Environmental Politics and Policy

A Bibliography for Teaching and Research

Prepared by Dave Robertson, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Last Updated: April 23, 2013

Contents: Basic Texts and Overviews / Journals / Maps / Environmental History / Political Ecology / Economics and Sustainability * The Tragedy of the Commons / Science, Technology, & Risk /  Ideas, Philosophy, and Ethics / Environmental Politics in the United States / U.S. Regions / The U.S. Conservation Movement / U.S.-Foreign Comparison / Federalism / Congress / Presidents /  Bureaucracy * U.S. Army Corps of Engineers *  Tennessee Valley Authority / Courts & Law / Media / Public Opinion /  Environmental Interests /  Greens / Labor, Unions, Employment & Environment /  Business / Energy * Coal * Oil * Solar Power * Nuclear Power * Electricity /  NEPA / Air Pollution / Global Warming / Water Resources * Missouri River * Mississippi River * Great Lakes * Wetlands * Oceans / Water Pollution / Toxics and Toxic Waste / Superfund / Nuclear Waste / Solid Waste / Land Use & Private Property / Agriculture / Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl / Forests / Public Lands / National Parks / Race & Environmental Justice / Endangered Species & Biodiversity / Animal Rights / International & Comparative Problems and Policy Making / Population

Selected Environmental Politics & Policy websites

Basic Texts and Overviews

• Marc Allen Eisner, Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation (Lynne Rienner, 2006).
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
• Walter A. Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 8th ed. (CQ Press, 2010)
• Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox, 5^th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2008)
• Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy and Politics, 3rd ed. (Longman, 2004)
• Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary, eds., Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges ,Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press, 2004)
• Steven Cohen, Understanding Environmental Policy (Columbia UP, 2006).
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Glen Sussman, Byron W. Danes, and Jonathan P. West, American Politics and the Environment (Longman, 2002)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, 6th ed.  (CQ Press, 2010)
• Nico Nelissen, Jan van der Straaten, and Leon Klinkner, eds., Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies (International Books, 1997)
• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Judith A. Layzer, The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy (CQ Press, 2002)
• David Peterson del Mar, Environmentalism (Longman, 2011)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, The New Environmental Regulation (MIT, 2006)
• Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett, eds., Environmental Policy : Transnational Issues and National Trends (Quorum Books. 1997).
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence, 2nd ed (Duke UP, 1995).
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (California UP, 1995).
• Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (Prentice Hall, 1997)
   
• Lester Brown, et al, The State of the World (annual)
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2^nd ed.,[comparative - Europe] (Cambridge UP, 2007)
• Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth (Chelsea Green, 2004)
• Mostafa K. Tolba, Saving Our Planet: Challenges and Hopes (Chapman and Hall, 1992)
• Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Quality (U.S. Government Printing Office).
• European  Environmental  Agency, The European Environment: State and Outlook, 2005

Journals

• Environmental Politics
• Global Environmental Politics
• Environmental History
• Journal of Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Journal
• Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
• Energy Policy
• Environment and Planning
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• Ecological Economics
• Ecology Law Quarterly
• Harvard Environmental Law Review
• EPA Journal
• Population and Environment
• Population
• Environment and Behavior
• Resources Policy
• Land Use Policy
• Marine Policy
• Food Policy
• Journal of Environment and Development
• Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

Maps

• Conservation and Environment Maps, Library of Congress / EPA Enviromapper
• Charting North America: Maps from the Slaughter Collection (New York Public Library)
• World Resources Institute Earthtrends

Environmental History (see also specific topics)

• H-Environment / Environmental History Web Resources (Berkeley)
• Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Environment and World History (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)
• J. Donald Hughes, An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life (Routledge, 2012)
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (WW Norton, 1997)
• Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies:  History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (U of California Press, 2006)
• Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2004)
• Frank Uekoetter, ed. The Turning Points of Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh 2010)
• Climate and History, edited by T. M. L. Wigley, M.J. Ingram, and G. Farmer (Cambridge UP, 1981).
• Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 (Basic Books, 2000)
• The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (Oxford, 1993)
• Donald Worster,  "History as Natural History: An Essay on Theory and Method," Pacific Historical Review 53 (February 1984), 1-19
• Donald Worster, ed. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Cambridge UP, 1988).
• William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (WW Norton, 1996)
• Carolyn Merchant, "Gender and Environmental History," Journal of American History 76 (March 1990): 1117-1121.
   
• Kendall E. Bailes, ed. Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective (Lanham, MD: 1985)
• Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds, Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh, 1997).
• Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays by Samuel P. Hays (U of Pittsburgh, 1998)
• Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilization (Penguin)
• John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature (Routledge, 2012)
• Steven A. Epstein, The Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge UP, 2012)
• John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (U of California Press, 2003)
• J R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (WW Norton, 2000)
• Adam Markham, A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martin's 1994).
   
• Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001).
• John Young, Sustaining the Earth: The Story of the Environmental Movement - Its Past Efforts and Future Challenges (Harvard, 1990)
• Shepard Krech, III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (WW Norton, 1999)
• Christopher C. Sellers,  Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in twentieth-Century America (U of North Carolina Press, 2012)
• John Opie, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States (International Thomson Publishing, 1998)
• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991) and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary ed., 2003)
• Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England, 2^nd ed. (U of North Carolina Press, 2010).
• Richard N.L. Andrews, Managing the Environment, Managing  Ourselves:  A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (Yale UP, 2006)
• Carolyn Merchant, American Environmental History (Columbia U Press, 2007) and The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia UP, 2002).
• Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the US, 1955-1985
• Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford UP, 2002).

• Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (New York: Hill and Wang, 2013)

• David Stradling, The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State (Cornell UP, 2010).
• Martin Melosi, Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980)
• Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006).
• William Deverell and Greg Hise, ed., Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Harold L. Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (U of Chicago Press, 2004).
• Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (University of Washington Press, 1998)

• Gerald D. Nash, The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West (U of Arizona Press, 1990)

• Steven E. Woodworth, Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War (Knopf, 2010)

• Virginia J. Scharff, ed., Seeing Nature Through Gender (U Press of Kansas, 2003).
• Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, ed. "To Love the Wind and Rain:" African Americans and Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh Press)
• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996) [Ballinger-Pinchot, Hetch Hetchy, Donora Smog]
• Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalogue and American Environmentalism (UP of Kansas, 2007)
• Andrew Szasz, Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)
• Journals: Environmental History * Environment and History

Economics and Sustainability

• World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future [the Bruntland Report] (Oxford, 1987)
• President's Council on Sustainable Development, Towards a Sustainable America (1999)
• Joy E. Hecht, National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy (Resources fo the Future, 2004)
• Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment (Cambridge UP, 2004)
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
  Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press/Shearwater, 2004)
• Robert L. Nadeau, The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment (Columbia UP, 2003)
• Ann Hooker Clarke, "Understanding Sustainable Development in the Context of Other Emergent Environmental Perspectives," Policy Sciences 35:1 (2002): 69-90
• Special issue, International Political Science Review, "The Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Concepts, Policies, and Arenas," 20:2 (April, 1999).
• Robert Costanza, ed., Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability (Columbia University Press, 1991).
• Wallace E. Oates, ed. The Economics of the Environment (Edwin Elgar, 1992).
• Douglas E. Booth, The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline (London: Routledge)
• Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
• Raino Malnes, Valuing the Environment (St. Martin's, 1995).
• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale UP, 2008)
• Roger Dower et al, Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1997)
• Harmut Bossel, Earth at a Crossroads: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Cambridge UP, 1998).
• John F. Steiner and Stahrl Edmunds, "Economy-Ecology Conflict: Analysis, Examples, and Policy Approaches" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3 (JAI Press, 1981).
• Frank Fischer and Michael Black, eds.  Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future? (St. Martin's, 1995).
• Neil Cunningham and Peter Grabosky, with Darren Sinclair, Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (Clarendon Press, 1998)
• Roger D. Congleton, ed., The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
• Lester W. Milbrath, Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our War Out (SUNY, 1990)
• Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (Random House, 1971).
• John S. Dryzek, Rational Ecology: Environment and Political Economy (Blackwell, 1987)
• Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, eds., Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Greenwood, 1992)
• Terry L. Anderson and R. Donald Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (Pacific Research Institute, 1991)
• Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, eds. The Political Economy of the American West (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)
• American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue on "Barriers to Wiser Agreements between Environmental and Economic Concerns, 42:8 (May, 1999).

The Tragedy of the Commons

• Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162 (December 13, 1968), 1243-1248.
• David Feeny et al, “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later,” in Ken Conca, Michael Alberti, and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues (Westview Press, 1995)
• John A. Baden and Douglas S. Noonan, Managing the Commons, 2^nd ed. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998)
• Susan J. Buck, The Global Commons: An Introduction (Island Press, 1998)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 

Institutions

• Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schrooeder, eds., Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers (MIT Press, 2008). 

Science , Technology, & Risk (& debates over the use of science in environmental issues)

• Kerry H. Whiteside, Precautionary Politics: Principle and Politics in Confronting Environmental Risk (MIT, 2006)
• Mark R. Powell, Science at EPA: Information in the Regulatory Process (Resources for the Future Press, 1999)Dade W. Moeller, Environmental Health, 3rd ed. (Harvard UP, 2004)
• Stephen Bocking, Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• James Rogers Fleming and Henry A. Gemery, eds., Science, Technology, and the Environment: Mutlidisciplinary Perspectives (University of Akron Press, 1994).
• Jessica B. Teisch, Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
• Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Shearwater Books, 1998)
• Williams Leiss and Douglas Powell. 2004. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication. (McGill-Queens University Press).
• Jessica B. Teisch, Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York, NY: (Bloomsbury Press; 2010)
• Dian Olson Belanger, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2010)

Ideas, Philosophy and Ethics

• Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (U of California Press, 1976)

• Donald Worster, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge UP, 1994)

• Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1995)
• Charles Krebs, The Ecological World View (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008)
• Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Polity/Blackwell, 1992)
• Michael E. Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Prentice Hall, 1993)
• Joseph R. Des Jardins, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy (Wadsworth, 1993)
• Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics (Temple, 1988)
• Bob Pepperman Taylor, Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America (UP of Kansas, 1992)
• Robert L. Dorman, A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates,1845-1913 (U of North Carolina Press, 1998)
• Roderick Nash, A History of Environmental Ethics (Wisconsin, 1989)
• John McPhee, Encounters with the archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971)
• Robert Kirkman, Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002)
• Catherine M. Raoch, Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana UP, 2003)
• Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (U of Chicago Press, 2003)
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford UP, 1949, 1968)
• Susan L. Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of and Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (U of Wisconsin, 1974)
• Kurt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (U of Wisconsin Press, 1988)
• Baird Callicott, ed. Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays (U of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
• Michael Egan, Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2007)
• John Barry, Environment and Social Theory (London: Routledge, 1999)
• Matthew Alan Cahn, Environmental Deceptions: The Tension Between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States (SUNY)
• Marian R. Chertow and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1997).
• David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)David Oates, Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State UP, 2003)
• J.E. Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, 1987)
• Tom Regan, ed. (1984), Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (Random House).
• Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Harper and Row, 1980)
• Phillip F. Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy (Praeger, 1998).
• Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (Crown Books).
• Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern (St. Martin's, 1997).
• Greta Gaard, Ecofeminism (Temple University Press, 1993).
• Karen J. Warren, ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (Inidana UP, 1997)
• Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein, Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (Sierra Club, 1990).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• George Sessions, ed. Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism (Shambala)
• Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1985)
• Victor Ferkiss, Nature, Technology, and Society: The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis (New York University Press, 1995).
• Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (SUNY, 1992).
• Dixy Lee Ray, Trashing the Planet (Regnery, 1990)
• Martin W. Lewis, Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism (Duke UP, 1992)
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Julian Simon, "Global Confusion, 1980: A Hard Look at the Global 2000 Report" The Public Interest (Winter, 1981)
   
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Andrew McMurray, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the System of Nature (U of Georgia Press, 2003)
• Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture  (Harvard UP, 1995)
• George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (C. Scribner and Co., 1864) and  The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878; Project Gutenberg Online text)
• David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
• Thurman Wilkins, John Muir: Apostle of Nature (Oklahoma, 1995).
• Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (U of New Mexico Press, 2005)
• Stephen Fox, John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement (Little, Brown, 1981)
• Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Penguin, 2007).
• Raymond Williams, "Ideas of Nature," in Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays (Verso, 1980)
• Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist (Indiana University Press, 1995).
• Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)

• Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Gunfight at the Eco-Corral Western Cinema and the Environment (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,2012)
   

• Roger S. Gottlieb, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future (Oxford UP, 2006)
• Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as a Religious Quest (U of Washington Press, 2005)

• Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality (MIT Press, 2005)

Politics and Political Ecology

• Journal of Political Ecology / University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group
• Roderick P. Neumann, Making Political Ecology (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner, eds., Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies (U of Chicago Press, 2011)
• Susan Paulson and Lisa Gezon, eds., Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers UP, 2004)
• Martin Nie, "Drivers of Natural Resources-Based Political Conflict," Policy Science 36 (2003): 307-341.
• Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell, eds., Environmental Citizenship (MIT Press, 2005)

Environmental Politics in the United States

• Sheldon Kamieniecki and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy, (Oxford UP, 2012)
• Walter Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 8th ed. (CQ Press, 2010)
• Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy, New Directions for the 21st Century 8th ed (CQ Press / Sage, 2012)
• David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Nelson-Hall, 1998)
• James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence (Duke, 1989)
• Carolyn Merchant, ed., Major Problems in American Environmental History (D.C. Heath, 1993)
• Roderick Frazier Nash, American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (McGraw-Hill, 1990)
• Michael J. Lacey, Government and Environmental Protection: Essays on Historical Developments Since World War II (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991)
• Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (University of California, 1995).
• Hal K. Rothman, The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945 (Harcourt Brace, 1998)
• J. Clarence Davies and Jan Mazurek, Regulating Pollution: Does the U.S. System Work? (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1997)
• David Vogel, Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator  Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin  Press)
  
  Policy Process / Agenda Setting
• Anthony Downs, “Up and Down With Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention Cycle,’” The Public Interest, 28 (Summer 1972), 38-50
• Robert Repetto, ed., Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy (Yale UP, 2006)

U.S. Regions and States

• Charles B. Hunt, Natural Regions of the United States and Canada (Freeman, 1974)

• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (WW Norton, 1991)

• Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach, Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002).
• Diana Muir, Reflections in Bullouqh's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (U Press of New England, 2000)
• John T. Cumbler, Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State: New England, 1790-1930 (Oxford UP, 2001)

• A. Cash Koeniger, "Climate and Southern Distinctiveness," Journal of Southern History 54 (Feb 1988): 21-44.

• Albert E. Cowdrey, This Land, This South: An Environmental History, rev. ed (U of Kentucky Press, 1996)

• Otis L. Graham, "Again the Backward Region? Environmental History in and of the American South," Southern Cultures 6 (Summer 2000): 50-72.

• Mart A. Stewart, "What Nature Suffers to Grace": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 (U of Georgia Press, 1996).
• Donald Edward Davis, Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians (U  of Georgia Press, 2000)

• Ronald L. Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 (U of North Carolina Press, 1998).

• Randal L. Hall, Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012)
• Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford UP, 1979).
• Robert Kelley, Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 (U of California Press, 1989).

• Richard Manning, Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie (Penguin, 1995).

• Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M UP, 2005)

• Dan Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1950)

• Valerie L. Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West (Routledge, 1998)

• James Sherow, ed., A Sense of the West: An Environmental History Anthology (University of New Mexico Press, 1998).

• Char Miller, ed., Cities and Nature in the American West (U of Nevada Press, 2010)
• Stephen Trimble, The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (University of Nevada Press, 1999).
• James W. Hulse, Nevada’s Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder (U of Nevada Press, 2009)
• Roxanne Willis, Alaska's Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
• Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003)

The U.S. Conservation Movement

• The Evolution of the U.S. Conservation Movement from the U.S. Library of Congress.
• Richard W. Judd, Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England (Harvard UP, 1997)
• David Stradling, ed., Conservation in the Progressive Era (U of Washington Press, 2004)
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
• James A. Tober, Who Owns the Wildlife? The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth Century America (Greenwood, 1981)
• David  Stradling, ed. Conservation in the  Progressive Era: Classic Texts (U of Washington Press, 2004)
• Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001).
• Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation (University of Washington, 1910) and Breaking New Ground (Harcourt, Brace, 1947).
• Harold K. Steen, ed., The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot (Forest History Society, 2001).
• Adam Rome, "Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865-1915," Environmental History 3 (July 1996), 6-28
• Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1959).
• Karl Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (U of California Press, 2001).
• Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1983)
• Robert Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2005)
• Brian Balogh, “Scientific Forestry and the Roots of the Modern American State: Gifford Pinchot’s Path to Progressive Reform,” Environmental History 7:2 (April 2002): 198-225
• Elmo Richardson, The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913 (University of California Press, 1962).
• Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Houghton Mifflin, 1954).
• Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (Oxford UP, 2001)
• Donald C. Swain, Federal Conservation Policy, 1921-1931 (University of California Press, 1963)
• Whitney R. Cross, "W J McGee and the Idea of Conservation," Historian 15 (1953): 148-162.
• Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1997).
• John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation (Winchester, 1975)
• Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (HarperCollins, 2009)
• James L. Penick, Progressive Politics and Conservation: The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (Loyola University Press, 1968)
• Lee Clark Mitchell, Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response (Princeton University Press, 1981)
• Edgar B. Nixon, ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957)
• Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America and the New Deal (Cambridge U Press, 2007)
• A.L. Riesch Owen, Conservation Under F.D.R. (Praeger, 1983)
• Neil M. Maher, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservations Corps and the Roots of the Modern Environmental Movement (Oxford UP 2007, and “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps,” Environmental History 7:3 (July 2002): 435-461
• John F. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, 3rd ed. revised (Oregon State UP, 2000)
• Mark V. Brown, Jr., “Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America’s Interwar Years,” Environmental History 7:1 (January 2002): 69-98
• Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven: Yale, 2001).
• Robin W. Winks, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation (Island Press, 1997)

U.S. / Foreign Comparison

• Lyle A. Scruggs, "Institutions and Environmental Performance in Seventeen Western Democracies," British Journal of Political Science 29 (1999): 1-31.
• David Vogel, National Styles of Regulation : Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Cornell UP, 1986).
• John S. Dryzek, Christian Hunold, David Schlosberg, with David Downes and Hans-Kristian Hernes, “Environmental Transformation of the State: the USA, Norway, Germany, and the UK,” Political Studies 50:4 (September 2002): 659-682
• Cynthia H. Enloe, The Politics of Pollution in a Comparative Perspective (New York: David McKay, 1975)
• L. Lundqvist, The Hare and the Tortoise
• Susan Rose-Ackerman, Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (Yale UP, 1995).

• Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma, eds., Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (UP of Kentucky, 2008)

   

U.S. Constitution and Law

• Robert Meltz, Constitutional Bounds on Congress' Ability to Protect the Environment (Nova, 2003)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge, 2002)
• Nancy K. Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman, Environmental Law (Prentice-Hall, 2007)
• Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles A. Caldart, Environmental Law, Policy and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (MIT Press, 2008)

Federalism

• Lawrence S. Rothenberg, “National or Local Control? Conflicts over Environmental Federalism,” Ch. 6 in Environmental Choices: Policy Response to Green Demands (CQ Press, 2002)
• Peter J. May and Chris Koski. “State Environmental Policies: Analyzing Green Building Mandates.” Review of Policy Research 24:1 (January 2007): 49–65.
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2003)
• William Lowry, The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies (Duke UP, 1992)
• Evan J. Ringquist, Environmental Protection at the State Level: Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
• Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation 2nd ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2004)
• Kenneth M. Holland, F. L. Morton, and Brian Galliga, eds., Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood Press, 1996)
• Neal D. Woods. “Interstate Competition and Environmental Regulation: A Test of the Race-to-the Bottom Thesis,” SocialScience Quarterly 87:1 (March 2006): 174-189
• Tomas M. Koontz, Federalism in the Forest: National versus State Natural Resource Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
• Richard L. Revesz, "Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis," Harvard Law Review  115:2 (December 2001), 555-641.
• Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab, “Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing,” Journal of Public Economics 33(1988): 333-354.
• Kenneth M. Holland, F.L. Morton, and Brian Galligan, Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States (Greenwood, 1996)
• Zachary A. Smith, Environmental Politics and Policy in the West (Kendall Hunt, 1993)
• Dave Dempsey, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader (U of Michigan Press, 2003)
• David M. Hedge and Michael J. Scicchitano, "Regulating in Space and Time: The Case of Regulatory Federalism," Journal of Politics 56:1 (February 1994).

Congress

Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ways and Means, Appropriations, Commerce, Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure

Committees of the U.S. Senate: Finance, Appropriations & Subcommittees, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Commerce, Science, and Transportation

• Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2006).

• Bill Christofferson, The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (U of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

• Steven C. Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (U of Colorado Press, 2002)

Presidents

• Council on Environmental Quality (1970)
• Bryan W. Daynes and Glen Sussman, White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (Texas A&M UP, 2010).
• Tarla Rae Peterson, ed., Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology (Texas A&M UP, 2004).
• Dennis Sodden, The Environmental Presidency (SUNY Press, 1999)
• Randall Lutter and Jason F. Shogren, Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President (Resources for the Future, 2004)
• Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior [Theodore Roosevelt] (HarperCollins, 2009)
• Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner, eds., FDR and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• J. Brooks Flippen, Nixon and the Environment (U of New Mexico Press, 2000)
• Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner, George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate (UP of Colorado, 2005)

Bureaucracy

• U.S. Department of the Interior (1849) / U.S. Department of Agriculture (1889)
• The U.S. Forest Service (1905) / The National Park Service (1916)
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1940), The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (1946)
• Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
• Richard W. Waterman, Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004)
• Marc J. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, and Stephen R. Thomas, The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions, From Nixon to Clinton (Oxford, 1994).
• Steven Croley, "White House Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Empirical Investigation," University of Chicago Law Review 70:3 (Summer, 2003), 821-885
• Jeanne Neinaber Clarke and Daniel McCool, Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resources Agencies, second ed. (SUNY, 1996)
• Robert F. Durant, The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Georgetown UP, 2007)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / ACE Mississippi Valley Division / ACE Northwestern Division
• Arthur Maas, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation's  Rivers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951)
• William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Yale University Press, 1959).
• Forest G. Hill, Roads, Rails & Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation (University of Oklahoma Press, 1957).
• Charles F. O’Connell, Jr., “The Corps of Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management, 1827-1856,” in Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, ed. Merritt Roe Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 87-116.
• Jamie W. Moore and Dorothy P. Moore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy, (Boulder: University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science, 1989).
• Frank N. Schubert, ed. The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838 1863, Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Office of History, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.
• Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (University of Texas Press, 1994).
• Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775 1783, (Washington, D.C., Historical Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981).

Tennessee Valley Authority

• The Tennessee Valley Authority  website
• Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots (University of California Press, 1949).
• Erwin C. Hargrove, Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 (Princeton, 1994)
• Richard A. Colignon. 1996. Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the TVA. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Steven M. Neuse, David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal (University of Tennessee Press, 1996).
• W. U. Chandler, Myth of TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933–1983 (1984).

• Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (U of Tennessee Press, 1982)

• Nancy L. Grant, TVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo (Uy of Tennessee Press, 1990)

Courts & Law

• Karl Boyd Brooks, Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970 (UP of Kansas,  2009).
• Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law (U of Chicago Press, 2004)
• David Wilkinson, Environment and Law (Routledge: 2002)
• Thomas More Hoban and Richard Oliver Brooks, Green Justice: The Environment and the Courts (Westview, 1996)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).

Media

• Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik, Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996)
• Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997).

Public Opinion

• Deborah Lynn Guber, The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (MIT Press, 2003)

Interest Groups / Greens

• Christopher J. Bosso, Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (UP of Kansas, 2005)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda-Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Robert J. Duffy, The Green Agenda in America Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-First Century (U of Kansas Press, 2003).
• Stephen Fox,  The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).
• John Miles, Guardians of the Parks: A History of the National Parks and Conservation Association (Taylor and Francis, 1995)
• Benjamin Kline, First Along the River: A Brief History of the US Environmental Movement, 4th ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006)
• Elizabeth Bomberg, Green Parties and Politics in the European Union (Routledge, 1998). Michael O'Neill, Green Parties and Political Change in Contemporary Europe: New Politics, Old Predicaments (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997)
• Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998)
• Russell J. Dalton, The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe (Yale, 1994)
• Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam S. Weinberg, Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production (Cambridge UP, 1996).
• John C. Pierce, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent S. Steel, and Nicholas P. Lovrich, Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest Groups: Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States (Praeger, 1992)
• Anna Bramwell, The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West (Yale, 1994).
• Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Green Backlash: The History and Politics of the Environmental Opposition in the U.S. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997).
• Dick Rochardson and Chris Rootes, The Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe (London: Routledge, 1995).
• Timothy Doyle, Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds (Rutgers UP, 2004).
• Thomas Bernauer and Ladina Caduff, "In Whose Interest? Pressure Group Politcs, Economic Competition and Environmental Regulation," Journal of Public Policy 24:1 (January-April 2004): 99-126

Labor, Unions, Employment and the Environment

• Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment / Apollo Alliance
• Brian Mayer, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Cornell UP, 2008)
• Brian K. Obach, Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground MIT Press, 2004)
• Frederick H. Buttel, Charles C. Geisler, and Irving W. Wiswall, Labor and the Environment: An Analysis of and Annotated Bibliography on Workplace Environmental Quality in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1984)

• Brian Mayer, Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Cornell UP, 2008)
   

• David J. Hess, Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy: Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012)

• Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States  (U of North Carolina Press, 2008)

• Just Transition
• Worldwatch Institute, "Working for the Environment: A Growing Source of Jobs"
• Labour Environmental Alliance Society (Canada)

Business

• Sheldon Kamieniecki, Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way? (Stanford UP 2006)

• Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (MIT Press, 2007).

• David  Vogel, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility (Brookings Institution, 2005)
• Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister, Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability (MIT Press, 2013)
• David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell, eds., The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
• Neil Cunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton, "Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Ho Beyond Compliance," Law and Social Inquiry 29:2 (Spring, 2004): 307-342
• Joshua Karliner, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club, 1997).
• Alfred A. Marcus, "Business Demand for Regulation: An Exploration of the Stigler Hypothesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, (JAI Press, 1985).
• Thomas G. Marx, "Linking Political Strategy and Competitive Strategy: A Synthesis" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13 (JAI Press, 1992).
• Russo, Michael V. (1992),"Managing Regulatory Tensions: Changing Patterns of Public Policies and Political Strategies" in Post, James E. ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 13, Greenwich: JAI Press, Inc
• Denis Smith, Business and the Environment (St, Martin's 1994).
• Livio D. Desimone and Frank Popoff, Eco-Efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development (MIT, 1997)
• Bruce L. Hay, Robert M. Stavins, and Richard H.K. Vietor, eds., Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (Resources for the Future, 2005)

Energy

• David Howard Davis, Energy Politics, 4th ed. (St. Martin's, 1993)
• Walter Rosenbaum, Energy, Politics, and Public Policy (CQ Press).

• Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Penguin 2011)

• Office of Technology Assessment, Building Energy Efficiency (1992)
• Brenda Shaffer, Energy Politics (U of Pennsylvania, 2009)
• Bush Administration Energy Plan, 2001  
   
• Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History (Westview, 1994)
• David Lewis Feldman, ed. The Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
• Martin V. Melosi, Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America, 1820-1980 (Newberry Awards Records, 1985).
• John G. Clark, Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900-1946 (U of Illinois, 1987)
• Richard H.K. Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations (Cambridge, 1984)
• Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryert, A History of Industrial Power in the US, 1789-1930
• Peter Huber and Mark Mills, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005)
• Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)
   

Coal

• Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History (Perseus Publishing, 2003)
• Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004)
• Bruce Ackerman, Clean Coal/Dirty Air: Or, How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-dollar Bailout for High Sulphur Coal Producers and What Should be Done About it (Yale UP, 1981)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983)
• James P. Johnson, The Politics of Soft Coal (Illinois, 1979).
• William Graebner, Coal Mining Safety in the Progressive Era: The Political Economy of Reform (U of Kentucky Press, 1976).
• John R. Bowman, Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Cambridge, 1989)
• Price V. Fishback, Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (Oxford, 1992).
• Harry M. Caudill, My Land Is Dying  (Dutton, 1971)
• Ben Fine, The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (Routledge, 1990).
• Andrew S. McFarland, Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment (Kansas, 1993)
• Erik Reece, Lost Mountain :A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia (Riverhead, 2006).

Oil

• Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
• Francisco Parra, Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• G. John Ikenberry, Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988)

• Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien, Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry (U of North Carolina Press, 2000)

• Matthew Yeomans, Oil: Anatomy of an Industry (New Press, 2004)

• David S. Painter, Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1986)

• Hugh S. Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (U of Akron Press, 2001)

• Jeff D. Makholm, The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

• Robert Engler, The Brotherhood of Oil (1977)

• Paul Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (U of California Press, 2005)

• Peter A. Shulman, “The Making of a Tax Break: The Oil Depletion Allowance, Scientific Taxation, and Natural Resources Policy in the Early Twentieth Century, Journal of Policy History 23:3 (2011), 281-322

• Norman E. Nordhauser, The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935 (New York: Garland, 1979)

• Karen Merrill, The Oil Crisis of 1773-1974 (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2007)

• Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)

• William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Texas A&M University Press, 2005)

• David Prindle, Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission (U of Texas Press, 1981)

• Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters (Bantam Books, 1976)

• Jo Ann Stiles, Judith Linsley, and Ellen Rienstra, Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 (Texas A&M University Press, 2001).
• John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, The Gas Station in America (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
• Leonardo Maugeri, The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource (Praeger, 2006)
• Jerry McBeath, Matthew Berman, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Mary F. Ehrlander, The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals Vs. the State (Lynne Reinner, 2008)
• Toyin Falola and Ann Genova, The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: An Introduction (Praeger, 2005)
• Jonathan C. Brown, Oil and Revolution in Mexico (U of California Press, 1993)
• Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Bernadette West, Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century (Praeger, 2004)
   
• Paul R. Josephson, Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine (Johns Hopkins UP: 2007).

Natural Gas

• Elizabeth Sanders, Regulation of Natural Gas: Policy and Politics, 1938-1978 (Temple UP, 1981)
• Javier Estrada, Natural Gas in Europe: Markets, Organization, and Politics (Pinter, 1988)
• David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe, Mark H. Hayes, Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge UP, 2006)

Solar Power

• Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor, Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1997)

Nuclear Power

• Steven Mark Cohn, Too Cheap to Meter: A Economic and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuclear Dream (SUNY Press, 1997)
• Robert J. Duffy. 1997. Nuclear Politics In America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. (Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1997)
• Brian Balogh, Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
• J. Samuel Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (U of California Press, 2004)
• John L. Campbell: The Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy (Cornell UP, 1988)
• Thomas Raymond Wellock, Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
• Joseph J. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse, The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology (Yale UP, 1989)
   
• Joan Aron, Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant (U of Pittsburgh, 1998).

• Richard J. Samuels, 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan (Cornell UP, 2013)

Electricity

• Mary M. Timney, Power for the People: Protecting States' Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation (M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
• Martha Caldwell Harris, ed. Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment: Governance and Public Goods in Globally Integrated Markets (University Press of America, 2002).

• David E. Nye, When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (MIT Press, 2010)

National Environmental Policy Act

• Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith, The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect (Texas A&M UP, 2001)

Air Pollution

• Charles O. Jones, Clean Air: The Policies and Politics of Pollution Control (Pittsburgh, 1975)
• James E. Krier and Edmund Ursin, Pollution and Policy: A Case Study on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975 (U of California Press, 1977)
• Scott Hamilton Dewey, Don't Breathe The Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 (Texas A&M UP, 2000)
• E. Melanie DuPuis, Smoke and Mirrors: the Politics and Culture of Air Pollution (New York UP, 2004)
• Gary C. Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics (CQ Press, 1993)
• James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft, The Acid Rain Controversy (Pittsburgh, 1988).
• Bruce A. Ackerman and William Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air Or, How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-dollar Bailout for High Sulphur Coal Producers and What Should Be Done About It (Yale UP, 1981)
• R. Shep Melnick, Regulation and the Courts (Brookings, 1983).
• Sudhir Chella Rajan, The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
• Douglas S. Eisinger, Smog Check: Science, Federalism, and the Politics of Clean Air (Resources for the Future, 2009)
• Wyn P. Grant, Autos, Smog and Pollution Control: The Politics of Air Quality Management in California (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995)
• Stephen Mosley, The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian  Manchester (Routledge, 2008)

Climate Change / Global Warming

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• IPCC 2007 Report: The Physical Science Basis / Mitigation / Policy-Makers' Summaries: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities
• IPCC 2001 Policy Makers’ Summaries: The Scientific Basis / Impacts / Mitigation
• Climate change: US EPA / NASA / NSF / New York Times / World Bank / UNEP / Pew Center / Presidential Climate Action Project
• Erik Pooley, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth (Hyperion, 2010)
• Raymond S. Bradley, Global Warming and Political Intimidation: How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists As the Earth Heated Up (U of Massachusetts Press, 2011)
• Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York, NY: (Bloomsbury Press; 2010)
• Stewart J. Cohen with Melissa W. Waddell, Climate Change in the 21st Century (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2009)
• Kerry Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change (MIT Press, 2007)
• Ernesto Zedillo, ed. Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto (Brookings, 2007)
• Barry G. Rabe, “Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Policy in Multilevel Governance Systems” Governance 20:3 (July 2007): 423–444

• Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)

• David G. Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton UP, 2004)

• James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, 2^nd ed. (Yale UP, 2005)
• David Michel, ed., Climate Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 2004)
• Warwick J. McKibben and Peter Wilcoxen, Climate  Change after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach (Brookings Institution, 2002)
• Steinar Andresen and Lars Gulbrandsen, "NGO Influence in the Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Compliance, Flexibility Mechanisms, and Sinks," Global Environmental Politics (November 2004), 54-75
• Barry G. Rabe, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Stealth Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings, 2003)
• Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming (Harvard University Press, 2003)
• Mark Lynas, High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (Picador, 2004).
• John Theodore Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Cambridge UP, 1997)
• Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Basic, 2004)

• Jon Birger Skjaerseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies (Manchester UP, 2004).

• Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
• John Firor, The Changing Atmosphere: A Global Challenge (Yale UP, 1990).
• Ian H. Rowlands, The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (St. Martin's, 1995).
• Matthew Paterson, Global Warming and Global Politics (Routledge, 1996).
• J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks,  A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politcs, and Climate Policy (MIT Press, 2006)
• Stephen H. Schneider, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose (Basic, 1997)
• Thomas Schelling, "Some Economics of Global Warming," American Economic Review 82:1 (March, 1992), 1-14
• Jon Birger Skjaeseth and Tora Skodvin, Climate Change and the Oil Industry (Manchester UP, 2003)
• Jeremy K. Leggett, The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of  the Oil Era (Routledge, 2001)
• William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton UP, 2005)

• Daniel Moran, ed., Climate Change and National Security: A Country-Level Analysis (Georgetown UP, 2011).
   

• Rie Watanabe, Climate Policy Changes in Germany and Japan: A Path to Paradigmatic Policy Change (Routledge, 2011)

Water Resources

• Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1948-1902 (U of New Mexico Press, 1992); Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 (UP of Kansas, 1996) and Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (U of California Press, 2002)
• U.S. Department of the Interior, The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945
• Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Viking, 1986)
• Karen M. O'Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control  (Duke UP, 2006).

• Daniel McCool, Command of the Waters : Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987). 

• Daniel McCool, River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)

• Char Miller, Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict (U of Arizona Press, 2001)
• William M. Lewis, Jr., ed., Water and  Climate in the Western United States (UP of Colorado, 2003)
• Diane Raines Ward, Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002)
• Peter Rogers, America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities (MIT Press, 1993)
• Michael C. Robinson, Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation (Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1979)
• Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation  (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
• Andrew A. Dzurik, Water Resources Planning, rev. ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
• William R. Lowry, Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers (Georgetown UP, 2003)
• John Warfield, Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park (Pantheon Books, 2005)
• Russell Martin, A Story That Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Henry Holt and Company, 1989).
• Ellen Wohl, A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
• Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1997).
• Howard R. Ernst, Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science , Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
• Robert E. Henshaw, ed.,  Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses That Changed the Ecology, Ecology That Changed Human Uses  (SUNY Press, 2011)
• Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (U of Massachusetts, 1994)
• Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985)
• Daniel Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts (U of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

• Norris Hundley Jr., The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)

• Daniel C. McCool, ed., Waters of Zion: The Politics of Water in Utah, (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1995).

• John. O. Baxter. 1997. Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 (U of New Mexico Press, 1997).
• Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary Black, Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water (U of New Mexico Press, 2011)
• Frank Mauldin Sweet Mountain Water: Story of Salem, Oregon's Struggle to Tap & Protect the North Santiam River (Oak Savanna Publishing, 2004)
• Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang, 1995)
   

• David Soll, Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply (Cornell UP 2013)

•  

• Vivienne Bennett, The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).

• Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions (McGill-Queens UP, 2008)
• Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (U of Washington Press, 2005)
• Andrew C. Mertha, China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell UP, 2008)
• Daniel Klingensmith One Valley and a Thousand: Dams, Nationalism, and Development (Oxford, 2007)
   

Missouri River

• US Geological Service Missouri River site
• Bill Lambrecht, Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River (St. Martin's 2005)
• N.G. Benson, ed. The Missouri River: Their Resources; Their Uses, and Values (American Fisheries Society, North Central Division, 1988).
• John E. Thorson, River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River (University of Kansas Press, 1994).
• Robert Kelley Schneiders, Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri (University Press of  Kansas, 1999) and Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri (University Press of  Kansas, 2003).
• Daniel B. Botkin, Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark (G. Putnam and Sons, 1995).
• Peter Carrels, Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War  (U of Nebraska Press, 1999).
• Lawson, Michael.  Damned Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980.  Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1982.
• National Research Council [Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science, Water Science and Technology Board].  The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery.  (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002) <http://www.nap.edu/books/0309083141/html>
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir System Reservoir Regulation Manual [the “Master Manual”]  (Omaha: U.S. Army Engineer Division, Missouri River Corps of Engineers, 1988).
• U.S. General Accounting Office.  Water Resources: Corp’s Management of the Ongoing Drought in the Missouri River Basin, GAO/RCED-92-4 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992).

Mississippi River

• Mississippi River Research Consoritium / Mississippi River Basin Alliance / Louisiana Universities Marine Consotium
• Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (New York  Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History," in The Frontier in American History (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967).
• Calvin R. Fremling, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times ( U of Wisconsin Press)
• John O. Anfinson, The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi (U of Minnesota Press, 2003).
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).
• Andrew H. Malcolm, Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley (Morrow, 1997)

Gulf of Mexico / Eutrophication

• Darryl L. Felder and David K. Camp, eds., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume II, Ocean and Coastal Economy (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series / Texas A&M University Press, 2009)
• James C. Cato, ed., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume II, Ocean and Coastal Economy (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series  / Texas A&M University Press, 2008)
• Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, eds., From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental  Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)
• Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelmann, and Donald Scavia, eds., From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental  Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007)

• William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling, Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America (MIT Press, 2010)

• Antonia Juhasz, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (John Wiley and Sons, 2011)

Great Lakes 

• Great Lakes Research Consortium / Great Lakes Information Network
• Dave Dempsey, On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century (Michigan State UP, 2004)
• Terence Kehoe, Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation (Northern Illinois UP, 1997)
• William Ashworth, The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History  (Wayne State UP, 1987)
• Margaret Beattie Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2000)

• William McGucken, Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s (U of Akron Press, 2000). 

  Clifford  H. Mortimer, Lake Michigan in Motion: Responses of  An Inland Sea to Weather, Earth-Spin, and Human Activities (U of Wisconsin Press)

Everglades

• Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
• Marion Belanger, Everglades: Outside and Within (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

  Lance Gunderson and Stephen S. Light. “Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governance in the Everglades Ecosystem.” Policy Analysis 39:4 (December 2006): 323-334.

• Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Province: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

• Tom Shirley, Everglades Patrol (University Press of Florida, 2012)

Wetlands

• William M. Lewis, Wetlands Explained : Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America (Oxford UP, 2001)
• Ronald Keith Gaddie, James L. Regens, Regulating Wetlands Protection: Environmental Federalism and the States (State University of New York Press, 1999)
• Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands (Island Press, 1999)

Oceans

• NOAA Ocean Explorer

• Dorrik Stow, Oceans: An Illustrated Reference (U of Chicago Press, 2005)

• Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Island Press, 2007)
• Rosemay E. Ommer, Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring Social-Ecological Health (McGill-Queens UP, 2007)
• Biliana Cecin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht, The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy: Choices for the Next Century (Island Press, 1999).
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese, The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource (United Nations University Press, 1999)
• Boyce Thorn-Miller, The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity (Island Press, 1999)
• Rögnvaldur Hannesson, The Privatization of the Oceans (MIT Press, 2004)

• David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush (Oxford UP, 2013)

• Peter M. Haas, Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1990)

Water Pollution

• Center for Watershed Protection / Nonpoint eduction for municipal officials

• William L. Andreen, "The Evolution of Water Pollution Control in the United States - State, Local, and Federal Efforts, 1789-1972: Part I." Stanford Environmental Law Journal  21 (January 2003), 145-200, and “Part II." 21 (June 2003), 215-294.

• Paul Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (UP of Kansas, 2009)
• Jouni Paavola, "Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900-1948." Environment and History 12:4 (2006), 435-465
• Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman, Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
• Christine M. Rosen, "Differing Perceptions of the Value of Pollution Abatement Across Time and Place: Balancing Doctrine in Pollution Nuisance Law, 1840-1906,” Law and History Review 11:2 (Fall 1993), 303-38.

• Neil S. Shifrin, "Pollution Management in the Twentieth Century," Journal of Environmental Engineering_ 131:5 (May 2005), 676-691

• Nicholas Casner, "Polluter versus Polluter: The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Manufacturing of Pollution Policies in the 1920s," Journal of Policy History 11:2 (1999), 179-200.
• Richard W. Judd, “The Coming of the Clean Waters Acts in Maine, 1941-1961,” Environmental History Review 14:3 (Fall 1990), 51-74. Martin V. Melosi, “Sanitary Services and Decision Making in Houston, 1876-1945.” Journal of Urban History 20:3 (May 1994), 365-406.
• David Stradling and Richard Stradling. “Perceptions of the Burning River: Deindustrialization and Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River,” Environmental History 13:3 (July 2008), 515-535
• Bruce M. Owen, David A. Argue, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Gloria J. Hurdle, and Gale Mosteller, The Economics of a Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Greenwood Press, 1995).
• Werner Troesken, Water, Race, and Disease (MIT Press, 2004)

Toxics & Toxic Waste

• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
• Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring (U of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
• Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt and Co, 1997)
• Ronald Brickman, Sheila Jasanoff, and T. Ilgen, Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States (Cornell, 1985)

• James T. Hamilton, Regulation through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

• Bruce E. Johansen, The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003)
• R. Allan Freeze, The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth about Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection (U of California Press, 2000)
• Peter N. Skinner and Craig E. Colten, The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA (U of Texas Press, 1995)
• Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press, 2002)
• Christian Warren, Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000)
• Werner Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster (MIT Press, 2006).
• Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (Basic Books, 2002)
• Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• David Kinkela, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
• Thomas R. Dunlap, DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (Princeton UP, 1981)
• Michael R. Reich, Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters (Cornell, 1991)
• James P. Lester and Ann O'M. Bowman, The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management (Duke, 1983)
• Sarah A. Vogel, Is It Safe? BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals (U of California Press, 2012).
• Edwin A. Martini, Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty (U of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
• Leonard G. Cole, Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon (Oxford, 1993).
• Thomas Shevory, Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle Against the WTI Incinerator (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Love Canal

• Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (UP of Kansas, 2008)
• Adeline G. Levine, Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (Lexington, 1982).
• Peter Neushul, "Love Canal: A Historical Review," Mid-America 69 (Oct, 1987)
• Norman Nosenchuck, "New York: The Cleanup of Love Canal," EPA Journal 11

Superfund and Hazardous Waste Siting

• John F. Mahon, "Corporate Political Strategies: An Empirical Study Of Chemical Firm Responses To Superfund Legislation" in James E. Post, ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 3, (JAI Press, 1983).
• Robert T. Nakamura and Thomas W. Church, Taming Regulation: Superfund and the Challenge of Regulatory Reform (Brookings, 2003)
• Daniel Mazmanian and David Morell, Beyond Superfailure: America's Toxics Policy for the 1990s (Westview, 1992)
• Harold C. Barnett, Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma (U of North Carolina Press, 1994)
• Barry G. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Brookings, 1994)
• Don Munton, ed., Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice (Georgetown University Press, 1996)

Pesticides

• Christopher Bosso, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (1987)
• Pete Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World Ward II South (LSU Press, 2005)
• John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Use from Pesticides (Yale, 1996)
• Mark L. Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard UP, 1997)
• Joshua Blu Buhs, The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America (U of Chicago Press, 2004)

Nuclear Waste

• Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, and Eugene A. Rosa, eds., Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting (Duke University Press, 1993).
• Joseph V. Rees, Hostages of Each Other: The Transformation of Nuclear Safety since Three Mile Island (University of Chicago, 1994)
• James Flynn et al., One Hundred Centuries of Solitude: Redirecting America's High-Level Nuclear Waste Policies (Westview, 1995)
• Jeffrey S. Hill and Carol S. Weissert, "Implementation and the Irony of Delegation: The Politics of Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal," Journal of Politics 57 (May, 1995).

Solid Waste & Sanitation

• Ecycle Missouri

• Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow. The Hidden Life of Garbage (New Press, 2005).

• Martin Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980 (Texas A&M UP, 1981); “Down in the Dumps: Is There a Garbage Crisis in America?" Journal of Policy History 5 (1993): 100-127; The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America  from Colonial Times to the Present (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000); Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).

• John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of the American Public Health (U of Illinois Press, 1990)
• Daniel Eli Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City (U of Illinois Press, 2006)

• Benjamin Miller, Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York the Last Two Hundred Years (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000).

• Vivian E. Thompson, Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport  (University of Virginia Press, 2009)
• Larry S. Luton, The Politics of Garbage (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).
• Matthew Grandy, Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste (St. Martin's, 1994).
• Daniel Imhoff and Roberto Carra, Paper or Plastic? Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World (Sierra Club Books, 2004)
• John Tierney, "Recycling is Garbage," New York Times Magazine, June 30, 1996, pp. 24ff.
• Frank Ackerman, Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997)

· 

Land Use & Private Property

• John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2006)
• Andro Linklater, Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (HarperCollins, 2002)
• James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale UP, 1998), ch 1
• Roger J. P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent, The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping (U of Chicago Press, 1993)
• Hildegard Binder Johnson, Order upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country (Oxford UP, 1976).

• Anne Mackin, Americans and Their Land (U of Michigan Press, 2006)

• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard UP, 1950)

• Douglas Helms and Susan L. Flader, eds. The History of Soil and Water Conservation  (Agricultural History Society, 1985)
• Jamie L. Bronstein, Land Reform and Working Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford UP, 1999)
• Paul W. Gates, Allan G. Bogue and Margaret B. Bogue, eds., The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development (University of New Mexico Press, 1996).
• Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America (Hill & Wang, 2002)
• Agricultural History Society
• Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment (Texas A&M UP, 2005)
• J. L. Anderson, Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008)
• Joan Iverson Nassauer, Mary V. Santelman, and Donald Scavia, eds. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Evironmental Implications of Alternative Energy Futures (Resources for the Future, 2007)
• Terence J. Centner, Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape (U of Illinois Press, 2004)
• Philip L. Jackson  and Robert  Kuhlken, A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New  West (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
• Elizabeth Glass Geltman, Recycling Land: Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development (U of Michigan, 1997).
• Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, eds., A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
• Harvey M. Jacobs, ed. Who Owns America? Social Conflict over Property Rights. (U of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
• John Echeverria and Raymond Booth Ely, eds., Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement (Island Press, 1995)
• Bruce Yandle, Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• John Echeverria and Raymond Booth, eds., Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement, (Island Press, 1995)
• Martin A. Garrett, Jr., Land Use Regulation: The Impacts of Alternative Land Use Rights (Greenwood, 1987).
• Richard Brewer, Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America (Dartmouth College / University Press of New England, 2003).
• William A. Fischel, Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics, and Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Richard Allen Epstein, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985)
• Ellen Frankel Paul, Property Rights and Eminent Domain (Transaction, 1987).
• Douglas R. Porter, Managing Growth in America's Communities (Island Press, 1997).
• Rutherford H. Platt, Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1997).
• Alfred Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads And the Soul of Preservation (Truman State UP, 2006).

Sustainable Metropolitan Growth & Urban Sprawl

• President's Council on Sustainable Development - Final Report
• ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability / Northwest Environment Watch / Smart Growth Online / Sustainable Cities /
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Kent E. Portney, Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities , 2^nd ed.,  (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2013)
• Matthew E. Kahn, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment  (Brookings, 2006)
• Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
• Russ Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes, "Sprawl in the 1990s: Measurement, Distribution, and Trends," Urban Affairs Review 38:3 (January 2003): 325-355
• Gregory D. Squires, ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses (Urban Institute Press, 2002)
• Wim Wiewel and Joseph Persky, Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy (M.E. Sharpe, 2002)
• Elizabeth A. Johnson and Michael W. Klemens, Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
• Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (U of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Dom Nozzi, Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It (Praeger Publishers, 2003)
• Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton, Robert Fishman, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (Island Press, 2001)
• Alex Marshall, How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (U of Texas Press, 2001)
• Jonathan Barnett, The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region (Harper Collins, 1995).
• Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl (Henry Holt & Co., 1997)
• Douglas Kelbaugh, Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design
• Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning, The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy and Community (Island Press, 1997)
• Richard Hogan, The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-1999 (Ohio State U Press, 2003).
• John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design (U of British Columbia Press, 2003).
• Robert D. Bullard, ed., Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, 2007)
• Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, eds., Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy (Resources for the Future, 2006)

Forests

• Forest History Society
• Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (U of Chicago Press, 1992)
• John Perlin, A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization (Harvard UP, 1991)
• Char Miller, ed., American Forests: Nature, Culture, Politics (U of Kansas, 1997).Thomas R. Cox, Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone, This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present (U of Nebraska Press, 1985).
• Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989)
• Charles F. Carroll, The Timber Economy of Puritan New England (Brown UP, 1973)
• William G. Robbins, Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the United States Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 (Texas A & M Press, 1982)
• Paul W. Hirt, A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two (U of Nebraska Press, 1994)
• Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment (U of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Catherine Henshaw Knott, Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts (Cornell University Press, 1998).

• James Willard Hurst, Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836-1915 (Belknap Press, 1964)

• Sarah B. Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (Georgetown UP, 2006).
• Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of the Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (U of Wisconsin Press, 2003).
• David Harris, The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods (Sierra Club, 1996).
• Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (U of Washington Press, 1995)
• William Dietrich, The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Simon and Schuster, 1992).
• Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis (U of Chicago Press, 2002)
• John Schelhas and Max J. Pfeffer, Saving Forests, Protecting People? (AltaMira Press, 2009)
• Alston Chase, In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology (Houghton Mifflin)
   
• Mark Hudson, Fire Management in the American West; Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires (University Press of Colorado, 2011)
• William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore, Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship (Michigan State UP, 2006)
• Agnes M. Larson, The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History (U of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Public Lands

• Paul Wallace Gates, History of Public Land Law Development (Washington: GPO: 1968) and Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts Over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890 (Atherton Press, 1966)
• Roy M. Robbins, Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776-1936 (Princeton University Press, 1942).
• Christopher McGrory Klyza, Who Controls Public Lands? Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
• Dyan Zaslowdky and the Wilderness Society, These American Lands:  Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands (New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1986)
• Gordon Morris Bakken, The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
• Paul Culhane, Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
• James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States (U of Wisconsin Press, 1956)

• Martin Nie, The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future (UP of Kansas, 2008)

• Marion Clawson, The Land System of the United States (U of Nebraska Press, 1968) and The Federal Lands Revisited (Johns Hopkins UP, 1983).
• Everett Dick, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970)
• Daniel Feller, The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984)
• Malcolm J. Rohrbough, The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837 (Oxford UP, 1968)
• E. Louise Peffer, The Closing of the Public Domain: Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 (Stanford UP, 1951)
• Karen Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them (U of California Press, 2002)
• Robert H. Nelson, Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• Charles Davis, ed., Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997)
• R. McGreggor Cawley, Federal Lands, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993).
• C. Brant Short, Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 (Texas A&M UP, 1989)
• William K. Wyant, Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement (U of California Press, 1982).
• Brent S. Steel, ed., Public Lands Management in the West (Praeger, 1997).
• Philip Foss, Politics and Grass: The Administration of Grazing on the Public Domain (Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1960).
• Wesley Calef, Private Grazing and Public Lands: Studies of the Local Managment of the Taylor Grazing Act (University of Chicago Press, 1960).
• Dorothy Bradley and Helen Ingram, "Science vs. the Grass Roots: Representation in the Bureau of Land Management," Natural Resources Journal (Summer, 1986).
• William Perry Pendley, The War on the West: The Fight for Survival on America's Great Frontier (Regnery Publishing, 1994).
• Paul F. Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1998).
• John A. Baden and Donald Snow, eds. The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West (Island Press, 1997)
• Charles Wilkinson, Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (Island Press, 1994).

National Parks, State Parks, & Wilderness

• U.S. National Park Service
• Lary M. Dilsaver, America's National Park System: The Critical Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
• William R. Lowry, The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks (Brookings. 1994)

• Richard Grusin, Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks (Cambridge UP, 2004)

• Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (U of Nebraska Press, 1979).

• Richard Sellars, Preserving Nature in National Parks (Yale UP, 1997).

• Kathy S. Mason, Natural Museums: U.S. National Parks, 1872-1916 (Michigan State University Press, 2004).

• David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, Dwight T. Pitcaithley, eds., The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (U of Arizona Press, 2006)

• Polly Welts Kaufman, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History (U of New Mexico Press, 1996)

• Gary E. Machlis and Donald R. Field, eds., National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States (Island Press, 2000).
   

• Mark Daniel Barringer, Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature (UP of Kansas, 2002).
• Judith L. Meyer, The Spirit of Yellowstone: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996)
• Jen A. Huntley, The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular National Park (University Press of Kansas, 2011)
• Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon (Arizona State University)
• Stephen J. Pyne, How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History (New York: Viking, 1998).
• Robert Righter, Crucible for Conservation: The Creation of Grand Teton National Park (Colorado Associated University Press, 1982).
   
• Frank Graham, Jr., The Adirondack Park:  A Political History (Knopf, 1978)
• Philip G. Terrie, Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Syracuse University Press, 1997)

• Roderick Frasier Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4^th ed. (Yale UP, 2001)
• Max Oleschlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (Yale University Press, 1991)
• Russell Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, Thomas Brooks, and William R. Konstant, Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

• Michael P. Nelson and J. Baird Callicott, The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate (U of Georgia Press, 2009)

• Craig W. Allin, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation (U of Alaska Press, 2008)

• Mark W. T. Harvey, A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement (U of New Mexico Press, 1994)

• Paul Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (U of Washington Press, 2002)
• Doug Goodman and Daniel McCool, eds., Contested Landscape: the Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1999)
• Paul S. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (U of Washington  Press, 2002)
• Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (U of Washington Press,  2005)

• Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Roger Kaye, Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (U of Alaska Press, 2006)

Race & Environmental Justice

• Environmental Justice Resource Center / EPA Office of Environmental Justice
• Environmental Justice journal
   
• Scott E. Giltner, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War  (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008)
   
• David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• M. Schootman, E.M. Andresen, F.D. Wolinsky, T.K. Malmstrom, J.P. Miller, and D.K. Miller, “Neighborhood conditions and risk of incident lower-body functional limitations among middle-aged African Americans,” American Journal of Epidemiology 163:5 (2006 Mar 2006):450-458.
• Edwardo Lao Rhodes, Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (Indiana UP, 2003)
• Christopher Foreman, The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (Washington: Brookings, 1998).
• H. Spencer Banzhaf, The Political Economy of Environmental Justice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012)
• David E. Camacho, ed., Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).
• Commission for Racial Justice, Toxic Wastes and Race: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites (New York: United Church of Christ, 1987).
• Daniel Faber, ed., The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (New York: Guilford Press, 1998)
• Terence Centner, Warren Kriesel, and Andrew G. Keeler. "Environmental Justice and Toxic Releases: Establishing Evidence of Discriminatory Effect Based on Race and Not Income." Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal 3 (Summer 1996): 119-158
• Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Crown Publishers, 1995)
• Barabara L. Allen, Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor  (MIT Press, 2003)
• David Naguib Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT press, 2002)
• Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Lousiana's Chemical Corridor (MIT, 2004).
• J. Tom Boer, Manuel Pastor, Jr., James L. Sadd, and Lori D. Snyder, "Is There Environmental Racism? The Demographics of Hazardous Waste in Los Angeles County," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 793-810.
• Evan J. Ringquist, "Equity and the Distribution of Environmental Risk: The Case of TRI Facilities," Social Science Quarterly 78:4 (December, 1997): 811-829.
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Hazardous and Nonhazardous Waste: Demographics of People Living Near Waste Facilities (U.S. GPO, 1995).
• Michael L. Edelstein, Poisoned Places: Seeking Environmental Justice in a Contaminated World (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998).
• Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
• Robert D. Bullard, ed. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books)
• Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview, 1994).
• Robert D. Bullard, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press)
• Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds., Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
• Bunyan Bryant, ed. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, Solutions (Island Press, 1995)
• Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, eds., Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
• "Special Issue on Toxic Torts and Environmental Justice," ed. Steve Kroll-Smith and Saundra D. Westervelt, Lwa & Policy 26:2
• Jim Schwab, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
• Andrew Szasz, Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and The Movement for Environmental Justice (University of Minnesota)

Endangered Species / Biodiversity

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program / Marine Mammal Commission
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Hal Glen Borland, The History of Wildlife in America (National Wildlife Federation, 1975).
• Shannon C. Petersen, Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark (UP of Kansas, 2002)
• Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis (Princeton, 1998).
• Anthony B. Anderson and Clinton N. Jenkins, Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a strategy for Biodiversity Conservation (Columbia UP, 2006)
• Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison (Cambridge UP, 2000)
• William T. Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913) and Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice (Yale University Press, 1914).
• Thomas R. Dunlap, "Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940," Pacific Historical Review 59 (May 1990), 187-202.
• David S. Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America (Freeman, 1999)
• Craig W. Thomas, Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003)
• Richard J. Tobin, The Expendable Future: U.S. Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990).
• David Takacs, The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise (Johns Hopkins, 1996).
• Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Boston: South End Press, 1997).
• Timothy M. Swanson, ed., The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
• Thomas Dunlap, Saving America's Wildlife (Princeton, 1988)
• Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2000).
• Michael Robinson, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves  and the Transformation of t he West (UP of Colorado, 2005)
• Elizabeth Hanson, Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos (Princeton UP, 2002)
• William J. Snape III, ed., Biodiversity and the Law (Island Press, 1995)
• Francesca Griffo and Joshua Rosenthal, eds., Biodiversity and Human Health (Island Press, 1997)

Biotech and Genetic Engineering

• Dave Toke, The Politics of GM Food: A Comparative Study of the UK, USA, and EU (London: Routledge, 2004)
• Lisa Nicole Mills, Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombitant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002)
• Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr., First the Seed: The  Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, second ed. (U of Wisconsin Press)

Animal Rights

• Roswell Cheney McCrea, The Humane Movement (Columbia U Press, 1910).
• Richard Ryder,  Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism (Berg, 2000)
• Gary Lawrence Francione, Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement  (Temple UP, 1996)
• Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Men, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (New York: St. Martin's, 2002)
• Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (U of California Press, 1983).
• Peter Singer and Tom Regan, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Prentice Hall, 1976).

International Problems and Policy Making / Comparative Problems and Policy Making

• United Nations Environment Programme / Commission for Environmental Cooperation for North America
• Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. Van Deveer, eds., Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009)
• Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel, eds., Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (NY & Basel: Marcel Dekker, 1999).
• Sheilan Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello, eds., Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004)
• John C. Dernbach, ed. Stumbling Toward Sustainability (Washington: Environmental Law Institute, 2002)
• Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice (CQ Press, 2003)
• Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (Westview, 1995)
• Richard J. Smith, Negotiating Environment and Science: An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to Space Stations (Resources for the Future, 2009).
• Daniel C. Esty and Maria H. Ivanova, eds. Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2002)
• Luc Ferry, The New Ecological Order (Chicago, 1995). [Deep Ecology]
• Rodney R. White, North, South, and the Environmental Crisis (Toronto, 1993).
• Paul G. Harris, ed, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Georgetown UP, 2002)
• Otmar Höll, Environmental Cooperation in Europe (Westview Press, 1994)
• Udai Desai, ed., Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries (SUNY Press, 1997)
• Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (Oxford, 1994)
• Oran Young, International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society (Cornell UP).
• Tony Brenton, The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics (London: Earthscan Publications, 1994).
• Stephen O. Anderson and K. Madhava, Protecting the Ozone Layer: The United Nations History. (London: Earthscan Publications, 2003).
• John E. Carroll, ed., International Environmental Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
• Jessica Tuchman Matthews, ed., Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership (Norton, 1991)
• Ken Conca, Michael Alberty, and Geoffry D. Dabelko, eds., Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg, 3rd ed. (Westview Press, 2004).
• Marvin S. Soroos, Beyond Sovreignty: The Challenge of Global Policy (University of South Carolina Press, 1986)
• Timothy Swanson, Global Action for Biodiversity: An International Framework for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (Island Press, 1997).
• Theme Issue: Red, White, and Green: Canada-U.S. Environmental Relations, American Review of Canadian Studies 27:3 (Autumn, 1997).
• Carolyn Deere and Daniel C. Esty, eds. Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (MIT Press, 2002)
• Kevin P. Gallagher, Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2004)

Comparative

• Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure, eds. Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United Sates and the European Union (MIT Press, 2004)
• Lada Kochtcheeva, Comparative Environmental Regulation: Institutions, Instruments and Governance (SUNY Press, 2009)
• Christoph Knill and Duncan Liefferink, Environmental Politics in the European Union: Policy-Making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-Level Governance (Manchester UP, 2007)
• Lillana B. Androva, Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press, 2003).
• Winston Harrington and Richard D. Morgenstern, eds., Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments in the United States and Europe (Resources for the Future Press, 2004).
• Éric Montpetit, Misplaced Trust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
•  
• Rudiger K. Wurzel, Environmental Policy-Making in Britain, Germany and The European Union: The Europeanisation of Air and Water Pollution Control (Manchester UP, 2002).
• Albert Weale, G. Pridham, M. Cini, D. Konstadakopulos, M. Porter and B. Flynn, Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union? (Oxford UP, 2000)
   
• Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl, eds., The Integrity Gap: Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
• David R. Boyd, Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy  (U of British Columbia Press, 2003)
• Carsten Daugbjerg and Anders Branth Pedersen, "New Policy Ideas and Old Policy Networks: Implementing Green Taxation in Scandanavia," Journal of Public Policy 24:2 (May-August 2004): 219-249
• Lennart J. Lundqvist, Sweden and Ecological Governance (Manchester UP, 2004)
• Graeme Hayes, Environmental Protest and the State in France (Palgrave, 2002)
• Gordon J. MacDonald, Daniel J. Nielson, and Marc A Stern, Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective (Westview, 1996).
• Reinaldo Funes Monzote, From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
• Uday Desai, ed. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment (SUNY, 1998)

Population

• Bill McKibben, Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families (Simon and Schuster, 1998).
• William Ophuls and A. Boyan, Jr. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited (W.H. Freeman, 1992)
• Jason L. Finkle and C. Alison McIntosh, eds., The New Politics of Population: Conflict and Consensus in Family Planning (Oxford, 1994).
• Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine Books, 1983)