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Important Books and Articles (non-Internet):

  • Adams, W.M. 1991. Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. Routledge Press.
  • Barrows, H. (1923) Geography as human ecology, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 13, 1-14.
  • Bennett, Joan & William Chaloupka (eds), 1993. In the Nature of Things. Minnesota.
  • Bennett, John W. 1969. Northern Plainsmen: Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.
  • Bennett, John W. 1976. The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation. New York: Pergamon Press.
  • Berry, Brian J. L. 1991. Long-wave rhythms in economic development and political behavior. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Binder, A., Stokols, D., & Catalano, R. 1975. Social ecology: An emerging multidiscipline. Journal of Environmental Education, 7, 32-43.
  • Blaikie, Piers M. 1985. The political economy of soil erosion in developing countries. London: Longman.
  • Boserup, Ester. 1981. Population and Technological Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bryant, Raymond L. 1992. Political ecology: An emerging research agenda in Third-world studies. Political Geography 11:1:12-36.
  • Butzer, Karl. 1989. Cultural ecology. In Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott, eds., Geography in America. Columbus, OH: Merrill Publishing Company, pp. 192-208.
  • Cannon, Terry. 1994. Vulnerability analysis and the explanation of "natural" disasters. In Disasters, development, and environment, ed. Ann Varley, 13-30. Chichester, Sussex: Wiley.
  • Chambers, Robert. 1989. Editorial introduction: Vulnerability, coping and policy. IDS Bulletin 21: 1-7.
  • Dickens, Peter. 1992. "Arguments within Biology," Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory. Temple University Press: 91-123.
  • Dow, Kirstin. 1992. Exploring the differences in our common future(s): The meaning of vulnerability to global environmental change. Geoforum 23, no. 3: 417-436.
  • Downing, Thomas E. 1991. Vulnerability to hunger in Africa: A climate change perspective. Global Environmental Change 1, no. 5 (December): 365-380.
  • Eckersley, Robyn. 1992.  Environmentalism and Political Theory. SUNY Press.
  • Ehrlich, Paul R., and John P. Holdren, eds. 1988. The Cassandra conference: Resources for the human predicament. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press.
  • Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel. Editors. 1990. Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. London: Belhaven Press.
  • 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.
  • Freudenburg, William. 1988. Perceived risk, real risk: Social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment. Science 242: 44-49.
  • Hannigan, J. 1995, Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective, Routledge, London.
  • Hardesty, Donald. 1986. Rethinking cultural adaptation. Professional Geographer38:11-18.
  • Hawley, Amos. 1958. "Human Ecology." Internat. Encyclo. of the Social Sciences, 328-337.
  • Heide, Gale. 1998. This is My Father's World. A Unique Perspective on Environmental Ethics. Joy Publishing.
  • Kasperson, Jeanne X., and Roger E. Kasperson. 2001. Global environmental risk. London: Earthscan.
  • Kasperson, Roger E., Robert W. Kates, and Christoph Hohenemser. 1985. Hazard management. In Perilous progress: Managing the hazards of technology, ed. Roben W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson, 43-66. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Kates, Robert W., and Viola Haarmann. 1991. 1992. Where the poor live: Are the assumptions correct? Environment 34, no. 4 (May): 4-11, 25-28.
  • Kuehls, Thom. 1996. Beyond Sovereign Territory. U. Minnesota Press.
  • Laferrière, Eric & Peter J. Scott, 1999. International Relations Theory and Ecological Thought. Routledge.
  • Long, N., and A. Long (eds), 1992, Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development, London: Routledge.
  • McKenzie, R. D. 1982. "The Scope of Human Ecology." Urban Patterns: Studies in Human Ecology. (rev. ed.), ed. George Theodorson. 30-36. Univ. Park: PA State Univ. Press.
  • McKenzie, Roderick. 1923. "The Ecological Approach to the Study of Human Community," American Journal of Sociology 30(3).
  • Meadows, Donella H., et al. 1972. The limits to growth: A report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind. New York: Universe Books.
  • Meadows, Donella H., Dennis L. Meadows, and Jørgen Randers. 1992. Beyond the limits: Confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future. Mills, VT: Chelsea Green.
  • Merchant, Carolyn. 1980. The Death of Nature. Harper & Row.
  • Meyer, John. 2001. Political Nature. MIT Press.
  • Naess, Arne. 1990. Sustainable development and deep ecology. In J. R. Engel and J G. Engel, eds., Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response, Tucson: AZ: University of Arizona Press, pp. 87-96.
  • National Academy of Science. 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability.
  • Netting, Robert M. 1986. Cultural Ecology. Waveland Press, Inc.
  • Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson. 1998. Justice, Society and Nature. Routledge.
  • O'Connor, Alice, 2001. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, published by Princeton Univ Press.
  • Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Park, Robert. 1936/1982. "Human Ecology." Urban Patterns: Studies in Human Ecology. ed. George Theodorson. 22-29. Univ. Park, PA: State Univ. Press.
  • Peterson, Anna L. 2001. Being Human--Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. UC Press.
  • Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation. Beacon (2nd ed.).
  • Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone. 2000. The Collapse and Revival of American Community,  New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Rappaport, R.A., 1968, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinean People, New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Redekop, Calvin. 2000. Creation & the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Repetto, Robert J., ed. 1985. The global possible: Resources, development, and the new century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Rocheleau D, Thomas-Slayter B, Wangari E (eds.) 1996. Feminist Political Ecology. Routledge. (Intro. and Conclusion).
  • Saarinen, Thomas F. and James L. Sell. 1980. Environmental perception. Progress in Human Geography 4:525-548.
  • Salleh, Ariel. 1997. Ecofeminism as Politics. Zed.
  • Sen, Amartya. 1985, Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
  • Steward, Julian. 1955. Theory of Culture Change: the Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Stokols, E., & Altman, I. (Eds.). 1987. Handbook of Environmental Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Preface-70.
  • Toulmin, Stephen. 1981. "Evolution, Adaptation and Human Understanding, Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences, eds. Brewer and Collins.
  • 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.
  • Turner II, B. L. 1989. The specialist-synthesis approach to the revival of geography: The case of cultural ecology. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 79:88-100.
  • Vayda, Andrew P., and Bonnie J. McCay, 1975. New directions in ecology and ecological anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 4:293-306.
  • 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.
  • Watts, Michael. 1983. Silent violence: Food, famine, and peasantry in northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development). 1987. Our common future. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Weiss, Edith Brown. 1989. In fairness to future generations: International law, common patrimony, and integrational equity. Tokyo: United Nations University and Transnational Publishers.
  • Wirth, Louis. 1945. "Human Ecology." American Journal of Sociology May:483-488.
  • Worster, Daniel. 1993. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 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.
  • Zimmerman, Michael E. et. Al. 2000. Environmental Philosophy. Prentice-Hall.

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