Quality of Life in the Global Environment:
Preparing for the Next Century
April 1997

Selected Readings

Adams, Carol, ed., Ecofeminism and the Sacred. NY: Continuum, 1993.

Adams, William M., Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. London: Routledge, 1992.

Arendt, Randall G., Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1996.

Arndt, Heinz W., Economic Development: The History of an Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Attfield, Robin, The Ethics of Environmental Concern. 2nd ed., University of Georgia Press, 1992.

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

Atkinson, Adrian, Principles of Political Ecology. London: Belhaven Press, 1991.

Atkinson, Adrian, et al., "A Cluster of Eco-villages: Stories from Sustainable Community Projects around the World." In Context 29:15?22, Summer 1991.

Ausubel, Jessee H., and H. Dale Langord, eds., Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment. (Authors: Rockefeller University Staff) National Academy Press, 1996.

Bailey, Ronald, ed., The True State of the Planet. New York: Free Press, 1995. [Critique: Winifred B. Kessler, "What Environmental Crisis?" in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 11(3): Fall 1996.]

Baldwin, J., ed., Whole Earth Ecolog: The Best of Environmental Tools and Ideas. New York: Harmony Books, 1990.

Bellows, Michael D., ed., Asia in the 21st Century: Evolving Strategic Priorities. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, Fort Lesley, 1994.

Berry, Wendell, Sex, Economy, Community, and Freedom. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Berry, Wendell, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977.

Biehl, Janet, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1991.

Birg, Herwig, World Population Projections for the 21st Century: Theoretical Interpretations and Quanitative Simulations. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Biswas, Asit K. , Mohammed Jellali, Glenn E. Stout, eds., Water for Sustainable Development in the Twenty-first Century. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Brown, Lester R., ed., State of the World. Worldwatch Institue. New York: Norton & Company, 1997 (an annual report).

Brown, Lester R., ed., Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity. New York: Norton & Company, 1996.

Brown, Lester R., ed., Who Will Feed China? New York: Norton & Company, 1995.

Brown, Lester R., Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel, Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Bryant, Bunyan, ed., Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1995.

Buell, Lawrence, The Environmental Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Caldwell, Lynton Keith, Between Two Worlds: Science, the Environmental Movement and Policy Choice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Calthorpe, Peter, The Next American Metroplis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Campbell, S., "Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development." Journal of American Planning Association, Summer 1996.

Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1987 ed. (1962).

Coates, Joseph F. and Jennifer Jarratt, eds.,The Future: Trends into the Twenty-first Century. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, 1992.

Collins, Richard, B. Dotson and E. Waters, America's Downtowns: Growth, Politics, & Preservation. Historic Preservation Press, 1991.

Corbett, M., A Better Place to Live. Rodale Press, 1981.

Costanza, Robert, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Costanza, Robert, Bryan G. Norton, Benjamin D. Haskell, eds., Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1992.

Daly, Herman E., Steady-state Economics. (2nd ed., with new essays.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.

Daly, Herman E., For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

DesJardins, Joseph R., Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1993; 2nd ed. 1996.

Devall, Bill, Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Salt Lake City, Utah: G.M. Smith, 1985.

Dowie, Mark, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Durning, Alan T., How Much Is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth. New York: Norton, 1992.

Easterlin, Richard A., Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Eckersley, Robyn, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996.

Ehrlich, Paul R., Anne H. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily, The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma. New York: Putnam's, 1995.

Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich, Healing the Planet: Srategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich, The Population Explosion. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Elder, John, The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing. New York: Norton & Company, 1992.

Elkin, Tim, Duncan McLaren with Mayer Hillman, Reviving the City: Towards Sustainable Urban Development. London: Friends of the Earth, 1991.

Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel, eds., Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990.

Flannery, Tim, The Future Eaters. New York: Braziller, 1995.

Fri, R. W., "Sustainable Development: Principles into Practice." Resources 102:1?3, Winter 1991.

Gale, D.E., "Eight State-sponsored Growth Management Programs: A Comparative Analysis." Journal of the American Planning Association, Spring 1991.

Gardner, J. and M. Roseland, "Thinking globally and acting locally. Part I. The role of social equity in sustainable development. Part II. Community strategies for equitable sustainable development." Alternatives 16(3):26?48, 1989.

Goldsmith, E., N. Hildyard, P. Bunyard, and P. McCully, eds., "Whose Common Future? A Special Issue." The Ecologist 22(4):122?210, July/August 1992.

Goodland, Robert, Herman E. Daly, and Salah El Serafy, eds., Population, Technology, Lifestyle: The Transition to Sustainability. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992.

Gilpin, Alan, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Cutting Edge for the Twenty-first Century. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Gottlie, Roger, ed., This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Gottlieb, Robert, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Gore, Albert, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

Gordon, Anita and David Suzuki, It's a Matter of Survival. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Guth, James L., et al., "Faith and the environment: Religious beliefs and attitudes on environmental policy." American Journal of Political Science, 39(2): 364(19), May 1995.

*Hammond, Allen L., ed., World Resources 1994-95. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Also World Resources 1992-93 and World Resources 1990-91.

*Hammond, Allen L., ed., 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac. World Resources Institute. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Also published in 1993 and 1992; discontinued after 1994.

Hardoy, Jorge Enrique, Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite, Environmental Problems in Third World Cities. London: Earthscan, 1992.

Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993.

Holm, Jean and John Bowker, eds., Attitudes to Nature. New York: Pinter Publishers, 1994.

Jacobs, Jane, Systems of Survival. A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics. New York: Vintage Press, 1992.

Jaffee, David, Levels of Socio-Economic Development. New York: Praeger, 1990.

James, Valentine Udoh, ed., Environmental and Economic Dilemmas of Developing Countries: Africa in the Twenty-first Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994.

Kennedy, Paul M., Preparing for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Random House, 1993.

Kertzer, K.E. and Thomas Fricke, Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997 (in press).

Kidder, Rushworth M. (compiled), Reinventing the Future: Global Goals for the 21st Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989.

Kraft, Michael E., Environmental Policy and Politics: Toward the Twenty-first Century. New York, New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

*Linden, Eugene, "Exploding Cities of the Developing World." Foreign Affairs, 75(1), Jan/Feb 1996.

*Linden, Eugene, "Sustainable Follies." Time Magazine, May 24, 1993.

*Linden, Eugene, "Population - The Awkward Truth." Time Magazine, June 20, 1994.

*Linden, Eugene, "No Breathing Room" in Beyond the Year 2000, "Too Many People." Time Magazine Special Issue, Fall 1992.

Lovins, Amory, Soft Energy Path: Toward a Durable Peace. Harmondsworth (England); New York: Penguin Books, 1977.

Lutz, Wolfgang, ed., The Future Population of the World: What Can We Assume Today? London: Earthscan, 1994.

Matthews, Freya, The Ecological Self. Routledge, Barnes and Noble, 1991.

McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature. New York: J. Wiley, 1992.

McKibben, B., The End of Nature. New York: Anchor Books, 1989.

McLaughlin, Andrew, Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

McLuhan, T. C., The Way of the Earth: Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Merchant, Carolyn, Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980.

Meadows, Donnella, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers. Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future. Post Mills, VT : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 1992.

Meadows, Donnella, The Global Citizen. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.

Meadows, Donella. The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books, 1974, 1972.

Miller, Alan S., Gaia Connections: An Introduction to Ecology, Ecoethics, and Economics. Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.

Miller, G. Tyler, Jr., Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions. 8th ed. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1994.

Mintz, Joel A., Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Moffett, George, Critical Masses: The Global Population Challenge. Viking, 1994; Penquin, 1995.

Morgan, Marlo, Mutant Message Downunder. MM CO., 1991.

Newman, P.W.G. and J. R. Kenworthy, Cities and Automobile Dependence: A Sourcebook. Brookfield, Vermont: Gower, 1989.

Nisbet, Robert, History of the Idea of Progress. New York: Basic Books, 1980.

Norgaard, Richard B., Sustainability as Intergenerational Equity: The Challenge to Economic Thought and Practice. World Bank Internal Discussion Paper. Asia Regional Series, Report No. IDP 97, June 1991.

Norgaard, Richard B., "Three dilemmas of environmental accounting." Ecological Economics 1:303-314, 1989.

Norton, Bryan G., Toward Unity Among Environmentalists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Ophuls, W. and A. S. Boyan, Jr., Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1992.

Orr, David, The Earth in Mind. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994.

Orr, David, Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Sustainable World. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, David Ray Griffin, series editor.), 1992.

Pearce, David, Edward Barbier and Anil Markandya, Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World. Hants, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1990.

Perks, W. and M. E. Tyler, "The challenge of sustainable development: Planning for change or changing planning?" Plan Canada 31(3):6?14, 1991.

Plumwood, Val, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

Ponting, Clive, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Ponting, Clive, "Historical perspectives on sustainable development." Environment 32(9):5?9, 31?33, November 1990.

Postel, Sandra, Dividing the Waters: Food Security, Ecosystem Health, and the New Politics of Scarcity. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C., September 1996.

Postel, Sandra, Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Power, T. M., The Economic Pursuit of Quality. Armonk, New York: Sharp Publishers, 1988.

Press, Daniel, Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Quinn, Daniel, Ishmael. New York: Bantam Books, 1992; also Story of B, Bantam Books, 1996.

Rappaport, Roy, Ecology, Meaning and Religion. Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1979.

Repetto, Robert C., Promoting Environmentally Sound Economic Progress: What the North Can Do. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, April 1990.

Rocheleau, Dianne, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari, Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Routledge: New York, 1996.

Rockefeller, Steven C. and John C. Elder, eds., Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment is a Religious Issue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Rogers, Katrina S., Toward a Postpositivist World: Hermeneutics for Understanding International Relations, Environment, and Other Important Issues of the Twenty-first Century (with a foreword by Sanjoy Banerjee). New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Rubin, Charles T., The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Rudel, Thomas K., Situations and Strategies in American Land-Use Planning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Rushefsky, Mark E., Public Policy in the United States: Toward the Twenty-first Century. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1996.

Sachs, Ignacy "Transition strategies for the 21st century." Nature and Resources 28(1):4?17, 1992.

Sagoff, Mark, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Sale, Kirkpatrick, The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993; also Human Scale, Putnam, 1982, (1980).

Sampson, R. Neil and Dwight Hair, eds., Natural Resources for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1990.

Schumacher, E.F., Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Harper & Row, 1975.

Shabecoff, Philip, Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Shiva, Vandana, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development. London: Zed Books, 1989.

Sorkin, M., ed., Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. New York: Noonday Press, 1992.

Stokes, Samuel N., et al., eds., Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Stren, R., R. White, and J. Whitney, eds., Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1992.

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Sylvan, Richard and David Bennett, The Greening of Ethics: From Human Chauvinism to Deep-Green Theory. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; and Cambridge UK: White Horse Press, 1994.

Taylor, Bron, ed., Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. State University of New York Press, 1995.

Templeton, John Marks, ed., Looking Forward: The Next Forty Years. New York, NY: Harper Business, 1993.

Thomas-Slayter, Barbara, et al., A Manual for Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis. Worcester, MA: Clark Unversity Press, 1995.

Thurow, Lester C., The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape Tomorrow's World. New York: W. Morrow, 1996.

Turner, B. L., et al., eds., The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Clark University, 1990.

Turner, R. Kerry, ed., Sustainable Environmental Management: Principles and Practice. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988.

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Welford, Richard, Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development: The Corporate Challenge for the Twenty-first Century. London; New York: Routledge, 1995.

Weston, Anthony, Back to Earth: Tomorrow's Environmentalism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Western, David and Mary C. Pearl, eds., Conservation for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Westra, Laura, An Environmental Proposal for Ethics: The Principle of Integrity. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1994.

Wyman, R. L. ed., Global Climate Change and Life on Earth. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991.

Yaro, R., R. Arendt, et al., Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1993.

Zukin, S., Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.

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