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Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services - NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and creating occasional friction. "Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services" examines the roles of the three sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. Readers from all three sectors will be interested in the analysis and recommendations provided in "Fair Weather". ... Read more

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Nature and Psyche argues that psychological and environmental writing and action are all too often colonized by the same assumptions that inhibit ecological and cultural diversity. Industrialized monocultures conceal the character of our alienation from nature and, thus, prevent the emergence of effective solutions. Drawing on a diversity of disciplines, David Kidner illustrates that traditional psychological understanding is often inherently hostile to the natural order, and that the dominant form of selfhood that has emerged in the industrialized world promotes the domestication of nature. In fact, even some of the most radical environmentalists, who simplistically oppose technology, are also trapped within this paradigm. The author demonstrates that a more critical historical and cultural awareness, rooted in nature, can enable a re-integration of nature and psyche. ... Read more

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Nature and Psyche by Kidner
This is the best book on this subject. I read in this area frequently but I will never forget the tsunami this book was for me when I first encountered it.

dee thinking about deep nature
This has become my favorite academic (i.e. intellectually weighty) book that could be loosely placed in the growing genre of ecopsychology. On the strength of this text, I invited David to give one of the key-note lectures at a recent meeting at Harvard University on the theoretcial aspects of human-nature relationships in relation to restoration ecology (a subject he touches upon in his book). For these reasons, the publisher, Green Frigate Books, used Kidner to write a very complimentary blurb for my recently published book "Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement with Water" ... Read more