Books Chosen by Faculty
Important Works Bibliography
(The titles in this bibliography were selected by the Environmental Science & Policy Program faculty)
Key:
Works are linked, whenever possible, to URSUS or MaineCat records.
Some items may need to be obtained via Interlibrary Loan.
Books and Other Resources
GENERAL
The Brundtland Commission, World Commission on Environment and Development's report, Our Common Future (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987).
Gor Stacks HD 75.6 .O97 1987
Commoner, B., Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology (New York, Knopf, 1971).
Por and Gor Stacks GF 75 .C65
Holling, C. S., Understanding the complexity of economic, ecological, and socials systems,“ Ecosystems, v. 4, p. 390-405 (2001).
Gor Serial Stacks and electronic access via URSUS
McDonough, W., Braungart, M., Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. (New York : North Point, 2002).
Gor Stacks TD794.5 .M395 2002
McKibben, Bill, The End of Nature (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1990).
Por and Gor and Lew Stacks GF 75 .M38 1989
National Research Council,Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999).
Gor Stacks HC79 .E5 O97 2002
Perelman, Lewis J. The Global Mind: Beyond the Limits to Growth (New York:Mason/Charter, 1976).
Por. Stacks
QH541 .P42
Uhl, Christopher and Amy Anderson, “Green Density: Universities Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future,” Bioscience, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 36-42.
Por Serials Stacks
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (Gabriola Island, BC: Canada, New Society Publishers, 1996).
Gor Stacks HC79 .E5 W32 1995
Wilson, Edward O., The Future of Life (New York, Random House, 2002).
Gor Stacks QH75 .W535 2000
Arendt, Randall G., Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996).
Gor and Lew Stacks HD 1390.2 .A73 1996
Daniels, Tom, When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999).
Por Stacks HT 334 .U5 D35 1999
Daniels, Thomas L., Kellerman, John W., and Mark B. Lapping, The Small Town Planning Handbook (Chicago, American Planning Association, 1995).
Por Stacks HT 167 .D36 1995
Kunstler, James H., The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Touchstone Books, 1994).
Gor Stacks NA 2542.35 .K86 1994
Por Stacks NA 2542.35 .K86 1994
Mazmanian, Daniel A. and Michael E. Kraft, Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
Gor Stacks GE 180 .T69 1999
Porter, Douglas R., Managing Growth in America's Communities (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997).
Gor and Lew Stacks HT 384 .U5 P67 1997
ECONOMICS
Brown, Lester R., Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, W.W. (New York, Norton and Company, 2001).
Gor and Lew Stacks HC 79 .E5 B759 2001
Costanza, R., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (New York, Columbia University, 1991).
Por Stacks HD 75.6 .E29 1991
Cohen, Lizabeth, Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York, Knopf, 2003).
Por Stacks HC 110 .C6 C537 2003
Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Captialism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston, BackBay Books: 2000).
Por Stacks HC 106.82 .H39 1999
ENERGY
Lovins, Amory B., Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace (New York, Harper Collins, 1979).
Gor Stacks TJ163.2 .L678 1979
Peet, J., Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1992).
Gor Stacks HC79.E5 P42 1992
ETHICS
Daly, H., and J. Cobb, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994).
Por Stacks HD 75.6 .D35 1994
Naess, Arne, Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Por Stacks GF 21 .N34 1989
Reed, M., and O. Slaymaker, “Ethics and sustainability: a preliminary perspective,” Environment and Planning A 25: 723-739 (1993).
(Available via Interlibrary Loan)
Sagoff, M., “At the shrine of Our Lady Fatima or why all political questions are not economic,” In: Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Applications, L.P. Pojman ed., (Boston, MA: James and Bartlett, 1994) p. 443-450.
Gor Stacks GE42 .E58 2001
Schumacher, E. F., Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered (London, Blond and Briggs Ltd., 1973).
Por Stacks HB 171 .S384 1973
NATURAL RESOURCES
Hardin, Garrett, “The Tragedy of the Commons" Science, 162 (1968):1243-1248.
Gor Serials Stacks
Por Serials Stacks
Kurlansky, Mark, Cod (New York, Penguin Books, 1997).
Por Stacks PN 6071 .C66 K87 1997
Levin, Ted, "Reviving the River of Grass," Audubon, Vol. 103, No. 4, July 2001, pp. 54-61.
Por Serials Stacks
Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (New York, Oxford University Press, 1949).
Gor and Lew Stacks QH 81 .L56 1987
Meffe, G., and C. Carroll, Principles of Conservation Biology (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1994).
Por Stacks QH75 .M386 1997
Strasser, Susan, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York, Owl Books, 2000).
Gor Stacks HD4482 .S77 1999
POPULATION
Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. The Population Explosion, ; Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Por and Lew Stacks HB871 .E33 1990
Population, Resources and the Environment: Critical Challenges, United Nations Population Fund, 1991.
Available via Courier Service
Hollingsworth, W., Ending the Explosion: Population Policies for a Humane Future,
Seven Locks Press, 1996.
Lew Stacks
RA644.A25 E53 1990
Meadows, Donella; Dennis Meadows; Jorgen Randers; Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, Chelsea Green 1992.
Gor and Lew Stacks HD75.6 .M43 1992
Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil; Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge,W.W. Norton, 1999.
Gor Stacks HB849.41 .B7 1999
Cohen, Joel E., How Many People can the Earth Support? ;New York : Norton, , 1995
Lew Stacks HB1953 .C64 1995
Grant; Lindsey, Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet, Seven Locks Press, 1996
Gor Stacks
HB849.4 .G73 1996
Hardin, Garrett, Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos, . Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Por Stacks HQ766.7 .H35 1993
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