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KeyTextbooks and Articles:

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  • Zimmerman, Michael E. 2000. et. al, Environmental Philosophy. Prentice-Hall.

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Other Important Books and Articles (non-Internet):

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Adams, W.M. 1992. Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa.  University of Minnesota Press.

Aitken, S.C., S.L. Cutter, K.E. Foote, and J.L. Sell. 1989. Environmental perception and behavioral geography. In Geography in America, eds. G.L. Gaile and C.J. Wilmott, 218-222. Columbus, OH: Merrill.

Anderson, Mary B. & Peter J. Woodrow. 1989. Rising from the Ashes: Development strategies in Times of Disasters. Westview Press.

Aron, Joan L. and Jonathan A. Patz. 2001Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Baudot, Barbara. 1993. Environmental security and the res publica: an analysis of environmentalism and an alternative for the future.  Paper, presented at the Paris conference on Environmental security.

Black, Maggie. 2002. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development. Verso Publishers.

Blaikie, Piers M., and Harold C. Brookfield. 1987. Land degradation and society. London: Methuen.

Blaikie, Piers M. 1985. The political economy of soil erosion in developing countries. London: Longman.

Bloomfield, Brian. 1986. Modelling the World. Basil Blackwell. Chapters 1-3: pp. 1-58

Burton, Ian, Robert W. Kates, and Gilbert F. White. 1993. The Environment as Hazard. Second Edition: The Guilford Press.

Cannon, Terry. 1994. Vulnerability analysis and the explanation of "natural" disasters. In Disasters, development, and environment, ed. Ann Varley, 13-30. Chichester, Sussex: Wiley.

Desai, Vandana and Robert B. Potter. 2002. The Companion to Development Studies. Arnold & Oxford University Press.

Diamond, Jared. 2004. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking Adult.

Edwards, Andres. 2005. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift . New Society Publishers.

Emel, J. and R. Peet. 1989. Resource management and natural hazards. In New Models in Geography, eds. R. Peet and N. Thrift, 49-60. London: Unwin.

Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel. Editors. 1990. Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. London: Belhaven Press.

Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.

Fisher, Julie. 1993. The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Nongovernmental Movement in the Third World. Praeger.

Ford, Robert E. 1998. Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in the Sahel: the Case of Northern Yatenga, Burkina Faso. In Rural Settlement Structure and African Development. Edited by Marilyn Silberfein. Boulder: Westview Press. Pp. 129-165.

Ford, Robert E. 1995. The Population-Environment Nexus and Vulnerability Assessment in Africa. GeoJournal. 35(2): 207-216.

Ford, Robert E. 1993. Marginal coping in extreme land pressures: Ruhengeri, Rwanda. In Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa. edited by B.L. Turner II, Robert Kates, and Goran Hyden. Center for African Studies, University Press of Florida. Gainesville, Florida.

Harris, Jonathan M. 2005. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Tufts University. Houghton Mifflin. (see Learning Modules online - GDAE - Social and Environmental Issues in Economics).

Holmberg, Johan. 1992. Making Development Sustainable: Redefining Institutions, Policy, and Economics. Island Press.

Heide, Gale. 1998. This is My Father's World. A Unique Perspective on Environmental Ethics. Joy Publishing.

Jackson, Wes. 1994, 1996. Becoming Native to this Place. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint.

Kasperson, Jeanne X., and Roger E. Kasperson. 2001. Global Environmental Risk. London: Earthscan.

Lee, Kai. 1993. Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment. Island Press.

Leys, Colin. 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. Indiana University Press.

Low, Nicholas and Brendan Gleeson. 1998. Justice, Society and Nature. Routledge.

Meadows, Donella. 1982. Whole Earth Models and Systems. CoEvolution Quarterly (Summer) : 98-108.

Mitchell, Bruce. 2001. Resource and Environmental Management. Pearson Education.

Moran, E.F. 1979. Human adaptability: An introduction to ecological anthropology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

National Academy of Science. 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability.

Newton, L.H. 2003. Ethics and  sustainability: sustainable development and the moral life. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Peterson, Anna L. 2001. Being Human--Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. UC Press.

Rahnema, Majid and Victoria Bawtree. 2001. The Post-Development Reader. Zed Books.

Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Foreword by Bono
Available from Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Click here for The End of Poverty website

Sayer, Jeffrey and Bruce Campbell. 2004. The Science of Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press.

Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim and Paul J. Crutzen, William C. Clark, Martin Claussen and Hermann. 2004. Earth System Analysis for Sustainability. MIT Press.

Smuts, Jan Christian. 1996. Holism and Evolution. Highland, NY: Gestalt Journal Press.

Turner, B. L., II, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, John F. Richards, Jessica T. Mathews, and William B. Meyer, eds. 1990a. The earth as transformed by human action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press with Clark University.

United Nations General Assembly. 2000. United Nations Millennium Declaration (United Nations, New York), A/RES/55/2.

Von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 1993. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. Simon and Schuster. pp 1-51

WCED 1987. Our Common Future (Brundtland Report). Oxford University Press.

Weiss, Thomas G. and Leon Gordenker. 1996. NGOs, the UN and Global Governance. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

White, Lynn Jr. 1968.The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis. Science 162, December 1968, pp. 1243-48.

White, L. Jr.  2000.  The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis.  in Notable Selections in Environmental Studies.  T. Goldfarb, ed.  Connecticut: Dushkin/McGraw Hill. 

Zimmerer, Karl. 1994. Human geography and the 'new ecology': the prospect and promise of integration. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84:108-125.

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