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Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. by Paul Robbins. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2007. 5 vols, acid free $695 (ISBN 978-1-4129-2761-1).
It's deucedly difficult to keep up on environmental hot topics (forgive the pun); this month the news is about melting ice caps, the incipient demise of the polar bears, and the feasibility of a real Northwest Passage more than five hundred years after John Cabot's voyages. Next month there will be new issues, theories, proposals, meetings, regulations-the intermingling of the biogeochemical and socioeconomic spheres. Paul Robbins's Encyclopedia of Environment and Society is an attempt to bring together cogent discussions of the most important issues into what he calls an integrated vision of our times. The work is focused on North America,...