Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley By Steven Yearley 5 April
Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming, by Benjamin R. Barber Steven Yearley considers the argument that metropolitan centres, not nation states, hold the power to take the lead on climate change By Steven Yearley 3 August
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis, by Tim Flannery Steven Yearley finds merit but not proven mileage in putting CO2 on ice to arrest global warming By Steven Yearley 3 December
Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change, by Nicholas Stern Time is critical if we are to find a workable, affordable and fair way of dealing with carbon emissions, Steven Yearley discovers By Steven Yearley 4 June
