List of environmental books

In this context they are notable books that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on the environment.

This page is a list of environmental books.

Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition.

Title	Theme(s) and subtheme(s)	Author(s)	Year(s)	ISBN(s)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus	Population	Charles C. Mann	2005	ISBN 978-1-4000-4006-3
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think	Various themes	Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler	2012	ISBN 978-1-4516-1421-3
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	Agriculture	Clifford Geertz	1963
Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility	Energy	Christopher A. Simon	2006	ISBN 0-7425-4908-9; ISBN 978-0-7425-4908-1; ISBN 0-7425-4909-7; ISBN 978-0-7425-4909-8
AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors	Pollution: air pollution		1968
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming	Global warming	Nigel Lawson	2008	ISBN 978-0-7156-3786-9 (UK); ISBN 978-1-59020-084-1 (US)
Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants	Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters	Milton R. Beychok	1967
Atlas of Our Changing Environment	Climate change	United Nations Environment Programme	2005–
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada	Wildfires: in Canada	Stephen J. Pyne	2007
Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo	Wildlife conservation	Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
Beyond the Limits	Population	Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers	1992	ISBN 0-930031-62-8
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak	Energy	Kenneth S. Deffeyes	2006
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future	Pollution	Jeff Goodell	2006	ISBN 978-0-618-87224-4
A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis	Various themes	Ian Lowe	2005
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It		Ken Alibek	1999	ISBN 0-385-33496-6
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming	Environmentalism	Paul Hawken	2007	ISBN 978-0-670-03852-7
The Blue Economy	Technology: biomimetics	Gunter Pauli	2010	ISBN 978-0-912111-90-2
A Blueprint for Survival	Survival	Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen	1972
Bountiful Harvest	Anti-environmentalism	Thomas R. DeGregori	2002	ISBN 1-930865-31-7
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security	Energy	Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins	1982	ISBN 0-931790-28-X
Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System	Various themes	Jim Harding	2007
The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era	Global warming	Jeremy Leggett	1999
Catastrophe: Risk and Response	Various themes	Richard Posner	2004	ISBN 978-0-19-530647-7
Challenging the Chip	Waste: electronic waste	Ted Smith (environmentalist), David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow	2006	ISBN 1-59213-330-4 (paperback); ISBN 1-59213-330-4 (e-book)
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England	Land and water: hunting and fishing	William Cronon	1983	ISBN 0-8090-0158-6
The Chilling Stars	Climate change: cosmic rays	Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder	2003; 2007 (updated)	ISBN 1-84046-815-7
A Civil Action	Pollution: water pollution	Jonathan Harr	1996	ISBN 0-679-77267-7
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity	Clean technology	Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder	2007	ISBN 0-06-089623-X
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change	Climate change	L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen	2011	ISBN 978-0-8090-3473-4
Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options	Climate change mitigation and global energy security	Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool	2011	ISBN 978-0-262-01625-4
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand	Climate change denial	Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes	2011	ISBN 978-1-84971-336-8
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action	Global warming	David Spratt and Philip Sutton	2008	ISBN 1-921372-20-6
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet	Global Warming and Sustainable Cities	Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope	2017	ISBN 978-1-250-14207-8
The Coal Question	Coal: peak coal	William Stanley Jevons	1865
Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love	Mining: mountain removal mining	Michael Shnayerson	2008
Coexisting On Earth: Homo sapiens Quagmire	Various themes, but mainly focuses on Homo sapiens lost connection with nature	Michael C.Clark	2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	Various themes	Jared Diamond	2005	ISBN 0-14-303655-6
The Coming Global Superstorm	Global warming	Art Bell and Whitley Strieber	1999	ISBN 0-671-04190-8
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture	Agriculture: agricultural hydrology	International Water Management Institute and Earthscan	2007
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior	Eco-terrorism	Dave Foreman	1991
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists	Consumerism	Michael Brower and Warren Leon	1999	ISBN 0-609-80281-X
Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy	Energy: nuclear energy	Benjamin K. Sovacool	2011	ISBN 978-981-4322-75-1
A Contract with the Earth	Environmental protection and restoration	Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple	2007	ISBN 978-0-8018-8780-2
The Control of Nature	Geoengineering	John McPhee	1989	ISBN 0-374-12890-1
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming	Global warming	Bjørn Lomborg	2007	ISBN 978-0-307-26692-7
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things		Michael Braungart and William McDonough	2002	ISBN 0-86547-587-3
Deep Future		Curt Stager	2009
The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud	Global warming: denial	Lawrence Solomon	2008	ISBN 978-0-9800763-1-8
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness		Edward Abbey	1968	ISBN 978-0-345-25021-6
Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison	Toxic waste	Jane Hightower	2008
The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States	Energy	Benjamin K. Sovacool	2008
The Discovery of Global Warming	Global warming: history of scientific discoveries	Spencer R. Weart	2003	ISBN 0-674-03189-X
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation	Energy: hydropower	Andri Snær Magnason	2006	ISBN 978-0-9551363-2-0
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet	Climate change	Bill McKibben	2010	ISBN 978-0-8050-9056-7
Earth from the Air		Yann Arthus-Bertrand (photographer)
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit		Al Gore	1992	ISBN 0-395-57821-3; ISBN 0-618-05664-5; ISBN 1-85383-743-1; ISBN 978-1-59486-637-1 (paperback, Rodale Press, 2006)
Eating Animals	Food industry	Jonathan Safran Foer	2009	ISBN 0-316-06990-6
Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching	Eco-terrorism	Dave Foreman	1985
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900	Introduced species: epidemics	Alfred Crosby	1986
Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems		Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper	2006	ISBN 978-1-4051-1117-1
The Economical Environmentalist	Climate change: effects of climate change	Prashant Vaze
Ecotage!	Eco-terrorism	Sam Love	1972	ISBN 0-671-78180-4
Encounters with the Archdruid		John McPhee	1971	ISBN 0-374-51431-3
The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow	Energy	Peter Tertzakian	2009	ISBN 978-0-470-43544-1
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat	Overfishing	Charles Clover (journalist)	2004 (UK); 2006 (US)	ISBN 0-09-189780-7 (UK hardcover 1st ed.); ISBN 1-59558-109-X (US hardcover 1st ed.); ISBN 0-09-189781-5 (UK 2005 rev. ed.); ISBN 0-520-25505-4 (US 2008 reprint 1st ed.)
The End of Nature	Global warming	Bill McKibben	1989	ISBN 0-8129-7608-8
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World	Energy	Paul Roberts (author)	2004	ISBN 978-0-618-23977-1
Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	Wildlife conservation	Alison J. Stattersfield, Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long, and David C. Wege	1998	ISBN 0-946888-33-7
Endgame (two volumes)		Derrick Jensen	2006	ISBN 1-58322-730-X; ISBN 1-58322-724-5
Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths	Energy	Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown (editors)	2007
Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy	Energy	Hermann Scheer	2006	ISBN 1-84407-355-6
The Energy Construct	Energy: renewable energy, nuclear energy, and clean fossil energy	Ben Cipiti	2007
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology	Nanotechnology	K. Eric Drexler	1986	ISBN 0-385-19973-2
Entropy: A New World View	Resource conservation	Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard	1980	ISBN 0-670-29717-8
Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well	Free-market environmentalism	Terry Lee Anderson and Donald R. Leal	1997	ISBN 978-0-8476-8382-6
Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction	Various themes	Sharon Beder	2006	ISBN 978-1-84407-404-4
An Essay on the Principle of Population	Population	Thomas Robert Malthus	1798
Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands	Energy: petroleum energy	Ezra Levant	2010	ISBN 0-7710-4641-3
The Everglades: River of Grass	Nature conservation	Marjory Stoneman Douglas	1947
Everybody Loves a Good Drought		P. Sainath	1996	ISBN 0-14-025984-8
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 (collection of books and other publications)	Conservation movement
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines	Various themes	Paul Fleischman	2014	ISBN 978-0-7636-7545-5
Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity	Resource efficiency	Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and others	2009	ISBN 978-0-8165-1086-3
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy	Radiation exposure: nuclear weapon tests	Philip L. Fradkin	1989	ISBN 978-0-8165-1086-3
Famine 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive?	Overpopulation: food security	William Paddock and Paul Paddock	1967
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat	Agriculture: industrial livestock production and industrial fish farming	Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott	2014
The Fate of the Earth		Jonathan Schell	1982
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret	Waste: toxic waste recycled in fertilizer	Duff Wilson	2001
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change	Climate change: causes and effects	Elizabeth Kolbert	2006	ISBN 1-59691-125-5
Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following Nature's Way	sustainability, sustainable development, ecosystem science, ecological footprint, human systems modeled on natural systems	Sven Erik Jorgensen, Brian D. Fath, Soren N. Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus, and Simone Bastianoni	2015	ISBN 978-1-138-84253-3
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It	Food industry		2009
Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations	sustainability, life as basis of value, science paradigm shift, holistic science, life-environment relations, what is life?, origin of life, applications for sustainability	Daniel A. Fiscus and Brian D. Fath	2018	ISBN 978-0-12-811460-5
The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution	Agriculture: genetically modified food	Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko	2004
Free Market Environmentalism	Environmental economics	Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal
Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion (4th edition)	Pollution: air pollution: atmospheric dispersion modeling	Milton R. Beychok	2005	ISBN 0-9644588-0-2
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development	Genetically modified organisms	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr	2006
Genethics: The Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values	Genetic engineering	David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson	1990
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World	Pollution: water pollution	Steven Berlin Johnson	2006	ISBN 1-59448-925-4
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism	Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism	Sharon Beder	1997; 2000; 2002	ISBN 978-1-890132-12-5
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans	Various themes	Mark Lynas	2011
The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management	Various themes	Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg	2008
The Green Bible	Religion		2008	ISBN 978-0-06-162799-6
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems	Economics	Van Jones	2008	ISBN 978-0-06-165075-8
The Green Crusade	Environmentalism	Charles T. Rubin	1998	ISBN 0-8476-8817-8
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism	Consumerism and renewable energy	Ozzie Zehner	2012	ISBN 978-0-8032-3775-9
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage		Daniel C. Esty	2006
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy	Energy	Mark Diesendorf	2007	ISBN 978-0-86840-973-3
"Ground Zero Wars: The Fight to Reveal the Lies of the EPA in the Wake of 9/11 and Clean Up Lower Manhattan"	Environmental disaster of 9/11	Jenna Orkin	2017	ISBN 978-1-5464-5325-3
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence	Energy: renewable energy	Robert Bryce	2008	ISBN 978-1-58648-321-0
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis	Energy	Jeremy Leggett	2005
Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada	Climate change: effects in Canada	Harold Coward and Andrew J. Weaver	2004	ISBN 978-0-88920-442-3
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World	Climate change and agriculture	Charles, Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly	2010	ISBN 0-06-173135-8
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science	Global warming	Ian Plimer	2009	ISBN 0-7043-7166-9
Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do	Global warming	Joseph J. Romm	2006	ISBN 0-06-117212-X
High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future	Global warming	Guy Pearse	2007
High Tide		Mark Lynas	2004
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines	Climate change: hockey stick controversy	Michael E. Mann	2012	ISBN 0-231-15254-X
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science	Climate change	Andrew Montford	2010	ISBN 978-1-906768-35-5
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America	Various themes	Thomas L. Friedman	2008
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change	Consumerism	Chris Goodall	2007	ISBN 978-1-84407-426-6
Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future		Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton	1997
The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health	Food industry	Randall Fitzgerald	2006	ISBN 0-525-94951-8
The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate	Climate change	Joseph J. Romm	2004	ISBN 1-55963-703-X; ISBN 1-55963-704-8
The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet	Environmental skepticism	Indur M. Goklany	2007	ISBN 1-930865-98-8
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems		Glenn Beck	2007	ISBN 1-4165-5219-7
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It		Al Gore	2006	ISBN 1-59486-567-1
An Introduction to Sustainable Development		Peter P. Rogers, with Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd	2007	ISBN 978-1-84407-521-8
It's a Matter of Survival	Survival	Anita Gordon and David Suzuki	1991	ISBN 0-674-46970-4
Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World	Renewable energy: solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, and more	Tom Rand	2010
Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed	Asbestos in construction: fibrosis	Matt Peacock	2009	ISBN 978-0-7333-2580-9
Last Chance to See	Wildlife conservation	Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine	1990
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder	Nature deficit disorder	Richard Louv	2005	ISBN 978-1-56512-605-3
Latin American World Model	Ecology Population	Amilcar Herrera, Hugo Scolnick, e.a.	1976	ISBN 0-88936-083-9
The Legacy of Luna	Forest conservation	Julia Butterfly Hill	2000	ISBN 0-06-251658-2
Life in 2050	Various themes	Ulrich Eberl	2011	ISBN 978-3-407-75357-1
The Limits to Growth	Population	Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III	1972	ISBN 0-87663-165-0
Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia	Climate change	Ian Lowe	2005
The Living Soil	Organic farming	Lady Eve Balfour	1943
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century	Various themes	James Howard Kunstler	2005
Making Peace with the Planet		Barry Commoner	1990	ISBN 978-0-394-56598-9
Man and Nature	Environmental degradation	George Perkins Marsh	1864
Managing Urban America	Urban planning	David R. Morgan, Robert E. England, and John Peter Pelissero	1979	ISBN 1-56643-065-8 (5th ed. paperback); ISBN 1-56802-930-6 (6th ed.)
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition	Megaprojects	Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter	2003	ISBN 0-521-80420-5
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming	Global warming	Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway	2010	ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World (book companion to series of videos)		David Maybury-Lewis	1992
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels	Energy: fossil fuels	Alex Epstein	2014	ISBN 978-1-59184-744-1
Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal	Mining: coal mining	Penny Loeb	2007
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution	Ecosystem services: full-cost accounting	Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins	1999	ISBN 978-0-316-35316-8
A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes)	Nature conservation	Derek Ratcliffe	1977	ISBN 0-521-21159-X
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining	Mining: uranium mining	Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis	2006	ISBN 978-0-8263-3778-8
The New Green Consumer Guide	Consumerism	Julia Hailes	2007	ISBN 978-0-7432-9530-7
Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy	Energy	Amory B. Lovins and John H. Price	1975	ISBN 0-88410-603-9
Nourishing the Planet	Agriculture: sustainable agriculture
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals	Food industry	Michael Pollan	2006	ISBN 978-1-59420-082-3
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth		Buckminster Fuller	1968
Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb	Various themes	Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl	1991	ISBN 0-312-85252-5
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis	Climate change	Al Gore	2009
Our Plundered Planet		Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr.	1948
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution	Biotechnology	Francis Fukuyama	2002	ISBN 0-374-23643-7 (hardcover); ISBN 0-312-42171-0 (paperback)
Our Synthetic Environment	Pesticides	Murray Bookchin (pseudonym "Lewis Herber")	1962
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World	Various themes	Kevin Kelly (editor)	1994	ISBN 978-0-201-48340-6
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil	Energy	David Goodstein	2004	ISBN 0-393-05857-3
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies	Energy	Richard Heinberg	2003	ISBN 0-86571-482-7
The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics	Pesticides	David Pimentel and Hugh Lehman (editors)	1993	ISBN 978-0-412-03581-4
The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen	Energy	Harry Braun
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate	Various themes	William Ruddiman	2005
Political Animals and Animal Politics	Animal welfare: animal ethics and environmental politics	Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg	2014	ISBN 978-1-137-43461-6
The Population Bomb	Population	Paul R. Ehrlich	1968	ISBN 1-56849-587-0
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits	Population	Steven W. Mosher	2008	ISBN 978-1-4128-0712-8
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World	Energy	Richard Heinberg	2004	ISBN 978-0-86571-510-3
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future	Energy	Robert Bryce	2010	ISBN 978-1-58648-789-8
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation		Verity Burgmann	2003
Prosperity Without Growth	Environmental economics	Tim Jackson (economist)	2009
Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation	Biodiversity conservation	C. J. Bibby, N. J. Collar, M. J. Crosby, M.F. Heath, Ch. Imboden, T. H. Johnson, A. J. Long, A. J. Stattersfield, and S. J. Thirgood	1992	ISBN 0-946888-24-8
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option	Various themes	Ian Lowe	2007	ISBN 978-1-86395-412-9
The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?)	Global warming	Christopher Booker	2009	ISBN 1-4411-1052-6
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment	Environmentalism	James Gustave Speth	2004	ISBN 0-300-10232-1
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England	Agriculture and fossil fuels	Diana Muir	2000	ISBN 0-87451-909-8
Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability	Energy	Godfrey Boyle	2007	ISBN 978-1-84407-418-1
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change	Climate change: climate change denial	Clive Hamilton	2010	ISBN 978-1-84971-081-7
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity	Various themes	James Lovelock	2007	ISBN 0-14-102597-2
Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World		Ortwin Renn	2008
River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin	Various themes	Stephen Most	2006
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right	Pollution: water pollution	John Cronin (environmental author) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (foreword by Al Gore)	1997	ISBN 0-684-83908-3
The Sacred Balance	Various themes	David Suzuki		ISBN 978-1-55054-548-7
Sammy & Sue Go Green Too!	Lifestyle	Suzanne Corso
A Sand County Almanac	Nature conservation	Aldo Leopold	1949; 1966 (reprinted)	ISBN 0-19-500777-8
Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth		Todd Wilkinson	1998
Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate	Climate change	Leonie Joubert	2007
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change	Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics	Clive Hamilton	2007	ISBN 978-0-9775949-0-0
Secrets and Lies	Anti-environmentalism	Nicky Hager and Bob Burton	1999	ISBN 0-908802-57-9
Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets	Energy	Damian Miller	2009
The Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden	Wildlife conservation	Bruce Kinloch	1972; 1988; 2004
A Short History of Progress	Environmental history	Ronald Wright	2004	ISBN 0-88784-706-4
Siberia, Siberia	Environmental degradation	Valentin Rasputin	1991; 1996 (English translation)	ISBN 978-0-8101-1575-0; ISBN 5-94535-067-2 (Russian ed.)
Silence of the Songbirds	Various themes	Bridget Stutchbury	2007	ISBN 978-0-8027-1609-5
Silent Spring	Pesticides	Rachel Carson	1962
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet	Climate change	Mark Lynas	2007	ISBN 978-0-00-720905-7
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Extinction: human activities	Elizabeth Kolbert	2014	ISBN 978-0-8050-9299-8
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World	Various themes	Bjørn Lomborg	2001	ISBN 0-521-01068-3
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered	Various themes	E. F. Schumacher	1973	ISBN 978-0-06-091630-5
Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size		Amory Lovins and others	2002
State of the World (book published annually)		Worldwatch Institute	1984– (annually)	See article
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability	Sustainability and consumerism	Erik Assadourian and others	2010
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming	Global warming	Chris Mooney (journalist)	2007	ISBN 978-0-15-101287-9
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity	Climate change: fossil fuels	James Hansen	2009	ISBN 978-1-60819-200-7
Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions	Various themes	Joseph J. Romm	2010	ISBN 1-59726-716-3
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization	Various themes	Ward Churchill	1993; 1999; 2002
Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean	Overfishing; global warming; various themes	Lisa-ann Gershwin	2013	ISBN 978-0226020105
Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges	Various themes	Herbert Girardet (editor)	2007
Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming	Global warming	Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick	2002	ISBN 1-55263-212-1
Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A History	Wilderness	Greg Buckman	2008	ISBN 978-1-74175-464-3
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition) or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate (second edition)	Various themes	Chris Goodall	2008 (1st ed.); 2009 (2nd ed.)	ISBN 978-1-84668-868-3
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India	Environmental history: use of natural resources in India	Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha	1992; 1993; 2013	ISBN 978-0-19-807744-2
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World	Energy	Peter Tertzakian	2007	ISBN 978-0-07-149260-7
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation	Pollution: cancer cluster	Dan Fagin	2013	ISBN 978-0-553-80653-3
Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy	Environmental regulation	David Vogel (professor)	1995
Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial	Climate change: environmental skepticism	Ian G. Enting	2007	ISBN 978-0-646-48012-1
The Ultimate Resource	Resources	Julian Lincoln Simon	1981	ISBN 0-691-00381-5 (1996 paperback revision)
The Unfinished Twentieth Century	Energy: nuclear energy	Jonathan Schell	2001	ISBN 978-1-85984-780-0
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years	Global warming: natural causes	Siegfried Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery	2006	ISBN 978-0-7425-5117-6
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization	Various themes	Thomas Homer-Dixon	2006	ISBN 978-0-676-97722-6
Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis		18 contributors	2005	ISBN 978-1-59571-101-4
Walden	Lifestyle	Henry David Thoreau	1854	ISBN 978-0-345-80431-0
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami	Natural disaster: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami	Sonali Deraniyagala	2013	ISBN 978-0-345-80431-0
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change	Climate change	Tim Flannery	2005	ISBN 1-920885-84-6
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet	Climate change	Heidi Cullen	2010	ISBN 978-0-06-172688-0
When Corporations Rule the World		David Korten	1995	ISBN 1-887208-00-3
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto	Various themes	Stewart Brand	2009	ISBN 978-0-670-02121-5
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity	Climate change	Mike Hulme	2009	ISBN 978-0-521-72732-7
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice	Environmental justice	Cormac Cullinan	2003	ISBN 0-9584417-8-2; ISBN 1-903998-35-2
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank	Biodiversity	Andrew Beattie (author) and Paul R. Ehrlich	2001
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures	Wildlife conservation	Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell	2001	ISBN 0-330-37240-8
The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores	Conservation: wildlife conservation	Archie Carr	1956	ISBN 978-0-8130-0639-0
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security	Energy	Amory Lovins	2005
Wintergreen	Logging	Robert Michael Pyle	1987
The World Without Us		Alan Weisman	2007	ISBN 0-312-34729-4 (10); ISBN 978-0-312-34729-1 (13)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments	nature conservation, animal extinction	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2020	ISBN-10: 1571313656
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System	Waste management	Mary Appelhof	1997 (revised)	ISBN 978-0-942256-10-9
Road to Survival	Inspired modern anti-capitalist environmentalism	William Vogt	1948	ISBN 0-548-38516-5
Silent Spring & other writings on environment	Environment Science	Rachel Carson	2018	ISBN 978-1-5985-3560-0
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants	botany, Indigenous knowledge	Robin Wall Kimmerer	2013	ISBN 978-1-57131-335-5
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses	botany, Indigenous knowledge	Robin Wall Kimmerer	2003	ISBN 0-87071-499-6
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock	activism, conservation, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice	Dina Gilio-Whitaker	2019	ISBN 978-080707378-0

Fiction

Title	Theme(s)	Author(s)	Year(s)	ISBN(s)
Antarctica	Nature conservation	Kim Stanley Robinson	1997	ISBN 0-00-225359-3
The Appeal	Pollution: water pollution	John Grisham	2008	ISBN 978-0-385-51504-7
The Back of the Turtle	Defoliants	Thomas King (novelist)	2014	ISBN 978-1-4434-3162-0
Blockade	Logging	Derek Hansen	1998	ISBN 0-7322-6466-9
The Caretaker Trilogy (series)	Nature conservation	David Klass	2006; 2008; 2009
The Cool War	Energy: fossil fuel depletion	Frederick Pohl	1981	ISBN 0-394-29383-5
The Earthquake in Chile	Earthquakes	Heinrich von Kleist	1807
Earthquake Terror	Earthquakes	Peg Kehret
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston	Various themes	Ernest Callenbach	1975	ISBN 0-553-34847-7
Ecotopia Emerging	Various themes	Ernest Callenbach	1981	ISBN 0-9604320-4-3 (hardback); ISBN 0-9604320-3-5 (paperback)
Flight Behavior	Climate change	Barbara Kingsolver	2012	ISBN 978-0-06-212427-2
The Forgotten Enemy	Climate change	Arthur C. Clarke	1949
Freedom	Various themes	Jonathan Franzen	2010	ISBN 0-374-15846-0
A Friend of the Earth	Various themes	T. Coraghessan Boyle	2000	ISBN 0-670-89177-0
The Green Brain	Ecosystems: insects almost extinguished	Frank Herbert	1966
Hoot	Wildlife conservation	Carl Hiaasen	2002	ISBN 0-330-41529-8
The Lorax	Various themes	Dr. Seuss	1971	ISBN 0-394-82337-0
Make Room! Make Room!	Population	Harry Harrison (writer)	1966
The Mockery Bird	Symbiosis and Lazarus taxa	Gerald Durrell	1981
The Monkey Wrench Gang	Eco-terrorism	Edward Abbey	1975	ISBN 0-397-01084-2 (hardback)
Mother of Storms	Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion	John Barnes (author)	1994	ISBN 0-312-85560-5
Old MacDonald Had a Farm	Genetically engineered animals	Mike Resnick	2001
A Planet for the President	Various themes	Alistair Beaton	2004	ISBN 0-297-84776-7
Process of Elimination
Rainforest		Jenny Diski	1987
State of Fear	Various themes	Michael Crichton	2004	ISBN 0-00-718159-0
Zodiac	Toxic waste	Neal Stephenson	1988	ISBN 0-87113-181-1 (1st ed., paperback)

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