Ecology & Green Politics

The ground-breaking science behind ambitious new schemes for restoring lost natural systems

For readers of George Monbiot, Mark Cocker and Robert Macfarlane - an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them.

In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 9 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. But can we produce enough food to feed ourselves sustainably for an uncertain future? How will agriculture adapt to a climate change?

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.

This new volume in The
Big Idea series surveys
the detrimental impact
humans have had on
the planet and evaluates
what we can do to
reverse the damage.

Praise for the previous edition of Prairie:

"Impelled with its sense of the miraculous in nature."

Globe and Mail

Candace Savage's acclaimed and beautifully written guide to the ecology of the prairies, now revised and updated.