Faculty & Staff Authors

Ells, K., & Castree, Noel. (2018). The tragedy of the commons (pp. 115–119). essay. In Castree, N., Hulme, M., & Proctor, J. D. (eds) Companion to Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315640051-24


Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way through to humanistic and post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. Though many academic disciplines have incorporated studying the environment as part of their curriculum, only in recent years has it become central to the social sciences and humanities rather than mainly the geosciences. 'The environment' is now a keyword in everything from fisheries science to international relations to philosophical ethics to cultural studies. The Companion brings these subject areas, and their distinctive perspectives and contributions, together in one accessible volume. Over 150 short chapters written by leading international experts provide concise, authoritative and easy-to-use summaries of all the major and emerging topics dominating the field, while the seven part introductions situate and provide context for section entries. A gateway to deeper understanding is provided via further reading and links to online resources. Companion to Environmental Studies offers an essential one-stop reference to university students, academics, policy makers and others keenly interested in 'the environmental question', the answer to which will define the coming century.

Ells, K., Jones, G., & Tinkler-Villani, Valeria. (2011). Chaos and complexity in paul auster’s new york trilogy (pp. 627–639). essay. In Tinkler-Villani, V., & Barfoot, C. C. (Eds.). Restoring the mystery of the rainbow : literature's refraction of science (Ser. Dqr studies in literature, 47). Rodopi.


Keats' misgivings about science unweaving the rainbow and robbing Nature of its mystery were shared by many of contemporaries, and successive generations have been compelled to ask how this rapidly escalating knowledge of the universe would affect their understanding of themselves and the world they lived in. This is the concern of most of the essays in these two volumes: how are we to live with science and the issues scientific discoveries and propositions raise? And how has this relationship with science been explored and expressed in literary works? Yet even before science became such a challenge to the imagination, an awareness of how people interact with the natural world - in terms of sickness and health, medicine, mathematics - had already been a literary subject, also reflected in a number of articles in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature's Refraction of Science. In the twentieth century doubt became a crucial component of science as well as literature, and the relativism and uncertainty of quantum physics have proved fruitful to a wide range of dramatist, poets and novelists as many articles indicate. A systematic desire for objective criteria, verifiability, and conceptual frameworks has also increased the importance of methodology and of criticism: the many approaches adopted by the contributors to these volumes further point to the refraction of science in literature.

Ells, K., & York University (Toronto, Ont.). Faculty of Environmental Studies. (1997). The information bikepath : a field study of the media and political ecology of the green party of ontario (Ser. Fes occasional papers series, v. 2, no. 1). Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.