, biologists, neuroscientists, etc. Like Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography, th... read more
Intelligent and aesthetic responses to climate change, pollution, energy requirements etc, using a handful of contemporary projects in France, Germany and Switzerland as exemplars of good pr... read more
Innovative and original approach to architecture and urban planning that takes account of the economic as well as the human cost of awful building and proposes a very different solution.
Arbugaeva was born in Yakutia, Siberia, so she knows well the ghostly, desolate beauty of that part of the world and the hardships of life there. Her photographs are superb.
A hotter, drier earth means a dustier earth. Owens frames these microparticles as the insidious biproduct of industrialism, whose immense repercussions will be felt ever more powerfully in ... read more
To accompany the exhibition at MoMA about the history of enironmental thinking in architecture and focussing on the moving lines between ecology, design and politics.
Cumbrian farms from the Lake District to the Solway Marches: magnificent photography and compelling conversations about contemporary agricultural issues.
How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
Both a brief history of gardening and a where-do-we-go-from-here manual: Moore shows us not only what we think a garden is but why we think it ought to be thus and so. He's an advocate of a ... read more
The Pulitzer-winning novelist is unflinching in her account of mankind's destruction of the environment for commercial gain - from the C16th English fenlands to Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire ... read more
The Scottish Highlands are facing climate chaos too, despite being so far north, and its effects are already being felt. Crumley's meditations on the seasons in one volume.
Biotechnology is becoming big business, the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Cobb is an eminently reasonable guide to this strange new world: gene-editing, cloning, GMOs, ethics, etc.