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August 28, 2020

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (film)

Tidwell Christy

Directed by Issac Goeckeritz, María Valeria Berros, and Hal Crimmel. 2018. 

This film, shot in Ecuador, New Zealand, and the United States, explores how the legal system in the industrialized world tends to view nature as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. Yet indigenous communities have viewed themselves as part of nature, and as pressures on ecosystems mount and as conventional laws seem increasingly inadequate to address environmental degradation, communities, ...

Utah’s Air Quality Issues: Problems and Solutions

Tidwell Christy

Edited by Hal Crimmel. The University of Utah Press, 2020.

Although Utah is a land of outdoor wonders, the state has a distressing air pollution problem. In some areas like Salt Lake City, geography exacerbates the issue; air quality in the Wasatch Front metropolitan region often ranks among the worst in the nation. Utah’s Air Quality Issues: Problems and Solutions is the first book to tackle the subject. Written by scholars in a variety of fields, including chemical engineering, economics, atmospheric science, health care, law, ...