 |  Principles of Environmental Science William P. Cunningham,
University of Minnesota
Mary Ann Cunningham,
Vassar College
Understanding Our Environment
Further Readings
| Allen, John L. (1997). Student Atlas of Environmental Issues. Guilford, CT:: Dushkin Publishers.
A comprehensive overview of environmental issues | | | |
| Barrett, C. B. and R. Grizzle.. (1999). "A Holistic Approach to Sustainability Based on Pluralism Stewardship,". : . (Environmental Ethics 21(1): 23-42.).
A pluralistic approach to environmental ethics. | | | |
| Bergman, B.J.. (1998). "Wild at Heart,". : Sierra. (83(1):24-29.).
Down the Colorado River with "moderate extremist" Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!. | | | |
| Berkes, Fikret.. (1999). Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management.. Philadelphia:: Taylor & Francis..
An interesting study of indigenous ecological knowledge. | | | |
| Berry, Wendell.. (80(5):62-67.). "The Obligation of Care,". : Sierra. (Taking responsibility for the planet and ourselves.).
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| 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.. (1990). For Earth's sake: The Life and Times of David Brower.. Salt Lake City:: Peregrine Smith Books..
A fascinating autobiography by one of the world's premier conservationists. | | | |
| Brower, David.. (1991.). Work in Progress.. Salt Lake City:: Perigrin Books..
A follow-up to For Earth's Sake is the story of a fascinating career in conservation. | | | |
| 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..
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| Brower, Kenneth.. (2001). "Leopold's Gift". : Sierra. (86(1): 30-39, 109-110.).
Dave Brower's son revisits Aldo Leopold's Sand County farm to learn how the science of restoration ecology was born. | | | |
| Brown, L., et al.. (2000). State of the World 2000.. Washington, DC:: Worldwatch Institute..
A good, if somewhat alarmist source of environmental information. | | | |
| 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). Medical Conflict and Survival. "The consumption bomb.". : .
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, A. R. et al.. (1999). Consumption, Population, and Sustainability.. Covelo, CA:: Island Press..
Perspectives from science and religion on environmental problems. | | | |
| Cheney, J. and A. Weston.. (1999). "Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette,". : Environmental Ethics. (21(2): 115-134.).
An examination of ethics and epistemology. | | | |
| Cobb, John B., Jr.. (1995). Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology.. Denton, TX:: Environmental Ethics Books..
A leading philosopher and theologian reflects on environmental ethics and the human condition. | | | |
| Cronon, William, ed.. (1995). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature.. New York:: W.W. Norton..
An important but controversial collection of essays on post-modernism and the social creation of nature. | | | |
| 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..
An determinedly optimistic appraisal of current environmental conditions. | | | |
| Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich.. (1996). Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.. Covelo, CA:: Island Press..
A hard-hitting analysis of the use and misuse of science in environmental policy-making. | | | |
| Freyfogle, E. T.. (1999). Bounded People, Boundless Lands.. New York:: Shearwater Books..
An exploration of environmental ethics and personal responsibility. | | | |
| Goldsmith, Edward.. (1998). The Way: An Ecological World-View.. Athens, GA:: University of Georgia Press..
A radical critique of the modernist world view from the editor of The Ecologist. | | | |
| Goudie, A.. (2000). The Human Impact on the Natural Environment.. Oxford, UK:: Oxford University Press..
A comprehensive textbook of human impacts on the environment. | | | |
| Grande, S. M. A.. (1999). "Beyond the Ecologically Noble Savage: Deconstructing the White Man's Indian,". : Environmental Ethics. (21(3): 307-320.).
Stereotyping indigenous people as ecologically noble savages hinders our understanding of both humans and our environmental history. | | | |
| Hanna, Susan S. et al.. (1996). Rights to Nature.. Covelo, CA:: Island Press..
A rights-based view of human use and control of nature. | | | |
| Hayden, Tom.. (1997). The Lost Gospel of The Earth.. San Francisco, CA:: Sierra Club..
A call by California state senator and former SDS leader for an eco-spiritual awakening. | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| Hettinger, N. and B. Throop.. (1999). "Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness,". : Environmental Ethics. (21(1): 3-21.).
A new understanding of ecology leads to a re-examination of the goals of ecocentrism. | | | |
| Houle, K.L.F.. (An examination of the philosophy and of the philosophical forefather of Deep Ecology.). "Spinoza and Ecology Revisited,". Environmental Ethics: 1997.
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| International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.. (1996). World Disasters Report, 1996.. New York:: Oxford University Press..
Writing on natural disasters. | | | |
| Kane, Hal. June,. (1995). "The Hour of Departure: Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants,". Washington, DC:: Worldwatch Institute.. (Worldwatch Paper 125.).
Important analysis of the causes and effects of environmental refugees. | | | |
| Katz, Eric. (1996). Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community.. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
An exploration of nature-centered philosophy. | | | |
| Kellert, Stephen R. (1997). Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development.. Covelo, CA:: Island Press..
An examination of human attitudes towards nature by a leading expert in the field. See also his excellent 1996 discussion of attitudes towards nature in The Value of Life, also from Island Press | | | |
| 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.).
Satelites in the Earth Observing System diagnose the planet's health from the sky. | | | |
| LaDuke, Winona.. (1999). All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.. Cambridge, MA:: South End Press..
A collection of stories about environmental injustice towards native people in America. | | | |
| LaDuke, W.. (2000). "Reclaming Our Native Earth,". : Earth Island Journal. (15(1):34-37.).
A leader in the native land reclamation movement argues that loss of cultural diversity and biodiversity go hand in hand. | | | |
| Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson:. (1997). Witness for Nature.. New York:: Henry Holt..
A new biography of this conservation pioneer. | | | |
| Light, Andrew and Jonathan M. Smith.. (1996). Philosophy and Geography I: Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics.. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
A collection of essays on geoethics. | | | |
| Little, Jane Braxton.. (2001). "God and Greens: The Environmental Movement in America's Churches.". : Forest Magazine. (March/April 2001: 14-19.).
Religious leaders apply new meaning to a biblical mandate to tend the garden. | | | |
| Low, Nicholas and Brenda Gleeson.. (1998). Justice, Society and Nature: an exploration of political ecology.. London:: Routledge..
A good overview of ecological justice. | | | |
| Luoma, John,. (1997). "Vanishing frogs,". : Audubon. (99(3):60-69.).
Amphibians are declining all over the world, from California to India. | | | |
| 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? | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| 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? | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| 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 population declines. | | | |
| Relyea, R. A. & Mills, N.. (2001). "Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor).". USA: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (98, 2491- 2496).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| Roszak, Theodore, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds.. (1995). Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind.. San Francisco:: Sierra Club..
How are our relations with nature connected to mental health? | | | |
| Rowe, J. Stan.. (1997). "From Reductionism to Holism in Ecology and Deep Ecology,". : The Ecologist. (27(4):147-151.).
Deep Ecology may not be as holistic as its proponents claim. | | | |
| Sachs, Aaron.. (1997). "A Planet Unfree,". : Sierra. (82(6):64-68.).
You can't save the world without liberating its people. | | | |
| Schwartz, Eilon.. (1997). "Bal Taschit: A Jewish Environmental Precept,". : Environmental Ethics. (19(4).).
A survey of Jewish traditions for respect of nature. | | | |
| Sheehan, Molly O'Mera.. (2000). "Gaining Perspective,". : Worldwatch Magazine. (13(2):14-24.).
Satellite imaging has helped us visualize environmental and social destabilization around the world. | | | |
| Shepard, F. R. (ed).. (1999). Encounters with Nature: Essays by Paul Shepard.. New York:: Shearwater Books..
A collection of essays on landscapes, humans, and nature. | | | |
| Shrader-Frechette, Kristin and Laura Westra, eds.. (1997). Technology and Values.. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
A useful collection of essays on science, technology, public health, economics, and environmental ethics. | | | |
| Smith, Mick.. (1997). "Against the Enclosure of the Ethical Commons: Radical Environmentalism as an 'Ethics of Place',". : Environmental Ethics. (19(4):21-34.).
An interesting combination of ethics and social history that argues for a sense of place as the basis for environmental ethics. | | | |
| Stewart, D. et al.. (2000). "How Conservation Grew From a Whisper to a Roar,". : National Wildlife. (38(1): 22-44.).
An illustrated history of conservation in the United States. | | | |
| United Nations Development Programme.. (Cambridge University Press.). Human Development Report.. : New York:. (The most comprehensive and up-to-date data on human development.).
1997 | | | |
| 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.. (1999). Global Environment Outlook 2000.. New York:: Earthscan Publications..
A region-by-region survey of the state of the world's environment. | | | |
| Westra, L.. (1996). "Environmental Integrity, Racism, and Health,". : Science Total Environment. (184(1-2):57-66.).
An interrogation of the relationship between ecosystem integrity and human health. | | | |
| 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 overconsumption. | | | |
| World Bank.. (1999). World Development Report 1999/2000.. : .
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. Science,. (1995). Non-science, and Nonsense: Approaching Environmental Literacy.. Baltimore, MD:: Johns Hopkins University Press..
How does science differ from non-science? | | | |
| Zimmerman, Michael E.. (1997). Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity.. San Francisco:: University of California Press..
A good review of the conflict between ecologists and post-modernists about the values and meanings of nature. | | | |
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