In this context they are notable books that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on the natural environment.
| 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 |
|
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| The Clean Tech Revolution |
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder |
2007 |
| Cloning: At Issue (2003) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Genetic Roulette |
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| Global Corporate Environmentalism |
Jayanta Bhattacharya |
2004 |
| The Global Environmental Movement |
John McCormick |
1996 |
| Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (2002) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
