What we are passionate about reading this month

  • The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

    by Helen Scales

    This book was gifted to the new team members as a welcome gift because it’s such a beautiful rendition of how extraordinary our deep ocean ecosystems actually are. The book is written by a marine biologist but it in a language that is highly accessible – it reads like a novel!

    Link: https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-brilliant-abyss/

  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

    by Kate Beaton

    Cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of the oil sands in Canada, the country where Pascale, one of the researcher on the DSM project, is from. The graphic novel is an autobiography of Katie, who after graduating from Uni, gets a job in the Oil Sands in Alberta to pay for her student loans. The book is a sober yet highly emotional critical account of the reality of working in an extractive environment.

    Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-kate-beaton-paid-off-her-student-loans

  • Routledge Handbook on Global Land and Resource Grabbing

    by A. Neef, C. Ngin, T. Moreda, and S. Mollett (eds)

    This open access handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing, including a section on deep sea resources. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters.

    Link: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080916