ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES


FUTURE STUDIES   GLOBAL INDICATORS AND MAPS   ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS

GREEN ECONOMY   GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

WATER CRISIS   OCEAN CRISIS   AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT   DEFORESTATION


FUTURE STUDIES READING AND FILM LIST

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY

A Government Ill-Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How To Reverse It

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change

Death by Government

FINANCIAL

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

POVERTY

Planet of Slums

PLAGUE

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

HOW THE PAST RELATES TO TODAY

A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Development Centre Studies the World Economy: Historical Statistics

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

 

CURRENT STATE OF THE WORLD

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World

State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - - And How It Can Renew America

 

FUTURE

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and The Fate of Humanity

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Vital Signs 2007-2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future


GLOBAL FUTURE INDICATORS STATISTICS AND MAPS

OECD Factbook 2009

Reuters: The State of the World

 

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Atlas of Global Development, Second Edition: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges

Africa Development Indicators 2008/2009: Youth and Employment in Africa: The Potential, The Problem and The Promise

Development Center Studies: Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run

Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World

World Development Indicators 2009

World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

 

ECONOMIC

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 A.D.: Essays in Macro-economic History

Growth and Interaction in the World Economy: The Roots of Modernity

 

FUTURE/GLOBAL TRENDS

Vital Signs 2007-2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

The Penguin State of the World Atlas: Eighth Edition

The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective/Historical Statistics


ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY FILMS

Aftermath: Population Zero

An Inconvenient Truth

Earth 2100

Earth from the Air: The Extraordinary Images of Yann-Arthus Bertrand

Extreme Ice

Frontline: Poisoned Waters

Home

Human Footprint

Life After People

Life After People (History Channel)

Life After People: The Series

National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World

Nature: Silence of the Bees

Planet in Peril

Planet in Peril: Battle Lines

The 11th Hour

 

ARTISTIC FILMS

Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

Naqoyqatsi

 

FICTIONAL FILMS

The Day After Tomorrow


GREEN ECONOMY BOOKS

Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Break Through: From Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility

Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to the Environmentalists

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Earth The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

The Clean Tech Revolution: Discover the Top Trends, Technologies, and Companies to Watch

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems


FUTURE STUDIES   GLOBAL INDICATORS AND MAPS   ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS

GREEN ECONOMY   GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

WATER CRISIS   OCEAN CRISIS   AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT   DEFORESTATION


GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: A HISTORY

Blood and Soil: Walther Darre and Hitler's Green Party

Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience

Ecology in the 20th Century: A History

Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History

How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment and Nation in the Third Reich

Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany

The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Policy in the West

The Green and Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany

The Nazi War on Cancer


ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

ANCIENT

Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

 

AMERICAN INDIAN

American Indian Ecology

God is Red: A Native View of Religion

Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian

Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies

The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship

 

LATIN AMERICA

An Environmental History of Latin America

Ecocide and Genocide in the Vanishing Rain Forest: The Rainforest and Native People

 

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

American Environmental History

Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement

Major Problems in American Environmental History

Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America

 

EUROPE

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

 

THE U.S.S.R

Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege

Ecological Disaster: Cleaning Up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime: A Twentieth Century Fund Report

 

CHINA

Ecocide in Indochina: The Ecology of War

Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

 

WORLD

An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Ecocide: A Short History of Mass Extinction of Species

Ecology in the 20th Century: A History

Global Environmental History

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West

What Is Environmental History?


FUTURE STUDIES   GLOBAL INDICATORS AND MAPS   ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS

GREEN ECONOMY   GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

WATER CRISIS   OCEAN CRISIS   AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT   DEFORESTATION


GLOBAL WATER CRISIS

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?

Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature

Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century


CRISIS IN THE OCEANS

Ocean Bankruptcy: World Fisheries on the Brink of Disaster

The Empty Ocean

The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea

The Unnatural History of the Sea


FUTURE STUDIES   GLOBAL INDICATORS AND MAPS   ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS

GREEN ECONOMY   GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

WATER CRISIS   OCEAN CRISIS   AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT   DEFORESTATION


AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Crops and Environmental Change: An Introduction to the Effects of Global Warming, Increasing of Atmospheric CO2 and O3

Diet for a Small Planet

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country

How the Other Half Dies

Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

The End of Food


DEFORESTATION: DESTROYING THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET

A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two (Our Sustainable Future)

Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction

Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment

Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands

The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California's Ancient Redwoods

Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests