Global Environmental Issues
* denotes recommended book
Book Review List
* Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life
* Grist Magazine, Wake Up and Smell the Planet: the Non-pompous, Non-Preachy Guide to Greening your Day
* Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty in the World
* Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
* Fred Krupp, Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
* Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
Fred Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry--The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century
* William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things
Bill McKibben, Fight Global Warming Now
* Bill McKibben, The End of Nature
Bill McKibben, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families
* Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and Renewal of Civilization
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
* Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
* E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life
William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples
Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Thom Hartman, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World…
James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia
Vandana Shiva, Tomorrow’s Biodiversity
* Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
* Vandana Shiva, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
John Robbins (2001), The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save your Life & Our World
* Frances Moore Lappe & Anna Lappe, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Erik Marcus (2000), Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
Ronald Bailey, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution
* Jeffery Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
* Peter Huber, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists--A Conservative Manifesto
Lester Brown, Outgrowing the Earth
Lester Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
* Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
* Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It! The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
* Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist
* Patrick Michaels, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and Media
* George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
* Joseph Romm, Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution
* Gwyneth Cravens, Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy
Jim Motavalli, Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
Andres Edwards, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait Of A Paradigm Shift
* Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
James Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Herman Daly, Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
* Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering & the Future of Seeds
* Richard Manning (2005), Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization
William Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
John Cox, Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future
* Daniel Esty (et al), Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage
Kai Ericson, A New Species of Trouble
Sarah Taylor, Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology
Roseanne Murphy, Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang
Richard P. Tucker, Insatiable Appetite: The US and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World
Christopher Stone, The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda
* Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
* Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Gail Eisnitz (2006), Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment…
* Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
* Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Upton Sinclair (1906), The Jungle
Jack London (1903), The Call of the Wild
Walker, et al. (2006), Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
* Simon Dalby, Environmental Security
* Stephen M. Meyer, The End of the Wild
Writing the Book Review
Paragraph 1: Summary of Book. What is the problem? What are the main points raised in relation to that problem? What are the author’s proposed solutions to the problem? What are his/her conclusions.
Paragraph 2-4: What is the author’s main thesis? How does he support his/her arguments? Provide specific examples from book with citations.
Paragraph 4-5: What are the strengths/weaknesses of the book? What are its limitations? What do you feel are its main contributions?
Paragraph 6: Conclusion. Wrap up the analysis with your own opinion on the book. Explain how this book fits into the global environmental politics/policy field.
**Send me a copy of the review via email, and bring a hard copy to class.
Anatomy of the Book Review Presentation
1. Title, Author, Year
2. Thesis/Main Points
3. Main Supporting Points made by author/Evidence
4. How book fits in Global Environmental Politics
5. What you thought of the book--pts made convincingly or not--why?