Environment

 

Books- Foundational

 

Carson R. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

The foundation book of the modern environmental movement – still containing much truth today.

 

Ehrlich PR, Ehrlich AH, Holdren JP. 1977. Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.

The final edition of the first environmental science text, “Population, Resources, Environment.”

 

 

Books- Recent

 

Daily GC, ed. 1997. Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Classic book on ecosystem services, by a leading environmental scientist.

 

Ehrlich PR, Ehrlich AH. 2009. The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (Second Edition).Washington, DC: Island Press.

Raven PH, Berg LR. 2006. Environment, 8th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

A world-class modern textbook.

 

Steffen W, et al. 2004. Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. Berlin: Springer.

Excellent overview.

 

Norgaard K. 2011. Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. MIT Press.

 

Michael E. Mann. 2012. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Columbia University Press.

An excellent place to learn about climate science and also about the efforts of the intellectual prostitutes, pimped by right-wing “think” tanks, who deny the validity of climate science (see also Oreskes under Human Behavior).

 

 

Articles- Foundational

 

Holdren JP. 1991. Population and the energy problem. Population and Environment 12: 231-255.

 

Holdren JP, Ehrlich PR. 1974. Human population and the global environment. American Scientist 62: 282-292.

 

Vitousek PM, Ehrlich PR, Ehrlich AH, Matson PA. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. BioScience 36: 368-373.

 

 

Articles- Recent

 

Mohammad Zaidi, Idar Kreutzer, and Robert E. Horn, and Paul Ehrlich, (2012) The must haves for a sustainable 2050, MAHB Report 2012-1

 

Rees, W.E. 2010. What’s blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial Sustainability.  Science, Practice, & Policy 6: 2: 12-25 (available at: http://sspp.proquest.com/static_content/vol6iss2/1001-012.rees.pdf )

 

Rees, W.E. 2008. Human Nature, Eco-Footprints and Environmental Injustice.  Local Environment 13: 8: 685 – 701 (available at: http://research.rem.sfu.ca/downloads/REM-350/Course%20Readings/Rees%20Human%20nature%20and%20consumption%202008.pdf )

 

Ehrlich P, Pringle R. 2008. Where does biodiversity go from here? A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 11579-11586.

 

Harte J. 2007. Human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation. Population and Environment 28: 223-236.

 

Rees WE. 2011. Ecological Footprint, Concept of. Pages In press in Levin S, ed. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd edition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

 

Rosa EA, York R, Dietz T. 2004. Tracking the anthropogenic drivers of ecological impacts. Ambio 333: 509-512.

 

Wackernagel M, et al. 2002. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99: 9266-9271. 

Why success of the MAHB is absolutely necessary.

 

News/Op-Eds

An Eclectic Group of Thinkers and Scholars Tackles Global Warming. Keith Kloor. February 17, 2012.

How can insights from social scientists and cognitive researchers inform climate communication?

 

Myhrvold finds we need clean energy yesterday (and no natural gas) to avoid. David Roberts. Grist. February 28, 2012.

 

Mountain Forests for Long-­‐term Sustainability. December 2011. by Active Remedy Ltd.

The call for environmental actions to be taken now from the prespective of an organization that focuses on protecting & regenerating indigenous mountain forests for fresh water globally.