Books in the Nature | History | Society series

These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change.

Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador - blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 - undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.

In A Town Called Asbestos, a mining town's proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a small resource community faced in a globalized world.