Sustainability- Further Reading
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Further Reading
Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender and the State in Community-Based Conservation
Arun Agrawal & Clark C. Gibson, eds.
Rutgers University Press, 2001
Critical examination of community based – as opposed to national, top-down – conservation efforts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, with emphasis on ethnicity, gender, and state roles therein.
Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor
Tom Athanasiou
University of Georgia Press, 1996
On the state of global environmentalism.
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
Hugh Brody
North Point Press, 2000
The life of hunter gatherers told from the perspective of the Inuits.
Lester Brown
Earthscan, 2001
The founder of World Watch reflects on the sustainability movement and what should come next.
Deep Ecology
Bill Deval and M. Smith
Gibbs Smith, Publisher; 1985
Explores the philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of today's environmental movement, the human-centered assumptions behind most approaches to nature, the possibilities of an expanded human consciousness, and specific direct action suggestions for individuals to practice.
The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation
Nives Dolak & Elinor Ostrom, eds.
The MIT Press, 2003
Common and community property theory and suggestions for sustainable development.
Mark Dowie
The MIT Press, 1996
Thoroughgoing critique of the mainstream environmental movement for its compromise with financial interests.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
Dinyar Godrej
New Internationalist, 2001
Outlines the frightening facts about global warming; the references used are at times just as interesting as the text.
Gro Harlem Brundtland et al.
Oxford University Press, 1987
The Brundtland Report that stimulated the debate on sustainable development.
Paul Hawken
Collins, 1993
One of the first books to explore the middle ground between business and environmentalism.
Mark Hertsgaard
Abacus, 1998
A journey around the world in search of environmentalism.
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
Martha Honey
Island Press, 1998
Guide to the challenges and promises of sustainable tourism.
Endgame, Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization and Vol 2: Resistance
Derrick Jensen
Seven Stories Press, 2006
Bill McKibben
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1987
One of the first books to bring global warming to public attention; a call to put nature back at the center of human understanding.
Not in Our Backyard
Mark Mowrey et al., eds.
William Morrow & Co, 1993
The shaping of the modern environmental movement.
David W. Orr
Island Press, 1994
An inspiring read for those who are concerned for the health of the mind as well as the ecological systems that we operate within. Not just for those individuals involved with education.
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Richard Peet & Michael Watts, eds., 2nd ed.
Routledge, 2004
Editors republish and expand on essays arising from the 1993 issue of Economic Geography on the subject of development and the environment.
Mahjid Rahnema and Victoria Bowtree
Fernwood Books Ltd, 1998
Devastating critique of what the mainstream paradigm has in practice done to the peoples of the world and to their richly diverse and sustainable ways of living.
Wolfgang Sachs et al., eds.
Zed, 1998
While sustainability is in danger of being reduced to a meaningless platitude, the brutal fact remains that industrial countries have a disproportionately large and negative impact on the environment.
Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision
University of Georgia Press, 1986
Bioregionalism looks at the earth from the point of view of nature not human desires.
Willy Schilthuis
Floris Books, 1994
Rudolph Steiner’s spiritual approach to raising food in what amounts to organic techniques.
Brian Tokar
South End Press, 1997
A critique of corporate “greenwashing.”
World Watch
W. W. Norton, annual
Each year the World Watch crew diagnoses the eco-health of global society and offers various prescriptions for change.
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Alan Weisman
Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998
