Further Readings

Activism (corporatization of)

  1. Dauvergne, Peter, and Genevieve LeBaron. Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism. Polity, 2014.
  2. Kapoor, Ilan. Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity. Routledge, 2013.
  3. Parr, Adrian. Hijacking Sustainability. MIT Press, 2012.
  4. Richey, Lisa Ann, and Stefano Ponte. Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Activism (crackdown on)

  1. Fernandez, Luis A. Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  2. Potter, Will. Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege. City Lights Books, 2011.
  3. Starr, Amory, Luis A. Fernandez, and Christian Scholl. Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era. New York University Press, 2011.

Anti-Environmentalism (corporate)

  1. Beder, Sharon. Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, revised edition. Green Books, 2002.
  2. Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
  3. Rowell, Andrew. Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement. Routledge, 1996.

Capitalism (critiques, for a general audience)

  1. Aschoff, Nicole. The New Prophets of Capital. Verso, 2015.
  2. Elmore, Bartow J. Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. W. W. Norton, 2015.
  3. Harvey, David. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  4. Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Picador, 2008.
  5. Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  6. Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. Berrett-Koehler, 2009.
  7. Korten, David C. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. Berrett-Koehler, 2006.
  8. Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Belknap Press, 2014.
  9. Robbins, Richard H. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, sixth edition. Pearson, 2013.

Climate Change (politics of)

  1. Bulkeley, Harriet, Liliana B. Andonova, Michele M. Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew J. Hoffmann, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charles Roger, and Stacy D. VanDeveer. Transnational Climate Change Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  2. Ciplet, David, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan. Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality. MIT Press, 2015.
  3. Giddens, Anthony. The Politics of Climate Change, second edition. Polity, 2011.
  4. Harris, Paul G. What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It. Polity,. 2013.
  5. Held, D., C. Roger, and E.-M. Nag, eds. Climate Governance in the Developing World. Polity, 2013.
  6. Hoffmann, Matthew J. Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response after Kyoto. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  7. Newell, Peter, and Matthew Paterson. Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  8. O’Lear, S., and S. Dalby, eds. Reframing Climate Change: Constructing Ecological Geopolitics. Routledge, 2015.
  9. Parr, Adrian. The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics. Columbia University Press, 2013.
  10. Princen, T., J. P. Manno, and P. L. Martin, eds. Ending the Fossil Fuel Era. MIT Press, 2015.
  11. Stern, Nicholas. Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change. MIT Press, 2015.
  12. Wright, Christopher, and Daniel Nyberg. Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Consumption of Natural Resources

  1. Bridge, Gavin, and Philippe Le Billon. Oil. Polity, 2012.
  2. Clapp, Jennifer. Food, second edition. Polity, 2016.
  3. Dauvergne, Peter, and Jane Lister. Timber. Polity, 2011.
  4. DeSombre, Elizabeth R., and J. Samuel Barkin. Fish. Polity, 2011.
  5. Feldman, David Lewis. Water. Polity, 2012.
  6. Fishman, Charles. The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. Free Press, 2011.
  7. Fridell, Gavin. Coffee. Polity, 2014.
  8. Hall, Derek. Land. Polity, 2013.
  9. Nest, Michael. Coltan. Polity, 2011.
  10. Richardson, Ben. Sugar. Polity, 2015.
  11. Smillie, Ian. Diamonds. Polity, 2014.

Consumption Politics

  1. Bakan, Joel. Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Your Children. Simon & Schuster, 2011.
  2. Carmin, J., and J. Agyeman, eds. Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices. MIT Press, 2011.
  3. Dauvergne, Peter. The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment. MIT Press, 2008.
  4. Gerth, Karl. As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything. Hill and Wang, 2010.
  5. Guha, Ramachandra. How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States. University of California Press, 2006.
  6. Lange, H., and L. Meier, eds. The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism, and Environmental Concern. Springer, 2009.
  7. Leonard, Annie. The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—And How We Can Make It Better. Free Press, 2010.
  8. Lewis, Justin. Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits of Imagination. Polity. 2013.
  9. Princen, T., M. Maniates, and K. Conca, eds. Confronting Consumption. MIT Press, 2002.
  10. Schor, Juliet B. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. Scribner, 2004.

Corporate Social Responsibility (business of)

  1. Bhattacharya, C. B., Sankar Sen, and Daniel Korschun. Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  2. Chandler, David, and William B. Werther, Jr. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment. Sage, 2010.
  3. Cramer, Aron, and Z. Karabell. Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World. Rodale, 2010.
  4. Dauvergne, Peter, and Jane Lister. Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability. MIT Press, 2013.
  5. Humes, Edward. Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart’s Green Revolution. HarperCollins, 2011.
  6. Laszlo, Chris, and Nadya Zhexembayeva. Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage. Greenleaf, 2011.
  7. Lozano, Josep M., Laura Albareda, Tamyko Ysa, Heike Roscher, and Manila Marcuccio. Governments and Corporate Social Responsibility: Public Policies Beyond Regulation and Voluntary Compliance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  8. Marcus, Alfred A. Innovations in Sustainability: Fuel and Food. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  9. McElhaney, Kellie. Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand. Berrett-Koehler, 2008.
  10. Visser, Wayne. The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Degrowth, Sufficiency, and Steady-State Economics

  1. Alexander, Samuel. Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits, Collected Essays. vol. I. Simplicity Institute, 2015.
  2. Alexander, Samuel. Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever, Collected Essays. vol. II. Simplicity Institute, 2015.
  3. D’Alisa, G., F. Demaria, and G. Kallis, eds. Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. Routledge, 2015.
  4. Daly, Herman E. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Beacon Press, 1996.
  5. Dietz, Robert, and Daniel W. O’Neill. Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013.
  6. Heinberg, Richard. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. New Society Publishers, 2011.
  7. Jackson, Tim. Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Earthscan, 2009.
  8. Latouche, Serge. Farewell to Growth. Polity, 2009.
  9. Princen, Thomas. The Logic of Sufficiency. MIT Press, 2005.
  10. Princen, Thomas. Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. MIT Press, 2010.
  11. Vale, R., and B. Vale, eds. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint. Routledge, 2013.

Discount Retailing

  1. Andersen, Michael Moesgaard, and Flemming Poulfelt. Discount Business Strategy: How the New Market Leaders Are Redefining Business Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
  2. Brunn, S. D., ed. Wal-Mart World: The World’s Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. Routledge, 2006.
  3. Cline, Elizabeth L. Over-Dressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
  4. Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It’s Transforming the American Economy. Penguin, 2006.
  5. Laird, Gordon. The Price of a Bargain. McClelland & Stewart, 2009.
  6. Lichtenstein, Nelson. The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. Henry Holt and Company, 2009.
  7. Mitchell, Stacy. Big-Box Swindle. Beacon, 2006.
  8. Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin, 2009.

Eco-Certification

  1. Auld, Graeme. Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification. Yale University Press, 2014.
  2. Boström, Magnus, and Mikael Klintman. Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  3. Conroy, Michael. Branded! How the Certification Revolution Is Transforming Global Corporations. New Society, 2007.
  4. Lister, Jane. Corporate Social Responsibility and the State: International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation. UBC Press, 2011.
  5. Gulbrandsen, Lars H. Transnational Environmental Governance: The Emergence and Effects of the Certification of Forests and Fisheries. Edward Elgar, 2010.
  6. Honey, Martha. Ecotourism and Certification Setting Standards in Practice. Island Press, 2002.

Eco-Consumerism

  1. Bartley, Tim, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel, Gustavo Setrini, and Nik Summers. Looking Behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  2. Divinney, Tim, Pat Auger, and Giana Eckhardt. The Myth of the Ethical Consumer. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  3. Harrison, R., T. Newholm, and D. Shaw, eds. The Ethical Consumer. Sage, 2005.
  4. Henderson, Hazel, with Simran Sethi. Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. Chelsea Green, 2006.
  5. Micheletti, Michele. Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  6. Stolle, Dietlind, and Michele Micheletti. Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Eco-Efficiency, Eco-Technology, and Ecological Modernization

  1. Bailey, Ronald. The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
  2. Curran, Giorel. Sustainability and Energy Politics: The Promises of Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  3. DeSimone, Livio, and Frank Popoff with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Eco-Efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development. MIT Press, 1997.
  4. McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point, 2002.
  5. McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance. North Point, 2013.
  6. Mol, Arthur P. J. Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy. MIT Press, 2001.
  7. Mol, A. P. J., D. A. Sonnenfeld, and G. Spaargaren, eds. The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2009.
  8. World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Eco-Efficiency: Creating More Value with Less Impact. World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2000.

Ecological Imperialism

  1. Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900, new edition. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  2. Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  3. Hornborg, A., J. R. McNeill, and J. Martinez-Alier, eds. Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. AltaMira Press, 2007.
  4. Kirch, P. V., and J.-L. Rallu, eds. The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
  5. Petras, James, and Henry Veltmeyer. Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century. Zed Books, 2001.
  6. Petras, James, and Henry Veltmeyer. Extractive Imperialism in the Americas: Capitalism’s New Frontier. Brill Academic Publishers, 2015.
  7. Trigger, Bruce G. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. McGill–Queen’s University Press, 1987, first printing 1976.

Environmental Activism (“insider” critiques of)

  1. Lomborg, Bjørn. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  2. MacDonald, Christine Catherine. Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad. Lyons Press, 2008.
  3. Moore, Patrick. Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. Beatty Street Publishing, 2010.
  4. Nordhaus, Ted, and Michael Shellenberger. Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Environmental Discourses and Movements (varieties of)

  1. Amster, Randall. Peace Ecology. Routledge, 2015.
  2. Cianchi, John. Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and More-Than-Human Agency. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  3. Dryzek, John. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, third edition. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  4. Epstein, Charlotte. The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse. MIT Press, 2008.
  5. Guha, Ramachandra, and Joan Martinez-Alier. Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South. Earthscan, 1997.
  6. Liddick, Donald R. Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements. Praeger, 2006.
  7. Martinez-Alier, Joan. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Edward Elgar, 2003.
  8. Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. Routledge, 2005.
  9. Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011.
  10. Rudel, Thomas K. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Environmental History (general)

  1. Guha, Ramachandra. Environmentalism: A Global History. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  2. Macekura, Stephen J. Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  3. McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. W. W. Norton, 2000.
  4. McNeill, J. R., and E. S. Mauldin, eds. A Companion to Global Environmental History. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
  5. Radkau, Joachim. The Age of Ecology: A Global History. Trans. P. Camiller. Polity, 2014.
  6. Simmons, I. G. Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000. Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Environmental Justice Movements

  1. Carruthers, D. V., ed. Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice. MIT Press, 2008.
  2. Faber, D., ed. The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. The Guilford Press, 1998.
  3. Ottinger, G., and B. R. Cohen, eds. Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement. MIT Press, 2011.
  4. Pellow, David Naguib. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. MIT Press, 2002.
  5. Pellow, David Naguib. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Global Justice. MIT Press, 2007.
  6. Pellow, D. N., and R. J. Brulle, eds. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. MIT Press, 2005.
  7. Sandler, R., and P. C. Pezzullo, eds. Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. MIT Press, 2007.

Environmental NGOs and Transnational Networks

  1. Betsill, M. M., and E. Corell, eds. NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations. MIT Press, 2007.
  2. Bryner, Gary C. Gaia’s Wager: Environmental Movements and the Challenge of Sustainability. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
  3. Doherty, Brian, and Timothy Doyle. Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  4. Hironaka, Ann. Greening the Globe: World Society and Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  5. Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Cornell University Press, 1998.
  6. Saunders, Clare. Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory. Bloomsbury, 2013.
  7. Zelko, Frank. Make It a Green Peace! The Rise of Counterculture Environmentalism. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Environmentalism (developing countries)

  1. Dawson, Jane I. Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Duke University Press, 1996.
  2. Hochstetler, Kathryn, and Margaret E. Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Duke University Press, 2007.
  3. Hughes, David McDermott. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. University of Washington Press, 2008.
  4. Koont, Sinan. Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba. University Press of Florida, 2011.
  5. Mathews, Andrew S. Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests. MIT Press, 2011.
  6. Nustad, Knut G. Creating Africas: Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land. Hurst Company, 2015.
  7. Shapiro, Judith. China’s Environmental Challenges, second edition. Polity, 2016.
  8. Slovic, S., S. Rangarajan, and V. Sarveswaran, eds. Ecocriticism of the Global South. Lexington Books, 2015.
  9. Sowers, Jeannie L. Environmental Politics in Egypt: Activists, Experts, and the State. Routledge, 2014.
  10. Steinberg, Paul F. Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia. MIT Press, 2001.
  11. Yok-shiu, F. L., and A. Y. So, eds. Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives. M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Environmentalism (overviews)

  1. Anderson, Terry L., and Donald R. Leal. Free Market Environmentalism, revised edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
  2. Boyd, David R. The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future. ECW Press, 2015.
  3. Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Viking Penguin, 2007.
  4. Haq, Gary, and Alistair Paul. Environmentalism Since 1945. Routledge, 2012.
  5. Mauch, C., N. Stoltzfus, and D. R. Weiner, eds. Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
  6. Peterson del Mar, David. Environmentalism, second edition. Routledge, 2011.
  7. Thiele, Leslie Paul. Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  8. Wall, Derek. Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements. Pluto Press, 2005.
  9. Wapner, Paul. Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics. SUNY Press, 1996.
  10. Wapner, Paul. Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism. MIT Press, 2010.

Environmentalists (biographies)

  1. Essemlali, Lamya (with Paul Watson). Captain Paul Watson: Interview with a Pirate. Firefly Books, 2013.
  2. Humes, Edward. Eco Barons: The New Heroes of Environmental Activism. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2010.
  3. Parkin, Sara. The Life and Death of Petra Kelly. HarperCollins, 1995.
  4. Peterson, Dale. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
  5. Souder, William. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring. Broadway Books, 2012.

Environmentalists (memoirs)

  1. Berman, Tzeporah. This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge. Vintage Canada, 2012.
  2. Hill, Julia Butterfly. The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods. HarperCollins, 2000.
  3. Hunter, Robert. The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
  4. Maathai, Wangari Muta. Unbowed: A Memoir. Knopf, 2006.
  5. McKibben, Bill. Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist. Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
  6. Rosebraugh, Craig. Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. Lantern Books, 2004.
  7. Tucker, Linda. Saving the White Lions: One Woman’s Battle for Africa’s Most Sacred Animal. North Atlantic Books, 2013.
  8. Watson, Paul. Seal Wars: Twenty-five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals. Firefly Books, 2003.
  9. Weyler, Rex. Greenpeace: How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists, and Visionaries Changed the World. Raincoast Books, 2004.

The Global Ecological Crisis

  1. Barnosky, Anthony D. Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth. University of California Press, 2014.
  2. Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, revised edition. Penguin, 2011.
  3. Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton, 1999.
  4. Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Rodale Books, 2006.
  5. Higgs, Kerryn. Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet. MIT Press, 2014.
  6. Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
  7. McDaniel, Carl N., and John M. Gowdy. Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. University of California Press, 2000.
  8. McKibben, Bill. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Times Books, 2010.
  9. McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. Random House, 2006.
  10. Ophuls, Patrick. Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology. MIT Press, 2011.
  11. Piper, Karen. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
  12. Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life, new edition. Belknap Press, 2010.
  13. Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. Knopf, 2002.
  14. Wright, Ronald. A Short History of Progress. House of Anansi Press, 2004.

Global Environmental Governance

  1. Baber, Walter F., and Robert V. Bartlett. Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature’s Regime. MIT Press, 2015.
  2. Bernstein, Steven. The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism. Columbia University Press, 2001.
  3. Biermann, Frank. Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene. MIT Press, 2014.
  4. Biermann, F., and P. Pattberg, eds. Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered. MIT Press, 2012.
  5. Conca, Ken. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  6. Galaz, Victor. Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics: The Anthropocene Gap. Edward Elgar, 2014.
  7. Hale, Thomas, David Held, and Kevin Young. Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing Just When We Need It Most. Polity, 2013.
  8. Jinnah, Sikina. Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance. MIT Press, 2014.
  9. Newell, Peter. Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power. Polity, 2012.
  10. Steinberg, Paul F. Who Rules the Earth? How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  11. Whiteside, Kerry H. Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk. MIT Press, 2006.

Global Environmental Politics (overviews)

  1. Axelrod, R. S., and S. D. VanDeveer, eds. The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, third edition. CQ Press, 2014.
  2. Chasek, Pamela S., David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown. Global Environmental Politics, seventh edition. Westview Press, 2016.
  3. Clapp, Jennifer, and Peter Dauvergne. Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, second edition. MIT Press, 2011.
  4. Death, C., ed. Critical Environmental Politics. Routledge, 2013.
  5. Jinnah, S., and S. Nicholson, eds. New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene. MIT Press, 2016.
  6. Kütting, G., ed. Global Environmental Politics: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. Routledge, 2010.
  7. Mitchell, Ronald B. International Politics and the Environment. Sage Publications, 2009.
  8. O’Neill, Kate. The Environment and International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  9. Vig, N. J., and M. E. Kraft, eds. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, ninth edition. CQ Press, 2016.

Global Environmental Politics (collections of readings)

  1. Conca, K., and G. D. Dabelko, eds. Green Planet Blues: Critical Perspectives on Global Environmental Politics, fifth edition. Westview Press, 2014.
  2. Dauvergne, P., ed. Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar, 2013.
  3. Dauvergne, P., ed. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, second edition. Edward Elgar, 2012.
  4. Falkner, R., ed. The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  5. Harris, P. G., ed. Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Routledge, 2013.
  6. Nicholson, S., and P. Wapner, eds. Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet. Routledge, 2014.

Global Environmental Problems (politics of)

  1. Andrée, Peter. Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment. UBC Press, 2007.
  2. Andrews-Speed, Philip, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson, Geoffrey Kemp, and Stacy D. VanDeveer. Want, Waste, Or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals. Routledge, 2015.
  3. Clapp, Jennifer. Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries. Cornell University Press, 2001.
  4. Geiser, Ken. Chemicals Without Harm: Policies for a Sustainable World. MIT Press, 2015.
  5. Hannigan, John. The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans. Polity, 2016.
  6. McCully, Patrick. Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. Zed Books, 2001.
  7. Minter, Adam. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade. Bloomsbury, 2013.
  8. Parson, Edward A. Protecting the Ozone Layer: Science and Strategy. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  9. Paterson, Matthew. Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  10. Selin, Henrik. Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management. MIT Press, 2010.

Global Environmentalism (seminal books)

  1. Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
  2. Daly, Herman E. Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth. W. H. Freeman, 1977.
  3. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Population Bomb: Population Control or Race to Oblivion? Sierra Club–Ballantine, 1968.
  4. Meadows, Donella H., Dennis L. Meadows, William W. Behrens, and Jørgen Randers. The Limits to Growth. Club of Rome, 1972.
  5. Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Harper and Row, 1973.

Globalization (critical accounts)

  1. Almeida, Paul. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
  2. Dauvergne, Catherine. Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  3. Dauvergne, Catherine. The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  4. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin, 2004.
  5. Harvey, David. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  6. Held, David, and Anthony McGrew. Globalization/Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide, second edition. Polity, 2007.
  7. Herod, Andrew. Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
  8. McNally, David. Another World Is Possible: Globalization & Anti-Capitalism, revised edition. Arbeiter Ring, 2006.
  9. Pleyers, Geoffrey. Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age. Polity, 2010.

Private Environmental Governance

  1. Cashore, Benjamin, Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom. Governing through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority. Yale University Press, 2004.
  2. Clapp, J., and D. Fuchs, eds. Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance. MIT Press, 2009.
  3. Falkner, Robert. Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  4. Fuchs, Doris. Understanding Business Power in Global Governance. Nomos, 2005.
  5. Glasbergen, P., F. Biermann, and A. P. J. Mol, eds. Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development. Edward Elgar, 2007.
  6. Green, Jessica F. Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance. Princeton University Press, 2014.
  7. Levy, D., and P. Newell, eds. The Business of Global Environmental Governance. MIT Press, 2005.
  8. Prakash, Aseem, and Matthew Potoski. The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  9. Utting, P., and J. Clapp, eds. Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Sustainability

  1. Agyeman, J., R. D. Bullard, and B. Evans, eds. Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. MIT Press, 2003.
  2. Caradonna, Jeremy L. Sustainability: A History. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  3. Dresner, Simon. The Principles of Sustainability, second edition. Earthscan, 2008.
  4. Edwards, Andrés R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. New Society Publishers, 2005.
  5. Edwards, Andrés R. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. New Society Publishers, 2010.
  6. Harrison, Neil E. Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being. Routledge, 2014.
  7. Leach, Melissa, Ian Scoones, and Andy Stirling. Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice. Earthscan, 2010.
  8. Meadows, Donella H. Thinking in Systems: A Primer, edited by Diana Wright of the Sustainability Institute. Chelsea Green, 2008.
  9. Nemetz, Peter N. Business and the Sustainability Challenge: An Integrated Perspective. Routledge, 2013.
  10. Robbins, Paul. Political Ecology, second edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  11. Robertson, Margaret. Sustainability: Principles and Practice. Routledge, 2014.
  12. Thiele, Leslie. Sustainability. Polity, 2013.

Tropical Rainforests (global politics of)

  1. Dauvergne, Peter. Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. MIT Press, 1997.
  2. Dauvergne, Peter. Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  3. Humphreys, David. Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance. Earthscan, 2006.
  4. Owusu, J. Henry. Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade: Geographic Perspectives on Ghana’s Timber Industry and Development. Lexington Books, 2012.
  5. Ross, Michael L. Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  6. Straumann, Lukas. Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia. Bergli Books, 2014.

Voluntary Simplicity, Localization, and Eco-Villages

  1. Dawson, Jonathan. Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability. Green Books, 2006.
  2. Elgin, Duane. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, revised edition. HarperCollins, 2010.
  3. De Young, R., and T. Princen, eds. The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Downshift. MIT Press, 2012.
  4. Grisby, Mary. Buying Time and Getting By: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement. State University of New York Press, 2004.
  5. Litfin, Karen T. Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community. Polity, 2013.