Acknowledgments

      This book would have been impossible without the impeccably polite prodding of Justin Vaughan at Wiley Blackwell, an editor whose creative interventions extend beyond editing and were key sparks in imagining the book and setting us writing. He also sprang for dinner that time in Boston. Many thanks too to Charlie Hamlyn at Wiley Blackwell for his endless patience and hard work.

      Paul Robbins and Sarah Moore would like to thank the University of Wisconsin-Madison, its Department of Geography, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. They would especially like to thank the students of their Environment and Society classes there, and at the University of Arizona, for slogging through early performances and later iterations of some of the material presented here. They owe a debt of gratitude to their current and former graduate students who embody and convey much of the plural thinking in the book. Paul is indebted to Dr. Dustin Mulvaney for insights on Cal Fire and the Amah Mutsun and to Dr. Kyle White for his work on settler colonialism. Paul and Sarah would also like to thank Marty Robbins, Vicki Robbins, and Mari Jo Joiner. Shout out to Alexander Robbins-Moore, who antedates the last edition of this book, and has usually demonstrated patience with the co-inhabitants of his house. Special thanks to Zoey the Great Dane, who is a profound society–environment puzzle in her own right.

      John Hintz would like to thank his wife Michelle for her unwavering love and support across twenty-plus years of graduate school and academic life. Many thanks go to Susan Roberts, David Correia, Taro Futamura, Jean Lavigne, and Jamie Gillen, each of whom for years has played whatever role of friend, colleague, or mentor was necessary in the moment. He would also like to thank his colleagues in the Department of Environmental, Geographical and Geological Sciences (EGGS) at Bloomsburg University, as well as the countless passionate Bloomsburg students whose idealism and fresh insights make Mondays bearable. Finally, John would like to thank the birds, the bees, the fish, the trees, the sun, the grass, and the desert sand. Hopefully, time is on our side.