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A comprehensive overview of environmental issues.

Backes, David (ed). 2001. The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches by Sigurd F. Olson, Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Examines the evolution of the wilderness ethic in a wilderness philosopher.

Backes, David. 1999. A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
A surprising look at the life of one of the giants of the conservation movement.

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.

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, Johan Colding and Carl Folke (eds). 2002. Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change. Cambridge University Press.
Describes how resilient human and ecological systems provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis.

Berkes, Fikret. 1999. Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.
An interesting study of indigenous ecological knowledge.

Berry, Wendell. 1995. "The Obligation of Care," Sierra 80(5):62-67.
Taking responsibility for the planet and ourselves.

Berry, Wendell. 2000. Life is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition. Counterpoint Press.
A rebuttal to E. O. Wilson's Consilience published in 1998, which argued that all things are knowable, that progress is inexorable, and science can answer everything.

Blaustein, Andrew R. and Pieter T. Johnson. 2003. "Explaining Frog Deformities" Scientific American 288(2): 60-65.
Discusses three prime suspects in frog abnormalities.

Boff, Leonardo, and Phillip Berryman. 1997.. Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Orbis Books.
A combination of liberation ecology and environmental justice.

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.

Botzler, Richard G. and Susan J. Armstrong (eds). 1997. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. McGraw-Hill Co.
An anthology of writings on the topic.

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 Ciy: Peregrine Smith Books.
A fascinating biography 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 in the story of a fascinating career in conservation.

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, L., et al. 2003. State of the World 2003. 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. "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.

Cafaro, Philip. 2001. "Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson: Toward an Environmental Virtue Ethics." Environmental Ethics 23(1): 3-17.
A humanist approach to environmental ethics.

Callicott, J. Baird 1991. Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays. Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
A leading environmental philosopher and ethicist discusses Leopold's land ethic.

Callicott, J. Baird 1999. Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy State Univ. of New York Press.
Advances an ethic based on Aldo Leopold's thought.

Callicott. J. Baird. 1997. Earth's Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback. University of California Press.
A fascinating survey of attitudes toward nature in a wide variety of cultures.

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.

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.

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. 1996. 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.

Cronon, William. 1984. Changes in the Land Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang.
A ground-breaking 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.

Daly, Herman E. and John B., Jr. Cobb 1994. For the Common Good : Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future 2^nd ed.
A classic in ecological economics and environmental ethics.

Daly, Herman E. and Kenneth N. Townsend, eds. 1993. Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
An older but still important consideration of these topics.

Des Jardins, Joseph R. 1999. Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy, and Theory. McGraw-Hill Co.
A brief introduction to the subject.

Devall, Bill and George Sessions. 1986. Deep Ecology. Gibbs Smith Pub.
An anthology of readings in deep ecology.

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).

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 mis-use of science in environmental policy-making.

Evernden, Neil and Lorne Leslie. 1992. The Social Creation of Nature.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. A postmodern view of nature.

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, Nicols. 2002. Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature Art and Individual Lives. Island Press.
A historical and literary review of anti-technology sentiments.

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.

Freyfogle, E. T. 1999. Bounded People, Boundless Lands. New York: Shearwater Books.
An exploration of environmental ethics and personal responsibility.

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

Glacken, Clarence J. 1990. Traces on the Rhodian Shore : Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Univ. of California Press.
A masterpiece in environmental history and philosophy.

Goldsmith, Edward. 1998. The Way: An Ecological World-View. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
A radical critique of the modernist worldview from the editor of The Ecologist.

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.

Gosling, David. 2001. Religion and Ecology in India and South East Asia. Routledge Press.
An examination of nature in Hindu and Buddhist traditions.

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.

Grinberg, Kate.2002. "Sustainability indicators built on principles of natural capitalism." Business and the Environment Oct 2002 v13 i10 p10(1).
A new corporate audit system uses the principles of natural capitalism to measure a company's success.

Gruen, Lori and Dale Jamieson (eds). 1994. Reflecting on Nature : Readings in Environmental Philosophy. Oxford Univ. Press.
An anthology of articles on environmental ethics.

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.

Hanna, Susan S. et al. 1996. Rights to Nature. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A rights-based view of human use and control of nature.

Hargrove, Eugene C. 1989. Foundations of Environmental Ethics. Environmental Ethics Books.
A brief introduction to the topic.

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. 1997. "Spinoza and Ecology Revisited," Environmental Ethics 19(4):
An examination of the philosophy and of the philosophical forefather of Deep Ecology.

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.

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

Jaiteh M, Levy M, Redford KH, Sanderson EW, Wannebo A, and Woolmer G. 2002. "The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild" In Sappington, N (ed). ESRI Map Book: Geography and GIS -- Sustaining our World. Volume 17. ESRI: USA.

Jamieson, Dale. 1999. Singer and His Critics. Blackwell Pub.
A critique of Peter Singer, one of the most controversial animal rights philosophers.

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).

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.

Kellert, Stephen R. and Timothy J. Farnham. 2002. The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion and Spirituality with the Natural World. Island Press.
Twenty leading thinkers explore our relationship with the natural world.

Kidner, David W. 2000. "Fabricating Nature: A Critique of the Social Construction of Nature." Environmental Ethics 22(4): 339-358.
Argues against defining nature as a "social construction."

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.

King, Roger J. H. 2000. "Environmental Ethics and the Built Environment." Environmental Ethics 22(2): 115-131.
Argues that the human, or built, environment is equally important as wild nature in environmental ethics.

Kuhn. Thomas S. 1996. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3^rd edition. University of Chicago Press.
An update of a classic analysis of the history and philosophy of science that introduced the term "paradigm shift."

LaDuke, W. 2000. "Reclaiming 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.

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.

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

Light, Andrew and Holmes Ralston III. 2002. Environmental Ethics: An Anthology. Blackwell Pub.
An excellent collection of classic and contemporary writings on the central questions in environmental ethics

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.

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 rebutal by Stephen Schneider, et al in Scientific American 286(1): 61-71).

Low, Nicholas and Brenda Gleeson. 1998. Justice, society and Nature: an exploration of political ecology. London: Routledge.
A good overview of ecological justice.

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?

McKibben, Bill. 1997. Hope, Human and Wild : True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth. Ruminator Books.
The author of The End of Nature offers hope for a balance between humans and nature.

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.

McNeill, John Robert. 2001. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. W. W. Norton Co.
A grim view of environmental degradation 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.

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.

Mills, Stephanie. 2002. Epicurean Simplicity. Island Press.
An exploration of the simple life.

Milton, Kay. 2002. Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion. Routledge Press.
An exploration of the role of emotion in environmental protection.

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.

Morrison, Michael L. 2002. Wildlife Restoration: Techniques for Habitat Analysis and Animal Monitoring. Island Press.
Links restoration ecology and wildlife management.

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 (July 21, 1995), pp. 358-360.
How do we plan for unknown unknowns?

Naess, Arne and David Rothenberg 1990. Ecology, Community and Lifestyle : Outline of an Ecosophy Cambridge Univ. Press.
The original source of Deep Ecology.

Nash, Roderick F. 1990. The Rights of Nature : A History of Environmental Ethics.
A history of environmental ethics thought in America.

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.

National Wildlife Federation. 2002. Conservation Directory 2003: The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations. Island Press.
A comprehensive listing of 4,000 government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and colleges and universities, as well as more than 18,000 officials concerned with environmental conservation, education, and natural resource use and management.

Nicholsen, Shierry Weber. 2001. The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern. MIT Press.
Argues for recognition of the emotional aspects of our experience of the natural world.

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.

Oelschlaeger, Max. 1993. The Idea of Wilderness : From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. Yale Univ. Press.
A comprehensive survey of wilderness philosophy in America.

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.

Petersen, David. 2000. Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality, and Wildness in America. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
An exploration on the evolutionary, philosophical, and religious history of hunting.

Peterson, Anna. 2001. Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. Univ. California Press.
Examines conceptions of human and nonhuman nature.

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.

Pimm, S. L..2001. The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, McGraw-Hill, New York, (2001).
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.

Plumwood, Val. 2002. Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. Routledge Press.
An Australian environmental ethicist argues for a new role of nature in our culture.

Ponting, Clive. 1993. A Green History of the World : The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Penguin Books.
A reissue of a classic.

Popper, Karl R. 1992. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge 5^th ed. Routledge Press.
A classic in the history and philosophy of science.

Popper, Karl R. 2001. All Life is Problem Solving. Routledge Press.
A description of Popper's life and work.

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.

Prescott-Allen, Robert. 2001. The Wellbeing 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 Wellbeing Index and 39 similar indicators of biodiversity, water quality, etc. into an Ecosystem Wellbeing Index.

Preston, Christopher J. 2000. "Conversing with Nature in a Postmodern Epistemological Framework." Environmental Ethics 22(3): 227-240.
Critiques epistemological frameworks that lack an animistic account of nature.

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

Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. 2000. Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future. J. P. Tarcher Press.
The authors of Toxic Sludge is Good for You continue their exploration of how corporate spin doctors, outrage managers, and risk communicators manipulate public opinion.

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

Regan, Tom. 2001. Defending Animal Rights. Univ. of Illinois Press. Along with Peter Singer, Regan was a pioneer of animal rights in America.
This volume is of shorter pieces reflecting Regan's thinking over the past decade.

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.

Rockefeller, Steven C. 1992. "Faith and Community in an Ecological Age," from Rockefeller and Elder, eds, Spirit and Nature (1992).
An anthology of articles on environmental ethics from many different perspectives.

Rolston, Holmes. 1898. Philosophy Gone Wild: Environmental Ethics 2^nd ed. Prometheus Books.
A classic in the field.

Rolston, Holmes. 1989. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Temple Press.
An excellent overview of environmental ethics.

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.

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?

Sachs, Wolfgang, et.al., The Jo'Burg Memo: Fairness in a Fragile World: Memorandum for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Henrich Boll Foundation, (2002) (available at www.joburgmemo.org or at www.resurgence.org).

Sanderson EW, Jaiteh M, Levy MA, Redford KH, Wannebo AV, and Woolmer G. 2002. "e;The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild." Bioscience 52 (10).891-904.
A human footprint map indicates that 83% of the land's surface is influenced by human activities.

Sarewitz, Daniel, et al. 2000. Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A fascinating combination of science, politics, and social factors in decision-making.

Sayre, Roger, et al. 1999. Nature in Focus: Rapid Ecological Assessment. Island Press.
A guide to the theory and practice of rapid ecological assessment.

Schneider, Stephen, John P. Holdren, Joh Bongaarts, and Thomas Loejoy. 2002. "Misleading Math about the Earth." Scientific American 286(1): 61-71.
An angry rebuttal of Bjorn Lomborg's rosy picture of environmental conditions.

Schor, Juliet and Betsy Taylor, (eds). 2002. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century. Beacon Press.
A collection of 16 essays by leading scholars of sustainability.

Schwartz, Eilon. 1997. "Bal Taschit: : A Jewish Environmental Precept," Environmental Ethics 19(4).
A survey of Jewish traditions for respect of nature.

Sessions, George (ed). 1994. Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century.
A definitive collection of writings on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.

Shapiro, Judith. 2001. "China on the losing side: Mao's War Against Nature:Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China" Nature: 19 July 2001 Volume 412 No. 6844 pp. 255 - 360

Sharpe, Virginia, Bryan Norton, and Strachan Donnelley. 2000. Wolves and Human Communities: Biology, Politics, and Ethics.
Explores attitudes towards wolves and their restoration in several key case studies.

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.

Singer, Peter 1996. Rethinking Life & Death : The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics. St. Martin's Press.
Proposes radically new ethics to protect the quality, not the sanctity of human life.

Singer, Peter. 1995. How Are We to Live? : Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest. Prometheus Books.
A typically challenging position by an outspoken author.

Singer, Peter. 2001. Writings on an Ethical Life. Ecco Press.
A collection of his thoughts on 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.

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.

Soule, Michale E. and Gary Lease (eds), 1995. Reinventing Nature? : Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction. Island Press.
A critical rejoinder to Wm. Cronon's Uncommon Ground.

Steiner, Frederick. 2002. Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead. Island Press.
A noted landscape planner presents a historical and analytical examination of how humans interact with each other as well as with other organisms and their surroundings.

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.

Sullivan, Robert. 2000. A Whale Hunt : 2 Years on the Olympic Peninsula With the Makah and Their Canoe. Scribner.
A sympathetic recount of the only whale hunt allowed in the lower 48 states.

Suzuki, David T. and Amanda McConnell. 1999. The Sacred Balance : Rediscovering Our Place in Nature. Greystone Books.
"Suzuki gives concrete suggestions about how we can create a way of life that is ecologically sustainable, fulfilling, and just.

Taylor, Paul W. 1986. Respect for Nature. Princeton Univ. Press.
A thoughtful and perceptive approach to environmental ethics.

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.

Trefil, James. 2003. The Nature of Science : An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Explains in everyday terms the two hundred overarching laws, principles, and mechanisms that make sense of the physical world.

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

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 Development Programme. 2002. Human Development Report: Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date data on human development.

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.

Vandeveer, Donald and Christine Pierce. 2002. The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, Economics 3^rd ed. Wadsworth Pub.
An anthology of important essays.

Vilsack, Tom. 2002. Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities. Island Press.
The Governor of Iowa discusses land and wildlife conservation in modern times.

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.

Warren, Karen J. 1999. "Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries about a Distributive Model." Environmental Ethics 21(2): 151-162.
Argues for an inclusive model of justice based on values such as care, respect, and appropriate reciprocity.

Westra, L. 1996. "Environmental Integrity, Racism, and Health," Science Total Environment 184(1-2):57-66.
An interrogation of the relation between ecosystem integrity and human health.

Westra, Laura. 1998. Living in Integrity. Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
An innovative look at environmental ethics and the need for ecological and biological integrity

Wheater, Phil and Penny Cook. 2000. Using Statistics to Understand the Environment. Routledge press.
An introduction to statistical methods for environmental students.

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 overconsumption.

Wolfram, Stephen. 2002. A New Kind of Science. Wolfram Media, Inc.
A bold new approach to understanding the universe.

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. 2003. World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power. 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.

Worster, Donald. 1989. The Ends of the Earth : Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Worster, Donald. 1994. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge Univ. Press.
A highly influential survey of environmental philosophy.

Zimmerman, M. 1995. Science, 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 Univ. of California Press.
Examines the underlying philosophy of radical environmental groups like Earth First!

Zimmerman, Michael E., J. Baird Callicott, John Clark, George Sessions, and Karen Warren (eds). 2000. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology 3^rd ed.
An excellent introduction to a wide range of views on environmental ethics and philosophy.