(alphabetical, by author)
Non-fiction/general
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine (William Heinemann, 1990; reissue Arrow Books, 2009).
Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance edited by Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O’Brien (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage by Sir Norman Angell (William Heinemann, 1911; Cosimo Classics, 2007).
Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science by Brian Appleyard (Picador, 1992).
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker (Harper Collins 1967; NYRB Classics, 2005).
The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber (Atria, 1999).
Changing Consciousness by David Bohm and Mark Edwards (Harper Collins, 1989).
Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World by Gary Braasch (University of California Press, 2007).
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand (Viking, 2009/Atlantic, 2010).
Beyond Malthus: The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge by Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner and Brian Halweil (Earthwatch, 1999).
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth by Lester R. Brown (W.W. Norton, 2001).
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown (revised edition, W.W. Norton, 2009).
Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown (Guardian Books/A&C Black, 2006).
The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means by Vince Cable (Atlantic Books, 2009).
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Houghton Mifflin, 1962; Penguin Modern Classics, 2000).
The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy by Neil Carter (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat by Charles Clover (Ebury Press, 2004; University of California Press, 2008).
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Michael Connelly (Harvard University Press, 2008).
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate by Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond (Allen Lane, 2005).
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing (Earthscan, 2006).
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
Edge Futures by The Edge Group, a series of five books exploring the impact of climate change on different aspects of our lives: Work and the City by Frank Duffy, Transport and Neighbourhoods by Hank Dittmar, Education and Creativity by Simon Foxell and William J. Mitchell, Living and Community by Geoff Mulgan, and Globalism and Regionalism by Jonathon Porritt (Black Dog Publishing, 2008).
One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption and the Human Future by Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich, (Island Press, 2004).
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery (Allen Lane, 2006).
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution – and How We Can Renew Our Global Future by Thomas L. Friedman (Allen Lane, 2008).
The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World by James Garvey (Continuum, 2008).
The Politics of Climate Change by Anthony Giddens (Polity Press, 2009).
Earthrise: How We Can Heal Our Injured Planet by Herbert Girardet (Paladin, 1992).
A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (A Report for the World Future Council) by Herbert Girardet and Miguel Mendonça (Green Books, 2009).
The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind by Terry Glavin (Thomas Dunne Books/Saqi, 2007).
How to Live a Low Carbon Life: The Individual’s Guide to Stopping Climate Change by Chris Goodall, (Earthscan, 2007).
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet by Chris Goodall (Green Profile, 2008).
The Green Guide for Business by Chris Goodall (Green Profile, 2009).
Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture by David Goodman and Michael Redclift (Routledge, 1991).
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore (Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (Rodale Books/Bloomsbury, 2006).
The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making by Al Gore (Penguin Putnam/Bloomsbury, 2007).
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore (Rodale Books/Bloomsbury, 2009).
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen (Bloomsbury, 2009).
The Third Revolution by Paul Harrison (I.B. Tauris in association with Penguin Books, 1992).
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (Little, Brown, 1999).
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken (Viking, 2007).
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon Society by Richard Heinberg (revised edition Clairview Books, 2007).
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth’s Resources by Richard Heinberg (Clairview Books, 2007).
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson (revised edition Rough Guides, 2008).
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited by Clinton Heylin (revised edition, Wiliam Morrow, 2001).
How We Can Save the Planet by Mayer Hillman (Penguin Books, 2004).
The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon, (Island Press, 2006).
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins (Green Books, 2008).
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton, (fourth edition Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity by Mike Hulme (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (HarperOne, 2008).
How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?: 95 Ways to Save Planet Earth by Tony Juniper (Quercus, 2007).
Global Warming i$ Good for Business by K.B. Keilbach (Driver Books, 2009).
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Allen Lane, 2007).
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change – Is Time Running Out? by Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury, 2006).
The Ending of Time by J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm (Victor Gollancz, 1985).
Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti, edited by Mary Lutyens (Victor Gollancz, 1969).
All the Marvelous Earth by J. Krishnamurti (Krishnamurti Publications of America, 2000).
Facing a World in Crisis by J. Krishnamurti (Shambhala Publications, 2005).
On Nature and the Environment by J. Krishnamurti, (Victor Gollancz, 1992).
Krishnamurti’s complete writings can be browsed at www.jkrishnamurti.org
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler (Atlantic Books, 2005).
Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science – and How to Stop Global Warming by Robert Kunzig and Wallace S. Broecker (Green Profile, 2008).
The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads by Ervin Laszlo (Hampton Roads/Piatkus, 2006).
The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday, 1995).
The Carbon War: Dispatches from the End of the Oil Century by Jeremy Leggett (Allen Lane, 1999).
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Jeremy Leggett (Portobello Books, 2005).
Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century edited by David Lorey (Scholarly Resources, 2002).
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock (Oxford University Press, 1979).
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity by James Lovelock (Allen Lane, 2006).
The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock (Allen Lane, 2009).
The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development edited By Wolfgang Lutz, Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov (Earthscan, 2004).
Carbon Counter by Mark Lynas (Collins, 2006).
High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas (Flamingo, 2004).
Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World by Mark Lynas, Tim Flannery et al. (Collins, 2006).
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas (Fourth Estate, 2007).
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David J.C. Mackay (UIT, 2008; free download at www.withouthotair.com).
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben, (second revised edition Bloomsbury, 2003).
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and a Durable Future by Bill McKibben (Henry Holt, 2007).
The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin (Eden Project Books,
2006).
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Maslin (revised edition Oxford University Press, 2008).
The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update by D.H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows
(Earthscan, 2004).
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World by Carolyn Merchant (revised edition Routledge, 2005).
Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change (Schumacher Briefing) by Aubrey Meyer (Green Books, 2000).
Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia edited by Mary Midgley (Imprint Academic, 2007).
Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses edited by Irving M. Mintzer (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Amazon Watershed by George Monbiot (Michael Joseph, 1991).
Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot (Allen Lane, 2006).
Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice by George Monbiot (Atlantic Books, 2008).
Creating a Climate for Change edited by Susanne Moser and Lisa Dilling (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy by Arne Naess, (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess edited by Alan Drengson and Bill Devall (Counterpoint, 2008).
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World by Robert Neuwirth (Routledge, 2004).
Environmental Values (Routledge Introductions to Environment) by John O’Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light (Routledge, 2007).
The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Revenge for Man-Made Climate Change by Fred Pearce (Eden Project Books, 2006).
When the River Runs Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? by Fred Pearce (Eden Project Books, 2007).
Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From by Fred Pearce. (Eden Project Books, 2008).
Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce (Eden Project Books, 2010)
The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth by Stuart Pimm (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991; Vintage 2007).
Capitalism As If the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt (Earthscan, 2005).
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming by Dave Reay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology by Theodore Roszak (Bantam Press, 1993; Phanes Press, 2002).
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton, 2009).
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs (Allen Lane, 2008).
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? edited by Andrew Simms and Joe Smith (Constable, 2008).
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher (Harper & Row, 1973; various revised editions).
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, 25 Years Later... with Commentaries by E.F. Schumacher with Paul Hawken and James Robertson (Hartley & Marks, 1999).
A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher (Jonathan Cape, 1977; new edition Vintage, 1995).
Small is Still Beautiful by Barbara Wood Schumacher with Joseph Pearce (HarperCollins, 2001).
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer (Picador, 2009).
The State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith (eighth edition Earthscan, 2008).
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment by James Gustave Speth (Yale University Press, 2004).
Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet by Chris Spence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern (Cambridge University Press, 2007; download at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern_review_report.htm).
Blueprint for a Safer Planet/The Global Deal by Nicholas Stern (Bodley Head; PublicAffairs, 2009).
I Count: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Climate Bliss by Stop Climate Chaos, (Penguin Books, 2006).
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart (Penguin Books, 2009).
Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse by Oliver Tickell (Zed Books, 2008).
Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy by Lloyd Timberlake (Earthscan, 1985).
When the Bough Breaks: Our Children, Our Environment by Lloyd Timberlake and Laura Thomas (Earthscan, 1990).
The Urgency of Now by Lloyd Timberlake (Still Pictures Moving Words, 2009).
The Hot Topic: How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On by Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King
(Bloomsbury, 2009).
Only One Earth by Barbara Ward and René Dubois, (André Deutsch, 1972).
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Virgin Books, 2007).
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (revised edition W.W. Norton, 2000; Penguin Press Science, 2001).
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson (Knopf; Little Brown, 2002).
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (revised edition Harvard University Press;Penguin Science, 2004).
Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development (OUP, 1987).
State of the World by the Worldwatch Institute (annual report).
Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future by the Worldwatch Institute (annual report).
Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives by Muhammad Yunus (Public Affairs, 2008).
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus (Public Affairs, July 2010).
