Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category) Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category) The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable energy future. It focuses attention, for the first time, on the unique challenges solar, wind, and geothermal energy will create for landscape protection, planning, design, and management. Topics addressed include: Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from renewable energy development and their social acceptance within North America, Europe and Australia Visual characteristics of energy facilities, including the design and planning techniques for avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit Methods of assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices for creating and using visual simulations Policy recommendations for political and regulatory bodies. A comprehensive and practical book, The Renewable Energy Landscape is an essential resource for those engaged in planning, designing, or regulating the impacts of these new, critical energy sources, as well as a resource for communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their local landscape.

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism, examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing together insights from geography, anthropology, and the environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms of resistance to their logics.

This volume collects all of the new pulp and weird fiction of James Palmer (2014 New Pulp Award nominee for Best Short Story) to date, including work from such popular anthologies as Gideon Cain, Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars, and Monster Earth. Within these pages you will find everything from weird menace tales in the style of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft to swashbuckling sword and sorcery to far flung future science fiction. Action heroes rub elbows with strange creatures as: A 40's private eye must retrieve a powerful magic ring before it falls into the hands of the local mob. A daring space ace confronts a cosmic mystery aboard a derelict starship. A young journalist must fend off a frightening alien invasion threatening his small town. A sword-slinging Puritan stalks a fallen angel in witch-haunted Colonial America. An American general fights evil on a post-apocalyptic Mars. All this and more await you in... Into the Weird Over 400 pages of pulse-pounding pulp action from the editor and co-creator of Monster Earth and Betrayal on Monster Earth

For more than five decades, mankind has shared the planet Earth with deadly giant creatures. Through the years, man has learned to harness these fearsome forces of nature for good-and sometimes for ill. But all that is about to change. In 1985, a frightening discovery has been made. A gene harvested from a lost dinosaur in the Congo is about to shift the global balance of power forever. When this genetic material falls into the hands of a cadre of zealots, the race is on for the End of All Things. Then, it will no longer be Man against Monster, but Man against Something Else... Prepare yourself for... The Betrayal Creators James Palmer and Jim Beard, along with Edward M. Erdelac, Thomas Deja, Fraser Sherman, and Jeff McGinnis take you back to a startling world of monster action, political intrigue, and daring adventure All this and more await you in... Betrayal on Monster Earth PRAISE FOR MONSTER EARTH "It's geeky fun. You will love it." --RevolutionSF.com "A cool new take on a classic concept." --Kaiju Battle Blog ..".a 'Must Read' book for those of us who grew up with Godzilla movies on a Saturday afternoon at the local cinema." --Ralph L. Angelo Jr., author of The Cagliostro Chronicles