POLS 346—A Bibliography

This bibliography is offered as a aid to becoming well-read in this field.

Values

Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Anything by Vandana Shiva (Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, Earth Democracy)

Frank Ackerman et. al., eds., Human Well-Being and Economic Goals

Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind

Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment

Stephen Clark, The Moral Status of Animals

R. G. Frey, Rights, Animals, and Suffering

Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter

Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

Steven Rhoads, The Economist's View of the World

Robert Heilbroner, An Inquiry Into the Human Prospect

Ronald Bailey, Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse

Institutions (Presidents, Congress, Courts, Administrative Agencies, Interest Groups, Federalism)

Eugene Bardach and Robert Kagan, Going By The Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness

Christopher McGrory Klyza & David J. Sousa., American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock

Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., Business And Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests In The American Political System

William Ophuls, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity

Daniel Jack Chasan, The Fall of the House of WPPSS

Gary C. Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990 and Its Implementation

Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation

Richard N.L. Andrews, Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy

David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens

Economic Analysis/Risk Analysis

National Academy of Public Administration, Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Government Priorities

Herman Daly, ed., The Steady-State Economy

Terry L. Anderson & Donald R. Leal, Free Market Environmentalism, revised ed.

Stephen Kelman, What Price Incentives?

E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource

Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Arthur P.J. Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization Of The Global Economy

Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh , Ecological Economics And Sustainable Development : Theory, Methods, And Applications

Environmental Justice

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom

Naomi Wolf, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Vandana Shiva, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Peter Wenz, Environmental Justice

Robert Gottlieb, Environmentalism Unbound : Exploring New Pathways For Change

Daniel Faber, ed., The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements In The United States

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., The Promise And Peril Of Environmental Justice

Sustainability

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food

Tyler Volk, Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth

Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

William Blackburn, The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility

Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet For A Small Planet

Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring

Yusef Ahmed, et.al., Environmental Accounting for Sustainable Development

Mikael Skou Anderson and Duncan Liefferink, eds., European Environmental Policy : The Pioneers

Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Beyond the Limits : Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning A Sustainable Future

Raymond P. Poincelot, Toward a more sustainable agriculture

James H. Weaver, Michael T. Rock, and Kenneth Kusterer, Achieving Broad-Based Sustainable Development : Governance, Environment, And Growth With Equity

Yosef Gotlieb, Development, Environment And Global Dysfunction : Toward Sustainable Recovery

Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, Extinction

Climate Policy

Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point

John Firor, The Changing Atmosphere: A Global Challenge

Leslie Alm, Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S. Acid Rain Debate

Paul Ehrlich, et.al., The Cold and the Dark

Natural Resource Policy

Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Times

Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water

David Montgomery, King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon

James R. Skillen, The Nation's Largest Landlord : The Bureau of Land Management in the American West

Jeff Goodell, Big Coal

Charles Davis, ed., Western Public Lands And Environmental Politics

William Lowry, Preserving Public Lands for the Future: The Politics of Intergenerational Goods, or The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks

Neil M. Maher, Nature’s New Deal : The Civilian Conservation Corps And The Roots Of The American Environmental Movement

Megan Mullin, Governing The Tap : Special District Governance And The New Local Politics Of Water

Judith I. McKenzie, Environmental Politics In Canada : Managing The Commons Into The Twenty-First Century

Population

William McNeil, Plagues and Peoples

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Matthew Connolly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population

Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World

Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil, Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions Of The Population Challenge

Trade

Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents

Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work

Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword

William Baumol, et. al., Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

Claude E. Barfield, Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of theWorld Trade Organization

OECD, The State of the Environment

Other Stuff

Charles E. Lindblom, Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society

Vaclav Smil, The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change

-Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

-Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years

Timothy D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures