Bibliographic Resources by Theme:
Science and Technology for Sustainability

[ Advocacy, Human Rights and Theology of Development ]
[ Agriculture, Food, Genetic Engineering, and Biotechnology ]
[ Biodiversity Conservation and Biosphere Resources ]
[ Coastal and Insular Zone Water Resource Management ]
[ Disasters, Famine, Risks, and Hazards ][ Drylands Goods and Services ]
[ Ethics in Development: Entitlements and Resource Rights ]
[ Environmental Diplomacy, Security and Governance ]
[Geo-Informatics and Knowledge Management] [ Global Health and Disease ]
[ History of Development Thinking and Practice ]
[ Landscape Ecology and Landuse/Landcover Change ]
[ Mountain Development ]
[ Poverty Reduction: Theory, Methods, Indicators ]
[ Population-Environment Interactions ]
[ Sustainability Science and Development Policy]
[ Theory and Organizations in Development Studies ]
[ Trade Policy, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Sustainable Livelihoods ]
[ Urban/Regional Planning and Development ]

Advocacy, Human Rights and Theology of Development:

See also: Development Organizations and Studies - Ethics in Development: Entitlements and Resource Rights - Environmental Justice, Racism, Ecofeminism, Conflict,  and Poverty Reduction - Social/Environmental/Bio-Ethics & Religion - Trade Policy, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Sustainable Livelihoods - Humanitarian Relief / Human Rights

Print Resources:

  • Ahmad, Zubeida M. 1986. "The rural woman's world: overworked and underpaid". In Third World Affairs 1986, Editor-in-Chief, Altaf Bauhar, Westview Press.
  • Allen, Tim, Alan Thomas. 2000. Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century. Oxford University Press.
  • Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson. 2002. Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. Rethinking Schools Ltd.
  • Byaruhanga-akiiki, and M. Mawa. 2002. (Edited) Ethics, Human rights and development in Africa. Washington D. C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
  • Low, Nicholas and Brendan Gleeson. 1998. Justice, Society and Nature. Routledge.
  • Narayan, D., Patel, R. Schafft, K. Rademacher, A. and Koch-Schulte, S. 2000. Voices of the poor: Can anyone here us? Washington D.C.: Oxford University for World Bank and IBRD.
  • Newton, L.H. 2003. Ethics and  sustainability: sustainable development and the moral life. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
  • Niebuhr, H.R. 1951. Christ and Culture. New York: Collins Publishers.
  • Peet R. and M.Watts. 1996. Liberation Ecologies: environment, development, social movements. London: Routledge.
  • Peterson, Anna L. 2001. Being Human--Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. UC Press.
  • Sider, Ronald J. 1980. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study. Inter-Varsity Press.
  • UNDP. 2003. Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty.
  • Zakaria, Fareed. 2003. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. W.W. Norton & Company.

Agriculture, Food, Genetic Engineering, and Biotechnology

See also BIOSPHERE - AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY

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See also GLOBAL CHANGE AND HAZARDS and FOOD SECURITY - Poverty and Sustainability - Environmental Justice, Racism, Ecofeminism, Conflict,  and Poverty Reduction - Humanitarian Relief / Human Rights

Non-Internet Print Resources:

  • Adams, W.M. 1992.  Famine and food security in Africa and Asia--indigenous responses and external interaction to avoid hunger. University of Cambridge.
  • Ahmadi, Esfahani, F.Z. 1993. Famine analysis--a study of entitlement in Sudan, 1948-1985.  Economic Development and Cultural Change. 41(2):363-376.
  • Anderson, Mary B. & Peter J. Woodrow. 1989. Rising from the Ashes: Development strategies in Times of Disasters. Westview 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chambers, Robert. 1989. Editorial introduction: Vulnerability, coping and policy. IDS Bulletin 21: 1-7.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ford, Robert E. 1996. The Rwanda Tragedy: A Personal Reflection. Hunger Notes. Summer 1996. Vol. 22, N0. 1 pp. 12-14. Brown University, World Hunger Program Special Issue.
  • Freudenburg, William. 1988. Perceived risk, real risk: Social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment. Science 242: 44-49.
  • Kasperson, Jeanne X., and Roger E. Kasperson. 2001. Global environmental risk. London: Earthscan.
  • Kasperson, Turner, et al: Regions at risk: comparisons of threatened environments and Case studies. UNU, Tokyo
  • 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.
  • Leach, M, R Mearns, and I Scoones. 1997. Environmental Entitlements: A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change. IDS Discussion Paper No. 359, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies.
  • Nolan, P., 1993, The causation and prevention of famines: a critique of A.K. Sen, Journal of Peasant Studies 21 (1): 1–28.
  • Razavi, Shahra. 2003. Agrarian Change, Gender, and Land Rights. Blackwell Publishers.
  • Scrimshaw, Nevin S 1984. The politics of starvation. Technology Review. August/September.
  • Sen, A. 1981. Poverty and Famines: an Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Sen, A.,1984, Rights and capabilities, in A. Sen, Resources, Values and Development, Oxford: Basil Blackwell: 307–24
  • Sen, A., 1985, Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers
  • Watts, M., 1991, Entitlements or empowerment? Famine and starvation in Africa. Review of African Political Economy 51: 9–26.
  • Watts, M. 1983. Silent violence: Food, famine and peasantry in northern Nigeria. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Zaman, M.Q. and Emdad C. Haque. 1993.  Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh: a proposal for sustainable floodplain development. World Development 21(Jan):93-107.

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    Drylands Goods and Services

See also BIOSPHERE - AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY

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Non-Internet Print Resources:

  • Adams, W.M. 1992. Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa.  University of Minnesota Press.
  • Barning, H., Bartels, N., Dijk, van; Gerritse, P; Heijer, R.P. den; et al. 1990. People and Trees in the Sahel with special Emphasis on Burkina Faso. Bos-Nieuwsletter, 9(20):13-76.  (see CAB Forestry Abstracts 052-08347).
  • Barrow, E.G.C. 1991. Building on local knowledge: the challenge of agroforestry for pastoral areas. Agroforestry Today, 3(4):4-7.
  • Batterbury, S.P.J. 1998. "Local Environmental Management, Land Degradation and the 'Gestion des Terroirs' Approach in West Africa: policies and pitfalls". Journal of International Development 10:871-898.
  • Batterbury, S. P. J. 1996a. Planners or Performers? Reflections on Indigenous Dryland Farming in Northern Burkina Faso. Agriculture & Human Values 13(3):12-22
  • Batterbury, S. P. J. 1994. Soil and Water Conservation in Burkina Faso: the Role of Community Organisations. Appropriate Technology. 21(3):6-9.
  • Behnke, Roy H. Ian Scoones, Carol Kerven. 1993. Range Ecology at Disequilibrium: New Models of Natural Variability and Pastoral Adaptation in African Savannas. ODI Publications, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS, U.K.
  • Bell, M. Roberts, N. 1991.  The political ecology of Dambo soil and water resources in Zimbabwe. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16(3): 301-318.
  • Bernard, F.E. 1988.  Land and population problems of the Eastern ecological gradient of Kenya. Paper presented at the AAG/Annual Meetings, April 9, 1988, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Blaikie, Piers M., and Harold C. Brookfield. 1987. Land Degradation and Society. London: Methuen.
  • Brenana, H. 1992. Desertification control, the West African case--prevention is better than cure. Biotropica. Vol. 0024, No.2 June, pp. 328-324.
  • Critchley, W. R. S., Reij, C., & Turner, S. D. 1992. Soil and Water Conservation in Sub Saharan Africa. Towards Sustainable Production for the Rural Poor. Report for IFAD. Centre for Development Cooperation Services (CDCS). Amsterdam: Free University.
  • Dregne, H.E. 1991. Global status of desertification. Annals of Arid Zones, 30(3): 179-185
  • 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. 1992. Humans and the Sahelian environment: Human-Environment Interaction in Sahelian North Yatenga, Burkina Faso. Research and Exploration. National Geographic Society. 8(4):460-475.
  • Friedmann, John and Haripriya Rangan (editors). 1993.  In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies on Environmental Action. Kumarian Press/UNRISD.
  • Hailu, Z., & Runge-Metzer, A. 1993. Sustainability of Land Use Systems: The Potential of Indigenous Measures for the Maintenance of Soil Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Agriculture. A Review of Methodologies and Research Results. Weikersheim: Verlag Josef Magraf.
  • Haramata (Bulletin of the Drylands): June 1992. Desertification strikes again. (and more recent issues).
  • Hellden, U. 1991. Desertification--time for an assessment. Ambio, 20(8):372-383.
  • Houerou, H.N. le, 1989. The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel. Springer-Verlag.
  • Hulme, M. 1989. Is environmental degradation causing drought in the Sahel? an assessment from recent empirical research. Geography 74(Jan):38-46.
  • Johnson, Douglas L. and John G. Galaty. 1990. The World of Pastoralism. Guilford Press.
  • Low, P.S. Kelly, P.M. 1991.  Global warming and climatic change--African perspectives.  Interdisciplinary Science Review 16(3):207-210.
  • Mortimore, Michael, 1991. Adapting to drought: farmers, famines and desertification in West Africa. Review of the Internation Journal of African Historical Studie. Vol. 24, No.1 pp. 87-188.
  • Mortimore, Michael J. 1989. Adapting to drought: Farmers, famines, and desertification in West Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • OXFAM/The Observer, Fragile future, OXFAM/UK, 1988.
  • Proceedings of the 1992 International Rangeland Develo[pment Symposium. Spokane, WA (Editors: Greg Perrier & Chuck Gay). Current Natural Rsources Development Activities in Developing Nations.
  • Ramaswamy, S., & Sanders, J. H. 1992. Population Pressure, Land Degradation, and Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in the Sahel. Agricultural Systems, 40(4):361-378.
  • Reij, Chris and Ann Waters-Bayer. 2002. Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development. Earthscan Publications.
  • Reij, C. 1994a. Building on Traditions: the Improvement of Indigenous SWC Techniques in the West African Sahel. In Adopting Conservation on the Farm: an International Perspective on the Socioeconomics of Soil and Water Conservation, ed. T. L. Napier, S. M. Camboni, & S. A. El Swaify, pp143-156. USA Soil and Water Conservation Society.
  • Reij, C. 1994b. Soil and Water Conservation Brings Results. Haramata,(IIED Drylands Network) 25(September):11-13.
  • Reij, C., Scoones, I., & Toulmin, C. 1996. Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa. In Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa, ed. C. Reij, I. Scoones, & C. Toulmin. Pp 1-27. London: Earthscan.
  • Rhodes, S.L. 1991. Rethinking desertification: what do we know and what have we learned. World Development, 19(9):1137-1143.
  • Sommerville, Carolyn M. 1986. Drought and Aid in the Sahel. Westview Press.
  • Watts, Michael, 1992. Desertification, debt, and structural adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa. review of book by Hopkinson, N. in Progress in Human Geography, 16(1):136-137.
  • Weiss, Edith Brown. 1989. In fairness to future generations: International law, common patrimony, and integrational equity. Tokyo: United Nations University and Transnational Publishers.


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Ethics in Development: Entitlements and Resource Rights

See also Development Organizations and Studies - SPOL 624 - Environmental Justice, Poverty, and Social Capital - Environmental Bioethics: Religion, Philosophy and Praxis - Development Studies - Advocacy, Human Rights and Theology of Development

  • Bioethics.NET website resources
  • CASL (Community Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods)
  • CHANGEMAKERS.NET - LIBRARY on children/youth, governance, health, HIV, environment and many other topics.
  • ELDIS - gateway to development information
  • Dominion of Man (Christians and the Environment) - article by Stephen Geard, Tasmania
  • Deep Ecology Bibliography by Jonannes Dingler - Johannes Dingler (abstract) Nature and the nature of power (PDF)
  • Ecofeminism Bibliography - SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
  • Human Geography Research: Critical Environmental Policy and Politics
  • Human Geography Research: Knowledges, Economy and Exclusion
  • Light, Andrew. 1998. Social Ecology after Bookchin. Guildford Press.
  • Nature, Wealth and Power - document from USAID (PDF)
  • Primer on Legal Issues in GIS & Agriculture and Natural Resource Management CSI-CGIAR (PDF)
  • Resilience Alliance - Cornell University and the Conservation Ecology - journal
  • Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California, Santa Cruz from course notes: Politics 114: THINKING GREEN)

    Non-Internet Print Resources:
  • Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century [Paperback] by Allen, Tim...
  • Devereux, S., 1996. Fuzzy entitlements and common property resources: struggles over rights to communal land in Namibia, IDS Working Paper No 44, Brighton: IDS.
  • Edwards, Andres. 2005. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift . New Society Publishers.
  • Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel. Editors. 1990. Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. London: Belhaven Press.
  • Goulet, D. 1996. A new discipline: Development ethics. The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Working Paper Series # 23.
  • Haftendorn, H. 2000. Water and international conflict, Third World Quarterly 21(1), 51-68.
  • Heide, Gale. 1998. This is My Father's World. A Unique Perspective on Environmental Ethics. Joy Publishing.
  • Homer-Dixon, T.F. 1994. Environmental scarcities and violent conflict. Evidence from cases, International Security 19(1), 5-40.
  • 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.
  • Leach, M, R Mearns, and I Scoones. 1997. Environmental Entitlements: A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change. IDS Discussion Paper No. 359, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies.
  • 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.
  • Power, Thomas M. 1996. Lost landscapes and failed economies: The Search for a Value of Place. Washington, DC: Island Press.
  • Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone. 2000. The Collapse and Revival of American Community,  New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Razavi, Shahra. 2003. Agrarian Change, Gender, and Land Rights. Blackwell Publishers.
  • Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Alfred A Knopf.
  • Sen, A.,1984, Rights and capabilities, in A. Sen, Resources, Values and Development, Oxford: Basil Blackwell: 307–24
  • Sen, A., 1985, Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers
  • Sider, R.J. 1974.  Rich Christians in an age of hunger. Illinois: Intervarsity press.
  • Smuts, Jan Christian. 1996. Holism and Evolution. Highland, NY: Gestalt Journal Press.
  • Warren, D. M., Slikkerveer, L. J., & Brokensha, D. (Ed.). 1995. The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems. IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.
  • Watts, M., 1991, Entitlements or empowerment? Famine and starvation in Africa. Review of African Political Economy 51: 9–26.
  • Weiss, Edith Brown. 1989. In fairness to future generations: International law, common patrimony, and integrational equity. Tokyo: United Nations University and Transnational 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.
  • Worster, Daniel. 1993. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Worster, Donald. 1994. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Worster, Daniel. 1993. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Zimmerman, Michael E. 2000. et. al, Environmental Philosophy. Prentice-Hall.


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    Sustainability Science and Development Policy

See also GLOBAL CHANGE AND HAZARDS - Sustainable Development and Participation - ESS Links

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    Non-Internet Print Resources:

    • Adams, W.M. 1991. Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. Routledge Press.
    • Blackwell, J.M; Goodwillie, R.N.; Webb, R. 1991. Environment and Development in Africa: Selected Case Studies. EDI/Development Policy Case Series,OQEH. Economic Development Institute, World Bank.
    • Berkes, F., 1