List of environmental books

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This page is a list of environmental books.

In this context they are notable books that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on the natural environment.

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[edit] Non-fiction

Title Author(s) Year
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann 2005
A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes) Derek Ratcliffe 1977
A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1949
Agrarian Justice Thomas Paine 1797
An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Robert Malthus 1798
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore 2006
AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors
Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants Milton R. Beychok 1967
Blueprint for Survival Edward Goldsmith 1972
Bountiful Harvest Thomas R. DeGregori 2002
Brittle Power Amory Lovins 1982
The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era Jeremy Leggett 1999
Challenging the Chip Ted Smith 2006
City Life
The Clean Tech Revolution Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder 2007
Cloning: At Issue (2003)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond 2005
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior Dave Foreman 1991
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists Michael Brower and Warren Leon 1999
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Bjørn Lomborg 2007
Crimes Against Nature Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 2004
Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey 1968
Draumalandið Andri Snær Magnason 2006
Earth from the Air
Earth in the Balance Al Gore 1992
Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death Paul Driessen 2003
Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching Dave Foreman 1985
Ecotage! Sam Love 1972
Engines of Creation K. Eric Drexler 1986
Encounters with the Archdruid John McPhee 1977
Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown (editors) 2007
Entropy: A New World View Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard 1980
Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction' Sharon Beder 2006
The Everglades: River of Grass Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1947
Factor 5: A Convenient Truth: Increasing Wealth and Reducing Resource Use a team of authors and contributors led by Professor Ernst von Weizsacker forthcoming
Fateful Harvest Duff Wilson 2001
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change Elizabeth Kolbert 2006
Garbage and Recycling: Opposing Viewpoints
Genetic Roulette
Global Corporate Environmentalism Jayanta Bhattacharya 2004
The Global Environmental Movement John McCormick 1996
Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (2002)
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage Daniel C. Esty 2006
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy Mark Diesendorf 2007
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis Jeremy Leggett 2005
Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do Joseph J. Romm 2006
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis Mark Lynas
The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health Randall Fitzgerald 2006
Limits to Growth Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens II 1972
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Man and Nature George Perkins Marsh 1864
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World David Maybury-Lewis 1992
Naturalist E. O. Wilson 1995
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan 2003
Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb Issac Asimov and Frederik Pohl 1991
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution Francis Fukuyama 2002
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World Kevin Kelly 1994
The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics David Pimentel and Hugh Lehman (editors) 1993
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate William Ruddiman 2005
Reaction Time Ian Lowe 2007
The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 2007
A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1949, reprinted 1966
Seeds of Deception
Siberia, Siberia Valentin Rasputin 1991, English translation 1996
Silence of the Songbirds Bridget Stutchbury 2007
Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas 2007
Small is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher 1973
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming Chris Mooney 2007
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization Ward Churchill 1993, 1999, 2002
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction David Quammen 1996
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World Bjørn Lomborg 2001
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton 1995
Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis 18 contributors 2005
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice Cormac Cullinan 2003
Wilderness and the American Mind Roderick Nash
Winning the Oil Endgame Amory Lovins 2005
The World According to Pimm Stuart L. Pimm
The World Without Us Alan Weisman 2007
Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century Alex Steffen, Al Gore 2006
The Weather Makers Tim Flannery 2005

[edit] Fiction

Title Author(s) Year
Antarctica (novel) Kim Stanley Robinson 1997
Blockade Derek Hansen 1998
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Ernest Callenbach 1975
The Forgotten Enemy Arthur C. Clarke 1949
Hoot Derek Hansen 2002
The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971
A Planet for the President Alistair Beaton 2004
Rainforest (novel) Jenny Diski 1987
Zodiac Neal Stephenson 1988

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