A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Digging Deeper:

Hold Your Nose
and Dive In

Below is a brief selection of some of the references that I used in the writing of this book. For those who wish for more documentation: references, pictures, diagrams, and calculations are available at my website, DavidWaltnerToews.com. I also talked to a lot of people and drew on my own research and unpublished research of my colleagues around the world. Where appropriate, I have given that public acknowledgment. In some cases, they did not wish to have themselves or the communities where they worked identified.

Selected Bibliography

American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). 2003. “Manure production and characteristics” (http://www.manuremanagement.cornell.edu).

Barnes, D.S. 2005. “Confronting Sensory Crisis in the Great Stinks of London and Paris.” In Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life, ed. W.A. Cohen and R. Johnson, 103–131. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Bourke, J.G. 1891. Scatalogic Rites of All Nations. Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Company. [Catalog of cultural practices surrounding feces and urine.]

Brown, A.D. 2003. Feed or Feedback: Agriculture, Population Dynamics, and the State of the Planet. Utrecht: International Books. [Useful for an analysis of nutrient flows involved in current and historical agricultural practices.]

Chame, M. 2003. Terrestrial Mammal Feces: A Morphometric Summary and Description. Rio de Janeiro: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98 (Suppl. I): 72–94 (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0074-02762003000900014&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en). [Useful for the differences among animal scats.]

Claiborne, R. 1989. The Roots of English: A Reader’s Handbook of Word Origins. New York: Doubleday.

Darimont, C.T., T.E. Reimchen, H.M. Bryan, and P.C. Paquet. 2008. “Faecal-Centric Approaches to Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: Methods, Data, and Ethics.” Wildlife Biology in Practice 4 (2): 73–87.

Deutsch, L., and C. Folke. 2005. “Ecosystem Subsidies to Swedish Food Consumption from 1962–1994.” Ecosystems 8(5): 512–528.

Flannery, T. 2007. Tim Flannery: An Explorer’s Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 202–203.

George, R. 2008. The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste. London: Portobello Books. [An excellent series of true stories about the new champions of human excrement management.]

Graves, R. 1955. The Greek Myths. Volume 2. Baltimore: Penguin Books.

Grove, R. 1976. “Coprolite Mining in Cambridgeshire.” Agricultural History Review 24(1): 36–43.

Hanley, S.B. 1987. “Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18(1): 1–26. [Shows the historical importance and value placed on night soil as a fertilizer in Japan.]

Hanski, I., and Y. Cambefort, eds. 1991. Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Comprehensive book on dung beetles.]

Jackson, W. 2003. “The Story of Civet.” The Pharmaceutical Journal 271: 859–861.

Kauffman, S. 1995. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Key, N., and W. McBride. “The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production.” Economic Research Report No. (ERR-52) 45 pp, December 2007 (http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err52.aspx).

Lewin, R.A. 1999. Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-historical Coprology. New York: Random House. [Excellent miscellany of information about the excrement of a variety of species.]

Lavery, T., R. Roudnew, P. Gill, J. Seymour, L. Seuront, G. Johnson, J.G. Mitchell, V. Smetacek. November 22, 2010. “Iron Defecation by Sperm Whales Stimulates Carbon Export in the Southern Ocean.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277 (1699): 3527–3353.

Madsen, M., B. Overgaard Nielsen, P. Holter, O.C. Pedersen, J. Brøchner Jespersen, K-M. Vagn Jensen, P. Nansen, and J. Grønvold. 1990. “Treating Cattle with Ivermectin: Effects on the Fauna and Decomposition of Dung Pats.” Journal of Applied Ecology 27(1): 1–15.

Mather, E., and J.F. Hart. 1956. “The Geography of Manure.” Land Economics 32(1): 25–38. [Interesting article on global manure use.]

Nichols, E. S. Spector, J. Louzada, T. Larsen, T. Amezquita, M.E. Favila. 2008. “The Scarabaeinae Research Network: Ecological Functions and Ecosystem Services Provided by Scarabaeinae Dung Beetles.” Biological Conservation 141(6): 1461–1474.

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). 2005. Manure Management. Best Management Practices 16E (https://www.publications.serviceontario.ca/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=BMP16E&qty=1&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y). [Note that OMAFRA has also published best management practices for “Nutrient Management Planning” and “Sewage Biosolids,” both of which are relevant to this subject.]

Plain, R., J. Lawrence, and G. Grimes. 2012. “The Structure of the U.S. Pork Industry.” Pork Information Gateway (www.porkgateway.org/PIGLibraryDetail/PF/1869.aspx#.UHRFiBgaCiY).

Platek, B. 2008. “Through a Glass Darkly: Miriam Greenspan on Moving from Grief to Gratitude.” The Sun Magazine 385: 8.

Public Health Agency of Canada. 2000. “Waterborne Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Associated With a Contaminated Municipal Water Supply, Walkerton, Ontario, May–June 2000.” Canada Communicable Disease Report 26 (20) (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/00vol26/dr2620eb.html).

Putman, R.J. 1983. “Carrion and Dung: Decomposition of Animal Wastes.” Studies in Biology 156. London: Edward Arnold Publishers Limited. [Describes dung beetles and the process of decomposition.]

Reading, N.C., and D.L. Kasper. 2011. “The Starting Lineup: Key Microbial Players in Intestinal Immunity and Homeostasis.” Frontiers in Microbiology 2: 148 (http://www.frontiersin.org/Cellular_and_Infection_Microbiology_-_closed_section/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00148/full)

Rockefeller, A. 1996. “Civilization & Sludge: Notes on the History of the Management of Human Excreta.” Current World Leaders 39(6): 99–113. [Overview of the development of the sewage system.]

Sanderson, H., B. Laird, L. Pope, R. Brain, C. Wilson, D. Johnson, G. Bryning, A. Peregrine, A. Boxall, K. Solomon. 2007. “Assessment of the Environmental Fate and Effects of Ivermectin in Aquatic Mesocosms.” Aquatic Toxicology 85: 229–240.

Scarabnet. http://www.scarabnet.org/ScarabNet/scarabnet_publications.html. [This network is a source of a wide range of publications and bibliographies on scarab research.]

Schoouw, N.L., S. Danteravanich, H. Mosbaek, J.C. Tiell. 2002. “Composition of Human Excreta: A Case Study from Southern Thailand.” The Science of the Total Environment 286: 155–166.

Statistics Canada. 1996. “Estimated Livestock Manure Production. A Geographic Profile of Manure Production in Canada.” Catalogue No. 16F0025XIB.

Steinfeld, H., P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, and C. de Haan. 2006. Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options. Rome: Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). [Useful overview on livestock agriculture in the twenty-first century.]

Tarr, J.A. 1975. “From City to Farm: Urban Wastes and the American Farmer.” Agricultural History 49(4): 598–612. [Outlines the use of human waste in agriculture in the U.S., including guiding state regulations.]

Tarr, J.A., J. McCurley III, F.C. McMichael, and T. Yosie. 1984. “Water and Wastes: A Retrospective Assessment of Wastewater Technology in the United States, 1800–1932.” Technology and Culture 25(2): 226–263. [Comprehensive, detailed, well-sourced account of the development of the U.S. sewage system, including the rise of the profession of sanitary engineering.]

Waltner-Toews, D., J. Kay, and N. Lister. 2008. The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability. New York: Columbia University Press.

Weiss, M.R. 2006. “Defecation Behavior and Ecology of Insects.” Annual Review of Entomology 51: 635–661. [Excellent article describing a range of insect behavior surrounding defecation, full of interesting examples.]

Wotton, R.S., and B. Malmqvist. 2001. “Feces in Aquatic Ecosystems.” BioScience 51(7): 537–544. [Good article outlining various aspects of feces in water-based habitats.]

Other books by David Waltner-Toews

Non-fiction (author or co-author)

Ecohealth: A Primer. Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières – Canada, 2011. Available at www.vwb-vsf.ca under Resources.

Food, Sex, and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick. Greystone Books, 2008.

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosytems. With T. & M. Gitau. Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, 2008.

The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2007.

Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: A Practical Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Good for Your Animals, Good for You: How to Live and Work with Animals in Therapy and Activity Programs and Stay Healthy. With A. Ellis. Pet Trust Foundation, 1994.

Food, Sex and Salmonella: The Risks of Environmental Intimacy. Toronto: NC Press, 1992.

One Animal Among Many: Gaia, Goats, and Garlic. Toronto: NC Press, 1991.

Non-Fiction (editor and co-author)

One Health for One World. Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières – Canada, 2010. Available at www.vwb-vsf.ca under Resources.

The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability. With J. Kay and N. Lister (eds.). Also co-author on six chapters in this book. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Poetry Collections

The Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite Blues and Recipes. Kitchener: Pandora Press, 2004.

The Fat Lady Struck Dumb. London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2000.

The Impossible Uprooting. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.

Endangered Species. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988.

Good Housekeeping. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1983.

The Earth Is One Body. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1979.

That Inescapable Animal. Goshen, Indiana: Pinchpenny Press, 1974.

Fiction

Fear of Landing. Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007.

One Foot in Heaven. Regina: Coteau Books, 2005.