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Athanasiou, Tom. Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor. Boston: Littele, Brown and Company, 1996.

Barlow, Maude and Tony Clarke. Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water. Toronto: Stoddart, 2002.

Botkin, Daniel. Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Boulter, Michael. Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man. London: Fourth Estate, 2002.

Buell, Frederick. From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Capra, Fritjof. The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions of LIfe into a Science of Sustainability. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Carroll. Michael Christopher. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory. New York: William Morrow, 2004.

Chester, Charles C. Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006.

Christianson, Gale E. Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming. Vancouver, British Columbia: Greystone Books, 1999.

Dubos, Rene. Celebrations of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

Durning, Alan Thein. This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1996.

Ehrlich, Paul and Anne. Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Diasappearance of Species. New York: Random House, 1981.

Ellis, Richard. The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.

Fahn, James David. A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2003.

Forrester, Jay W. World Dynamics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Wright-Allen Press, 1971.

Gribbin, John. Hothouse Earth: The Greenhouse Effect and Gaia. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Hertsgaard, Mark. Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.

Hilty, Jodi A.; William Z. Lidicker, Jr.; and Adina M. Merenlender. Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.

Josephson, Paul R. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Krupp, Fred; and Miriam Horn. Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Grove Press, 2006.

Lamb, H.H. Climate History and the Modern World. London: Methuen, 1982.

Laszlo, Ervin. Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2001.

Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Lovelock, James. Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.

Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Slanted Truths: Essays On Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution. New York: Copernicus, 1997.

McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Meyer, Stephen M. The End of the Wild. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Nadeau, Robert L. The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

Pimm, Stuart L. The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Rappaport, Ann; and Sarah Hammond Creighton. Degrees that Matter: Climate Change and the University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007.
Roberts. Paul. The End of Food. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Ruddiman, William F. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Simpson, Jeffrey; Mark Jaccard; and Nic Rivers. Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2007.

Spowers, Rory. Rising Tides: A History of the Environmental Revolution and Visions for an Ecological Age. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2002.

Suzuki, David. Inventing the Future: Reflections on Science, Technology and Nature. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1989.

Vernadsky, Vladimir I. The Biosphere. New York: Copernicus, 1998.

Volk, Tyler. Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Weiner, Jonathan. The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

 

Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Woodbridge, Roy. The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations, and Ecological Decline. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

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