List of environmental books

Humans have been writing about the environment for centuries, and the environment has figured prominently as a theme in both Western and Eastern philosophies. Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science, which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement, which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's impact on the environment, have been highly influential. The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring has been regarded as particularly important in popularizing environmental science and helping to launch the modern environmental movement.^[1] The emergence of the environmental humanities, including fields like environmental history, has also been important in bridging divides between the sciences and humanities and encouraging further interdisciplinary approaches. The environment also features prominently in much fictional literature.

This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the environment as a major theme, including human impacts on the environment.

Non-fiction environmental books[edit]

Non-fiction accounts are ones that are presented as factual, although often in the context of subjective argument. Non-fiction environmental books may, for example, be the products of scholarly or journalistic work. The books in this list include fields and styles such as anthropology, conservation science, ecology, environmental history, lifestyle, and memoirs.

Title	Author(s)	Year	Theme(s) and subtheme(s)	ISBN(s)
Silent Winter: Our Chemical World & Chronic Illness	Joanna Malaczynski-Moore	2021	Toxic chemicals and chronic illness	ISBN 978-1-62894-446-4
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus	Charles C. Mann	2005	Indigenous population and land use	ISBN 978-1-4000-4006-3
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created	Charles C. Mann	2011	Ecological imperialism	ISBN 978-0-307-26572-2
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape	Candace Savage	2012	Landscape history	ISBN 9781553652342
A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939	Jennifer Hubbard	2006	Fisheries management	ISBN 9780802088598
A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America	Anya Zilberstein	2016	Climate change; colonialism	ISBN 9780190206598
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think	Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler	2012	Various themes	ISBN 978-1-4516-1421-3
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	Clifford Geertz	1963	Agriculture; Indonesia	ISBN 9780520004597
All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management	Carmel Finley	2006	Fisheries management; conservation	ISBN 978-0226249667
All We Can Save	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson (eds.)	2020	Essays, poetry	ISBN 978-0-593-23706-9
Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility	Christopher A. Simon	2006	Energy	ISBN 0-7425-4908-9 ISBN 978-0-7425-4908-1 ISBN 0-7425-4909-7 ISBN 978-0-7425-4909-8
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle	Barbara Kingsolver	2007	Local food	ISBN 978-0-06-085255-9
AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors		1968	Pollution: air pollution
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming	Nigel Lawson	2008	Global warming	ISBN 978-0-7156-3786-9 ISBN 978-1-59020-084-1
Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants	Milton R. Beychok	1967	Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters
Atlas of Our Changing Environment	United Nations Environment Programme	2005	Climate change
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada	Stephen J. Pyne	2007	Wildfires; Canada	ISBN 9780774840279
Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo	Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence	2007	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 9781429981439
Beyond the Limits	Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers	1992	Population	ISBN 0-930031-62-8
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak	Kenneth S. Deffeyes	2006	Energy	ISBN 9780374707026
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future	Jeff Goodell	2006	Pollution	ISBN 978-0-618-87224-4
A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis	Ian Lowe	2005	Various themes	ISBN 9781863951265
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	Biological weapons	ISBN 0-385-33496-6
Black Faces, White Spaces	Carolyn Finney	2014	Environmental justice; racism	ISBN 978-1-4696-1448-9
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming	Paul Hawken	2007	Environmentalism	ISBN 978-0-670-03852-7
The Blue Economy	Gunter Pauli	2010	Technology: biomimetics	ISBN 978-0-912111-90-2
A Blueprint for Survival	Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen	1972	Survival	ISBN 978-0-14-052295-2
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza	Gloria Anzaldúa	1987	Chicanx theory; borderlands	ISBN 978-1-879960-12-1
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants	Robin Wall Kimmerer	2013	Botany, Indigenous knowledge	ISBN 978-1-57131-335-5
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan	Jakobina K. Arch	2018	Whaling; sustainability	ISBN 978-0-295-74329-5
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security	Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins	1982	Energy	ISBN 0-931790-28-X
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation	Silvia Federici	2004	Ecofeminism	ISBN 978-1-57027-059-8
Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System	Jim Harding	2007	Uranium mining; nuclear power	ISBN 9781552662267
The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era	Jeremy Leggett	1999	Global warming	ISBN 9780415931021
Catastrophe: Risk and Response	Richard Posner	2004	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-19-530647-7
Challenging the Chip	Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow	2006	Waste: electronic waste	ISBN 1-59213-330-4
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England	William Cronon	1983	Land and water: hunting and fishing	ISBN 0-8090-0158-6
The Chilling Stars	Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder	2003	Climate change: cosmic rays	ISBN 1-84046-815-7
Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955	Lynette Boney Wrenn	1995	Agriculture	ISBN 9780870498824
A Civil Action	Jonathan Harr	1996	Pollution: water pollution	ISBN 0-679-77267-7
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity	Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder	2007	Clean technology	ISBN 0-06-089623-X
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change	L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen	2011	Climate change; capitalism	ISBN 978-0-8090-3473-4
Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options	Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool	2011	Climate change mitigation and global energy security	ISBN 978-0-262-01625-4
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand	Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes	2011	Climate change denial	ISBN 978-1-84971-336-8
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action	David Spratt and Philip Sutton	2008	Global warming	ISBN 1-921372-20-6
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet	Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope	2017	Global warming and sustainable cities	ISBN 978-1-250-14207-8
Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain National Parks, 1906-1974	PearlAnn Reichwein	2014	environmental history, mountaineering, history of Canada, national parks	ISBN 978-0-88864-674-3
The Coal Question	William Stanley Jevons	1865	Coal; peak coal	ISBN 978-0341876854
Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love	Michael Shnayerson	2008	Mining: mountain removal mining	ISBN 9781429933162
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	Jared Diamond	2005	Various themes	ISBN 0-14-303655-6
The Colors of Nature	Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy	2011	Nature writing	ISBN 978-1-57131-319-5
The Columbian Exchange	Alfred W. Crosby	1972	Columbian exchange	ISBN 978-0837172286
The Coming Global Superstorm	Art Bell and Whitley Strieber	1999	Global warming	ISBN 0-671-04190-8
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture	International Water Management Institute and Earthscan	2007	Agriculture: agricultural hydrology	ISBN 978-1-84407-397-9 hardback
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior	Dave Foreman	1991	Earth First!; environmental activism	ISBN 9780451499455
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists	Michael Brower and Warren Leon	1999	Consumerism	ISBN 0-609-80281-X
Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy	Benjamin K. Sovacool	2011	Energy: nuclear energy	ISBN 978-981-4322-75-1
A Contract with the Earth	Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple	2007	Environmental protection and restoration	ISBN 978-0-8018-8780-2
The Control of Nature	John McPhee	1989	Geoengineering	ISBN 0-374-12890-1
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming	Bjørn Lomborg	2007	Global warming	ISBN 978-0-307-26692-7
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things	Michael Braungart and William McDonough	2002	Sustainability; production	ISBN 0-86547-587-3
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution	Carolyn Merchant	1990	Environmental history and history of science	ISBN 0-06-250595-5
The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud	Lawrence Solomon	2008	Global warming: denial	ISBN 978-0-9800763-1-8
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness	Edward Abbey	1968	Memoir; conservation	ISBN 978-0-345-25021-6
Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison	Jane Hightower	2008	Toxic waste	ISBN 978-1610910026
The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States	Benjamin K. Sovacool	2008	Energy	ISBN 9780313355417
The Discovery of Global Warming	Spencer R. Weart	2003	Global warming: history of scientific discoveries	ISBN 0-674-03189-X
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination	Julie Cruikshank	2014	Anthropology; Indigenous History; Colonialism	ISBN 9780774811866
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist	Kate Raworth	2017	Economics; Doughnut (economic model); sustainability	ISBN 9781603586740
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation	Andri Snær Magnason	2006	Energy: hydropower	ISBN 978-0-9551363-2-0
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet	Bill McKibben	2010	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-8050-9056-7
Earth from the Air	Yann Arthus-Bertrand (photographer)	2010	Aerial landscape photography	ISBN 9780500515419
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
Eating Animals	Jonathan Safran Foer	2009	Food industry	ISBN 0-316-06990-6
Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching	Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood (editors)	1985	Activism; direct action	ISBN 9780963775108
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900	Alfred Crosby	1986	Ecological imperialism; introduced species: epidemics	ISBN 9781107394049
Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems	Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper	2006	Ecology	ISBN 978-1-4051-1117-1
The Economical Environmentalist	Prashant Vaze	2009	Lifestyle	ISBN 9781849774604
Ecotage!	Sam Love	1972	Activism; direct action	ISBN 0-671-78180-4
Encounters at the Heart of the World	Elizabeth A. Fenn	2014	Environmental history	ISBN 978-0-374-71107-8
Encounters with the Archdruid	John McPhee	1971	Environmentalism; David Brower	ISBN 0-374-51431-3
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat	Charles Clover	2004	Overfishing	ISBN 0-09-189780-7 ISBN 1-59558-109-X ISBN 0-09-189781-5 ISBN 0-520-25505-4
The End of Nature	Bill McKibben	1989	Global warming	ISBN 0-8129-7608-8
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World	Paul Roberts (author)	2004	Energy	ISBN 978-0-618-23977-1
Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	Alison J. Stattersfield, Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long, and David C. Wege	1998	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 0-946888-33-7
Endgame (two volumes)	Derrick Jensen	2006	Anti-civilization	ISBN 1-58322-730-X ISBN 1-58322-724-5
Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths	Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown (editors)	2007	Energy	ISBN 978-1402055638
Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy	Hermann Scheer	2006	Energy	ISBN 1-84407-355-6
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology	K. Eric Drexler	1986	Nanotechnology	ISBN 0-385-19973-2
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures	Merlin Sheldrake	2020	Mycology	ISBN 978-0-525-51031-4
Entropy: A New World View	Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard	1980	Resource conservation	ISBN 0-670-29717-8
Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well	Terry Lee Anderson and Donald R. Leal	1997	Free-market environmentalism	ISBN 978-0-8476-8382-6
Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction	Sharon Beder	2006	Various themes	ISBN 978-1-84407-404-4
An Essay on the Principle of Population	Thomas Robert Malthus	1798	Population	ISBN 978-0486456089
The Everglades: River of Grass	Marjory Stoneman Douglas	1947	Nature conservation	ISBN 978-1561649907
Everybody Loves a Good Drought	P. Sainath	1996	Economics; development	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	Paul Fleischman	2014	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-7636-7545-5
Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity	Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, et al.	2009	Resource efficiency	ISBN 978-0-8165-1086-3
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy	Philip L. Fradkin	1989	Radiation exposure; nuclear weapon tests	ISBN 978-0-8165-1086-3
Famine 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive?	William Paddock, Paul Paddock	1967	Overpopulation: food security
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat	Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott	2014	Factory farming; fish farming	ISBN 978-1-40884-644-5
The Fate of the Earth	Jonathan Schell	1982	Nuclear disarmament	ISBN 9780394525594
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret	Duff Wilson	2001	Waste: toxic waste recycled in fertilizer	ISBN 9780061873768
Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding	George Monbiot	2013	Re-wilding	ISBN 978-1846147487
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change	Elizabeth Kolbert	2006	Climate change: causes and effects	ISBN 1-59691-125-5
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown	Javier Auyero and Débora Swistun	2008	Environmental justice; pollution	ISBN 9789501245455
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait	Bathsheba Demuth	2019	Environmental history; Beringia	ISBN 0393635163
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It		2009	Food industry	ISBN 978-1586486945
The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution	Henry I. Miller, Gregory Conko	2004	Agriculture: genetically modified food	ISBN 978-0275978792
Free Market Environmentalism	Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal	2001	Environmental economics	ISBN 9780312299736
Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion (4th edition)	Milton R. Beychok	2005	Air pollution; atmospheric dispersion modeling	ISBN 0-9644588-0-2
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr	2006	Genetically modified organisms	ISBN 9781136553844
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World	Steven Berlin Johnson	2006	Pollution: water pollution	ISBN 1-59448-925-4
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power	Megan Black	2018	Environmental history; U.S. imperialism	ISBN 978-0-674984-25-7
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism	Sharon Beder	1997	Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism	ISBN 978-1-890132-12-5
God is Red: A Native View of Religion	Vine Deloria Jr.	1973	Environmental degradation; anthropocentrism	ISBN 978-0-448-02168-3
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans	Mark Lynas	2011	Various themes	ISBN 9781426208911
The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management	Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg	2008	Great Barrier Reef	ISBN 978-0-643-09557-1
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable	Amitav Ghosh	2016	Climate change	ISBN 9789386057433
The Green Bible		2008	Religion	ISBN 978-0-06-162799-6
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems	Van Jones	2008	Economics	ISBN 978-0-06-165075-8
The Green Crusade	Charles T. Rubin	1998	Environmentalism	ISBN 0-8476-8817-8
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism	Ozzie Zehner	2012	Consumerism and renewable energy	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	Business	ISBN 9780470393741
Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy	Mark Diesendorf	2007	Energy	ISBN 978-0-86840-973-3
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence	Robert Bryce	2008	Energy: renewable energy	ISBN 978-1-58648-321-0
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis	Jeremy Leggett	2005	Energy	ISBN 978-1846270055
Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada	Harold Coward, Andrew J. Weaver	2004	Climate change: effects in Canada	ISBN 978-0-88920-442-3
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World	Charles, Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper, Ian Skelly	2010	Climate change and agriculture	ISBN 0-06-173135-8
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science	Ian Plimer	2009	Global warming	ISBN 0-7043-7166-9
Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do	Joseph J. Romm	2006	Global warming	ISBN 0-06-117212-X
High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future	Guy Pearse	2007	Global warming	ISBN 9780670070633
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines	Michael E. Mann	2012	Climate change: hockey stick graph	ISBN 0-231-15254-X
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America	Thomas L. Friedman	2008	Sustainable development	ISBN 9780141918501
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change	Chris Goodall	2007	Consumerism	ISBN 978-1-84407-426-6
Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future	Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton	1997	Ecological economics	ISBN 9781864482881
The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health	Randall Fitzgerald	2006	Food industry	ISBN 0-525-94951-8
The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate	Joseph J. Romm	2004	Climate change	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	Indur M. Goklany	2007	Environmental skepticism	ISBN 1-930865-98-8
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It	Al Gore	2006	Global Warming	ISBN 1-59486-567-1
An Introduction to Sustainable Development	Peter P. Rogers, with Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd	2007	Sustainable development	ISBN 978-1-84407-521-8
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World	Andrea Wulf	2015	History of ecology	ISBN 978-0385350662
It's a Matter of Survival	Anita Gordon, David Suzuki	1991	Survival	ISBN 0-674-46970-4
Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World	Tom Rand	2010	Renewable energy: solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, and more	ISBN 9780981295206
Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed	Matt Peacock	2009	Asbestos in construction: fibrosis	ISBN 978-0-7333-2580-9
Last Chance to See	Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine	1990	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 9781409069751
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder	Richard Louv	2005	Nature deficit disorder	ISBN 978-1-56512-605-3
Latin American World Model	Amilcar Herrera, Hugo Scolnick, et al.	1976	Ecology Population	ISBN 0-88936-083-9
The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters	Annette Kolodny	1984	Ecofeminism	ISBN 978-0-8078-4118-1
The Legacy of Luna	Julia Butterfly Hill	2000	Forest conservation	ISBN 0-06-251658-2
Life in 2050	Ulrich Eberl	2011	Various themes	ISBN 978-3-407-75357-1
The Limits to Growth	Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III	1972	Population; economic growth	ISBN 0-87663-165-0
Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia	Ian Lowe	2005	Climate change	ISBN 9781920769413
The Living Soil	Lady Eve Balfour	1943	Organic farming	ISBN 9781904665083
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century	James Howard Kunstler	2005	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-87113-888-0
The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment	Helen M. Rozwadowski, David K. van Keuren	2004	Ocean environment; envirotech	ISBN 0-88135-372-8
Making Peace with the Planet	Barry Commoner	1990	Sustainable production	ISBN 978-0-394-56598-9
Man and Nature	George Perkins Marsh	1864	Environmental degradation	ISBN 978-1298509253
Managing Urban America	David R. Morgan, Robert E. England, John Peter Pelissero	1979	Urban planning	ISBN 1-56643-065-8 ISBN 1-56802-930-6
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition	Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter	2003	Megaprojects	ISBN 0-521-80420-5
Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast	Christine M. DeLucia	2018	Indigenous history	ISBN 9780300201178
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming	Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway	2010	Climate change denial; politics; lobbying	ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World	David Maybury-Lewis	1992	Tribal cultures and modernity (book companion to documentary series)	ISBN 978-0934245203
Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement	Susan Rimby	2012	Environmental History, Conservation, Progressive Era, Women's History	ISBN 978-0-271-05823-8
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels	Alex Epstein	2014	Energy: fossil fuels	ISBN 978-1-59184-744-1
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins	Anna Tsing	2015	Ethnography; Matsutake	ISBN 9781400873548
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution	Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins	1999	Ecosystem services: full-cost accounting	ISBN 978-0-316-35316-8
A Nature Conservation Review (2 volumes)	Derek Ratcliffe	1977	Nature conservation	ISBN 0-521-21159-X
Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada	Claire Elizabeth Campbell	2017	Historic sites; human and environmental history	ISBN 9780773551251
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining	Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, Esther Yazzie-Lewis	2006	Mining: uranium mining	ISBN 978-0-8263-3778-8
The New Green Consumer Guide	Julia Hailes	2007	Consumerism	ISBN 978-0-7432-9530-7
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference	Greta Thunberg	2019	Global warming; climate crisis	ISBN 978-0-14-199174-0
Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy	Amory B. Lovins, John H. Price	1975	Energy	ISBN 0-88410-603-9
Nourishing the Planet			Agriculture: sustainable agriculture
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals	Michael Pollan	2006	Food industry	ISBN 978-1-59420-082-3
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent	Eduardo Galeano	1971	Latin America; mining	ISBN 978-0853459903
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth	Buckminster Fuller	1968	Spaceship Earth; conservation	ISBN 978-3037781265
Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb	Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl	1991	Various themes	ISBN 0-312-85252-5
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis	Al Gore	2009	Climate change	ISBN 9780747590989
Our Plundered Planet	Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr.	1948	Environmental degradation; soil	ISBN 9780316666084
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution	Francis Fukuyama	2002	Biotechnology	ISBN 0-374-23643-7 ISBN 0-312-42171-0
Our Stolen Future	Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers	1996	Endocrine disruptors	ISBN 978-0-525-93982-5
Our Synthetic Environment	Murray Bookchin (pseudonym "Lewis Herber")	1962	Pesticides	ISBN 9781684222339
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World	Kevin Kelly (editor)	1994	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-201-48340-6
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil	David Goodstein	2004	Energy	ISBN 0-393-05857-3
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880	Christine Keiner	2009	Conservation	ISBN 978-0820326986
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies	Richard Heinberg	2003	Energy	ISBN 0-86571-482-7
The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics	David Pimentel (scientist), Hugh Lehman (editors)	1993	Pesticides	ISBN 978-0-412-03581-4
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	Annie Dillard	1974	Nature narrative	ISBN 978-0-7862-2325-1
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate	William Ruddiman	2005	Various themes	ISBN 9780691173214
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters	Kate Brown	2013	Environmental history; energy; nuclear power	ISBN 9780199855766
Political Animals and Animal Politics	Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg	2014	Animal welfare: animal ethics and environmental politics	ISBN 978-1-137-43461-6
The Population Bomb	Paul R. Ehrlich	1968	Population	ISBN 1-56849-587-0
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits	Steven W. Mosher	2008	Population	ISBN 978-1-4128-0712-8
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World	Richard Heinberg	2004	Energy	ISBN 978-0-86571-510-3
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future	Robert Bryce	2010	Energy	ISBN 978-1-58648-789-8
Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement	David Pellow and Bob Brulle (eds)	2005	Environmental justice	ISBN 9780262162333
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation	Verity Burgmann	2003	Social movements; Australia	ISBN 9781741140163
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science	Donna Haraway	1990	History of science and biology	ISBN 9780415902946
Prosperity Without Growth	Tim Jackson (economist)	2009	Environmental economics	ISBN 9781849713238
Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon	Cindy Ott	2012	Environmental history; Pumpkin	ISBN 9780295993324
Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation	C. J. Bibby, et al.	1992	Biodiversity conservation	ISBN 0-946888-24-8
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option	Ian Lowe	2007	Various themes	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?)	Christopher Booker	2009	Global warming	ISBN 1-4411-1052-6
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment	James Gustave Speth	2004	Environmentalism	ISBN 0-300-10232-1
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England	Diana Muir	2000	Agriculture and fossil fuels	ISBN 0-87451-909-8
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place	Terry Tempest Williams	1991	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-679-40516-0
Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability	Godfrey Boyle	2007	Energy	ISBN 978-1-84407-418-1
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change	Clive Hamilton	2010	Climate change: climate change denial	ISBN 978-1-84971-081-7
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity	James Lovelock	2007	Various themes	ISBN 0-14-102597-2
Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World	[1]Ortwin Renn	2008	Risk	ISBN 9781844072927
River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin	Stephen Most	2006	Various themes	ISBN 9780295986227
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right	John Cronin (environmental author) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (foreword by Al Gore)	1997	Pollution: water pollution	ISBN 0-684-83908-3
Road to Survival	William Vogt	1948	anti-capitalist environmentalism	ISBN 0-548-38516-5
The Sacred Balance	David Suzuki	1997	Various themes	ISBN 978-1-55054-548-7
A Sand County Almanac	Aldo Leopold	1949	Nature conservation	ISBN 0-19-500777-8
Science Under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth	Todd Wilkinson	1998	Politics	ISBN 9781555662103
Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate	Leonie Joubert	2007	Climate change	ISBN 9781868144372
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change	Clive Hamilton	2007	Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics	ISBN 978-0-9775949-0-0
The Sea Around Us	Rachel Carson	1951	Marine biology	ISBN 978-0195069976
Secrets and Lies	Nicky Hager and Bob Burton	1999	Anti-environmentalism	ISBN 0-908802-57-9
Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets	Damian Miller	2009	Energy	ISBN 9781849772518
Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003	Joy Parr	2010	Environmental history; embodied history	ISBN 9780774859189
The Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden	Bruce Kinloch	1972	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 978-0-00-261751-2
Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay	Claire Elizabeth Campbell	2004	environmental history, history of Canada	ISBN 9780774810982
A Short History of Progress	Ronald Wright	2004	Environmental history	ISBN 0-88784-706-4
Siberia, Siberia	Valentin Rasputin	1991	Environmental degradation	ISBN 978-0-8101-1575-0 ISBN 5-94535-067-2
Silence of the Songbirds	Bridget Stutchbury	2007	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-8027-1609-5
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	1962	Pesticides; conservation	ISBN 9780618249060
Silent Spring & other writings on environment	Rachel Carson	2018	Environmental science	ISBN 978-1-5985-3560-0
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet	Mark Lynas	2007	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-00-720905-7
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Elizabeth Kolbert	2014	Extinction: human activities	ISBN 978-0-8050-9299-8
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World	Bjørn Lomborg	2001	Various themes	ISBN 0-521-01068-3
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered	E. F. Schumacher	1973	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-06-091630-5
Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size	Amory Lovins, et al.	2002	Economics	ISBN 9781881071075
State of the World	Worldwatch Institute	1984– (annual)	Global environmental challenges	Various (see article)
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability	Erik Assadourian, et al.	2010	Sustainability and consumerism	ISBN 9781849710541
States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century	Tina Loo	2006	Environmental history; conservation; Canada	ISBN 978-0-77-481290-0
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene	Donna Haraway	2016	Environmental change; pollution	ISBN 978-0822362241
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming	Chris Mooney	2007	Global warming	ISBN 978-0-15-101287-9
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity	James Hansen	2009	Climate change: fossil fuels	ISBN 978-1-60819-200-7
Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions	Joseph J. Romm	2010	Various themes	ISBN 1-59726-716-3
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization	Ward Churchill	1993	Various themes	ISBN 0-87286-414-6
Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges	Herbert Girardet (editor)	2007	Various themes	ISBN 9781136556159
Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming	Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick	2002	Global warming	ISBN 1-55263-212-1
Tasmania's Wilderness Battles: A History	Greg Buckman	2008	Wilderness	ISBN 978-1-74175-464-3
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition) or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate (second edition)	Chris Goodall	2008 (1st ed.); 2009 (2nd ed.)	Various themes	ISBN 978-1-84668-868-3
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate	Naomi Klein	2014	Climate change; economics	ISBN 978-1451697384
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India	Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha	1992	Environmental history; use of natural resources in India	ISBN 978-0-19-807744-2
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World	Peter Tertzakian	2007	Energy	ISBN 978-0-07-149260-7
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation	Dan Fagin	2013	Pollution: cancer cluster	ISBN 978-0-553-80653-3
Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy	David Vogel	1995	Environmental regulation	ISBN 9780674044685
Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial	Ian G. Enting	2007	Climate change: environmental skepticism	ISBN 978-0-646-48012-1
The Ultimate Resource	Julian Lincoln Simon	1981	Resources	ISBN 0-691-00381-5
Unbowed: A Memoir	Wangari Maathai	2007	Environmentalism	ISBN 9780307275202
The Unfinished Twentieth Century	Jonathan Schell	2001	Energy: nuclear energy	ISBN 978-1-85984-780-0
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years	Siegfried Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery	2006	Global warming: natural causes	ISBN 978-0-7425-5117-6
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization	Thomas Homer-Dixon	2006	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-676-97722-6
Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis	Joseph C. Arcos, Mary F. Angus, and Frederick J. DiCarlo, eds. (18 contributors)	2005	Ecological and social crisis	ISBN 978-1-59571-101-4
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	1854	Lifestyle	ISBN 978-0-345-80431-0
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami	Sonali Deraniyagala	2013	Natural disaster: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami	ISBN 978-0-345-80431-0
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change	Tim Flannery	2005	Climate change	ISBN 1-920885-84-6
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet	Heidi Cullen	2010	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-06-172688-0
Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba	Shannon Stunden Bower	2011	Agriculture, environmental history	ISBN 9780774818520
When Corporations Rule the World	David Korten	1995	Anti-globalization; economics	ISBN 1-887208-00-3
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto	Stewart Brand	2009	Various themes	ISBN 978-0-670-02121-5
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity	Mike Hulme	2009	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-521-72732-7
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice	Cormac Cullinan	2003	Environmental justice	ISBN 0-9584417-8-2 ISBN 1-903998-35-2
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank	Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich	2001	Biodiversity	ISBN 9780300127188
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures	Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell	2001	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 0-330-37240-8
The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores	Archie Carr	1956	Conservation: wildlife conservation	ISBN 978-0-8130-0639-0
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security	Amory Lovins	2005	Energy	ISBN 978-1-84407-194-4
Wintergreen	Robert Michael Pyle	1987	Logging	ISBN 978-0-395-46559-2
The World Without Us	Alan Weisman	2007	De-population; the natural world	ISBN 0-312-34729-4 ISBN 978-0-312-34729-1
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System	Mary Arlene Appelhof	1982	Vermicomposting; waste management	ISBN 978-0-942256-10-9

Fiction environmental books[edit]

Fiction environmental books feature the environment as a prominent theme. Books in this list include fields such as children's literature, eco-fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

Title	Author(s)	Year(s)	Theme(s)	ISBN(s)
American War	Omar El Akkad	2017	Climate change	ISBN 978-1-5098-5220-8
Antarctica	Kim Stanley Robinson	1997	Nature conservation	ISBN 0-00-225359-3
The Appeal	John Grisham	2008	Pollution: water pollution	ISBN 978-0-385-51504-7
The Back of the Turtle	Thomas King	2014	Defoliants	ISBN 978-1-4434-3162-0
Blockade	Derek Hansen	1998	Logging	ISBN 0-7322-6466-9
Caballero: A Historical Novel	Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh	1996	borderlands	ISBN 978-0-89096-700-3
The Caretaker Trilogy (series)	David Klass	2006; 2008; 2009	Nature conservation	ISBN 978-0-374-32307-3 ISBN 978-0-374-32308-0 ISBN 978-0-374-32309-7
Carpentaria	Alexis Wright	2006	indigenous studies; Australia; settler colonialism	ISBN 978-1439157848
Coal	Audre Lorde	1976	poetry collection	ISBN 978-0393044393
The Cool War	Frederik Pohl	1981	Energy; fossil fuel depletion	ISBN 0-394-29383-5
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead	Olga Tokarczuk	2009	Animal welfare; hunting	ISBN 978-83-08-04398-1
Earth Abides	George R. Stewart	1949	Disease and population	ISBN 9780345487131
The Earthquake in Chile	Heinrich von Kleist	1807	Earthquakes
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston	Ernest Callenbach	1975	Various themes	ISBN 0-553-34847-7
Ecotopia Emerging	Ernest Callenbach	1981	Various themes	ISBN 0-9604320-3-5
Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	2012	Climate change	ISBN 978-0-06-212427-2
The Forgotten Enemy	Arthur C. Clarke	1949	Climate change
Freedom	Jonathan Franzen	2010	Various themes	ISBN 0-374-15846-0
A Friend of the Earth	T. Coraghessan Boyle	2000	Various themes	ISBN 0-670-89177-0
The Green Brain	Frank Herbert	1966	Ecosystems: insects almost extinguished	OCLC 476046923
Hoot	Carl Hiaasen	2002	Wildlife conservation	ISBN 0-330-41529-8
The Hungry Tide	Amitav Ghosh	2004	South Asia; environmental transformation	ISBN 0-00-714178-5
Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	1992	Human-animal relations; sustainability	ISBN 0-553-07875-5
The Last Man	Mary Shelley	1826	Pandemic; global catastrophic risk
The Lorax	Dr. Seuss	1971	Various themes	ISBN 0-394-82337-0
MaddAddam	Margaret Atwood	2013	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 0-77100-846-5
Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison	1966	Population	ISBN 978-0-7653-1885-5
The Marrow Thieves	Cherie Dimaline	2017	indigenous studies; climate change	ISBN 978-1770864863
The Mockery Bird	Gerald Durrell	1981	Symbiosis and Lazarus taxa	ISBN 978-0-671-44131-9
The Monkey Wrench Gang	Edward Abbey	1975	Eco-terrorism	ISBN 0-397-01084-2
Mother of Storms	John Barnes	1994	Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion	ISBN 0-312-85560-5
Old MacDonald Had a Farm	Mike Resnick	2001	Genetically engineered animals
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	2003	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 0-7710-0868-6
Parable of the Sower	Octavia Butler	1993	Ecological collapse; adaptation	ISBN 0-941423-99-9
Parable of the Talents	Octavia Butler	1998	Ecological collapse; adaptation	ISBN 1-888363-81-9
A Planet for the President	Alistair Beaton	2004	Various themes	ISBN 0-297-84776-7
Plume	Kathleen Flenniken	2012	Poetry collection	ISBN 978-0-295-99153-5
Process of Elimination	Carolyn Keene	1998	Mystery	ISBN 9780671007393
Prodigal Summer	Barbara Kingsolver	2000		ISBN 0-06-095903-7
Rainforest	Jenny Diski	1987		ISBN 978-0-413-15910-6
Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	2011	Environmental justice	ISBN 978-1-60819-522-0
So Far from God	Ana Castillo	1993	Environmental justice	ISBN 0-393-03490-9
State of Fear	Michael Crichton	2004	Various themes	ISBN 0-00-718159-0
Under the Feet of Jesus	Helena María Viramontes	1995	Environmental justice, Chicanx	ISBN 9780393326932
The Winter Vault	Anne Michaels	2009	dams; inundated landscape; Egypt	ISBN 978-0747598091
The Word for World Is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	1972	Colonialism	ISBN 0-399-11716-4
The Year of the Flood	Margaret Atwood	2009	Climate change; ecological degradation	ISBN 978-0-7475-8516-9
Zodiac	Neal Stephenson	1988	Toxic waste	ISBN 0-87113-181-1

References[edit]

^ Griswold, Eliza (21 September 2012). "How 'Silent Spring' Ignited the Environmental Movement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-20.

External links[edit]

Biology Library News: Best Sellers in Environmental Science
eScholarship: Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books
H-Environment (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online)
Natural Resources Library - Best Sellers in Environmental Studies, December 2006 - Present, As Compiled by YBP Library Services News^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] Griswold, Eliza (21 September 2012). "How 'Silent Spring' Ignited the Environmental Movement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-20.

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List of environmental books

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