Global Issues Bibliography

Global Issues and Solutions

General

Brown, Lester, (2001). Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, W.W. Norton & Company, New York.

Brown, Lester, (2003). Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, W.W. Norton & Company, New York.

Diamond, Jared, (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin Books, New York.

Ehrlich, Paul R. & Ehrlich, Anne H., (2004). One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future, Island Press, Washington.

Leaky, Richard & Lewin, Roger, (1995). The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of LIfe and the Future of Humankind, Doubleday, New York.

Meadows, Donella, Randers, Jorgen & Meadows, Dennis, (2004). Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT.

Orr, David W. (2004). Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, Island Press, Washington DC.

Pearce, Fred (2006). When the Rivers Run Dry, Beacon Press, Boston.

Rees, Martin, (2003). Our Final Hour — A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century—On Earth and Beyond, Basic Books, New York.

Rischard, J.F., (2002). High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them, Basic Books, New York.

Energy and Economics

Costanza, R., Cumberland, J., Daly, H., Goodland, R., and Norgaard, R. (1997). An Introduction to Ecological Economics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Daly, Herman, (1996). Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, Beacon Press, Boston MA.

Deffeyes, Kenneth S., (2005). Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak, Hill and Wang, New York.

Goodell, Jeff (2006). Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

Goodstein, David, (2004). Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, W.W. Norton & Company, New York.

Heinberg, Richard, (2007). Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada.

Heinberg, Richard, (2006). The Oil Depletion Protocol, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada.

Heinberg, Richard, (2005). Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Second Revised Edition, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada.

Heinberg, Richard, (2004). Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada.

Kunstler, James Howard, (2005). The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastophes of the Twenty-First Century, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York.

Leeb, Stephen & Leeb, Donna (2004). The Oil Factor, Warner Business Books, New York.

McKibben, Bill, (2007). Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Times Books, New York.

Odum, Howard T. (2007). Environment, Power, and Society: For the Twenty-First Century, Columbia University Press, New York.

Romm, Joseph J., (2004). The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, Island Press, Washington.

Simmons, Matthew R., (2005). Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

Smil, Vaclav, (2008). Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA

Tamminen, Terry (2006). Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Oil Addiction, Island Press, Washington DC.

Global Warming and Climate Change

Gore, Al (2006). An Inconvenient Truth, Rodale, New York.

Flannery, Tim, (2005). The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York.

Lynas, Mark, (2004). High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis, Picador, New York.

Linden, Eugene, (2006). The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, Simon & Schuster, New York.

Lovelock, James (2006). The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate of Humanity, Basic Books, New York.

Melillo, Jerry M. & Janetos, Anthony C. (Co-chairs) National Assessment Synthesis Team, (2000). Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Speth, James Gustave, (2004). Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Weart, Spencer R., (2003). The Discovery of Global Warming, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.