Additional Readings

Allen, John L. 1997. Student Atlas of Environmental Issues. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishers. A comprehensive overview of environmental issues.

Bales, Kevin. 2002. "The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery." Scientific American 286(4): 80-88. Contrary to conventional beliefs, slavery in various guises survives around the world.

Botkin, Daniel B. 2000. No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A new interpretation of Thoreau and his writings.

Bright, Chris. 1999. "The Nemesis Effect." Worldwatch. May/June 1999. Warns of rapid, unexpected decline in the world's ecosystems as a result of overlapping stresses.

Brower, David (with Steve Chaplle). 1995. Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call To Those Who Would Save the Earth. San Francisco: Harper Collins.

Brower, David. 1990. For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books. A fascinating biography by one of the world's premier conservationists.

Brower, David. 1991. Work in Progress. Salt Lake City: Perigrine Books. A follow-up to For Earth's Sake in the story of a fascinating career in conservation.

Brown, L., et al. 2002. State of the World 2002. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute. A good, if somewhat alarmist, source of environmental information.

Brown, L., et al. 2002. Vital Signs 2002: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute. A brief synopsis of each of the major environmental issues we face.

Brown, Rosemary J. 1997. "The Shirts Off Their Backs." Co-op America Quarterly 42(Summer 1997): 14-17. A shocking expose about sweatshops and child labor in developing countries.

Brulle, Robert J. 2000. Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. An analysis of the theory and effectiveness of U. S. environmental groups.

Butler, C. D. 1997. "The consumption bomb." Medical Conflict and Survival. Argues that rising consumption rates are now a greater threat to human society and the environment than population growth.

Carley, Michael and Philipe Spapens. 1998. Sharing the World: Sustainable Living and Global Equity in the 21st Century. London: Earthscan. Addresses links between over-consumption and declining quality of life in industrialized countries with poverty and inequality in developing countries.

Chapman, Audrey R., et al. (eds).1999. Consumption, Population, and Sustainability: Perspectives from Science and Religion. More than 250 scientists and religious people discuss the environmental impact of consumption patterns and population trends.

Cronon, William. 1984. Changes in the Land Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang. A groundbreaking environmental history that shows how New England landscapes were altered by Native Americans.

d'Aluisio, Faith and Peter Menzel. 1997. Women in the Material World. San Francisco: Sierra Club Press. Hopes, dreams, disappointments, and life experiences of women from 20 countries.

Earth Island Journal. 2001. "A Tribute to David Brower." Earth Island Journal 16(1). Special Center Section celebrating the life of the father of the modern environmental movement.

Easterbrook, Greg. 1995. A Moment in the Sun: The coming age of environmental optimism. New York: Viking Press. A determinedly optimistic appraisal of current environmental conditions.

Economist, The. 2002. "How Many Planets: A Survey of the Global Environment," The Economist (July 6, 2002) (find at www.economist.com)

Folke, Carl, et.al, 2002. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations (International Council for Science, 2002) (available online at www.icgu.org/library/WSSD-REP/vol3.pdf)

Fox, Stephen. 2002. "Molded by Mountains." Sierra 87(1): 28-31. First article in a special issue celebrating the 100^th birth of photographer Ansel Adams.

Gewin, V. "Ecosystem health: The state of the planet." Nature 417: 112 - 113, (2002). An ambitious attempt to assess the impact of factors such as shifts in land use and loss of biodiversity on the Earth's ecosystems.

Gorbachev, Mikhail. 2001. "Nature Will Not Wait." World Watch 14(2): 4-5. The former president of the Soviet Union argues that we need a new system of values that recognizes the organic unity between humans and nature and promotes an ethic of global responsibility.

Goudie, A. 2000. The Human Impact on the Natural Environment. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. A comprehensive textbook of human impacts on the environment.

Gua, Ramachandra. 2000. "The Paradox of Global Environmentalism." Current History November 2000. Argues that misguided attempts to defend nature by richer, northern countries often results in environmental degradation in the South.

Hayes, Denis. 2000. The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair. Washington, DC: Island Press. A call to arms from the chair of the Earth Day Network.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 1996. World Disasters Report, 1996. New York: Oxford University Press. Annual review of natural disasters.

International Council for Science, 2002. Report of the Scientific and Technological Community to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (available at www.sustainabilityscience.org/keydocs/). A preliminary report on the science of sustainability prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Kane, Hal. June, 1995. "The Hour of Departure: Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants." Worldwatch Paper 125. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute. Important analysis of the causes and effects of environmental refugees.

Kates, Robert W., et al. 2001. "Sustainability Science." Science (2001) (available online at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5517/641).

Kiesecker, Joseph M, et al. 2001. "Complex causes of amphibian population declines." Nature 410 (6829) 681 - 684. Climate change, UV exposure, parasites, and diseases may all be interconnected in amphibian declines around the world.

King, Michael D. and David D. Herring. 2000. "Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs." Scientific American. 282 (4): 92-97. Satellites in the Earth Observing System diagnose the planet's health from the sky.

Lear, Linda. 1997. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt. A new biography of this conservation pioneer.

Lomborg, Bjorn. 2001. The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. A Danish statistician and political scientist paints a rosy picture of our environmental condition. (see rebuttal by Stephen Schneider, et al in Scientific American 286(1): 61-71.

Lowenthal, David. 2000. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. Univ. of Washington Press. A new biography of America's pioneer conservationist.

Lubchenco, Jane. 1997. "Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science." Science (1997) (available at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/279/5350/491).

Luoma, John, 1997. "Vanishing frogs." Audubon 99(3): 60-69. Amphibians are declining all over the world, from California to India.

Margolis, R. M. & Kammen, D. M. 1999. "Underinvestment: The Energy Technology and R&D Policy Challenge." Science 285, 690 - 692 (1999). We need funding to study sustainability.

Maser, Chris. 1995. Resolving Environmental Conflict: Towards Sustainable Community Development. Delray Beach, FL: St. Lucie Press. A guidebook to conflict resolution and facilitated community decision-making.

Matton, Ashley. 2000. "Why the Amphibians?" World Watch 13(4): 12-23. Why are amphibians disappearing around the world?

McNeill, J. R. 2000. "Ideas Matter: A Political History of the Twentieth-Century Environment." Current History November 2000. A good survey of recent environmental history.

Meine, Curt, Ed. 1997. Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An interesting example of ecocriticism, a new field of literary analysis from an environmental perspective.

Milbrath, Lester W., Tom Toles (Illustrator), and David T. Suzuki. 1996. Learning to Think Environmentally: While There is Still Time. Wicked cartoons and earnest warnings from some original thinkers.

Miller, Char. 2001. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Island Press. A new biography of a founding father of conservation.

Miller, Gordon L.(ed). 2000. Nature's Fading Chorus: Classic and Contemporary Writings on Amphibians. Covelo, CA: Island Press. An anthology of articles on amphibians throughout history.

Moore, J. L. et al. 2001. "The distribution of cultural and biological diversity in Africa." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published online doi: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2075 (2001). Cultural and biological diversity are highest in the same places.

Motavalli, J. 1999. "Tough Choices for Planet Earth." E Magazine Vol. X(1): 28-35. The world stands at the crossroads at the start of a new millennium. What will our direction be?

Myers, Norman, 1995. "Environmental Unknowns." Science pp. 358-360, July 21, 1995.. How do we plan for unknown unknowns?

National Wildlife Federation. 2000. "How Conservation Grew from a Whisper to a Roar." National Wildlife 38 (1): 22-44. A special report on the history of conservation.

Niller, Eric. 2001."The Trouble with Turtles." Scientific American 285(2): 80-85. Despite efforts to protect beach nesting sites and reduce fishing by-catch mortality, green turtle populations continue to decline.

Paehlke, Robert, ed. 1997. Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing. A comprehensive encyclopedia on conservation and environmentalism by a leading scholar on environmental policy.

Pimm, S. L. 2001. The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth. New York: McGraw-Hill. Calculates that humans now consume 40% of all terrestrial biomass, between a quarter and a third of marine resources and about 50% of the planet's accessible fresh water

Pimentel, David, Laura Westra, and Reed F. Noss. 2000. Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Results of a project that brought together thinkers from around the world to examine the problems of ecological degradation, human health, and sustainability.

Pounds, Alan J. 2001. "Climate and amphibian declines." Nature 410(6829): 639-640. Various reasons have been proposed for the falling numbers of amphibians in many parts of the world. Changing climate is likely to be a key factor -- but with complicated links to the immediate causes of these populations declines.

Prescott-Allen, Robert. 2001. The Well-being of Nations: A Country-by-country Index of Quality of Life and the Environment. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Combines 39 indicators of health, population, wealth, etc. into a Human Well-being Index and 39 similar indicators of biodiversity, water quality, etc. into an Ecosystem Well-being Index.

Prugh, Thomas, Robert Costanza, and Herman Daly. 2000. The Local Politics of Global Sustainability. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Three leading ecological economists discuss sustainability.

Raven, Peter H. 2002. "Science, Sustainability and the Human Prospect," Science (2002) (available at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/297/5583/954).

Relyea, R. A. & Mills, N. 2001. "Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor)." Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98, 2491-2496 (2001).

Renner, Michael. 1997. Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict and the New Age of Insecurity. London: Earthscan. Paying attention to social, economic, and environmental problems may contribute more to security than will military spending.

Sachs, Aaron. 1997. "A Planet Unfree." Sierra 82(6): 64-68. You can't save the world without liberating its people.

Sachs, Jeffery, Andrew d. Mellinger and John L. Gallup. 2001. "The Geography of Poverty and Wealth." Scientific American 284(3): 70-73. Can geography and climate explain wealth and productivity?

Schneider, Stephen, et al. 2002. "Misleading Math about the Earth." Scientific American 286(1): 61-71. An angry rebuttal of Bjorn Lomborg's rosy picture of environmental conditions.

Soule, Michael E. and Gordon H. Orians (eds). 2001. Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade. Leaders of conservation biology discuss where the field now stands and what its priorities should be.

Stewart, D., et al. 2000. "How Conservation Grew From a Whisper to a Roar." NationalWildlife 38(1): 22-44. An illustrated history of conservation in the United States.

Terborgh, John. 1999. Requiem for Nature. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A brutally honest look at the social, economic, and political barriers to tropical conservation

Thomashow, Mitchell. 2001. Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change. MIT Press. Shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so they become an integral part of everyday awareness.

Uhl, Christopher. 1998. "Conservation Biology in Your Own Front Yard." Conservation Biology Vol. 12, No. 6. pp.1175-1177 (Dec., 1998). There are opportunities for environmental education close to home.

United Nations Development Programme. 1997. Human Development Report. New York: Cambridge University Press. The most comprehensive and up-to-date data on human development.

United Nations Development Programme. 2000. Human Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press. Source of the annual human development index and other economic and development statistics.

United Nations Environment Programme. 2002. Global Environment Outlook 3. New York: Earthscan Publications. A region-by-region survey of the state of the world's environment.

Wackernagel, Mathis, et al. 2002. "Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Issue 14, 9266-9271, July 9, 2002. The human demand on the environment for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.

Wilson, E. O. 2002. "The Bottleneck." Scientific American 286(2): 82-91. A distinguished ecologist looks at how we might provide a satisfying and sustainable life for everyone.

Wirth, Timothy E. 1995. "The Human Factor." Sierra 80(5): 76. National Security used to be about war and readiness; now it's also about population and over-consumption.

World Bank. 2000. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. The World Bank. A comprehensive report on living conditions around the world.

World Resources Institute. 2000. World Resources 2000-2001. New York: Oxford University Press. An excellent summary of world environment and resources. Prepared in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Program.

Zimmerman, M. 1995. Science, Non-science, and Nonsense: Approaching Environmental Literacy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. How does science differ from non-science?