Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores

Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life.

The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales...