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Abott, Carl. 2001. Greater Portland. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
Long regarded as one of the best examples of city planning in America, Portland serves as a landmark in urban design.

Abramovitz, Janet N. 1998. "Nature's Hidden Economy," World Watch 11(1):19-24.
The most valuable services we use may be the ones we always thought -- mistakenly -- were free.

Adams, Bruce and John Parr, 1997. "Chattanooga: The Sustainable City," from Boundary Crossers: Case Studies of How Ten of America's Metropolitan Regions Work. University of Maryland, Academy of Leadership, November,. 1997

Adams, W. 1990. Green Development. London: Routledge.
A survey of environmentally sustainable development projects around the world.

Andersson, C., Lindgren, K., Rasmussen, S. & White, R. 2002. "Urban growth simulation from 'first principles'." Physical Review E, 66, 026204, (2002).
A mathematical model predicts patterns of urban sprawl.

Arendt, Randall G. 1996. Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A pioneer in conservation planning proposes alternative suburban designs.

Arendt, Randall G. 1999. Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A new look at design of suburban subdivisions by one of America's leading planners.

Arrow, K. 1999. "Discounting, Morality, and Gaming," in Discounting and Intergenerational Equity, P.R. Portney and J.P.Weyent (eds). Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.
Is it moral to make bets on the future?

Ayres, Robert U. 2001. "How Economists Have Misjudged Global Warming." World Watch 14(5): 12-25.
The Bush administration rejected the Kyoto climate treaty because it believed reducing carbon dioxide emissions would hurt the economy. This author argues that reducing pollution could help the economy prosper.

Balmaceda-Roy, M., and T. Larsen. 2000. "Changing the Rules of the Game," Green@work 2:35-37, March/April 2000.
A look at socially responsible investing.

Balmford, A. et al. 2002. "Economic reasons for conserving wild nature." Science, 297, 950 - 953, (2002).
Every year's loss of natural habitat from practices such as logging and farming costs around $250 billion in each subsequent year.

Barringer, Mark Daniel. 2002. Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. Univ of Kansas Press.
Examines the role of business in creation and development of our national parks.

Baskin, Yvonne. 1997. The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
What is the value of nature?

Beatly, T. 2000. Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A survey of innovative environmental planning and design in Europe.

Benfield , F. Kaid, et al. 2001. Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America. Island Press.
Success stories of how communities are using smart growth to combat sprawl.

Benfield, F. Kaid, Donald D. T. Chen, and Matthew D. Raimi (eds). 1999. Once There Were Greenfields : How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining Americas's Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric. New York: Natural Resources Defense Council.
A cogent critique of urban sprawl.

Bockstael, N., A.M. Freeman, R.J. Kopp, P.R. Portney and V.K. Smith. 2000. "On measuring economic values for nature". Environmental Science and Technology 34: 1384-1389.
Calls for greater communication between ecologists and economists.

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

Bonda, Penny. 2000. "Toward Positive Futures." Green@work. November/December 2000: 14-16.
Explores the move from an industrial economy to one that is sustainable, social responsible and profitable.

Bormann, F. Herbert, et al. 2001. Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony. Yale Univ. Press.
Alternatives for natural lawnscaping.

Bradsher, Keith 2002. High and Mighty: SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way. PublicAffairs.
Claims that "SUVs represent the biggest menace to public safety and the environment that the auto industry has produced since the bad old days of the 1960s."

Brown, Lester. 2001.Ecoeconomy:Building an Economy for the Earth. W.W. Norton & Co.
Calls for a new economic paradigm for sustainability.

Bullard, Robert D. et al. 2000. Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A serious, but often overlooked impact of sprawl is economic and racial polarization.

Butraw, D. and E. Mansur. 1999. "Environmental Effect of SO2 Trading and Banking." Environnmental Science & Technology 33(20): 3489-3494.
How well do market mechanisms work?

Callicott, J. Baird and Karen Mumford. 1997. "Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept," Conservation Biology 11(1):32-40.
An attempt to redefine sustainability to include ecological as well as economic constraints.

Calthorpe, Peter and William Fulton. 2000. The Regional City: Planning for the end of Sprawl. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Two of the most innovative thinkers in the planning field describe a new vision for cities.

Caro, Robert. 1975. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Random House.
As the head of city planning, Moses was described as the most powerful man in New York. His influence, both good and bad, has shaped the city for more than half a century.

Cesar, H., et al. 1997. "Indonesian Coral Reefs - "An Economic Analysis of a Precious but Threatened Resource," Ambio 80(6)97
Describes ways humans are destroying coral reefs in Indonesia and compares short-term private gains to individuals with long-term societal costs.

Chambers, R. and G. Conway. 1992.Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Practical Conceptsfor the 21st Century. IDS Discussion paper 296. London: Institute of Development Studies.
An interesting alternative to sustainable development as a measure of human welfare.

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.

Chen, Donald T. 2000. "The Science of Smart Growth." Scientific American. 283(6): 84-91.
Good examples of ways to reduce sprawl.

Collins, J. and J. Porras. 2002. Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. HarperBusiness.
Good companies embrace sustainable development.

Corbett, Judy and Michael Corbet. 2000. Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Village Homes outside Davis, CA is presented as a model for urban design.

Costanza, Robert, et al. 1997. "The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital," Nature 387:253-260.
A landmark analysis of the economic value of ecological services.

Cronon, William. 1992. Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great West. W.W. Norton Co.
An environmental history of the building of Chicago and its relation to the region.

Daily, Gretchen. C. and Katherine Ellison. 2002. The New Economy of Nature. Island Press.
A collection of case studies of market approaches to conservation.

Daily, Gretchen.C. et al. 2000. "The value of nature and the nature of value". Science 289: 395-396. see also G. C. Daily (ed) 1997. Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Covelo, CA: Island Press.

Daly, Herman E. 1991. Steady State Economics 2nd Ed. Island Press.
A pioneering book on ecological economics.

Daly, Herman E. 1997. Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press.
Urges us to view the economy as part of the ecosystem and give up the idea of constant economic growth.

Daly, Herman E. and John B., Jr. Cobb 1994. For the Common Good : Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future 2nd 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.

De Groot, W.T. and R.J.G. van den Born. 2003. "Visions of nature and landscape type preferences: an exploration in The Netherlands." Landscape and Urban Planning 63 (3): 127-138.
How do our ideals of nature influence our landscape choices?

Deere, Carloyn L. and Daniel C. Esty (eds). 2002. Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade. MIT Press.
A collection of articles showing that international trade must address environmental issues.

DeSimone, Livio D. and Frank Popoff. 1997. Eco-efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development.
Written for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book shows how businesses can create economic value while reducing ecological impacts and resource use.

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck,. 2001. Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press.
New urbanists Duany and coauthors share the fruits of their experiences designing new neighborhoods and community revitalization projects.

Duany, Andres, Jeff Speck, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. 2002. Smart Growth Manual. McGraw-Hill Co.
Explains how Traditional Neighborhood Development can revitalize cities, suburbs, ad planned communities.

Dunkiel, B., et al. 1999. "The Tax Shift," E Magazine 10(2): 28-34.
Green taxes can be used to encourage resource conservation and pollution reduction while also accomplishing social goals.

Dunn, Robert H. 1997. "Corporate Responsibility: The Next Five Years," The Greenmoney Journal 6(1-2):7, 21.
A vision of the future from the President of Business for Social Responsibility.

During, Alan. 1992. How Much is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth. Worldwatch Books.
A still valid look at the consumer society.

Durning, Alan T. 1996. The Car and the City: 24 Steps to Safe Streets and Healthy Communities. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch.
We don't have to turn our cities over to the automobile.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2002. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Owl Books. What's it like to live on minimum wage?
Barbara Ehrenreich lives the question.

Elinor Ostrom, et.al., 2002. "Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges," Science (2002) (available at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5412/278).
Examines the concept of common pool resource management.

Elkington, John. 1998. Cannibals with Forks: The Tripple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. New Society Publishers.
Polish poet Stanislaw Lec asked, "Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" Elkington applies the question to twenty-first-century capitalism.

Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Argues that the industrialized nations of North America and Europe are not appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America?

Finger, Matthias and James Gilcoyne. 1997. "Why Transnational Corporations are Organizing to 'Save the Global Environment'," The Ecologist 27(4):138-142.
Claims that environmental programs of transnational corporations are really a smokescreen for expanding markets and avoiding scrutiny.

Finnegan, William. 2003. "The Economics of Empire: Notes on the Washington Consensus." Harper's Magazine 306(1836): 41-54.
An excellent analysis of globalization, development, and international economics.

Fischetti, Mark. 2001. "Drowning New Orleans." Scientific American 285(4): 76-86.
A major hurricane could swamp the sinking city under 20 feet of water, killing thousands.

Freeman, C. and O. Buck. 2003. "Development of an ecological mapping methodology for urban areas in New Zealand" Landscape and Urban Planning 63 (3): 161-173.
How can we plan for urban green spaces?

French, Hillary F. 1997. "Privatizing International Development," World Watch Journal 10(3):8-27.
Is the public interest protected in the rapid spread of globalism?

French, Hillary. 2000. Vanishing Boarders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Industrialization. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.
The globalization of commerce has become an international environmental issue.

Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Anchor Books (Random House).
A globe-trotting journalist looks at globalization.

Fulton, William. 1996. The New Urbanism. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
New ideas for urban centers.

Gare, Aaran. 2001. "Creating an Ecological Socialist Future." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology. 11(3): 24-35.
A view from the left.

Geddes, Robert, ed. 1997. Cities in Our Future. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A proposal for ecological design.

Gersh, Jeff. 1996. "Subdivide and Conquer: Concrete, Condos, and the Second Conquest of the American West," The Amicus Journal Fall 1996: 14-20.
Who says we have to live this way?

Gillham, Oliver. 2002. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. Island Press.

Goldsmith, Edward. 1997. "Development as Colonialism," The Ecologist 27(2):69-76.
An extension of subaltern history and dependency theory to environment and human development.

Goodstein, Eban. 1999. The Trade-off Myth Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
In in-depth examination of the claims that environmental protection threatens jobs.

Goulder, L. H. and R. N. Stavins. 2002. "Discounting: An eye on the future." Nature 419: 673-674.
Do discount rates give insufficient weight to future benefits?

Goulder, L.H and D. Kennedy. 1997. Valuing ecological services: philosophical bases and empirical methods. In Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, G. Daily (ed.). Covelo, CA: Island Press.

Gowdy, John, ed. 1997. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
An examination of the society and lifestyle of the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures. See also his 1995 text: Economic Theory for Environmentalists from St. Lucie Press.

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.

Gustanski, J. A. and R. H. Squires (eds) 1999. Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future.
An examination of land trusts and how they work.

Hall, Kenneth B. and Gerald A. Porterfield. 2001. Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities. McGraw-Hill Co.
A practical guide to implementing New Urbanism principles in suburbs and small communities.

Hardner, Jared and Richard Rice. 2002. "Rethinking Green Consumerism." Scientific American 286(5): 88-95.
Buying "green" products isn't enough to save biodiversity in the tropics. A plan for marketing conservation services may be the answer.

Harris, J. M., e al. 2001. Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
An important compilation of important works on the history and current status of human development.

Harvey, David. 1993. "The nature of environment: the dialectics of social and environmental change." The Socialist Register 1-51.
An eminent Marxian geographer looks at environment and development.

Hawken, Paul , Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. 2000. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Back Bay Books.
A radical new view of the economy of the future.

Heal, Geoffrey. 2000. Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A good discussion of ecosystem values and efforts to represent these values in the marketplace.

Hershkowitz. Allen. 2002. Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Island Press.
This book recounts the story of the Bronx Community Paper Company (BCPC) a community development project based on the ideas of industrial ecology intended to bring jobs and environmental restoration to a blighted area of the South Bronx.

Hoffman, Andrew J. 1997. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism.
Few contemporary movements illustrate the dynamics of institutional change quite as dramatically as that of corporate environmentalism.

Holliday, Charles O, Stephan Schmidheiny, and Philip Watts, 2002. Walking The Talk: The Business Case For Sustainable Development. Greenleaf Publishing.
The Chairmen of DuPont, Anova Holdings, and Shell Oil make a case for sustainable development.

Hutchison, Colin. 1997. Building to Last: The Challenge for Business Leaders London: Earthscan.
A valuable survey of green business practices and challenges.

Jacobs, Jane. 1984. Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Random House.
A scathing critique of economic policy towards cities.

Jacobs, Jane. 1993. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books.
A reissue of a classic on cities.

Kandker, S. R. 1998. Fighting Poverty with Microcredit: Experience in Bangladesh. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
A report of the success of the Grameen Bank movement.

Karliner, Joshua. 1997. The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalisation. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club.
A critique of transnational corporations.

Kibert, C. J (ed). 1999. Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics, and Economics. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Reflections on landscapes and the built environment.

Kibert, Charles J. (ed). 1999. Reshaping the Built environment: Ecology, Ethics,and Economics. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A compendium of leading urban planners, economists, and builders discuss ways of creating a more sustainable built environment.

Kiuchi, Tachi, et al. 2002. What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature. Berrett-Koehler.
A fascinating read about the linkage of business and nature from the CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America.

Kolstad, C. 2000. Environmental Economics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
A good review of the field.

Kuhn, M. 2003. "Greenbelt and Green Heart: separating and integrating landscapes in European city regions." Landscape and Urban Planning 64 (1-2): 19-27.
European cities have been leaders in establishing greenbelts and urban parks.

Lassila, K. D. 1999. "The New Suburbanites," The Amicus Journal 21(2):16-21.
How America's plants and animals are threatened by urban sprawl. Four other good articles follow in this issue.

Lele, Sharachchandra M, and Richard B. Norgaard. 1996. "Sustainability and the Scientists's Burden." Conservation Biology 10(2): 354-365.
Discusses the difficulties of pursuing objective science in a value-loaded and socially charged discourse.

Lele, Sharachchandra M. 1991. "Sustainable Development: A Critical Review." World Development 19(6): 607-621.
An important critique of the concept of sustainable development from the perspective of a Third World, subaltern historian.

Lerner, Steve. 1997 Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997.
Chapter 12 discusses redevelopment in Chattanooga.

Lewis, Phillip H. 1996. Tomorrow by Design: A Regional Design Process for Sustainability. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Better ideas for urban planning.

Lovins, L. Hunter and Amory B. Lovins. 2000. "Harnessing Corporate Power to Heal the Planet." The World and I. April 2000.:152-161.
Shows how we can heal the planet and make money too.

Lyle, J. T. 1999. Design for Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
A framework for thinking about ecological design by one of the leading thinkers in the field.

Mawby, Russell. 1997. "Building Better Neighborhoods," Earth Island Journal 12(1):27.
Discusses the virtues of cohousing.

Mazmanian, Daniel and Kraft, Michael E. (eds). 1999. Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and transformations in Environmental Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Case studies that illustrate innovative strategies in sustainable communities.

McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. 2002. Cradle to Cradle. San Francisco: North Point Press.
Presents a wealth of practical, economically sound ideas about creating a new industrial revolution and an eco-efficient economy.

McGranahan, G., et al. 2000. Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities. London: Earthscan.
How can cities be made more liveable?

McHarg, Ian. 1995 Design with Nature. John Wiley & Sons.
A reissue of a classic in landscape architecture and urban design.

Montaigne, F. 2000. "There Goes the Neighborhood!" Audubon 102(2):60-71.
Urban sprawl is gobbling open space. How can we stop it?

Motavalli, Jim. "Chattanooga On a Roll: From America's Dirtiest City to One of Its Greenest," E Magazine, March/April 1998.

Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomare. 1999. The Natural Step for Business : Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation. New Society Pub.
Business practices for conscientious commerce.

Netting, Robert McC. 1997. "Unequal Commons and Uncommon Equity: Property and Community Among Smallholder Farmers," The Ecologist 27(1):28-33.
A good analysis of common property regimes and whether they are always communal.

Norgaard, Richard B. 1994. Development Betrayed. London: Routledge.
A hard-hitting critique of development and aid policies.

Nunes, P. and J. van den Bergh. 2001. "Economic valuation of biodiversity: sense or nonsense?" Ecological Economics 39: 203-222.
Argues that economic valuation estimates are very incomplete perspectives on the unknown valued of biodiversity.

O'Connor, James. 1994. Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. London: Guilford.
A Marxist critique of the environmental and social affects of capitalism.

Peet, Richard and Michael Watts. 1996. "Development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism." In Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements.
A Marxist critique of sustainable development.

Pietilä, Hilkka. 1997. "The Villages in Finland Refuse to Die," The Ecologist 27(5):178-181.
A village action movement in Finland has shaken the assumption that further urbanization is inevitable.

Poole, William. 1998. "Inside Ecotopia," Sierra 83(1):30-33.
Arcata, CA may be the greenest and funkiest city in the United States.

Porter, Douglas R. 1997. Managing Growth in America's Communities. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Can we put limits on urban sprawl?

Porter, G. 1999. "Trade Competition and Pollution Standards: Race to the Bottom or Stuck at the Bottom?" Journal of Environment and Development. 8(2):24-31.
What are the effects of international trade conventions such as NAFTA?

Power, Thomas M. and Richard Barrett. 2001. Post-Cowboy Economics Pay and Prosperity in the New American West. Island Press.
A new look at the economy of the American West.

Prugh, T., R. Costanza, and H. Daly. 2000. The Local Politics of Global Sustainability. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Three leading ecological economists look at global sustainability.

Pugh, Cedric. 1996. Sustainability, The Environment and Urbanization. London: Earthscan.
Sustainable city design in Europe.

Riley, Ann L.1997. Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Urban streams can be rehabilitated and turned into community assets.

Rome, Adam. 2001. The bulldozer in the countryside: suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism. Cambridge University Press.
A history of environmentalism focusing on urban issues rather than wilderness and wildlife.

Romm, J. J. 2000. Lean and Clean Management. New York, NY: Kodansha International.
Argues that only companies that work with, not against, the environment can thrive.

Romm, Joseph. J. 1999. Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Covelo, CA:Island Press.
Examples of companies that save money and increase productivity by reducing greenhouse gases.

Rubino, M.J. and G.R. Hess. 2003. "Planning open spaces for wildlife 2: modeling and verifying focal species habitat." Landscape and Urban Planning 64 (1-2) pp 89-104.
Urban areas can be important wildlife habitat if properly planned.

Ruiz, Carmelo. 1997. "Green Protectionism," Earth Island Journal 12(2):40.
A reflection on "green" trade barriers and their effects on Third World nations.

Sachs, Jeffrey D. et al. 2001. "The Geography of Poverty and Wealth." Scientific American 284(3): 71-75.
An interesting survey of the distribution of resources and wealth.

Sachs, Wolfgang. "Sustainable Development: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron" in Wolfang Sachs. 1999. Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development. New York: Zed Books. pages 71-89.

Sanchez-Perez, J. V., Rubio, C., Martinez-Sala, R., Sanchez-Grandia, R. & Gomez, V. 2002. "Acoustic barriers based on periodic arrays of scatterers." Applied Physics Letters, 81, 5240 - 5242, (2002).
Poles could reduce road, aircraft or factory din as well as solid barriers.

Schildgen, Bob. 2002. "Ode to the Bus." Sierra 87(1): 46 -51 + 106.
Advocates buses as the best option for urban transit.

Scott, M.J., et al. 1998. "Valuation of Ecological Resources and Functions," Environmental Management 22(1):49-68.
A search for an appropriate analysis framework for the economic value of environmental resources and ecological services.

Shirley, Mary. 2002. Thirsting for Efficency. Elsevier Pub.
An economic theory of water that calls for institutional, political and economic reform.

Smith, M., et al. 1998. Greening the Built Environment. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
The urban environment doesn't have to be grim and dehumanizing.

Sosnowchik, Katie. 2000. "Humanity at a Crossroads." Green@work November/December 2000: 18-27.
A look at how media mogul Ted Turner is using his billions and his media savy to help save the environment and the world.

Thomas N. Gladwin, 1998. "Economic Globalization and Ecological Sustainability: Searching for Truth and Reconciliation," Chapter 1 in Roome, ed., Sustainability Strategies for Industry Island Press, (1998)

Thompson, J. William and Kim Sorvig. 2000. Sustainable landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Suggestions for green landscape design, construction, and maintenance.

Tietenberg, T. 1999. Economics of pollution control. In Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 5th Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Longman.

Tigas, L.A., et al. 2002. "Behavioral responses of bobcats and coyotes to habitat fragmentation and corridors in an urban environment" Biological Conservation. 108(3): 299-306.
Some species use urban corridors effectively.

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.

Wann, David. 1996. Deep Design: Pathways to a Livable Future. Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Combines the insights of Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism into urban design.

Wastebusters Limited. 1997. The Green Office Manual. London: Earthscan.
An informative and accessible guide to green business and office management.

Welford, Richard. 1997. Hijacking Environmentalism. London: Earthscan.
Claims that corporations have reconstructed the environmental agenda to suit their own agenda.

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

World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2001. The Business Case for Sustainable Development (2001) (download from www.wbcsd.org).

World Resources Institute. 2000. World Resources 2000-2001: The Bounty of Ecosystems. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Full summary, available online at www.wri.org/wr2000/pdf.html.
A good summary of ecosystem services and conditions.

Yunus, Muhammad. 1999. "The Grameen Bank." Scientific American 281 (5): 114-119.
A heartening story of how microlending helps the poorest of the poor become self-sufficient.








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