Download the 2008-2009 Environmental Sourcebook, a guide to the full range of Island Press books on the most important environmental issues of our time. It offers the tools and solutions for policy and management that students, educators, practitioners working in conservation, decision-makers in government, business, and other sectors, and the public need to preserve the natural world.

“Hurricane Katrina was a new kind of experience  for most Americans—a huge natural disaster that demonstrated how poorly prepared the United States was, in 2005, for natural disasters. It also underlined that something strange is going on with the weather, even if Katrina's destructiveness itself might just have been a rare event in normal variability in the size and path of hurricanes."

Read an excerpt from The Dominant Animal by Paul and Anne Ehrlich